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Yankees iffy decisions, Dodger dominance > bullpen shakiness? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Charging about what do we have in this Yankees Red
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Sox series? Uh, where do we start?
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean do we start? Where do we start?
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  Speaker 2: With the game yesterday? First of all, Freed and Crochet
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  Speaker 2: pitched amazing. Yeah, both of them are really good. Crochet
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  Speaker 2: gave up the early run to Volpi, you know Ken's
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  Speaker 2: X factor, and he hit the home run and you're thinking, okay,
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  Speaker 2: here we go, and that was it. That was it
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  Speaker 2: for the Yankee offense. Judge had a couple of hits,
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  Speaker 2: singles final, they had a couple of chances. They had
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  Speaker 2: first and second in the first inning. Nobody out didn't score.
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  Speaker 1: Did in the game?
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: Do you leave Freed in the game? I mean what
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  Speaker 1: to finish, not to finish the game, but just to
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  Speaker 1: give you more. I mean, Crochet didn't finish the game.
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  Speaker 1: But if he handed the ball to chev he handed
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  Speaker 1: the ball to the closer and.
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  Speaker 2: One of the strengths of the team, though, by the
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  Speaker 2: way of the Yankees, was supposed to be their bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: So you're thinking, all right, well, he's handing it to Weaver.
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  Speaker 2: He's been one of their I mean he struggled a
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  Speaker 2: little bit in the second but he's been one of
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  Speaker 2: their best for a couple of years now, so you're thinking, okay,
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  Speaker 2: he can get through it. And then there's also something
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  Speaker 2: that has came up a lot too, is Aaron Judge Zelbo.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when so Guard hit the double, if he has
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  Speaker 2: a normal arm, I don't think he challenges him there.
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  Speaker 2: But Judge got it, backhanded it and he gave it
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  Speaker 2: all you have. But so Guard outran it. Not ended
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  Speaker 2: up being huge because then Yoshida got the hit that
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  Speaker 2: drove in two, right, that would have been first and third.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a little different situation, but that was a big
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  Speaker 2: thing too. There's so much to dissect, and you got
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  Speaker 2: Jazz not talking to the reporters while talking to him,
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  Speaker 2: but like not.
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  Speaker 1: Talking to him back towards him.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Chapman going from ninety five to one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and one after the bases got loaded. I mean it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was an intriguing game.
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  Speaker 1: Bases loaded, Nobody outcrats, nobody scores.
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  Speaker 3: And if you need to score more, you left town
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  Speaker 3: many home runs on the bench. Essentially, you had Jazz
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  Speaker 3: on the bench early. You had Ben Rice on the
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  Speaker 3: bench early, like I get it, like you had if
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  Speaker 3: you had to get to those lefties and get to
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  Speaker 3: the bullpen righties. Then you can't have a six pitch
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  Speaker 3: seventh inning. Your guys can't go out there and make
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  Speaker 3: three outs on six pitches just so you don't strike out.
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  Speaker 3: You have to build his pitch count up up up.
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  Speaker 3: And it fell right into it, fell right into AC's hands.
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  Speaker 3: Alice Korra was like, this is the perfect spot in
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  Speaker 3: the lineup. They already set it up, so there's a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of lefties, so we'll just mow through this. Crochet
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  Speaker 3: is gonna throw a billion and we'll never even go
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  Speaker 3: to our righties.
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  Speaker 1: What's the computer system that the Yankees bow.
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  Speaker 3: To Basse.
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  Speaker 1: Bass?
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  Speaker 3: It's called bass yep.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: So Bass said no jazz today, even though you've played
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  Speaker 1: him in these spots most of the time, and then
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  Speaker 1: bring him in later in the game for defense, and
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  Speaker 1: then you still face the left. Do you think, guys,
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  Speaker 1: do you think Bass isn't a Yankees fan.
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  Speaker 2: Base is a Red Sox fan.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they do whatever Bass says. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: that Bass could be rooting against just like some people
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  Speaker 1: think AI is eventually going to turn on humans, maybe
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  Speaker 1: Bass has already turned on the end and the terminator.
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  Speaker 2: Where's Sarah Connor. We need to find Sarah Connor right now.
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  Speaker 1: I joke, but I'm also serious, Like they do bow
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  Speaker 1: down to that thing. It's true they do.
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  Speaker 3: All teams do.
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  Speaker 2: Though what Tory Lavella said, I don't make the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: It's a it's a decision, that's a committee based decision.
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  Speaker 1: Bass would have said, removed Garrett Crochet earlier yesterday. They
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  Speaker 1: would have said, he doesn't the way he was like that. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: human says stay. Basse says, no, this is past the
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  Speaker 1: pitch limit, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: He was.
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  Speaker 3: Base might even Base might even see the fact that
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  Speaker 3: Garrett Crochet is a cyborg too, and Base might be like,
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate machines playing the games. This is where we
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  Speaker 3: want to get to anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But Max Frieda had given up a run out, hustled
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  Speaker 1: Duranda first, let me eat Vello went down. What a
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  Speaker 1: tick and a half over the course of a game. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: still looked damn effect.
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  Speaker 2: That sleeper going and she had a good change up
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  Speaker 2: yesterday and they weren't touching him.
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  Speaker 1: This could be the decision that decides their entire season.
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  Speaker 1: A team that's all year.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can't score one run. Sorry. It's also the
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  Speaker 2: first time in history, I thought I saw I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if that's right history where the team had in
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  Speaker 2: the bottom of the night bases loaded no outs and
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  Speaker 2: didn't score run and didn't win the game.
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  Speaker 1: But you're facing Crochet, who's a top three starter in
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  Speaker 1: the sport, and you're facing the best closer in baseball
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  Speaker 1: this year, and Chapman and the Red Sox said, Nope,
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  Speaker 1: not going to get to anything else. Crochet told that
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  Speaker 1: to Korra. He's like, it's me and Chappie. Nobody else
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  Speaker 1: gets to pitch tonight.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: That is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: That's freaking awesome. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Krats, go ahead. And then I got a question
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I was just gonna say, we had a
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  Speaker 3: night last night, not just in that game of just
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  Speaker 3: dominating left handed pitchers, go across all the games. Four games.
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  Speaker 3: You saw obviously Boyd pitched well, but then you saw
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  Speaker 3: Trek Scoogel, you saw Max Freed, you saw Garrett Crochet,
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  Speaker 3: you saw Blake Snell. That was some absolute monsters throwing
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  Speaker 3: cheese from the left side. Maybe the game's changing. It's
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  Speaker 3: all for lefties now.
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  Speaker 2: Why here's my question, and I saw this and people
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  Speaker 2: brought this up too. If you're the Yankees, I guess
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  Speaker 2: Bass says, you don't play Jazz and ben Rice. They've
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  Speaker 2: been two of your best hitters and they might run
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  Speaker 2: into one. I've seen Ben Rice homeruffle Lefty before. I've
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: seen jas Chisholm homeruffle. I know it's Crochet, but as
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  Speaker 2: a med Rosario that big of an upgrade. Yes, he's
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  Speaker 2: that big of an upgrade. What do you do last night.
