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Dodgers one win from NLCS after 3-1 win over Braves | FT Postgame · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, everyone. Welcome to the Braves and Dodgers postgame
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  Speaker 1: show here on Foul Territory. I am Heidi Watney, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm joined by Kevin Pillar and Todd Frazier here for
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  Speaker 1: this one. We just had a great game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: well-pitched game. We were expecting a pitcher's duel, and Yamamoto
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  Speaker 1: certainly lived up to the hype, guys. What are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess my initial thoughts is It
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  Speaker 2: sort of lived up to the height. I think Chris
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  Speaker 2: sale was a little bit fatigued and I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the advantage. We always talk about not wanting to play
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  Speaker 2: in that first round, but then you talk about not
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  Speaker 2: playing the first round.
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to come out, you know, you know, a.
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  Speaker 2: Little bit, you know, sloppy and stuff like that, but
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  Speaker 2: it just felt like Yamamoto was the fresher pitcher. You know, I,
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  Speaker 2: I got asked who I'd put my money on and
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  Speaker 2: I'm betting on Chris sale every day of the week,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm also not betting against Yamamoto ever, especially what
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  Speaker 2: we witnessed last year.
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  Speaker 3: On the biggest stage in the world series.
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  Speaker 2: His entire postseason run, but incredibly competitive game. It was
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  Speaker 2: one of those games when you're watching these two guys pitch,
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  Speaker 2: it feels like you have to be locked in on
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  Speaker 2: every pitch because one swing of the bat is really
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  Speaker 2: what's going to be the outcome of this game. And
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  Speaker 2: it really ended up being one big swing of the
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  Speaker 2: bat from Kike Hernandez that really changed this game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And from what I'm seeing as a hitter standpoint, you
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  Speaker 5: go into these games and you're trying to figure out,
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  Speaker 5: you know, what are we trying to hit off Yamamoto?
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  Speaker 5: What are we trying to hit off Chris Sale? And
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  Speaker 5: it seemed like they were on certain pitches on Chris Hill.
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  Speaker 5: The fastball seemed to be harder to hit when they
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  Speaker 5: got in certain counts. I think Kiki Hernandez absolutely studied
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  Speaker 5: him and said, you know what, I'm sitting slow right
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  Speaker 5: here and got a pitch that he can drive over
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  Speaker 5: the wall. And next thing you know, it's a big
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  Speaker 5: home run. And that's basically all they really needed there.
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  Speaker 5: What a beautiful swing by him. And then Freddie Freeman
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  Speaker 5: coming up with a home run on an inside fastball.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how he kept his hands inside the ball.
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  Speaker 5: Yamamoto was filthy. His split finger looked like a fastball
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  Speaker 5: every single time. It looked like the Braves who couldn't
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  Speaker 5: figure him out at all. I mean, think about what
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  Speaker 5: this guy has done in the playoffs. He's been absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, 4-0 on the road during the postseason last year.
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  Speaker 1: He absolutely knows how to go into an opposing house
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  Speaker 1: and dominate. Let's delve deeper into the Dodgers and Braves
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  Speaker 1: game three.
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  Speaker 3: It's a bowl count.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's time for a full count fueled by marathon.
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  Speaker 1: And guys, some storylines in this one. Really, Chris Sale
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  Speaker 1: had dominated this lineup when the two, Yamamoto and Sale,
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  Speaker 1: matched up at the end of August. But here, Dave
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  Speaker 1: Roberts said it during the game. The Dodgers hitters just
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  Speaker 1: had some really good at-bats in those first four innings
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  Speaker 1: against Sale. What do you guys think, Kevin?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think that's exactly what you have
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  Speaker 2: to do with these type of pitchers. And obviously, Todd,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you're facing the best of the best,
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  Speaker 2: you don't necessarily want to sit around and get deep
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  Speaker 2: into counts because you're going to get the wipeout stuff
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  Speaker 2: and you're going to be behind the eight ball. And
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  Speaker 2: more than likely, they're probably going to have their way
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  Speaker 2: with you. Their quality of at-bats through the first two innings.
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  Speaker 2: I think when they interviewed Walt Weiss in the third inning, yes,
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  Speaker 2: he had punched out six guys, but he was at
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  Speaker 2: 40-some-odd pitches. And I think that's exactly the type of
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  Speaker 2: approach you have to have with these guys. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean sit back and be passive and not swing early
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  Speaker 2: in the count, but be very selective of what you
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  Speaker 2: want to hit.
