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(00:59):
They're starting pitching. He gonna get a bounce. They're not
gonna pitch like this. Yeah, but show hey Otani starting
to hit home runs out of stadiums now, So maybe
the Dodgers are gonna be okay in the World Series.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
My Carmen. I don't know, maybe it's just me.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Well, you know, the rumors of his demise greatly exaggerated,
and he had the little zippe it motion as he
rounded third, as if he were sending a very loud
message as he waited for that baseball in the land.
The reaction from the Dodgers' bullpen and from the Fox
Sports radio studios, I can say, just an explosion of sound.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I gotta say a couple of things, but before we
get to something that really we should understand. What's going
on right now in the world of sports. With Otani
is one. I love the fact that Patrick never even
looked like he threw the pitch, and he just looked
down and he scraped the ground with his shoe and
he was like, yep, okay, that's I'm not even gonna
look and see how far that one goes.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
I mean, Tawny homered.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Out of the stadium over the right field bleachers, over
the over the roof, and that you know out there,
that's where the Dodgers team store is. So just to
think about when I when I come to the stadium,
we always like to go in that way because the
Dodgers team store is out there.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
We always going and buy something like.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's at the far recesses of the ballpark, like it's
just big parking lot, like right out where Otani homeward
and that's where he homered. To Man, I sat there
with my dad in the NLCS last year and had lunch,
and I'm saying to myself that ball could have landed
in our lunch if we were just sitting out there,
I mean we would be I'd be eating helmet nachos.
But like, that's where that ball would have landed. That's

(02:39):
how far he hit it. It's estimated four hundred and
seventy feet, and you know what, I can't even trust that.
I feel like it's only only four hundred and seventy feet,
like like that's not that's not five hundred feet Like really,
like I I don't know how they measure, and I've
never gotten it.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
I don't think I ever will. But I mean, I
really if.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's not the furthest home run that I've seen hit,
and I don't know how long, I don't know what
is Man. Seen a lot of big home runs, seen
a lot of big upper decker home runs, this one
over the roof and out of Dodger Stadium completely. I mean,
that's that's that's just absolutely something from Otani.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Oh of that to say it's it's fuzzy math. Uh yeah,
because it just that thing just kept traveling. And I've
never seen him watch a home run like that either. Yeah, whoa,
I really went and got that one, now, didn't I?
And then they're they're just showing the trajectory and the
the arc of the ball, uh, from every vantage point
they could possibly find. Just an amazing, amazing blast. I mean,

(03:37):
considering you know how he started this game. Hey, I
walk a guy, I strike out the side, and then
oh yeah, let me hit a home run in the first.
So like right off the jump, just a very different
electric night. Hopefully folks here in Los Angeles got through
traffic to get into the ballpark, because otherwise they missed
one hell of a start, you know.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
And here's the thing right now, because not to be
prisoner of the moment here.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
You can do that. It's Friday night. It's a positivity thing.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's got positivity Friday all right, right to think about
this right now, like you think about Okay, I'm turning
on I'm watching the Dodgers play the Brewers Game four
the NLCS. Right, you're a baseball fan, you're Mary Hart.
You hear it the game you're watching. Hey, here's show
Heyo Tani doing stuff we've seen before, right, you know, pitching.
He's in the fifth inning, he's pitching a shutout. He's

(04:22):
got two home runs, including the longest home run that
I think any of us have hit that any of
us have seen hit in quite a long time.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
And we've seen this, right, So he's.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Got it such strikeouts and he's only allowed one hit, right.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
I mean, I mean all of this, right, just think
about think about this. Okay, we've seen this, right, we've
seen this, and I'm going to ask you something now. Again,
We're only through the top of the fifth inning, but
I want to ask you this right now, considering that
what Otani is doing on the mound two home runs
so far, are we watching the greatest playoff performance of
all time in Major League Baseball.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
We've seen guys have big days hitting the ball, right.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
We've seen Kurk Gibson hit a home run to win
a World Series, to win a game in the World Series.
We've seen the Buckner play we've seen all We've seen Bobby.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
I mean, we've seen we've seen big moments.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, we've seen Joe Carter. You know, we've seen that.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
But yeah, I almost throwing a friend to Lake Michigan
after that.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
So yeah, throwing a one hit shutout and two home runs.
I mean, are we watching the single greatest playoff performance
of all time in Major League Baseball?

Speaker 3 (05:24):
I mean, I I don't know when you when you
go to.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
See somebody do something bigger and better than this, like
we see this is just seems like a random and
another strikeout for Otani, Like this just seems like another
random Friday night of Otani pitching, you know, Otani doing
Otani things. And meanwhile, yeah, oh, by the way, this
might be the greatest playoff performance in baseball history.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
No, it's just it, like you start thinking of all
the old things that little pop in your head, right,
the Reggie Jackson performances and all of those kind of
things that roll through. But man, this this is just electric,
and especially for a guy that quite clearly had been
hearing the noise surrounding his name again with the little
zippit thing at the end of it. But a lot

(06:05):
of the debate of all right, who's the MVP of
the series with a performance like this, does he just
walk off with the trophy? Just I'll take that one
with me. I know that, Hey, I had the chuck
yesterday to get things started. All the great pitching performances, No,
I also hit a couple of home runs. Give me
the trophy.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, I'm taking that with me.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Well, it's funny like, right as we're celebrating that ball,
when wherever it may or may not have landed, suddenly
Miami made things a game and where they were getting
dominated by Louisville. So I got that on two screens here,
this stuff like, Wow, this is gonna be a great
Friday night.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
I really, I just just think about this. It just
seems like a generic Friday. Dodgers are gonna win, They're
gonna go to the world.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Sit.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
We've seen them do this for so long. Ohtani is cruising.
But understand that sometimes we do take greatness for granted, right,
just because we're we're a more jade. It's they now
that we've ever been where Oh it's not great, you know,
like I said, prisoner of the moment. But understand that
greatness like this and things like this. I don't know
when we're ever going to see something like this again.

(07:11):
Think back, what are you going back to, Babe Ruth
right in the nineteen twenties, the last time we've seen
someone do this and have a performance like this, leading
off two home runs, carrying his team at the plate,
one of the longest home runs we've ever seen hit,
and now another strikeout to end the fifth inning. He
probably has another two winnings in him. His pitch count
is low enough, he's around eighty pitches. I really, this

(07:32):
might be the most impressive, the best single game performance
in baseball history.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
And get to a.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Television or listen to us so we talk about it,
because really, this is something absolutely historic.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Right, I still go.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
I still am very upset that the night I miss
Roy Halliday's no hitter. Right, I missed his no hitter.
It was an off night for me at work and
I was out doing something. I literally came back and
I turn on the TV to see the fine I
see him going crazy after the final out, and everybody
jumping on top of my wife goes, oh did the
Phillies win?