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  Speaker 3: Going into the game, he was six for eight I
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  Speaker 3: think against Garrett Crochet. Okay, two dangers, two doubles. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's an upgrade. I just think sucks that they
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: ran in they get they ran into Crochet early. If
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  Speaker 3: that was gonna happen like Jazz played, I think twenty
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  Speaker 3: seven of the last twenty eight games, or twenty eight
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  Speaker 3: of the last thirty games. I get it. I but
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  Speaker 3: you have to have Amed Rosario in there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but we could make this case if the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: are playing the Tigers, would you do that against Scooble?
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  Speaker 1: Then you're if you're in the best out of seven,
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  Speaker 1: you're just gonna sit your best some of your best
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  Speaker 1: hitters in half the series because.
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  Speaker 2: He played he's left handed.
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  Speaker 3: It's not, but it's to me. I think the amed
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  Speaker 3: Rosario one is they took the numbers and then they
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  Speaker 3: were like, that's too much to ignore. How can we
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  Speaker 3: ignore last time they faced him he had a dinger
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  Speaker 3: and Fenway and I think he had a double off
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  Speaker 3: the wall too. You gotta go with your best matchup there.
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  Speaker 3: When you're facing an elite pitcher, you're not just you're not.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking about two dudes Tarrek Scubel and Garrett Crochet
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  Speaker 3: that are not your typical lefties.
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  Speaker 1: What do you tell Jazz Chisholm before the game and
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  Speaker 1: then after the game, Kratz if you're Aaron Boone before
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  Speaker 1: the game, as in, hey, I know we've been playing
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  Speaker 1: you in these spots basically the entire year, and you
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  Speaker 1: had a thirty thirty season for us, but we're sitting you.
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  Speaker 1: And then after the game when he turns his back
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  Speaker 1: to reporters as a grown adult, it's not cool, right either,
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  Speaker 1: Do the interviewer don't like, I think you're better off.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to speak for the media side here, Like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: if you're not even looking at me and like you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to do it, like I'd rather not right,
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  Speaker 1: like I'll just come back or just tell me you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to talk to me today. To me, that
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  Speaker 1: is just disrespectful to a human being. Like I think
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  Speaker 1: we're all humans. We should treat each other that way.
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  Speaker 1: It's two minutes. I've done these things in the locker
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  Speaker 1: rooms a billion times. Most of the time, it is
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  Speaker 1: two minutes. We are in the clubhouse awkwardly so that
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  Speaker 1: we spend as little time as possible disrupting the lifestyle
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  Speaker 1: of a player. Right, if it was up to me,
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  Speaker 1: bring him to another room, let's get good time to
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  Speaker 1: say down. We're not doing that because we know you're busy.
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  Speaker 1: Two minutes at your locker asking five questions with twenty
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  Speaker 1: second answers. That's the whole thing. Can you turn to
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  Speaker 1: me and look at me like a man?
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  Speaker 3: He could have handled that better. Nobody's gonna deny that.
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  Speaker 3: But I think Jazz, as much as some people are
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  Speaker 3: going to complain about maybe his immaturity, his flash, his
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  Speaker 3: ups and downs, all that stuff, you also got to
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  Speaker 3: look at how they've kind of used him this year. Hey, Jazz,
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  Speaker 3: we traded for you last year. You know what we
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  Speaker 3: need you to do play third. What did Jazz say?
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  Speaker 3: Anything for the team? Hey, Jazz, we made it to
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs again. I know you've been one of our
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  Speaker 3: best bats. You're sitting today, Hey, anything's best for the
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  Speaker 3: team even I mean, it's hard to tell what he said,
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  Speaker 3: but it sounded like you said, hey, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: it's whatever's best for the team doesn't mean he needs
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  Speaker 3: to agree with it. And you asked, what do you
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  Speaker 3: say if you're Aaron Boone before and after the game.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need to say anything to after the game.
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  Speaker 3: That's his time. All I talked to him about before
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  Speaker 3: the game is the fact that you're sitting against Crochet.
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  Speaker 3: I get it. You've played the last twenty seven to
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  Speaker 3: twenty eight games. You're sitting against Crochet. Am ed Rosario.
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  Speaker 3: Is this for this? I know this sucks. We need
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  Speaker 3: you in game two. We're gonna need you late too,
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  Speaker 3: so I need to make sure you're locked in. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not saying you need to like it. I need to
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  Speaker 3: know that you are here for the boys and give
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  Speaker 3: us a good ad. Bat. That's all you got to say,
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  Speaker 3: And you don't have to You don't have to handle
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  Speaker 3: anything as a manager. If you've got to be like hey,
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: stand up straighter and look people in the eye when
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: you're they're interviewing you, you're cooked. You got way more
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: things to worry about, especially in New York. Yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna sit here and plast jazz. It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: a good look. That's all I'm gonna say. It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: a good look. It was disrespectful to the guys that
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: were doing their job. They didn't make the lineup. If
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: you want to be mad at Aaron Boone, fine be married,
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  Speaker 3: but don't be mad when.
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: The people just come up and say, hey, Erin Boo
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  Speaker 2: told me I wasn't playing, Okay, then they got to
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  Speaker 2: go ask Aaron Boone why justism didn't play?
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Turn around and turn around and say, hey, look, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, guys. I went in when they told me
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  Speaker 2: to do. They asked me to do this. This is
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: what I did. I was happy when I came in.
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  Speaker 2: I did the best I could in my bat didn't
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  Speaker 2: work out right. I don't know why I didn't play.
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: If Aaron Boone told him why he didn't play, you
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: can say that reason or don't say that reason. That's
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: up to you. But as soon as you just turn
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  Speaker 2: around and say, hey, I don't know, I did, I
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  Speaker 2: was here sold, I'm not playing, and then they got
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  Speaker 2: to go ask Aaron Boone the question.
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: I'd get you off the hook.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: That's it. But by doing this it goes back and
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  Speaker 1: then it makes people.
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: I don't I'm not going to say, lose respect for you,
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: but fans are like, look at this guy, Look at
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: this guy. Why is he doing this?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Just answer the question, why didn't you play? I don't know,
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: he didn't tell me.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: It goes viral if you handle it this way. And
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: I don't blame the vile community on this one.
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: No you can't, because I've never seen boy do an
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  Speaker 2: interview with their back turned.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: It's a character judgment situation.
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  Speaker 2: Which is not unfair all the time.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: Right, but it is what it is. If you're frustrated, though,
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know it sounds silly. I'd rather you
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: just be like, hey, guys, having some issues, I'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to you tomorrow. Yeah, okay, anything, but back to human
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  Speaker 1: It's it's just not it.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, jan what about sitting down to give an interview?
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  Speaker 3: Did that make you cringe or were you cool with that.
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: When everyone comes around and they're all standing and you
• 11:19
  Speaker 3: sit and you're just like like you're holding court. That
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  Speaker 3: didn't bother me because I did it a lot. I mean,
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: I just played nine innings and I was tired, and
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: I was and if they caught me and I was
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: already sitting down.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: I'd usually say all right, yeah, let's go. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: don't care. Now. It didn't bother me when a reporter
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: came in and sat down. Yes, Oh.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: It happens though, I know, But that times I tell
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: a reporter they're sitting in your seat, they're sitting in.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: Chairs interviewing somebody, or they're they're they're reading the newspaper
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: that's there for the players. Yeah, I would say something
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: we can do an hour on that, or or my
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: favorite was we'd have TVs and they're I mean, I've
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: done it. As as when I go in there, they're
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: like this, though, I'm like, hey, ye, if you don't
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: have anybody, get out.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: The only thing I'll say, wait, I'm gonna come out.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Sometimes we're waiting. I would be in there and I'm
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: watching a playoff game because I'm waiting for so and so.