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  Speaker 3: Not what he's going to throw you, what you want
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  Speaker 3: to hit.
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  Speaker 2: And I think you saw that pay dividends later in
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  Speaker 2: the game when what Todd mentioned, it looked like Kike Hernandez–
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  Speaker 2: you know, who's making his first start of the postseason,
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  Speaker 2: probably knew, hey, you're going to get Chris Sale at
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  Speaker 2: some point. Go ahead and do your homework on this guy.
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  Speaker 2: And it looked like he was educated. He made an
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  Speaker 2: educated guess. He was going to sit on something soft
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  Speaker 2: early in the count. And he got his pitch and
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  Speaker 2: didn't miss. And that's the type of thing you have
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  Speaker 2: to do to hit the best guys in the game.
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  Speaker 2: And on the other side, it just felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Not to say Chris Sale is an easy guy to face.
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  Speaker 3: He's not. He's a Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of the best pitchers in the game, a
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  Speaker 2: guy I would never bet against. But really, you have
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  Speaker 2: three pitches to deal with Chris Sale. You've got the four-seamer.
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  Speaker 2: You've got the changeup. Yeah, the occasional two-seam, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously the wipeout slider. But Yamamoto, with the arsenal
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  Speaker 2: of pitches he has, there's only so much you can
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  Speaker 2: do when you study a guy like that.
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  Speaker 3: When he has the ability to throw.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about the first batter of the game, Drake Baldwin.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he goes 3-2 hammer curveball to strike the
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  Speaker 2: guy out. He can throw a splitter at any time
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  Speaker 2: for a strike. He can throw it out of the zone.
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  Speaker 2: He's just an absolute nightmare to face. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how you would game plan against a guy like that.
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  Speaker 5: And just think about this, like the one at bat.
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  Speaker 5: I know it's not anything big, but, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: look at Tucker's at bat first pitch swinging. He struggles
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  Speaker 5: against Chris Sale. He says, I'm getting that first fastball.
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying drives the ball to left field. You could
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  Speaker 5: see the game plan was totally different for both sides.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not saying the Dodgers absolutely blew them away. It
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  Speaker 5: was a 3-1 game. But when they got the pitch
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  Speaker 5: that they wanted and what they were looking for, Mookie
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  Speaker 5: Betts hit the ball hard a couple times. You talk
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  Speaker 5: about Kike, Kyle Tucker. You know, those sort of at-bats
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  Speaker 5: loomed large in a close game. And, you know, listen,
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  Speaker 5: the Dodgers are absolutely unbelievable team. They've been winning World
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  Speaker 5: Series for the past couple years. They're there for a reason.
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  Speaker 5: They come into a hostile environment. in Atlanta and take
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  Speaker 5: game three. What a pivotal game.
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  Speaker 4: What a swing game for them.
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  Speaker 5: And now, even if they do lose, they still have
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  Speaker 5: two opportunities to take home the division or the title.
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  Speaker 4: They're moving on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and a big storyline for this guy's heading into
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  Speaker 1: this one was Shohei Otani being dropped to fifth in
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  Speaker 1: the batting order. That's the lowest he's been in many years.
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  Speaker 1: And he just really hasn't done a whole lot this postseason.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's dealing with a lot of injuries ever since,
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  Speaker 1: you know, going back to the injured list in September,
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  Speaker 1: but he hasn't been doing much. And yet, you guys, baseball,
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  Speaker 1: the ball will find you. He's dropped to fifth in
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  Speaker 1: the order, and he comes up in the first inning
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  Speaker 1: with two runners on, struck out in that at bat.
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  Speaker 1: But what are your thoughts on the move by Dave
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  Speaker 1: Roberts there?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's incredible that you have arguably the
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  Speaker 2: best player that we've ever seen and almost a willingness
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  Speaker 2: to accept that. There's a lot of guys in this
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  Speaker 2: game that probably would say, no, this is where I
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  Speaker 2: hit in the lineup. But I think that just kind
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  Speaker 2: of speaks to the culture that's been created as the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: It's not bigger than me, the one player. It's not
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  Speaker 2: bigger than Shohei Otani. It's about what is best for
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  Speaker 2: this team to win. And yeah, I mean, you look
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  Speaker 2: at the numbers right here, they're very pedestrian for Shohei
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  Speaker 2: Ohtani who we're used to seeing be arguably the best
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  Speaker 2: hitter on the planet every single day and it's just
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  Speaker 2: been kind of an uphill battle for him to you
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  Speaker 2: know come back since the injuries and we don't even
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  Speaker 2: know if he's fully healthy right now but his willingness
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  Speaker 2: and Dave Roberts you know having the conversation with him
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  Speaker 2: to move him down the lineup but it's funny how
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  Speaker 2: the game of baseball works you know there's there's regardless
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  Speaker 2: if you're hitting second or fifth or ninth like the
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  Speaker 2: way baseball works, you're going to come up in a situation.
