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Dodgers Hold Off Brewers in NLCS Game 1, Blake Snell Throws 8 IP, 1 H | MLB on TBS · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Well, let's just hi, how are you Adam Lefgo,
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Granders, and Jimmy Rollins and Pedro Martinez When I
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  Speaker 1: tell you that we witnessed the performance that we haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen since nineteen fifty six, I'm talking Don Larson. Blake
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  Speaker 1: Snell went up there and faced twenty four batters in
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  Speaker 1: eight innings, the minimum that you can face. He had
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  Speaker 1: ten strike accounts. He pitched eight innings, which he had
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  Speaker 1: never done before. This is an all time performance. His
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  Speaker 1: teammates are bowing to him in the dugout as we
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  Speaker 1: are here in left field. We were watching Brewers fans
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  Speaker 1: leave this stadium, and then the rally Caps came out
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  Speaker 1: with this performance. Let's get this, And then to the
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  Speaker 1: ninth inning, Pedro, this was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he bites theater in the regular game, in the
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  Speaker 2: regular season, I'm being fretted. But to be able to
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  Speaker 2: see it in the pulp season, I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 2: something that you.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot even have claim.
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  Speaker 2: But if anybody's the gate pull will have thrown something
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's a guy like Blake Snail.
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  Speaker 2: A guy that can block the nois a guy that
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  Speaker 2: has the best stuff out there for leftie, especially in
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  Speaker 2: the form me is right now, he's in his thirteenth
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  Speaker 2: outing for the entire season. He's fresh, he's good, and
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  Speaker 2: he's lethal for anybody.
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  Speaker 1: That last stat we put up nine or more strikeouts
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  Speaker 1: two or less hits. The only other guys to do
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  Speaker 1: it multiple times Roger Clemens, Josh Beckett, Garrett Cole, they
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  Speaker 1: did it twice. He has now done it five times.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Blake Snell was unconscious. He really is.
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  Speaker 3: And remember we've seen him on a big stage, and
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  Speaker 3: let's not forget he grew up in the Al East,
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  Speaker 3: so he's pitched one big.
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  Speaker 4: Markets against some of the best players.
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  Speaker 3: But remember in the World Series, we were asking ourselves,
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  Speaker 3: why would you take Blake Snell out in that situation
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  Speaker 3: when the Dodgers were not putting up any runs, any
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  Speaker 3: solid hits. That is continued. He's back on this stage
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  Speaker 3: where he lives to be. In this page said he's
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  Speaker 3: in his prime. He didn't pitch all season long, so
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  Speaker 3: we started to hit that stretch of where every pitcher
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  Speaker 3: goes through the stretch where they're just unbelievable. He's doing
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  Speaker 3: it on the biggest days at the best time, at
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  Speaker 3: the biggest time, when when his team names the most.
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  Speaker 3: But this is historic. We talked about it, how Methan's
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  Speaker 3: ever stray. He sets up to pit battles with the
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  Speaker 3: pitches in, then he goes away. Once you get to
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  Speaker 3: a swing mode, you're done.
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  Speaker 5: You know what.
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  Speaker 6: Look at him walking off right here. We talked about
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  Speaker 6: Freddy being exhausted. He didn't look like he broke a sweat.
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  Speaker 6: He didn't look like he was breathing hard. It looked
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  Speaker 6: like it was a normal game for him. That was
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  Speaker 6: the most impressive thing for me out there.
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  Speaker 1: Scouting report, remember you gave it pregame. He's not as
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  Speaker 1: great on the road as he is at home. He
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  Speaker 1: went into Philly, he comes here to Milwaukee. Those two games,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen innings, nineteen strikeouts, two hits.
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  Speaker 4: Who said he wasn't good on the road.
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  Speaker 1: The scouting report his EER was two or three points higher.
