October 26, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith, Steve DeSaegher and MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi tell react to Freddie Freeman’s Game 1 WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM and tell you exactly where it ranks all-time in World Series moments!!
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say baseball is not my thing.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Freddie Freeman a grand slam in the bottom of the
ninth inning, the first walk off grand slam in World
Series history. The Dodgers were down to their final out,
bases loaded, and Freddie Freeman hits the first pitchycs off
of nest to Cortes. And what a call by Fox's
Joe Davis, or says delivery.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Freeman hits the broad right.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Field said good, Gibby made Freddy Game one of the
World Series.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What a great call Gibby me Freddie, Freddie Freeman, the
hero so many twists and turns in this game. Nobody
better to talk to than a man who I almost met.
I almost figured, well, we should have him on just
to do a wellness check if he's okay after seeing
this drama. It is MLB Network insider, longtime friend of
the show. Uh follow him on Twitter at John Morosi.
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It is John Paul Morosi. John Paul, You okay? Because
I gotta make sure my dad is okay. Friends, that
was some kind of drama.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Jason and Steve, we will be talking about this night
for generations to come. The all the parallels. That was
a great call by Joe Davis. But and even as
as you get deeper into the layers, you've got both
of the sluggers that hit the Game one World Series
walkoff are hobbled, so Gibson that had two bad legs,
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Freeman has one famously bad ankle, and he delivers in
this spot with Cortes on the mount, which surely will
talk about And your dad probably has a thought or
two about that, James.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yes, he's already texted me his thoughts on that.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Yes, right, but can here Mookie Betts said one of
the best games he had ever been a part of.
And I think, objectively based on what you said, the
first walk off Grand Slam in the history in the
history of the World Series has been going on for
more than one hundred and twenty years, and it's the
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first time that has ever happened, and it happens in
Game one in that ballpark as the honor Fernando Valenzuela.
It's just and it's someone in Freddie Freeman who has
just universally beloved in the game. He's been through so
much physically this year with his son's illness, and then
he's able to have that moment he goes over to
his dad. This is baseball. This is why we love
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this sport and why this World Series, among all the
World Series, is just our delights as baseball fans.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, I mean, look, I'll go you one better, John Paul.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
We had three plays in this game that were that
harken back and make you think of three of the
most famous plays in baseball history. The Gibson, the Gibson
home run for do go the play before like Jeter
into the stands against the red Ston ball right right,
and the Jeffrey Mayor Steve Bartman with the guy in
center field who reached over to you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
We had game one of the World Series. What's it
gonna remind you of?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, Mayor Bartman, Jeter into the stands, and Kirk Gibson.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh so that's it, that's all we go. Okay, that's fine,
that's fine.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
That's the great point. And you know who probably I
think if Freeman is the happiest person in LA, the
second happiest person is the guy who caught that ball.
Because now, because now he is right, he is like
story number seventy one in the La Times tomorrow, there
is like seventy things more import than him. But you're right,
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we had three. That's a tremendous point by you, Jason.
Three mirror image iconic plays, which is why baseball as
our friend Sarah Langs often says baseball is the best.
It was the best.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Tonight, Absolutely it was. And the FS one post game
is still going on. And by the way, and this
is my question for you. In the last twenty years
of the World Series, I was trying to come up with,
is there anything like this that's like memorable for decades
kind of the game? And one of the games I
thought of was the David Freeze game at Saint Louis
Game six and twenty eleven, and apparently before tonight, that
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was the only time in World Series history that a
team wiped out multiple deficits in the eighth inning or later.
And one because remember the Dodgers needed the saply in
the eidh to tie and the Grand Slam in the
Tents won. It is that perhaps a nominee for you
of something to be remembered, this would join that list
without a doubt.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
And for me, so I was born in eighty two,
so this is the first ever Yankees Dodgers World Series
game in my lifetime. And so for it to end
this way, and to your point, for there to be
additional comeback moments, including the one on the eighth inning,
which by the way credit Otani for heads up base running,
and certainly it was a big mistake made by the
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Yankees defensively of the tough err On Torres. But I
understand why he was given the error because that's the ball.
You've got a knock down. I get it, I understand,
And certainly a great run played by Edmund up the middle,
a play that the replacement for tore Dinezwuano Cabrera could
have potentially made. Missed the back to change yeah, to
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change that ending. I really think. I know that was
that was considered a hit, and it probably deserves to be,
But I thought that play could have been made so
that there were a number of different moments in in
this game where you said, my gosh, this he felt
as though the outcome was changing time and time again,
which I think is exactly how I remember feeling on
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that night there in Saint Louis back at twenty eleven.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
You know, John Paul, we talked about this.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Nester Cortes comes in and throws two pitches right, he
gets he gets the incredible play by Alex Vertugo going
into the stands, which was amazing. But I have to
think either this was something either coming into the series
or an on the fly bit of strategy, because both
Otani and Freeman pounced on his first pitch, whether this was, hey,
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this is what Cortes is going to try to do,
or hey, he has pitched in five weeks. You get
that ninety two mile an hour fastball down the middle,
you want to get ahead in the count, take a
whack at it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I got to think that was some.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Kind of strategy going into the bat that they talked
about for both of these guys.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
A really good point. And I think Cortes tends to
be around the plate, and I think that maybe that
was part of the idea that Listen, don't don't let
him get deep into the at bat to where his
sleeper becomes effective. And I think, in fairness, part of
the issue to move back a little bit is you
got Tim Hill there in the bullpen, and Tim Hills
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helps you get to this point. And so that's why
you know, Boom was talking about different matchups and how
he liked the matchup with Cortes, and Listen, Cortes did
get Otani that that happened, but you got to realize
that to get through that inning, you're going to likely
need to at some point either get Vets or get Freeman,
and it seemed as though Hill might have been the
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better option there. So it's it's a difficult play. I
understand it. Hill though, has been effective for you. He's
helped you get to this point, and then Cortes you
admire him as a teammate for getting out there, but
he hasn't pitched in a month, and all of a sudden,
the first thing you do is you face Otani in
the tenth inning of Game one of the World Series.
I mean, that is that is a tough, tough assignment.
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So I'm sure Aaron Boone will be asked about that
a lot, and I'm sure our friends on the local
sports radio stations and New York will have some fun
with that tomorrow and for however long if it goes.
But that is, that's I think going to be a
major talking point and a big reason why we talk
about this this game forever. Because of course, the Gibson
over run comes off a Hall of famer in Eckers League.
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In this case, it comes off someone who had to
even pitch in a month. It's just it's an extraordinary
bit of baseball history that we just witnessed here tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And do you think that maybe the Yankees in retrospect
were kind of stuck with the bullping because they'd already
used their closer before the tenth they'd already used their
former closer, and they'd already used Tommy Kinley to get
out of something. So even with a six inning start,
they didn't have maybe as many options as they would
prefer for extra innings.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Well, that's a very good point, and I think what
I would say in general is it's it's almost impossible
for the Yankees to get through this Dodger lineup if
they're starting to go six innings without involving the lefties
in some way, because otherwise, if you're expecting it, and listen,
Holmes has been able to go more than three outs,
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so as Cainley at different times, and so as Weaver.
But it's a seven game series, and so you're going
to need to have your lefties stepping in there to
get key outs. And again, through two rounds of the playoffs,
they won three to one over the Royals, and they
won four to one over the Guardians with Tim Bill
getting big outs late in the game. And I think
that part of the conversation will be two for the
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for the Yankees is you know internally in that clubhouse,
are there some eyebrows raised, like man Tim Bill was there?
He was, he's been with us this opposed that. Certainly
they love Nestor as well, but it's just it creates
an interesting way that the Yankees will move past this
because of Hill being someone that's gotten him to this point,
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but he wasn't the guy that got the ball in
the biggest spot here tonight.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, that's a that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And you look and for a guy like Aaron Boone,
who has done so much work this year to get
the fans to believe in him, right, because Aaron Boone
says he's been, he's been someone that all look at
the failures, it's all Boone's fault and forever it seems
like Aaron Boone is on the firing line.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Here he goes, he gets the Yankees to the World Series.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
There here you think everything is fine, and in Game
one he makes whenever you make a bullpen move that
doesn't work out, nothing gets you second guests faster than
that going into tomorrow. So with that, with that being said,
John Paul. Yes, we talk about momentum in baseball. The
next day starting pitcher. Is this win a little bit
different for the Dodgers, And is this lost a little
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bit different for the Yankees?
Speaker 6 (10:57):
It certainly can be. And and I guess what I say,
is this that the recipe that the Yankees set out there,
and you know, in fairness, they were walked off by
the Guardians. They won the next two games, and the
Dodgers back in twenty eighteen, they walked off the Red
Sox in one of the most ethic wal Series games ever,
and then they lost the next two games. The Red
Sox won the World Series in La. So it's I'm
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always careful to ascribe too much of momentum what happens tomorrow.