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: Who's calf?
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I try to allowed to look at the
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: team done it. Yeah, I know there's been times I'm
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: in there, I'm waiting and there we're waiting for a
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: particular player who's either just taking some time, maybe getting treatment, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll ask pr that be like they'll come out
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: or maybe they won't, but you got twenty minutes left,
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: and then I'm just literally standing there and I'm I
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: need to keep up with the playoff game. I get
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: what you're saying. It's not it's not a lounge, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a hangout spot. I don't want to be in there.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: I'm like, either it's still awkward.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: It's awkward. Yeah, you want to go right up to
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: the dude, say what up? And then get out, Like.
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: I walk up to the people I know, and even
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: the ones I don't know how to introduce myself, and
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: or like guys we've had on the show, Hey, thank
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: you for coming on the show, or guys we want
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: to get on the show, Hey can we get you on?
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: And then the guys even then I'm like, hey, how
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: are you nice to meet you? If I haven't met
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: I'm more guys I know you know I've met, Hey,
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: what's up? How you doing, have a great game, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: and just get the heck out, because it's always like
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  Speaker 2: that fifteen to twenty minutes where I'm standing in there.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, it's weird. It's weird. It's like being
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: in someone's bedroom or something like you ask what you
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: need and then you're like, this is your space. See
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: you later, ft FAM, Pinstriped Territory has you covered. With
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: the Yankees postgame show, whether they win or lose, Derek
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Lewandowski will be there for you. He hustles. He does
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: postgame shows all year on the Yanks. This is his
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: big moment, and same thing with Robbie Hyde, who's the
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: counterpart on the Boston side. Also fantastic. These two are great.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Give them a little look on the postgame show tonight.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe you do a little bit of Robbie, a little
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: bit of Derek for insight. Hey back for two minutes
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: and the TV crowd will swing back in. Yoshida is
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: eleven for eighteen in his first played appearance of a
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: game this month. He's also been on fire the last
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: couple months. He missed the first ninety three games coming
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: back from his shoulder issue. Do you know who signed him,
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: and he was looked at as a disaster signing. Yeah,
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: that was like the stain on him, like how could you?
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  Speaker 1: And it's just funny that Yoshidas one of the biggest thing,
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: I know, the whole deal. We get knocked for that, like, oh,
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: you guys are giving too much, Like I'm sorry, that's
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: how the team is built.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he's supposed to do. Him Bloom was
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: supposed to build up a infrastructure. Oh and draft players
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: and have coaches that teach them like stop stop, he
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: built that team.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's just funny. I mean, Yoshida as a
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: whole has not worked out for the team. But then
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: if you're a Red Sox fan and you see what
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: he did, I mean, the dude can hit. When he's healthy,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: he can hit. That has not been a question. Have
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: not the power, terrible fielder or bad fielder at least right.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: Well, that's why they tried to hie them and left. Yeah,
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: like Manny Ramira said yesterday, Oh, it's very small in leftfield.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: I don't want to play right field.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: I think they thought, no, it's right, but I think
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: they thought he would have been like Okay, I know
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: he was bad, bad, but he can hit one of
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: the biggest hits they've had in a long time.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean he's part of a team that's in
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: the playoffs and they're up one on one the Yankees.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: If they win this, everyone every If they go on
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: and make a deep run, everyone forgets everything else.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: No, they're going to look at it and be like, oh,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: who signed him?
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Nice Boston and New York Man all the matters is
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: the postseason? LA is getting to that point too.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: No, let's say better than box scores, the Los Angeles
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Dodgers are still good at ball. Do the Cincinnati Reds
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: have a chance in this series?
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: No? Now.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Jim Bowden was so firm about it when Yeah, I
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: got that record's going to be good next year, it
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: was like, I'm good, they have no chance.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: They did score a run. It's the first run they've
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: scored in the postseason since twenty thirteen.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Five runs.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: They scored a run.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Do the Dodgers have a bullpen problem?
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: We've been talking about this forever. Where was Roki.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Saving him?
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: I guess for today? Yeah, for the Yamamoto Roki. This
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: was supposed to listen harmy matchup for Roki because Roki
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: can come in to strike all the dude job because
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: they swing and everything.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Right, but you need to throw strike scrats. And they
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: had an historically crazy inning, right, fifty nine pitches in
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: the eighth inning, most in a single playoff inning since
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: at least nineteen eighty eight.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: It's a lot of pitches.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I was.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: I was confused while they brought Vessia in, but as
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: the inning unfolded, maybe this is where he sees Vessia
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Enriquez like guys that He's like, you know what, I'm
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: probably not going to go to you in big games.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Which I was confused by Vessia. I really was, because
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: I thought, I know, he had some blips at the
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: end of the season, but I thought he would be
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: a guy you'd go to in the normal one or
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: two run game in the seventh like, bang, that's our guy.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: But hey, I was wrong.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: And for Dodger fans, you watched the team that put
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: up ten runs in a game that included Hunter Green starting,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and I actually didn't think his stuff was bad. He
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: was a little over ampton at the beginning.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Listen, it was kind of like what happened to Dylan
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Cees last year. Once so tany hit that home run.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: It kind of was like, oh wow, what a wake
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: up call. Yeah, and then after that, I mean it
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: was he he didn't His stuff was good, but his
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: location wasn't very good. If you make mistakes of this
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Dodger team man, especially in the postseason when they're awake
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: and they're like, we have to win and they've turned
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: it on, it's it's it's a tough lineup to navigate.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, have Monsie back if the Oscar hits. I mean,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: you can't throw Showy right there. I mean, that's just
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: that's a nothing ball down down, and in Ti Oscar
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: a little nothing ball. Every Tommy Edmunds playoff. Tommy edmund
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Snell pitched well, Snow pitched great. Yeah, seven innings, right,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: you give up two.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: But that's what you want.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: It's perfect. You were up ten to two and Snow
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: came out handed off. You're like an eight run leagues close,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: you know, and then all of a sudden it gets
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: a little bit dicey. Not really, but it got a
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: little dicey.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: If you're playing from playoff team, that could get really dicey.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: You're suddenly down five bases loaded, one out. I mean
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the Tyler Stevenson at bat, for example, ended up costing
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the Reds a lot in my mind, because he swung
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: at maybe three or four pitches that were outside of
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the zone, including strike three. And I know it's easier
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: said than done. We're just talking here, but just given
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: what was going on in that inning, Crats, there were
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: some ball fours there that could have been walked in
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: another run and really made things interesting. They were not
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: throwing enough strikes to get guys out.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: It's crazy to me. It was like, I forget who
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: said it on the broadcast. It was almost like it
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: was contagious. Came in and it was like, Okay, this
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: guy's consistently throwing strikes, ball two, ball three, and I thought,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, I thought it was close. When you're at
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: ten to five and the bases are loaded and they
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: and they're not throwing you strikes, that's the biggest thing.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Like watch the whole game, not just watch like, oh,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: he struck out there. So it really wasn't that big
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: of a d like you're not. You have to you
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: have to pump the middle of the strike zone. When
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: you have a for six run lead, five run lead,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: you gotta pump the middle of strike zone, because even
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: a home run doesn't tie the ballgame. But it'll be
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: interesting to see how it goes forward because Blake Snell
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: has already done what we said we thought we would
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: see from Doc Roberts, and it was a no brainer.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: He was pitching well. But Blake Snell broke his own
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: personal record, which I've been crying for since he was
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: with the Rays. I don't think he's a guy you
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: take out third time through the order. He's consistently in
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: his career, especially the last three years, been better the
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: third time through the order. So good for Doc not
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: just pulling the hook and being like, hey, we'll save you.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: We're going in the next round. We got to get
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: our bullpen some work. Stuck with them. Longest outing ever
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: That's cool. He's got three great secondary pitches and as
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: long as he's throwing strikes.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: About the mc McLain had a nice game, so good
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: for him after he's kind of been through a crappy season,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: So good for him. A couple of hits and all that,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the Dodgers just didn't those strikes last night.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: That was the biggest problem. They just weren't throwing strikes.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I mean they were walking these guys in the red swing, right,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: So listen, Stevenson, it happens. I've struck out of the
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: basis loaded. And then they asked me after the game
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, yeah, what happens. Have you ever hit
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: with the basil loaded? Yeah? Strike out? Sometimes everyone does,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: even you know, Luisa Rise, I guarantee you struck out
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: of the basil loaded. So guy strikes out, he swings
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: at the bat. It's baseball's hard man especially, it gets
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: ramped up and everyone's like, oh, how do you not?
