October 31, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason and Mike update the insanity that is Game 5 of the World Series. KAT picked the wrong night to go for 44 & 13. The two Yankees fans called for interference yesterday had their tickets revoked for tonight’s game. And Shohei Ohtani clearly not the same guy since shoulder injury!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, Halloween apparently has come early to the World Series.
Welcome inside the Jason Smith Show with my bes friend
Mike Harmon. Don't have anything to do with this game.
They suck nothing. We made it to the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
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Nothing to do with this game. No nothing with this game.
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say something first, right, I need to say this right
out of the game. The World Series is tied at five.
The Yankees five nothing. Lead is gone a long time ago.
(01:12):
Yankees batting in the bottom of the fifth inning, two outs,
two on. But in my criticism, which is right on,
and I told you this last night about the Dodgers'
pitching plan and the baseball God's telling you you're not
going to give up and punt on winning game four,
and we're going to make it easy on you in
Game five. That was a bad strategy then, and it
was a bad strategy to start the game now. I
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have been very critical on social media of Dave Roberts
and the Dodgers pitching as whoever is in charge of
the Dodgers' pitching plan could be Dave rober know. But
I did want to say this because I made a mistake.
I made a mistake because I did not take into
account the Yankees fielding was going to get involved in
this at some point, and I should have seen it coming.
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I should have seen it coming, and I didn't. So
instead of five nothing, a Yankee laugher and guys are
looking what ball they could take away from Dodger players
to try to catch it. No, no, it's five to five.
We got a ball game here in the fifth inning, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Just like that it all changed on a dime.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Garrett Cole cruising along everything's great first ball, swinging some
really bad Dodgers at bats early on in the game,
and then suddenly in the fifth inning, it was almost
as if some supernatural force said, at my signal, unleash hell,
you know, stealing from from back in the day in
(02:34):
movieland So yeah, that fifth inning was one of the
most comical, confusing.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Debacles.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
That was like the third act of most movies I
go to see in a theater anymore.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
First two, I'm in Why you got me? For an
hour twenty minutes? What the hell was that? That was
the fifth inning? That would be the way to describe it.
It all fell apart in the third act.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The Kees had been thumping the Dodgers, right, what did
I say last night? Big night for the Yankees offense.
They woke up. The Dodge allowed them to get up
when they made not winning game for a priority because
it was all the low leverage relievers. And I said,
home run by Soto, Stanton and Judge tonight. That's and
I'm almost there, right, I got Stanton, I got judged right.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I don't think you enumerated themty, No, I we can
play it back.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
We can play it back from the Flash second.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Show last night, because you never said that, we can
play it back from the final segment of the show.
I'm pretty positive I said that, and I know I did. Uh,
that's the way it was going. That's the way it
was going. That's the way it was going. And then defensively,
the Yankees decided, Hey, we're gonna throw up on ourselves. Don'
always understand we're gonna throw up on ourselves. Don't take
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that into a count. Always remember and again, this is
why it's so difficult to watch the Yankees in the
World Series and succeed because they play so loose, they
play so poor defensively, they run the basses terror and
still they succeed. And this fifth inning was just an
absolute disaster for the yankor now to be fair, and
errors per game this year they were tied with the Mets.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Oh the Mets.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hey, I wouldn't sit there and say, hey, we're tired, heyl.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
You can't yell at tight shirt saying we don't suck
and then try to dismiss it going.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well, I'm not saying the Yankees are bad. I'm saying
they're pad defensively and it's hard to watch teams that.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Are playing like this.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So you had you had the Dodgers at a point
where they looked like we were punting on this game
and getting ready for that.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Was the question, right, if he got in past the
fifth inning.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Was it going to be a all right, let's start
making sure all the bags are packed.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And instead you had a fifth inning that went like this,
And obviously Garrett Cole's play is going to get a
lot of attention.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
We're going to get to it.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Uh, you had Aaron Judge missing an easy line drive
to center field that should have been an out. It's
right at him, he's got to catch it. One of
the worst errors you'll see an outfielder make. Keeps the
ending alive for the Dodge runners on first and second.
Then you get a ground ball, could be a double play.
Instead you get Volpie with the bad throw. Bases are loaded,
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all right, Wow, now the Dodge is trying to get
back in this. However, Gavin Luck strikes out. Sho heo
Tani strikes out, and you think, well, that's gonna do it.
That that's gonna do it. And then Mookie Betts comes
up and it's a ground ball to first base. Anthony
Rizzo makes the play. Garrett Cole gets about halfway to
first and points to the bag. Anthony Rizzo was nowhere
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near first base. He was under the assumption he was
gonna be throwing to Cole covering the bag and Mookie
Betts is safe.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
So he didn't field it as aggressively to get towards
the bag, thinking Cole's already started to commit before that point.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, it almost, honestly, And this opened the floodgates because
before you go back to this, because then Freddy Freeman
gets a hit to Askar Hernandez doubles thessender to bring
in a couple of runs, and this game is tied
at five apiece. The Dodgers just get out of a
bases loaded to out jam and the fifth. It is
still five to five going to the top of the six.
But the Garrett Cole play, you see right away, it's
what the hell is this?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
This is becoming this could become one of the most
famous plays in World Series history. Him not covering first base,
not getting there, and what should have been the third
out winds up being a catalyst to the inning and
instead of five nothing, Hey, we dodged a bullet there,
bases loaded nobody out and we got Otani and we
got Mookie. It's now it's now anybody's game, and it's
five to five. It reminded me a little bit. I
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can't believe I'm gonna say this, but it reminded me
a little bit of the Buckner play. Okay, simply because
the ball goes under Buckner's legs, and Mookie Wilson has
always said, hey, I think I might have beat the
play there, and he might have. Like Buckner's not a
great defensive player, he might not.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
He was a good defensive player, but he was slow.
He was slow, right, he had he had so many
knee and he had been of the game normally.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
For defensive replacements. Right. So I don't know about Buckner.
They want him to be on the field when they're
winning the World Series. No range anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And I maybe Mookie Wilson beats that play out to
first base. No, if it does, the World Series keeps going.
It doesn't end the World Series because rain Night stops
at third and now it's first and third with two
outs in a tie game in extra innings and Mookie
Wilson's not the big ear.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Can we get the Marvel universe to treat the if
of that?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
But it reminded me of that because seeing the ground ball,
and you know, Rizzo was playing kind of deep. Mookie
got out of the box really fast. I don't know
if Rizzo had got it and run to the bag,
if he would have beaten him, it would have been close.
But instead of the general consensus, oh, Garrett Cole forgot
to cover first base, he was going to the to
the dugout. That's not what happened watching this play, as
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much as I have what what what I look from
Garrett and Ley Garrett call the entire time is that
he knows that he is not going to get to
the base. He gets a decent jump off the mound,
but remember, you know he still get the teacher. But
remember Mokie, as fast as he's running, he knows very early,
I'm not gonna get there in time. You're not gonna
be able to flip it to me, and I'm gonna
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beat MOOKI to the base. And I think he stopped
and pointed, wanting Rizzo to know as early as possible.
You need to go to first base with this, and
it doesn't matter because Rizzo wasn't coming up in a
very aggressive posture. Was I got it, I'm turning to look,
Oh now I'm gonna run. I'm not gonna get there.
So I don't see cole as as being someone who,
oh he braincrancked in that. I think he knew he
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wasn't going to get there, and he wanted he wanted
Rizzo to know, you gotta go yourself, and and maybe
hoping that you know, in the in the heat of
the moment, if I do that, he doesn't see me run.
