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World Series Game 1 Recap · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the three O Take.
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  Where we talk all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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  It. All starts right now.
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  Welcome back to the Three O Take presented by Sea Kick.
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  This is episode 480. I'll be your host, Kyle Corden.
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  I'm here with a very, very dejected Yankees fan, Nate
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  Reyes, my Co host Nate. Let's get this over with.
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  What? What just happened?
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  I, I this is got hope. That's what it.
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  That's what happened. This was just game.
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  This was just game one. I don't.
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  Know instant classic, I'll say that.
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  I, I tweeted it out. I, I sure hope those folks that
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  said they weren't going to watch a minute of this World Series.
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  I hope they're enjoying, they're enjoying recaulking their
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  bathrooms tonight. Unbelievable.
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  I'm hurting, man, I'm hurting. It still hasn't sunk in yet.
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  Like I don't even have a dog in this fight.
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  You obviously do here, but man, I was, I was on the edge of my
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  seat and I know that gets that phrase gets thrown around a lot,
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  but I, I, I was nervous. My heart, my heart rate was
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  through the roof. Yeah.
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  This game had this game had everything, everything.
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  I know you're going to look at the box score if you didn't
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  watch and you're not going to see that this was a pitching
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  duel for six innings. And you're not even going to
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  need to know that like it's a huge part of the game, but not a
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  part of the the box score. It's not a part of the
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  headlines. It's it's a great game.
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  It's a classic for sure. And something that just dagger
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  right in the heart, just dagger right in the right, right, right
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  in the good spot. I'm going to ask you to do
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  something very difficult. I'm going to ask, I'm going to
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  ask you to suspend your disappointment, the sting of
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  what just happened in the bottom of the 10th inning, just so we
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  can even for just a few minutes dissect just how good of a
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  baseball game this was. I know it hurts.
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  I know you're I know you're feeling it right now, but that
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  legitimately had to have been one of the the best baseball
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  games I've watched in my lifetime.
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  And I sure recency bias, but when I say that game had
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  everything, if you watch that game, you saw everything you
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  saw. You saw small ball, you saw a
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  phenomenal starting pitch and you saw pitchers, pitchers with
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  length in in this game. You saw great defensive plays.
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  You saw clutch at bat. You saw ABS were guys were were
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  working the pitch count, you had home runs taken away, you had
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  calls reversed, you had diving plays in the same.
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  I mean just everything. Yeah, yeah, it was a good game.
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  Just definitely a good game. I mentioned it before like 2
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  phenomenal starts out of out of Cole and Flaherty in two
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  different kind of ways. And it, it felt like, you know,
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  like it felt like, all right, well, is this maybe a little bit
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  of a dud for game one? Like is this going to be are we
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  feeling like, you know, maybe the the layoff is, is for the at
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  least the offensive side is, is that hurting us?
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  Like is that? And then I mean just, I'm not
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  going to say dominance by any means.
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  Like obviously we've seen great pitching duels before and I
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  think this one is great considering the circumstances.
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  You saw a little bit different. Like I think Flaherty looks
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  better than Cole personally. I think Cole, the weird thing
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  when he when he starts is that it's like you can tell when he's
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  trying to strike everyone out. He's trying to be untouchable
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  for the game, and that's typically when he's struggling
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  to get through 5 because the pitch count is too high.
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  And then this one was like, I have to go deep.
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  So I'm just going right at these guys.
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  And we saw balls hit to the track.
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  We saw. I mean, the first inning was all
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  barrels. Whereas Flaherty, like Flaherty
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  has, I think looked the best he's looked all post season.
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  I was spinning it like crazy, fastball playing up.
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  I mean, the slider and curveball are moving.
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  Like he looked really, really good.
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  I had, I had tweeted out about Flaherty, the, the Dodgers had
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  tweeted out his line just being like, and that's, that's a World
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  Series starting the books for Flaherty, whatever.
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  And I, I was in the replies and I was like, you know, one bad
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  pitch, otherwise incredible effort.
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  And then I followed up that tweet immediately and I was
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  like, what am I even saying? That wasn't even he.
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  It just backed up golf that batch it it just backed up a
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  little bit. It just backed up a little bit,
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  but when? You take that AB away and that's
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  that's an incredible and honestly tip of the cap to
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  Flaherty because I'm sure you saw he rolled up to Dodger
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  Stadium in a Fernando Valenzuela jersey.
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  And, you know, I mean, it kind of stings for him to have that
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  blemish on his on his outing, but otherwise just a a great way
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  to honor him. That was so big.
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  I'm. I'm not trying to be dramatic
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  when saying this and obviously we're going to dissect this game
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  a little bit more, but like I I think this was the dream
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  scenario for the Dodgers and worst case scenario for the
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  Yanks. I think this was the worst
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  possible outcome for the Yankees.