Speaker 3 (08:03):
I go, no, this is something else.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
What is this is like I forget we were doing
like we were out somewhere and I wasn't, you know,
keep it try, but it was it was a weekend
or a night. I was off and I'm like, okay,
had the phone off and everything else. I go, no,
this is something else. This is Oh my goodness, I've
been I've been hearing about Don Larson's perfect game for
like fifty years now, and I could have seen a
no hitter in Major League Baseball playoffs and I missed

(08:27):
it because we were out at a movie going to
see something I could have seen on cable. And but
I'm like, wow, I'd always been upset that I missed
it life, because I still remember turning on the television
to see him celebrate like he's pounding his glove.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Like it was the final out. Just happened.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
And I mean, my wife goes, Phillies won to go. No,
I don't know that they're this because it did win
the series. It didn't move on to you know. I
was like, oh, no, this is this is something. This
is much more oh no hitter and I missed it. Okay,
all right, that's great.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
No, No, I mean there's some time after those, right,
I mean Saturdays. I mean there's a million college football games,
and if you're out and about right, you were coaching
softball and soccer and me chasing my kids events around,
be it dance or soccer or whatever. I mean, there's
games you missed and then all of a sudden you're
looking at the phone, going, huh, that would have been
a fun three hour block to not not be running

(09:18):
around or sitting in traffic here in southern California. But
you know, that's the price of admission. So when you
do get a chance to sit and watch in earnest,
I mean, it's about as good as it gets. Like
watching from from the first pitch. You had an electric
atmosphere there at Dodger Stadium, all the anticipation of closing
this thing out. Uh, and he walks the leadoff, It's like,

(09:39):
oh wait, wait, maybe in like three straight strikeouts. After that,
it's like, all right, no, Tony's coming to the play,
what do we got Bam punch him in the face,
Like okay. So you know, just like that, you knew
you were in for something different, and right now we're
just questioning how much how much longer he can pitch?

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, I mean it's it, really, I mean, look this,
there's other bigger conversations have We are through five innings again,
the Brewers have one hit. I feel like they have
one hit the entire series against the Dodgers so far.
But like where we're at right now, and look, things
can change, obviously, you know, because only the fifth inning
of the game and Otani's pitch coin is getting up there.
But if you're talking about a guy he goes seven innings,

(10:19):
strikes out what say ten, ten or twelve or something
like that, two home runs maybe more like what else
do you need to see? I mean, like there's nobody
it's done anything like this ever. And it's not just
like he started and won a game and you can say, well,
look how tough it is to pitch it hit It's
really difficult. No, this is dominating it at the plate,
dominating on the mountain. Like I've never seen anything like

(10:41):
this before. And it's really when you when you see
a guy do something so great for such a sustained
period of time, right, and we've seen Otani be great
for a while, it's easy to sit back and go, yeah,
well I've seen it, you know, and then you think
back a few years from now, and you go.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Man, he really was wow. Yeah that hey wow.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I never thought about the historical significance of that. But
you know, you watch the Dodgers Otani hits that ball
in Freddie Freeman and Max Munths, You're like, what the
hell man, We're some of the best hitters in Major
League Baseball.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
We can't do any of that.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
No, that's it.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
The hell man.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
They they did a great job. However, many cameras they're
operating there as part of this broadcast. I mean they
got a reaction from every person in the dugout, in
the in the bullpen and their reactions. I mean, he
had one guy he was humping the fence. That was
a little odd. You might want that dance for later,
but all of that, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
If you can't dance like that after a phe still
love it.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
I mean, if show had broken off that dance, I
would have understood, let's see judge minus four hundred for
the MVP. But what was you know, as we were
talking about, it's like he's gonna win it, but this
was the year where potentially he couldn't because of Raleigh's
heroics and his catching acumen et cetera. I love if
you look in the current box score for the Dodgers

(11:59):
though tonight two for two, two runs, score, two on runs,
two RBI and a two hundred batting average. But you
know what, it doesn't matter what are you doing tonight
and close out in fashion, I just start printing those
giant l shirts for Murphy and the and the and
the Brewers.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Now, you know, And this is a thing like we
talked a lot about because I firmly do believe the
Dodgers gonna get a bounce in the World Series when
it comes to their starting pitching. Like to pitch like
this again is not gonna happen, right, That's just how
it goes.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Right.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
This is not nineteen sixty seven where hey, every round
where you know, Jim Palmer's gonna go two and oh
in every round, and you know, and Bob Gibson's gonna
go two and oh in every series. Whatever it is,
they're gonna get a bounce. And we said, listen, that's
a big concern for the Dodgers right now. For the
flip side of it is maybe they're starting to hit
and that's that that will make up there whatever bounce

(12:52):
they get pitching, because really they've not hit this entire
playoff really, right, the very beginning against the Reds, Reds
were over match, you're lucky.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Get in, come on, need a Mets collide scored eighteen
runs those games.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, yeah, I mean the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
On's the Dodgers out of the second and they're like, yeah,
we're done, we don't need any more runs.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
We're good.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
But since then it's been difficult, right, And it's not
like these games against the Brewers up until now have
been Hey, we're we're allowing no and one run and
one and three hits, like, you know, like we're not
and we're not winning like eight one or nine one,
like they're winning two to one and three to one,
and they're they're squeezing the sap out of their bats
to try to get some stuff across. But tonight they're

(13:29):
squaring up balls and Otani getting hot. That's just gonna
be contagious. He gets hot like this all of a sudden,
the rest of the lineup, it's gonna be like the
Congo line in the in the Bugs Bunny versus the
Gas House Guerrillas, when they're just all going around the
bases like that's what the World Series is gonna look like.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
So, yeah, are the Dodgers going to get a bound
starting pitching wise?

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Absolutely, But if they're starting to hit, yeah, good luck,
good luck Seattle, good luck Toronto, good luck good to
anybody coming out of this because yeah.

