October 18, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon are reacting LIVE to Shohei Ohtani having the greatest game in MLB History tonight!!!
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
Watch out.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The only concern for the Dodgers in the World Series
they're starting pitching is gonna get a bounce.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
They're not gonna pitch like this.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
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 (01:12):
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 zippet 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,
(01:35):
I can say, just an explosion of sound.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
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. I mean,
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Otani homered 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, we always going to
buy something like that's at the far recesses of the ballpark,
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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 how far he hit it. It's estimated four
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hundred and seventy feet, and you know what, I can't
even trust that. I feel like 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.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
But I mean, I really if 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):
All 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 can possibly find. Just an amazing, amazing blast. I mean,
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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 (03:56):
And here's the thing right now, because not to be
prisoner of the moment, he oh.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
No, no, you can do that. It's Friday nights. 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 at 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
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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.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I got strikeouts and he's only allowed one hit, right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
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 (04:56):
We've seen guys have big days hitting the ball, right.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
We've seen Kirk Gibson hit a hole run to win
a World Series, to win a game in the World Series.
We've seen the Buckner play. We've seen all cod We've
seen Bobby.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
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 5 (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? I mean, I
I don't know when you when you go to 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
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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 will pop in your head, right,
the Reggie Jackson performances and all of those kinds of
things that roll through. But this, this is just electric,
and especially for a guy that quite clearly had been
hearing the always surrounding his name again with the little
zipp it thing at the end of it. But a
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lot 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, and I know that, Hey, I had
the chuckle yesterday to get things started. Yea, all the
great pitching performances, No, no, I also hit a couple of
home runs.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
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
and 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 (06:44):
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. Oh Tani
is cruising. But understand that sometimes we do take greatness
for granted, right just because we're we're a more ja
society 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 gonna see something like this again.
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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
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might be the most impressive, the best single game performance
in baseball history. And get to a television or listen
to us so we talk about it, because really, this
is something absolutely historic. Right, I still go, 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 and I literally came back and I
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turn on the TV to see the fine and 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? What is this is? Like?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I forget we were doing like we were out somewhere
and I wasn't, you know, keeping 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.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
This is Oh my.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
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 it because we were out at a movie
going to see something I could have seen on cable and.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
The mouth no.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
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
like it was the final out.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Just happened. And I mean, my wife goes.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
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, and there's a million college football games.
And if you're out and about right, you were coaching
softball and soccer and meet 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 man not not be
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running around or sitting in traffic here in southern California.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
But you know, that's the price of admission.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
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, 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
(09:47):
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 (09:57):
Yeah, I mean it's it really, I mean, look this,
there's other bigger conversations to 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.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
But like where we're at.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Right now, and look, things can change, obviously, you know,
because only the fifth inning of the game and Otani's
pitch con is getting up there. But if you're talking
about a guy he goes seven innings, strikes out what
say ten, ten or twelve or something like that, two
home runs maybe.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
More like what else do you need to see?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
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 mound,
like I've never seen anything like 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,
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and we've seen Otani be great for a while.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's easy to sit back and go.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
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 gate.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I never thought about the historical significance of that.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
But you know, you watch the Dodgers Otani hits that
ball in Freddie Freeman and Max Munts, You're like, what
the hell man, We're some of the best hitters in
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
We can't do any of that. No, that's it the
hell man.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
They they did a great job.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
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 to say, I.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Don't know if you can't dance like that after a
you know whatever, he was 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
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Otani 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 Brewers.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Now, you know, And this is a thing like we
talked a lot about because I firmly do believe the
Dodger's 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 will make up to whatever bounce, they
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get pitching, because really they've not hit this entire playoff really, right,
the very beginning against the Reds, Reds were overmatch, lucky
to get in, come on, needed a Mets collide.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
They scored eighteen those games.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, yeah, I mean the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Once 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
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
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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
Conga 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. So, yeah,
are the Dodgers going to get a bound starting pitching wise? Absolutely,
But if they're starting to hit, yeah, good luck, good
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Uh So, as if we didn't have enough tonight with
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sho Heyo Tani's absolute baseball history that we have been
watching again, this is gonna go down as a single
greatest performance in postseason history in Major League Baseball Altan.