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  I think they played a good game, but I think this was the worst
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  possible outcome. They had to get to Flaherty
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  early. They had to get to this bullpen
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  early because game one dictates so much of Game 2 because of an
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  off day Sunday. And it really could just kind of
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  lays out what Dave Roberts is going to do with his pitching
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  staff tomorrow. And so Flaherty going deep was
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  everything for the Dodgers. The fact that they got a dub was
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  a a last second, you know, cherry on top.
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  And I think the Yankees would have been thrilled if they
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  obviously, you know, can steal one in LA.
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  But yeah, this is, yeah, this was worst case scenario for the
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  Yanks, in my opinion. I to your point about Flaherty,
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  I think Flaherty, you know, pitched better comparatively
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  given given the expectations of of each one of the starting
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  pitchers coming into the night. You, yeah.
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  He gave you Cole. He gave you a cold start.
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  Exactly. And he's not Cole.
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  Like that's. Every every headline coming into
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  this game was chances are Garrett Cole is going to give
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  you what Garrett Cole typically gives you And he I mean, he went
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  six, only gave up one had four KS on the night, which call it
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  call it what it is. I mean that's it's rack up
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  strikeouts against that lineup. That in the way he's attacking
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  like that was built for that start.
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  That game plan was built for length.
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  It was not built for trying to mow guys down like I.
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  I think he's very capable of getting 7-8 strikeouts every
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  start and that that wasn't his game plan.
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  This was to get outs quickly and attack guys early in the count
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  and some were barreled. It didn't look pretty, but it
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  ends up being a pretty good start line in the end.
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  I'm sort of with you and saying that this was worst case
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  scenario for the Yankees. Worst case is you.
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  You don't get length out of Cole in this start he gave, he gives
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  you 6. So although although the Yankees
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  obviously lose out in the end, the fact that you didn't have to
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  tap into your bullpen as aggressively given that Cole was
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  able to do what not the reality of it is not a lot of pitchers
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  that have been able to do this postseason is is take you into
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  the 6th, the 7th, so on and so forth.
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  The fact that he was able to do that again, given despite the
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  loss that that has to help at least a little bit in Game 2 and
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  setting the Yankees up for for the travel day coming up on
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  Sunday. But my goodness, just I mean,
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  the, the, the pitching duel that talked about the defensive play,
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  I mean. There were big plays, man big,
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  big plays. I think it was the 6th inning
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  when Tommy Edmond had that diving slide up the middle on
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  that single to keep it to keep Jazz at third from scoring from
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  2nd. And then I think we had a
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  strikeout right after that that ended the inning that huge like
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  simple but huge play. Not that it like it ended up not
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  mattering because of the way because of the way that Jazz
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  ended up, you know, going throughout the in the 9th, but I
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  think it was the 9th or the 8th. It's all blending together at
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  this point. But that single to right Center
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  for Jazz, Mookie cutting it off before getting it.
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  So, you know, before it got to the wall.
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  Like, yes, Jazz still stole second and still ended up
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  scoring in that inning, but like it's just little things and that
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  don't show up in the in the in the box score.
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  They don't show up in the book that were big defensive plays.
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  You take it to the Yankee side, that Jazz play that I thought
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  Mookie hit that 150 miles an hour.
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  The ball is absolutely smoked. Short hop, excellent, excellent
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  play. I think Otani was on 3rd.
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  I'll tell you what, the Exit Velo nerds were loving this
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  game. Oh yeah.
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  Dude balls juiced late tonight. Balls were juiced the op Verdugo
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  man like I I can you give him some flowers here Like I think
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  we all know what he is offensively like there's a flash
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  of something every once in a while, but like defensively he's
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  been special for for a while now and big plays tonight.
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  Well, that wasn't that wasn't the feeling I had in in the in
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  the first inning on that miss play on that Freddy double,
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  allowing him to get that was on a bad ankle.
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  That was a bad angle that was overrun.
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  I didn't like that. I didn't like the Sodo
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  aggressive on that. I was at Kike, Yeah, that turned
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  into a. Triple yeah.
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  Well, it didn't turn into a trip, you know what I mean?
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  Like I think just playing a little over aggressive and kind
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  of overrunning some things. I'm being nitpicky, but like
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  Oswaldo Cabrera kind of overrunning that over diving
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  that single by Edwin in the last inning there.
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  He was just into the game at that point, right?
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  Yeah, well, yeah. So Glaber had hit that double
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  and then Dominguez pinch ran and then Oswaldo came in.
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  But I think the one of the biggest plays that's extremely
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  small, but like watching it as as a as a player and a coach,
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  like you like it, it makes you really kind of pissed.
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  Was that Ohtani double off the wall, Soto throws it in and
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  Torres deliberately gives himself a backhand short hop on
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  a non play, a play that like it's a stand up double.
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  There's no play at the bag. All you have to do is take a few
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  steps back, get a long hop, keep it off your chest kind of thing.
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  Worst case scenario, and he's lazy with footwork, he tries to
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  backhand it and it flicks off his glove.
