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Team USA tops DR in mega battle, Americans want Venezuela or Italy? Brutal strike 3 call goes viral · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: A matchup for the ages. It is the f T
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Speaker 1: will start with you US tops the American Republic schemes,
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Speaker 1: handing it off to a bullpen that was lights out
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Speaker 1: and yes we had a little bit of a rough
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Speaker 1: call to and the game. I feel for Dominican fans.
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Speaker 1: What did you say right before we went on?
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Speaker 2: Todd Father, Listen, you feel for him, but guess what.
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Speaker 2: You gave up one run. USA gave up one run
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Speaker 2: to a team that has absolutely been dominant this whole
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Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic. Give kudos to the pitching staff from
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Speaker 2: the United States. What a game, What an atmosphere. It
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Speaker 2: was so electric. You know in USA does what they
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Speaker 2: do best. Give it off to the guys that pitch.
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Speaker 2: Let them dominate. We had two home runs came through
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Speaker 2: and that's all you really needed. USA really hasn't hit
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Speaker 2: much that had opportunities. But guess what, the pitch was
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Speaker 2: too close to Taking my opinion, it looks terrible on TV,
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Speaker 2: but guess I'm not getting that call either. So at
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Speaker 2: the bottom line is you better be ready to swing
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Speaker 2: three to two last out in a game like that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they got him, they got him, They
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Speaker 3: got him. You would say, you would say, normally the
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Speaker 3: US is not coming out on top. If you say, hey,
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Speaker 3: you know what, they knocked Paul Skiens out before the fifth.
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Speaker 3: You know, the offense struck out fifteen times. But you
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Speaker 3: figured out a way to win. I mean didn't have
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Speaker 3: to didn't have to mix in too many bunts or
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Speaker 3: anything like that. It was swing and sway the whole game.
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Speaker 3: But we'll get to all the opportunities that everybody had.
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Speaker 3: But two to one is just as sweet as nine
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Speaker 3: to one.
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Speaker 1: I think we should start with what everyone's talking about here.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned it for a moment, but Kratz, it's just
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Speaker 1: it's tough when the final pitch of the game is
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Speaker 1: that terrible of a call, and we're on the cusp
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Speaker 1: of an ABS challenge system entering Major League Baseball. We're
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Speaker 1: running it right now in spring training. It is ready
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Speaker 1: to go. Look at strike three. That red baseball below
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Speaker 1: the zone, way below the quote buffer zone. That's not
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Speaker 1: going to exist anymore with ABS crats. That was how
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Speaker 1: Perdomo watched strike three and a heartfelt attempt here from
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Speaker 1: the Dominican Republican this tournament comes to a close. I'm
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Speaker 1: with Todd Fither. You guys got a score, and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna go over some mistakes that they made on the basis.
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Speaker 1: But it's just it's a tough way to go down
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Speaker 1: if you're the dr for the US. Their pitching was nasty,
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Speaker 1: and I would say the umpsucks for both sides. Just
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Speaker 1: tough when you get that one. Sodo got squeezed pretty
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Speaker 1: good on his ab as well. What do you think?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think you sit there and you go,
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Speaker 3: like somebody already texted me one of those get off
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Speaker 3: my long guys, and he's like, it's too close. With
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Speaker 3: two strikes, you're really go I'm just put the ball
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Speaker 3: in play, sorry, Like it's pretty impossible. Like Mason Miller's
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Speaker 3: throwing entering three miles an hour, you can't give him
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Speaker 3: that much. But there is a you know, there's an
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Speaker 3: aspect of the umpires trying to call one hundred and three.
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Speaker 3: He screwed it up. Perdomo's a guy who's one of
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Speaker 3: the toughest to strike out in all of baseball last
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Speaker 3: year he walked more than he struck out. So the
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Speaker 3: guy knows the strike zone and you sit there and
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Speaker 3: you go, what could have been if we had to abs?
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Speaker 3: But you know what, they could have been all of challenges,
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Speaker 3: the emotion of the of the situation. Guys could have
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Speaker 3: been tapping and could have gotten one right, Like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it comes down to that. It's not as egregious as
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Speaker 3: the Angel Hernandez, Craig Kimberl who was it Eric Ibar
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Speaker 3: to or Craig Kimberl to Eric Ibar and Jperre and
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Speaker 3: Sebia had to like slide out to get it, and
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Speaker 3: Angel Hernandez was like he but also didn't end the game.
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Speaker 2: Listen, they had opportunities. Like my old ball coaches used
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Speaker 2: to tell me, it's not gonna come down to one player,
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Speaker 2: one pitch or one instance. You only get you only
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Speaker 2: got one run. I mean, listen, I'm not trying to
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Speaker 2: be that guy, but I hear it all the time
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Speaker 2: when I used to play mal You're gonna blame it
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Speaker 2: on the umpire because of that one one call or
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Speaker 2: that one play. You got nine innings to play the game.
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Speaker 2: Give credit to the United States. They came out and
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Speaker 2: dominated the meaning pitching wise, not hitting wise, but pitching wise.
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Speaker 2: USA had an opportunity with second and third or first
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Speaker 2: and third with less than two hours. Dominicana had an
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Speaker 2: opportunity with their big guns up. Tatiz struck out and
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Speaker 2: then the next batter I forget what he did, but
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Speaker 2: boom they got out of the inning. You know, Bennar
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Speaker 2: absolutely stud came in. I feel like he wants runners on.