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  Speaker 1: Was in crazy. Let's get to the play that we've
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  Speaker 1: never seen before and may never see again. A four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and four foot ground into double play. We were
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  Speaker 1: sitting back there, We're trying to figure out what's going on, Jimmy,
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  Speaker 1: what happened?
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  Speaker 4: What chaos? I mean, extreme chaos.
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  Speaker 3: But when the set happened and gards everything happened, Tioscar
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  Speaker 3: has one job, tag up and score, regardless the umpires.
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  Speaker 3: They come in and play for the runners on first
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  Speaker 3: a second because they have to decide who we advanced
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  Speaker 3: or we go back and tag is it a live ball,
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  Speaker 3: But as a run on third you have one job
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  Speaker 3: that is a tag up and score. And as soon
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  Speaker 3: as that ball hits the outfielder's glove, even if it
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  Speaker 3: pops out, that's gonna see it at the start of
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  Speaker 3: that catch. So for him to go and really he's
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  Speaker 3: watching the play. Once you see that ball hits his glove,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what happens.
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  Speaker 1: You're supposed to score.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody else you let them, you know, figure it out,
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  Speaker 3: but you have to get that one run. You secure
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  Speaker 3: one run. And he didn't do that. We've never seen
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  Speaker 3: it before. It was definitely confusing to see it hit
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  Speaker 3: his glove, hit off the wall, but the umpire was
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  Speaker 3: right on it. He was given a safe sign immediately
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  Speaker 3: and Tiascar just got caught, you know, watching the play,
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  Speaker 3: and that's something you can't do the time of year.
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  Speaker 6: And what's interesting there the umpire did make the correct call.
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  Speaker 6: But keep in mind in the postseason, you normally don't
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  Speaker 6: have an umpire in the left field side of things.
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  Speaker 6: It's usually only four umpires in a regular season game.
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  Speaker 6: For the postseason, you got six. So once this ball
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  Speaker 6: goes to the outfield and the center field does an
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  Speaker 6: amazing job trying to bring it back in. As soon
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  Speaker 6: as it hits off this glove, like Jimmy said, you
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  Speaker 6: can tag in advance. Once it hits the wall, now
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  Speaker 6: it's a hit. And that's where everyone got slightly confused.
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  Speaker 6: And typically the umpire that would be making that call
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  Speaker 6: would be one of the infield umpires. Essentially, you might
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  Speaker 6: be amazing on out there, but since there's two extra umpires,
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  Speaker 6: especially the one out in left field, which you're gonna
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  Speaker 6: possibly see here, that's what makes it challenge right there.
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  Speaker 1: But to your point, Jimmy, if he once you.
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  Speaker 6: Tag, you just gotta go, just go, even if it's
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  Speaker 6: caught or even if it's bobbled. As soon as it's touched,
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  Speaker 6: it's either a hit or it's a sacrifice fly. And
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  Speaker 6: you got to keep going and check the umpire out
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  Speaker 6: Right here, John's in a great positions, and Jimmy, you
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  Speaker 6: pointed this out. If you're the runner on second, or
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  Speaker 6: even the runner from first to second, you don't see
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  Speaker 6: that umpire, so you don't know exactly what the call is.
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  Speaker 1: So for them, I give them a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: grace there.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't know.
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  Speaker 6: They had never seen this play happen. They thought it
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  Speaker 6: was a catch because he ended up with the ball
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  Speaker 6: in his glove.
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  Speaker 3: And if it's done, it ends up Tiaska scores, bases
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  Speaker 3: are still loaded again. If everybody advances and it's two outs,
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  Speaker 3: that's probably how it should happen. But no matter what happens,
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  Speaker 3: if you're the runner on third, in that situations, just
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  Speaker 3: situation happens. The outfielder goes back. Your job is a
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  Speaker 3: tag up and score. Let everything else happen behind you.
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  Speaker 3: And he didn't do that, and it almost cost him.
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  Speaker 3: It almost cost him.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what, the good thing is, the good news?