I think the Yankees have an excellent chance to win
that game and even if the series head back, but
there's no doubt that I think in the very same
ballpark the very next day, the Dodgers are a different
team than the Guardians. They're a more complete team. And
at the end of the day, the Yankees have to
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find a way with their lefties, whether it's Cortes or
Hill or Mesa or Kainlee is right handed, but he's
almost like a lefty because of his changeup. They're gonna
have to go through this gauntlet time and time again.
And now the Dodgers and Freeman had this new shot
of confidence because they saw that what he could do.
He tripled them the first inning. So there were I
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think a lot of really good moments for the Dodgers,
and then defensively for the Yankee the couple ill timed
mistakes where ninety people were given and you just can't
do that against the team this good, and I think
that they that's part of the reason why they paid
for it with a Game one defeat for the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Last question, do you still see the Yankees having the
starting pitching edge going forward even though they're down in
the series? I, for example, could easily see them winning
Monday against hum ever and Tuesday against maybe a Dodger
bullpen game.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Sure, one hundred percent. And that's honestly. I predicted the
Yankees would win this series before, and that was the
biggest reason why. So even after Steve one of the
most epic games that I've ever seen, I can't change
my mind. So I said Yankees before, with a big
part of it being the rotation advantage. So I say
the Yankees, even after watching that, they still have the
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rotation advantage, and I cannot wait for game to tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John Morosi,
MLB Network Insider. Again you can I'm on Twitter at
John Morosi. Now we can't let you go because you
are a celebrity Lions picker, Titans and the Lions Sunday.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
How is this gonna go?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I've got Lions thirty one, Titans seventeen.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Wow, thirty one. You're feeling good about the offensive?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Sure, I'm feeling really good. I as Jason knows, I
rarely pick above thirty, but I'm going there for the
Lions this time.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
John Paul, thanks a bunch. Enjoy Game two and beyond.
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
All the best friends, Thanks so much, really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
All Right, there goes John Paul Morosi. And let me
tell you something, Steve.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Look, the Tim Hill question is why wasn't Tim Hill,
who was really good against the Guardians, right.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Why was Remember Cortes wasn't on the playoff roster until today.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And Cortes and Cortes comes into it here there are
certain plays, certain decisions that happen in playoffs and World
Series and Super Bowls and NBA Finals where oh boy,
that was a big Now was a big play, and
that helped win the series.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Here we lost because of that play. Ah, you know what,
we lost. Let's move on.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And then there's plays that stick with you for thirty
and forty years. There's still Jets plays from the plays
and Jets games from the eighties, and I still think
about going, how the hell does Mark gassen o rough
Bernie Kozar? You know, like, how does that happen?
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
How do we do that? Well?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
We mentioned you what we mentioned the David Freeze game.
Texas Rangers fans still say, how did Nelson Cruz not
catch that ball to the wall in right field? We
got a DH playing right field and we never won
another game that series.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
And if the if the Yankees lose this series for
thirty years, you mean, Yankee fans are gonna say, why
wasn't Tim Hill in that game? Hey? How you feeling today? Great?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Hey, the year is twenty forty six. What's their first
thought today? Why wasn't Tim Hill in that game? Instead
of nets to Cortes Back in twenty twenty four. It's
one of those thirty year storylines we're gonna have. That's
how big. Trust me. I know, I know New York,
I know sports and how things age when you lose
a game like that and there's big either or decisions
that are made. That's how this decision is going to
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age and thirty we'll still be talking about that in
thirty years. Amazing, an incredible, incredible night. I feel like
we're just getting started. Dodgers win Game one of the
World Series over the Yankees. Of Freddie Freeman's walk off
Grand Slam home run is the big play of the game,
the big play of the season, the big home run
of the century so far, whatever you want to say.
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We have more on this game coming up next, including
the reason I picked the Dodgers. It was because of
exactly what happened tonight. And no it's not Freddy Freeman's
Grand Slam.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
We'll tell you about it next right here. Jason Smith
Steve de Sager in for Mike Harmon. This is Fox
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Speaker 4 (15:51):
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Speaker 1 (15:52):
The Jason Smith Show is Steve de Sager in for
Mike Harmon tonight live Fromthetirack dot Com studios. And before
we get into look, I picked the Dodgers to win
the World Series in seven games, and every reason I
gave last night we saw in Game one. We'll get
to that coming up in a second, but we've heard
the Joe Davis call of Freddie Freeman's Grand Slam, which
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was incredible, right, give me meat, Freddy, the walk off
home run that wins Game one.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Of the World Reference.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I mean, just just amazing, right, just amazing call by
Joe Davis.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
How did it sound with John Sterling?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Remember came out of retirement to all the Yankee games
in this postseason. John Sterling Susan Waldman, one more time
together in the Yankee booth. Here's the Yankees call of
Freddie Freeman's game winning home run.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Again, Yankees lose, Yankees lose.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
See are you playing that right off?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And you're right there exactly?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Uh, you know, I get a feeling it was it
was somewhat like that. I I think it was.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It was some what like that that we haven't hear it.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
So what a fabulous game?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Well, bases loaded, chew outs come down to this Freddy
Freeman the hitter, Lefty to lefty with chew outs, pitch
a high drive to right Soto back on the track,
and she is gone a Grand Slam to win the
game for l A.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
You don't say, Susan, you know he.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Went from what a great game? What? What?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
What a great This is such a great game. This
is a game grant side how master, how betan, Susan?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Pack up? Let's go. Time to leave.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
We're gonna pack hip as fast as that guy that
caught the ball in center field.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Uh, let's go. We gotta go back for game.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You mentioned the only game winning Grand Slam in world history.
Isn't that way?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You said, first walk off Grand Slam home run.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
We have seen walkoff homers of course in World Series history.
Somewhat rare, but we've seen them. This is the first
time it's been with two outs while you're trailing to
win a World Series game.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Yeah, I mean it was.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It really was since Kirk Gibson. Of course, that was
the only one other where it had happened in this situation.
Where you had for the whole postseason a hobbling Freddie Freeman.
And then we referenced the nineteen eighty eight series opener
with the hobbling MVP Kirk Gibson, and you talked about
scouting early with Cortes taking the loss coming out of
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the pen, and they went after the first pitch. The
Dodgers scouting won that World Series game with Kirk Gibson
because when they set him up as a pinch hitter,
and that was literally his only appearance the entire World
Series because he was hurt. If it was regular season,
he'd been on the injured list. The scout had told
them when Eckersley, who was the dominant closer, then when
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he comes in for the A's and gets two strikes
on the lefty hitter, he tries to go the back
door slider.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Go after it.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And if you see the still photos of Kirk Gibson's
home run swing on that game winner, the legendary home
run in nineteen eighty eight, he's essentially on one foot
cut and one hand on the follow through with the
swing because he's leaning out to just like the scout said,
go get it. And remember, guys, he basically had to
fight Tommy Lasorda just to get in.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
That's right, Yeah, yeah, I really was. I mean it was,
it was, and it finally was.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Sort of got the clubhouse guy, Mitch Poole to go
down and get him in pool as actually the first
one who reported, Hey, Gibby says he can go. He's like,
I hear him grunting with like the batting cage there
by the clubhouse. He can go.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And you know, and I was just telling this because
because now it's fun, because now I get to talk
about Kirk Gibson with my daughter and our friend who
you know what Kirk Gibson home run.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
And I always remember this about that home run.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Obviously, you know, you see the couple of people that
are breaking, you know when you see the home run,
that have left the game going we're gonna lose, gotta
beat the traffic to go home, and they're hearing the
Vince Scully call deep to right field.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You see the breaks go on.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
The Don Drysdale call. Vin Scully was on TV every.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Time that Dennis Eckersley would talk about this, right because
he was the best closer in the game bar none.
Eckersley was Mariano Rivera. Before Rivera, Eckersley was unbeatable. In
the middle of his career, he makes the switch from
being a starting pitcher to being a lights out reliever,
kind of like we saw John Smoltz do and he
was unbeatable. And he would always say the same thing,
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what about that pitch? He goes, you know, the pitch
was what you saw Kirk Gibson, Like, I go, man,
was that ball juiced? Because Kirk Gibson just like swings
with one arm and like, you know, somehow puts that
ball into the stands.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
But he always said the same thing.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I can't believe I walked Mike Davis because that was
the big thing was with two outs, he walked Mike Davis,
who was a decent player.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
But look that Dodgers lineup in eighty eight was awful. There.