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history that we have been watching again, this is gonna
go down as a single greatest performance in postseason history
in Major League Baseball. Altani's got two home runs, pitching

(15:15):
a one hit shutout through six innings. He has done everything.
He's got ten strikeouts, probably has another inning in him
to get through seven. His second home run was hit
out of Dodger Stadium. Again, if you could see any
of this or listen to us talk about it, this
is that kind of night. Like you are you are

(15:35):
never going to see a night like this ever. Again,
it's been one hundred years since we saw something like
this in Major League Baseball, since we have.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Someone have this kind of a game.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Pitching a shutout through six innings, ten strikeouts, one hit,
two home runs, won the most Manchu run you've ever seen.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Like, it is that kind of night. And now there's
this Yeah yah no, wait, there's more.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Uh, number one. You can shine number one. Number one, Well,
I'll go with number one. I'm doing the whole thing.
Number one. You can scratch Carson Beck from the top
of the Heisman Trophy list after tonight. Carson Beck tonight
for the Miami Hurricanes, the number two Hurricanes at home
against Louisville. Carson Beck two hundred and seventy one yards

(16:21):
through the air, no touchdowns and four interceptions, his last one.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
TJ.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Caper's making a tremendously athletic play with Miami in field
goal range that could tie the game or they could
have won it. The ball gets tipped at the line
of scrimmage. Capers comes into the flat, dives, grabs the
football and yanks it towards his body before it could
hit the ground.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
He comes up with the interception.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
It is confirmed on replay Louisville just killed the clock
at the end. Jeff Brom not happy with how Louisville
killed the clock, but it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
It's over.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Louisville wins it over Miami twenty four to twenty one,
the number two team in the country and a team
I said two weeks ago because I'm always fair.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Two weeks who I said, they're not gonna They're going undefeated.
They're not gonna lose a game. Are you kidding? Who's
gonna beat Miami?

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Look look at what they're doing. This is a better
team than last year. Carson Beck, X Y and Z.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
And the number two team in the country has gone
down to Louisville twenty four to twenty one.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Strange things happening on a Friday night, Jeff Brahm and
company getting it done, the intensity laser beams shooting out
of his eyes like he was Marsden in the X
Men's series towards those final minutes there. Coming into the
games this weekend. Yeah, Carson Beck was your favorite at
plus three hundred. That'll be remedyed Ty Simpson second at

(17:44):
plus Simpson a plus three twenty, and then Mendoza at
plus four thirty. So keeping an eye on that. But
for Louisville Monster.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Mister Friday, Wait now, wait, now you need to do
Hang on, Mike.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
I'm you make your point, but I gonna tell you something.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Whenever you mention those guys names, you have to say
any of these guys future jet. Okay, you have to say, okay,
future Jet because any of it could be Mendoza, could
be Dante More could be card That any of these
guys could be a future jet.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well, let's just keep on going down the line.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
I mean they got Marcel Reid Julian saying, then you
get a break with Jeremiah Smith cracking the list at
plus eighteen hundred. Then you got Gunner Stockton. Just on principle,
I want to root for a team that has a
guy named Gunner Stockton as.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
My quarterback for a little while.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
But look, he's just a huge Friday night matchup though,
right coming in four and one Louisville, You've got Miami
Roland and then just crazy sequences down towards the end
because the third interception that back through was immediately met
by a Louisville fumble. They gave it right back and
open the door. They score, get the two point conversion,

(18:55):
and just like that, we had ourselves a ballgame, bought
Louisville able to hold them off and get done.

Speaker 7 (19:00):
Guys, Yeah, Louisville really picked the wrong night to do
this though.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
No, yeah, no they did.

Speaker 7 (19:06):
Then they did something that's never been done well, and
Bill Belichick's gonna do some coaching that doesn't even.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
He's still on the sideline. So HadAM vanquished and defeated
weeks ago?

Speaker 3 (19:22):
There he is.

Speaker 8 (19:24):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
And I will say this, speaking of picking a band,
I do this in in in La with with O
Toanni and everything else with this.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
How about the.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Win in the game from Miller Moss x USC quarterback.
We thought we thought he was the chosen one. No, no,
I got to career Louisville.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Two touchdowns, two forty eight through the air. He's having
a really good year too, so far for Louisville. Uh,
you're putting USC in its rear view mirror. Obviously we
thought he was going to be great, right though, this
is the guy, right, here's your guy taking over for
Caleb Williams.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
We've seen him big in bowl games. Awesome. Well, okay,
I think Jade Maave is really really good.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
And okay, now you see Miller Walls why he left
and man, big night from him tonight. But my goodness, man,
this is why, this is why I've said and nothing's
gonna be truer this year than than when we talked
about this last week or right after James Franklin got fired.
Enjoy the craziest most off the wall bananas college football

(20:20):
season we've seen in almost twenty years.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
I mean, you know, I.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Was thinking about all the craziness and all the teams
that were good then they were bad, now they're good again.
Teams we thought were good are losing, all the surprise
teams that are in the top five, like Indiana's a
It's just such a up. It's just a season that
none of us were expecting. James Franklin, who was in
overtime against Oregon two weeks ago and now he's looking

(20:44):
for a job. You know, Indiana head coaches are getting
one hundred million dollar contracts. Like this is where I
could say in a positivity Friday, just enjoy the ride.
Enjoy the absolute off the rack craziness of this college
football season. Man, because again, you got to go back
to that big two thousand and seven season, and I
keep saying, oh seven and college football fans, no, yes,

(21:05):
when that was Kansas and Missouri and West Virginia who
we thought were going to play for the national championship.
Going to the final game of the season, we thought,
these are the these are the teams are going to
play for the national title. Like that's how crazy this
season was. Uh, and that's kind of what we're getting
right now in college football obviously, to be blunted a
little bit at the end, because yeah, a team like Miami,

(21:28):
if this is the only game they lose, okay, they're
getting in the playoff, right and maybe they're a top
four team, but if not, they'll be a but this
but obviously this could be a loss like in the
pet could have knocked them out right, because you don't
know how the rest of the season's going to go
for teams. But so that's gonna blunt it a little bit.
But still for right now, watching Miami on a Friday
night at home lose to Louisville man just the night

(21:50):
to lose.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Though, that is true. Get Magni five the same way,
and then there's a bunch of huge games tomorrow. We'll
talk to Pete Futech a little later on in the
show and preview some of them. I mean, the Dan
Patrick Show was emanating from South Bend. A lot of
pageantry there for what might be the final matchup of
USC and Notre Dame and USC. We've talked about it here.