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Speaker 2: That's the only time he does well. I mean, Jesus David,
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Speaker 2: I remember you Pittsburgh all used to be so dominant
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Speaker 2: and you just get the one, two, three. Don't do
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Speaker 2: that to us anymore. But yes, every team had opportunities
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Speaker 2: and guess what. Two home runs is all it took.
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Speaker 2: And you know that goes to show you the pitching
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Speaker 2: staff that the United States has always dominant, always has
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Speaker 2: been and always will be.
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Speaker 1: Really nice to watch and just to clarify again because
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Speaker 1: I know this is just going to take over the
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Speaker 1: next twenty four hours. How did the WBC not have
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Speaker 1: an ABS challenge system? Asked the tournament. Okay, the reasoning
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Speaker 1: from them is that it's not implemented in baseball yet,
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Speaker 1: so it'll come in the next to WBC. They weren't
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Speaker 1: going to have this. That was set a long time ago.
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Speaker 1: It is what it is. I'm just laying it out
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Speaker 1: for you and for people saying, oh, horrible take whatever
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Speaker 1: that was the whole game. Okay, I gotcha. It was
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Speaker 1: a terrible call. I'm with you. Terrible call, absolute garbage.
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Speaker 1: And there were some other garbage calls. And it sucks
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Speaker 1: when the last call of the game looks like that.
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Speaker 1: But yes, the Dominican team had some chances. Tatisk getting
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Speaker 1: gunned down by judge at third. Do we think about
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Speaker 1: Austin Wells getting pinched run for at some point, you know,
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Speaker 1: when he was on in the big moment there and
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Speaker 1: then ends up getting held up krats, Would you have done.
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Speaker 3: That seventh inning to me? If it's in the sixth, no,
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Speaker 3: seventh inning, it's time. It's time. You have to be
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Speaker 3: able to go to your backup catcher, You go to
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Speaker 3: whoever the fastest guy off the bench is. It's got
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Speaker 3: to be able to score. Yeah, he got held up
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Speaker 3: by the line drive. I mean, Bobby Witt wasn't even
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Speaker 3: close to it, but he gave him a good you know,
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Speaker 3: it's a little bit of a try hard effort, as
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Speaker 3: the kids would say, where he jumped, but just that
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Speaker 3: and may have made Wells step back.
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Speaker 2: He went back, could wells have scored right there?
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Speaker 3: Because p Pca was on our show and he said
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Speaker 3: one of the things he'd like to work on is
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Speaker 3: his arm, his accuracy. Maybe that's a case where you
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Speaker 3: pushed a limit, but Fables got somebody thrown out earlier,
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Speaker 3: and earlier in the classic also got the you got
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Speaker 3: the top of the order up, so it's one of
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Speaker 3: those situations where you go. So that throw from Aaron
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Speaker 3: Judge set a tone on two different plays, the one
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Speaker 3: to PCA where maybe they got a little bit tentative,
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Speaker 3: even though it wasn't judge, it got a little tentative,
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Speaker 3: didn't want to get thrown out. And then the next
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Speaker 3: time when Tatis said, now I'm not going to go
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Speaker 3: to third when I thought he could have because PCA
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Speaker 3: was running off balance there. So that judge play loomed
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Speaker 3: large later in the game too.
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Speaker 2: It definitely did, and I think momentum was shifting a
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Speaker 2: little bit and all of a sudden that throw from
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Speaker 2: right field Kratzy, you said he hasn't thrown the ball
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Speaker 2: that hard in what how many years? Kratz three?
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Speaker 3: They said three years?
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, did you see? I mean give credit
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Speaker 2: to Louis Severino too. I'm jumping from here, you know,
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Speaker 2: to right field to left field. But the guy's throwing
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Speaker 2: ninety nine plus when he hasn't reached that level in
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Speaker 2: a long time. He's averaging around ninety five and change.
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Speaker 2: He was averaging there in the innings that he threw
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Speaker 2: what ninety eight point eight. It was absolutely phenomenal. Goes
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Speaker 2: to show you the pride and determination you have for
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Speaker 2: your country. But again, you can go back to every
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Speaker 2: instinct of what happened in this game. Tatis should have
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Speaker 2: went the third on the ground ball to center field. Wells,
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Speaker 2: I think it was the right call. I don't think
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Speaker 2: he would have scored at all. He went back because
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Speaker 2: he thought the line drive was right there where Bobby
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Speaker 2: Wood Junior could have had it. Well, guess what happens,
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Speaker 2: and you got your big guns coming up, I'm going
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Speaker 2: to hold him at third base, holding for a sack
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Speaker 2: fly at the very least, With the way the Dominican
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Speaker 2: team was hitting, it just didn't work out that well.
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Speaker 1: This team is fierce. The Dominican team on offense the
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Speaker 1: entire tournament. But the US also was able to mix
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Speaker 1: in some more pitching that we were not able to
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Speaker 1: see earlier on in the tournament. And that's how the
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Speaker 1: US team is evolving right now. Eric, You've got guys
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Speaker 1: like Rogers coming in. Benner has been with them the
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Speaker 1: whole way through and pulled off an escape act that
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Speaker 1: saved the day for them. But they're starting to get
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Speaker 1: a little beef here in that bullpen. Mason Miller's lights
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Speaker 1: out right now, just throwing one O two, one oh
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Speaker 1: three darts, but they're beefing up the bullpen. They're sending
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Speaker 1: some guys back right. Clayton Kershaw's not on this team anymore.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Yarbrough's not on this team anymore. They've got Jeff
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Speaker 1: Hoffman in the mix. They keep adding on. I don't
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Speaker 1: know about Joe Ryan if we heard for sure, if
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Speaker 1: he's feeling okay, But the plan was that he's going
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Speaker 1: to be a part. He's not okay.