I think Mickey Hatcher was hitting third.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Feve I maintained, that's the worst World Series winning lineup
I've ever seen. Look at the people who are charging
the mound after Herscheizer gets the final out to win
the title. It's Tracy Woodson Alfredo Griffin, who batted one
ninety nine for a full season. Franklin Stubbs, Mike Davis,
Mickey Hatcher, John Shelby, and Rick Dempsey, Steve the eighty
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six Mets could have been worse.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh stop, we come out, Come on. We had all
kinds of great guys in there. We got Hall of
Famers in that lineup.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
But you know, look, this Freddie Freeman home runing is
getting all the attention, and rightfully so. But you want
to look at this game as a whole, and I
want to talk about the reasons that I picked the
Dodgers in seven and we saw everything tonight in the game.
Because we talked about this last night. I said, I
have more confidence that the Dodger bullpen is going to
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navigate big situations than the Yankee bullpen.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Not the Yankee bullpen's always going to give stuff up.
What do I say?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
All you need is one game to give something up
late and that flips the series rights.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You can see it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It's in the best of what happened tonight. The Dodger bullpen.
They came in, they shut the door when they had to.
They got a big pop up with Judge and a
couple of runners on. They shut the door with the
bases loaded. After Stanton's home run, and what happened to
the Yankee bullpen? The Yankee bullpen faltered and gave up
the game winning runs. So more more confidence in the
Dodger bullpen, more confidence in the bottom of the Dodger
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lineup than the bottom of the Yankee lineup. The Dodgers
hit better top to bottom, and the Yankees really rely
on hitters one through four to do all their damage.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
What do we see tonight? Who did the damage one
through four?
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And and what happened with the Dodgers in the in
the in the tenth inning, seven eight and nine came up,
seven eight nine came up. They kept the inning going
to get the bullet to get it to the top
of the order, Freddie Freeman with the Grand Slam. But
this was a Dodger rally that started with the bottom
of the lineup coming up, seven eight nine, not guaranteed.
O Toddy was gonna bat, and you had a couple
of guys on and suddenly we're back at the top
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of the order. So those were some big reasons why
I liked the Dodgers to win the series, And they
were the two biggest things we saw tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And it's a strange thing to say that Sodo didn't
impact the game as much as he can because he
got on with a hit, he had two walks, he
scored one of the runs in what had been a
low scoring game for much of the night. But when
they intentionally walk Sodo to get the judge, it's because
Judge has already struck out three times tonight, and except
for that key home run at Cleveland, Judge has struck
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out a lot this month, a lot in playoff games.
Maybe that was in the back of the mind. For
what it's worth, as we have a game one finish now.
In history, the team that wins a Game one in
a best of seven goes on to win the series
about two thirds of the time, and in fact, in
this format two three to two, the team that wins
Game one at home goes on to win the series
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two thirds of the time. I think there would be
an asterisk in this because most of those teams in
the past in baseball history had four starting pitchers to
throw out in a regular rotation. I wasn't kidding on
the question to John Paul Morosi. I can easily see
the Dodgers losing Monday and Tuesday Yankee Stadium with who
Walker Buehler Monday and then everybody trying to pitch an
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inning each on Tuesday. This is a long way from done,
fortunately for all of us this series.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Now here's what the Dodgers need to do, Steve, I
already got what they need to do.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
It may not help, but mentally will help give them
an edge going into the game. Just when you write
that for probable pictures for Game three, just write in Kofax.
Just write in Kofax. Doesn't matter, just write how intimidating
would that look? Well, let's see, it's Clark Schmid and
Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh man, I have to go back to the World
Series story that af Kofax of course retired because his
arm was falling off after nineteen sixty six World Series.
But a decade later, friends of Tommy Lasorda. Of course,
Losorda gets into the World Series against the Yankees and
he has Sandy Kofax throw batting practice to the team
at Dodger Stadium before a World Series games and he's
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getting people out.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Somebody has to.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Sprint out to the mound during batting practice and say,
the guys are about to play in the World Series.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Let them hit.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
This is a bad ad practice. So I don't care
how old Sandy Kofax is. I bet he could pitch
a few.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Did you ever see this is probably from about five
years ago, five or six years ago when Chris Bryant
was still one of the was still one of the
best players in baseball, and they and I forget who
it was, a TV show was doing a story on
him like it was.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
It was like Fox was doing it.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I forget who it was, but it was a story
basically on Chris Bryant, right, like, here's Chris Bryant, We're
gonna interview him, We're gonna get video of you, you know,
hitting in the cage and everything else, and so it
was a whole thing like they were doing the story,
but they played a joke on him and they had
the guy following around with a camera, had like a
hat on, sunglasses and a beard, and it was really
funny because the camera guy goes, can you stop running?
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I'm picking up your footprints instead of his. I need
Chris's footprints. Okay, great, So they do the whole thing
and then they say, okay, Christy want to get some
video of you in.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
The in the in the cage hitting. He was like, yeah, sure, yeah, sure,
no problem.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
So all of a sudd and they're getting ready to go,
and then, of course, because it's a joke, they go,
where's the guy supposed to come in the pitch batting
practice to to Chris Bryant, and they go, oh, he's
not here.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
He's like, uh, we gotta do this. How are we
gonna shoot this? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
And then the camera guy, who again mustache glasses and
a hat and a beard, says, I played in high
school a little bit. I could throw. I can maybe
throw it. But they said, all right, sure, go ahead, right,
you'll go get in there. So he gets So he
gets in there and he's throwing pitches and Chris Bryant
keeps fouling them off. He's going, wow, that pitch has
a lot of movement on What's going on here? And
he goes just keep just keep throwing, keep throwing, and
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he keeps missing, and you can tell Chris Bryant wants
to uh, he wants to go like, what the hell
is going on?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Why can't I not hit this?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
He's going, these are inside this pitch is outside and
he keeps off missing and then they finally let him
in on it after like twenty pitches because the guy,
the pitcher's going just just to take it easy. I'm
gonna throw, I'm not gonna throw it hard, don't worry,
just take it easy. And he's going just throw, just
just throw. And he takes off his hat and glasses
beard and it's Greg Maddox. Oh my, and it was
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watching Chris Brant.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Wow. This guy is Wow, that's got some moving on him.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
So I can't get Greg Maddox, who we mentioned at
the beginning of the show one of the many Hall
of famers in the Braves Yankees World Series from back
in the ninety Chris Bryant won a World Series with
the Cubs with Anthony Rizzo, who's the Yankee starting first
baseman tonight. And we've mentioned a lot about the eighty
eight World Series where Game one was won by Gibson.
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One of the rare game ones that had a Grand
Slam in it was the Gibson game. Jose Canseco hit
a Grand Slam at Dodger Stadium for the lead in
that series.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
In that game that night, I want to say that
was his first World Series at bat because he got
hit by a pitch first time up, and then Belcher,
he's the only guy. He's the only guy in baseball
history hit a Grand Slam as first at batan the
World Series. He was hit by a pitch the first
time episode it's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
The year before, Dan Gladden it hit a Grand Slam
for the Twins. But the only other one literally in
the history of Game one of the World Series. Tonight,
do you remember when the Yankees Tino Martinez against Mark
Langston and the Padres in the nineteen ninety eight opener
hit it out as soon as Langston thought in relief
he had struck him out with basses loaded and didn't
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get the call. And then Martinez hits it out and
the Yankees go on to a sweep of the ninety
eight World Series. By the way, the stat from and
she was quoted by our guest tonight, Sarah Lang's the
great baseball researcher, pointing out that in Dodger World Series history,
when they're trailing a World Series game going into the
eighth inning, their record had been two and fifty eight
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and one of those comeback wins was the Kirk Gibson
game Game one, nineteen eighty eight. The other was nineteen
forty seven when they were being no hit in the
ninth and still beat the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
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Speaker 1 (28:49):
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Speaker 1 (29:24):
You want to know why I picked the Dodgers, the
reasons I said last night? You go back and check
the tape, Go back and check the tabe you absolutely
on display now the Dodger bullpen versus the Yankee bullpen.
The Dodger lineup the bottom of the lineup versus the
bottom lineup.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
For the Yankees. They come through more than the Yankees have.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Right now, time to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports, because, very succinctly and very defintely
with the game on on Big Fox, we segued right
from Game one of the World Series to USC Rutgers.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Steve Sega has the latest on that right now.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
He's not kidding. There's college football on Fox TV right now.