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  Otani goes the third and then you have that Mookie sack fly
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  that was hit on a line to judge. Like those are little things
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  that I know I'm being nitpicky, but like those are things that
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  that tie the knee. Like that's a that's a big
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  thing. Like keeping him at second means
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  that you probably attack Mookie a little bit differently and.
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  It's not nitpicky man. That's.
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  That it it's big enough to affect absolutely.
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  It's big enough to affect things and.
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  At this stage of the season, that's just huge.
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  It can't happen. And this is what I was telling
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  you before the series, is that like the Yankees have to be
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  perfect with those types of plays.
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  And that's how I've seen them lose throughout this year.
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  And it's just like taking a half a second off and it ends up
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  being a big moment. Yeah, see, I mean, to your point
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  there, there were so many we talked about, I mentioned
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  earlier just this game had everything it had small ball and
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  and the IT had these moments just scattered littered
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  throughout where you're taking an extra bag.
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  One one that comes to mind. No coverage at third on on Jazz
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  swiping, swiping the bag. Not sure what we're doing there.
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  There was just so many moments where and you you mentioned one
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  Soto overly aggressive on that what would have been a fly out
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  turns into a triple or he was hoping that it would have been a
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  fly out had he got there. There's just so many moments
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  throughout this game where if it if it goes the other way, we
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  could be looking at a completely different outcome.
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  Yeah. I mean, you're talking like you
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  can play this game on both sides, but like that Ohtani
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  double, do you add 3 feet to that?
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  And Oh my goodness. You know, now we're talking a
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  little bit of a different story. The Glaber 1.
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  Yeah, I do think it was going to hit off the wall.
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  Yeah, I do think it was a double, but like I don't know.
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  I've seen that pad give and it's skip off the top of the fence
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  before. Like, I don't know.
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  We don't know that it's just I think.
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  Objectively, that was a double, but I, I.
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  Think it was a double. I do think it was a double, but
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  like we'll never know. It's just there's so many little
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  things, man, so many little things.
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  I love I you're right, dude. Like when you come to think of
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  it like we saw excellent defense, we saw excellent base
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  running, we saw Bunting. They they.
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  They mentioned in the broadcast they're like, what year is it?
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  We have starting pitchers going into the 7th.
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  We're seeing a sacrifice bunts. Yeah, it's excellent.
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  And shout out, I don't want it to go unnoticed, but in in in
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  the vein of of good defense that play that Rizzo made over the
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  shoulder. Dude, I like the I like get rid.
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  Get rid of the hat. Dude, get rid of that bill.
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  Get that out of there. I like that.
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  Help. Yourself out a little bit.
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  I like that. I like that.
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  I'm, I'm, I'll be honest, it's probably going to sound salty
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  and no one's going to, no one's going to defend here.
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  It it's we all it. I'm going.
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  To be if you're listening, if you're hanging out in the chat,
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  We all witnessed the same thing. It's Go.
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  I don't know. I don't think anyone's going to
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  share the same opinion. I honestly, I think it's kind of
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  nonsense that like Joe Davis and John Smoltz hate the Yankees and
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  not hate. I don't think, I don't think Joe
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  Davis hates the Yankees, but he calls Dodger games for a living
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  during the regular season. And John Smoltz absolutely hates
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  the Yankees because of what happened for 10 years of his
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  life. And it's just like, bro, like,
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  we can't, we can't get a third guy in there that like very
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  clearly isn't on their knees for the Dodgers.
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  Well. Credit to credit to Joe Davis, I
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  think. I think he does.
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  I think he does a solid job. I think he calls a good game.
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  I think he does well, but overall, like you can hear that
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  extra oomph, I mean, for the Dodgers.
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  There's an extra oomph for the Dodgers, but I think he gives a
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  a comparable amount of oomph for the Yankees.
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  Did you hear the call on that, Stanton?
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  I was moving bomb. No, I was yelling a lot.
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  Yeah, I was loud. Please, you need to go back and
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  listen to that call, he said. I don't.
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  Want to go back for any part of this game?
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  Scrapes the sky. That was, that was a top tier
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  call. Top tier call given the
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  circumstances and like you said, given the fact that he's like a
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  Dodger guy. Excellent call from Joe Davis
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  there. Yeah.
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  I, I did say before the series started that it's we have two
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  managers that have made difficult and questionable calls
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  and whether it's hindsight involved, but at some point one
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  of these two managers is going to make a call that we're going
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  to question. I don't understand Nestor.
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  I don't understand. I know, I know the game plan, I
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  know the reports, I know the ideas that he's on the roster
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  for Otani. I know Otani doesn't have good
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  numbers. I get that.
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  I know that. Can we put?
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  He's not. I guess, yeah.
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  Let's let's put a pin in Nestor real quick, but I want to keep
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  it on this topic and it because I I made a note because I wanted
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  to ask you your thoughts on the two.