He's got two home runs, pitching 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.
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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 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 you know.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Someone have this kind of a game.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Pitching a shutout through six innings, ten strikeouts, one hit,
two home runs, won the most mantlum run you've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Like it is that kind of night. And now there's this. Yeah, no,
wait there.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Uh, number one, you can shine with number one.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Number one, Well, i'gree with number one. I'm doing the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
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
through the air, no touchdowns and four interceptions, his last one.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
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 (16:48):
It is confirmed on replay Louisville just killed the clock
at the end. Jeff Brown not happy with how Louisville
killed the clock, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It's over. Louisville wins it. Over my mind.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
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 two ways, who I said,
They're not gonna They're going undefeated. They're not gonna lose
a game. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Who's gonna beat Miami?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Look look at what they're doing. This is a better
team than last year. Carson Beck, X Y and Z
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 remedy Ty Simpson second at
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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 (17:52):
Miss Monster Friday. Wait now, wait, now you need to
do it. Hang on, Mike, I'm you make your point,
but I gonna tell you something. Whenever you mention those
guys name games, 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 Jets.
Speaker 5 (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 5 (18:30):
My quarterback for a little while.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
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 deck through was immediately met
by a Louisville fumble. They gave it right back and
open the door, they score, get the two point conversion,
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and just like that, we had ourselves a ballgame, but
Louisville able to hold them off and get done.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Guys, Yeah, Louisville really picked the wrong Knight to do
this though, No, yeah, no, they did Night the show,
Tony did something that's never been done.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Well, and Bill Belichick's gonna do some coaching that doesn't even.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
He's still on the sideline. So had him vanquished and
defeated weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
There he is.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And I will say this, speaking of picking a band,
I do this in in in in La with with
O Tonni and everything else with this. How about the
win in the game from Miller Moss x USC quarterback.
We thought we thought he was the chosen one.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
No, now I got to Louisville.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Uh, two touchdowns, two forty eight through the air. He's
having a really good year two so far for Louisville. Uh,
you're putting USC in its rear view mirror. Obviously we
thought he was gonna 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.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Think jayde Maave is really really good and okay, now
you see Wallas why he left and man, big night
from him tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
But my goodness, man, this is why. This is why
I've said.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
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 season we've seen in almost twenty years.
I mean, you know, I was thinking about all the
craziness and all the teams that were good then they
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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 for a job. You know,
Indiana head coaches are getting one hundred million dollar contracts.
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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
gotta go back to that big two thousand and seven season,
and I keep saying, oh seven and college football fans, no, yes,
when that was Kansas and Missouri and West Virginia who
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we thought were gonna play for the national championship going
to the final game of the season. We thought, these
are the these are the teams are gonna 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, if this
is the only game they lose, okay, they're getting in
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the playoff, right and 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 patul 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.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
To pick the right though, that is true, get magnified
the same way, and then there's a bunch of huge
games tomorrow. We'll talk to Pete fu Tech 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.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
We've talked about it here.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
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.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Yeah, we were talking.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
About whatever U c. L A Was and what they
are now, and certainly what's happening with Lincoln Riley and
USC you know, has jump started things a bit. Say
nothing of the Chargers and Rams and push that to
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.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
And yeah, it's.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Unfortunate or I guess fortunate for Miami that it happens
on a night where it's just gonna be a montage.