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  Speaker 2: And unfortunately for Shohei Ohtani, moving him out of that
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  Speaker 2: two hole, trying to like hide him a little bit
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  Speaker 2: in that five hole. Sure enough, he comes up in
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  Speaker 2: the first inning with runners on, two runners on with
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  Speaker 2: two outs and strikes out.
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  Speaker 3: But it's funny how that always seems to happen in
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  Speaker 3: the game of baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to go over a couple of things.
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  Speaker 5: I looked at a couple of batters for the Braves
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  Speaker 5: here and I'm going with their big guns. I'm going
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  Speaker 5: with Ronald Acuna. I said it before this series started.
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  Speaker 5: I said, This guy's got to step up. He's four
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  Speaker 5: for 18, really not doing much. Austin Riley, two for 16. Dubon,
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  Speaker 5: four for 19. Olsen, three for 19. These guys in
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  Speaker 5: through these playoffs, these are numbers that, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: don't see too often from some of these hitters. So
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  Speaker 5: they got to figure out a way to not, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you talk about the home run, just get on base.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that's the most disappointing thing for the Braves.
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  Speaker 5: They're in every single one of these games but you
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  Speaker 5: look at your big guys right now and it's, it's
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  Speaker 5: not good.
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  Speaker 4: It's a struggle.
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  Speaker 5: And it felt like every at bat and every pitch
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  Speaker 5: that Yamamoto threw today, it was like, Oh man, is
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  Speaker 5: he going to get a hit? Is he going to
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  Speaker 5: square the ball up? Like that all in between, like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't think so. So that, you know, in your mind,
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  Speaker 5: you're in the dugout. I I've been a part of
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of those games. And so it was KP.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, God, I hope somebody finds a way to
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  Speaker 5: do this. You're hoping instead of knowing that it's going
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  Speaker 5: to happen. And right now, You know, Braves three runs
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  Speaker 5: in each of the first three games here. They're going
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  Speaker 5: to have to supply a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yamamoto, 10 strikeouts on the day with the Braves hitters.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the really notable things in the first
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  Speaker 1: inning to me was Acuna burning an ABS challenge in
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  Speaker 1: the first inning. Low leverage. I remember talking to Walt
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  Speaker 1: Weiss earlier this year, and I said, what's your preference
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  Speaker 1: with ABS with your players? What do you tell your guys?
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  Speaker 1: And he said, look, if you're sure, if it's a
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  Speaker 1: low leverage situation, you better be sure. If it's a
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  Speaker 1: high leverage situation, okay, less so. Go ahead and try it.
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  Speaker 1: But he goes, first inning and challenges, and and loses
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  Speaker 1: one of their ABS challenge in the first inning of
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  Speaker 1: the game, that's got to be frustrating for a manager.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: And it's hard, you know, because you do get caught
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  Speaker 2: up in the moment as a player. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't fortunate enough to stay in the game long
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  Speaker 2: enough to utilize it.
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  Speaker 3: But I know what the emotions are like hitting.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, Ronald Acuna, one of the best players
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  Speaker 2: in the game, he has a pretty good feel for
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  Speaker 2: the strike zone. But to your point, you have to
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  Speaker 2: have that extra layer of discipline as a competitor to
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  Speaker 2: know that even though I think I'm probably right, like
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  Speaker 2: I can't risk it. Like there's a difference between like,
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  Speaker 2: I know a hundred percent I'm right. We're like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: pretty sure I'm right. And in that situation, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being the first inning, it puts the team behind the
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  Speaker 2: eight ball because like, it makes it really difficult for
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  Speaker 2: your catcher, Drake Baldwin, or Sean Murphy, when he's back there,
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  Speaker 2: or even your hitters in certain situations, even if they
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  Speaker 2: feel a much higher percentage, you know, 90, 95% sure.
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  Speaker 2: Like you, it handcuffs your team a little bit. So
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  Speaker 2: I think the ABS has been great for the game.