Rizzo's going to book to first base, get there ahead
of Mookie Bets and get the out. But of course
Rizzo wasn't there. He was thinking a different thing, and
so that's why the inning wound up going. But I'm
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not looking at this as something where oh Garrett called
a brain cramp. It was just he wasn't going to
get there, because there's there's no while maybe if Rizzo
comes up with it aggressively and goes to first maybe
he gets there. The way he came up with it,
he wasn't getting there. And I don't think Garrett Cole
was getting there to get Mooki Bets out. I think
he was going to be at first base regardless on that.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yeah, I think his first step off the mount was
pretty aggressive right towards all Right, I got the I
got the ground ball I wanted, but Rizzo's was completely
And this guy's a four time goal glover. So I
I'll wait to see what he has to say in
the post game, uh, because I don't think he's gonna
throw his teammate under the bus. But see if we
get a realistic interpretation, uh and assessment of it, because
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because I think clearly, you know, as he goes to
field it, he's expecting Cole to be up the line,
and when he's not there, there's he's not winning that
foot race.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like I don't think. I think you're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Is that Mookie Betts was haul and ass realizing that
there was an opportunity for more chaos in what had
already become a very odd inning. And for Garrett Cole,
he makes the point fairly. I mean he's even with
Mookie Betts at that point, I think up the baseline,
but you're not winning a foot race, I mean you're
you're Garrett Cole, You've got to change a bit of
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direct and come up the line. And again Rizzo didn't
come up aggressively, so he's not moving to the bag
fast enough. And it's just the unfortunate for Yankee fans
circumstance where there's a just a bit enough miscommunication to
extend what had already become a painful inning. Add to that,
(10:20):
Aaron Boone didn't have anybody up and throwing this. So
as it goes to hell, he had.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The Dave Roberts pitching plan. We have one plan. We're
not deviating from it. We have one plan and that's it.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
So as it starts to go to hell, and the
pitch count like calls all the way up to ninety
three pitches he started last inning, what was he at
like forty two forty three pitches like he'd been cruising along.
Dodgers were first ball swinging a ton. I mean the
first inning was what six pitches? I think seven?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
The one thing I will say for Boone, yeah you're
not expecting really, But once the Dodgers put a couple
on and there's an error, okay, maybe it's time you
get somebody.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
You don't have to be hurried, right, and the last
throws of hey, we gotta get warmed up really fast fast,
but someone's gotta be.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Up and starting to stretch. Yeah, And I really thought
they shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And this is me seeing things like this differently now,
you know, after coaching, as long as I have a
softball as that, I always have a really good and
one of the things I've always done and I pride
myself on, is I always have a really good sensor
on when I need to go out to talk to
the picture, when when I need to Okay, let's let's
take the temperature down. Let's get time out. Let let's
get time out. Let's go out and settle the picture down.
(11:28):
And I really thought that that boone needed to go
out there earlier. I really thought after okay, let's get out. Okay, Okay,
everything's fine. I don't worry, don't worry, everything is all right.
Let's go out there. Let's stop this from being a
crooked number inning. And let's and and and and let
let's get.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Back to where I don't even think should have gone
to every fielder and be like, what the hell is
your Probably like you like you, like you, You're cool, Garrett.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Banke, you I'm out.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, Well, in a short visit to the mound for
Aaron Boone. That's not gonna help anybody get up in
the bullpen. Oh boy, but that was just I I
thought they could have done that a little bit more.
But what what a disaster of an inning for the Yankees.
What an absolute disaster. And I look, I can't say
I didn't see it coming.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I can't. I can't. I can't say I shouldn't have
seen it. I should have.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I should have earned The Yankees defensively are terrible, and
they're going to have a say in this in this
world series. I mean, it's like I'm trying to go
back and forth between, Okay, what's been worse the Dodgers
pitching decisions or the Yankees defense, like like they're having
this fight. It's like like watching people dressed up in
like big marshmallow costumes running at each other and jumping
into each other. And that's what this is, boy, Dodgers
(12:35):
pitching decisions, Yankees defense. Dodgers pitching decisions, Yankees defense, That's
what it is. Yeah, And you watched the first well
four plus innings. As that fifth started to unravel and
everything that we've been talking about yesterday. You're wringing your hands, going, boy,
that really just played perfectly right for you. It was
the Yankees offense.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I didn't think Flaherty would get chased quite as quickly
as he did going in a third.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It's his second if the same thing happened to him
in the NLCS, his second time around, he wasn't He
wasn't as good, he wasn't nearly as strong with his fastball,
and he was not up for anything tonight.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Aaron Judge actually hit the ball, so you know, hey,
there there's a big one there.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
At some point hitters going to hit. I mean at
some point, well not always.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I mean, there's plenty of playoff histories of guys that
were really good in the regular season that barely got
the bat off.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
There's plenty of guys.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Has been one of those guys world that I was
going to say, like right alongside him, and and he's struggling,
like his at.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Bats tonight have been awful.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Just the first pitch swinging to start the game, and
then when he struck out in the middle of what
became the big fifth inning, he just looked so grossly
uncomfortable at the plate, trying to trying to swing all right,
and he'll probably hit a home run in his next
at bat, just shut me up. But in that bat,
he just he looked pained, like he really look like
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he's struggling mentally physically going through. But but all of
it to say, you know, Dave Roberts, at least to
this point, now has been let off the hook by
that fifth inning.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So how do you manage from here?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Any any transgressions, any problems you had with the baseball.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Gods, they that all should have evened out at this point. Yeah,
so now you gotta go finish the game. Yankees win
this game.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
That's said that that storyline is there. If the Yankees
win this game, it's they have to win to stop
that storyline from going on.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Well at least at least for the moment. For the moment,
everybody has to go and start another file. Right, any
columns that were starting in terms of how dare you? Ah,
and plenty of critics of Dave Roberts are ready with
their poison pens. Now you you go to this uh
and you have to manage your ass off for four.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
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Mike Harmon, Hobo Bottom of the sixth inning, Bruce dar
Gradol trying to get out of a jam of his
own doing. They walk to Aaron Judge on a very
borderline pitch, but runners at first and second. However, Jazz
Chisholm grounds into a force play, so with one out,
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Yankees have runners at first and third on Carlos Stanton
is up seven home runs this postseason for the Yankees.
As they try to untie this thing, we are only
in the bottom of the sixth inning, and it looks
like it's going to be untied. It's a sacrifice fly
and it's now six ' five Yankees. Stanton flies out
(16:42):
to center field. Chisholm's able to tag up to get
to second base. So the Yankees, after a disastrous five
running where they give up the lead to the Dodgers,
now have the lead and a runner in scoring position
with two outs.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
In the bottom of the sixth.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Cameraman causing some heart attacks based on the trajectory of
this ball and you know, angle kind of like, hey,
we're going into the third third deck here, see, I
don't see.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'll blame the cameraman for a lot. This was Stanton
and the fans behind the plate the fans behind the
pots clearly thought he had it. And the way Stanton
hit it and he kind of stopped and started to
walk really slowly up the baseline made you think, oh,
he got it, he knew he hit it, and instead, no,
I mean it's twenty feet shy of the warning track.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It was the camera, man, I don't know. I don't
think it was a cameraman.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
They stayed on Stanton Law for a long time and
it was a camera that was not a Stanton was
the one. You gotta watch the body language of the players. Man,
That's why I don't like it. Jason, you got to
open your eyes when you're watching the plane. I watched
the body language of the players. The guys that that
they will tell you if they got it, they hit
a home run, if they got it or not. And
Stanton lied to us, He lied to you, He lied
to America by making it look like he hit a
home run unless he knew it was a sacrifice flot
(17:52):
and he wanted to peacock the sacrifice shot that fly
out to center field and of a tie game, how
about the all.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Flyouts are not created equal? Because that did generate the
lead run. Now, as for Bruce Stark graderol to get
things started. Look anything borderline. Will Smith has been terrible
at to play tonight, and Dodger pitchers had a bunch
of balls in the dirt, but you're not getting anything
for framing. And the first pitch that grad all through
(18:20):
rolled to the backstop, so you're already like, all right,
here we go. So anything that's near whatever the strike
zone is supposed to be on a given night, he
wasn't getting the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So this is where we sit right now, Yankees with
a six or five lead over the Dodgers. As the
Yankees bat with two outs in the bottom of the
sixth inning, again, Jazzi is heads up play, tagging up
to second base to put a runner in scoring position
for the Yankees on the sacrifice fly.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Your dad's favorite player gonna get any credit?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
No you kidding, No, Stan, it could have been anybody
hitting that sacrifice fly.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Like he's had any derogatory stuff towards Judge, and he's
got half ass effort on that fly ball.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Finally, I told you Judge was gonna hit one, and
then I said what about that play in center field?
And then he didn't right back for like a half hour,
and then he wrote back, well, now it's tied.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I am also a bit concerned for Pat Sajack, who's
behind home plate, who's had a very stern and concerned
look on his face for the better part of two
and a half.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Maybe he's got some action on this game. He's a
little nervous, you know, maybe maybe maybe he had the
under what was he over runner for runs in this game?