It's there's thirty from halftime at the LA Coliseum. I
think as soon as the last car finally gets out
at Dodger Stadium the fourth quarter, we're finished downtown at
the Coliseum. Yeah, it's not going to be easy to
get out of Dodger Stadium. Tonight. USC leads late first
half twenty eight nine against Rutgers and seventeenth rang. Boise
(30:17):
State is ahead at UNLV twenty to seventeen early in
the third quarter. Boise State has one of the Heisman
candidates at running back this year, Ashton Gent with eighteen
carries eighty two yards rushing. At Vegas tonight, Louisville was
down twenty to nothing late first step, but still got
an acc victory at Boston College thirty one, twenty seven.
And then there was the Dodger Game one victory on
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a tenth inning grand slam from Freddie Freeman LA over
the Yankees six to three. We knew coming in that
this had the potential to be not just a great game,
but a great series. In the wildcard era, so going
back about thirty years of baseball history, it's pretty rare
that you have the team with the best record in
the American League facing on against the team with the
(31:01):
best record from the National League regular season. That's your
World Series matchup. And in fact, for what it's worth,
the only other four times in the wildcarred era where
that matchup has happened, whoever won game won went on
to win the series. Unfortunately for the Dodgers, they don't
have a full rotation, so if they lose to Carlos
Rodin tomorrow, then they're playing at Yankee Stadium Monday, Tuesday,
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and Wednesday. Stay tuned. I repeat, can this please be
a best of nine? This was phenomenal Tonight. Dodgers got
sacrifice flies from Will Smith bottom of the fifth from
Mookie Betts bottom of the eighths to tie at two
to two, but the Yanks took the lead in the
top of the tenth, largely because of Jazz Chisholm, who
wound up with three stolen bases in this game, two
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in the top of the tenth inning. One of those
put him on third base and allowed him to score
the go ahead run, even though the ball never left
the infield, but the Dodgers on the slam by Freeman
win at six three to ten, the loss to Nestor Cortes,
who threw two pitches two total in relief tonight, a
guy who it was.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Too too many, actually was one too many. It was
just it was one too many because he got the
auto Otani. It was one too many, and that night
that made it by the way.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Two outs in the bottom of the tenth, but the
intentional walk to bets these days, no pitches are thrown
for that. And then he faced Freeman with two outs,
bases loaded, first pitch, fastball deposited into the right field seats,
and the game is over in phenomenal fashion, and Nestor Cortes,
who just came off the injured list, takes the loss.
The guy had been he had been out five weeks
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with a strained elbow, so infielder John Birdie is not
on the World Series roster. They do have Rizzo healthy
for first base. Cortes comes in and they don't come
in with Tim Hill, who I will bring up later
on in the show because he, like Freddie Freeman and
others who participated tonight, have local ties. It was strange
the stories that were weaved in this one. Can't wait
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for Game two.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
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Speaker 1 (33:42):
Now coming up next, we've talked about the Dodge bullpen
We talked about the Yankee bullpen, We talked about the
Dodger lineup. We talked about the Yankee lineup. How about
maybe the biggest thing that caused the Yankee loss tonight,
I mean, besides Quretes giving up the Grand Slam. What's
the biggest thing that we he can talk about. That's
next right here, Jason Smith, Steve de Sager, Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (34:19):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Steve
de segerre in for Harmon tonight, and it is World
Series Game one overload. Freddie Freeman's walk off Grand Slam
wins it for the Dodgers six ' three.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Over the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
We'll have more on that at bat more on Freeman's
home run coming up in a few minutes. But you know,
one of the reasons, you know, we detailed the bullpens
of both teams, the lineups of both teams, and the
reason I like the Dodgers in the series. Their bullpen's better,
the bottom of their lineup is better. But one thing
we talked about earlier on in the show, Steve was
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how it's maddening how the Yankees continue to play really
loose baseball in the field, yes, and running the bases
and they don't pay for it, and it's and it's
crazy watching them get all the way to the World Series,
as John Sterling said against the Guardiange running the.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Bases like a bunch of drunks.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Right, it's it's crazy to see them at this point
in the season makes so many mistakes and still not
have to pay for it.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Well, tonight they're fielding absolutely blow towards them.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
There were you know, there was a there were three
plays that I can look at and say, wow, the
Yankees had to make these plays and and if they do,
then Freddie Freeman never gets to come up for the
Grand Slam. And you know, first there's the the the
ground ball that Cabrera doesn't come up with, right, that
that that you need to come up with.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
It puts runners at first and second.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
It was called feld single, not of air, but you're correct.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Right, that continues the tenth inning for the Dodgers. And
if he comes up with that, maybe you know, it's
three outs and Freeman doesn't get a chance to come up,
but he's got to come up with that ball, especially
in the game for defensive purposes. It's a tough play,
but it's a play you have to make, much like
Tommy Edmund the play that when the Yankees had the
go ahead run from Jazz Chism when.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
He scored on the force play.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
All Right, it's a tough play, but he kind of
has to make that and not blow the transfer on
the double play, like Cabrera's got to come up with
that ball. But the big one was the Otani double
that turned into a play where Otani got to third
because of the throw back into the infield was kind
of it was a bad throw in from one.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
So it can be shored infielder.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yes, I mean, if you're glibratorius, you can you can
grab that. But when when you're looking to third base
because you want to see if Otani's running, he took
his eye off the ball. But you have to come
up with that Like that was very much of a
lazy play. You can say, yeah, the throat comes in
short up from Juan Soto, but it's a very lazy
play because he's looking away football thing and I'm just
gonna grab it and instead the ball ticks off his glove.
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Otani gets to third, Mookie Betts hits the sacrifice fly,
and we're into the tenth inning because of that play.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Now, those are two big plays.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
But I want you to look at the Otani double again,
and I want you to see something because I watch
this play and I go, how does Juan Soto not
catch this ball? Like he Otani's ball doesn't hit off
the top of the wall. It comes down and hits
in the middle of the wall, and Juan Soto's on
the warning track, like it's if he takes two steps
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back and jumps, he can catch the ball. Like I
know that his philosophy was, Okay, I don't want him,
I'm sure, and it's in that moment it was like,
I don't want to make a bad decision and try
to go up and get it, and if I don't
get it, it bounces away.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
From me and it's a triple.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
But if you could maybe catch it and keep Otani
off a second base, out of scoring position, you kind
of have to go for it. And also you know
Judge's gonna be there to try to get there and
see where the ball is. But I watch his play
and I go, how does Wan Soto not take one
more step and jump, Like it's like he gave up
on the ball when he got to the track, thinking
I'm not gonna jump and get it.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
And clearly when you see where the ball lands, that's
a ball he could have got.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
And he does not make from the track, it's from
the outfield grass.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
So yeah, he he could have he could have gotten
well because he decided to bail on it.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
He decided to bail on that.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
But I mean, one more step and he jumps, and
we've seen him make good catches. The guy's a really
good outfield He's got a great arm.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
We've seen him do this except for the two hopper,
and that's more in the loose defense than exactly the
point that we're talking. Let's add that to the list
because but.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
That was more so too when I see that too,
it was a bad throw, but he also took forever
to get rid of it. Yes, you know the sacrifice
five that brings hi Key Hernandez like he's got to
catch him and he can get there.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
It's a perfect flight ball coming right, and and that's
a that's a play where.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
A good outfielder comes in and gets so meant him
and catches it and in one motion he's throwing that
ball down the line and instead he came over and
caught it and took a step and reared back to throw,
and it was a bad throw and it was just
it just took him too long, like that's a play
that should be a bang bang play at the plate
and it really wasn't closer and his slides in uh
before the ball even gets there. And it was stunning
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that those are two plays that I thought Juan Soto
should have made and he didn't make either of them.
And those are those put two runs.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
On the board.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Isaac lohencrom was on the air just before us and
when that throw home happened from Juan Soto, he said,
that reminds me of Barry Bond's throw home when Sid
Breams scored to win the NLCS a years ago, where
it wasn't deep left field and you got a slow
runner coming in from third and still somehow he scores.
I agree, Sodo on two points could have been better,
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and the Yankees at second base with two different guys
could have been better. The Dodgers got away with it
with this win, even though they were not playing their veteran,
reliable defensive shortstop. He'll be getting the start tomorrow. We're
talking about Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, I mean for all that Juan Soto has done
when you think of those are three things, right. The
throw in that was bad, but okay, the Yankee should
have been able to short hop it. But I mean
not going for that ball and that bad throw to
the plate. It's the it's loose defense that is just
you know, the Yankees have been able to overcome and
you're only going to be able to do that for
so long before team is going to make you pay.
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And the Dodgers make them pay tonight with Game one
of the World Series.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
By the way, we can add, mister met that one
of the rare times in World Series history that the
team has rallied back to either tie or take the
lead multiple times late in a series game the David
Freeze game Cardinals, Tonight Dodgers Mets nineteen eighty six, game
number six, and then one other one in nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
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more on one of the greatest World Series games you
will ever see.