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  Speaker 2: I love the, added layer of strategy. It adds to
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  Speaker 2: both sides and it's just, you know, it's unfortunate that
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  Speaker 2: they were, you know, burned by it early in the game.
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  Speaker 2: It really kind of handcuffs the rest of the lineup
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  Speaker 2: as well as your catcher.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I think, you know, you look at the two
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  Speaker 5: best hitters, you got Acuna and you got Shohei. Both
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  Speaker 5: of them on those pitchers kind of, I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 5: spun out of the way, but there was like a
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  Speaker 5: little herky jerky and like, oh man, it's gotta be
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  Speaker 5: a ball. So they went here and that's the difference
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  Speaker 5: in the playoffs. Like sometimes when you're off balance doesn't
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  Speaker 5: necessarily mean the ball is a ball.
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  Speaker 4: And your eyes will tell you the story when your
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  Speaker 4: eyes move. Sometimes the baseball plays tricks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I guess it was one thing that, you know, it was,
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  Speaker 5: it was different, but you know, you want your best
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  Speaker 5: players up there. So maybe taking that chance wasn't the
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  Speaker 5: worst thing in the world, but again, you gotta be
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  Speaker 5: very specific.
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  Speaker 4: And you got to be 100 percent. So anything in between,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's OK.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I go back to this Yankee Rays game yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: If they challenge all those balls that were in between,
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  Speaker 5: the umpire was wrong. And I think 90 percent of them.
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  Speaker 5: So you wish they challenge them there, but they didn't.
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  Speaker 5: And here you're kind of like, all right, let's slow
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  Speaker 5: down a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've seen a couple of those games where an
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  Speaker 1: umpire just doesn't seem to be having a game and
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  Speaker 1: you're getting like multiple challenges in an inning. I do
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  Speaker 1: think in the postseason, players have been a little more
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  Speaker 1: reticent to use the challenges. But you saw it play
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  Speaker 1: out in this game. Matt Olsen looked like he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to challenge in the sixth, but they had already burned
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  Speaker 1: one and he couldn't use up their second on a
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  Speaker 1: questionable with nobody on in sixth inning. So he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: go to it there. So Mauricio Dubon, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at this Braves lineup, his defense, his defensive versatility, being
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  Speaker 1: able to move all over the diamond. I mean, it's shortstop.
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  Speaker 1: He's been great for that. I think he's been their
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  Speaker 1: best defensive shortstop this year. And yet he's out there
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  Speaker 1: in left field. And it's a great thing. He was
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  Speaker 1: out there in left field early in the game because
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  Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman would have had a home run. What do
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  Speaker 1: you guys thought about Mauricio Dubon in that play on
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  Speaker 1: the Freeman denied home run ball? Kevin, you've had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of those.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, obviously, I love Mauricio Devont as a player,
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  Speaker 2: and he's one of those moves that the Braves made
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  Speaker 2: this offseason that didn't make a lot of headlines. But
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  Speaker 2: then when you bring a guy like Mauricio Devont into
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  Speaker 2: your organization, to your fan base, you realize, man, is
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  Speaker 2: he the sexiest player out there? Is he going to
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  Speaker 2: hit 30 homers, 40 homers?
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  Speaker 3: Is he still 50 bases?
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  Speaker 2: No, but he is just a great ball player, and
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  Speaker 2: he just helps bring a winning culture to an already
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  Speaker 2: really good team. And his versatility, it's one of the
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  Speaker 2: best in the game. You know, he plays unbelievable shortstop.
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  Speaker 2: He can play center field. He plays both corners. You
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  Speaker 2: could pretty much put him anywhere on the diamond and
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  Speaker 2: he's going to give you unbelievable defense. He gives you
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  Speaker 2: quality at bats. He has the ability to kind of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, shoot the ball the other way when it's necessary.
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  Speaker 3: He could pull some homers.
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  Speaker 2: He's just a really, really good player that good teams
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  Speaker 2: need to have on their team. But Going back to
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  Speaker 2: that play, it's just unbelievable instincts, first of all, and
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  Speaker 2: just kind of this willingness and this competitor that he is. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we talked a little bit off camera just
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  Speaker 2: about you know, having the home field advantage and how
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  Speaker 2: that play probably would have been much more difficult for
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  Speaker 2: a visiting player. But the fact that he's been out there,
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  Speaker 2: he understands kind of the depth of the warning track.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a big part of it is when you're
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  Speaker 2: running full speed, you have to have this kind of
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  Speaker 2: internal clock. Yes, you're going to peak real quick, but
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times you got to be eyes on
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  Speaker 2: the ball. You got to be tracking it. So the
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  Speaker 2: more that you're comfortable with your surroundings allows you to
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  Speaker 2: know like, hey, I'm going one, two. When I hit
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  Speaker 2: the third step, I got to get up in the air.