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Speaker 3: I read today he's not going to be He's not
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Speaker 3: going to be pitching, okay.
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Speaker 1: So Joe Ryan's out of it. No, Nolan mclan's going
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Speaker 1: to pitch in the final four team Usa. He's going
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Speaker 1: to try and make up for you know what was
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Speaker 1: the lights out first inning for him, and then he
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Speaker 1: got touched up by Team Italy. We'll see who they're
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Speaker 1: playing to. Team Italy against Team Venezuela is going to
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Speaker 1: be really good. We'll talk about that in a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Let's keep rolling on this one. Mark de Rosa made
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Speaker 1: a lineup change Alex Bragman out Gunner Henderson in Todd Father,
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Speaker 1: I know you would have done the same thing. Gunner
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Speaker 1: was seven for nine with a dinger off of Severino.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean that it's simple size. But if you're
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Speaker 2: gonna bat that high off a guy, that's I mean
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Speaker 2: that you know and love. I mean, that's that's Thanksgiving dinner,
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Speaker 2: all day, maybe Christmas, Christmas morning, waking up feeling that good.
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Speaker 2: That's how good he felt today. He got the home run. Man,
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Speaker 2: It's just he's got to he's gotta be real happy
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Speaker 2: with himself. I mean, listen, let's give de ro credit. Man,
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Speaker 2: And I'm talking about the manager of this team. He's
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Speaker 2: been going through a lot of crap right now, you know,
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Speaker 2: with not knowing that that game mattered and next thing,
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Speaker 2: you know, making a huge change with a monster of
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Speaker 2: an athlete and player, maybe Hall of Famer and Alex
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Speaker 2: Bregman to putting in Gunner Henderson, who's you know, hasn't
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Speaker 2: played in these games. You know, it's his first year
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Speaker 2: doing it. Who's a good athlete. But don't get me wrong,
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Speaker 2: Boom hits a big home run to tie the game. Listen,
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Speaker 2: I felt like, in my opinion, Dominican they hit the
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Speaker 2: home run, Caminaro hits the home run. I felt like
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Speaker 2: it wasn't the same. Yeah, it was great. The crowd
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Speaker 2: got into it. I'm looking at their Doug out there,
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Speaker 2: We're excited. But for me, it wasn't like the same
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Speaker 2: kind of excitement that I saw the last three or
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Speaker 2: four games. Maybe there was a difference. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Then Judge throw the guy out a third. Something was
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Speaker 2: a little different with that team today. They just couldn't
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Speaker 2: muster it up, you know, and USA got him on
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Speaker 2: a good day.
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Speaker 1: Junior camerin Aara is ridiculous. Oh God, he's so freaking good,
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Speaker 1: and he's so good in these big moments, in these
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Speaker 1: big games. You know, there are a number of young
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Speaker 1: players in our league that we haven't seen in big
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Speaker 1: moments yet. Junior. Cameronaro is a baby in our league
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Speaker 1: and the race haven't been good the past couple of years.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can make the same case scrats for
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Speaker 1: Paul Skins, and here's the inside edge note two hundred
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Speaker 1: and forty one breaking pitches up in the zone and
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Speaker 1: the career for Skiens first time, he's a ladder home
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Speaker 1: run on that pitch and that location. So if we're
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Speaker 1: getting to see some guys that are pitching in the
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Speaker 1: biggest games of their lives right now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not even gonna hit on Paul Skins yet
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Speaker 3: because I think I have a whole section on Paul Skins.
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Speaker 3: But I want to go back to what you said
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Speaker 3: about the big boys pitching, Like you look at who
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Speaker 3: they brought in tonight. You look at who they're gonna
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Speaker 3: have for the final. Yes, I get Nolan McLean will
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Speaker 3: be the starter, but you look at the it's all
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Speaker 3: the guys that came in tonight have been the guys
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Speaker 3: that are Zero's Zero's zeros the entire tournament. And to me,
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Speaker 3: with the lineup, yeah, he made the change with Gunner,
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Speaker 3: and I think there were three places that he could
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Speaker 3: that he could have made changes. I don't think you're
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Speaker 3: putting I don't think you're taking Bryce out of the lineup.
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Speaker 3: I thought they would drop him down. I thought they'd
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Speaker 3: bring Tarrang, who ended up not having a good game today,
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Speaker 3: not as good a game as he was having, but
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Speaker 3: he was one of the better hitters. I thought you
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Speaker 3: they'd moved Tearrang to the two hole, and I thought,
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Speaker 3: now that way, you'd keep your right left right, you'd
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Speaker 3: move Harper back down in the lineup. You knew Will
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Speaker 3: Smith was going to play, because that was predetermined. He'll
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Speaker 3: be decision who he plays for the final here, Cal
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Speaker 3: or Will, And I guess Will's been playing better because
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Speaker 3: Cal you know, doesn't have any hits. But who knows,
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Speaker 3: who knows who they feel the most comfortable with. But Gunner.
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Speaker 3: Putting Gunner in there was the absolute right thing to do.