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  It seems to be the the theme here of me asking you your
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  thoughts on on these moves to the pen specifically with Clay
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  Holmes and Luke Weaver bringing in Holmes after Gerrit Cole.
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  I'd want to say he had that little sort of sawed off single
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  out into the out in the left center.
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  I believe Tay Oscar. And so they he brings in Clay
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  Holmes in the bottom of the 7th and then immediately plunks Max
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  Max Muncie before he even did that.
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  Were were you OK with that move as?
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  A Oh yeah, I feel, I feel really good about Clay Holmes right
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  now. I really do like, oddly enough,
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  I, I know, but I think there's been enough time removed and I
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  think he's looked good enough in the postseason that like I, I
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  feel confident. It's it's when the button is
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  being pressed that I have an issue.
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  And Boone is notorious for trying to steal outs instead of
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  understanding that I, that I, I, there's, there show me an
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  analytic that that has a reliever with better numbers
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  throwing, sitting down and coming back in.
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  Like, show me an analytic that a reliever isn't better with a
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  clean inning. And I understand some of them
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  are supposed to come in during, you know, wedges, during
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  difficult moments, during, you know, game and impacting
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  moments. And that's what holds are all
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  about. It's just when you start
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  stealing outs like that, you're almost burning a reliever too
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  soon. And I felt that Clay Holmes was
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  burned too soon, which means that you got to press the canely
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  button too soon. And then, when you're not
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  trusting Kane Lee to finish out an inning, you burn the Weaver
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  button too soon. Chain reaction for sure.
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  And it's just that there's not enough depth at the back end of
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  that bullpen to do that. I think Jay Cousins was
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  admirable, but let's face it, he was out for weeks before the
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  postseason and he hasn't. I don't think he's really looked
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  the same of what we saw during the regular season.
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  And that's what he does is what Boone does.
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  And like, one can argue that's why we're here, I guess.
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  I don't know. But like, I hated it.
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  I hated all of it. I hated Nestor being in the game
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  so much. Still putting a pin in the
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  Nestor thing. I hated it.
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  Another another pitching question for you.
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  This whole Tommy Kane Lee change up thing the the stubbornness of
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  not just Dodgers hitters, but hitters that he has faced prior
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  to this with this whole change up streak.
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  It he he he went into he finished out that inning having
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  thrown 50 consecutive change UPS and I don't I don't remember
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  what happened when he because he came back out I believe right
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  for the next inning after that. I don't know, I don't know if
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  that streak continued or what. I've I've sort of stopped paying
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  attention to it. But as as his opposition, the
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  inability to make an adjustment. They talked about it on the
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  broadcast. Move up in the box, take it.
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  And that's what Smoltz was saying.
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  Move up in the box, take away a little bit of the movement that
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  that tail end movement off the change up and and maybe get
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  some, some more bat on the ball. It was just mind blowing to me
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  because the, I mean, yeah, I would have to imagine even the
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  most casual fan who's slightly interested in the World Series
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  is aware of this change up streak at this point.
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  So you you, you can't. Tell me nasty man it.
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  I mean I. And it's credit.
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  To the hitters, it's tough, but I mean, make an adjustment.
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  They're more often than not that it misses down because of the
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  amount of movement it misses down.
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  Typically it's similar, similar approach to like a Clay Holmes,
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  like scoot up in the box and get that get to that sinker before
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  it dips down below too, too much.
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  So yeah, I don't know, man. He's he's done great.
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  It's just it's this, it's this trying to steal out.
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  It's this. If I see Weaver come out for
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  another and he did good. He held it like he did his job.
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  But like if I see him come out for another anything over a
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  normal 3 out save or hold, I'm losing my mind.
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  I can't do it anymore. And again, it like it just you
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  burn things too quickly and that like you said, it's a ripple
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  effect. And then when we get to these
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  points of if we can't clog another run across, we're now in
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  the 10th and we're running dry and we and then we're left with
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  this. Tim Hill has been great.
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  And if you're wanting to have the Nestor argument against
• 23:36
  Otani, great. Like we still got to go.
• 23:44
  If we get him out, we still get our if the plan was to walk
• 23:48
  Mookie, like you still got to get through Freddie.
• 23:54
  I just I don't like that. And Nestor missed, missed his
• 23:57
  spot, supposed to be up and in, miss down and in what hitter
• 24:02
  from the left side can't dominate that pitch.
• 24:04
  Obviously a Hall of Famer is going to handle that pitch and
• 24:08
  he did. He put it on freaking Broadway.
• 24:11
  It's just, it's just questionable moves.
• 24:16
  Tim Hill has been very good and he's funky.
• 24:21
  That's not an easy angle he comes from.
• 24:24
  And if you're going to sit here and say that you were worried
• 24:26
  about a wild pitch or whatever, like I don't want to hear it.
• 24:29
  That's not what I want to hear. That's not that's not a reason
• 24:32
  to go with Nestor, who we haven't seen.