How far did that home run really go? Let's bring
out the myths.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I mean
that interception, just for a second, that is such an
incredibly athletic play to clinch the game. Number one, the
clutchness 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, Carson
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Beck has a chance. Like the final drive, they're deep
in in Louisville territory and they throw this ball in
the flat and it's 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, that's what gets me about
this play. It's not like he jumped in front, it
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got deflected and just hit him in the stomach. Like
the ball gets deflected. He follows the path of the
ball and he's able to 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.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Where he catches it.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
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 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 and but falls to the
ground and the ball hits the ground and it's called
incomplete and they they run the playover like that is
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some kind of play by Capers to clinch this game
for Louisville.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Man, that is big one to ceiling take.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Have everybody start burning those Carson Bag Heisman tickets. No, okay,
ride 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 across
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our sporting universe. We still got Lakers basketball together.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Nothing really matters elsewhere except show tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Well yeah, well, que you could have another home run.
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. He has just hit pitch number one hundred,
and pitch number one hundred was knocked into center field
by contraras Fra. 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,
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tell he is I don't love to see anyay, Like
you know. Otani calls as interpreter oute so we can
tell him he's in the game, and he just has it.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
He just does a giant motion of no in the
safe sign, like I'm not leaving.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, everybody could could you.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
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. Oh, Toddy says, oh yeah, I got
double the fertilizer for you right here day.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Surprised you haven't extended that from the Fred rogers A
videos you've been watching all who hurt you, Jason, fertilizer.
Fertilizer one of the highest words in the English language,
especially as versed and as spoken by Vin Scully.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
So Dodgers going to the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
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 Milwaukee 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 (27:05):
We have a guy who's.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Been called the Vin Scully of Fox Sports Radio. I've
seen him in the store buying fertilizer as well. It's
deep to say it, 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 Hal Toddy 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 got on. Let's start with the top
of the first, after the leadoff walk, Otani, the pitcher
struck out three straight batters to end the frame, then
hustled and became the leadoff hitter in the Dodgers order
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and homered in the box him 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.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
In right field.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
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
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
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fan looking up in the air and a ball was
actually coming that far away where they were standing, and
he ran to the bushes.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
And 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. So at 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
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Dodger 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
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up a four 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
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pitches but a two hitter. Through 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
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out there that have literally never been to a World Series.
They're up three games to two in the ALCS thanks
to five runs in the bottom of the eighths to
defeat Toronto six to two. Col Raley the tying solo
homer Grand Slam for a Jhenneo Suarez, who also hit
one out a solo shot in the second. The slam
came right after two walks in a hit batter. Game
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six is Sunday night at Toronto on FS one, 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
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George Kittle will return Sunday night after a torn hamstring.
On 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
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twenty four twenty one, each team five and one this season,
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 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 (31:42):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
Quick update.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
What do you got, Frostburg? What do you got? What
do you got Frostburg? What do you got? You?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Okay, Okay, you all right there, Okay, it looks like
the Dodgers are getting out of the inning. Alex Vesia
came in, got the first batter out, and then Freelick
grounds into a double play to Mookie Betts. So all
of a sudden, the Brewers, who are feeling pretty good
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two on nobody out grounded to Bets, who 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 don't think we have Matt. I think
we have Matt rules gonna lose. I think the Braska
(32:34):
fall now and now he's not getting that job.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
Ared.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
We got Bill Belichick's got a game coming up see
him and Jordan Hudson. But straight ahead, we started our
big NFL preview of Week seven in the league.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Give you some of our big picks, the biggest games.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
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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 Heo TONI might hit a third
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home run tonight.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah? Is he really gonna hit three home runs? You
really go to pitch to him? Show Heyo.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
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.
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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 into the
area where I told you the last year the NLCS,
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my dad 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 from the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Oh, I'd catch a home run ball.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
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 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.
This is an absolutely historic night. I want to talk
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about football. Luckily at five minutes, talk about the Hurricanes
getting upset. Oh TONI might have 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, big nights in the playoffs before.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Three home runs in one playoff.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Game, Okay, yeah, that's a If he just did that,
you would say, wow, what an unbelievable individual performance. Wins
the last time we saw something like that. 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 (35:48):
Yeah, 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, brust, congratulations,
out of job done. They still beat the Cubs, so
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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 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
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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
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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 reome runs like the third
at bats, like he just dropped the bat and like,
well I was waiting.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
For a full on Jordan shrug, Yeah, I mean what
else you might mean?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
What else?