It's all nervous eight and a half for a while.
How did you talk with my dad about that?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Today?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Just randomly he asked me what the what the the
line was on the game and the run line, and
I just kind of chuckled. I got that, well, Yankees
one and a half in the over unders eight and
a half. He goes, it's going over because you know.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I have money for both Eleanor and Maddie. But you know,
you know later in life, but maybe I'm just gonna
let it ride on the World Series instead. Tell me
what you think.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
He just was not convinced the pitching was gonna hold
up in.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
This Listen, I got I got stuff I got for
your kids. It's I want to give money to my grandkids.
But no, I really I think if the overhits here,
I could.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Maybe double my money. I would say it.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
The brilliance of it is that my dad is kind
of like you would be a professional gambler, because there's
no chance in hell out on the East Coast. He's
staying up to watch the end of this. He'll check
it in the morning, kind of like guys that read
during the week. They obviously know the injury reports. They
check all the data, and then they place their bets
and do they watch the game.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
No, they go watch a movie. I don't want to
hang out. It's like Brad Pitt. They go and get
a workout, and then you come back and check the
results of said bets. What do you got, Frostburg, What
do you got?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I was gonna say, the only guy that's having a
worse night than the Yankees defense is nobody watching the
Big Bodega. Yeah, I mean really, I mean, I'm glad
you brought it up. Karl Anthony Towns in his Welcome
to New York game. Yeah, forty four points and thirteen
rebounds of the Nicks beat the Heat. Suddenly it's oh,
now we know why we made this trade. I mean,
(20:58):
this is this is the Karl Anthony Town's game. The
Knicks even their record at two and two. The look,
they're gonna start out a little slow because you're talking
about two new guys, new starters, trying to get in
on what Tibbs wants to do defensively. But nights like
this with Karl Anthony Towns, I mean, forty four points,
but he picked the worst night, He picked the absolute
worst night to go for forty four points.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Worst.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Well, I mean, look, the other day Benko had fifty
and it was a mention in Steve's updates and we
kind of joked about it for a minute. I'm like, well,
he just fell shy of the triple double. So it
doesn't really matter. It's a fifty point game, and away
you go. All five starters in double digits in this one.
Brunson your guy, twenty two to nine in the win
(21:42):
for the heat. Tyler Herro had himself a big night,
a thirteen from three point range, thirty four points. But overall,
you know, pedestrian kind of over over arching kind of
thing because nobody cares. Yeah, it's game five of the
world's serious. I know, it's weak, like threty four.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, front page, the back page of New York Post
is gonna be whatever's gonna happen the game picture. Then
on the bottom, cat party, you know, forty four for
Knick's New Star, forty four points really really tiny with
just over the lotto numbers like you cat forty four
Lotto six thirteen, twenty seven, twenty nine, fifty five with
a big circle around eighteen.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Because remember it's also in Jets Day, so there's gonna
be a bunch of Jets head Oh yeah, yeah, oh sure, right,
I adam Tomorrow's Thursday Night. So like all of that
to say, Cat, welcome to New York. Defensively, they still
have some things to work out, but overall, you know,
you've got to be happy with the w We saw
the preview for the next game, which was what Ivy
(22:42):
and Bronson were the headliners.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, so you got that going Knicks play
tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Who do they play? Doesn't matter, the Knicks play Tomorrow night.
Oh but they in the game, Yeah, who do they play?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Listen? Who they play?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It doesn't matter, it's you know, how about the name though,
You'll get to see how big Modega that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, Big Modega's pretty good. Big Boda. I like Big Bodega.
That's a pretty good nickname. I like that. I can
get behind that.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
It took thirty two minutes for Bronnie's feet to be mentioned.
Uh yeah, yeah, well you think you know Bronnie going
back to Cleveland. We're gonna play him a few minutes maybe,
Oh no, instead, Oh no, it's never close.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Oh okay, he did hit the over though on his
points it was one and a half. Yeah, that is true.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So Better's got paid off.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Yeah, And the local broadcast sounded like it was the
kid being brought in at the end of senior Night
who hadn't played on you.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Hey, look at the equipment managers got in. Let him shootead,
let him shoe.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Look, we got NFL with Jason Cole coming up in
about twenty five minutes. But let's just a little bit
more in the World Series here. The Dodgers get out
of the inning one run score to the Yankees lead
six to five. As we go to the top of
the seventh Game five of the World Series. Not much really,
I want to say, incredibly surprises me in sports because
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doing it for so long I kind of expect certain things,
even stuff that is just gives you the shock value
on you. Once you get over the shock value realize
how unsurprising it is, it's like, Okay, I'm not surprised
because I've seen stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
The shock value is there.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But then there's times when I when I just am
blown away by something and I realize I can still
be surprised. And that was today when I watched some
of the media's reaction to the Yankee fans who reached
into Mooki Betts's glove for the ball last night and
the one who grabbed Muki Betts's wrist as.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
They tried to pry the ball out of it.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
ESPN kind of glorifying what now look at that the
left or looking pulling the glove out there, They wrote
an article on it. I watched Rob Gronkowski say, oh,
I went to college with the guy, which, of course
Gronk goes to college with the one guy, and saying.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Oh, he's doing anything he can look at that for
his team.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I'm like, oh, Gronk, you'd have liked it if running
down the sideline for touchdown against the Jets and upset
Jets fan comes out and tackles you. You're okay with
something like that. I can't get and look and I
don't want to be the old guy get off my lawn.
But that's a dangerous ass thing to happen. And I'm
glad Major League Baseball has come out with really strong
statements about it that they are monitoring how this is
going to be adjudicated going forward. You got a big
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statement from Tony Clark on it, which there needs to
be because that's a dangerous thing. You had the guy
say today, what'd you hear from the guy today? I
patrol the wall. I patrol it. No, dude, you're a
fan and you're not. Your job is not to try
to injure one of the other players, because you know what,
watching Bets on that play last night, the scariest thing
was the guy grabbing his wrist and I think Mookie
Betts was jumping because his wrist.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Was He was like, because his wrist was held on too.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
If he's not jumping, then like it gets pulled, it
gets pulled in the diner direction. And yet these guys
are getting lionized, like, hey, look at what they're doing
for their team. And I'm embarrassed for everybody that wanted
to have some kind of fun. Hey, look at what
these guys did, Yankee fans of the core take. I
really I'm embarrassed, but I'm surprised. I didn't think the media.
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I didn't think would go to the length and talk
about something like this and see it and go, yeah,
we can kind of brush this off. Can't brush something
like that off. Man, can't do it.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I'll go to it. I mean, look, name check.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I mean Jesse Rodgers, the leader of the clown car
like he was driving the bus for ESPN, right wrote
that article. Here's a picture yucking it up. And then
one after another it fell in line, and you know,
I get it. You're gonna have the meadhead contingent that
talks about, you know, hey, anything for the team, and
it goes into the gronk conversation with Kay Adams, and
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certainly he knew it. But then you acknowledge that you're
with the guy and knew the guy. You didn't have
to then talk about how great it was in terms
of the fandom and you know, defending this wall and
all this other nonsense that started to flow. But yeah,
one one account after another, and video clips.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
In my timeline all day. You're just shaking your head, going,
what are we doing? We're doing now?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
The equivalency to Bartman was won because Bartman didn't try
to hurt anybody. But Bartman also that play in Chicago
went against the Cubs, so they were mad at him
because well look what happened thereafter. But his life is
ruined for him. No, but that's the thing, right, ruined.
So his life gets ruined for it, and nobody I don't,
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I don't think to this day outside of me and
maybe about four other guys shouting into the wind have
called out Gonzales for booting a ground ball prior, for
unquirking a wild pitch, Sammy Sosa for overthrowing a cutoff man,
and the whole comedy of errors that led to the
destruction of the Cubs in that game. Oh, by the way,
they had to go and win another game thereafter. But
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all of that to say, you know, Bartman's life was ruined,
and the Cubs gave him a World Series ring after
they won. I mean the letter that he wrote. I
saw someone posted that on the internet going back to
when they gifted him the ring, and how gracious he
was about all the abuse he'd endured through the years. Uh,
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and hoping that bygones or buy guns instead. These guys
are being glorified. You know, you joke about them getting
a thing in Monument Park. Well, if the Yankees were
to do the impossible and come back to win, I
don't have any doubt that he would.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
If the Yankees were okay with them coming back today.