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You didn't like what you just saw between the Dodge
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Speaker 1 (01:01):
Freddie Freeman a grand slam in the bottom of the
ninth inning, the first walk off grand slam in World
Series history. The Dodgers were down to their final out,
bases loaded, and Freddie Freeman hits the first pitchycs off
of nest to Cortes. And what a call by Fox's
Joe Davis, or says delivery.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Freeman hits the broad right.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Field said good, Gibby made Freddy Game one of the
World Series.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What a great call Gibby me Freddie, Freddie Freeman, the
hero so many twists and turns in this game. Nobody
better to talk to than a man who I almost met.
I almost figured, well, we should have him on just
to do a wellness check if he's okay after seeing
this drama. It is MLB Network insider, longtime friend of
the show. Uh follow him on Twitter at John Morosi.
(02:01):
It is John Paul Morosi. John Paul, You okay? Because
I gotta make sure my dad is okay. Friends, that
was some kind of drama.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Jason and Steve, we will be talking about this night
for generations to come. The all the parallels. That was
a great call by Joe Davis. But and even as
as you get deeper into the layers, you've got both
of the sluggers that hit the Game one World Series
walkoff are hobbled, so Gibson that had two bad legs,
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Freeman has one famously bad ankle, and he delivers in
this spot with Cortes on the mount, which surely will
talk about And your dad probably has a thought or
two about that, James.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yes, he's already texted me his thoughts on that.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Yes, right, but can here Mookie Betts said one of
the best games he had ever been a part of.
And I think, objectively based on what you said, the
first walk off Grand Slam in the history in the
history of the World Series has been going on for
more than one hundred and twenty years, and it's the
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first time that has ever happened, and it happens in
Game one in that ballpark as the honor Fernando Valenzuela.
It's just and it's someone in Freddie Freeman who has
just universally beloved in the game. He's been through so
much physically this year with his son's illness, and then
he's able to have that moment he goes over to
his dad. This is baseball. This is why we love
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this sport and why this World Series, among all the
World Series, is just our delights as baseball fans.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, I mean, look, I'll go you one better, John Paul.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
We had three plays in this game that were that
harken back and make you think of three of the
most famous plays in baseball history. The Gibson, the Gibson
home run for do go the play before like Jeter
into the stands against the red Ston ball right right,
and the Jeffrey Mayor Steve Bartman with the guy in
center field who reached over to you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
We had game one of the World Series. What's it
gonna remind you of?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, Mayor Bartman, Jeter into the stands, and Kirk Gibson.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh so that's it, that's all we go. Okay, that's fine,
that's fine.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
That's the great point. And you know who probably I
think if Freeman is the happiest person in LA, the
second happiest person is the guy who caught that ball.
Because now, because now he is right, he is like
story number seventy one in the La Times tomorrow, there
is like seventy things more import than him. But you're right,
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we had three. That's a tremendous point by you, Jason.
Three mirror image iconic plays, which is why baseball as
our friend Sarah Langs often says baseball is the best.
It was the best.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Tonight, Absolutely it was. And the FS one post game
is still going on. And by the way, and this
is my question for you. In the last twenty years
of the World Series, I was trying to come up with,
is there anything like this that's like memorable for decades
kind of the game? And one of the games I
thought of was the David Freeze game at Saint Louis
Game six and twenty eleven, and apparently before tonight, that
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was the only time in World Series history that a
team wiped out multiple deficits in the eighth inning or later.
And one because remember the Dodgers needed the saply in
the eidh to tie and the Grand Slam in the
Tents won. It is that perhaps a nominee for you
of something to be remembered, this would join that list
without a doubt.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
And for me, so I was born in eighty two,
so this is the first ever Yankees Dodgers World Series
game in my lifetime. And so for it to end
this way, and to your point, for there to be
additional comeback moments, including the one on the eighth inning,
which by the way credit Otani for heads up base running,
and certainly it was a big mistake made by the
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Yankees defensively of the tough err On Torres. But I
understand why he was given the error because that's the ball.
You've got a knock down. I get it, I understand,
And certainly a great run played by Edmund up the middle,
a play that the replacement for tore Dinezwuano Cabrera could
have potentially made. Missed the back to change yeah, to
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change that ending. I really think. I know that was
that was considered a hit, and it probably deserves to be,
But I thought that play could have been made so
that there were a number of different moments in in
this game where you said, my gosh, this he felt
as though the outcome was changing time and time again,
which I think is exactly how I remember feeling on
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that night there in Saint Louis back at twenty eleven.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
You know, John Paul, we talked about this.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Nester Cortes comes in and throws two pitches right, he
gets he gets the incredible play by Alex Vertugo going
into the stands, which was amazing. But I have to
think either this was something either coming into the series
or an on the fly bit of strategy, because both
Otani and Freeman pounced on his first pitch, whether this was, hey,
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this is what Cortes is going to try to do,
or hey, he has pitched in five weeks. You get
that ninety two mile an hour fastball down the middle,
you want to get ahead in the count, take a
whack at it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I got to think that was some.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Kind of strategy going into the bat that they talked
about for both of these guys.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
A really good point. And I think Cortes tends to
be around the plate, and I think that maybe that
was part of the idea that Listen, don't don't let
him get deep into the at bat to where his
sleeper becomes effective. And I think, in fairness, part of
the issue to move back a little bit is you
got Tim Hill there in the bullpen, and Tim Hills
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helps you get to this point. And so that's why
you know, Boom was talking about different matchups and how
he liked the matchup with Cortes, and Listen, Cortes did
get Otani that that happened, but you got to realize
that to get through that inning, you're going to likely
need to at some point either get Vets or get Freeman,
and it seemed as though Hill might have been the
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better option there. So it's it's a difficult play. I
understand it. Hill though, has been effective for you. He's
helped you get to this point, and then Cortes you
admire him as a teammate for getting out there, but
he hasn't pitched in a month, and all of a sudden,
the first thing you do is you face Otani in
the tenth inning of Game one of the World Series.
I mean, that is that is a tough, tough assignment.
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So I'm sure Aaron Boone will be asked about that
a lot, and I'm sure our friends on the local
sports radio stations and New York will have some fun
with that tomorrow and for however long if it goes.
But that is, that's I think going to be a
major talking point and a big reason why we talk
about this this game forever. Because of course, the Gibson
over run comes off a Hall of famer in Eckers League.
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In this case, it comes off someone who had to
even pitch in a month. It's just it's an extraordinary
bit of baseball history that we just witnessed here tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And do you think that maybe the Yankees in retrospect
were kind of stuck with the bullping because they'd already
used their closer before the tenth they'd already used their
former closer, and they'd already used Tommy Kinley to get
out of something. So even with a six inning start,
they didn't have maybe as many options as they would
prefer for extra innings.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Well, that's a very good point, and I think what
I would say in general is it's it's almost impossible
for the Yankees to get through this Dodger lineup if
they're starting to go six innings without involving the lefties
in some way, because otherwise, if you're expecting it, and listen,
Holmes has been able to go more than three outs,
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so as Cainley at different times, and so as Weaver.
But it's a seven game series, and so you're going
to need to have your lefties stepping in there to
get key outs. And again, through two rounds of the playoffs,
they won three to one over the Royals, and they
won four to one over the Guardians with Tim Bill
getting big outs late in the game. And I think
that part of the conversation will be two for the
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for the Yankees is you know internally in that clubhouse,
are there some eyebrows raised, like man Tim Bill was there?
He was, he's been with us this opposed that. Certainly
they love Nestor as well, but it's just it creates
an interesting way that the Yankees will move past this
because of Hill being someone that's gotten him to this point,
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but he wasn't the guy that got the ball in
the biggest spot here tonight.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, that's a that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And you look and for a guy like Aaron Boone,
who has done so much work this year to get
the fans to believe in him, right, because Aaron Boone
says he's been, he's been someone that all look at
the failures, it's all Boone's fault and forever it seems
like Aaron Boone is on the firing line.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Here he goes, he gets the Yankees to the World Series.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
There here you think everything is fine, and in Game
one he makes whenever you make a bullpen move that
doesn't work out, nothing gets you second guests faster than
that going into tomorrow. So with that, with that being said,
John Paul. Yes, we talk about momentum in baseball. The
next day starting pitcher. Is this win a little bit
different for the Dodgers, And is this lost a little
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bit different for the Yankees?
Speaker 6 (10:57):
It certainly can be. And and I guess what I say,
is this that the recipe that the Yankees set out there,
and you know, in fairness, they were walked off by
the Guardians. They won the next two games, and the
Dodgers back in twenty eighteen, they walked off the Red
Sox in one of the most ethic wal Series games ever,
and then they lost the next two games. The Red
Sox won the World Series in La. So it's I'm
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always careful to ascribe too much of momentum what happens tomorrow.