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
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 just got hit in
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Game two. But uh, 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.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Man, this sucks.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
We want to keep playing. Otani's like, I don't want
to have like four or five days off.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
I want to I gotta keep playing.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Can't we just jump right to the World Series and
start Look the Mariners are up three too, they probably
will win.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Let's just let's just go to that. Let's just have
play there. Can we do that right now?
Speaker 4 (37:58):
You know, when 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
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show up in the box score in the highlights quite
the same way. But you look at this game tonight.
If if the good folks at stat muse my quick
search are proper, there's only been twelve games with three
home runs in the modern era in the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Yeah, but not to any that pitched.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Also, No, I mean Chris Taylor, Enrique Aernandez, Altuve, Sandoval, Pools, Beltray,
Adam Kennedy, George Brett, Reggie Jackson, Bob Robertson and two
from Babe Ruth.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
Yeah, but it's it that brings down Otani's performance from
tonight though.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Mentioning all those names, Well, no, I mean I just
thought it was fun.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
No, but he's just going just from this single game
perspective of hitting. This is a this is an all
time game.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
I got to bring up and Chris Taylor, I mean,
come on, they don't matter tonight.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
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 (39:22):
Like, where would that be? Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
No, by the way, you add the six innings to two,
it ball that strikeouts, and then all of a sudden,
oh yeah, oh maybe maybe.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Nothing else is even close.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
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. But uh,
that doesn't put any damper on what Otani has done.
I mean, I hope you got to see this or
see some of it, because you're never going to see
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something like this again. I mean, unless Otani does it again.
But I mean, really I got until he does it again,
you're never.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Gonna see this again.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
More on this unbelievable night, we get into our big
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
Watch out.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The only concern for the Dodgers in the World Series
they're starting pitching is gonna get a bounce.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
They're not gonna pitch like this.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
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 (01:12):
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 zippet 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,
(01:35):
I can say, just an explosion of sound.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
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. I mean,
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Otani homered 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, we always going to
buy something like that's at the far recesses of the ballpark,
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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 how far he hit it. It's estimated four
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hundred and seventy feet, and you know what, I can't
even trust that. I feel like 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.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
But I mean, I really if 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):
All 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 can possibly find. Just an amazing, amazing blast. I mean,
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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 (03:56):
And here's the thing right now, because not to be
prisoner of the moment, he oh.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
No, no, you can do that. It's Friday nights. 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 at 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
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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.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I got strikeouts and he's only allowed one hit, right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
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 (04:56):
We've seen guys have big days hitting the ball, right.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
We've seen Kirk Gibson hit a hole run to win
a World Series, to win a game in the World Series.
We've seen the Buckner play. We've seen all cod We've
seen Bobby.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
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 5 (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? I mean, I
I don't know when you when you go to 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
(05:36):
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 will pop in your head, right,
the Reggie Jackson performances and all of those kinds of
things that roll through. But this, this is just electric,
and especially for a guy that quite clearly had been
hearing the always surrounding his name again with the little
zipp it thing at the end of it. But a
(06:06):
lot 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, and I know that, Hey, I had
the chuckle yesterday to get things started. Yea, all the
great pitching performances, No, no, I also hit a couple of
home runs.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
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
and 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 (06:44):
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. Oh Tani
is cruising. But understand that sometimes we do take greatness
for granted, right just because we're we're a more ja
society 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 gonna see something like this again.