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Speaker 3: Proved his manager right, but also proved before that. I
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Speaker 3: think he was five for eleven in the WBC, so
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Speaker 3: it wasn't just hey, he he sees Louis Severino, Well
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Speaker 3: he sees the WBC. Well, he's he's showing me that
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Speaker 3: I want to see Gunnar Henderson in the playoffs. That's
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Speaker 3: what I want to see. And This gives a little
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Speaker 3: sneak peek of that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he Roman Anthony was a good call too. Cod Father,
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Speaker 1: just sorry if you got something on that, but also
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Speaker 1: want to add Anthony Corbyn Carroll broke his hammtbone. Otherwise
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Speaker 1: Anthony is not on this roster. He looks pretty damn good.
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Speaker 1: Hit a four and two on one foot nuke and
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Speaker 1: that was the difference in the game too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, as I'm watching the highlights here, it's like left
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Speaker 2: on left matchup. Really nasty pitcher, you know. He got
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Speaker 2: ahead of the count and then took a three to
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Speaker 2: one pitch and then all of a sudden the three too.
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Speaker 2: I sometimes you gear up for that fastball and if
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Speaker 2: you're on time, you keep that front shoulder square from
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Speaker 2: a left on left, good things happen. When that ball
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Speaker 2: came off the bat, I was like, oh, there it goes.
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Speaker 2: I told my son. He says no, I said yes,
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Speaker 2: and we're going back and forth and it finally went out.
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Speaker 2: This is what this is the best part about this
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Speaker 2: whole thing, which people don't understand. Like, my son is
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Speaker 2: eleven years old and we're watching this game like on
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Speaker 2: the edge of our seats, and I think that's cool.
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Speaker 2: I got a seven year old too. He doesn't understand
14:43
Speaker 2: the severity of it. But I was telling people today,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, get your seatbelt on, buckle up. This
14:50
Speaker 2: might be the best opportunity to see some of the
14:53
Speaker 2: best players play against each other, which is meaningful as
14:56
Speaker 2: long as you live. Honestly, if you think about it,
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Speaker 2: the are in America. In US, they might never play
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Speaker 2: against each other, and something like this again, so you know,
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Speaker 2: to see this in the matchups and everybody playing, and
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Speaker 2: some of the names like Roman Anthony, who's you know,
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Speaker 2: not a lot of people have heard of. You know,
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Speaker 2: we know about him, but for him to step up,
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Speaker 2: it's a name in USA, the lord that people are
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Speaker 2: gonna remember for the rest of our lives.
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Speaker 3: What I think is what I think is cool when
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Speaker 3: you watch games, just any games, but like when you
15:24
Speaker 3: have stars on one team, Pools is in the other
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Speaker 3: dugout going. Okay, who do I want Gregor Risoto to
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Speaker 3: face one of my best lefties out of the bullpen.
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Speaker 3: Guys can touch one hundred miles an hour. He doesn't say, Okay,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna save it for Kyle Schwarber, And you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe after Judge comes out or maybe after judges at bat,
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Speaker 3: then we go Kyle Schwarber, who you'd think would be
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Speaker 3: the best left or left matchup. He puts them against
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Speaker 3: Roman Anthony. So to me, that's telling me that the
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Speaker 3: league and opponents that play against Roman Anthony think this
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Speaker 3: dude's legit. If you're just if you're bringing Gregory Soto
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Speaker 3: in to face him in that situation and for him
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Speaker 3: to come up huge with that dinger, I think, is
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Speaker 3: it shows why the Red Sox maybe didn't go out
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Speaker 3: and spend any money on offense this year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he might be that dude already. It's a lot
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Speaker 1: of pressures on the team, it is. It's a lot
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Speaker 1: of pressure. It's different. He's playing in a tournament right
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Speaker 1: now full of superstars, right the pressure meter is different
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Speaker 1: for Roman Anthony. Right now, he's kind of like the Hey,
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Speaker 1: I got added to the roster late guy, let me
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Speaker 1: show you what I'm capable of. During the course of
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Speaker 1: the season, there's a lot more that's going to be
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Speaker 1: put on his shoulders with Boston, But for now, I mean,
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Speaker 1: he is one of the best on Team USA here
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Speaker 1: leading the charge. I want to give a little love
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Speaker 1: to Bobby Witch Junior too, Todd Father. I mean he
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Speaker 1: continues to make almost like the same play in the
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Speaker 1: six hole, right.
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Speaker 2: He had a big double play there when Rogers was
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Speaker 2: on the mound. Their ball that went to his left
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Speaker 2: had to go to cross second base, step on second
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Speaker 2: make the play. I mean, that's not an easy play.
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Speaker 2: It looks easy on TV. And he saw Bryce Harper
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Speaker 2: get a little animated too there. He got really excited.
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Speaker 2: You know the sidewiner against you know Soto. You can
17:16
Speaker 2: go back to this game and pinpoint you know a
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Speaker 2: lot of different things. Bobby Wood Junior's defense, he went
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Speaker 2: to the whole backhanded one. And the thing that people
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Speaker 2: don't understand, he's got an arm too. This guy he dives,
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Speaker 2: gets to his feet and still throws a guy out
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Speaker 2: by four or five steps. That's the part of his
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Speaker 2: game which people don't understand. How really true and awesome
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Speaker 2: he is. Man. Usually it's a lollipop there, bang bang play.
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Speaker 2: Guys don't have a chance. It's it's truly remarkable. And
17:46
Speaker 2: he is not only an offense, but on defense especially,
17:49
Speaker 2: he's making a name for himself.