I think the Yankees have an excellent chance to win
that game and even if the series head back, but
there's no doubt that I think in the very same
ballpark the very next day, the Dodgers are a different
team than the Guardians. They're a more complete team. And
at the end of the day, the Yankees have to
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find a way with their lefties, whether it's Cortes or
Hill or Mesa or Kainlee is right handed, but he's
almost like a lefty because of his changeup. They're gonna
have to go through this gauntlet time and time again.
And now the Dodgers and Freeman had this new shot
of confidence because they saw that what he could do.
He tripled them the first inning. So there were I
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think a lot of really good moments for the Dodgers,
and then defensively for the Yankee the couple ill timed
mistakes where ninety people were given and you just can't
do that against the team this good, and I think
that they that's part of the reason why they paid
for it with a Game one defeat for the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Last question, do you still see the Yankees having the
starting pitching edge going forward even though they're down in
the series? I, for example, could easily see them winning
Monday against hum ever and Tuesday against maybe a Dodger
bullpen game.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Sure, one hundred percent. And that's honestly. I predicted the
Yankees would win this series before, and that was the
biggest reason why. So even after Steve one of the
most epic games that I've ever seen, I can't change
my mind. So I said Yankees before, with a big
part of it being the rotation advantage. So I say
the Yankees, even after watching that, they still have the
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rotation advantage, and I cannot wait for game to tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John Morosi,
MLB Network Insider. Again you can I'm on Twitter at
John Morosi. Now we can't let you go because you
are a celebrity Lions picker, Titans and the Lions Sunday.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
How is this gonna go?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I've got Lions thirty one, Titans seventeen.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Wow, thirty one. You're feeling good about the offensive?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Sure, I'm feeling really good. I as Jason knows, I
rarely pick above thirty, but I'm going there for the
Lions this time.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
John Paul, thanks a bunch. Enjoy Game two and beyond.
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
All the best friends, Thanks so much, really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
All Right, there goes John Paul Morosi. And let me
tell you something, Steve.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Look, the Tim Hill question is why wasn't Tim Hill,
who was really good against the Guardians, right.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Why was Remember Cortes wasn't on the playoff roster until today.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And Cortes and Cortes comes into it here there are
certain plays, certain decisions that happen in playoffs and World
Series and Super Bowls and NBA Finals where oh boy,
that was a big Now was a big play, and
that helped win the series.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Here we lost because of that play. Ah, you know what,
we lost. Let's move on.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And then there's plays that stick with you for thirty
and forty years. There's still Jets plays from the plays
and Jets games from the eighties, and I still think
about going, how the hell does Mark gassen o rough
Bernie Kozar? You know, like, how does that happen?
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
How do we do that? Well?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
We mentioned you what we mentioned the David Freeze game.
Texas Rangers fans still say, how did Nelson Cruz not
catch that ball to the wall in right field? We
got a DH playing right field and we never won
another game that series.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
And if the if the Yankees lose this series for
thirty years, you mean, Yankee fans are gonna say, why
wasn't Tim Hill in that game? Hey? How you feeling today? Great?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Hey, the year is twenty forty six. What's their first
thought today? Why wasn't Tim Hill in that game? Instead
of nets to Cortes Back in twenty twenty four. It's
one of those thirty year storylines we're gonna have. That's
how big. Trust me. I know, I know New York,
I know sports and how things age when you lose
a game like that and there's big either or decisions
that are made. That's how this decision is going to
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age and thirty we'll still be talking about that in
thirty years. Amazing, an incredible, incredible night. I feel like
we're just getting started. Dodgers win Game one of the
World Series over the Yankees. Of Freddie Freeman's walk off
Grand Slam home run is the big play of the game,
the big play of the season, the big home run
of the century so far, whatever you want to say.
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We have more on this game coming up next, including
the reason I picked the Dodgers. It was because of
exactly what happened tonight. And no it's not Freddy Freeman's
Grand Slam.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
We'll tell you about it next right here. Jason Smith
Steve de Sager in for Mike Harmon. This is Fox
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Speaker 1 (15:52):
The Jason Smith Show is Steve de Sager in for
Mike Harmon tonight live Fromthetirack dot Com studios. And before
we get into look, I picked the Dodgers to win
the World Series in seven games, and every reason I
gave last night we saw in Game one. We'll get
to that coming up in a second, but we've heard
the Joe Davis call of Freddie Freeman's Grand Slam, which
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was incredible, right, give me meat, Freddy, the walk off
home run that wins Game one.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Of the World Reference.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I mean, just just amazing, right, just amazing call by
Joe Davis.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
How did it sound with John Sterling?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Remember came out of retirement to all the Yankee games
in this postseason. John Sterling Susan Waldman, one more time
together in the Yankee booth. Here's the Yankees call of
Freddie Freeman's game winning home run.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Again, Yankees lose, Yankees lose.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
See are you playing that right off?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And you're right there exactly?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Uh, you know, I get a feeling it was it
was somewhat like that. I I think it was.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It was some what like that that we haven't hear it.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
So what a fabulous game?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Well, bases loaded, chew outs come down to this Freddy
Freeman the hitter, Lefty to lefty with chew outs, pitch
a high drive to right Soto back on the track,
and she is gone a Grand Slam to win the
game for l A.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
You don't say, Susan, you know he.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Went from what a great game? What? What?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
What a great This is such a great game. This
is a game grant side how master, how betan, Susan?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Pack up? Let's go. Time to leave.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
We're gonna pack hip as fast as that guy that
caught the ball in center field.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Uh, let's go. We gotta go back for game.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You mentioned the only game winning Grand Slam in world history.
Isn't that way?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You said, first walk off Grand Slam home run.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
We have seen walkoff homers of course in World Series history.
Somewhat rare, but we've seen them. This is the first
time it's been with two outs while you're trailing to
win a World Series game.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Yeah, I mean it was.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It really was since Kirk Gibson. Of course, that was
the only one other where it had happened in this situation.
Where you had for the whole postseason a hobbling Freddie Freeman.
And then we referenced the nineteen eighty eight series opener
with the hobbling MVP Kirk Gibson, and you talked about
scouting early with Cortes taking the loss coming out of
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the pen, and they went after the first pitch. The
Dodgers scouting won that World Series game with Kirk Gibson
because when they set him up as a pinch hitter,
and that was literally his only appearance the entire World
Series because he was hurt. If it was regular season,
he'd been on the injured list. The scout had told
them when Eckersley, who was the dominant closer, then when
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he comes in for the A's and gets two strikes
on the lefty hitter, he tries to go the back
door slider.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Go after it.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And if you see the still photos of Kirk Gibson's
home run swing on that game winner, the legendary home
run in nineteen eighty eight, he's essentially on one foot
cut and one hand on the follow through with the
swing because he's leaning out to just like the scout said,
go get it. And remember, guys, he basically had to
fight Tommy Lasorda just to get in.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
That's right, Yeah, yeah, I really was. I mean it was,
it was, and it finally was.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Sort of got the clubhouse guy, Mitch Poole to go
down and get him in pool as actually the first
one who reported, Hey, Gibby says he can go. He's like,
I hear him grunting with like the batting cage there
by the clubhouse. He can go.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And you know, and I was just telling this because
because now it's fun, because now I get to talk
about Kirk Gibson with my daughter and our friend who
you know what Kirk Gibson home run.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
And I always remember this about that home run.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Obviously, you know, you see the couple of people that
are breaking, you know when you see the home run,
that have left the game going we're gonna lose, gotta
beat the traffic to go home, and they're hearing the
Vince Scully call deep to right field.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You see the breaks go on.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
The Don Drysdale call. Vin Scully was on TV every.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Time that Dennis Eckersley would talk about this, right because
he was the best closer in the game bar none.
Eckersley was Mariano Rivera. Before Rivera, Eckersley was unbeatable. In
the middle of his career, he makes the switch from
being a starting pitcher to being a lights out reliever,
kind of like we saw John Smoltz do and he
was unbeatable. And he would always say the same thing,
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what about that pitch? He goes, you know, the pitch
was what you saw Kirk Gibson, Like, I go, man,
was that ball juiced? Because Kirk Gibson just like swings
with one arm and like, you know, somehow puts that
ball into the stands.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
But he always said the same thing.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I can't believe I walked Mike Davis because that was
the big thing was with two outs, he walked Mike Davis,
who was a decent player.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
But look that Dodgers lineup in eighty eight was awful. There.