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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
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might be the most impressive, the best single game performance
in baseball history. And get to a television or listen
to us so we talk about it, because really, this
is something absolutely historic. Right, I still go, 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 and I literally came back and I
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turn on the TV to see the fine and 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? What is this is? Like?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I forget we were doing like we were out somewhere
and I wasn't, you know, keeping 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.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
This is Oh my.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
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 it because we were out at a movie
going to see something I could have seen on cable and.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
The mouth no.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
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
like it was the final out.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Just happened. And I mean, my wife goes.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
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, and there's a million college football games.
And if you're out and about right, you were coaching
softball and soccer and meet 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 man not not be
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running around or sitting in traffic here in southern California.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
But you know, that's the price of admission.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
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, 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
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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 (09:57):
Yeah, I mean it's it really, I mean, look this,
there's other bigger conversations to 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.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
But like where we're at.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Right now, and look, things can change, obviously, you know,
because only the fifth inning of the game and Otani's
pitch con is getting up there. But if you're talking
about a guy he goes seven innings, strikes out what
say ten, ten or twelve or something like that, two
home runs maybe.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
More like what else do you need to see?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
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 mound,
like I've never seen anything like 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,
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and we've seen Otani be great for a while.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's easy to sit back and go.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
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 gate.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I never thought about the historical significance of that.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
But you know, you watch the Dodgers Otani hits that
ball in Freddie Freeman and Max Munts, You're like, what
the hell man, We're some of the best hitters in
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
We can't do any of that. No, that's it the
hell man.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
They they did a great job.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
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 to say, I.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Don't know if you can't dance like that after a
you know whatever, he was 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
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Otani 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 Brewers.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Now, you know, And this is a thing like we
talked a lot about because I firmly do believe the
Dodger's 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 will make up to whatever bounce, they
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get pitching, because really they've not hit this entire playoff really, right,
the very beginning against the Reds, Reds were overmatch, lucky
to get in, come on, needed a Mets collide.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
They scored eighteen those games.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, yeah, I mean the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Once 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
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
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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
Conga 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. So, yeah,
are the Dodgers going to get a bound starting pitching wise? Absolutely,
But if they're starting to hit, yeah, good luck, good
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Uh So, as if we didn't have enough tonight with
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sho Heyo Tani's absolute baseball history that we have been
watching again, this is gonna go down as a single
greatest performance in postseason history in Major League Baseball Altan.
He's got two home runs, pitching 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.
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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 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 you know.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Someone have this kind of a game.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Pitching a shutout through six innings, ten strikeouts, one hit,
two home runs, won the most mantlum run you've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Like it is that kind of night. And now there's this. Yeah, no,
wait there.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Uh, number one, you can shine with number one.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Number one, Well, i'gree with number one. I'm doing the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
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
through the air, no touchdowns and four interceptions, his last one.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
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 (16:48):
It is confirmed on replay Louisville just killed the clock
at the end. Jeff Brown not happy with how Louisville
killed the clock, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It's over. Louisville wins it. Over my mind.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
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 two ways, who I said,
They're not gonna They're going undefeated. They're not gonna lose
a game. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Who's gonna beat Miami?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Look look at what they're doing. This is a better
team than last year. Carson Beck, X Y and Z
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 remedy Ty Simpson second at
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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 (17:52):
Miss Monster Friday. Wait now, wait, now you need to
do it. Hang on, Mike, I'm you make your point,
but I gonna tell you something. Whenever you mention those
guys name games, 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 Jets.
Speaker 5 (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 5 (18:30):
My quarterback for a little while.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
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 deck through was immediately met
by a Louisville fumble. They gave it right back and
open the door, they score, get the two point conversion,
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and just like that, we had ourselves a ballgame, but
Louisville able to hold them off and get done.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Guys, Yeah, Louisville really picked the wrong Knight to do
this though, No, yeah, no, they did Night the show,
Tony did something that's never been done.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Well, and Bill Belichick's gonna do some coaching that doesn't even.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
He's still on the sideline. So had him vanquished and
defeated weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
There he is.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And I will say this, speaking of picking a band,
I do this in in in in La with with
O Tonni and everything else with this. How about the
win in the game from Miller Moss x USC quarterback.