17:52
Speaker 3: Wit today did not record an out on the play
17:54
Speaker 3: that I think may have saved the game. Also is
17:57
Speaker 3: man Machado, Yes, who was I'm not I think it
18:01
Speaker 3: was Soda was on second, but I know its Machado
18:03
Speaker 3: hit a rocket that or Vladdie was on second hit
18:06
Speaker 3: a rock and Many hit a rocket up the middle
18:10
Speaker 3: and Bobby gets his glove on it and caroms into
18:12
Speaker 3: the outfit a little bit. Didn't score the run. That's it.
18:16
Speaker 3: That's they're walking home on that play.
18:18
Speaker 2: They're walking home and.
18:19
Speaker 3: It should be should be a run for the d
18:21
Speaker 3: R held him there like it was. That was a
18:25
Speaker 3: legit play, even though it'll never go down and any
18:28
Speaker 3: highlights because no out was recorded. It was a hit.
18:31
Speaker 3: It was a rocket of a hit, so they're not
18:33
Speaker 3: going to show it. But that that it was another
18:36
Speaker 3: play that he made. That change changed the course of
18:38
Speaker 3: this team.
18:39
Speaker 2: Cratzy and to think about that too as well as
18:42
Speaker 2: a base runner, you got to be taken off on
18:45
Speaker 2: that like there's a situation, I don't care how fast
18:48
Speaker 2: or slow you are. Anything back towards you and you
18:51
Speaker 2: know where the shortstop is. That was in my opinion,
18:55
Speaker 2: that was a mistake by who was it Soto at
18:57
Speaker 2: second base?
18:59
Speaker 3: I think it was Laddie because I think Vladdie hit
19:01
Speaker 3: that rocket double. That was a grounder. That yes one sixteen.
19:06
Speaker 2: To me, that's a base running mistake that's going to go.
19:08
Speaker 2: Not many people are going to talk about.
19:11
Speaker 3: It was behind him. When the balls behind you, meaning
19:14
Speaker 3: at second base to your left, you gotta go.
19:18
Speaker 2: You gotta get a good secondary. Secondary wasn't good at all.
19:22
Speaker 3: Oh you know what they can't when you have this
19:25
Speaker 3: many good players. It's the little things. Why do we
19:27
Speaker 3: why do we say the Dodgers win games because they
19:30
Speaker 3: have really good players. The Bluechers have really good players.
19:33
Speaker 3: There's little things that win games. And that was that was.
19:37
Speaker 2: One of No nobody will talk about that play either
19:39
Speaker 2: unless we're talking about it now for sure.
19:42
Speaker 3: Yep.
19:43
Speaker 2: So at least and third, yeah.
19:46
Speaker 1: Only right here on FT we're gonna keep going here.
19:48
Speaker 1: I want to talk about who the US team could face.
19:51
Speaker 1: We'll probably do one last shot on the last pitch
19:55
Speaker 1: of the game there and we'll do an MVP too,
19:58
Speaker 1: So real quick, want to let every no Fox one
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20:25
Speaker 1: And that's Team Italy matching up against Venezuela. And I'd
20:28
Speaker 1: like to relate this to Team USA. So Kratz, we
20:32
Speaker 1: haven't been on over the weekend. We had a postgame
20:34
Speaker 1: show on Friday. Venezuela took it to Japan. Will you
20:38
Speaker 1: a bra? Will You're a Bray? You with an incredible
20:41
Speaker 1: home run for Venezuela and they've got a little bit
20:44
Speaker 1: of offense. There's there's some pop there too. That's a
20:47
Speaker 1: really dangerous looking lineup. Team Italy has been thriving. They
20:50
Speaker 1: haven't lost a game. So what do you think about
20:53
Speaker 1: this one? And I think for the US fans, they
20:56
Speaker 1: want to know who they should be rooting for. Italy
20:59
Speaker 1: took it to but Venezuela has more talent.
21:04
Speaker 3: Italy took it to Yarborough and McLean and I think
21:09
Speaker 3: the yard dart that Brad Keller threw to center field
21:13
Speaker 3: I think cooked him. Did they take it to them
21:16
Speaker 3: or was the misspoken part of it adding to it?
21:19
Speaker 3: Who knows? To me, if you I mean, you're always
21:22
Speaker 3: going to say even though they're undefeated. To me, you're
21:25
Speaker 3: also going to you're going to say you'd rather face Italy,
21:28
Speaker 3: I think a second chance at I don't think a
21:30
Speaker 3: second shot. If I read it correctly, I think Nola
21:35
Speaker 3: is pitching that game. I think Nolan would line up
21:38
Speaker 3: to pitch that game.
21:39
Speaker 1: So yeah, Adam, it's Lorenzo eight o'clock on Monday, and
21:43
Speaker 1: then Tuesday would be Aaron Nola.
21:47
Speaker 3: And I think it sets up whoever came out of
21:50
Speaker 3: this bracket, the dr US bracket, it's set up better
21:54
Speaker 3: because of all the restrictions. The bullpen is going to
21:58
Speaker 3: be cashed, just because of the fact that there's guys
22:01
Speaker 3: that can't throw back to back days. But you have
22:03
Speaker 3: to pitch your guys to be able to get into
22:06
Speaker 3: the final. You can't be like, hopefully we'll save them
22:10
Speaker 3: for game seven, like that is not We're not We're
22:12
Speaker 3: not playing that game now, like they have to win
22:15
Speaker 3: this game. So to me, you want you want to
22:17
Speaker 3: see you want to see Italy? If you're the US,
22:20
Speaker 3: but you also, if you're Venezuela, you're glad you got
22:24
Speaker 3: some production from the bottom half of your order because
22:26
Speaker 3: earlier in the tournament you weren't getting anything. So to me,
22:30
Speaker 3: Venezuela has the better team, but Italy has shown that
22:34
Speaker 3: they're like, Okay, keep counting us out. See what we do.