I think Mickey Hatcher was hitting third.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Feve I maintained, that's the worst World Series winning lineup
I've ever seen. Look at the people who are charging
the mound after Herscheizer gets the final out to win
the title. It's Tracy Woodson Alfredo Griffin, who batted one
ninety nine for a full season. Franklin Stubbs, Mike Davis,
Mickey Hatcher, John Shelby, and Rick Dempsey, Steve the eighty
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six Mets could have been worse.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh stop, we come out, Come on. We had all
kinds of great guys in there. We got Hall of
Famers in that lineup.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
But you know, look, this Freddie Freeman home runing is
getting all the attention, and rightfully so. But you want
to look at this game as a whole, and I
want to talk about the reasons that I picked the
Dodgers in seven and we saw everything tonight in the game.
Because we talked about this last night. I said, I
have more confidence that the Dodger bullpen is going to
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navigate big situations than the Yankee bullpen.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Not the Yankee bullpen's always going to give stuff up.
What do I say?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
All you need is one game to give something up
late and that flips the series rights.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You can see it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It's in the best of what happened tonight. The Dodger bullpen.
They came in, they shut the door when they had to.
They got a big pop up with Judge and a
couple of runners on. They shut the door with the
bases loaded. After Stanton's home run, and what happened to
the Yankee bullpen? The Yankee bullpen faltered and gave up
the game winning runs. So more more confidence in the
Dodger bullpen, more confidence in the bottom of the Dodger
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lineup than the bottom of the Yankee lineup. The Dodgers
hit better top to bottom, and the Yankees really rely
on hitters one through four to do all their damage.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
What do we see tonight? Who did the damage one
through four?
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And and what happened with the Dodgers in the in
the in the tenth inning, seven eight and nine came up,
seven eight nine came up. They kept the inning going
to get the bullet to get it to the top
of the order, Freddie Freeman with the Grand Slam. But
this was a Dodger rally that started with the bottom
of the lineup coming up, seven eight nine, not guaranteed.
O Toddy was gonna bat, and you had a couple
of guys on and suddenly we're back at the top
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of the order. So those were some big reasons why
I liked the Dodgers to win the series, And they
were the two biggest things we saw tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And it's a strange thing to say that Sodo didn't
impact the game as much as he can because he
got on with a hit, he had two walks, he
scored one of the runs in what had been a
low scoring game for much of the night. But when
they intentionally walk Sodo to get the judge, it's because
Judge has already struck out three times tonight, and except
for that key home run at Cleveland, Judge has struck
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out a lot this month, a lot in playoff games.
Maybe that was in the back of the mind. For
what it's worth, as we have a game one finish now.
In history, the team that wins a Game one in
a best of seven goes on to win the series
about two thirds of the time, and in fact, in
this format two three to two, the team that wins
Game one at home goes on to win the series
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two thirds of the time. I think there would be
an asterisk in this because most of those teams in
the past in baseball history had four starting pitchers to
throw out in a regular rotation. I wasn't kidding on
the question to John Paul Morosi. I can easily see
the Dodgers losing Monday and Tuesday Yankee Stadium with who
Walker Buehler Monday and then everybody trying to pitch an
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inning each on Tuesday. This is a long way from done,
fortunately for all of us this series.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Now here's what the Dodgers need to do, Steve, I
already got what they need to do.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
It may not help, but mentally will help give them
an edge going into the game. Just when you write
that for probable pictures for Game three, just write in Kofax.
Just write in Kofax. Doesn't matter, just write how intimidating
would that look? Well, let's see, it's Clark Schmid and
Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh man, I have to go back to the World
Series story that af Kofax of course retired because his
arm was falling off after nineteen sixty six World Series.
But a decade later, friends of Tommy Lasorda. Of course,
Losorda gets into the World Series against the Yankees and
he has Sandy Kofax throw batting practice to the team
at Dodger Stadium before a World Series games and he's
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getting people out.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Somebody has to.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Sprint out to the mound during batting practice and say,
the guys are about to play in the World Series.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Let them hit.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
This is a bad ad practice. So I don't care
how old Sandy Kofax is. I bet he could pitch
a few.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Did you ever see this is probably from about five
years ago, five or six years ago when Chris Bryant
was still one of the was still one of the
best players in baseball, and they and I forget who
it was, a TV show was doing a story on
him like it was.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
It was like Fox was doing it.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I forget who it was, but it was a story
basically on Chris Bryant, right, like, here's Chris Bryant, We're
gonna interview him, We're gonna get video of you, you know,
hitting in the cage and everything else, and so it
was a whole thing like they were doing the story,
but they played a joke on him and they had
the guy following around with a camera, had like a
hat on, sunglasses and a beard, and it was really
funny because the camera guy goes, can you stop running?
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I'm picking up your footprints instead of his. I need
Chris's footprints. Okay, great, So they do the whole thing
and then they say, okay, Christy want to get some
video of you in.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
The in the in the cage hitting. He was like, yeah, sure, yeah, sure,
no problem.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
So all of a sudd and they're getting ready to go,
and then, of course, because it's a joke, they go,
where's the guy supposed to come in the pitch batting
practice to to Chris Bryant, and they go, oh, he's
not here.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
He's like, uh, we gotta do this. How are we
gonna shoot this? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
And then the camera guy, who again mustache glasses and
a hat and a beard, says, I played in high
school a little bit. I could throw. I can maybe
throw it. But they said, all right, sure, go ahead, right,
you'll go get in there. So he gets So he
gets in there and he's throwing pitches and Chris Bryant
keeps fouling them off. He's going, wow, that pitch has
a lot of movement on What's going on here? And
he goes just keep just keep throwing, keep throwing, and
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he keeps missing, and you can tell Chris Bryant wants
to uh, he wants to go like, what the hell
is going on?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Why can't I not hit this?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
He's going, these are inside this pitch is outside and
he keeps off missing and then they finally let him
in on it after like twenty pitches because the guy,
the pitcher's going just just to take it easy. I'm
gonna throw, I'm not gonna throw it hard, don't worry,
just take it easy. And he's going just throw, just
just throw. And he takes off his hat and glasses
beard and it's Greg Maddox. Oh my, and it was
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watching Chris Brant.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Wow. This guy is Wow, that's got some moving on him.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
So I can't get Greg Maddox, who we mentioned at
the beginning of the show one of the many Hall
of famers in the Braves Yankees World Series from back
in the ninety Chris Bryant won a World Series with
the Cubs with Anthony Rizzo, who's the Yankee starting first
baseman tonight. And we've mentioned a lot about the eighty
eight World Series where Game one was won by Gibson.
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One of the rare game ones that had a Grand
Slam in it was the Gibson game. Jose Canseco hit
a Grand Slam at Dodger Stadium for the lead in
that series.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
In that game that night, I want to say that
was his first World Series at bat because he got
hit by a pitch first time up, and then Belcher,
he's the only guy. He's the only guy in baseball
history hit a Grand Slam as first at batan the
World Series. He was hit by a pitch the first
time episode it's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
The year before, Dan Gladden it hit a Grand Slam
for the Twins. But the only other one literally in
the history of Game one of the World Series. Tonight,
do you remember when the Yankees Tino Martinez against Mark
Langston and the Padres in the nineteen ninety eight opener
hit it out as soon as Langston thought in relief
he had struck him out with basses loaded and didn't
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get the call. And then Martinez hits it out and
the Yankees go on to a sweep of the ninety
eight World Series. By the way, the stat from and
she was quoted by our guest tonight, Sarah Lang's the
great baseball researcher, pointing out that in Dodger World Series history,
when they're trailing a World Series game going into the
eighth inning, their record had been two and fifty eight
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and one of those comeback wins was the Kirk Gibson
game Game one, nineteen eighty eight. The other was nineteen
forty seven when they were being no hit in the
ninth and still beat the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
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Speaker 1 (28:49):
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Speaker 1 (29:24):
You want to know why I picked the Dodgers, the
reasons I said last night? You go back and check
the tape, Go back and check the tabe you absolutely
on display now the Dodger bullpen versus the Yankee bullpen.
The Dodger lineup the bottom of the lineup versus the
bottom lineup.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
For the Yankees. They come through more than the Yankees have.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Right now, time to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports, because, very succinctly and very defintely
with the game on on Big Fox, we segued right
from Game one of the World Series to USC Rutgers.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Steve Sega has the latest on that right now.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
He's not kidding. There's college football on Fox TV right now.
It's there's thirty from halftime at the LA Coliseum. I
think as soon as the last car finally gets out
at Dodger Stadium the fourth quarter, we're finished downtown at
the Coliseum. Yeah, it's not going to be easy to
get out of Dodger Stadium. Tonight. USC leads late first
half twenty eight nine against Rutgers and seventeenth rang. Boise
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State is ahead at UNLV twenty to seventeen early in
the third quarter. Boise State has one of the Heisman
candidates at running back this year, Ashton Gent with eighteen
carries eighty two yards rushing. At Vegas tonight, Louisville was
down twenty to nothing late first step, but still got
an acc victory at Boston College thirty one, twenty seven.