We thought we thought he was the chosen one.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
No, now I got to Louisville.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Uh, two touchdowns, two forty eight through the air. He's
having a really good year two so far for Louisville. Uh,
you're putting USC in its rear view mirror. Obviously we
thought he was gonna 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.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Think jayde Maave is really really good and okay, now
you see Wallas why he left and man, big night
from him tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
But my goodness, man, this is why. This is why
I've said.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
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 season we've seen in almost twenty years.
I mean, you know, I was thinking about all the
craziness and all the teams that were good then they
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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 for a job. You know,
Indiana head coaches are getting one hundred million dollar contracts.
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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
gotta go back to that big two thousand and seven season,
and I keep saying, oh seven and college football fans, no, yes,
when that was Kansas and Missouri and West Virginia who
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we thought were gonna play for the national championship going
to the final game of the season. We thought, these
are the these are the teams are gonna 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, if this
is the only game they lose, okay, they're getting in
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the playoff, right and 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 patul 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.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
To pick the right though, that is true, get magnified
the same way, and then there's a bunch of huge
games tomorrow. We'll talk to Pete fu Tech 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.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
We've talked about it here.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
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.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Yeah, we were talking.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
About whatever U c. L A Was and what they
are now, and certainly what's happening with Lincoln Riley and
USC you know, has jump started things a bit. Say
nothing of the Chargers and Rams and push that to
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.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
And yeah, it's.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Unfortunate or I guess fortunate for Miami that it happens
on a night where it's just gonna be a montage.
How far did that home run really go? Let's bring
out the myths.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I mean
that interception, just for a second, that is such an
incredibly athletic play to clinch the game. Number one, the
clutchness 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, Carson
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Beck has a chance. Like the final drive, they're deep
in in Louisville territory and they throw this ball in
the flat and it's 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, that's what gets me about
this play. It's not like he jumped in front, it
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got deflected and just hit him in the stomach. Like
the ball gets deflected. He follows the path of the
ball and he's able to 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.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Where he catches it.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
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 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 and but falls to the
ground and the ball hits the ground and it's called
incomplete and they they run the playover like that is
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some kind of play by Capers to clinch this game
for Louisville.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Man, that is big one to ceiling take.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Have everybody start burning those Carson Bag Heisman tickets. No, okay,
ride 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 across
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our sporting universe. We still got Lakers basketball together.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Nothing really matters elsewhere except show tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Well yeah, well, que you could have another home run.
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. He has just hit pitch number one hundred,
and pitch number one hundred was knocked into center field
by contraras Fra. 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,
(25:46):
tell he is I don't love to see anyay, Like
you know. Otani calls as interpreter oute so we can
tell him he's in the game, and he just has it.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
He just does a giant motion of no in the
safe sign, like I'm not leaving.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, everybody could could you.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
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. Oh, Toddy says, oh yeah, I got
double the fertilizer for you right here day.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Surprised you haven't extended that from the Fred rogers A
videos you've been watching all who hurt you, Jason, fertilizer.
Fertilizer one of the highest words in the English language,
especially as versed and as spoken by Vin Scully.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
So Dodgers going to the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
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 Milwaukee 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 (27:05):
We have a guy who's.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Been called the Vin Scully of Fox Sports Radio. I've
seen him in the store buying fertilizer as well. It's
deep to say it, 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 Hal Toddy 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 got on. Let's start with the top
of the first, after the leadoff walk, Otani, the pitcher
struck out three straight batters to end the frame, then
hustled and became the leadoff hitter in the Dodgers order
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and homered in the box him 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.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
In right field.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
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
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
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fan looking up in the air and a ball was
actually coming that far away where they were standing, and
he ran to the bushes.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
And 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. So at 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
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Dodger 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
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up a four 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
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pitches but a two hitter. Through 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
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out there that have literally never been to a World Series.