(22:12):
The spots that I do you know, popping on over
the course of the week, you know, promoting the show
and the network and everything, and they always ask about
buzz or whatever, like, well, the Dodgers are one. Whether
Lebron James ever shows up for work is part two.
And then we start getting into the fact that we're
talking college football again around here. Yeah, we were talking

(22:32):
about whatever UCLA was and what they are now, and
certainly what's happening with Lincoln Riley and USC you know,
has jump started things a bit saying nothing of the
Chargers and Rams and push that to the to another conversation.
But I don't know, it's good to have all of
that swirling about and tomorrow be a big day of
college football. And yeah, it's unfortunate, or I guess fortunate

(22:55):
for Miami that it happens on a night where it's
just gonna be a montage of how far did that
home run really go?

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Let's bring out the mythbluster, gus.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I mean
that interception, just just for a second, that is such
an incredibly athletic play to clinch the game.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Number one, the clutchness.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Of it because look, it's twenty four to twenty one,
and Miami has a chance to put all of this
bad game, to put this bad game behind them.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Carson Beck has a chance. Like the final drive.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
They're deep in in Louisville territory and they throw this
ball in the flat and it looks like, well, okay,
it's gonna get tipped, and somehow Caper is able to leap.
And the fact that he holds on to the top
of the football, like, that's what gets me about this play.
It's not like he jumped in front, it got deflected
and just hit him in the stomach.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Like the ball gets deflected.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
He follows the path of the ball and he's able
at all of the split second and he holds onto
the ball going to the ground and he's holding the
top of the that's where he catches it. He catches
the top of the football, and he has the presence
of mind to be able to yank it up when
he hits the ground and hold on to it. So
clearly there was no way you were going to overturn
this where I don't know how many times out of

(24:12):
I don't know, nine and a half times out of
ten is a play like that happened where the guy
catches it and and but falls to the ground and
the ball hits the ground and it's called incomplete and
they run the playover like that is some kind of
play by Capers to clinch this game for Louisville.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Man, that is big one to ceil it take.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Have everybody start burning those Carson mag Heisman tickets. No, yea,
not rid, not really because this year is so crazy.
I mean just because he got one shutout game here
right and zero touchdowns, four picks. I mean, it's a
it's a bad one, but there's still plenty of opportunity
to to re engage. But yeah, just a crazy night

(24:49):
across our sporting universe. We still got Lakers basketball together.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
Nothing really matters elsewhere except show tonight.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
Well yeah, well go quick. You could have another home run.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
I mean, we could get another home run out of him,
who knows, right, Like, I mean, if maybe it's three
home runs tonight.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
I just like that after every pitch, he's screaming at
something or somebody, after every strikeout, the emphatic celebratory motions
and gestures, and certainly the peacocky after that second home run,
I mean, they're gonna be like nine tops now, cards
coming out from each part of him, rounding the bases.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Now we may wind up getting to the end of
Otani's night.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
He has just hit.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Pitch number one hundred, and pitch number one hundred was
knocked into center field by Contreras fand the Brewers now
have runners at first and second with nobody out, and
here comes the Grim Reaper. Here comes Dave Roberts to
take out Show. Hey, Otani, tell him you're going he is.
I don't love to see anything like you know. Otani

(25:52):
calls as a turpiter oute so we can tell him
in the game, and he just has it.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
He just does a giant motion of no, like in
the safe sign, like I'm not leaving.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, everybody, could you get Ai to do a Vince
Scully ed? Here come Show Hayes interpreter say, hey, Dave,
you know what I think this is fertilizer. Oh yeah,
I'll tell you all about fertilizer. You want to put
fertilizer down in your backyard? You put fertilizer down. O
Toddy says, oh yeah, I got double the fertilizer for

(26:25):
you right here.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
Day surprised you haven't extended that from the Fred rogers
A videos you've been watching all who hurt Jason.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Fertilizer. Fertilizer one of the highest.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
Words in the English language, especially as versed and as
spoken by Vin Scully.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
So Dodgers going to the bullpen. Alex Vesia will be
coming in now to try to save this four run
lead again. The Dodgers hunting outs right now, they are
nine outs away from the World Series, but the Waukie
with a threat right now to on nobody out in
the top of the seventh inning for more on this
game and the rest of what's now becoming an incredible
night in sports.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
We have a guy who's been.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Called the Vin Scully of Fox Sports Radio. I've seen
him in the store buying fertilizer as well. It's deep
to say that, and.

Speaker 9 (27:14):
A very pleasant good evening to you wherever you may
be at Dodger Stadium. You cannot overstate the evening that
show Hao Toni had. He just came out after six
plus innings of pitching. He's hit two home runs. The
Dodgers are up four to nothing over top seeded Milwaukee,
top of the seventh looking to complete a four game
sweep in the National League Championship Series. I know Roger

(27:37):
Clemens once had a playoff game that was a one
hit shutout with fifteen strikeouts. I don't recall what he
did at the plate that particular night, but this is
astounding what has gone on. Let's start with the top
of the first, after the leadoff walk Otani, the pitcher
struck out three straight matters to end the frame, then
hustled and became the leadoff hitter in the Dodgers order,

(27:59):
and homer in the bottom of the first to start
things that went nearly four hundred and fifty feet bottom
of the fourth, another home run even longer, about four
hundred and seventy feet over the roof in right field.
Apparently to hit it over the roof in right has
only happened with Kyle Schwarber and Willie Stargel before you
can add Otani's name to that list. And the fan

(28:21):
who got the ball, by the way, and again this
did not land in the seats over the roof. And
as you say, toward the concessions and the team store,
the guy was eating nachos out there and saw another
fan looking up in the air and a ball was
actually coming that far away where they were standing, and

(28:41):
he d to the bushes.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
And my jan and I had nachos there in the
NLCS last year, and that's where he hit the ball.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
I mean, we're sitting right there.