I mean, it's it's ridiculus.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I mean really, I mean, how do you not just
it's so they even got money back, I think, you know,
I mean, how do you not say, listen, this is
absolutely unacceptable. No, no, no, they wanted to help the
Yankees win. Look how cool it is. No, they almost injured.
I'm telling you, if Bets doesn't jump, he winds up
getting hurt and and and I like, how the the
uh the defensive Mookie Bets's cursing at us. Of course
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he was well, but there were a number of his
glove and tried to pull the ball out of it,
and one the other guy grabbed his pad.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And you're yanking.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
But I mean even the guy with the glove, right,
Mookie's not a tall guy. And while that fence isn't huge, right,
it's not the Green Monster, like his arms extended the
whole time, like you're talking about in a one change
in direction, and now we're talking about a big shoulder.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Injury for him.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Plus the guy on the offhand, Verdugo, and all the
other Yankees that chimed in, you're all.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
A bunch of chumps as well. Baseball needs to step
in and ban both of these guys for life. Baseball Wait,
we'll give you a chance, but Baseball the committ and
say you can't come to a game because all you're
doing is you are You are saying, hey, look at this,
you can kind of be an anti hero. And all
that's going to do is encourage more people to do
stuff like this at games. Now, I know all's got
to come in and say, you guys, you're done. You're
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done a games, right. I know.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
There was a lot of complaint about the facial recognition
that's been instituted at the Intuit Nome. Here's a perfect
example of why it needs to exist, just from idiotic
fans say nothing of anything else, but like this. This
is after every NFL I hear Dantia, those guys have
been paid. Someone's paid for on a plane. I don't
want to name websites, but I think you all know
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who kind of lionized this thing. I wouldn't be surprised
if they're not gonna be on a plane to La
trying to get into Dodger Stadium for Game six if
there is.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
One exit out bout of Frasca exit Swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The Jason smithser with Mike Carmon live from the Tirec
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Dodgers have a runner on two outs.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
In the seventh. Clay Holmes coming in. My dad is
now reaching for the MAYLOCKX.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But coming up next, we're gonna get into what is,
without a doubt, the most surprising storyline of this world series.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Mucho Yankee's coming to back in the
bottom of the seventh, Clay Holmes running on empty comes
in and gets out of the inning, striking out Max Munsey,
who couldn't make an out in the NLCS. I think
he reached bays eighty five times against the Mets with
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a home run, eight walks, a home run, eight walks,
home run, and he's oh for fifteen in the World Series.
That's baseball, Susan.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Are you bitter about that? Now?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Just till a little bit he could he could do
he could do no wrong in the NLCS, but now
he has the World Series.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
But but the big thing for me, right is you're
not hitting worth the lick. You're really gonna stand there
with the bat on his shoulder. Everybody knows you're not
hitting worth the lick, right, You're not getting the benefit
of the doubt by the umpire at the plate. He's
not bailing you out. Oh, particularly on a strike three
that is directly about his perfect a pitch to either
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swing at or to have called a strike Like, there's
no argument.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Over the pitch that he was caught looking on, and
it's all Jason's fault. How's an eye fault?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Because Kevin Wyatt, who worked last night, was dressed had
looked like Max Muncy you put that evil on him,
Ricky Bobby, Hey, I think he was over before last
night too. I don't think suddenly he hasn't got a
hit in two weeks. Yeah, it didn't happen to him
just last night. He's gonna be a great matt He's ah. However,
I was gonna say Kevin White. However, Max Munsey is
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just the appetizer of this conversation, because yes, I understand
that he's not one hundred percent and he was hurt
and he's playing. But Shohotani has been terrible in the
World Series. Most surprising storyline. One guy thought, well, who's
gonna be October Proof here? Of all these stars playing
in the World Series for the first time, it's gonna
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be Otani. Otani looks bad at the plate. He hasn't
really looked great all postseason. He had the one big
home run against some Mets, looked like I went about
five hundred feet. But even before the injury, no stolen
bases after fifty nine in the regular season, not one
in the entire postseason. His home run at bat streak
is now up up close to thirty. He's hitting one
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oh five. He has two hits in the first four
and a half games of the World Series, and some
of his at bats, I don't want to say they
don't look competitive, but they don't look like they're the show. Heyotani, Hey,
here's my plan for what I have coming up. There's
a lot of swinging at the first pitch, like maybe
because he's pressing too much. Maybe he knows I only
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have so many swings in me each at bat because
it's gonna hurt my shoulder. I can swing like once
or twice without paying gonna try to jump on the
first pitch, But it doesn't matter. You're playing in the
game and you're leading off. I mean, sho Hao Tani's
been awful. I mean as bad as Max Munths. He's
been zero for fifteen Otani's supposed to be the guy.
He's gonna be the guy to win the World Series. Instead,
it's like, man, if Freddy Freeman wasn't here, the Eggers
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have won him sweep, even even though they can't field.
This has been the easily the most surprising storyline of
the World Series, because I thought he would have been
October proof and I watch him at bat, and I
look at him and I go it just doesn't seem
like the same guy, and it can change him one
at bat to the next. Maybe it's a big home run,
maybe it changes they come back home for Game six.
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Whowever this goes, I don't know, but the fact that
he just looks as bad as he does and the
Yankee pitchers are going right at him. Now there's no hey,
let's pitch around him. They did that very first at
bat of the World Series, Freddie Freeman makes him pay.
Since then, it's been we're going right at you.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
He's got five strikeouts, he's got three more strikeouts that
he has hits in the World Series. They are going
at him, they are challenging him, and he is having trouble.
Some of his swings look good, like when I say
about it, go okay, it doesn't look like he's hurt there.
Then sometimes he'll swing in the top handle, come off
the bat and I'll go, oh, maybe he's struggling there
a little bit. But no matter how you slice him,
whatever he's playing, he's leading off, he's doing his normal thing.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
And he has been terrible well.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
As we always talk about it, no matter what's the sport,
if you're on the court, I can only acknowledge the
injury so much. Right, I give you the props for
playing hurt to a degree, but in the end, what
you put on tape and what you put in the
box score is is your contribution. And he's not getting
good at bats. He's reaching out of the zone, which
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is PlayOn. Discipline is a number one for him and
always has in right, the stolen base thing, you wonder
how much philosophically as a team difference between regular season
and postseason that I don't know, But you know what,
you still got to get on bass to steal a
mase and and he hasn't been doing a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
And it's it's not to denigrate thing, guy, it's just
the reality of where we're at.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
We've talked about it the last couple of nights, just
talking about how pained he looked following through and and
for a couple of games he didn't he was swinging
with one arm. Now he's still swinging with both hands
on the bat just looks grossly uncomfortable. I mean, and
Cole came inside on him earlier in the game on
a couple of pitches that he he's swung straight.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Through, balls that he would turn on balls. Look, Cole
was feeling, he was he was throwing gas early, but
he knew he had no chance to be harmed by one.
O'tan where Otani is right now physically? Yeah, look look,
and that's why that's why I go back to Hey
first at bat of the series, right which which Hey,
maybe the Yankees are even more in this. But you walk,
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you pitch around Otani when you gotta you gotta pitch
to him and see what he can do. And instead
you walk him on four pitches and then Freddy Freeman,
what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
What are you doing? You gotta you got you gotta
make sure that you know, you see that he can
he can swing the bat or not.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
You know, if he hurtschit's one nothing right like and
and it's a proof of concept that he's gonna be
able to bring the bat through the zone and and
put a charge into it. You haven't seen that. You've
seen a couple of lazy fly balls, and you've seen
him swing through pitches that he would normally crush, uh
and turn on, and others that he would normally just
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look away from and get the benefit of the doubt
because of the batter's eye that he has right now.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Bottom of the seventh, two out's Blake trying and in
for the Dodgers. It looked like Walker Bueller might be
getting up in the bullpen a little bit.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Maybe this is Bueller doing normal throw. Maybe he throws
like this he wanted to throw, but you can't think.