• 24:35
  What in a month and. And we have no idea if the Velos
• 24:40
  there like I just super, super questionable move.
• 24:47
  And I feel like the Yankees had this.
• 24:52
  I feel like they had it. Well, that's that's sort of what
• 24:56
  I was telling you. And I know it's not much of A
• 25:00
  consolation, but what we were talking about before we hopped
• 25:03
  on is that for you, a Yankees fan, I would at least have the
• 25:10
  confidence in knowing that you did enough to win the game short
• 25:14
  of an Aaron Boone questionable call.
• 25:18
  And that, and that's not hindsight.
• 25:20
  We're not, this isn't revisionist history.
• 25:23
  They, they said it immediately. And if you've been paying
• 25:25
  attention to the whole Nestor Cortez trajectory, you know, we
• 25:29
  haven't seen this kind of month even before the home run
• 25:34
  happened, before the Freddie Friedman walk off Grand Slam
• 25:36
  happened. You know that that's probably
• 25:39
  not the best guy to go to. And I I think Nestor probably
• 25:44
  knew that. And this is what this is what we
• 25:46
  talked. About last episode I.
• 25:49
  This is what I told you last episode.
• 25:50
  I said, you have this guy talking about how he's, he's
• 25:54
  talking about the severity of this injury that he's dealing
• 25:57
  with the UCL injury, talking about how he, there's, there's
• 26:02
  part of his mind that's already chalking out or, you know,
• 26:06
  writing off next year. He's like, if, if I can end
• 26:10
  this, this World Series with a ring and it means me it, it
• 26:14
  means me missing all of next year.
• 26:17
  And, and we talked about it. You and I agreed.
• 26:19
  Great mindset, love the love the the bulldog type mentality
• 26:22
  there. But what does that say about the
• 26:24
  severity of what he's dealing with?
• 26:26
  If he's already telling you that it's something that could more
• 26:29
  than likely knock him out for next year?
• 26:30
  Is that the guy you want to bring in having not thrown in a
• 26:34
  month in a situation where he could give up?
• 26:37
  That's. That's my problem.
• 26:39
  Why that spot? Why that spot?
• 26:42
  If you're looking to steal out, do that in the sixth, do that in
• 26:46
  the seventh. Do that in a spot where you
• 26:48
  still have time to recover if it doesn't go well.
• 26:51
  Because let's face it, live hitters, bullpens aren't going
• 26:56
  to tell you what that's going to be.
• 26:58
  That's not a good enough tell. You're not going to know what he
• 27:02
  is or what he has until you see him in this game moment.
• 27:06
  So I don't understand why you're putting him in that spot where
• 27:11
  it's you have you can't recover, especially when you're running
• 27:16
  double barrel in the in the bullpen and Tim Hills ready to
• 27:19
  go. You didn't.
• 27:20
  You didn't press that button yet.
• 27:23
  With the way that this game went, I have no problem with
• 27:28
  with the, I mean, maybe in terms of getting, getting these, these
• 27:32
  leverage relievers clean innings, like you said, that
• 27:35
  would be the only thing I probably would have changed.
• 27:38
  However, I don't disagree with Boone's decision to go to those
• 27:41
  guys because this is the trend now you're seeing.
• 27:44
  You're seeing these managers go to these high leverage guys
• 27:47
  earlier in games in in the high leverage situations.
• 27:50
  That's why, if it were up to me, Nesser Cortez doesn't see the
• 27:53
  mound at all in game one. I agree.
• 27:55
  Because you, you talk about the importance, they talk about it
• 27:58
  that you, you see the statistic floating around all the time,
• 28:00
  the importance of winning Game 1.
• 28:02
  And especially for the Yankees, if you're, if you're able to go
• 28:05
  into Dodger Stadium on the road, sneak out a steal a win to start
• 28:10
  the series. And.
• 28:12
  And you're putting yourself, you know, percentage, percentage
• 28:15
  points that much higher in terms of your odds of being able to,
• 28:20
  to win this thing. But then you go out and you try
• 28:22
  to get a guy you know some, get him some ABS to shake the rust
• 28:27
  off in the bottom of the 10th inning.
• 28:29
  Yeah, with the bases loaded against the Hall of Famer.
• 28:32
  Make it make sense, bro, Make it make sense.
• 28:36
  I just. And I don't care about the bad
• 28:38
  ankle for Freddie Freeman. They.
• 28:39
  Me neither. Honestly, it might have been a
• 28:41
  Rod talking about it before the game or maybe no, I think it was
• 28:45
  Smoltz. He's like or maybe even D row on
• 28:48
  MLB Network today. I don't know.
• 28:49
  Somebody was talking about how Freddie Freeman 50%.
• 28:54
  Still better than a. Lot of players out there.
• 28:57
  So, you know, like, yeah, the more I talk about this Nesser
• 29:01
  decision, the more I'm like. What's It's horrendous.
• 29:04
  Thinking it's. Horrendous.
• 29:06
  It's horrendous. Oh my goodness.