Speaker 9 (28:51):
They've had stat cast for a decade now to measure
miles per hour off the bat and you know distance
of home runs and all of that Dodger Stadium. Otani
eight different times has hit a home run at least
four hundred and fifty feet. If you look at a
list of the top twenty hardest hit baseballs any Dodger

(29:12):
has had in the last decade, the top eighteen are
all Otani's and he's only been with the team two years.
The Dodgers are one of the rare teams to go
up three games to none and a best of seven
when your opponent had the best record in the regular season.
Every time it's happened before, it wound up a four

(29:35):
game to none sweep. The last time about twenty years ago,
when the Red Sox swept the World Series against the
Saint Louis Cardinals. Not quite to the final stats for Otani, since,
as you mentioned, Vessi is on in relief, no outs
first and second top of the seventh inning, Otani allowed
a leadoff walk in a single and was removed after
in even one hundred pitches but a two hitter. Through

(29:57):
his six plus innings, Otani struck out ten and walked three.
The Dodgers would be hosting a Game five on Saturday nights.
We had ALCS Game five in Seattle tonight, and my goodness,
what a bottom of the eighth for the home team.
Keep in mind the context. The Seattle Mariners the only
team out there that have literally never been to a

(30:18):
World Series. They're up three games to two in the
ALCS thanks to five runs in the bottom of the
eighth to defeat Toronto six to two. Col rally the
tying solo homer Grand Slam for a Henneo Suarez, who
also hit one out a solo shot in the second.
The slam came right after two walks in a hit batter.
Game six is Sunday night at Toronto on FS one

(30:42):
and by the way, an injury for the Blue Jays
tonight for DH George Springer. He left hit by a
pitch on the knee. I mean it cracked the knee bone.
It even registered on statcasts as a batted ball, and
it did not hit the wood of the bat, It
hit the bone of the batter. San Francisco tight end
George We'll return Sunday night after a torn amstring. On

(31:02):
opening day, San Francisco will host Atlanta. Quarterback Brock Purty
out again for the Niners with the toe injury. Mac
Jones will start, and we had the upset in college
football at number two Miami. Carson Beck throws four interceptions,
including one in the final minute. Louisville beats the Hurricanes
twenty four twenty one, each team five and one this season,

(31:23):
each team with one loss in conference play, and right
now on Fox TV early fourth quarter, Minnesota has gone
up twenty one to six against twenty fifth rank Nebraska.
About to start in North Carolina at cal and Utah
State as a halftime lead ten to nine against San
Jose State.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
Quick update.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
What do you got, Frostburg? What do you got? What
do you got, Frostburg? What do you got? You? Okay, Okay,
you are right there.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Okay, it looks like the Rodgers are getting out of
the inning. Alex Vesia came in, got the first batter out,
and then Freelick grounds into a double played to Mookie Betts.
So all of a sudden, the Brewers, who are feeling
pretty good two on nobody out grounded to Bets, who

(32:16):
takes himself to second, over to Freddie Freeman, and now
the Dodgers are six outs away from the World Series.
They lead the Brewers for nothing, coming to bat in
the bottom of the seventh inning. An incredible night. I
don't know where we're going for. I don't know what
we got from here. I think we have Matt. I
think we have Matt rules gonna lose. I think the
bressay now and now he's not getting that job, Jared,

(32:38):
we got Bill Belichick's got a game coming up here
see him.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
And Jordan Hudson.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
But straight ahead, we start our big NFL preview of
Week seven in the league.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Give us some of our big picks, the biggest games.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
It's a football Friday and an absolutely historic night from show.
Hey o Tani, that's next right here, Jason and Mike
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Speaker 2 (33:00):
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I was kidding when I said this a few minutes ago,
but now it turns out I'm a prophet when I said, Hey,
you never know, show Heyo TONI might hit a third

(33:50):
home run tonight.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah? Is he really gonna hit three home runs? Really
a pitch to him? Show Heyo.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Tani has just hit his third home run of the
night to give the Dodgers a five nothing lead in
the bottom of the seventh inning. This one hit to
center field, little bit to right center. Looked the dugout
as soon as he finished his swing. Again, you are
watching the single greatest performance in baseball history in the playoffs.

(34:19):
We have never seen anything like this ever. Otani is
three for three with three home runs, including one home
run four hundred and seventy feet because he hit it
out of Dodger Stadium, and I think four to seventy
is a little light with whw they were measuring it.
He hit it over the roof into the area where
I told you the last year the NLCS, my dad

(34:39):
and I had nachos there before the game. It's in
front of the team store, which abuts the parking lot,
so you could walk in for the parking lot.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Oh, i'd catch a home run ball.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
And oh, by the way, six innings for show, hey, Otani,
ten strikeouts, two hits allowed. Again, you are watching the
greatest individual performance in playoff history in Major League Baseball.
And it really I mean, I know, hyperbole in prison
of the moment, but there's never been anything like this ever.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
This is an absolutely historic night. I want to talk.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
About football, luckily at five minutes, talk about the Hurricanes
getting upset. Oh, TONI might another home run, although he's
probably not gonna bad again, but like I mean, I mean,
three home run. We can't get to football. We're gonna
get to the football at some point, but I mean it,
this is a night that we've seen guys have big
home runs and big nights in the playoffs before.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Three home runs in one.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Playoff game, Okay, yeah, that's a If he just did that,
you would say, wow, what an unbelievable individual performance.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Wins the last time we saw something like that.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
But six innings of two hit ball with ten ten strikeouts, yeah,
pretty safe to say we've not seen anyone do this
in a game ever in one hundred and forty plus
years of Major League baseball.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Yeah, and this is just insanity. I mean when you
look at if you just take the mound part of it,
it's still ridiculous, particularly when you're waiting for the you know,
as you like to say, the bad penny, and there
were none in the rotation during this round. Good job first, congratulations,
out of job done. They still beat the Cubs, so

(36:11):
they still got that going for him, so they can
antagonize them. But outside of that, I mean, this is
one of those where you just tip your cap. No,
they'll cry about payroll and whatever else, but Otani on
both ends of this has just been remarkable. Right, we
talk about great pitching performances, and particularly in twenty twenty five, right,
contextualize as you will. You and I have watched a

(36:33):
lot of baseball, You me, Steve Alex and our guy
justin Like we've watched a lot of baseball. We've seen
some tremendous pitching performances in twenty twenty five. What we've
seen from this staff and with Otani tonight, that ranks
about as good as you get, right, because we don't
get guys going deep into games anymore normally. It's how
many relievers do we have to spin out over a

(36:53):
final four innings to preserve a victory. No, these guys
are going deep into games, deep into pitch counts and
making it happen, and then three home runs like the
third at bats, like he just dropped the bat and like, mom,
I was waiting for a full on Jordan shrug, Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Mean what else you might mean? What else? Right?

Speaker 1 (37:12):
I mean, like he wasn't hitting. That's the one thing
he wasn't doing right, Otani wasn't hitting. We talked, it's
a big deal, right, When Otani's not hitting, that's a
big thing. Right, Your leadoff batter is not getting on base. Yeah,
they're pitching really well in this in this postseason. Right,
They've allowed I think half a run in three games,
and they could have done The Bruis would have doubled
their runs if Bryce Terrang would have just got.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Hit in Game two.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Well see but uh I but now all of a sudden,
here comes Otani hitting, and it gets infectious and contagious,
and I mean, I think the Dodgers are going, Man,
we're gonna have days off now. Man, this sucks. We
want to keep playing. Otani's like, I don't want to
have like four or five days off. I want to
I gotta keep playing. Can't we just jump right to

(37:53):
the World Series and start Look the Mariners are up
three too, they probably will win. Let's just let's just
go to that. Let's just have played there. Can we
do that right now?