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  Speaker 1: What's that patro it?
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  Speaker 2: I just win, so they're gonna rethink the play later on.
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  Speaker 2: Even though for everybody at home, that's why you watch
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  Speaker 2: a good postseason game, because every single game has a
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  Speaker 2: different DNA. Only US humans have different DNAs. Every baseball
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  Speaker 2: game is the only thing that looks back US has
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  Speaker 2: their own unique DNA. Yeah, so that's why it's important
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  Speaker 2: to watch. But this is something that we did not
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  Speaker 2: expect to see. I have never seen it happen in
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  Speaker 2: my long career. Rightfully though, if you saw some of
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  Speaker 2: the runners kind of confused them the plate, it is
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  Speaker 2: because we never seen these kind of play.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna pick it up in the top of the six,
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  Speaker 1: so that crazy double play just happens. Smells in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of tearing apart this Brewers team and then step
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  Speaker 1: into the plate Freddy Freeman giving us a d done
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  Speaker 1: Johnson and wake it up.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we were He was one of the bats
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  Speaker 6: that the Dodgers needed to get going, and this could
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  Speaker 6: be the game that gets him going and he gets
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  Speaker 6: going and everybody else over there.
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  Speaker 1: This could be a tough series. But almost grazed the
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  Speaker 1: roof Chimp.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Freddy was out there shooting jumpers.
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  Speaker 3: He said, getting ready for the basketball season. Sometimes when
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  Speaker 3: you step back beyond on a half court that we
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  Speaker 3: got three quarter shot, you gotta get it up up there.
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  Speaker 4: He was nothing but net, babe, and get that heart right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that there you go. That's really all we thought
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  Speaker 1: they needed. Blake Snell won one hundred and three pitches
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  Speaker 1: that change up a sixty one percent with rate. The
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  Speaker 1: ten k's one hit, zero walks Blake Snell out of
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  Speaker 1: his mind. They couldn't sit up with to night.
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  Speaker 2: I will say not out of mine inning elements.
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  Speaker 4: That's what he was.
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  Speaker 1: He was exactly where he needed to be. So they
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  Speaker 1: bring in Rookie Sasaki, who had been a wonder kid
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  Speaker 1: in this playoff, and this is when it started to
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  Speaker 1: go crazy. Bower ground rule, double hope is back in
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  Speaker 1: American family field, Surio, sacrifice fly RBI. Now there within
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  Speaker 1: one run and two outs, and then the base of
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  Speaker 1: this Brewer's team for about the last seven eight years,
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  Speaker 1: Yellis steps to the plate and steps his way to
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  Speaker 1: first base. This force is a pitching change. Lake Trining
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  Speaker 1: comes in and now we got runners on the corners. Contreras,
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  Speaker 1: Walks and Tarangus up and talk.
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  Speaker 4: About building confidence. This is something that puts someone in
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  Speaker 4: a big moment. Don't shy away from it.
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  Speaker 1: He has been your guy before. You gotta give him.
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  Speaker 4: The ball again.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to with his first save since April, Rookie Sasaki
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  Speaker 1: had come in, pitched five and a third and was
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  Speaker 1: really untouchable postseason, and we will talk about where is
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  Speaker 1: his confidence now. But after you faced Snell, you could
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  Speaker 1: tell Manager Murphy still processing what he witnessed on the pump.
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  Speaker 1: He was great.
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  Speaker 7: His sequencing and in terms of throwing his change up
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  Speaker 7: as effective as change up and slider were incredible. The
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  Speaker 7: kid was incredible. I've seen him pitch like that before.
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  Speaker 7: I think it was its most dominant performance against US.
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  Speaker 7: I've been here ten years. I think that's a The
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  Speaker 7: kid swulling back from Atlanta had one against this earlier,
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  Speaker 7: kind of in the shadows.