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: How do you swing at that? Because the guy's trying
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: to get you to swing at that. Yeah, he's not
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: just gonna throw it down the middle and say hit it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: He's tunneling and then trying to make you think that
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: it's going to be in the zone.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: And then it's hard. Let's always remember. I think that's
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the biggest thing people don't understay. Baseball is really hard,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: and you get into these hypened moments and it gets
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: even harder.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, we've got Jack Harris back on foul Territory,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Dodgers beat writer for The l Times. Jack. Great to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: have you on. We're gonna look a little bit at
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Game one and then spin it forward to Game two.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: First off, I just want to start with show Hey
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Otani and how much he set the tone for an
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: offense that has its ups and downs. From the twenty
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: twenty five season, they weren't perfect.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I mean, you know, the up until the
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: last couple of weeks of the regular season here, the
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: offense was a real question for the Dodgers. They had
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: guys that were out injured, they weren't executing in situational spots,
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: and they weren't getting the kind of performances from some
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: of their stars. Show Hey and Otani included that they
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: needed to, and over the last couple of weeks, all
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: of those things got better. Otani specifically came into the
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: postseason in a really good spot, and there's just something
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: about when he has those kinds of moments, it's a
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: lift for the team. It puts a jolt in the stadium.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: It was similar to Game one of the postseason last
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: year for the Dodgers when they were down three to
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: nothing early and he had a three run homer in
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: the second. And yeah, I mean for a lineup that
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: you know, in some ways, it was almost not happy
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: that they didn't have a buy this year, but was
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: happy to not have five days off after the way
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: they finished the year. To have him step in there
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: and start the game that way, I think yes kind
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: of set the tone for what you saw the rest
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: of the night Jack.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Was this just a matter of the Dodgers offense having
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to flip a switch because they were on cruise control
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: the whole year. I know we're going to make the playoffs,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: we're going to win the division where oh we got
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: to play now, and all of a sudden booth ten
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: spot against Hunter Green. I mean, had good stuff, missed
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: some location, but still this looked like the Dodgers' offense
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: just flipped the switch into full we're going to be
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers mode.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this flip the switch question has been one that's
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: kind of been hovering around the team for the last
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: couple months. I think, you know, Frankly and guys have
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: said it, it's tough to bring, especially when you're coming
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: off a World Series and you start the year in
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Japan early like they did, and you have all these
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: expectations and you know that you're a really good team.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: It's tough to bring that highest level of intensity on
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: a daily basis over the course of the year. And
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: I think something that happened as the team was struggling
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: during the second half, as their division lead was getting
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: a lot tighter, was that they got a little bit
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: more intentional about talking to each other, having the hitting
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: coaches tell them, hey, you know, when we get guys
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: in scoring position, we got to take advantage. When we're
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: facing good starters, we have to stick to our game plan,
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: and we have to be disciplined. You know, a lot
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: of guys were working through swing problems this year, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: there are times where, you know, it almost looked like
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: swing camp, as one of their hitting coaches put it,
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: where guys were more focused on their mechanics than just competing.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: And I think over the last couple of weeks of
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: the season, they've done a much better job of getting
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: back to the identity of offense that has really defined
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: this team for so long, which is stressing opposing pitchers.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: You know, you look at the Taoscar Hernandez home run
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: that's set up by a couple really good at bats
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: from Freddie Freeman and Max Months the leading up to
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: it to be able to draw some Walks put him
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: under pressure and then ta Oscar Hernandez gets the chance
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: to do damage. So I think, yes, a flip has
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: been switched. I think it's something they were able to
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: do late in the regular season. They were hoped he
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: wouldrry into the playoffs and last night was a pretty
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: good first sign.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: You can just say all their offenses based around Max Muntcy,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: and nobody gives him enough credit because his numbers and
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: his trophy case aren't as big. But if this team
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: is going to continue this offensive run, where are the
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: areas that teams are going to attack? Because to me,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: all the way up through tay Oskar and obviously Tommy
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Edmond just does what he does in the playoffs, you
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: just have a relentless lineup that is going to wear
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: pitching down. Where is the area that a team can
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: attack say, okay, we can do this if I do
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: this to the Dodgers.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Lineup, Yeah, this is still a lineup that can sometimes
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: be prone to getting over aggressive, swinging out of the zone.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: I think you know, when you look at Shoheo Tani
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: last October that was kind of the story of it
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: for him is for all the big moments he did have.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: He also got a little swing happy at times and
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: started chasing pitches should and starting to feel like he
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: needed to do too much. That it's something where you
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: have to you have to make like every guy kind
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: of feel like they need to pick up more of
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: the slack right than they probably need to. But that's
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: difficult to do when you have so many guys in
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: the lineup clicking like you've seen lately. You know, if
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Max Munsey is being productive and getting on base, and
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Tommy Edmonds being productive and having big hits, and they
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Oscar Hernandez is looking like the guy who helped carry
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: this team to a World Series last October, it allows
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: everybody else to be a lot more disciplined in their
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: individual approaches, and something these guys have talked about, you know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: at the end of the season. So that's the challenge
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: because they are so talented. I mean, this was the
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: really confounding part of when they struggled and were like
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: the fourth lowest scoring offense from from July to the
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: end of August, which is there was so much talent
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: in the room, but guys just were not sticking to
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: their approach. So the way they've looked at it. It's
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: always an eternal thing. Like Max Mounsey always says, we're
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: playing against our self first and foremost, and if we
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: can go out there and execute we need to do,
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: stick to our plan, have good at bats, and they
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: take advantage of the mistakes that we do generate from
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: opposing pitchers. We feel like, you know, we we can
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: score as much as we need to, and that's gonna
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: make it an interesting test, you know, for opposing pitching
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: staff to try to figure out how to put them
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: under a little bit more stress as the playoffs go on.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, enough about the offense. We know the Dodgers can hit.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Let's let's get to the real Let's get to the
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: real meat of this Dodgers problem. What the heck are
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: they going to do in the bullpen? It was a
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: better problem down the stretch. It was a problem last night.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: And I know they still won ten to five, but
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: they were on cruise control and then all of a sudden,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, we it's all hands on deck. Is
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Tanner Scott gonna close? Is Rokie gonna close? Where do
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: they you know they use VESI in an eight run game?