Speaker 4 (38:00):
You know, we were talking about it. Over the course
of these days. While he's not had great at bats,
each and every time he has had the circumstances where
he's drawn the intentional walk and then what happened They
immediately walked Mookie Betts behind him with the bases loaded.
So I mean, there have been impactful moments that don't

(38:20):
show up in the box score in the highlights quite
the same way. But you look at this game tonight.
If the good folks at stat muse my quick searcher
or proper, there's only been twelve games with three home
runs in the modern era in the playoffs. Yeah, but
not to any that pitched. Also, No, I mean Chris Taylor,

(38:43):
Enrique Aernandez, Altuve, Sandoval, Pools, Beltray, Adam Kennedy, George Brett,
Reggie Jackson, Bob Robertson and two from Babe Ruth. Yeah,
but that's it.

Speaker 7 (38:54):
That brings down Otani's performance from tonight though. Mentioning all
those names.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Well, no, I mean I just thought it was fun.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
No, but he's just going just from this single game
perspective of hitting.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
This is a this is an all time game.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
I got to bring up and Chris Taylor, I mean,
come on, they don't matter tonight.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yeah, I mean, I I it's but just think about that,
like where we would be arguing, where's Otani's performance all
time in baseball history in a close out game of
the NLCS, just hitting right?

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Like, where would that be? Oh?

Speaker 1 (39:25):
No, by the way, you add the six innings to
two it ball, that's breakouts, and then all of a sudden,
oh yeah, oh maybe maybe nothing.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Else is even close.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Maybe it's not even That's why I really hope people
to get and hopefully Blake Trinon does not blow this game,
because that clearly could happen now as he's in the
game and the Brewers put the first two runners on
base in the top of the eighth inning with nobody out,
so still a little bit ways to go.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
But uh, that doesn't put any damper on what Otani
has done.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
I mean, I hope you got to see this or
see some of it, because you're never going to see
something like this again. I mean unless Otani does it again,
but I mean really, until he does it again, you're never.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Going to see this again.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
More on this unbelievable night, and we get into our
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Speaker 3 (40:42):
Pop up at the top of your screen so you
can lock it in. Rip the numb off. It is
over at Chavez Ravine. The star works for going off.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
The Dodgers are heading to the World Series. They had
defeated the Brewers five to one. Rokie Sasaki comes into
the ninth inning, gives up a base hit, gets the
next three batters out.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Now Billy Jean King is on the field hugging show.
Hey Otani is.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
The Dodgers are taking pictures putting on National League Champion
t shirts, and Otani is celebrating a game that again,
nobody in the history of Major League Baseball has had
a game like this absolute history. Tonight six innings, pitched,
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Speaker 3 (42:03):
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Speaker 8 (42:07):
Oh my goodness, show Oh Tony whoa uput over the roof,
a majestic blast, Oh Tony dumped jopped everywhere and it's

(42:30):
fourna nothing Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
TBS on the call. Yes, homered over the roof. And
when you think about it, if you haven't seen it yet,
I mean, look, if you're gonna see it forever over
the course the next one, you.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Can see it just from the crack of the bat
and it's like that had a microphone on it.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
It was you see the the bleachers in the outfield
for the Dodgers and there is a little mini roofs
over the bleachers.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
You know, to keep people cool because you know it's
it's hot there.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
There's also a row where people sit on duels to
face the stadium, so it's kind of a nice it's
nice seat. There behind that is a picnic area where
you know, there's a lot of food vendors right behind
that area of the stadium. My dad and again, my
dad and I had lunch there before the NLCS twice

(43:16):
last year before the games, and we had a great time.
Were saying, so you are pretty far away from the stadium, right,
I mean you go from that area where you're seated,
and then right across from the area where you're seated
is the big team store. Right, that's what that that
area of Dodger Stadium looks like. And sho Hao Tani
hid it into the area where guys can you and

(43:38):
I said, my dad and I had nachos, had lunch there,
and Steve de Seger brought us the story all last
hour that the guy who got the ball was a
guy that happened to look up who was sitting eating nachos.
He was sitting in the picnic area. Hey, I'm gonna
get a home run? How oh man, are you kidding?
I would have caught that with my helmet, with Nachos.
I would have held it and I would have never
moved it, and I would have shellacked it, and I

(43:58):
would have.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Said that ball, this is that ball? Oh you kidding?

Speaker 2 (44:02):
No?

Speaker 3 (44:02):
No, no, no, no, no, dude, that's too valuable.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
I would have no, dude, I would have held that
and shellacked it.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Made a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
And I had just gone and bought another thing, a
helmet nachos, I'd be come on, they just I just
go and get another one of those for twenty bucks.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
But that thing.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Think about how famous that would have been if I
caught that in a helmet right that let it land,
didn't move it. This is where the ball was, and
again you shall keep it there, and I would sell it.
I would make I don't know, what do you think
if I did that?

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Harmon? What do you think someone would pay for that?
What would they rebellion? This?

Speaker 7 (44:34):
No?

Speaker 1 (44:34):
No, no, in my helmet, my helmet, nachos, she'll act
with the ball in it, where where I landed, where
it caught it?

Speaker 3 (44:41):
What would somebody pay for that?

Speaker 4 (44:42):
Well, it has the the lace imprint and your tail.
I mean you could probably sue somebody saying it traumatized
you because it splatted your cheese or something. Oh that's
the only now, because if you don't have the ball,
you got nothing. You got anybody story the ball. If
I catch the that's what I mean. I just covered
that's the helmet.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Nachos. That's okay, the ball's not going anywhere. That's fine.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
You can get the cheese. Uh off it. I wonder
if he got a great over time, that's the question.
Or is it like the McDonald's burger that survives forever the.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Harman, Like I said, I shellack it and I make
it where. Okay, you don't want to shellack it. That
ruins the stop saying.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Yeah, Shellack's a great word. I just love.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
I know.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
I used to do that way commemorative balls, right because
I threw a couple of uh, you know, no hitters
when I was younger or whatever, and they would get
everybody to sign the ball and then the shellack it
and you get this weird ass brown orange whatever thing,
and like, that's not a baseball.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
What did you do with I.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Gotta do something to preserve it, because I can't just
let it sit there in the nachos and the cheese
and I'm somewhere where it so it's not you know where, you.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Take it to the cleaner, like that guy that was
on that episode of Las Vegas.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Take it to the cleaner.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
You gotta find the cleaner. But I mean the guy
I want to I want to track his whereabouts though,
is Otani. As they were showing him before he was
taking the interviews. He took his jersey off and handed
it to somebody. We got to protect that man because
that's a multi hundred thousand dollars jersey right there.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Or is that your is that? Is that going to
the Hall of Fame? Is that where the jersey is? Hey,
we're taking this jersey. We're taking it to the Hall
of Fame. Will you give it to the Hall of Fame?
And ot Yeah, sure, no problem whatever. Yeah, this is
one of the most ridiculous things ever. Now they're posing
for their their picture, everybody's got their commemorative merch on.
All the celebrities are on the field. I mean, it's