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  Speaker 2: I know the fence is coming. He knows that the
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  Speaker 2: fence is short, so he knows that he doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: to necessarily get up on the wall to make that play.
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  Speaker 2: Just an incredible play. You felt like it was a
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  Speaker 2: huge momentum swing because at that point in time, it
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  Speaker 2: would have put.
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  Speaker 3: The Braves up in that game.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that he was able to steal a home run,
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  Speaker 2: keep the runner at first base, make an unbelievable play.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Sale getting away with a pitch right there to
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  Speaker 2: an unbelievable hitter in Freddie Freeman. You felt like Chris
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  Speaker 2: Sale didn't necessarily have his best stuff right there, and
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  Speaker 2: you're like, okay, he got away with one. Maybe that's
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  Speaker 2: what kind of settles him into the game, but just
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  Speaker 2: an unbelievable play by Mauricio Dubon. In some ways, he
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  Speaker 2: almost made that really difficult play look so easy because
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  Speaker 2: of how athletic he is, how aware he was of
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  Speaker 2: his surroundings.
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  Speaker 3: Just a tremendous play.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Tremendous play by him. And I want to know, Todd,
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: did you ever, I was asking Kevin Belort before the show,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: if he ever had any home runs robbed and he
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: said he didn't hit enough cheapies to get robbed. How
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: about you, Todd's father? Do you have any taken back?
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: I had, I had one in Chicago when I was
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: with the white socks. I was actually, I, I just
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: can't remember who it was, but I hit opposite field.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: And you know, when you go opposite field, usually you've
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: got to poke it. It robbed me from a home run. And, uh,
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: That's a terrible feeling. You know, a guy makes a
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: dive and play. You tip your cap. The robbing of
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: the home run, because those are big. Those are the
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: moneymakers right there. So that is that's not a good feel.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: And I'm glad KP didn't rob any of mine because
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: I would not want to talk to him after this.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: So that was he's caught a lot of my baseballs,
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: but no robbed home runs.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: Thank God.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, KP, what'd you tell me before the show?
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have figured you probably had more than
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: one home run robbed in your career because, first of all,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: you hit a lot of home runs, so you had
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: a lot of opportunities to get them robbed. But I
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: felt like a guy like you who had so much power,
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: you could kind of get jammed and still kind of
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: hit like a wall scraper. Me, I felt like I
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: never had any home runs robbed because I wasn't afforded
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: with missing a ball and having it go to the
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: first row. Like if I was going to hit a homer,
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: I had to get every bit of it. And where
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: I was going to hit them, they weren't going to
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: catch them. You know, I feel like it's guys that
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: hit a lot of homers that are big and strong.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: They get away with like, man, I hit it a
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: little bit down on the barrel, a little bit towards
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: the end, but I'm so big and strong that I
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: can still hit it out. So I was surprised that
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: only one time you had one Rob, because probably most
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: of the time you were putting them 40 rows in the,
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: in the seats.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: A little birdie says it was Lorenzo Cain, Todd.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: You remember that?
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: You remember who it was?
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: That makes, that makes tons of sense. Cause he can
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: go get them with the best of them. So yeah,
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: maybe there was two of them now. So, Thanks, Locaine.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: Appreciate you, doll.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: We saw KP look like Spider-Man out there quite a bit.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: What was your best, your favorite home run robbery?
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Man, honestly, I mean, obviously the one I did in
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: the Rogers Center really changed my life. But I did
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: one a little bit later in my career when I
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: was with the Angels right after the All-Star break. We
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: were in Oakland before they moved. And I forgot who
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: was hitting. Lefty was hitting. It was the first batter
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: of the game. right after the All-Star break, and I
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: went up going to right center field, and I kind
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: of went over the shoulder, caught it, spun on the wall.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: The difficulty of making.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: That play was insane, and that was a little bit
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: later in my career where You know, I wasn't playing
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: on a great Angels team, so I was playing center.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: But a lot of people thought like my best days
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: of playing center field were behind me. So to be
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: able to do it a little bit later in my career,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: make a play like that. And I was obviously on
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: a new team, right? I was the older guy with
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: a bunch of young guys. And, you know, they probably
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: had seen me make some of those plays earlier in
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: my career. To be able to like go back in
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: time and make a play was a cool feeling for me.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: You're like, hey, Mike Trout, I can do this too, right?