Maybe he's coming into the game. Maybe he's coming they
need him in the ninth. Then maybe he's the long
guy to get ready. If we high this game, we
go to extra innings. So the Dodgers using their high
leverage guys tonight.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
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out of the game. The World Series is tied at five.
The Yankees five nothing. Lead is gone a long time ago.
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Yankees batting in the bottom of the fifth inning, two outs,
two on. But in my criticism, which is right on,
and I told you this last night about the Dodgers'
pitching plan and the baseball God's telling you you're not
going to give up and punt on winning game four,
and we're going to make it easy on you in
Game five. That was a bad strategy then, and it
was a bad strategy to start the game now. I
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have been very critical on social media of Dave Roberts
and the Dodgers pitching as whoever is in charge of
the Dodgers' pitching plan could be Dave rober know. But
I did want to say this because I made a mistake.
I made a mistake because I did not take into
account the Yankees fielding was going to get involved in
this at some point, and I should have seen it coming.
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I should have seen it coming, and I didn't. So
instead of five nothing, a Yankee laugher and guys are
looking what ball they could take away from Dodger players
to try to catch it. No, no, it's five to five.
We got a ball game here in the fifth inning, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Just like that it all changed on a dime.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Garrett Cole cruising along everything's great first ball, swinging some
really bad Dodgers at bats early on in the game,
and then suddenly in the fifth inning, it was almost
as if some supernatural force said, at my signal, unleash hell,
you know, stealing from from back in the day in
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movieland So yeah, that fifth inning was one of the
most comical, confusing.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Debacles.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
That was like the third act of most movies I
go to see in a theater anymore.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
First two, I'm in Why you got me? For an
hour twenty minutes? What the hell was that? That was
the fifth inning? That would be the way to describe it.
It all fell apart in the third act.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The Kees had been thumping the Dodgers, right, what did
I say last night? Big night for the Yankees offense.
They woke up. The Dodge allowed them to get up
when they made not winning game for a priority because
it was all the low leverage relievers. And I said,
home run by Soto, Stanton and Judge tonight. That's and
I'm almost there, right, I got Stanton, I got judged right.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I don't think you enumerated themty, No, I we can
play it back.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
We can play it back from the Flash second.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Show last night, because you never said that, we can
play it back from the final segment of the show.
I'm pretty positive I said that, and I know I did. Uh,
that's the way it was going. That's the way it
was going. That's the way it was going. And then defensively,
the Yankees decided, Hey, we're gonna throw up on ourselves. Don'
always understand we're gonna throw up on ourselves. Don't take
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that into a count. Always remember and again, this is
why it's so difficult to watch the Yankees in the
World Series and succeed because they play so loose, they
play so poor defensively, they run the basses terror and
still they succeed. And this fifth inning was just an
absolute disaster for the yankor now to be fair, and
errors per game this year they were tied with the Mets.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Oh the Mets.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hey, I wouldn't sit there and say, hey, we're tired, heyl.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
You can't yell at tight shirt saying we don't suck
and then try to dismiss it going.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well, I'm not saying the Yankees are bad. I'm saying
they're pad defensively and it's hard to watch teams that.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Are playing like this.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So you had you had the Dodgers at a point
where they looked like we were punting on this game
and getting ready for that.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Was the question, right, if he got in past the
fifth inning.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Was it going to be a all right, let's start
making sure all the bags are packed.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And instead you had a fifth inning that went like this,
And obviously Garrett Cole's play is going to get a
lot of attention.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
We're going to get to it.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Uh, you had Aaron Judge missing an easy line drive
to center field that should have been an out. It's
right at him, he's got to catch it. One of
the worst errors you'll see an outfielder make. Keeps the
ending alive for the Dodge runners on first and second.
Then you get a ground ball, could be a double play.
Instead you get Volpie with the bad throw. Bases are loaded,
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all right, Wow, now the Dodge is trying to get
back in this. However, Gavin Luck strikes out. Sho heo
Tani strikes out, and you think, well, that's gonna do it.
That that's gonna do it. And then Mookie Betts comes
up and it's a ground ball to first base. Anthony
Rizzo makes the play. Garrett Cole gets about halfway to
first and points to the bag. Anthony Rizzo was nowhere
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near first base. He was under the assumption he was
gonna be throwing to Cole covering the bag and Mookie
Betts is safe.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
So he didn't field it as aggressively to get towards
the bag, thinking Cole's already started to commit before that point.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, it almost, honestly, And this opened the floodgates because
before you go back to this, because then Freddy Freeman
gets a hit to Askar Hernandez doubles thessender to bring
in a couple of runs, and this game is tied
at five apiece. The Dodgers just get out of a
bases loaded to out jam and the fifth. It is
still five to five going to the top of the six.
But the Garrett Cole play, you see right away, it's
what the hell is this?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
This is becoming this could become one of the most
famous plays in World Series history. Him not covering first base,
not getting there, and what should have been the third
out winds up being a catalyst to the inning and
instead of five nothing, Hey, we dodged a bullet there,
bases loaded nobody out and we got Otani and we
got Mookie. It's now it's now anybody's game, and it's
five to five. It reminded me a little bit. I
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can't believe I'm gonna say this, but it reminded me
a little bit of the Buckner play. Okay, simply because
the ball goes under Buckner's legs, and Mookie Wilson has
always said, hey, I think I might have beat the
play there, and he might have. Like Buckner's not a
great defensive player, he might not.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
He was a good defensive player, but he was slow.
He was slow, right, he had he had so many
knee and he had been of the game normally.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
For defensive replacements. Right. So I don't know about Buckner.
They want him to be on the field when they're
winning the World Series. No range anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And I maybe Mookie Wilson beats that play out to
first base. No, if it does, the World Series keeps going.
It doesn't end the World Series because rain Night stops
at third and now it's first and third with two
outs in a tie game in extra innings and Mookie
Wilson's not the big ear.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Can we get the Marvel universe to treat the if
of that?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
But it reminded me of that because seeing the ground ball,
and you know, Rizzo was playing kind of deep. Mookie
got out of the box really fast. I don't know
if Rizzo had got it and run to the bag,
if he would have beaten him, it would have been close.
But instead of the general consensus, oh, Garrett Cole forgot
to cover first base, he was going to the to
the dugout. That's not what happened watching this play, as
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much as I have what what what I look from
Garrett and Ley Garrett call the entire time is that
he knows that he is not going to get to
the base. He gets a decent jump off the mound,
but remember, you know he still get the teacher. But
remember Mokie, as fast as he's running, he knows very early,
I'm not gonna get there in time. You're not gonna
be able to flip it to me, and I'm gonna
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beat MOOKI to the base. And I think he stopped
and pointed, wanting Rizzo to know as early as possible.
You need to go to first base with this, and
it doesn't matter because Rizzo wasn't coming up in a
very aggressive posture. Was I got it, I'm turning to look,
Oh now I'm gonna run. I'm not gonna get there.
So I don't see cole as as being someone who,
oh he braincrancked in that. I think he knew he
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wasn't going to get there, and he wanted he wanted
Rizzo to know, you gotta go yourself, and and maybe
hoping that you know, in the in the heat of
the moment, if I do that, he doesn't see me run.
Rizzo's going to book to first base, get there ahead
of Mookie Bets and get the out. But of course
Rizzo wasn't there. He was thinking a different thing, and
so that's why the inning wound up going. But I'm
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not looking at this as something where oh Garrett called
a brain cramp. It was just he wasn't going to
get there, because there's there's no while maybe if Rizzo
comes up with it aggressively and goes to first maybe
he gets there. The way he came up with it,
he wasn't getting there. And I don't think Garrett Cole
was getting there to get Mooki Bets out. I think
he was going to be at first base regardless on that.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yeah, I think his first step off the mount was
pretty aggressive right towards all Right, I got the I
got the ground ball I wanted, but Rizzo's was completely
And this guy's a four time goal glover. So I
I'll wait to see what he has to say in
the post game, uh, because I don't think he's gonna
throw his teammate under the bus. But see if we
get a realistic interpretation, uh and assessment of it, because
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because I think clearly, you know, as he goes to
field it, he's expecting Cole to be up the line,
and when he's not there, there's he's not winning that
foot race.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like I don't think. I think you're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Is that Mookie Betts was haul and ass realizing that
there was an opportunity for more chaos in what had
already become a very odd inning. And for Garrett Cole,
he makes the point fairly. I mean he's even with
Mookie Betts at that point, I think up the baseline,
but you're not winning a foot race, I mean you're
you're Garrett Cole, You've got to change a bit of
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direct and come up the line. And again Rizzo didn't
come up aggressively, so he's not moving to the bag
fast enough. And it's just the unfortunate for Yankee fans
circumstance where there's a just a bit enough miscommunication to
extend what had already become a painful inning. Add to that,
(10:20):
Aaron Boone didn't have anybody up and throwing this. So
as it goes to hell, he had.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The Dave Roberts pitching plan. We have one plan. We're
not deviating from it. We have one plan and that's it.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
So as it starts to go to hell, and the
pitch count like calls all the way up to ninety
three pitches he started last inning, what was he at
like forty two forty three pitches like he'd been cruising along.