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: It works, Emma san What are they gonna do here
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. If you're Dave Roberts, are you like, man,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: we got this great team, but there's all these problems
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: at the back end. Yeah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: The butt in that sentence kind of became the story
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: last night, which is they have all the pieces, but
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: how do you make sure the bullpen and doesn't blow it.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: What was really discourting or disconcerting about last night is
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Alex Vesia is one of their highest trusted relievers, especially
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: of like the traditional relief group. He's been the one
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: guy who was mostly healthy all year, who is mostly
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: good all year, and who was more than anybody else,
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: probably like the fireman guy that they wanted to be
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: able to turn to when situations got hot and there
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: was traffic on base. And to see him come in
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: in an eight run game, I mean when he came in.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: The joke in the press box last night is man,
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: even with an eight run lead, Dave Roberts isn't taking
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: chances by putting in one of his most trusted guys.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: And to see him come in, give up a hit
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: and then walk a batter like the walk and a
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: batter with that big of a lead, it hits on
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: this problem the Dodgers have had that Dave Roberts has
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: talked about, which is sometimes it just looks like guys
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: are not being aggressive enough, are almost pitching scared, are
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: letting the mental toll and the frustrations and the lack
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: of confidence from the whole season kind of way on them,
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: pitch by pitch by pitch, And that's at the tone
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: for the rest of the inning. You know, seeing Edgardo
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: Nriquez come in and struggle with his command, that that's
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: something he's prone to. Jack Dryer, like I heard you
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: guys mentioned it earlier, Tyler Stevenson helped him out by
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: swinging it a couple pitches outside of the strike zone.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: That one more walk I think could have really made
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: that situation uncomfortable for the Dodgers. So look moving forward
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: that they're going to have to start doing different things.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: And I think you would have seen a different game
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: plan last night if it was less than an eight
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: run lead. But Roki Sasaki is going to pitch beginnings.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Emmit Shean, who was warming at the end of that
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: eighth inning, is somebody that they're kind of hoping can
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: be one of their best relievers now that he's been
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: moved to the bullpen for this series. Tyler Glass now
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: is going to be available down there. Blake trying intos
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: someone they're hoping can figure it out a little bit.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: They're going to probably keep him in some softer landing
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: spots like you saw last night with a five run lead,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: to try to let him build some confidence. Tanner Scott
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: is in the same boat. But if those kinds of
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: performances continue, I think then you have to start thinking
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: about getting really outside the box, using your starters on
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: their bullpen days in relief, you know, a lot more aggressively.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: You know, Clayton Kershaw is kind of being saved right
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: now to see if he needs to start a division
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: series game or early, depending on how this series goes.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: But that's at least somebody that if you put out
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: there in relief, you know he's going to be not
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: rattled by the moment and get the ball over the plate.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: So this is this was the big question coming into
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: the playoffs. Could they trust the traditional relievers. There were
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: some encouraging signs at the end of the season, but
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: last night was a real warning sign that they're going
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: to have to get creative with that unit because the
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: guys that make up the traditional pen are just not
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: in a good place right now.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, so then tonight, let's use we'll go right to tonight.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Then let's say, you know, Yalamoto has a nice start,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: right he goes, he gives them six innings and the
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: scores two to two. Does he go right to san
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: right to Roki and leave Tanner Scott and trying to
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: these other guys out of it and go with these
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: new toys basically that he has in the bullpen, Dave
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Roberts or does he still try to go trying in
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: and close it with Scott if they take lead late
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: on a Red's bullpen that's been really good.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: I think Roki and Shean right now are going to
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: be the guys that he would turn to, especially in
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: a closer game.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: To me, an interesting question is if there's a situation
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: where there's around of lefties coming up, who do you
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: trust in that spot? The Dodgers kind of look at
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: em at Chians as a neutral guy that I think
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: they would trusted to face some left handed hitters. Obviously,
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: you know, you brought Tanner Scott here for a reason.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: He's going to have to contribute at some point alex Vezia.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: You know, I think it'll be interesting to see how
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: last night how much that changed their trust level in him,
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: at least in the short term. But yeah, I think
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: right now you're going to see Shean Roki and then
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: maybe Tyler Glass now, though with them being up in
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: the series, I'd imagine they probably try to stay away
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: from him just in case things go to tomorrow. But
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: that's the place that they're at. And the blessing for
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: this team is that they have so much starting pitching
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: depth that they can put three or four starters in
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: the bullpen and have them step into big roles and
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: trust that they're going to pitch well. But it's still
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: putting them in situations that we haven't seen very much.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Immachian has a couple of relief appearances this year in
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: bulk innings. Rookie Sasaki, for as good as those two
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: outings at the end of the regular season looked, still
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: had never pitched in relief in his life up until
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: the last month. So it is an uncomfortable place. The
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Dodgers are hoping that they still have like just the
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: overall talent, but it's trying to figure out who can
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: you trust them with spots, who's going to go out
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: there and throw competitive pitches? And when you don't know
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: those answers, it makes planning out how the end of
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: a game looks, or figuring out who to turn to
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: in a certain situation if you're Dave Roberts, just not
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: a very fun task.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, you know about Yamamoto is starting his thirty first game.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: That is five more starts and he's ever had in
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: his entire life in one season. Is there a fear
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: they never got some days off? I know he threw
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: in six days rotation, but is there a fear that
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: he's going to tire down the end here? I get it,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: he hasn't in his last starts, but this is uncharted
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: territory by a lot of starts.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: There's not a fear. The Dodgers answer to this question
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: has been yes, it's more starts, but it's not a
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: huge difference in the overall innings. When he was in Japan,
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: he would throw a lot more pitches in each of
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: his outings than he does over here. And they've also
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: just seen him week after week go through his training
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: program every week, throw his javelins in the outfield and
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: continue to look like he's in a good spot physically
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: every time he takes the mound. Yeah, tonight, this is
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: the kind of game I'd expect that you see some
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: ninety sevens, ninety eights on the board with him with
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: his fastball, which is something he does typically in bigger
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: moments that he wants to try to rise up to.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: So it's been a really impressive year from him because, yeah,
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: the durability, the injuries, the question of could he handle,
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: you know, pitching on a regular schedule or semi regular
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: schedule coming from Japan over to the big leagues like
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: that was the whole question about him last season, and
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: for him to embrace that get better as the season's
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: gone on, look really comfortable and confident in a way
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: that we didn't really see last year, really like right
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: up until the end of the postseason, when he seemed
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: to finally kind of trust himself in that kind of
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: environment to go and attack big league hitters and get
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: get outs, and the way that we've seen this year.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: So it's been a really impressive overall year, and the
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: fact that he's been as durable as he has been
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: speaks to just the way that he takes care of
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: his body, that he goes about his preparation between starts,
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: and yeah, has allowed him to take on a career
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: high workload this year without many concerns about you know, oh,
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: is he running out of gas or anything like that.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Jack you mentioned earlier, they might be glad they're playing
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: in the Wildcard Series. Can I add to that and
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: ask you their feelings on this. I mean, not only
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: do they get to play the Wildcard Series. I know
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: their pitching won't be perfectly lined up for when they
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: get to if they win and get to play Philly,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: But not only do they get these extra games to
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: try to figure something out. But and I mean this
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: is with all due respect, but they got to play
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: the Reds, a team that most people think on paper
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: is overmatched by them. So is that also a blessing
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: for them? Yes, they have to play two more or