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I was like, Mike, did you see that? Did you
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: see it?
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: That's pretty good.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: That's not too bad. How about playoff Kike? Can we
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: just have a moment here for Kike Hernandez and whatever
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: he does? I love the note during the broadcast that
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal said that his agent said they cryogenically freeze
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: him until September and then he just gets out there
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and dies. is locked in. If there's no other guy,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, hyperbaric chamber every day to come back from
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: that oblique tear that he's playing right now is remarkable,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: much less hitting a home run here to give the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Braves the lead off of Chris Sale.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, listen, he's been doing it for a
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: lot of years now, and it just seems like the goofiness,
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: the silliness, the funny side of him locks it in,
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: and then he becomes goofy, silly, and funny all over again.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: What a swing.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: He knew it was going right off the bat. It
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: was one pitch right there. It was just a flattened changeup.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: It kind of came towards him instead of fading away.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: That's what a right-hander loves to see. And if his
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: timing is right, which it was, you heard the noise
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: on TV. It was an absolute blast. And that's basically
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: what did him in right there. They kind of took
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: the wind out of Atlanta's sails right there, and they
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: couldn't find a way. Yamamoto was probably sitting there like, hmm,
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: thank you very much.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: It's over now.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: And that's basically what happened.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: And.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's batting last. It's just, it's incredible. You
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: put him in any thought in the lineup is really,
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: really remarkable. This guy's going to go down as one
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: of the most clutch hitters to ever do it in
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: playoff baseball.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty amazing when the Dodgers continually bring him
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: back and you're like, I.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Don't know where he's going to play.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: And obviously he had injuries this year, but if healthy,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: he probably wasn't going to play much this year. Like
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: you were literally paying this guy to keep the vibes
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: up during the regular season, check some boxes, get a
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: couple of bats, you know, fill in for some guys
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: when they need an off day. But when October comes around,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: this guy is going to be probably your most important
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: hitter in your lineup because he's done it. The moment's
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: never too big for him. If I'm not mistaken too,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I think he is on his way to pass him
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: or had just passed Justin Turner for most postseason games
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: played by a Dodger in Dodger history, which speaks you
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: know to obviously his success in the postseason what he's
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: been able to do for that franchise but you know
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: we're talking about one of the most clutch postseason hitters
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: of all time and this is not a guy that
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: you would typically crown that title to you're thinking about
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: some of these players, the Derek Jeters and some of
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: these guys that have been in the postseason forever in
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: their career and were their best players on their team.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: And then we talk about Kike Hernandez, a guy, like
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I mentioned, who's probably going to be your 25th, 26th
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: man during the regular season. But sure enough, October shows
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: up and He was the biggest difference in the game,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: and this is exactly what you're paying him for. You
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: know at some point, in order to get to where
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: you want to go to and win another World Series,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: you're going to have to go through some elite left-handed pitching,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: and there's no one better in the game in October
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: than hitting left-handed pitching than Kike Hernandez.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kike is absolutely a beast. But you know what, guys?
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Vibes are important. You both know that. I mean, Todd Father,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: you're a vibes guy on your teams. You got to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: have someone to keep the clubhouse loose in those dog days.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, this team is loaded with veterans. You got
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: to have a vibes guy. All right, full count. It
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• 21:05
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, we're going to get into our player
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: of the game discussion. It is player of the game
• 21:16
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• 21:19
  Speaker 1: with you, KP. Who's your player of the game?