They're up three games to two in the ALCS thanks
to five runs in the bottom of the eighths to
defeat Toronto six to two. Col Raley the tying solo
homer Grand Slam for a Jhenneo Suarez, who also hit
one out a solo shot in the second. The slam
came right after two walks in a hit batter. Game
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six is Sunday night at Toronto on FS one, 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
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George Kittle will return Sunday night after a torn hamstring.
On 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
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twenty four twenty one, each team five and one this season,
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 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.
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
Quick update.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
What do you got, Frostburg? What do you got? What
do you got Frostburg? What do you got? You?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Okay, Okay, you all right there, Okay, it looks like
the Dodgers are getting out of the inning. Alex Vesia
came in, got the first batter out, and then Freelick
grounds into a double play to Mookie Betts. So all
of a sudden, the Brewers, who are feeling pretty good
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two on nobody out grounded to Bets, who 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 don't think we have Matt. I think
we have Matt rules gonna lose. I think the Braska
(32:34):
fall now and now he's not getting that job.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
Ared.
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We got Bill Belichick's got a game coming up see
him and Jordan Hudson. But straight ahead, we started our
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Give you some of our big picks, the biggest games.
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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 Heo TONI might hit a third
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home run tonight.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah? Is he really gonna hit three home runs? You
really go to pitch to him? Show Heyo.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
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.
(34:17):
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 into the
area where I told you the last year the NLCS,
(34:37):
my dad 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 from the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Oh, I'd catch a home run ball.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
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 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.
This is an absolutely historic night. I want to talk
(35:11):
about football. Luckily at five minutes, talk about the Hurricanes
getting upset. Oh TONI might have 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, big nights in the playoffs before.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Three home runs in one playoff.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Game, Okay, yeah, that's a If he just did that,
you would say, wow, what an unbelievable individual performance. Wins
the last time we saw something like that. 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 (35:48):
Yeah, 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, brust, congratulations,
out of job done. They still beat the Cubs, so
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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 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
(36:32):
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
(36:52):
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 reome runs like the third
at bats, like he just dropped the bat and like,
well I was waiting.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
For a full on Jordan shrug, Yeah, I mean what
else you might mean?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
What else?
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
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 just got hit in
(37:30):
Game two. But uh, 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.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Man, this sucks.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
We want to keep playing. Otani's like, I don't want
to have like four or five days off.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
I want to I gotta keep playing.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Can't we just jump right to the World Series and
start Look the Mariners are up three too, they probably
will win.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Let's just let's just go to that. Let's just have
play there. Can we do that right now?
Speaker 4 (37:58):
You know, when 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
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show up in the box score in the highlights quite
the same way. But you look at this game tonight.
If if the good folks at stat muse my quick
search are proper, there's only been twelve games with three
home runs in the modern era in the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Yeah, but not to any that pitched.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Also, No, I mean Chris Taylor, Enrique Aernandez, Altuve, Sandoval, Pools, Beltray,
Adam Kennedy, George Brett, Reggie Jackson, Bob Robertson and two
from Babe Ruth.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
Yeah, but it's it that brings down Otani's performance from
tonight though.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Mentioning all those names, Well, no, I mean I just
thought it was fun.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
No, but he's just going just from this single game
perspective of hitting. This is a this is an all
time game.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
I got to bring up and Chris Taylor, I mean,
come on, they don't matter tonight.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
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 (39:22):
Like, where would that be? Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
No, by the way, you add the six innings to two,
it ball that strikeouts, and then all of a sudden,
oh yeah, oh maybe maybe.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Nothing else is even close.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
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. But uh,
that doesn't put any damper on what Otani has done.
I mean, I hope you got to see this or
see some of it, because you're never going to see
(39:51):
something like this again. I mean, unless Otani does it again.
But I mean, really I got until he does it again,
you're never.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Gonna see this again.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
More on this unbelievable night, we get into our big
Football Friday preview.
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