And then there was the Dodger Game one victory on
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a tenth inning grand slam from Freddie Freeman LA over
the Yankees six to three. We knew coming in that
this had the potential to be not just a great game,
but a great series. In the wildcard era, so going
back about thirty years of baseball history, it's pretty rare
that you have the team with the best record in
the American League facing on against the team with the
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best record from the National League regular season. That's your
World Series matchup. And in fact, for what it's worth,
the only other four times in the wildcarred era where
that matchup has happened, whoever won game won went on
to win the series. Unfortunately for the Dodgers, they don't
have a full rotation, so if they lose to Carlos
Rodin tomorrow, then they're playing at Yankee Stadium Monday, Tuesday,
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and Wednesday. Stay tuned. I repeat, can this please be
a best of nine? This was phenomenal Tonight. Dodgers got
sacrifice flies from Will Smith bottom of the fifth from
Mookie Betts bottom of the eighths to tie at two
to two, but the Yanks took the lead in the
top of the tenth, largely because of Jazz Chisholm, who
wound up with three stolen bases in this game, two
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in the top of the tenth inning. One of those
put him on third base and allowed him to score
the go ahead run, even though the ball never left
the infield, but the Dodgers on the slam by Freeman
win at six three to ten, the loss to Nestor Cortes,
who threw two pitches two total in relief tonight, a
guy who it was.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Too too many, actually was one too many. It was
just it was one too many because he got the
auto Otani. It was one too many, and that night
that made it by the way.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Two outs in the bottom of the tenth, but the
intentional walk to bets these days, no pitches are thrown
for that. And then he faced Freeman with two outs,
bases loaded, first pitch, fastball deposited into the right field seats,
and the game is over in phenomenal fashion, and Nestor Cortes,
who just came off the injured list, takes the loss.
The guy had been he had been out five weeks
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with a strained elbow, so infielder John Birdie is not
on the World Series roster. They do have Rizzo healthy
for first base. Cortes comes in and they don't come
in with Tim Hill, who I will bring up later
on in the show because he, like Freddie Freeman and
others who participated tonight, have local ties. It was strange
the stories that were weaved in this one. Can't wait
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for Game two.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
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Speaker 1 (33:42):
Now coming up next, we've talked about the Dodge bullpen
We talked about the Yankee bullpen, We talked about the
Dodger lineup. We talked about the Yankee lineup. How about
maybe the biggest thing that caused the Yankee loss tonight,
I mean, besides Quretes giving up the Grand Slam. What's
the biggest thing that we he can talk about. That's
next right here, Jason Smith, Steve de Sager, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
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Speaker 1 (34:19):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Steve
de segerre in for Harmon tonight, and it is World
Series Game one overload. Freddie Freeman's walk off Grand Slam
wins it for the Dodgers six ' three.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Over the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
We'll have more on that at bat more on Freeman's
home run coming up in a few minutes. But you know,
one of the reasons, you know, we detailed the bullpens
of both teams, the lineups of both teams, and the
reason I like the Dodgers in the series. Their bullpen's better,
the bottom of their lineup is better. But one thing
we talked about earlier on in the show, Steve was
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how it's maddening how the Yankees continue to play really
loose baseball in the field, yes, and running the bases
and they don't pay for it, and it's and it's
crazy watching them get all the way to the World Series,
as John Sterling said against the Guardiange running the.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Bases like a bunch of drunks.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Right, it's it's crazy to see them at this point
in the season makes so many mistakes and still not
have to pay for it.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Well, tonight they're fielding absolutely blow towards them.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
There were you know, there was a there were three
plays that I can look at and say, wow, the
Yankees had to make these plays and and if they do,
then Freddie Freeman never gets to come up for the
Grand Slam. And you know, first there's the the the
ground ball that Cabrera doesn't come up with, right, that
that that you need to come up with.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
It puts runners at first and second.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
It was called feld single, not of air, but you're correct.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Right, that continues the tenth inning for the Dodgers. And
if he comes up with that, maybe you know, it's
three outs and Freeman doesn't get a chance to come up,
but he's got to come up with that ball, especially
in the game for defensive purposes. It's a tough play,
but it's a play you have to make, much like
Tommy Edmund the play that when the Yankees had the
go ahead run from Jazz Chism when.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
He scored on the force play.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
All Right, it's a tough play, but he kind of
has to make that and not blow the transfer on
the double play, like Cabrera's got to come up with
that ball. But the big one was the Otani double
that turned into a play where Otani got to third
because of the throw back into the infield was kind
of it was a bad throw in from one.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
So it can be shored infielder.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yes, I mean, if you're glibratorius, you can you can
grab that. But when when you're looking to third base
because you want to see if Otani's running, he took
his eye off the ball. But you have to come
up with that Like that was very much of a
lazy play. You can say, yeah, the throat comes in
short up from Juan Soto, but it's a very lazy
play because he's looking away football thing and I'm just
gonna grab it and instead the ball ticks off his glove.
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Otani gets to third, Mookie Betts hits the sacrifice fly,
and we're into the tenth inning because of that play.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Now, those are two big plays.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
But I want you to look at the Otani double again,
and I want you to see something because I watch
this play and I go, how does Juan Soto not
catch this ball? Like he Otani's ball doesn't hit off
the top of the wall. It comes down and hits
in the middle of the wall, and Juan Soto's on
the warning track, like it's if he takes two steps
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back and jumps, he can catch the ball. Like I
know that his philosophy was, Okay, I don't want him,
I'm sure, and it's in that moment it was like,
I don't want to make a bad decision and try
to go up and get it, and if I don't
get it, it bounces away.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
From me and it's a triple.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
But if you could maybe catch it and keep Otani
off a second base, out of scoring position, you kind
of have to go for it. And also you know
Judge's gonna be there to try to get there and
see where the ball is. But I watch his play
and I go, how does Wan Soto not take one
more step and jump, Like it's like he gave up
on the ball when he got to the track, thinking
I'm not gonna jump and get it.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
And clearly when you see where the ball lands, that's
a ball he could have got.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
And he does not make from the track, it's from
the outfield grass.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
So yeah, he he could have he could have gotten
well because he decided to bail on it.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
He decided to bail on that.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
But I mean, one more step and he jumps, and
we've seen him make good catches. The guy's a really
good outfield He's got a great arm.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
We've seen him do this except for the two hopper,
and that's more in the loose defense than exactly the
point that we're talking. Let's add that to the list
because but.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
That was more so too when I see that too,
it was a bad throw, but he also took forever
to get rid of it. Yes, you know the sacrifice
five that brings hi Key Hernandez like he's got to
catch him and he can get there.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
It's a perfect flight ball coming right, and and that's
a that's a play where.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
A good outfielder comes in and gets so meant him
and catches it and in one motion he's throwing that
ball down the line and instead he came over and
caught it and took a step and reared back to throw,
and it was a bad throw and it was just
it just took him too long, like that's a play
that should be a bang bang play at the plate
and it really wasn't closer and his slides in uh
before the ball even gets there. And it was stunning
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that those are two plays that I thought Juan Soto
should have made and he didn't make either of them.
And those are those put two runs.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
On the board.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Isaac lohencrom was on the air just before us and
when that throw home happened from Juan Soto, he said,
that reminds me of Barry Bond's throw home when Sid
Breams scored to win the NLCS a years ago, where
it wasn't deep left field and you got a slow
runner coming in from third and still somehow he scores.
I agree, Sodo on two points could have been better,
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and the Yankees at second base with two different guys
could have been better. The Dodgers got away with it
with this win, even though they were not playing their veteran,
reliable defensive shortstop. He'll be getting the start tomorrow. We're
talking about Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, I mean for all that Juan Soto has done
when you think of those are three things, right. The
throw in that was bad, but okay, the Yankee should
have been able to short hop it. But I mean
not going for that ball and that bad throw to
the plate. It's the it's loose defense that is just
you know, the Yankees have been able to overcome and
you're only going to be able to do that for
so long before team is going to make you pay.
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And the Dodgers make them pay tonight with Game one
of the World Series.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
By the way, we can add, mister met that one
of the rare times in World Series history that the
team has rallied back to either tie or take the
lead multiple times late in a series game the David
Freeze game Cardinals, Tonight Dodgers Mets nineteen eighty six, game
number six, and then one other one in nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Exit out about a Fresco Jason Smith, Steve de say
you're in f Mike Harmon coming up next we have
more on one of the greatest World Series games you
will ever see.
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