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm going to just lean towards a
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: hitter because that's what I did for a living, right?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: It's hard to go against Yamamoto and what he did,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: and he obviously deserves his flowers. You know, you're talking
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: about an historic matchup between two of the greatest pitchers,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: you know, in the game right now, and for him
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: to go through this very tough lineup with the Braves.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: And I kept thinking, I kept thinking, you know, obviously
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: you mentioned the 4-0 record on the road, which is
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: part of the reason, you know, they pushed him back
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: into the three spot, had him pitch on the road.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: He's obviously very comfortable pitching on the road. But I
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: kept thinking the Braves had to face Tarek Skubal, Blake Snell,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: all the lefties out of their bullpen. You felt like
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: They could have rolled anyone out there and Matt Olsen
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: and Drake Baldwin and Michael Harris were just going to be,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: and Ozzie Alvarez hitting from the left side, were just
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: going to be like, thank God, anyone but a left-handed pitcher.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: So I do want to shout out Yamamoto, but for me,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: player of the game is Kike Hernandez. We just talked
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: about his greatness in October. And in a game like that,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: when every pitch is so important, when you're facing the
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: game's best, to be locked in on an approach, to
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: get the one pitch you might get in that bat,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: to hit a two-run homer was really all the Dodgers
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: ended up needing in this game.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: So, to me, it's Kike Hernandez.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: You kind of took both of them there. So, I mean,
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: who am I supposed to choose there? Jesus.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I think both of those guys both deserve it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: I would say Yamamoto just because he almost went the
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: distance and he was absolutely filthy. The 10 strikeouts, he
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: deserves all the flowers. If it's him not on the mound,
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: I think it's a totally different story. I would give
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: it to Yamamoto for sure.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: All right, both of those guys were good stories. Both
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: those guys had great games. But you're missing the story.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: As a broadcaster, it's Freddie Freeman. First postseason game back
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta since the 2021 World Series. And what does
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: he do? He nearly goes oppo to give him the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: lead in, what was that, the third inning? that is
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: robbed of a home run so the next step out
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: he's pull side power he's sticking it in the seat
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: so we almost had two home runs he did have
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: one home run off of a lefty chris sale he
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: said hey facing the lefty and chris sale he said
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you got to be prepared to die you've got to
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: hang in there we love postseason freddie he's another guy
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: who always seems to turn it up when the lights
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: shine the brightest i mean we all remember his grand
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: slam in the world series against the yankees and then
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: running over to his dad like he has got a
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: knack for the moment in the postseason. And I love it.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: And he did all that with the Braves fans booing him,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: booing a guy who bled for that organization, who cried
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: because he wanted to come back to that organization. But
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: they said, yeah, see you later. We're not going to
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: give you what you want. Instead, we're going to go
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: sign Matt Olsen and we're going to let you go
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to the Dodgers where Freddie has seen quite a bit
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: of success. What do you guys think about the Braves
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: fans booing Freddie tonight?
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: It's about time. Like, come on, man. Let's go here.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: He was there a while ago.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Good for him. But listen, they want to win. Come on.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure they'd give him
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: a big hug afterwards. Let's go.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: And a couple of boos. Goes to show if you're
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: a Braves player, like, all right, yeah, let's go. We
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: love them off the field, but right now, let's get
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: on them.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Obviously, he's going to be beloved as an Atlanta Brave
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: when his career is all said and done. He's going
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: to go down as a Dodger and an Atlanta Brave,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and they're going to put him in the Hall of Fame.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: He's going to be that type of player, but time
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: to turn the page.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: This is war. This is battle. They want the Braves
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: to win. Time has passed.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: You've got to boo the guy, but when the career
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: is all said and done, Freddie will be embraced back
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: in Atlanta. with some of the great players that ever
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: put a uniform on. So good on the Braves fans
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: for doing that.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, do it in the regular season. That's where it's for.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: That's fine.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: All right, well, we've got a game four. Braves need
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to win this one or their season is done. It's
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: a battle of the Tylers, Tyler Glasnow versus Tyler Malley.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Your guys' thoughts on that matchup? Who has the upper hand?