(46:33):
it's really something and now me one helmet nachos. Billy
Jean King got on that field really fast, like to
hug show. Heyoti like, wow, I was fat the field, Yeah,
but I mean still she got on the field that's fine.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Hey, you get to go wherever you want. You're Hey,
you're Billy Jean King. Yeah, you've got some ownership rights.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
How you doing.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
I'm part of the group that didn't pay your deferred salary. Congratulations.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Hey, Billy Gee, you know they're gonna come to you
in ten years when Otani has to start getting paid.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Just so you know, right, you have to cut a
big check to him. Just say he's only two million now,
but it's gonna be these.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
Buddies without John's you might be able to shake a
couple of pianos or something out of him.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
All right, Frostburg has Otani trivia for us right now
after this night. He owns Major League Baseball. He owns
the Sporting World. Frostburg, what do you got?

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (47:23):
He show Hey became the third player ever to clear
the right field pavilion at Dodger Stadium. Named the other two?

Speaker 3 (47:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Okay, well one I know one I know because one
was Kyle Schwarber. Right, Kyle Kyle Schwarber. Oh boy, who
is oh man?

Speaker 3 (47:43):
If I can read his eyes? Okay, Steve knows.

Speaker 7 (47:46):
Other guys have hitted out McGuire and Stanton, but not
out of the right field pavilion.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
Okay, so they're in the right field pavilion. Well, I
gotta go, three guys. Ever, give me a decade, Give
me a decade. Who give me a decade? Like? What
decade would it have been in? Okay? Okay? Was it
after two thousand or before two thousand? Before? Okay? All right?
All right, so that's all right.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
So uh, Joe Morgan, No, Joe Moore, come on, Joe Morgan,
Joe Morgan, Joe Morgan, Joe Moore, left handed, big, left
handed power hitters.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Willy Stargell, Willie Willie Stargell. Very good, Mike Harmon, very nu.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
I want to tollbox hat you google it? Like, no,
I didn't. I'm watching a guy that's one of our
friends on Twitter is holding up a paper that says
pain on it making fun of the Brewers.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
So there, I think Steve Disager told Harmon. I think
Disager painted it on his chest and took his shirt
off and showed Harmon and Harmon and Harmon said, oh,
Willie Stargell, that's who it is.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
That's really Stargell. That's an educated guest right there.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
Really put you had to take it into a creepy
kind of can just say, hey, Steve held up a sign, No.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Steve, Steven pulls his shirt, writs Willy Stargell and Sharpie.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Another riding on the skin and Sharpie segment.

Speaker 7 (49:04):
Here he was doing the full on batting stance of
Willie Stargell to help.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Oh was he doing the whole thing? Oh? Yeah, I
love it.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Well no, because I originally interpreted it that he was
going to continue by doing the elbow twitch, which he
did not, But that's how I interpreted that as the
next part of his interpreted dance.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Again, an absolutely historic night. I hope you got to
see it.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
I really hope you got to see some of it,
because we're again, We're never going to see this again.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
Now I'm the local Fox News. They're they're going and
they've got some some drunk Dodger fans coming out of
the stadium. This won't end well.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
No, I think it'll end fine. The Dodgers won I
think it's gonna be You.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
Don't think there's gonna be someone that comes up there
with a bunch of blankety blanks and blank us.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Oh oh wait, Now are we going to get an
entertaining newscast? Or we're gonna be trouble, Like I mean,
there's a difference there.

Speaker 4 (49:57):
Well, you're gonna have trouble right there in River City.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
I like, if Kurt Sandoval from ABC seven is out
there and all of a sudden you hear a blankety
blankety blanket, It's like, Okay.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
That's kind of entertaining. I'm not saying I'm not condoning that.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
I'm just saying there's a difference between that and if
absolutely you know, hey, we get something.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Bad happening there.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
No, it's a lot of folks to come come wandering by,
and as we know, there's been a lot of back
and forth between fans in this series, folks getting banned
for life from different stadium. But right now, a lot
of very happy U four Dodger fans trying to figure
out how they can afford Game one.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
I mean, an unbelievable night and look, and that's the
thing for the Dodgers right Just to think about this
for a second. We talked about it this week. The
two biggest the only concerns I have for them going
forward are their defense, but more importantly, they're gonna get
a bounce starting pitching. Right They're not gonna be like
they gave up one run in every game with the Brewers.

(50:51):
The Brewers scored four runs in the entire National League
Championship Series. You're not gonna get the totality of pitching
you got from Snell, and I'mamoto and glassnow and Otani.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
You may get it from one or two guys, but
to see that again, not gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
Right.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
It reminds me a lot of the twenty fifteen Mets
who did this in the NLCS to the Cubs. They
get to the World Series, they get a little bit
of a bounce. Not suddenly they're starting pitching terribly, but
they didn't pitch like as dominant they did the NLCS.
Their defense wasn't great. The Royals win the World Series,
so that that's a big concern for the Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Are you going to get this kind of pitching? Probably not.
You're gonna get a bounce.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
However, the Dodge had not been hitting throughout the entire NLCS.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
They have been scraping by with.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
These games, getting clutch hits and getting the hits, and
that's great, but it's not like they're winning these games
going away. It's not six nothing six one, seven to one,
five to one, nine to one. It's two, one, three
to one. And even tonight you sweated a little bit
late because the Brewers were able to get a couple
of runners on in the eighth inning, a couple of
runners on in the seventh th You can to keep it.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Yeah, I mean so you still had a little bit
of nervousness. But Otani with three home runs, it's infectious.
The thing the thing to worry about if I say, hey,
there's your worry for the Dodgers, something that will even
that out and the in and yanga baseball is maybe
they're going to really start hitting now, because maybe this
is when their bats come alive, because they're too good