Dodgers were first ball swinging a ton. I mean the
first inning was what six pitches? I think seven?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
The one thing I will say for Boone, yeah you're
not expecting really, But once the Dodgers put a couple
on and there's an error, okay, maybe it's time you
get somebody.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
You don't have to be hurried, right, and the last
throws of hey, we gotta get warmed up really fast fast,
but someone's gotta be.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Up and starting to stretch. Yeah, And I really thought
they shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And this is me seeing things like this differently now,
you know, after coaching, as long as I have a
softball as that, I always have a really good and
one of the things I've always done and I pride
myself on, is I always have a really good sensor
on when I need to go out to talk to
the picture, when when I need to Okay, let's let's
take the temperature down. Let's get time out. Let let's
get time out. Let's go out and settle the picture down.
(11:28):
And I really thought that that boone needed to go
out there earlier. I really thought after okay, let's get out. Okay, Okay,
everything's fine. I don't worry, don't worry, everything is all right.
Let's go out there. Let's stop this from being a
crooked number inning. And let's and and and and let
let's get.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Back to where I don't even think should have gone
to every fielder and be like, what the hell is
your Probably like you like you, like you, You're cool, Garrett.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Banke, you I'm out.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, Well, in a short visit to the mound for
Aaron Boone. That's not gonna help anybody get up in
the bullpen. Oh boy, but that was just I I
thought they could have done that a little bit more.
But what what a disaster of an inning for the Yankees.
What an absolute disaster. And I look, I can't say
I didn't see it coming.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I can't. I can't. I can't say I shouldn't have
seen it. I should have.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I should have earned The Yankees defensively are terrible, and
they're going to have a say in this in this
world series. I mean, it's like I'm trying to go
back and forth between, Okay, what's been worse the Dodgers
pitching decisions or the Yankees defense, like like they're having
this fight. It's like like watching people dressed up in
like big marshmallow costumes running at each other and jumping
into each other. And that's what this is, boy, Dodgers
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pitching decisions, Yankees defense. Dodgers pitching decisions, Yankees defense, That's
what it is. Yeah, And you watched the first well
four plus innings. As that fifth started to unravel and
everything that we've been talking about yesterday. You're wringing your hands, going, boy,
that really just played perfectly right for you. It was
the Yankees offense.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I didn't think Flaherty would get chased quite as quickly
as he did going in a third.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It's his second if the same thing happened to him
in the NLCS, his second time around, he wasn't He
wasn't as good, he wasn't nearly as strong with his fastball,
and he was not up for anything tonight.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Aaron Judge actually hit the ball, so you know, hey,
there there's a big one there.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
At some point hitters going to hit. I mean at
some point, well not always.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I mean, there's plenty of playoff histories of guys that
were really good in the regular season that barely got
the bat off.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
There's plenty of guys.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Has been one of those guys world that I was
going to say, like right alongside him, and and he's struggling,
like his at.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Bats tonight have been awful.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Just the first pitch swinging to start the game, and
then when he struck out in the middle of what
became the big fifth inning, he just looked so grossly
uncomfortable at the plate, trying to trying to swing all right,
and he'll probably hit a home run in his next
at bat, just shut me up. But in that bat,
he just he looked pained, like he really look like
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he's struggling mentally physically going through. But but all of
it to say, you know, Dave Roberts, at least to
this point, now has been let off the hook by
that fifth inning.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So how do you manage from here?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Any any transgressions, any problems you had with the baseball.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Gods, they that all should have evened out at this point. Yeah,
so now you gotta go finish the game. Yankees win
this game.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
That's said that that storyline is there. If the Yankees
win this game, it's they have to win to stop
that storyline from going on.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Well at least at least for the moment. For the moment,
everybody has to go and start another file. Right, any
columns that were starting in terms of how dare you? Ah,
and plenty of critics of Dave Roberts are ready with
their poison pens. Now you you go to this uh
and you have to manage your ass off for four.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
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Mike Harmon, Hobo Bottom of the sixth inning, Bruce dar
Gradol trying to get out of a jam of his
own doing. They walk to Aaron Judge on a very
borderline pitch, but runners at first and second. However, Jazz
Chisholm grounds into a force play, so with one out,
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Yankees have runners at first and third on Carlos Stanton
is up seven home runs this postseason for the Yankees.
As they try to untie this thing, we are only
in the bottom of the sixth inning, and it looks
like it's going to be untied. It's a sacrifice fly
and it's now six ' five Yankees. Stanton flies out
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to center field. Chisholm's able to tag up to get
to second base. So the Yankees, after a disastrous five
running where they give up the lead to the Dodgers,
now have the lead and a runner in scoring position
with two outs.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
In the bottom of the sixth.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Cameraman causing some heart attacks based on the trajectory of
this ball and you know, angle kind of like, hey,
we're going into the third third deck here, see, I
don't see.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'll blame the cameraman for a lot. This was Stanton
and the fans behind the plate the fans behind the
pots clearly thought he had it. And the way Stanton
hit it and he kind of stopped and started to
walk really slowly up the baseline made you think, oh,
he got it, he knew he hit it, and instead, no,
I mean it's twenty feet shy of the warning track.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It was the camera, man, I don't know. I don't
think it was a cameraman.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
They stayed on Stanton Law for a long time and
it was a camera that was not a Stanton was
the one. You gotta watch the body language of the players. Man,
That's why I don't like it. Jason, you got to
open your eyes when you're watching the plane. I watched
the body language of the players. The guys that that
they will tell you if they got it, they hit
a home run, if they got it or not. And
Stanton lied to us, He lied to you, He lied
to America by making it look like he hit a
home run unless he knew it was a sacrifice flot
(17:52):
and he wanted to peacock the sacrifice shot that fly
out to center field and of a tie game, how
about the all.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Flyouts are not created equal? Because that did generate the
lead run. Now, as for Bruce Stark graderol to get
things started. Look anything borderline. Will Smith has been terrible
at to play tonight, and Dodger pitchers had a bunch
of balls in the dirt, but you're not getting anything
for framing. And the first pitch that grad all through
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rolled to the backstop, so you're already like, all right,
here we go. So anything that's near whatever the strike
zone is supposed to be on a given night, he
wasn't getting the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So this is where we sit right now, Yankees with
a six or five lead over the Dodgers. As the
Yankees bat with two outs in the bottom of the
sixth inning, again, Jazzi is heads up play, tagging up
to second base to put a runner in scoring position
for the Yankees on the sacrifice fly.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Your dad's favorite player gonna get any credit?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
No you kidding, No, Stan, it could have been anybody
hitting that sacrifice fly.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Like he's had any derogatory stuff towards Judge, and he's
got half ass effort on that fly ball.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Finally, I told you Judge was gonna hit one, and
then I said what about that play in center field?
And then he didn't right back for like a half hour,
and then he wrote back, well, now it's tied.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I am also a bit concerned for Pat Sajack, who's
behind home plate, who's had a very stern and concerned
look on his face for the better part of two
and a half.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Maybe he's got some action on this game. He's a
little nervous, you know, maybe maybe maybe he had the
under what was he over runner for runs in this game?
It's all nervous eight and a half for a while.
How did you talk with my dad about that?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Today?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Just randomly he asked me what the what the the
line was on the game and the run line, and
I just kind of chuckled. I got that, well, Yankees
one and a half in the over unders eight and
a half. He goes, it's going over because you know.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I have money for both Eleanor and Maddie. But you know,
you know later in life, but maybe I'm just gonna
let it ride on the World Series instead. Tell me
what you think.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
He just was not convinced the pitching was gonna hold
up in.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
This Listen, I got I got stuff I got for
your kids. It's I want to give money to my grandkids.