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: I would say the Dodgers again. Yeah, I would say
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers. I love glass now on the mound. I
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: like what he does when he's healthy. He's one of
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: the most fiercest pitchers. They're one of the best breaking
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: pitches you'll ever see. Momentum has shifted. It definitely has.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: And it's one of those where Tyler Mallory, don't get
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: me wrong. He's had a resurgence this year, but Tyler
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: glass now is a guy in the mound that they're
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: going to look forward to another big piece as they
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: move forward in winning and you're trying to win another
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: world series.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I would say coming into this game
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: is like the Braves did everything they needed to do
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: to go steal one in L.A., knowing you had Chris
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Sale on the mound. You were almost counting your chickens
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: before they hatched. Not to say Yamamoto was going to
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: be easy to beat, but the fact that they were
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: able to beat Sale, Yamamoto outpitched him, and then you
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: now turning to Tyler Glass now on any given day
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: could be the best pitcher in the Dodgers rotation, which
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: is already historically one of the best rotations ever. You know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: the only concern I have for Tyler Glassnow is he
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: didn't pitch a ton this year. He can get a
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: little bit wild with his command, but the Dodgers are
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: also playing with house money right now. They're up in
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: this series. You know, they have with Yamamoto going deep
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: into that game, they have a fresh bullpen. So if
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Tyler Glassnow could be in the strike zone, be effective,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: throw his high velocity fastball, nasty curveball, you've got to
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: love your chances with Tyler Glassnow. But on the other side,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Tyler Mallee, has been unbelievable since coming over from San Francisco.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: His first postseason outing was great, but if I had
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: to choose who's got the upper hand, the momentum has
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: clearly shifted to the Dodgers side. Once again, we're talking
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: about Tyler Glass now, kind of the forgotten guy in
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: that rotation who could be a number one on a
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: lot of different teams. He just happens to be pitching
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: game four for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just going to say that Dave Roberts
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: said you can go any order with their pitchers and
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: glass now would be a number one on many rotations.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: And here he is going game for one note about Acuna.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: He was the DH tonight. And what I said before
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: the game that he had him DH because his knee
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: has been giving him some trouble. He's not a hundred percent.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: That's why they didn't have him play the outfield. They
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: don't know the plan for tomorrow, but there's a chance
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: he doesn't play in the outfield again tomorrow that weakens them.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: obviously defensively, but you have to wonder if that's affecting
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: him at the plate. Obviously it would be affecting him
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: on the bases. If it's the, if it's the, I mean,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: he had the poor guy with his knees, cannot catch
• 27:52
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• 28:22
  Speaker 3: He's ready now to pitch.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Strikeout swinging.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Strikeout number one for Persia.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Hey!
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Can you keep it down? Some of us are still
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: trying to work.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: Sorry, Mike.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Our bad. Guys, a note for the Padres here. The
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Padres are really using that paternity list this postseason. They
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: had Walker Bueller hit the paternity list earlier. He's back now.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Mason Miller was just put on the paternity list after
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: that excruciating ninth inning to watch if you're a Padres
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: fan the other day. So we'll keep an eye on
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: that for the Padres.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Hey, nothing better than a child. Nothing wrong with that
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: at all.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: No, obviously tough timing, but I think any person is going–
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: if those are the two choices you have, hey, I
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: need to close out a game or go be there
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: for my wife to watch the birth of my child,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: it's a very easy decision that he's got to do it.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Unfortunate timing, but he's making the right decision.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Decision.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: He's got to do what he's got to do.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: It's a tough one. Max Reed has said that he
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: is not going to go on the paternity list. His
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: significant other is due to give birth any day now.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: He is going to pitch for the Yankees tomorrow. But
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: with Mason Miller, it's an interesting discussion because over the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: last two days, all you've heard is he was tipping
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: his pitches. I want to get your thoughts really quickly
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: on Mason Miller. Do you think he was tipping? I
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: know Brzezinski did the game. He said he didn't think
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: he was.
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  Speaker 4: K.P.
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  Speaker 2: I think sometimes you're so great in this game. You've
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: had so much success that the only logical reason for
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: you not to have your a game and not.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Be successful is tip tip tipping your pitches.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Um, I didn't see anything. Obviously I didn't study it
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: the same way. AJ was at the game and was
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: trying to look at it. I've seen the stuff online,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: but I, is it possible?
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: But I don't think he was, I just think the
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Brewers had a very good approach against them.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: The Brewers didn't win 103 games by accident.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Uh, him spitting on that slider, uh, cheerio that made
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: you wonder a little bit. I mean, looking out at
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: second base, I saw the view from behind home plate.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: What's his name? Who was on second base? He did
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: something with his hand.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: Touching South Freelick. I, I am, I'm very skeptical about
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: that because a lot of guys are swinging at that.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: And most of the guys, they, I think they did
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: a stat about how many times they swung at that pitch.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: And it was a really good amount. I don't have
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: the exact number, so I don't want to sound silly,
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: but it looked like he was on that slider and
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: that thing from behind was filthy. I, I, it makes
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: you wonder a little bit.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I do love Pat Murphy's comments. He said, yep.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe we picked up on something or maybe we're just deking.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: You never know. He's such a games guy. I, I
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: absolutely love that from him. And, uh, Either way, Mason
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Miller going to be with his wife for the birth
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: of their child. So good luck and congratulations to them.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: That's going to be it for us, guys. Thanks for
• 31:39
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• 31:47
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• 31:50
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• 31:53
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• 31:56
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• 31:59
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• 32:03
  Speaker 1: thanks for having me along for the day today.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Nice to see you. That was great.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Good to see you too.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: Thank you.