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: possibly three more games, and yes the Reds could still
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: win this series. But if you're the outsider and you're
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: a Dodger fan, you're like, Okay, we get extra bats
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: for show. We don't get the time off. We get
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: to look at guys from our bullpen, whether it's Rokie
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: she and Glass now whoever, we need to put in
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: places and we're playing a team that quite honestly, we
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: should beat in two games. Yeah.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: I think the latter part about the pitching and the
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: bullpen specifically is the thing I was thinking about coming
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: into this series. You know, the lineup did not having
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: to take five days off. You know, again, I think
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: that's a net plus, but it's not something that you know,
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: you saw the Dodgers last year. They were able to
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: kind of overcome that pretty quickly. To me, the benefit
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: of having things work out this way is that you
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: potentially gave yourself an opportunity exactly like last night, where
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: you could build a big lead where you could throw
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: your relievers and what should have been lower leverage spots
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: and see if they can build some momentum so that
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: by the time you do get to the DS, if
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: you advance and you're facing a much better Phillies lineup,
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: at least you've had a couple games where the bullpen
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: had success. And that's what made last night really frustrating.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: I think now at least as the eighth inning, as
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: it pertains to the eighth inning. You know, you look
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: at the night trying came out and looked, Okay, yeah,
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: he gave up the one hit on the ball that
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: Justin Dean couldn't catch in center. But you know, that's
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: a confidence building moment. And if you go into tonight's
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: game and Rokie Sasaki can have a good outing if
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: he's called upon, and Immachian can be good if he's
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: called upon, then that's going to give those guys confidence
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: as you move forward. So that is where I think,
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: in this specific circumstance and playing a team like the
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Reds as opposed to the Mets, who would have obviously
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: provided a much bigger challenge with what they bring offensively,
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: this should be an opportunity for the Dodgers to, especially
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: with the one area of their team that needs some
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: confidence build it. But you still have to execute. And
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: as you saw in the eighth inning last night, if
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: you're not throwing strikes, if you're not being aggressive, if
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: you're not even giving yourself a chance to get outs
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: as efficiently as you need to, then you know, this
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: Red line up still pretty good enough to make things
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: interesting and string a rally together. So that's what's going
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: to be key to me the next couple nights. Can
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers not only win this series, but build some
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: momentum in the bullpen along the way and learn a
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: little bit about who they trust the most in leverage
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: spots as they move forward in October.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Very few people are one hundred percent healthy going into
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: the playoffs, but the Dodgers have two kind of limited
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: players on their bench, Will Smith and Tommy Edmond. Tommy Edmund,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: will he get back to center field or is the
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: ankle not going to allow him to do that in
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: this entire in this entire postseason, and Will Smith being
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: the third catcher pinch hitter off the bench, is that
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: hand on the path to healing to be able to
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: get behind the dish as early as the NLDS against
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: the Phillies.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: With Tommy Edmund, I think in the short term they're
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: going to probably try to keep him on the infield.
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: We saw this earlier this season with this ankle injury,
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: where when he's in the outfield and he's having to
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: make these kind of bigger turns and then go into
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: a sprint like those are the things that bottle the
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: ankle a little bit more than when he just has
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: to shuffle laterally at second base. So that could change
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: you know, depending on how the ankle feels moving forward,
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: but I think for right now they would prefer to
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: just keep him at second base. Will Smith, Andrew Frieman
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: said yesterday the fracture in his hand is healed, which
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: is a really big development because that means that's what's
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: kind of allowed him to start ramping up his activity
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: and intensity and taking swings in live at bats on
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: the workout and throwing the ball again and things like that.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: So Dave Roberts has left the door open for him
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: potentially starting this week. I think that would probably only happen,
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: especially now if they lose tonight and are facing elimination tomorrow.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: But the hope is that, yes, maybe as soon as
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: the DS the throwing strength will be back to where
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: he needs it to be. The swings, he'll have taken
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: enough of them to feel confident that, Okay, if I
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: go and take five at bats one night, I'm not
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: going to wake up with my hands swollen and in
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: pain and unable to play the next Those are kind
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: of the last boxes that he needs to check. But yeah,
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: for where this situation was a week ago, I think
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: that the fact that Will Smith is on the roster
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: available to pinch it now and could potentially be back
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: to starting games in the next week or so. Is
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: a really positive development.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Jack, great insight. We always love having you on, so
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: we appreciate the ten twelve minutes here with us. I
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: enjoy the game tonight and thanks for joining us. All right,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Thanks guys. That's Jack Harris. Make sure you check out
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: his work in the LA Times and you can follow
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: him at b y Jack Harris on Twitter. Also, Dodgers
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: postgame show is lit. Last night about a thousand people
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: live watching Alana and Clint talk about the Dodgers good
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: and bad, and they'll do it again this evening, so
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: check it out live on YouTube or wherever you get
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: your podcasts. They'll post it afterward. Oh Kratz, we've got
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: a battle here. One of their Friar Territory hosts, Mike Cameron,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: disagrees with you. You got to go with your everyday guys,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: if you're the Yankees, especially a guy who faced the
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: lead pitching all year, so he's primed. If anything, he said,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: he's putting Bellinger and center in Rosario in left field.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Your thoughts.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: I'm still reading this, I'm not defends the Yankees decisions
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: a start on my Rosario last night. I mean, I'm
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: not saying you gotta I'm not saying you gotta play
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: him for Jazz. I'm saying, I'm in Rosario has to
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: be in there. So you're saying so he was saying
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: you have to play your elite hitters. So who is
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Who's Cameron saying shouldn't be in there?
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: He's saying, if anything, you reconfigure the outfield. Yes, and
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: you take Grisham out, you put Belly in center, Rosario
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and left, and you put obviously Judges and right.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: But then the argument is, then why is Grisham not
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: in there? Grisham had thirty what home runs? So did
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Jess right? So so the argument, the argument is both ways.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: To me, if you have six Rice, why had Ben
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Rice not play over Austin Wells. I think catching positions
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: a little different. You know that Aja, maybe Max Freed
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: and Austin Wells, you know, worked well together. I'm not
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: sure you know if there's a framing metric in there,
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: because you know, I don't know about that part of it.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: But either way, you're kind of damned if you do,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: damned if you don't. You have to get on ad
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Rosario in there. I think. I don't think Mikey Cameron's
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: disagreeing with me on that. The guy was six for nine,
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: not six for eight, six for nine, and you got
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: to get him in the lineup somewhere. So one of
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: the two thirty home run guys, I guess has to sit.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's saying Freedom right should have been
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: in there.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Had two hits yesterday, Goldie had two hits, And I
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: agree on the.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Well goldies Rake LIFTI that's.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: His thing, only playing against left well as a catcher,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: I'm okay with Yeah, I'm.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Okay with that. But Jazz I think should have been
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: in there.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Somehow somewhat okay, didn't happen.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: It didn't happen, and we got to Now we can
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: talk about it, and.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: It's a good problem for them. They have options, but
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: that leaves you to field more scrutiny because you have
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: good options to choose from. That's what happens, and if
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: you don't win a game, those options get scrutinized. That's
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: how sports works. We get to sit here and talk
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: and not have the pressure of the job. That's how
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: it works. But good answer there from Camp he's back
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: on the show with us. You can listen to him
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: every night on wf A N. But because of the Yanks.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: Well, I get paid to talk.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought you'd be. I thought you'd be all
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: clogged up from all the tears you were crying last
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: night with Jazz didn't play.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not crying any tears. That wasn't a one
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: game elimination. I was on the radio for four hours
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: last night after the game. I've said everything, I've gone
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: over everything. I'm ready to drive right back to the
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Bronx today. What's up, guys, What's up?