• 29:08
  It's bad. That's and that's the that's
• 29:10
  what's going to be decided. And I, I told you, I told you
• 29:15
  one of these guys was in props to Dave Roberts because like I
• 29:19
  think it's been a little bit since he's pressed one of those
• 29:22
  buttons and been wrong and been ridiculed in the media for it.
• 29:25
  But like Boone does this once a week, man, I've watched it once
• 29:28
  a week for years now. This is just what he does part.
• 29:32
  Of me, part of me wonders if he was looking across the field in
• 29:36
  into the Dodgers dugout, seeing Dave Roberts go to Alex Vessia,
• 29:40
  who you know, fortunate for the Dodgers was able to make the
• 29:42
  roster. He he seems to be doing well.
• 29:45
  He came out, had a strong outing, three up, three down
• 29:48
  that first inning that he was in there.
• 29:50
  I think he did he only go 1. I don't think he yeah, he only
• 29:53
  went one retired the the the only three hitters he faced.
• 29:58
  I'm part of me wonders like is is Aaron Boone trying to one up
• 30:02
  him be like, hey, I know Vesti hasn't pitched in in a handful
• 30:05
  of days, but I got a guy here who hasn't pitched in a month
• 30:08
  and maybe we can get him a a a three up three down situation.
• 30:12
  But. I don't know man, my goodness.
• 30:16
  Just some interesting decisions. I I think, and it doesn't help
• 30:21
  the confidence. It doesn't help Nestor in any
• 30:24
  way. You know what I mean?
• 30:25
  Like I Tim Hill, just it, it made more sense.
• 30:30
  It made more sense. And, and outside of if you
• 30:36
  remove the numbers against Otani, there's no other argument
• 30:42
  for Nestor being in that spot. It's absolutely no other no
• 30:47
  other argument. And and not to keep rehashing it
• 30:51
  or to, to keep harping on it, but like this I, I
• 30:56
  wholeheartedly believe with every fiber of my being that
• 31:02
  that was not the right decision and that this is not hindsight
• 31:05
  bias. This is looking at the situation
• 31:10
  recognizing that this guy has not pitched in a month and
• 31:14
  you're bringing him in. Oh, it was a starter.
• 31:17
  When's the last time you saw a relief appearance?
• 31:19
  Oh my goodness, it just, it gets worse.
• 31:22
  Game one of the World Series on the road in a game in which you
• 31:27
  are winning in extra innings. Acting like this is some kind of
• 31:32
  joker card that you're pulling out, it's insane, bro.
• 31:36
  It's insane. I think one thing, by the way,
• 31:39
  I, we kind of glossed over this move and I, I do think it's
• 31:43
  something that was strange when I saw it happen because there
• 31:47
  wasn't a big difference in speed.
• 31:49
  But Glaber hits that double with the interference and Dominguez
• 31:54
  gets the pinch run and then as as Waldo gets the defensive
• 32:01
  replacement for Glaber at second.
• 32:05
  I don't know if there's enough speed difference.
• 32:07
  I don't, I'm not staring at analytics.
• 32:08
  I can't assume that Dominguez is that much faster, that much
• 32:13
  better of a baserunner than Oswaldo, but it makes you
• 32:17
  curious. It's like, why would you burn
• 32:19
  two of your bench players in one move?
• 32:21
  Right, right. And it also makes you wonder,
• 32:24
  like, especially now with what Nestor just did, how much is
• 32:27
  John Birdie going to be missed? Like, say what you will, but
• 32:31
  like, that's a that's a bona fide veteran bench player who
• 32:36
  has shown experience at pretty much every position in the
• 32:39
  infield gives you more options. I like Jason Dominguez and I get
• 32:44
  that you need a fourth outfielder, but like, that was
• 32:47
  something that I wondered also. And again, when the Yankees win,
• 32:53
  a lot of the stuff gets covered up.
• 32:55
  And the fact that the Yankees are in the World Series, Aaron
• 32:57
  Boone probably doesn't get the, you know, ridicule that I think
• 33:02
  he deserves. I just don't think he's a very
• 33:03
  good manager. I don't think he makes the right
• 33:06
  calls. I don't trust his gut and this
• 33:08
  is another example to add to the stack that I've watched for six
• 33:13
  years now. I don't know, man.
• 33:19
  I mean not. And I know we've been harping on
• 33:21
  the the Boone slash Nestor decision here, but I I don't
• 33:25
  want that to take away from the magnitude of what Freddie
• 33:27
  Freeman was able to do here at the end of the game.
• 33:29
  I mean that I mean. I told you, I still don't know
• 33:34
  where that ball landed. I can't watch it.
• 33:36
  The second it this second, the second I saw it down in and I
• 33:41
  just put my head down, I hear Joe Davis popping off and I'm
• 33:45
  like, I am frozen. Touch that ball that and that
• 33:51
  bat drop. Yeah, shout out Andrew.