22:39
Speaker 2: Listen, March madness. We just talked about the dance earlier today.
22:43
Speaker 2: Guess who Cinderella is, see I tell Leono's maybe these
22:48
Speaker 2: guys are a twelve seed cruising along. You're like, how
22:52
Speaker 2: can they do it again? Yes? Can they do it again? Yes?
22:55
Speaker 2: They are SETH logo phenomenal. Andrew Fisher, he's making a
22:59
Speaker 2: name for him out this young man. Watch out. They
23:02
Speaker 2: got some of these dudes that are just cruising roll
23:04
Speaker 2: and that's Cinderella right there. Baby. So for me, Cratzy,
23:09
Speaker 2: I think you said it right. I think we as usay.
23:12
Speaker 2: I think you'd want to face Italy in a perfect world.
23:16
Speaker 2: Venezuela's they're hot too right now, coming off a really
23:19
Speaker 2: really big, one of the biggest wins they've ever had
23:22
Speaker 2: in their country. Italy's just driving the wave, man, until
23:27
Speaker 2: that wave stops. And it turns into a little puddle.
23:30
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen, so this should
23:33
Speaker 2: be a battle. But I do see Venezuela with the
23:37
Speaker 2: way they're playing Ronald Acoon. You're taking a first pitch
23:40
Speaker 2: out for a homer against Japan yesterday. Come on, man,
23:43
Speaker 2: it's shaping up to be a Venezuela America USA matchup.
23:48
Speaker 2: But I wouldn't be surprised if Pasqua Tina and the
23:51
Speaker 2: boys there of Italy find a way to win again.
23:55
Speaker 1: And also real quick, because you said Seth Lugo, I
23:57
Speaker 1: mean the Seth Lugot got lit up a little bit.
24:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but I I I love everything about
24:05
Speaker 2: Seth that I played with him. I love his breaking pitch. Listen,
24:08
Speaker 2: they won the game, so whether he got or not,
24:11
Speaker 2: he gave innings. He got innings at least.
24:14
Speaker 1: So yes, yeah, obviously Ranger Swarez pitched that game for Venezuela,
24:20
Speaker 1: so he's not pitching. I don't know if they did
24:22
Speaker 1: they announce you who's pitching for Venezuela for this one.
24:25
Speaker 1: I'll have to check that. But just to give an
24:27
Speaker 1: idea of the lineup, I mean, you've got Acunya Mike
24:30
Speaker 1: hol Garcia, Luisa Rice Ginos, Farrez Tobar from the Rockies,
24:35
Speaker 1: Glabor Torres, Andre Semenez on this team, willi Ard Bray
24:38
Speaker 1: had the huge home run, Salvador Perez, Jackson, Churio. That's
24:44
Speaker 1: a near all star lineup right there, with some superstars
24:47
Speaker 1: sprinkled in.
24:50
Speaker 3: Montero's pitching for Venezuela's that's just listed, but it is.
24:56
Speaker 3: It's an all star lineup, There's no doubt about it,
25:00
Speaker 3: except they weren't getting any production from the bottom half.
25:03
Speaker 3: The bottom four guys weren't doing anything for them. And
25:06
Speaker 3: Todd will tell you, Todd's played in plenty of tournament,
25:09
Speaker 3: watch plenty of kids tournaments. It only takes one game.
25:13
Speaker 3: It takes one game to turn things around. Even look
25:17
Speaker 3: at vinn P. Vinny P was Struggle Bust City and
25:20
Speaker 3: then he broke the World Baseball Classic record for most
25:23
Speaker 3: home runs in the game with three homers, like he
25:25
Speaker 3: had zero hits.
25:27
Speaker 2: Like.
25:27
Speaker 3: That's the beauty of these tournaments. And it's also if
25:31
Speaker 3: your team goes home. That's the crux of these tournaments too.
25:35
Speaker 3: You have one bad game or one game where you're
25:37
Speaker 3: a little off, like the dr was tonight you're going home.
25:43
Speaker 2: The Johnny Crux. I like that one. That's a good one.
25:46
Speaker 2: But yes, I think if you're in the United States
25:48
Speaker 2: right now, you're riding really hot. I don't think they
25:51
Speaker 2: even care who they play next. I think they know
25:54
Speaker 2: if they play their game, it doesn't matter I Venezuela
25:58
Speaker 2: or Italy. They're gonna win that game. So give credit
26:02
Speaker 2: to their pitching staff. It's time for the boys to
26:04
Speaker 2: come through tomorrow with some knocks. Okay, it's Aaron Judge time.
26:08
Speaker 2: It's Harper time. Glad to see Harper. Get that doub
26:11
Speaker 2: We'll get off the snide a little bit. So hopefully
26:13
Speaker 2: that bodes well for the Hitters tomorrow. Yeah, tday, excuse
26:18
Speaker 2: me Tuesday, yep.
26:19
Speaker 1: For the US and the title game, they're going to
26:22
Speaker 1: get a nice little day off to watch Venezuela and
26:24
Speaker 1: Italy duke it out. Before we get to the player
26:26
Speaker 1: of the game, I'll just finish with where we started.