But no, I really I think if the overhits here,
I could.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Maybe double my money. I would say it.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
The brilliance of it is that my dad is kind
of like you would be a professional gambler, because there's
no chance in hell out on the East Coast. He's
staying up to watch the end of this. He'll check
it in the morning, kind of like guys that read
during the week. They obviously know the injury reports. They
check all the data, and then they place their bets
and do they watch the game.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
No, they go watch a movie. I don't want to
hang out. It's like Brad Pitt. They go and get
a workout, and then you come back and check the
results of said bets. What do you got, Frostburg, What
do you got?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I was gonna say, the only guy that's having a
worse night than the Yankees defense is nobody watching the
Big Bodega. Yeah, I mean really, I mean, I'm glad
you brought it up. Karl Anthony Towns in his Welcome
to New York game. Yeah, forty four points and thirteen
rebounds of the Nicks beat the Heat. Suddenly it's oh,
now we know why we made this trade. I mean,
(20:58):
this is this is the Karl Anthony Town's game. The
Knicks even their record at two and two. The look,
they're gonna start out a little slow because you're talking
about two new guys, new starters, trying to get in
on what Tibbs wants to do defensively. But nights like
this with Karl Anthony Towns, I mean, forty four points,
but he picked the worst night, He picked the absolute
worst night to go for forty four points.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Worst.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Well, I mean, look, the other day Benko had fifty
and it was a mention in Steve's updates and we
kind of joked about it for a minute. I'm like, well,
he just fell shy of the triple double. So it
doesn't really matter. It's a fifty point game, and away
you go. All five starters in double digits in this one.
Brunson your guy, twenty two to nine in the win
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for the heat. Tyler Herro had himself a big night,
a thirteen from three point range, thirty four points. But overall,
you know, pedestrian kind of over over arching kind of
thing because nobody cares. Yeah, it's game five of the
world's serious. I know, it's weak, like threty four.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, front page, the back page of New York Post
is gonna be whatever's gonna happen the game picture. Then
on the bottom, cat party, you know, forty four for
Knick's New Star, forty four points really really tiny with
just over the lotto numbers like you cat forty four
Lotto six thirteen, twenty seven, twenty nine, fifty five with
a big circle around eighteen.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Because remember it's also in Jets Day, so there's gonna
be a bunch of Jets head Oh yeah, yeah, oh sure, right,
I adam Tomorrow's Thursday Night. So like all of that
to say, Cat, welcome to New York. Defensively, they still
have some things to work out, but overall, you know,
you've got to be happy with the w We saw
the preview for the next game, which was what Ivy
(22:42):
and Bronson were the headliners.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, so you got that going Knicks play
tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Who do they play? Doesn't matter, the Knicks play Tomorrow night.
Oh but they in the game, Yeah, who do they play?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Listen? Who they play?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It doesn't matter, it's you know, how about the name though,
You'll get to see how big Modega that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, Big Modega's pretty good. Big Boda. I like Big Bodega.
That's a pretty good nickname. I like that. I can
get behind that.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
It took thirty two minutes for Bronnie's feet to be mentioned.
Uh yeah, yeah, well you think you know Bronnie going
back to Cleveland. We're gonna play him a few minutes maybe,
Oh no, instead, Oh no, it's never close.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Oh okay, he did hit the over though on his
points it was one and a half. Yeah, that is true.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So Better's got paid off.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Yeah, And the local broadcast sounded like it was the
kid being brought in at the end of senior Night
who hadn't played on you.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Hey, look at the equipment managers got in. Let him shootead,
let him shoe.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Look, we got NFL with Jason Cole coming up in
about twenty five minutes. But let's just a little bit
more in the World Series here. The Dodgers get out
of the inning one run score to the Yankees lead
six to five. As we go to the top of
the seventh Game five of the World Series. Not much really,
I want to say, incredibly surprises me in sports because
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doing it for so long I kind of expect certain things,
even stuff that is just gives you the shock value
on you. Once you get over the shock value realize
how unsurprising it is, it's like, Okay, I'm not surprised
because I've seen stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
The shock value is there.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But then there's times when I when I just am
blown away by something and I realize I can still
be surprised. And that was today when I watched some
of the media's reaction to the Yankee fans who reached
into Mooki Betts's glove for the ball last night and
the one who grabbed Muki Betts's wrist as.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
They tried to pry the ball out of it.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
ESPN kind of glorifying what now look at that the
left or looking pulling the glove out there, They wrote
an article on it. I watched Rob Gronkowski say, oh,
I went to college with the guy, which, of course
Gronk goes to college with the one guy, and saying.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Oh, he's doing anything he can look at that for
his team.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I'm like, oh, Gronk, you'd have liked it if running
down the sideline for touchdown against the Jets and upset
Jets fan comes out and tackles you. You're okay with
something like that. I can't get and look and I
don't want to be the old guy get off my lawn.
But that's a dangerous ass thing to happen. And I'm
glad Major League Baseball has come out with really strong
statements about it that they are monitoring how this is
going to be adjudicated going forward. You got a big
(25:10):
statement from Tony Clark on it, which there needs to
be because that's a dangerous thing. You had the guy
say today, what'd you hear from the guy today? I
patrol the wall. I patrol it. No, dude, you're a
fan and you're not. Your job is not to try
to injure one of the other players, because you know what,
watching Bets on that play last night, the scariest thing
was the guy grabbing his wrist and I think Mookie
Betts was jumping because his wrist.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Was He was like, because his wrist was held on too.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
If he's not jumping, then like it gets pulled, it
gets pulled in the diner direction. And yet these guys
are getting lionized, like, hey, look at what they're doing
for their team. And I'm embarrassed for everybody that wanted
to have some kind of fun. Hey, look at what
these guys did, Yankee fans of the core take. I
really I'm embarrassed, but I'm surprised. I didn't think the media.
(25:58):
I didn't think would go to the length and talk
about something like this and see it and go, yeah,
we can kind of brush this off. Can't brush something
like that off. Man, can't do it.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I'll go to it. I mean, look, name check.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I mean Jesse Rodgers, the leader of the clown car
like he was driving the bus for ESPN, right wrote
that article. Here's a picture yucking it up. And then
one after another it fell in line, and you know,
I get it. You're gonna have the meadhead contingent that
talks about, you know, hey, anything for the team, and
it goes into the gronk conversation with Kay Adams, and
(26:31):
certainly he knew it. But then you acknowledge that you're
with the guy and knew the guy. You didn't have
to then talk about how great it was in terms
of the fandom and you know, defending this wall and
all this other nonsense that started to flow. But yeah,
one one account after another, and video clips.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
In my timeline all day. You're just shaking your head, going,
what are we doing? We're doing now?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
The equivalency to Bartman was won because Bartman didn't try
to hurt anybody. But Bartman also that play in Chicago
went against the Cubs, so they were mad at him
because well look what happened thereafter. But his life is
ruined for him. No, but that's the thing, right, ruined.
So his life gets ruined for it, and nobody I don't,
(27:21):
I don't think to this day outside of me and
maybe about four other guys shouting into the wind have
called out Gonzales for booting a ground ball prior, for
unquirking a wild pitch, Sammy Sosa for overthrowing a cutoff man,
and the whole comedy of errors that led to the
destruction of the Cubs in that game. Oh, by the way,
they had to go and win another game thereafter. But
(27:42):
all of that to say, you know, Bartman's life was ruined,
and the Cubs gave him a World Series ring after
they won. I mean the letter that he wrote. I
saw someone posted that on the internet going back to
when they gifted him the ring, and how gracious he
was about all the abuse he'd endured through the years. Uh,
(28:03):
and hoping that bygones or buy guns instead. These guys
are being glorified. You know, you joke about them getting
a thing in Monument Park. Well, if the Yankees were
to do the impossible and come back to win, I
don't have any doubt that he would.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
If the Yankees were okay with them coming back today.
I mean, it's it's ridiculus.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I mean really, I mean, how do you not just
it's so they even got money back, I think, you know,
I mean, how do you not say, listen, this is
absolutely unacceptable. No, no, no, they wanted to help the
Yankees win. Look how cool it is. No, they almost injured.