• 33:54
  He text me right away. OG follower of the pod.
• 33:57
  He he shot me a text said the backdrop was cold and it my
• 34:03
  goodness, you just know and and I think I think we can look at
• 34:08
  Freddie Freeman. We can look at his his
• 34:11
  character, we can look at his career type of player he is and
• 34:16
  and probably reach the conclusion that he's not looking
• 34:19
  at that situation going and I took that personally.
• 34:24
  He's like, he's probably looking at that going it's Mookie, it's
• 34:28
  Mookie Betts like it. I just happen to be the next guy
• 34:31
  up in this. Just who's who's been hitting
• 34:34
  straight Lenas all. I just happen to be the next guy
• 34:38
  up in this world beating offense.
• 34:41
  So, you know, shout out to Freddie for just being a a pros
• 34:45
  pro doing what he, I would imagine, stepped up to the plate
• 34:49
  to do. And, you know, good for and, and
• 34:52
  honestly like taking a step back from I think, baseball.
• 34:55
  I I could be crazier but I think he has reverse splits.
• 34:59
  It's very possible. I feel like Freeman is very good
• 35:03
  left left. I could be wrong.
• 35:06
  But no, what I was saying is, you know, take a step back from
• 35:10
  baseball that that has to feel so good for him and his family,
• 35:13
  given you know, what what happened earlier this year with
• 35:16
  with his son and everything. I would imagine they've probably
• 35:19
  gone through a lot. So you know, that, I mean,
• 35:23
  Freddie, you, you just got to love that for him.
• 35:26
  You, you certainly Dodgers fans are loving that for themselves.
• 35:30
  But you know, yeah, the comment here in the chat about judge, we
• 35:38
  haven't really even touched on that.
• 35:41
  And we, we sort of touched on it in regards to Stanton's home
• 35:44
  run, but the, the parallel there or, or the connection there
• 35:49
  going back to the AL, what was that?
• 35:53
  The, the DS, maybe the CS both me sending you, me sending you
• 36:01
  the Captain Phillips meme. I'm the captain now.
• 36:03
  And hey, credit to you. I'll, I'll tip my cap to you.
• 36:07
  You acknowledge it tonight. You said you can go ahead and
• 36:09
  say it after you hit the home run.
• 36:11
  And I had at that point, I had already posted it to all the
• 36:14
  platforms. So I was already thinking of it,
• 36:15
  but. It's just Judge is just pressing
• 36:20
  so much. Three KS What was he?
• 36:22
  One for one for 4:00 tonight. 11 for four?
• 36:25
  Yeah, one for four just pressing, man, just pressing
• 36:31
  hard and it's yeah, you're watching you're watching him
• 36:38
  swing over the top of of sliders and curveballs down that we
• 36:42
  didn't see almost all year and now it's like April it Yeah.
• 36:47
  And now we're seeing like the early judge from a few years ago
• 36:53
  that watching him chase the way he used to chase, and it's just
• 36:58
  it's crazy to watch him press the way he's pressing.
• 37:01
  We're seeing April Judge right now.
• 37:03
  That's. The reality of it, it's bad,
• 37:05
  dude. It's really, really bad.
• 37:09
  I don't know, man. I I don't think there's going to
• 37:12
  be any drastic lineup changes because Boone doesn't do that.
• 37:17
  Which I can respect, I I don't like reactionary.
• 37:19
  Line I don't either. I don't either.
• 37:22
  I don't either unless it's been like, you know, a stretch over a
• 37:25
  few series, but like what are you going to?
• 37:28
  You can't take him out, you can't move him.
• 37:30
  He's yeah, even with the struggle of the that he's
• 37:34
  having, he's still a presence in the box.
• 37:37
  He's still affecting the way pitchers are attacking him and
• 37:40
  he's still probably a big reason why Stanton is having the
• 37:44
  success he's having. And for sure like, you know,
• 37:46
  like those are still effects and ripple effects of a of a game.
• 37:51
  But it's tough, man, It's tough. I don't know.
• 37:55
  I do know that I don't know if I can rock this jersey again.
• 37:58
  This I got to. I got to.
• 37:59
  Yeah, that's that's tough. I think I'm going to Rd.
• 38:02
  Gray tomorrow. I just, it's going to be tough,
• 38:06
  man. I got to find a dub.
• 38:07
  Somewhere who's on the back of that?
• 38:09
  Road Gray is also Jeter. That's this is Jeter.
• 38:11
  That's also Jeter. Oh, that's the.
• 38:15
  One, That's the one you wore back when we went to the Wild
• 38:17
  Card game in Boston. That's right, yeah.
• 38:20
  Yeah, maybe not that one either. Then I've got a Pinstripe Judge
• 38:25
  and then a Pinstripe Mickey. So.
• 38:28
  So there's got to be a dub somewhere in there.
• 38:34
  Bridge of October podcast In the Chat says from Sarah Lang's Two
• 38:37
  Out Walk Off Home runs while trailing in World Series history
• 38:41
  88 Kirk Gibson game one and tonight Freddie Freeman.
• 38:47
  That's good stat. Making history, I mean.
• 38:50
  The heck of a ball game I'm. Just.
• 38:53
  I'm hurting, man. I'm hurting.
• 38:54
  It's it's this is what I said. When you get full tilt Dodgers
• 39:03
  and full tilt Yankees, I think it's going to be a good series.
• 39:07
  But when the Yankees do this, they beat themselves.
• 39:13
  And I'm not taking away credit from a ridiculous top of the
• 39:18
  order in Dodgers in creating that that rally in the 10th.
• 39:23
  But like the Yankees do this, man, they beat themselves and
• 39:28
  they have a manager that manages to do the same, Then they can't
• 39:32
  afford to do that, not against this team.
• 39:35
  So I don't know. I know it's game one.
• 39:38
  I know there's a lot left in this series but I'm struggling
• 39:41
  to that my confidence meters dipping down for sure because a
• 39:46
  gut punch it's. Game one it's game one I as
• 39:53
  somebody I I will say this and and you you can choose to
• 39:58
  believe me or not I I did my best to watch tonight and I'm
• 40:03
  going to continue to try to do my best this series to to watch
• 40:07
  it with as. Unbiased of eyes as I can and
• 40:12
  like sure, I'm, I'm not pulling for the Yankees to win the World
• 40:17
  Series by any stretch, but I am pulling for quality baseball and
• 40:25
  we got that tonight. And I I'm I'm confident that
• 40:28
  even as crushing as this losses for the Yankees that they're
• 40:32
  going to bounce back. I, I had somebody reach out to
• 40:36
  me. They text me.
• 40:36
  They said, what's your prediction?
• 40:38
  I said, I'm going Dodgers and six and he text me back and
• 40:42
  said, why aren't you going Dodgers and four?
• 40:44
  I thought you thought you were a Sox guy.
• 40:46
  And I was like, I can't be that stupid.
• 40:48
  I can't be that stupid. And that, that I, I truly
• 40:51
  believe that. Like I, I, I think the Yankees
• 40:53
  are, are going to be more than capable of bouncing back.
• 40:55
  And not to mention their, I mean, it goes without saying,
• 40:59
  but they're going to be heading back to the Bronx after Game 2,
• 41:01
  which, you know. In any scenario Game 2 I feel a
• 41:06
  million times better, but if they drop these first two I'm
• 41:12
  struggling to see it. In any scenario, I don't care
• 41:16
  who the teams involved are. If if you drop the first game of
• 41:19
  a series, you win the next one and then you go home, I would
• 41:24
  argue that's probably best case scenario if you are going to
• 41:27
  lose 1. That's the first one.
• 41:29
  Like we talk, we talk about, you know, the importance of winning
• 41:32
  game one, but what's happened has happened.
• 41:35
  But if you're the Yankees, you can win Game 2 and just, you
• 41:38
  know, maybe make people forget a little bit about game one and
• 41:41
  then you come home. We're looking at a a very
• 41:46
  interesting rest of the series. Sure are all right.
• 41:53
  Hey, I'm proud of you, man. Did the last thing I'll say when
• 42:01
  it, when I saw that we're going to the bottom of the ninth, I
• 42:03
  was like, OK, well, Nate's either either going to be pumped
• 42:07
  or he's going to be absolutely crushed because there's no
• 42:10
  scenario now where we can just have like a.
• 42:13
  A. Six to two win.
• 42:14
  That wasn't necessarily all that close, but you handled you
• 42:18
  handled your own tonight, just given given circumstances.
• 42:22
  Trying to make sure I don't get too high or too low man this is.
• 42:26
  And that's why the people people love you, Nate, you're.
• 42:29
  Yeah. Admirable baseball fan, I'm.
• 42:32
  Hurting. Anyways, guess we'll see you
• 42:35
  tomorrow. Game one in the books.
• 42:38
  Game one in the books. Yeah, we'll see you guys for
• 42:41
  Game 2. Little bit of a surprise, even
• 42:44
  for us. It was kind of a game time
• 42:46
  decision for us, for you. You know what?
• 42:48
  Let's just run it. Let's just run it with the
• 42:50
  nightly recaps. We were planning on just coming
• 42:52
  to you guys live from the travel, travel days or the off
• 42:56
  days, whichever you want to call it.
• 42:58
  But we're like, no, you know what?
• 43:00
  Let's let's run it nightly. And boy, am I glad we made that
• 43:04
  decision. Yeah, yeah, me too.
• 43:07
  Me too. We'll see you guys tomorrow.
• 43:10
  I got to get out of here. I can't talk about anymore.
• 43:13
  I got to take this jersey. Off proud of you.
• 43:15
  Thanks. Don't get chasing curveballs.
• 43:18
  Love you all, and as always, looking forward to talking more
• 43:19
  baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.