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  Speaker 8: It was kind of different. But kid was amazing. And
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  Speaker 8: Will Smith the way he called the game, and it's
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  Speaker 8: just was unusual the way he did it. He didn't
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  Speaker 8: go back and forth, back and forth. He just went
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  Speaker 8: change up, change up, change up, changement. The ball was
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  Speaker 8: moving so much and such a great pitch. He recognized
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  Speaker 8: it and stayed with it. And so I credit Smid too,
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  Speaker 8: and Snell was he was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Major During the game, you could see Snell going and
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  Speaker 1: he's calling his own game. I asked you in the
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  Speaker 1: green room, did you call your own pitches? You said
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  Speaker 1: you did. So there's also an appreciation not just of
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  Speaker 1: striking out guys, but having the blueprint and the game plan.
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  Speaker 1: We see him in the dugout looking at everything the
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  Speaker 1: mind as well as the physical performance.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I told you earlier, not too long ago,
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  Speaker 2: about a minute ago, that he was an insane elements.
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  Speaker 2: He was locked team from bit one to bitch one
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  Speaker 2: oh one. I have never seen anything like it in
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  Speaker 2: the postseason, and I was part of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: post season games, and I've seen a lot of great pictures,
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  Speaker 2: including that Roger Clemens that once did it too, but
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  Speaker 2: five times that this guy has been able to do.
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  Speaker 4: This kid has an aura for the big game.
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  Speaker 1: And not only the.
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  Speaker 4: Aura, but he also had the stuck very.
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  Speaker 1: Deceiving over the top.
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  Speaker 2: He has much sure as he goes, and he's become
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  Speaker 2: a lethal weapon in the last three years. And that's
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  Speaker 2: probably why you see those thy young hanging in the room.
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  Speaker 1: Got two of them. Can I ask a question, you
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  Speaker 1: guys are really smart? I'm really dumb. Bases were loaded
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  Speaker 1: for Bryce to rang wild, pitch went right at his
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  Speaker 1: legs and he jumped back. I'm dummy. Should he have
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  Speaker 1: just taken that off the leg? See?
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  Speaker 3: See this is like you guys played this, it's the
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  Speaker 3: should he just have let it hit him? Yes, that
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  Speaker 3: is tough when you're in that situation. Most guys can't say.
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  Speaker 3: And I've played with the guy that will definitely for
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  Speaker 3: sure let it hit him. Most guys are trying to
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  Speaker 3: not get hit. You're not going up there looking to
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  Speaker 3: get hit. You see a ball come down there, and
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  Speaker 3: your reaction is to do that, right, but they have
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  Speaker 3: the wherewithal knowing that Blake pulls the slider, you're looking
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  Speaker 3: for something down and end, and you can most look
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  Speaker 3: you're talk to turn into you know, turn your back
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  Speaker 3: towards the ball. If he does that, it probably hits him.
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  Speaker 3: But you see he took the stride like you normals
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  Speaker 3: getting ready hit it, and then he just kind of
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  Speaker 3: exposing himself out and put his leg out the way
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  Speaker 3: and then he swings out the ball over his head,
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  Speaker 3: which goes to tell me he was thinking about that.
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  Speaker 3: He backed out, like man, if that hits me, that's
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  Speaker 3: a tie ball game.
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  Speaker 4: And that's still on your mind.
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  Speaker 1: And not that he.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't get fully back into the bat. You know that
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  Speaker 3: you got away with an opportunity right there.
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  Speaker 1: So and look, I'm not facing the ninety five mile
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  Speaker 1: an hour slider at my kneecap.
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  Speaker 6: You got to do is stand in the backyard unless
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  Speaker 6: someone throw the ball at you left, go and see
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  Speaker 6: if you either stay there or if your natural reaction
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  Speaker 6: is to move out of the away.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he said, he's not the smartest guy, so he probably.
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  Speaker 1: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: It's their natural reaction right to protect themselves when they
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  Speaker 2: see the ball coming at them. And also, let's not
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  Speaker 2: forget that as much as we want these kids to
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  Speaker 2: be perfect, he's still young.