26:30
Speaker 1: Most of the comments within our show on YouTube right
26:34
Speaker 1: now and on social media revolve around the end of
26:36
Speaker 1: the game. We live in a viral world. There are
26:40
Speaker 1: a lot of casual fans that are going to look
26:42
Speaker 1: and you're just going to see that pitch run back
26:44
Speaker 1: over and over again. I am by no means defending
26:47
Speaker 1: how terrible that call was. I was an absolute joke
26:50
Speaker 1: of a call. Calls like that exist now and won't
26:54
Speaker 1: exist in the future. In the very very near future,
26:59
Speaker 1: calls like that are We are getting an ABS challenge system,
27:01
Speaker 1: and eventually that might just be how every ball and
27:04
Speaker 1: strike is called. I am one hundred percent with you.
27:07
Speaker 1: If you are a Dominican fan and this is the
27:10
Speaker 1: biggest moment in terms of your fandom, I feel for
27:14
Speaker 1: you because this is the biggest moment for some of
27:16
Speaker 1: those players. Julio Rodriguez had a viral quote the other
27:19
Speaker 1: day on FT at the Field with Trisha Whittaker talking
27:23
Speaker 1: about how a World Series is everything and a World
27:26
Speaker 1: Baseball Classic is a little bit more. That's how much
27:29
Speaker 1: of a deal this is. You're gonna have guys in
27:31
Speaker 1: tears in the Dominican clubhouse right now, no doubt about it.
27:36
Speaker 1: They had a blast. It was fun to watch them,
27:39
Speaker 1: and it just sucks when you feel like you got
27:41
Speaker 1: screwed on the final pitch of the game. But I
27:43
Speaker 1: will say it was a two to one game. There
27:45
Speaker 1: were opportunities. It sucks. It doesn't mean that they were
27:49
Speaker 1: going to win the game. So I'm with you. I
27:51
Speaker 1: totally feel for you, trash umpire, But you know, crats
27:54
Speaker 1: people like oh rigged all this, Like, yeah, I'm sure
27:57
Speaker 1: the umpire was waiting for that one moment, right, He's like,
28:00
Speaker 1: I'm going this is going to be a two to
28:02
Speaker 1: one game and I'm making a shit call to end
28:05
Speaker 1: the game. Yes, he was terrible for most of the game.
28:08
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get an ump scorecard or something tomorrow
28:11
Speaker 1: for ump show. The biggest spot to blame if you're
28:15
Speaker 1: pissed off about the pitch is that MLB did not
28:18
Speaker 1: implement the APS Challenge system sooner. If we had the
28:20
Speaker 1: ABS Challenge system this past season and it was ready,
28:23
Speaker 1: then we would have had it in the WBC. They
28:25
Speaker 1: were not comfortable putting in the WBC before we actually
28:28
Speaker 1: had it in Major League Baseball. So Kratz, if you
28:30
Speaker 1: want to blame anyone besides the umpire, that's the system
28:34
Speaker 1: that you can blame. That it didn't get there quick
28:36
Speaker 1: enough to be able to get rid of dirt calls
28:39
Speaker 1: like that one at the end and the one to
28:40
Speaker 1: Soto an inning before.
28:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're definitely not. If you're a WBC, you're definitely
28:46
Speaker 3: not going You guys haven't implemented this in any big
28:49
Speaker 3: league games. Let's go ahead and do it ourselves. Noope,
28:53
Speaker 3: that's what independent balls for. That's what TRIPAA the last
28:56
Speaker 3: four years is for. Like no chance. And I'll be honest,
29:00
Speaker 3: I don't even know if they had it down in
29:04
Speaker 3: San Juan at the in Puerto Rico. So would it
29:07
Speaker 3: have been fair if they were able to implement it
29:11
Speaker 3: at in Houston already because they have it there in
29:14
Speaker 3: Miami already Tokyo Dome where the other series was, would
29:18
Speaker 3: that be fair if then, okay, that series was not
29:22
Speaker 3: what had not implemented either. I don't know that. But
29:25
Speaker 3: no way was WBC going to be like, yeah, well
29:29
Speaker 3: we'll definitely give you guys a soft landing on this one.
29:31
Speaker 3: We'll figure it out. No chance, he poppy.
29:35
Speaker 4: No.
29:36
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel for you fans. It sucks if you're
29:39
Speaker 1: a fan of the Dominican Republican and you're if you're
29:41
Speaker 1: a fan of Team USA, you're feeling pretty shitty. A
29:44
Speaker 1: few days ago when they got beat up by Italy.
29:47
Speaker 1: I know they made a late charge, but that was
29:49
Speaker 1: a lopsided game, and now all of a sudden, team
29:52
Speaker 1: USA is in the finals. The pitching looks much different
29:55
Speaker 1: and the offense hasn't even popped off, so you're waiting
29:58
Speaker 1: for that, and that could be in the title game.
30:00
Speaker 1: So they're in a great spot. Let's do a Player
30:02
Speaker 1: of the Game and it's presented by MLB rivals Todd Father.
30:07
Speaker 1: Player of the Game.
30:09
Speaker 2: Yeah for me, I gotta give credit to the pitching staff.
30:12
Speaker 2: And there's one guy who got himself in a jam
30:14
Speaker 2: and got out of it. Let's listen to these stats.