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: So summarize it for me? What was the biggest talking
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: point last night for you and how you were fielding
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: calls and how you were answering them and mixing in
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: what you would do if you were the Yankees.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: The turning point of the game, The topic that was
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: coming up on the call screen was taking out Max
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: Free to go to Luke Weaver. And honestly, you can
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: talk a bunch of ways around it. It's compounded because
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: you see Garret Crochet standing there and throw one hundred
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: and seventeen pitches, retire seventeen batters in a row, and
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: then afterwards, Alex Corus says, yeah, you know, we build
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: up our starter in the regular season to get to
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: this postseason where we push him. You know, like Max
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Freed at one hundred and two pitches was pitching a
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: way different game than Garrett Crochet was. He had runners on.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: I won't say he was laboring, but he did have
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: a twenty four pitch inning, a twenty pitch inning, and
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: on that last play that he fielded his position and
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: he raced Duran to first base. When I'm in the
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: stadium and not watching on TV, I'm asking the guys
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: around me, did he look tired, Does he look exhausted,
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: Does he look like he's done, and maybe, you know,
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: exerting extra energy to get that play right there. That's
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: where it was like, Okay, you're over the magic number,
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: which I don't know for some reason, if you hit
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: triple digits, now it's the witching hour where everybody's like,
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: this guy's gonna turn into a pumpkin. Boone went and
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: took the ball out of his hands to go to
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Luke Weaver. And I've been saying, hindsight is twenty twenty.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: Luke Weaver is fifty to fifty Luke Weaver has not
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: been the same Luke Weaver this year. He faces the
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: eight to nine hitter. He already has it out in
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: the game. He should be able to get that done.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: He goes up two on Saddan Rafaela and it's like
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: bro An eleven pitch at bat. He wins it, so
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Guard doubles. It's like all the little things start to
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: come out. Judge's arm is exposed. And then Alex Korra
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: is playing chess while Boone is playing checkers. He puts
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: in Masataka Yoshida. First pitch, Boom, the lead is gone.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: And just that little sequence right there is what everybody
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: wanted to talk about. There were some other things, obviously
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: with the lineup, definitely with Jazz getting into the game
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: late as a defensive replacement, and then Jazz going through
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: his wardrobe, going through his clothes and not you know,
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: facing the media, and you know, I just think Yankee
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: fans were down because no one was surprised. They struck
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: out thirteen times, they didn't work one walk, They scored
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: one run on a home run. Remember Buck Martinez saying
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: they're not a good team if they don't hit home runs,
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: they can't score, like so many of these little things
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: that we've seen all year, so many these little things
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: that we've seen in the Aaron Boone era. They happened
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: last night and people are sick of it, but they're
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: not out of it. They got to come back tonight
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: with Carlos Rodin and force the game three, and I
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: think the advantage can shift into the Yankees favor.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Agreed. Here's my thing about Max Reid. They even said
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: it on the broadcast. You know, I'm sure you watched
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: the broadcast last night where they said after he came
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: in and got the first out, it was the lefty,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: it was Duran. He got Duran out in the seventh.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: They even said before that this is his last hitter.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Boone is keeping him out there. They have Weaver ready
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: to go, right, which makes total sense because I guarantee
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: you that's the way they've done it all year. Right, Yep.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: The biggest key to that whole inning was you watched
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: to Don Rafaela, who swings at everything. Okay, he's really
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: arguab walk and in this situation was a great at bat.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I give him a ton of credit. But then it
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: just it was like things come. It was one of
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: those innings. But they only gave up two Let's not
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: forget they only gave up two runs. It onen't like
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: they gave up ten runs. They gave up two runs. Okay,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: but so guard getting a hit, taking advantage of Judge's arm,
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: your set of getting the hit, and then they shut
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: it down. So I really don't have a problem as
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: big of a problem as all the other people do
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: with him taking Freed out, because I guarantee you that's
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: what they had done all year. And listen, Max Freed
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: six and a third, no runs. That's a hell of
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: an outing in the postseason, like he's beginner, Like, great job,
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: it's not his he did and I guarantee right, So anyways,
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe I look at it differently.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: No, but don't you think Max Reed could have got
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: those last two outs the eight to nine hitter.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Don't you think.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: They're both writings? And what if he doesn't And then
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: you're like, God, you should have you should have taken
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: him out.
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: It's a plan, it's a script. It's predetermined. They talk
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: about this stuff during the games, that that was a
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: clean inning for Luke Weaver to come in with one out.
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: You can't get us two outs. Luke Weaver has not
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: been great, he won't be back next year. It's it's
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: a tough spot. I feel like a lot of people
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: were saying too, and I agree. They manage this game
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: like it was a regular season game. There is no tomorrow.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: Max Reed might not get another start. Push him, there
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: is no tomorrow. You don't go to one of your
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: average relievers who you know it's not twenty twenty four anymore.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: When he turned into your closer after the guy that
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: you told us was your closer, Klay Holmes couldn't get
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: it done and you had to break glass in case
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: of an emergency and go to Louke Weaver as the closer.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: We haven't seen the ferocious jungle cat that we saw
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: last year, so I don't know. Those things get compounded,
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: but I think you stop right here. They did not
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: hit with that lineup they put out. They took out
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: Ben Rice, they took out Jazz Chisholm. Those are two
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: guys that had great years, twenty six home runs, thirty
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: one home runs. You left a bunch of RBI on
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: the bench. That lineup did not work, and then later
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: in the game you can't get Ben Rice in a
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: bat and you put Jazz Chishlm in the game as
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: a defensive replacement, And Alex Coor is over there grinning
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: because he's like, Okay, you get a med Rosario three
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: abs and you put Jazz in as a defensive replacement.
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: I'm going from Crochet to Chapman. You're still facing two
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: dominant lets, and when Jazz comes up and flies out
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: weekly to right field, It's like, what are we doing here?
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: You should have the righty to come off the bench.
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: You know you could have configured that differently. What I'll
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: say before I pass it back to you is I
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: feel like Jazz should have been in at second base.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: If you wanted to play a med Rosario, who you
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: barely played since you got him at the trade deadline,
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: play him at third Ryan McMahon. We would have made
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: no issues, no qualms about Ryan McMahon. We understand what
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: his bat is and isn't put him there. And then
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: also you have Kybyiro to be a pinch runner at
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: any point late in the game. Kybyiro is the guy
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: that can play six different positions.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's tough.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: I just want to flush this game and get the
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: game too as quick as possible.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, let's look at game two. Is there a
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: chance that the Yankees, if things go off the rails
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: early to nothing lead by the Red Sox, they panic
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: by day? I mean Boone panics and takes Rodon out
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: because in a playoff game, when it's back against the wall,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: life on the line, you go right to the bullpen.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: The bullpen hasn't shown they can get you nine outs,
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: let alone fifteen outs.