I'm telling you, if Bets doesn't jump, he winds up
getting hurt and and and I like, how the the
uh the defensive Mookie Bets's cursing at us. Of course
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he was well, but there were a number of his
glove and tried to pull the ball out of it,
and one the other guy grabbed his pad.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And you're yanking.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
But I mean even the guy with the glove, right,
Mookie's not a tall guy. And while that fence isn't huge, right,
it's not the Green Monster, like his arms extended the
whole time, like you're talking about in a one change
in direction, and now we're talking about a big shoulder.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Injury for him.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Plus the guy on the offhand, Verdugo, and all the
other Yankees that chimed in, you're all.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
A bunch of chumps as well. Baseball needs to step
in and ban both of these guys for life. Baseball Wait,
we'll give you a chance, but Baseball the committ and
say you can't come to a game because all you're
doing is you are You are saying, hey, look at this,
you can kind of be an anti hero. And all
that's going to do is encourage more people to do
stuff like this at games. Now, I know all's got
to come in and say, you guys, you're done. You're
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done a games, right. I know.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
There was a lot of complaint about the facial recognition
that's been instituted at the Intuit Nome. Here's a perfect
example of why it needs to exist, just from idiotic
fans say nothing of anything else, but like this. This
is after every NFL I hear Dantia, those guys have
been paid. Someone's paid for on a plane. I don't
want to name websites, but I think you all know
(29:55):
who kind of lionized this thing. I wouldn't be surprised
if they're not gonna be on a plane to La
trying to get into Dodger Stadium for Game six if
there is.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
One exit out bout of Frasca exit Swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The Jason smithser with Mike Carmon live from the Tirec
dot Com Studios. Coming up next, Garrett Coles night is over,
Dodgers have a runner on two outs.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
In the seventh. Clay Holmes coming in. My dad is
now reaching for the MAYLOCKX.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But coming up next, we're gonna get into what is,
without a doubt, the most surprising storyline of this world series.
Some numbers are gonna just stun you. It's next Radio
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Speaker 1 (30:39):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Mucho Yankee's coming to back in the
bottom of the seventh, Clay Holmes running on empty comes
in and gets out of the inning, striking out Max Munsey,
who couldn't make an out in the NLCS. I think
he reached bays eighty five times against the Mets with
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a home run, eight walks, a home run, eight walks,
home run, and he's oh for fifteen in the World Series.
That's baseball, Susan.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Are you bitter about that? Now?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Just till a little bit he could he could do
he could do no wrong in the NLCS, but now
he has the World Series.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
But but the big thing for me, right is you're
not hitting worth the lick. You're really gonna stand there
with the bat on his shoulder. Everybody knows you're not
hitting worth the lick, right, You're not getting the benefit
of the doubt by the umpire at the plate. He's
not bailing you out. Oh, particularly on a strike three
that is directly about his perfect a pitch to either
(31:36):
swing at or to have called a strike Like, there's
no argument.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Over the pitch that he was caught looking on, and
it's all Jason's fault. How's an eye fault?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Because Kevin Wyatt, who worked last night, was dressed had
looked like Max Muncy you put that evil on him,
Ricky Bobby, Hey, I think he was over before last
night too. I don't think suddenly he hasn't got a
hit in two weeks. Yeah, it didn't happen to him
just last night. He's gonna be a great matt He's ah. However,
I was gonna say Kevin White. However, Max Munsey is
(32:08):
just the appetizer of this conversation, because yes, I understand
that he's not one hundred percent and he was hurt
and he's playing. But Shohotani has been terrible in the
World Series. Most surprising storyline. One guy thought, well, who's
gonna be October Proof here? Of all these stars playing
in the World Series for the first time, it's gonna
(32:29):
be Otani. Otani looks bad at the plate. He hasn't
really looked great all postseason. He had the one big
home run against some Mets, looked like I went about
five hundred feet. But even before the injury, no stolen
bases after fifty nine in the regular season, not one
in the entire postseason. His home run at bat streak
is now up up close to thirty. He's hitting one
(32:52):
oh five. He has two hits in the first four
and a half games of the World Series, and some
of his at bats, I don't want to say they
don't look competitive, but they don't look like they're the show. Heyotani, Hey,
here's my plan for what I have coming up. There's
a lot of swinging at the first pitch, like maybe
because he's pressing too much. Maybe he knows I only
(33:13):
have so many swings in me each at bat because
it's gonna hurt my shoulder. I can swing like once
or twice without paying gonna try to jump on the
first pitch, But it doesn't matter. You're playing in the
game and you're leading off. I mean, sho Hao Tani's
been awful. I mean as bad as Max Munths. He's
been zero for fifteen Otani's supposed to be the guy.
He's gonna be the guy to win the World Series. Instead,
it's like, man, if Freddy Freeman wasn't here, the Eggers
(33:34):
have won him sweep, even even though they can't field.
This has been the easily the most surprising storyline of
the World Series, because I thought he would have been
October proof and I watch him at bat, and I
look at him and I go it just doesn't seem
like the same guy, and it can change him one
at bat to the next. Maybe it's a big home run,
maybe it changes they come back home for Game six.
(33:55):
Whowever this goes, I don't know, but the fact that
he just looks as bad as he does and the
Yankee pitchers are going right at him. Now there's no hey,
let's pitch around him. They did that very first at
bat of the World Series, Freddie Freeman makes him pay.
Since then, it's been we're going right at you.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
He's got five strikeouts, he's got three more strikeouts that
he has hits in the World Series. They are going
at him, they are challenging him, and he is having trouble.
Some of his swings look good, like when I say
about it, go okay, it doesn't look like he's hurt there.
Then sometimes he'll swing in the top handle, come off
the bat and I'll go, oh, maybe he's struggling there
a little bit. But no matter how you slice him,
whatever he's playing, he's leading off, he's doing his normal thing.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
And he has been terrible well.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
As we always talk about it, no matter what's the sport,
if you're on the court, I can only acknowledge the
injury so much. Right, I give you the props for
playing hurt to a degree, but in the end, what
you put on tape and what you put in the
box score is is your contribution. And he's not getting
good at bats. He's reaching out of the zone, which
(34:55):
is PlayOn. Discipline is a number one for him and
always has in right, the stolen base thing, you wonder
how much philosophically as a team difference between regular season
and postseason that I don't know, But you know what,
you still got to get on bass to steal a
mase and and he hasn't been doing a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
And it's it's not to denigrate thing, guy, it's just
the reality of where we're at.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
We've talked about it the last couple of nights, just
talking about how pained he looked following through and and
for a couple of games he didn't he was swinging
with one arm. Now he's still swinging with both hands
on the bat just looks grossly uncomfortable. I mean, and
Cole came inside on him earlier in the game on
a couple of pitches that he he's swung straight.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Through, balls that he would turn on balls. Look, Cole
was feeling, he was he was throwing gas early, but
he knew he had no chance to be harmed by one.
O'tan where Otani is right now physically? Yeah, look look,
and that's why that's why I go back to Hey
first at bat of the series, right which which Hey,
maybe the Yankees are even more in this. But you walk,
(36:02):
you pitch around Otani when you gotta you gotta pitch
to him and see what he can do. And instead
you walk him on four pitches and then Freddy Freeman,
what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
What are you doing? You gotta you got you gotta
make sure that you know, you see that he can
he can swing the bat or not.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
You know, if he hurtschit's one nothing right like and
and it's a proof of concept that he's gonna be
able to bring the bat through the zone and and
put a charge into it. You haven't seen that. You've
seen a couple of lazy fly balls, and you've seen
him swing through pitches that he would normally crush, uh
and turn on, and others that he would normally just
(36:35):
look away from and get the benefit of the doubt
because of the batter's eye that he has right now.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Bottom of the seventh, two out's Blake trying and in
for the Dodgers. It looked like Walker Bueller might be
getting up in the bullpen a little bit.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Maybe this is Bueller doing normal throw. Maybe he throws
like this he wanted to throw, but you can't think.
Maybe he's coming into the game. Maybe he's coming they
need him in the ninth. Then maybe he's the long
guy to get ready. If we high this game, we
go to extra innings. So the Dodgers using their high
leverage guys tonight.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Hey what a great idea. Still six five Yankees in
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