(52:12):
a team to be.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
Scoring two and three runs a game, right because the
other thing hit too well to have this going on.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
To go back to the al teams while there is
sluggerville from either of them, right, We've got the heavy
hitters for Seattle. There may be fewer than than Toronto,
but all in they've been inconsistent, not to the level
where you're at this concern as there was with the Dodgers.
But all of that to say, pitching wins, right, and

(52:41):
if you can get through two times in the batting
order before you got to start looking at the pen,
you're feeling pretty good. And the way the starting pitching
is rolling up right now, they didn't pitch heavy innings.
The only guy that really pitched every fifth day was Yamamoto.
Everybody else is what one hundred and twenty in coming
into the playoffs and what they've done in these first

(53:02):
couple of rounds. So you've got the opportunity. Now there
are limited inventory available for home game one here in
Los Angeles. Would you like to guess if you wanted
to buy a single seat, what you're getting is down
the right field line.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
Get in down the right field because you can buy.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
This directly from the Dodgers website.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
Okay, get in down the right field line. I'm gonna
say sixteen hundred dollars.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
Oh you overshot?

Speaker 3 (53:30):
I did?

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Okay, nine one dollars plus ninety six dollars in fees,
So you're in for just over one thousand.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
If you sell a Jason, you can get sixteen hundred.

Speaker 4 (53:41):
Well, no, that's just it. He's set on the market. No,
he said he's gonna pay the line. Hey, he said
he played a sixteen. Yeah, but all of that to say,
it's one of those things I was to try to
talk with folks who get into the pricing structures of
a lot of these things. If is that important to you,
it's once in a lifetime. You'll figure it out.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Yeah, you'll find out a way time out to find
out what's trending in the wide world of sports. From
a man who's been called the David Puddy of Fox
Sports Radio, is he.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Wearing an eight ball jacket.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
He won't paint his face, but he'll paint his chest.
Tell you Willie Starge will hit that home run. It's
steve to say that.

Speaker 9 (54:16):
And I won't be shouting devils at your car either.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
We're in the devil. We're the devil.

Speaker 9 (54:22):
The Dodgers have advanced to the World Series for the fifth.

Speaker 6 (54:25):
Time in the last nine years.

Speaker 9 (54:27):
They were pretty good home team regular season fifty two
and twenty nine. They've only lost one at home in
these playoffs.

Speaker 6 (54:35):
Frankly, they've only.

Speaker 9 (54:36):
Lost one game so far in these playoffs nine and
one record. They close out the NLCS with a four
game sweep of the Brewers.

Speaker 6 (54:44):
Five to one.

Speaker 9 (54:44):
Tonight's final guys, we have to say again out loud,
because I don't think history will remember this. The Milwaukee
Brewers were seated number one overall. This was the best
team in baseball in the regular season ninety seven wins,
and then against these four Dodger starting pitchers, including Otani, tonight,
the Brewers were held to one run in each of

(55:07):
the four games of this series. Wow the wind a
pitcher show hey. Otani started off the night walking the
leadoff man, then got three straight strikeouts top of the first,
led off as a batter with a home run in
the bottom of the first It went nearly four hundred
and fifty feet. He also had a walk and a
couple of more homers at the plate tonight. In fact,

(55:29):
in the bottom of the fourth, when he belted one out,
it went over the roof in right field at Dodger Stadium,
estimated to go about four hundred and seventy feet, and
to cap it off bottom of the seventh inning, Otani's
homer to center field went over four to twenty five,
a three homer game as his team clinches a spot
in the World Series, and on the mound, he strikes

(55:50):
out ten in six plus innings.

Speaker 6 (55:53):
This has to be.

Speaker 9 (55:54):
The greatest individual performance in the history of the postseason.

Speaker 6 (55:59):
Of Major League.

Speaker 9 (56:01):
Reggie Jackson is on the list somewhere three homer game
to clinch the World Series.

Speaker 6 (56:06):
He did not pitch that night. This is astounding what
we saw this evening.

Speaker 9 (56:11):
Six plus innings, no runs allowed, just two hits allowed,
while he not only had three hits as about or
all three went out of the park. The Brewers franchise
has now lost eleven straight postseason games on the road.
The record is twelve and by the way, the great
Sarah Langs points out the show hey Otani. Literally one

(56:31):
year ago Tonight also homered off Jose Kintana in the
NLCS when he was in a Mets uniform.

Speaker 6 (56:39):
He was a losing pitcher for the Brewers.

Speaker 9 (56:40):
Tonight had a strained calf mid September had barely pitched
since then. He lasted two plus innings, three runs allowed Tonight.
Otani one of the rare guys to have a three
homer game in the postseason, the only other guy to
do that from the leadoff spot in a playoff game,
which George Brett nineteen seventy eight have the pitcher at

(57:02):
the plate get three homers completely unprecedented. So the Dodgers
are the first reigning World Series champ to make it
back to the World Series the next year since the
Phillies in two thousand and nine, longest such stretch in
postseason history. And it's been said before the last time
we had anybody take back to back titles in the
World Series it was when Derek Cheater and the Yankees

(57:24):
won three straight through the year two thousand. That is
also the longest current drought without a repeat champion in
Major League Baseball. Seattle could be the opponent the Mariners
with a magical bottom of the eighth at home tonight.
If there was a roof on their joint, it would
have blown off. They beat Toronto six to two with

(57:45):
a five run bottom of the eighth col Rawley tying
solo homer grand slam for a Uhennio Suarez, who also
hit a solo shot in the second. His slam came
after two walks and a hit batter for the Blue Jays,
dah George Springer left hit by a pitch on the knee.
X rays were negative, so that's some good news and

(58:06):
they're off tomorrow. Game six is Sunday night in Toronto
on FS one. Mariners lead the Alcs three games to two.
Tight End George Kittle returns Sunday night to play for
San Francisco, but quarterback Brock Party out again with the
toe injury.

Speaker 6 (58:21):
Mac Jones will start as a host.

Speaker 9 (58:23):
Atlanta upset in college football tonight, Louisville wins at number
two Miami twenty four to twenty one. Minnesota beat Nebraska
twenty four to six the late game. What little offense
North Carolina has. Cal is leading the tar Heels early
second quarter fourteen to seven.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Dog.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Thank you, Steve though Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from
the Fox Sports Radio Studios coming.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Up next, Yes, okay, we'll have more on the Dodgers
win in the night from sho Heo Tany.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
But we take a look in preview the two biggest
games of the weekend in the NFL. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio