October 1, 2025 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:53):
Dodgers lead the Reds right now, ten to five. Batting
in the bottom of the eighth Inntaskar Hernandez already two
home runs. Tonight is up with two on for the Dodgers.
The Dodgers' bullpen escaping a bases loaded, one out situation
in the top of the eighth inning where the Reds
had already rallied for three runs to keep it a
ten to five game. Here in the bottom of the eighth,
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Now the Dodgers are likely gonna hold on to win
this game. We got John Paul Morosi coming up in
a few minutes. But the Dodger bullpen reminding all of
us they will have a say in the baseball playoffs.
We will have a say how things are finished here
before it's all said and done.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Good for you, Jack Dryer. Look I told her from.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
The beginning, the Dodger bullpen is the great equalizer of
these playoffs because of the fact that you can't trust anybody,
and and the end of the season, Dave Roberts is
mixing and matching maybe Sasaki, maybe Kershaw.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Last round, it was no longer just hey, here's our
relief pitchers, Like, hey, how are you feeling over there? Sasaki?
You're healthy up, You're back in the relief.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
As dominant as the Dodger Like like you go through
the first six in this game, how the Reds were
gonna just gonna slump their shoulders and show up tomorrow
going what are we gonna do? Man, really, what are
we gonna do? We got pasted last night, But now hey,
let's just get to that bullpen and things can happen, right.
I mean, it's a ten to two lead. It should
be easy. This game should have been over already.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
But instead they're kind of sweating things out against the
Reds in the game they were up by eight because
the bullpen is absolutely untrustworthy.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That eighth inning fifty nine pitches. That's fifty nighs.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Not all by the same reliever, No, not all by
the same reliever.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It it was an hour and a half long. I grew
a beard during that happeningning. You gotta let people know
that this was without Darror Scott.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, Tennor Scott did not pitch in this. He did
not pitch anight, I know you assume that he had
a say in this?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, no, no, no, yeah no.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Uh one would assume without saying that that he threw
all fifty nine pitch Did.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He give up all of these runs? Oh no, no, no,
he didn't go. We didn't see him at all. Oh well, okay,
that again the Dodger book reminding you this is we
will have a say you you cannot discount us. You
gotta talk about us. We're gonna have before in this
playoffs are said and done, we're gonna go round and round.
This is like that scene in Young Guns when when
Charlie Sheen tells Emily Westavez, we're gonna have you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And I are gonna go round around. We're gonna we're
gonna have a reckoning on who runs these regulators. We're
gonna one day we're gonna do it. You and I
We're gonna do it. We're hey, go Blake Snow. Seven
innings pitched, ninety one pitches.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
H Yeah, eighth in three pitchers, Yeah, seventy pitches. He
Terry Francona's like, I just want to go to bed.
I just want to go to I'm exhausted, man, I'm
on LA time now. It's like one o'clock in the
morning for me. Usually we're done and I'm I'm exhausted, man,
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I'm on Ohio time.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Come on, dude.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
He was funny, and they played a clip of him
pregame and being asked about this. Squad's like, hey, they
don't quit. So we went and we were really bad.
And Sacramento and we got swept and then he paused,
but we battled back for that, like almost to say
make sure that if you print this, like it's a
blinking flashing. We lost an entire series to Sacramento and
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we still battled back. So yeah, I didn't think they'd
go quietly into the good night. But for the Dodgers, yeah,
they're always gonna make it interesting. Let still gave you
everything he could give. He walked off the mouth like, yeah,
all right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They just played don't forget about me between every innings
by simple minds. Just when the dodge the bullpen's coming,
don't worry, and they just count this pitches by the
starting pitcher.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It's like you needed six easy out.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
There's no such thing as an easy out with the
Dodger bullpen this season.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
No, you get your money's worth. No, it's now gone
into I mean it's about three hours long.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Now, Yeah, I Rob Manford not happy. You know, we
started this game early. Remember it was a bit We're like, yeah,
go fast.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, the first the first the first half of the
game was like an hour and fifteen minutes long.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Like goody knows this is happening right now.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Okay, no chances and can't come with the Mets, I
mean they Oscar's got to Otani let off for the
Dodgers rocket. He's got two home runs on the night.
Your guy, little Tommy Edmund has Little Tommy Tommy Edwards
who was a radio personality in Chicago. Uh so again,
we'll bring you, will keep you updated on this game.
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Dodgers have the bases loaded now, two outs in the
bottom of the eighth the in he's looking to break
this open even more because you know you won an
eight or nine run lead, because you never know what's
gonna happen with the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, Tanner Scott could come in.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, oh well not be safe enough to come in
eight run? What is safe enough for you, Frostburg for
Tanner Scott eight runs, twenty two twenty two runs, okay, okay,
twenty two runs, all right, but twenty one runs, No,
go to somebody else. You roll the dice elsewhere, keyk
Hernandez with twenty one runs then Tanner Scott. Okay, all right,
but the exact, complete and total opposite of this game.
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Earlier tonight we watched the Yankees fall to the Red
Sox despite a masterful game pitch by Max Freed. They
lose three to one, a game in which Eraaldas Chapman
has a very Edwin Diaz like ninth inning with a
three to one lead. Eraalda's Chapman, who's had a tremendous
season for the Red Sox. He has been as untouchable
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as anybody in baseball. Loads the bases with nobody out,
then strikes out Jo and Carlos Stan for the first out,
gets a Jazz Chism flat to right field for out
number two, and now with all of the Yankees hopes
on Trent Grisham, they're going.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
We had the.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Bases loaded with nobody out. Here's how the game ended
for the Red Sox and the Yankees. Two balls, two strikes,
two down, with the bases loaded, Chapman, he is ready,
he throws.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
He got him.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Chapman leaves the bases loaded. The Red Sox whim game one,
three to one.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
In the Bronx Red Sox Radio Network on the call
a Raaltus. Chatman loads of the bases in the ninth
and gets out of it with two strikeouts and a flyout.
The Red Sox go for the closer against the Yankees.
And there's two big takes on this. The first one
is this, and the first I'm very happy about. Hey,
Yankee fans, he's.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Still glad you didn't re sign Sodo. You're still so
glad you said, Ah, you know, we don't watch Soto anymore.
Now he doesn't want to beer. We don't want to.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
We'll spend that money on other guys, and we're gonna
look how good we always spend money on Devin Williams.
Will spend money on Cody Bellinger. Could he use one Sodo?
And that night didn't couldn't you with the bases loaded
at some point? Could he use the guy?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You want a career high at home runs and ops's
nine hundred, and could he use that guy? He's gonna
finish in the top five at MVP voting in the
National League?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Could he use that guy? One day after?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's all look at the match, they're terrible. One Soda
made a bad choice because Yankee fans love that. They
love that he could he used one?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So tonight? The night then an't good yet? Could he
use that guy? But oh he wasn't there? All my
heart bleeds. You're really just enjoying this, perhaps a little
too much.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It doesn't change. Oh wait a minute, I'm not enjoying that.
I'm enjoying this the right amount of time, just the
right amount. I'm enjoying enough.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, maybe even not enough. I don't know. Maybe he
need more coffee. We call your dad? Oh no, no,
I'm not gonna do that. I can't do that to
my dad.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No, no, I already send him a stack of garatter
cards to see how your response.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What if we call him pretending to be Zoe, maybe
he'll pick up. Uh yeah, but you have to call
from her phone. That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You'd have to call from her phone, driving the phone. Yeah,
we gotta make the call. He didn't run to go hello.
We would go hey, dad, Yeah, what do you want?
That's what we would get from him.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Our bullpend's terrible? Uh okay, I'm kind of with you
on that. Tonight dad, Yeah, you know, I'm absolutely with
you on that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Is he more mad at the Yankees performance tonight or
the Ryder Cup?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
The Yankees performance Ryder Cup? He could, like my dad
a pre sheates golf. That it doesn't matter, so much
where you know, the Ryder Cup is like him, it's
it's it's the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
But no, Well, they came back on Sunday. You know,
look that's what thrilling back the United States, doesn't. I
mean if there were more days with singles matches, which
tells you how we are as a team. We don't
play as well as a team together. But boy, you
put a bunch of individuals out the United States, we
can get it done.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We have a big comeback on Sunday. Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
He just appreciates the game like he doesn't care if
it's McIlroy d Chambeau like he just he just appreciates
golfer Yankees. It's like, oh, you know, there's the Yankees
and the rest of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So yeah, he is. He'd be much more upset with that.
He's crushed today. It'll be crushed tomorrow when they get
sent home. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The other part of it is this right one son
with you had one total? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
The Jets tweet is bad. We knew the Yankees are
gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
When the Jets tweeted good luck to the Yankees for
the game tonight, you knew that was kind of it,
like that was gonna be it. Okay, the Jets wish
us good luck, We're just gonna lose.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And that's exactly what happened. They had them picture or
judge on there everything else.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
That's a mafia kiss him death like way done. Don't don't.
This was the big thing today said don't don't it said,
don't do it, man, don't do it. Don't do it.
Let the things come from Jackson dart Man. Come on.
But this is where Aaron Boone is at as Yankee manager,
and there's gonna be no truer statement I'm gonna tell
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you about the Yankees. I want to tell you right now.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
He's on the hook for the pitching change from Freed
to Luke Weaver in which the Yankees gave up the
lead right away. Now, Freed was out one hundred pitches,
and we did see a lot of great starting performances
today where guys went deep into games through one hundred
and fifteen hundred seventeen pitches. Yeah, and that's a tough thing.
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When the Red Sox decided we're gonna trust our ace
as long as he can go, and Freed basically as
soon as he got tow one hundred pitches, was coming
out of the game. Now, It's not like they pulled
him in eighty pitches of seventy five pitches and it
didn't work. You not having gold Schmidt tag up from
third on the second out of the ninth inning, in
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which clearly the Red Sox the right baseball play would
have been to throw to third base to try to
keep the tying run from getting the third would which
would have been Judge. I don't know why the throw
is way up line, Like, I don't know how at
that point the Yankees, you don't send gold Schmith thinking Okay,
at least we're gonna get a run on this play,
and maybe the Red Sox do something souper and they
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tried to throw the run out of the plate, and
they would not have and Goltchut would have scored easily,
and Judge probably would have been the third base and
and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Why they didn't do that.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So you have.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Aaron Boone on the hook for that. Apparently Jazz Chisholm
not happy left out of the starting lineup. This is
a guy who starts all the time, but being dinged up.
If you're healthy enough to pinch it and play in
this game, maybe healthy enough to play. It goes to
show you where the Yankees are at right now. Whatever
Aaron Boone decides is wrong. Like it went from, I
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thought Aaron Boone was gonna get fired in August when
they nearly got swept by the Red Sox. Remember I said,
if they get swept these four games, Aaron Boone has gone.
On Monday, they pulled out the game. On Sunday, they
won a couple of games after Boone is able to stay.
But no matter what happens, you can tell everything that
goes wrong is Aaron Boone's fault. Whatever decision Aaron Boone makes.
It's like the Jets with quarterbacks. Whatever decision that Jets
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make is wrong, whatever kind of thinking they had going
into it, whatever philosophy they had to take a quarterback,
whatever they decide is wrong. The same thing with Aaron Boone.
Whatever Aaron Boone decides is wrong. It was wrong to
go to the bullpen, was wrong to not tag up,
wrong for jets hip, wrong, wrong, Everything is wrong for
Aaron Boone. And this is gonna wind up being such
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an overwhelming narrative in the offseason that this is really
gonna be it for Boone with the Yankees, Like I can't.
I can't believe that coming back, You're gonna wind up
saying yeah, the Yankees, Ah, we were close this year. No,
if it ends tomorrow, it ends at the hands of
the Red Sox. Where you go from the World Series
making some fundamental mistakes, and clearly you're still making fundamental
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mistakes right that that you know that that's not changed
over the course of the past few months, like really,
like Aaron Boone, it's it's just a it's just a
matter of time of when. Right like I thought it
would happen in August, they staved it off. They won
a bunch of games, they made it close, they almost
won the division at the end of the year that
you won more game, they didn't get it. But going
out to the Red Sox, when you saw the Red
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Sox push all the right buttons in this game tonight,
and and and and being able to win and Aaron
Boone not push enough right buttons like it, I mean,
this is just gonna be it for Aaron Boone.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
And the fact that they were able to track you
down in division and make the playoffs and have this
battle after losing Roman Anthony, who is one of the
catalysts to that to jumpstart their season.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Uh that they were still and you traded away. You
traded away your best player. You auditioned by subtraction with devs. Right,
you traded him away and you got better.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And that was over. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
So coming off of the World Series, the fundamentals and
all the decision that we questioned last October, all right,
you got the stay of execution and here you are
this year. And then Chisholm, you only had five plate
appearances in his career against Crochet.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Now he was ozho for four.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, with a walk, but not exactly a massive, massive
sample size to say, all right, you get left out
of the lineup.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
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and subscribe. Day one of the MLB Playoffs is in
the books. The Dodgers hold on to beat the Reds
ten to five. They survive their own bullpen.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, so now succeed in proceeds it knows gonna have
to be pretty.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Just hang the w joining us now in the hotline
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John Paul's happening, man, How are you?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I'm doing outstanding? My friends and I would say this
this is not a baseball phrase. It is, of course
from a different sport, but the watching the way this
game ended tonight for the Dodgers, the saying just win, baby,
came through my mind because I said, listen, this is
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not pretty. This is in fact, it's rare that you
win a postseason game and feel uneasy about it. But
I think a lot of Dodger fans feel a little
bit uneasy right now about the way the bullpen looked late.
Realizing that you're not going to be able to score
ten runs every game in the postseason, and they really
had to score ten runs tonight. They feel comfortable winning
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given the way that things went late with the bullpen.
Now tryin and did smooth it out there in the
ninth inning. That was good to see from a Dodger perspective.
But this is one of those days that still keeps
open a lot of different ideas about what teams might
ultimately represent their respective leagues in the World Series.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
All the dog, the Dodger's bullpen, John Paul is the
great equalizer. It's a you know, they stood and planted
a flag tonight and said, this playoffs will not be
decided without us having a big say in what we
are going to be.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We're going to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
There was a saying. There was a saying, and it
was actually coined years and years ago when my mentor
John Lowe was covering the Detroit Tigers for the Free
Press back in nineteen ninety three, when the Tigers led
the league in runs but were also outscored. Think about
that for a second. Let the league in runs, most
runs off offensively, but still gave up more runs than
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they scored. And they had a saying that year, which is,
the tying run will always bat no matter what the
time run is going to pass. And notably, as scholars
of baseball will recall, that Tiger team did not win
the World Series, and if that becomes the moniker of
your team in the playoffs, you will very rarely win
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the World Series. So appropriate that saying for the Dodgers
at your own peril. But tonight it sure felt like
it that even after scoring ten runs that eventually didn't
quite get to this point because the tying run was
not that far away from batting, but.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
After waiting a good chunk of the season for him
to make his debut, this is why you gave Blake
Snell five years, one hundred and eighty two million dollars
seven innings of SUPERB baseball.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
The last month he's been insane.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
JP well, he has been, and I think today it
was great, Mike, And this was a day for the
starting pitchers. I mean it's beginning with Trek scopl the
beginning of the day and Gavin Williams, who was excellent
for the Guardians. But this start tonight, And again I'm
a huge Hunter Green fan, love the player, love his potential,
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love his story. Of course, pitching in his hometown. Snell
was just better tonight. And I think that you think
about Snell, you look at Crochet what he did. Boyd
certainly gave the Cubs a chance that was more of
a bullpen triumph in anything else. But certainly the Scooble,
Crochet and Snell wins all lefties. I think in a
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lot of ways, they were the stories on the mount
on Game one of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
John Paul Moross, the MLB Network Insider, our guest the
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio studios. All right, now, when it comes to
the Yankees, John Paul, I just want to say this
because you know, I know this is going to be
a big thing. Boy, the Yankees could have used one
Soto in the ninth inning, couldn't they?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
They really could have seen.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah, the Yankees could have used one Soto in the
ninth inning. I we don't have to talk about the
team that Wan Soto currently plays for. I can't know.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
We are playoffs only, John, playoffs.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
They they might be playing tomorrow. I didn't see him
play to day, but maybe they're playing tomorrow. But well,
we'll check back down. But I saw I saw the
stat from from op the stats that you may have
seen it too. This was the first game in postseason
history in which a team loaded the bases in the
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bottom of the ninth inning with no one out, and
neither scored a run nor won the game. It had
never happened before that, there was no runs scored and
and that was and obviously, let's let's be fair here,
they were going up against one of the great closers
ever and and Chapman's Hall of Fame credentials are getting
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better and better by the day. I mean, just his
the way that he's fishing. Again, it wasn't it was
not textbook and longtime Chapman watched well remember that in
the postseason he has not always been those spoots. But man,
he made a huge pitch when he had to to
Grisham and obviously to the two hitters before that, and
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all of a sudden, now it seems like the Yankees
man after free pitch that well, you're watching him dominate.
It did not feel like that that after the game,
that the Yankees would be thrust into the middle of
a crisis. But here they are, and now all the
pressure is on them. And here we have it too.
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The Yankees. Their ability to play fundamentally sound baseball in
the biggest of spots is just not there. It is
It is not there. It was not there in the
World Series last year. There's still an immensely talented team.
And last year they had stanted in Soto hitting home runs.
And this year, I still believe that there's there's going
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to be a way that Judge imposes his will on
a playoff series. But goodness, there were a couple of
key moments where they couldn't execute, and obviously the bullpen
was not as good as freed. And and here we
are now having this conversation again. The Yankees will face
elimination on Day two of the postseason.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
What does it mean for Aaron Boone if they do
goog quietly into the good night?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Well, it's it's a fair question about where where he's
at for next year. I'm sure that there'll be plenty
of questions about his job security. There were questions about
Carlos Mendoza's job security across town. Of course he's coming back,
but I.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Why no.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
If there if they go out in two games, I'm
not sure that anyone can feel too confident about exactly
how it's going to play out. I realized that they
they did not bring back, so do I get that?
But they were fairly active at the deadline. Some of
the moves worked out well. Bednar in my view, has
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helped them out, I think a fair amount. But the
whole situation with Volpi, who by the way, he showed
up in a big way tonight, so I was happy
for Antony to see him at least answer some of
the critics by being able to get on the board
with a huge home run tonight. But in general, if
they go out quickly after the way the last year's
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World Series ended, I'm sure there'll be a lot of questions,
and really hal Steinbrenner is the only one that can
really answer them once the season wraps up.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Well, the biggest thing, John Paul two things. Obviously, you know,
taking Max Freed out when he gets to one hundred
pitches watching on the other side, and the other dugout
where hey, Garrett Crochet is going to stay in for
one hundred and twenty, that's one thing. But starting the
lie of the stuff, because whatever Aaron Boone decides is wrong, right,
I'm completely on board with that that. I think if
they go out tomorrow, he's going to be out as
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Yankee manager. But I think the story that's going to
sort of start taking over going tonight into tomorrow. Is
that boy, no Jazz Chishm to start this game? No
Ben Rice, And I know Chisholm. If you're if you're
good enough to hit, you're good enough to play. I
just feel like, wow, they did like whatever metrics the
Yankees were looking at here that.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Don't you want him in the lineup? I mean, don't
you want him in the lineup as much as you can? Like,
I was really surprised at that.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I don't think anybody is saying we got to start
Ahmed Rosario, you know, instead of a second base, right well,
I think.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
That's probably the move. And again Jazz's reaction afterward, it's
just it's not it's not a good look. And and
I'm not necessarily saying that that they lost this game
because they started Goldschmid instead of Rice. You know, of
course Gold had two hits tonight. I thought he had
a very solid game. I think that the the overarching
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question in the overarching comparison is how late Crochet went
into the game and how late Freed did not go
into the game. And I realized Boone defended the move.
There there were reasons. There were reasons the Aaron had
his reasons, But at the end of the day, it's
it's a carbon copy situation of two dominant left handers,
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both of whom are signed to long term contracts, both
of them seem to be at the peak of their powers.
And I would say this that the Yankee bullpen had
more questions about it than the Red Sox bullpen, and
Alex Korra made the point that Crochet had said he
wants to hand the ball directly to Chapman. He did that.
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The Yankees, I'm just not sure that really they had
many guys back in that bullpen, and certainly the way
that it played out, these concerns are well founded. They
didn't have anybody back there who was as good as
Freed in the short first and we were struggled, obviously,
and we all saw what happened. It's it is a
difficult way to all of a sudden be thrust into
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the pressure situation. And this then is the difference in
the tiebreaker between the Yankees and the Blue Jays. If
the Yankees win one more game at any point in
time in the season, they're not playing right now and
Jays who have to stress the face with the Red Sox.
The Yankees are hanging out getting ready for Game one
at home on Saturday. Instead, they've got to play these
highly pressurized games. And everybody in this organization now, from
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Rodin to Boone to Aaron Judge too, is under extreme duress.
Less than twenty four hours after the playoffs begin.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Talk about the excellence of execution.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
You had Cleveland with a runner on third, nobody out,
can't find the way home, Detroit and during schoopl just
took away everything in the angst of the second half
of the season in one start.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
He was unbelievable. And I think that there I had
a feeling that he would show up in a big way,
because of course he had lost the game of the
Guardians at home late, he had lost the game to
them in Cleveland last week, he had lost Game five
to the Guardians in the playoffs last year. This is
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an elite competitor, and you could tell he did not
want to have this be the way that his season.
So I just thought that it was a magnificent performance.
I mean, I'm you know, I'm old enough to remember
way back in the year of black and white television,
when ninety miles an hour was a fastball and trek
School was throwing nine to mint hour changeups that people
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just did not have a prayer of cutdown and so,
and then he was throwing one hundred and one mile
an hour fastball in the fifth inning. I mean, this
is like vintage eighth with a capitol A. I mean,
this was unreal. Going back to, of course, the most
strikeouts in the posts and game since Garrett Cole back
in twenty nineteen, this is the elite of the elite.
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And if anybody was second guessing School, and by the way,
Williams was really close to him for a lot of
the game, sure, but if anybody was second guessing just
how great Schooble is and why he could very easily
win the sign from back to back years, man, it
was on display it And you know, even on the
opposite side, Steven Vote tipping his cap to to what
schoobl did rhetorically, of course, It's just it was a
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very very impressive out and one that if the Tigers
win this series, if they're able to potentially get past
the Mariners in the next round, this game that we
saw today is going to be one of those all
timers that we go back to and watch on the
October highlight reels for years to come.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
All right, John Paul.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Lastly, I'll put you on the spot in ten seconds
or less, what teams are punching their tickets in the
next round tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
The Tigers will win, the Cubs will lose, the Red
Sox will lose, the Dodgers will win. So I've got
Tigers and Dodgers, and then we'll have two game threes
on Thursday. That feels about right. We usually don't have
that many game threes, but I think we'll have at
least a couple of game threes on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, That is at John Morossi,
MLB Network Insider extraordinary, John Paul, we'll talk to you
Thursday night after the games and we'll take a look
back at this round and preview.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
The next one.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I can't wait. Do you guys reach out anytime, my friends.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I will.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
I will stay up play watching ball with you guys.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Anytime sounds great. We'll talk to you then, John Paul,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
We got to get his lines prediction ill he's undefeated
to the Lions prediction so far this season along he's
good through four weeks. Time know to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. But guy's been
called the jazz Chisholm of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
Don't you there.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
There are lots of times tonight he was not happy
with what was going on. It's Steve to say, I'm.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Turning my back on you as we speak. Oh No.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Dodgers win ten to five over Cincinnati, hitting five home runs,
including a leadoff rocket of a shot to right field
by sho Hey Otani. He hit a two run homer
in the sixth as well, but that leadoff home run
came off one hundred mile an hour inside pitch. He
turned on it beautifully and it was sent to the
right field seats quickly, almost one hundred and eighteen miles
an hour off the bet I mentioned last hour, hardest
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hit home run in a decade at least off one
hundred mile an hour pitch. They've only had the stat
cast for a decade. But if you look at a
list of the hardest hit batted balls the Dodgers have
had over the last decade, the sixteen hardest hit are
all Otani hits, and he's only been in LA two years.
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Winning pitcher Blake's noew seven innings, nine strikeouts, ninety one
pitches thrown, and then the bullpen made it interesting, allowing
three more runs in the top of the eighth, nearly
sixty pitches to get the three outs in the eighth.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start for LA and tomorrow Night's Game
two against Zach Lttel. Shoheo Tani could start a game
three if necessary. These are best of three series this
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week in baseball. All the games at the better seeded team.
All the game ones were today, the game twos tomorrow,
and again if necessary Thursday at Wrigleyfield, Chicago, the Cubs
beat the Padres three to one. The Cubs hit back
to back home runs in the fifth Sey Suzuki and
Carson Kelly, hitting into the wind. Suzuki homered well now
(31:53):
for a fifth straight game. Padres don't hit many homers
down near the bottom of the league. In that steat,
they do strikeout the fewest in the National League. They
just couldn't get things together.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
It just sucks.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Steve Padres offense got back to back doubles in the
second inning and then the rest of the game. They
went two for twenty five at the plate. The Cubs
starter Matthew Boyd pitched four and a third, but then
the Cubs bullpen did not allow a base runner in
the other four and two third innings. Boston beat the
Yankees three to one in New York. Garrett Crochet the
win seven and two thirds and early home run allowed,
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and then he retired seventeen straight, eleven strikeouts no walks
for him. The Red Sox took the lead on a
two run pinch single in the seventh. Yankees had bases
loaded no out's bottom of the ninth against Eraaldus Chapman,
who got them strikeout, flyout, strike it, strikeout to end it.
And the Yankee offense during the regular season was number
one in the major leagues in homers, in RBIs, in walks,
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in run scored. Boston takes Game one, and third baseman
Alex Bregman did play after illness over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
He had two hits, a walk, and an.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
RBI double the loss to Luke Weaver, ruining a great
start for Max Free Detroit got two hundred runs and
one two to one. At Cleveland, the Guardians offense went
four for thirty with fifteen strikeouts, barely getting the ball
out of the infield today. The winner with fourteen ks
Trek Scooble, who pitched seven and two thirds. Attendance was
just twenty six thousand in Cleveland. The best of five
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division series all start this Saturday, including the American League
on Fox. Angels manager Ron Washington will not return next season.
He went thirty six and thirty eight before leaving the
team to have heart surgery. Turned seventy four next year.
The Angels have had ten straight losing seasons. Cardinals manager
Ollie Marmol will return. The sale of the Tampa Bay
Rays was finalized. WNBA semi finals ended tonight with Game
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five and the best of five going overtime at Las Vegas.
The Aces eliminated Indiana one oh seven ninety eight Asia
Wilson with not only thirty five points in the victory,
eight rebounds, five assists, four steals, only one turnover. Minnesota
had been eliminated at Phoenix night. The finals are set.
The WNBA's worst team, Dallas, fired its coach Chris Kochlanis
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today after a ten and thirty four record in his
only season he had been a USC assistant. Dallas had
the rookie of the year Page Beckers, New York and
Seattle have also fired their head coaches in this league.
In the NBA, Golden State resigned for where Jonathan kaminga
one year plus a team option potentially worth about forty
eight million. The Warriors sign guard Seth Curry. Camp starts
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on Wednesday. Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill had surgery on
his dislocated knee. Raiders tackle Colton Miller went uninjured reserve.
The Ravens Wednesday are due to give an update on
quarterback Lamar Jackson's hamstring injury. According to The Baltimore Sun,
he could miss two to three weeks. UCLA parted ways
with offensive coordinator Tino Sunseri. Assistant Jerry Neuheisel will be
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the play caller now. And former Syracuse basketball star Lawrence
Moten was found dead at his home at the age
of fifty three. He is the school's all time leading scorer.
Molten averaged nineteen points a game in his four seas
there through nineteen ninety five. His jersey is retired at Syracuse.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. Yeah, I just
gutted when I read about Lawrence Moten today. Sucked Man
poetry the high socks.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I mean he when I was at Syracuse, he was
was his first two years were there and he came in.
I remember he was this recruit that all of a sudden,
he's starting, like the third game of the season, Like
who the hell is it? Like we're loaded, like who
was this guy? And his first game he had like
twenty five points. It was oh man, he's guy. Yeah,
and Beyheim, I'm even Beheim saying that we all saw
(35:33):
right away when he showed up that he had to
play right away. Like we all saw Lawrence had to
play right away. And he was still Syracuse's all time
leading scorer.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Thirty years later. It's a long time. Thirty years later,
he's still Syracuse leading scorer. It's told my brother this morning.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I called him and like, hey, your guy, and he
just started going off on games and tried to emulate
that shooting style.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Poetry and motin Man, Lawrence moten Uh, Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon Live from the Fox Sports or Radio studios coming
up next, speaking of basketball, do we have a Lebron
James story coming your way? That's next, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Speaker 2 (36:48):
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Speaker 1 (36:52):
We get back into two big takes coming off of
Day one of the MLB playoffs coming up in a
few minutes. Yes, and real quick, Yeah, what do you
got frost proy internets out? What time the Mets play?
They play at n never o'clock. Yeah, just wait, Soto
is pitching and hitting clean up. It's gonna be awesome
in Cancun. Yes, yes, well that's where the playoffs are, right,
aren't they? In Knco were the Mets playoff?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Tony Cabo was down there too, when the Cowboy or something. Yeah,
but at least you played one hundred and sixty two
all the way through.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Every one of a mat who played all Oh, yes,
we did right, as opposed to my squad that it
was over when it started. Normally it's like, oh, it's spring,
it's hope. It's like it's yeah, Opening Day ended it
for you. That's great, hey, opening, We waved our hat,
we gave the pirate, we gave him, gave the fans
a thrill. Now it's over, by the way. From the
from this game?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Did I right?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Did we haven't mentioned it? Joe Kelly wore the Mariachi
jacket out there to throw off the first Joe. I mean,
come on, Joe still thinks he pitches for the Dodgers.
I think I'm just not with them right now. You know,
I'm just not there. I'm still a Dodger.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
It's like when when when when uh, you know, two
people break up and the one person moves on as
dating someone else the other and goes, yeah, we're kind
of broken up a little bit for now.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
It's a little bit. No, dude, it's over, man, It's
it's over. I heard they just went to Cangoon together.
They met up with the Mets.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
So Laker training camp open today and it opened without
Lebron James absent with what head coach JJ Reddick called
a little bit of nerve irritation in the glute. So
he had glute irritation problem in the ass now also
called ibs no no uh woa no nerve irritation in
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the gluten. For Lebron, the goal is to try to
activate his glues. The goal is for him to get
back for Opening Night next month against Golden State, and
JJ Reddick said today couldna wind up being a little
bit longer for a ramp up for Lebron leading into
opening that. Look, he's be the first NBA player played
twenty three years in the league. Uh so a little
bit longer for Lebron.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
You know what Kareem Abdul Jabbar would have gotten there
if he didn't keep retiring. You never know, that's true,
that's true. Let me be the first say farewell.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Uh this is just really awkward because I thought for Shakay,
you know what he's gonna He's gonna be on a
new team by the time we get to middle September.
It's he's going into a season where he's a lame
duck player. Lebron doesn't do things like this. He's not
an afterthought. He's not an afterthought on a team ever,
even though yes, it's Luca's team. This is gonna be
(39:23):
so awkward this season with Lebron and the Lakers, so
incredibly awkward. But I'll give you a bold prediction now
because I see how things are gonna get are gonna
get handled throughout the year. As you saw last year,
Luca and Lebron didn't need too much to get on
the same page together.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Lebron knows this is my last year here. I gotta
make the best of it. At this point, because I
opted in, I couldn't control my trade destination. Maybe my
my my trade value wasn't as high. But I can
already see that the amount of time Lebron is gonna
be with the Lakers will be as little as possible,
whether it's ramping up for the season, whether it's getting
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time off during the season, whether it's a groat injury
that Lebron is away from the team for two and
a half weeks. At some point, Mille, as long as
the Lakers are winning enough games, and then it's not
to the point where hey, we got to start winning
a bunch to avoid the playing. I just I just
get this sense that the amount of time Lebron spends
away from the Lakers will be really significant.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Jason, I just I'm sorry to enter.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
I just want to add that.
Speaker 5 (40:25):
Yeah, Lebron is currently doing the cabbage patch on Kay
Sanatt's stream right now.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Oh is he doing the cabbage He's doing the batsay,
but I thought he's hurt.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Yeah, he's he's breaking it down on like onkat like stream.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Do you mean breaking up? He's dancing break dancing like
the Australia Lady. Yeah, yeah, now he was. He was.
He was breaking it as campy. No you can, I
think you can still do the cabbage patch, the worm
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Oh he was doing the worm too, Yeah, so as
glute might not I mean, so, I mean you need
your glute. Oh no, you need your glute for the worm,
don't you.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
I mean, Hey, from carsonat stream, it looked like he
used all of it. He shook what his mom gave him.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Okay, all right again, Lebron James will be away from
the Lakers of goodly large.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
I go back to this, he had the opportunity to
go wherever the hell he wanted if he didn't opt
into the contract. I know we all want a little
bit more money. He could have done whatever he wanted
and gotten away from this. Instead, he's making it something.
So I hope the Lakers tell him to beat it.
They don't pay him out. You want to, you want
to buy out. Here's here's five bucks. We'll buy you
a Starbucks. That's all you get.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
M beat it.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
See, I could go for free coffee because you also
had a lot of the teammates. I was reading some quotes.
He was an afterthought in most days, like talking about
things and working up plans with Luca, oh.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
And for Lebron and whomever.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
You tell.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
The amount of time he's away from the Lakers is
gonna be something. Yeah, but evidently his ass works. Coming
up next, two big hot takes off a day
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Speaker 1 (00:53):
Dodgers lead the Reds right now, ten to five. Batting
in the bottom of the eighth Inntaskar Hernandez already two
home runs. Tonight is up with two on for the Dodgers.
The Dodgers' bullpen escaping a bases loaded, one out situation
in the top of the eighth inning where the Reds
had already rallied for three runs to keep it a
ten to five game. Here in the bottom of the eighth,
(01:13):
Now the Dodgers are likely gonna hold on to win
this game. We got John Paul Morosi coming up in
a few minutes. But the Dodger bullpen reminding all of
us they will have a say in the baseball playoffs.
We will have a say how things are finished here
before it's all said and done.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Good for you, Jack Dryer. Look I told her from.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
The beginning, the Dodger bullpen is the great equalizer of
these playoffs because of the fact that you can't trust anybody,
and and the end of the season, Dave Roberts is
mixing and matching maybe Sasaki, maybe Kershaw.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Last round, it was no longer just hey, here's our
relief pitchers, Like, hey, how are you feeling over there? Sasaki?
You're healthy up, You're back in the relief.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
As dominant as the Dodger Like like you go through
the first six in this game, how the Reds were
gonna just gonna slump their shoulders and show up tomorrow
going what are we gonna do? Man, really, what are
we gonna do? We got pasted last night, But now hey,
let's just get to that bullpen and things can happen, right.
I mean, it's a ten to two lead. It should
be easy. This game should have been over already.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
But instead they're kind of sweating things out against the
Reds in the game they were up by eight because
the bullpen is absolutely untrustworthy.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That eighth inning fifty nine pitches. That's fifty nighs.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Not all by the same reliever, No, not all by
the same reliever.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It it was an hour and a half long. I grew
a beard during that happeningning. You gotta let people know
that this was without Darror Scott.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, Tennor Scott did not pitch in this. He did
not pitch anight, I know you assume that he had
a say in this?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, no, no, no, yeah no.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Uh one would assume without saying that that he threw
all fifty nine pitch Did.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He give up all of these runs? Oh no, no, no,
he didn't go. We didn't see him at all. Oh well, okay,
that again the Dodger book reminding you this is we
will have a say you you cannot discount us. You
gotta talk about us. We're gonna have before in this
playoffs are said and done, we're gonna go round and round.
This is like that scene in Young Guns when when
Charlie Sheen tells Emily Westavez, we're gonna have you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And I are gonna go round around. We're gonna we're
gonna have a reckoning on who runs these regulators. We're
gonna one day we're gonna do it. You and I
We're gonna do it. We're hey, go Blake Snow. Seven
innings pitched, ninety one pitches.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
H Yeah, eighth in three pitchers, Yeah, seventy pitches. He
Terry Francona's like, I just want to go to bed.
I just want to go to I'm exhausted, man, I'm
on LA time now. It's like one o'clock in the
morning for me. Usually we're done and I'm I'm exhausted, man,
(03:50):
I'm on Ohio time.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Come on, dude.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
He was funny, and they played a clip of him
pregame and being asked about this. Squad's like, hey, they
don't quit. So we went and we were really bad.
And Sacramento and we got swept and then he paused,
but we battled back for that, like almost to say
make sure that if you print this, like it's a
blinking flashing. We lost an entire series to Sacramento and
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we still battled back. So yeah, I didn't think they'd
go quietly into the good night. But for the Dodgers, yeah,
they're always gonna make it interesting. Let still gave you
everything he could give. He walked off the mouth like, yeah,
all right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They just played don't forget about me between every innings
by simple minds. Just when the dodge the bullpen's coming,
don't worry, and they just count this pitches by the
starting pitcher.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It's like you needed six easy out.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
There's no such thing as an easy out with the
Dodger bullpen this season.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
No, you get your money's worth. No, it's now gone
into I mean it's about three hours long.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Now, Yeah, I Rob Manford not happy. You know, we
started this game early. Remember it was a bit We're like, yeah,
go fast.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, the first the first the first half of the
game was like an hour and fifteen minutes long.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Like goody knows this is happening right now.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Okay, no chances and can't come with the Mets, I
mean they Oscar's got to Otani let off for the
Dodgers rocket. He's got two home runs on the night.