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: No, you're riding with Carlos Rodin tonight. There is no panic.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: Even if he does give up a long ball, which
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: we've seen him do. It's his game tonight, and he's
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: got that bulldog in him a little more so than
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: Max Freed. Max Freed is, you know, soft spoken. It's
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: his first year in New York. He's been great, but
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: like he should have pushed back a little bit against Boom.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: But I guess they had already agreed in the dugout
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: go get me one more batter. Rodin tonight is not
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: gonna come off that mound if it's to nothing. He's
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: gonna say, let me fight, let me continue. And they
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: use the bullpen last night. I think the only guy
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: they'll stay away from tonight is Luke Weaver. I don't
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: think you're in a rush to get to Fernando Cruz.
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: I don't think you're in a rush to get to
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: any of these guys. Tonight it's Carlos Rodan for six
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: seven innings, six to seven.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, we can debate pitching all we want. The Yankees
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: score how many runs last night?
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: One? That's what I'm saying. Take all of this out,
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: that lineup that you put together with your analytics, and
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: you thought you were gonna throw at Alex Corr and
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: Garrett Crochet, the least likely of candidates, the guy that
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: was the whipping boy all year. Fans didn't want him
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: to start. They wanted Caybalierro to start at shortstop. Anthony Volpi, Right,
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: Anthony Volpi's the one that gets two hits off Crochet,
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: that hits the solo shot to wake the stadium up
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: and really get it going. The rest of those guys, Stanton,
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: we expect Stanton to be a postseason performer. I expect
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: him to show up tonight. Grisham, as we're talking about
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: how many home runs they left off the field with
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: Jazz and ben Rice, Grisham hit thirty four homers this year,
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: he went zero for four with four strikeouts. Tonight they
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: have to mash. Can they score four runs, five runs
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: and hold the Red Sox to another three? I think
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: they can.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's all I want to know. What was the
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: feeling like when Ed bases loaded, no outs and here
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: comes John Carlow against Chapman and all of a sudden
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: it goes from ninety five to one hundred and one.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: What was the feeling like? Were you thinking, this is
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: our chance, We're gonna turn it around right here and
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: then strikeout week pop up punchy.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: I thought we had a better chance when we had
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: Goldie on Judge on in the first inning against Crochet
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: and Stanton didn't ground it into a double play late
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: in that game with Chapman former teammates, he's faced them before.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: I'm like, Chapman knows what to throw? Was a four
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: pitch at bat. I knew that Chapman had Stanton, and
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: so did Cora. Corus said, you know, he had no
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: doubts that Chapman would win that matchup against John Carlos Stanton,
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I was. I knew they were setting us
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: up for failure. I knew that we were getting excited there,
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: and yeah, it's a different game if David Bednar doesn't
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: give up that one run. It's a different game if
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: you're just trying to tie a two to one game
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: down one. But you know ultimately that they got got
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: they got caught, like Jazz shouldn't have been in that position.
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: And Stanton didn't have his best night and he's facing
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: a guy that knew what to throw at him to
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: put him way.
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: This you have to you have to give us the
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: pulse of Yankees fans on this one. Aaron Judge two
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: hits last night. Is he back? Is he postseason Aaron
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: Judge now? Or is this not good? Because he's the MVP.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: And you know, I was laughing because I was getting
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: some some tweets about Judge should have hit the ball
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: out of the park in the ninth inning instead of
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: driving a single, And I'm like, this is the batting champion.
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: This is a guy that hit three p thirty one.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: He did his job, Like if he struck out all night,
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: it'd be different. He did get a hit like Crochet
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: is a monster, and Judge gave him that cauc He
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: said he's the best pitcher in the game. He has
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: struck Judge out I don't know, eleven twelve times this year.
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: I will say this about Judge. Judge did have a
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: look and he was on some of Crochet's pitches that
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: that last inning where I think, you know, Cabby got
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: a hold of one, it got caught in the outfield,
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: Goldie got a hold of one, it got caught in
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: the outfield. We were all sure this was the time,
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: right this, this last matchup between Judge and Crochet, Judge
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: is going to win. He fouled a couple off ultimately
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: strikes out. But yeah, I don't think anybody is talking
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: about Aaron Judge folding or being you know, not himself
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: in the postseason. I don't think anyone's saying he's back either.
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: Let's see him hit a homer tonight. Let's see him
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: hit a double tonight. Let's see him continue in Game
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: two and literally saved the season.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: The only thing I'll say before we let you go
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: is you're wrong calra is the MVP. But other than that,
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: you have great takes and I love some of the
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: things you say.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: I'll take Ben Rice at catcher over cal Raley. We
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: don't do that you just lost doing that over here, Judge,
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: did he hit did he hit sixty two?
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Ben Rice?
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: Did he break? Did he break the American League home
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: run record? That's the only way I was gonna give
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: it to cal Raley. He didn't hit sixty two.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: It's Judge, most switch. He broke Mickey Mantles old record,
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: broke Catcher record, He broke all the records.
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: Great stack up all of the other categories.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: By the way, you know you just said Ben Rice
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: or a Platinum Glove, Platinum Glove winner at Catcher, You
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: just said Ben Rice.
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: I just want to make sure we're Yankee homers. We
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: ride with the pin stripes. Yeah, give me Benaunning.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guarantee cal Rawly's facing Garret Crochet.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: You are right, Hey, Keith, you're your self real quick. Sorry,
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: you're a self proclaimed leader of the fans out there.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: What do the fans need to do tonight? What do
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: Yankee fans need to do tonight for their team to
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: be pushed? Because we talk about home field advantage all
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: the time, get them? What do they need to do?
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, and I definitely don't proclaim myself. I'm blessed
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: like I've been out there before I was in the media,
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: So I think there's a lot of people that have
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: seen me go to the stadium for the last ten
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: years and then become a radio host, become a content creator.
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: So like I do lead, but I don't say that
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: I'm the leader. Like you know, there there are other
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: people out there. But I'll say this, it is hard
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: to get that stadium up and rocking and going when
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: they're they're not hitting. When seventeen batters in a row
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: get retired, when you give Crochet a six pitch inning,
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: it's like you get up and there's nothing to get
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: up for. So tonight the Yankees got a hit. And
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, with all those different sound effects and
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: lights and things that the Yankees put on in the stadium,
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: the main thing that will get the real Yankee fans
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: excited and rowdy and loud and rocking that place is
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: them stringing together hits, hitting the ball out of the ballpark,
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: putting some runs on the board. We need offense. That
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: is what makes people excited. That's what makes people loud
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: and happy in there. So they got to score.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Keith enjoy it or stay nervous through it. But thanks man,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: you're the best. We appreciate you.
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys, appreciate you best in the business. Love the show.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Thanks guys, the same to you, dude, love lesson n
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: A Keith McPherson in New York on WFA, and you
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: should do the same. We'll go right to kratsats here.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: Tina's definitely closing it out. You said we're not gonna
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: have all game three as well, here's one Yoshinobu.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Dodgers to close it out. Okay, a couple
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: other quick hitter notes. Let's see if I can do
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: it in thirty seconds. Brian wu will bullpen session Thursday.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe he'd be a Game three started for them. It
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: sounds like Bruce Boci not going to manage the Giants,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: but he's invited to be a part of the mix
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: if he wants. And the Pirates took the only part
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: of their team that worked the pitching and said, let's
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: fire the pitching coach and also branch dramas out Marine
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Oscar Marine Marin. However you say it out so that
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: makes sense for math right, No, but just wanted to
• 56:41
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