30:16
Speaker 2: David Bennar Okay, I got him right here. Four games
30:20
Speaker 2: he's been in so far eer zero point zero zero
30:25
Speaker 2: eight strikeouts to zero walks, runners in scoring position one
30:30
Speaker 2: for eight. Guess what, he doesn't mind pitching with guys
30:33
Speaker 2: on base. He came through. I give him the player
30:36
Speaker 2: of the game because now there weren't that many runs scored.
30:39
Speaker 2: I give it to him because he was in the buying,
30:40
Speaker 2: the only one that was in the buying, and he
30:42
Speaker 2: came through with it. I'm gonna give my kudos to him,
30:45
Speaker 2: and hopefully next time when he does throw, there's nobody
30:48
Speaker 2: on base and he can just go one two three innings.
30:49
Speaker 2: But David Bennar with the stats he has and what
30:52
Speaker 2: he did tonight back to back strikeouts with that splitter
30:56
Speaker 2: split change. I don't know what you call it cratzy,
30:58
Speaker 2: but it's absolutely stealthy.
31:00
Speaker 3: Ye to splitter, but I mean you had to take
31:03
Speaker 3: extra heart medicine to keep that old ticker going while
31:05
Speaker 3: he was in there the last and last two games.
31:08
Speaker 3: So my player of the game is going to the
31:11
Speaker 3: guy that followed the game plan to a t. How
31:15
Speaker 3: many times did the Dominican hitters need to move their feet? Unfortunately,
31:20
Speaker 3: he did hit two hitters. He hit Perdomo with the
31:24
Speaker 3: slot back foot slider, which was literally a backfoot slider.
31:27
Speaker 3: It caught him two strikes, and then he had Hodio Rodriguez.
31:31
Speaker 3: I saw. I think I had counted five, but Kevin
31:35
Speaker 3: Polar texted me He's like, I think it might have
31:37
Speaker 3: been a little bit more than that times that the
31:40
Speaker 3: hitters moved their feet. Now, there's a way that you
31:43
Speaker 3: can pitch a team game and not just pitch individually.
31:47
Speaker 3: And what Paul Skeens did probably hurt him in his
31:50
Speaker 3: longevity for the game, but it helped the entire staff
31:55
Speaker 3: entire the bullpen guys to come in because the DR
31:59
Speaker 3: guys were able to quite lean out quite as much.
32:03
Speaker 3: He was not afraid to pop one inside. And if
32:06
Speaker 3: he didn't get the reaction that he looked that he
32:08
Speaker 3: was looking for, which is actually cleats off the dirt
32:12
Speaker 3: and moved. Now you throw another one in there, and
32:16
Speaker 3: you know what he did, clip two guys, and that's okay.
32:18
Speaker 3: It's a razor thin line between throwing inside and hitting
32:22
Speaker 3: a guy. But there's no razor thin line when in
32:25
Speaker 3: team comes in and is hitting dangers averaging ten runs
32:29
Speaker 3: a game like the DR was, you have to move
32:32
Speaker 3: their feet and make them uncomfortable. And Paul Skeins did it.
32:34
Speaker 3: He set the tone for the entire game for that
32:37
Speaker 3: pitching staff. So Paul Skeen's Player of the Game.
32:40
Speaker 1: YEP, Paul Skeens is going to pitch in every World
32:43
Speaker 1: Baseball Classic during his career for life. He started his
32:47
Speaker 1: college career at Air Force. He had family in the military.
32:50
Speaker 1: He is one hundred percent committed to this tournament from
32:54
Speaker 1: here on out, unless there's an injury. He will be
32:57
Speaker 1: pitching for Team USA in every tournament, probably what the
33:00
Speaker 1: three four or five tournaments and the Olympics.
33:02
Speaker 2: Yes, tod imagine just imagine these top three. You go
33:06
Speaker 2: with Skeens, you go Schooble and Crochet or mean, come on, dude,
33:13
Speaker 2: and I know I'm missing another pitcher too, but just
33:15
Speaker 2: imagine those three guys as your starters back to back
33:19
Speaker 2: to back games. Good luck, keep on one more one away.
33:24
Speaker 1: And some people were like, oh, I saw school in
33:26
Speaker 1: the dougout. He is not pitching in the title game.
33:28
Speaker 1: He is definitely not going to pitch in that title game.
33:30
Speaker 1: So we'll probably see McLean and then they'll roll out
33:33
Speaker 1: the bullpen, is my guess. We'll get more tomorrow as
33:37
Speaker 1: Team USA is probably going to be hanging there. You'll
33:39
Speaker 1: definitely get Mark de Rosa with another press conference and
33:42
Speaker 1: more word on what potentially the pitching can look like
33:45
Speaker 1: for them. Yeah, we'll give a little love to Gunner
33:47
Speaker 1: Henderson too on our way out for the home run
33:50
Speaker 1: him and Roman Anthony powering the US to a two
33:52
Speaker 1: to one win. You thought, maybe we'll see a bunch
33:56
Speaker 1: of knocks, some really good contact. There was actually a
33:58
Speaker 1: ton of strike cuts in this game, and it was
34:00
Speaker 1: really well pitched. Todd Father mentioned Luis Savarino was great
34:03
Speaker 1: at the beginning skeins, of course, was too Judge made
34:06
Speaker 1: some excellent defensive plays, So props to both sides on
34:10
Speaker 1: this one for putting on a show and Team USA
34:14
Speaker 1: edges the Dominican Republic in an epic semifinal game. Appreciate
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