Your guy, little Tommy Edmund has Little Tommy Tommy Edwards
who was a radio personality in Chicago. Uh so again,
we'll bring you, will keep you updated on this game.
(05:29):
Dodgers have the bases loaded now, two outs in the
bottom of the eighth the in he's looking to break
this open even more because you know you won an
eight or nine run lead, because you never know what's
gonna happen with the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, Tanner Scott could come in.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, oh well not be safe enough to come in
eight run? What is safe enough for you, Frostburg for
Tanner Scott eight runs, twenty two twenty two runs, okay, okay,
twenty two runs, all right, but twenty one runs, No,
go to somebody else. You roll the dice elsewhere, keyk
Hernandez with twenty one runs then Tanner Scott. Okay, all right,
but the exact, complete and total opposite of this game.
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Earlier tonight we watched the Yankees fall to the Red
Sox despite a masterful game pitch by Max Freed. They
lose three to one, a game in which Eraaldas Chapman
has a very Edwin Diaz like ninth inning with a
three to one lead. Eraalda's Chapman, who's had a tremendous
season for the Red Sox. He has been as untouchable
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as anybody in baseball. Loads the bases with nobody out,
then strikes out Jo and Carlos Stan for the first out,
gets a Jazz Chism flat to right field for out
number two, and now with all of the Yankees hopes
on Trent Grisham, they're going.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
We had the.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Bases loaded with nobody out. Here's how the game ended
for the Red Sox and the Yankees. Two balls, two strikes,
two down, with the bases loaded, Chapman, he is ready,
he throws.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
He got him.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Chapman leaves the bases loaded. The Red Sox whim game one,
three to one.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
In the Bronx Red Sox Radio Network on the call
a Raaltus. Chatman loads of the bases in the ninth
and gets out of it with two strikeouts and a flyout.
The Red Sox go for the closer against the Yankees.
And there's two big takes on this. The first one
is this, and the first I'm very happy about. Hey,
Yankee fans, he's.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Still glad you didn't re sign Sodo. You're still so
glad you said, Ah, you know, we don't watch Soto anymore.
Now he doesn't want to beer. We don't want to.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
We'll spend that money on other guys, and we're gonna
look how good we always spend money on Devin Williams.
Will spend money on Cody Bellinger. Could he use one Sodo?
And that night didn't couldn't you with the bases loaded
at some point? Could he use the guy?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You want a career high at home runs and ops's
nine hundred, and could he use that guy? He's gonna
finish in the top five at MVP voting in the
National League?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Could he use that guy? One day after?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's all look at the match, they're terrible. One Soda
made a bad choice because Yankee fans love that. They
love that he could he used one?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So tonight? The night then an't good yet? Could he
use that guy? But oh he wasn't there? All my
heart bleeds. You're really just enjoying this, perhaps a little
too much.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It doesn't change. Oh wait a minute, I'm not enjoying that.
I'm enjoying this the right amount of time, just the
right amount. I'm enjoying enough.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, maybe even not enough. I don't know. Maybe he
need more coffee. We call your dad? Oh no, no,
I'm not gonna do that. I can't do that to
my dad.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No, no, I already send him a stack of garatter
cards to see how your response.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What if we call him pretending to be Zoe, maybe
he'll pick up. Uh yeah, but you have to call
from her phone. That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You'd have to call from her phone, driving the phone. Yeah,
we gotta make the call. He didn't run to go hello.
We would go hey, dad, Yeah, what do you want?
That's what we would get from him.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Our bullpend's terrible? Uh okay, I'm kind of with you
on that. Tonight dad, Yeah, you know, I'm absolutely with
you on that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Is he more mad at the Yankees performance tonight or
the Ryder Cup?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
The Yankees performance Ryder Cup? He could, like my dad
a pre sheates golf. That it doesn't matter, so much
where you know, the Ryder Cup is like him, it's
it's it's the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
But no, Well, they came back on Sunday. You know,
look that's what thrilling back the United States, doesn't. I
mean if there were more days with singles matches, which
tells you how we are as a team. We don't
play as well as a team together. But boy, you
put a bunch of individuals out the United States, we
can get it done.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We have a big comeback on Sunday. Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
He just appreciates the game like he doesn't care if
it's McIlroy d Chambeau like he just he just appreciates
golfer Yankees. It's like, oh, you know, there's the Yankees
and the rest of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So yeah, he is. He'd be much more upset with that.
He's crushed today. It'll be crushed tomorrow when they get
sent home. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The other part of it is this right one son
with you had one total? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
The Jets tweet is bad. We knew the Yankees are
gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
When the Jets tweeted good luck to the Yankees for
the game tonight, you knew that was kind of it,
like that was gonna be it. Okay, the Jets wish
us good luck, We're just gonna lose.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And that's exactly what happened. They had them picture or
judge on there everything else.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
That's a mafia kiss him death like way done. Don't don't.
This was the big thing today said don't don't it said,
don't do it, man, don't do it. Don't do it.
Let the things come from Jackson dart Man. Come on.
But this is where Aaron Boone is at as Yankee manager,
and there's gonna be no truer statement I'm gonna tell
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you about the Yankees. I want to tell you right now.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
He's on the hook for the pitching change from Freed
to Luke Weaver in which the Yankees gave up the
lead right away. Now, Freed was out one hundred pitches,
and we did see a lot of great starting performances
today where guys went deep into games through one hundred
and fifteen hundred seventeen pitches. Yeah, and that's a tough thing.