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  Speaker 1: Oh sure, remember this is this is a.
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  Speaker 4: Relatively young player.
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  Speaker 2: Some of those players that used to do that turn
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  Speaker 2: around with the intention of getting hit, or they practice
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  Speaker 2: that it's not just one is not just one game.
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  Speaker 2: They normally do that after the repetitions, so when the
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  Speaker 2: moment comes, they identify it. But this is a relatively
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  Speaker 2: young player that doesn't realize that he probably could have
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  Speaker 2: tied up the game on a breaking ball, hitting game.
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  Speaker 1: On the knee.
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  Speaker 2: But their natural reaction is defend themselves from football.
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  Speaker 1: One more question about Roki Sasaki, who was known as
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  Speaker 1: the monster of the REWA era. He came in and
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  Speaker 1: he was really stamping that claim. He had a perfect
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  Speaker 1: three perfect innings in Game four clincher against the Phillies,
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  Speaker 1: five and a third innings, no walks, he gets shelld
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, gets shell shocked a little bit. They
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  Speaker 1: have to bling and break Blake tryning. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: any concerns going forward about Roki or do they instill
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  Speaker 1: confidence in the locker room and get them back out
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  Speaker 1: there and gain.
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  Speaker 6: No no concern at all. Plus the situation you come
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  Speaker 6: in with runners on, it's a little different. If you
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  Speaker 6: come in with a clean inning, which is similar to
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  Speaker 6: what he used to do as a starter, that makes
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  Speaker 6: things a little bit easier. Now every situation is not
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  Speaker 6: going to be a clean inning, but when you are
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  Speaker 6: in that situation, that can build a confidence back up.
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  Speaker 6: And give credit to Dave Roberts, the manager of the
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  Speaker 6: Dodgers again flipping coming back and now whenever the opportunity
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  Speaker 6: comes up in any of these remaining games, you got
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  Speaker 6: to run him back out there. You got to get
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  Speaker 6: his confidence back up soon.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Dave Roberts just spoke to the media about
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  Speaker 1: Sasaki and Shrine and let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't know he had three days off.
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  Speaker 5: Everything I heard he felt great, and there was some
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  Speaker 5: near misses, but you know, you walk through guys, and
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  Speaker 5: so he was just off a little bit. But I
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  Speaker 5: thought this stuff was still good, but just missing. And
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, you know, if there was carry over
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  Speaker 5: from the from the three innings, just kind of betting
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  Speaker 5: on you know, how he's saying he feels, and the
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  Speaker 5: coaches and training staff and you know, with threes three
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  Speaker 5: days off, I felt.
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  Speaker 8: Good with him and with Blake.
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  Speaker 6: Obvious, see, you've seen a lot of good postseason pitching performances,
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  Speaker 6: but what do you think of where do you think
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  Speaker 6: Blake stells out and ranks some of those?
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  Speaker 1: Tonight?
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  Speaker 5: This was This is as good as I can remember
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  Speaker 5: in the postseason against a very you know, gritty team,
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  Speaker 5: puts the ball in play, the change up was the
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  Speaker 5: pitch of the night. This command was great.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, you're.
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  Speaker 5: Not going to see too many performances like that, certainly
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  Speaker 5: in the postseason. This was This was pretty special.
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  Speaker 1: Madni final thoughts on Sasaki. I think it's gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 2: I think the fact that he had to wait three days, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is not a usual game for him.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, But but I think it's gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't worry at all about about Staki.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 2: I I think he needed to fill the ball a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Plus, this is probably the you know, the tightest game
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  Speaker 2: he ever played. And and uh, I think it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be okay. And plus relievers are thought to have a
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  Speaker 2: very short memory. So he's gonna be right back out
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  Speaker 2: and he's gonna be just fine, probably even better with
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  Speaker 2: the field the ball eight