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When the Red Sox decided we're gonna trust our ace
as long as he can go, and Freed basically as
soon as he got tow one hundred pitches, was coming
out of the game. Now, It's not like they pulled
him in eighty pitches of seventy five pitches and it
didn't work. You not having gold Schmidt tag up from
third on the second out of the ninth inning, in
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which clearly the Red Sox the right baseball play would
have been to throw to third base to try to
keep the tying run from getting the third would which
would have been Judge. I don't know why the throw
is way up line, Like, I don't know how at
that point the Yankees, you don't send gold Schmith thinking Okay,
at least we're gonna get a run on this play,
and maybe the Red Sox do something souper and they
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tried to throw the run out of the plate, and
they would not have and Goltchut would have scored easily,
and Judge probably would have been the third base and
and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Why they didn't do that.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So you have.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Aaron Boone on the hook for that. Apparently Jazz Chisholm
not happy left out of the starting lineup. This is
a guy who starts all the time, but being dinged up.
If you're healthy enough to pinch it and play in
this game, maybe healthy enough to play. It goes to
show you where the Yankees are at right now. Whatever
Aaron Boone decides is wrong. Like it went from, I
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thought Aaron Boone was gonna get fired in August when
they nearly got swept by the Red Sox. Remember I said,
if they get swept these four games, Aaron Boone has gone.
On Monday, they pulled out the game. On Sunday, they
won a couple of games after Boone is able to stay.
But no matter what happens, you can tell everything that
goes wrong is Aaron Boone's fault. Whatever decision Aaron Boone makes.
It's like the Jets with quarterbacks. Whatever decision that Jets
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make is wrong, whatever kind of thinking they had going
into it, whatever philosophy they had to take a quarterback,
whatever they decide is wrong. The same thing with Aaron Boone.
Whatever Aaron Boone decides is wrong. It was wrong to
go to the bullpen, was wrong to not tag up,
wrong for jets hip, wrong, wrong, Everything is wrong for
Aaron Boone. And this is gonna wind up being such
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an overwhelming narrative in the offseason that this is really
gonna be it for Boone with the Yankees, Like I can't.
I can't believe that coming back, You're gonna wind up
saying yeah, the Yankees, Ah, we were close this year. No,
if it ends tomorrow, it ends at the hands of
the Red Sox. Where you go from the World Series
making some fundamental mistakes, and clearly you're still making fundamental
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mistakes right that that you know that that's not changed
over the course of the past few months, like really,
like Aaron Boone, it's it's just a it's just a
matter of time of when. Right like I thought it
would happen in August, they staved it off. They won
a bunch of games, they made it close, they almost
won the division at the end of the year that
you won more game, they didn't get it. But going
out to the Red Sox, when you saw the Red
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Sox push all the right buttons in this game tonight,
and and and and being able to win and Aaron
Boone not push enough right buttons like it, I mean,
this is just gonna be it for Aaron Boone.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
And the fact that they were able to track you
down in division and make the playoffs and have this
battle after losing Roman Anthony, who is one of the
catalysts to that to jumpstart their season.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Uh that they were still and you traded away. You
traded away your best player. You auditioned by subtraction with devs. Right,
you traded him away and you got better.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And that was over. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
So coming off of the World Series, the fundamentals and
all the decision that we questioned last October, all right,
you got the stay of execution and here you are
this year. And then Chisholm, you only had five plate
appearances in his career against Crochet.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Now he was ozho for four.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, with a walk, but not exactly a massive, massive
sample size to say, all right, you get left out
of the lineup.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
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and subscribe. Day one of the MLB Playoffs is in
the books. The Dodgers hold on to beat the Reds
ten to five. They survive their own bullpen.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, so now succeed in proceeds it knows gonna have
to be pretty.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Just hang the w joining us now in the hotline
to break down a huge day one MLB Network insider extraordinary.
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. It is John Paul Morosi.
John Paul's happening, man, How are you?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I'm doing outstanding? My friends and I would say this
this is not a baseball phrase. It is, of course
from a different sport, but the watching the way this
game ended tonight for the Dodgers, the saying just win, baby,
came through my mind because I said, listen, this is
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not pretty. This is in fact, it's rare that you
win a postseason game and feel uneasy about it. But
I think a lot of Dodger fans feel a little
bit uneasy right now about the way the bullpen looked late.
Realizing that you're not going to be able to score
ten runs every game in the postseason, and they really
had to score ten runs tonight. They feel comfortable winning
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given the way that things went late with the bullpen.
Now tryin and did smooth it out there in the
ninth inning. That was good to see from a Dodger perspective.
But this is one of those days that still keeps
open a lot of different ideas about what teams might
ultimately represent their respective leagues in the World Series.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
All the dog, the Dodger's bullpen, John Paul is the
great equalizer. It's a you know, they stood and planted
a flag tonight and said, this playoffs will not be
decided without us having a big say in what we
are going to be.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We're going to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
There was a saying. There was a saying, and it
was actually coined years and years ago when my mentor
John Lowe was covering the Detroit Tigers for the Free
Press back in nineteen ninety three, when the Tigers led
the league in runs but were also outscored. Think about
that for a second. Let the league in runs, most
runs off offensively, but still gave up more runs than
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they scored. And they had a saying that year, which is,
the tying run will always bat no matter what the
time run is going to pass. And notably, as scholars
of baseball will recall, that Tiger team did not win
the World Series, and if that becomes the moniker of
your team in the playoffs, you will very rarely win
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the World Series. So appropriate that saying for the Dodgers
at your own peril. But tonight it sure felt like
it that even after scoring ten runs that eventually didn't
quite get to this point because the tying run was
not that far away from batting, but.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
After waiting a good chunk of the season for him
to make his debut, this is why you gave Blake
Snell five years, one hundred and eighty two million dollars
seven innings of SUPERB baseball.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
The last month he's been insane.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
JP well, he has been, and I think today it
was great, Mike, And this was a day for the
starting pitchers. I mean it's beginning with Trek scopl the
beginning of the day and Gavin Williams, who was excellent
for the Guardians. But this start tonight, And again I'm
a huge Hunter Green fan, love the player, love his potential,
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love his story. Of course, pitching in his hometown. Snell
was just better tonight. And I think that you think
about Snell, you look at Crochet what he did. Boyd
certainly gave the Cubs a chance that was more of
a bullpen triumph in anything else. But certainly the Scooble,
Crochet and Snell wins all lefties. I think in a
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lot of ways, they were the stories on the mount
on Game one of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
John Paul Moross, the MLB Network Insider, our guest the
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio studios. All right, now, when it comes to
the Yankees, John Paul, I just want to say this
because you know, I know this is going to be
a big thing. Boy, the Yankees could have used one
Soto in the ninth inning, couldn't they?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
They really could have seen.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah, the Yankees could have used one Soto in the
ninth inning. I we don't have to talk about the
team that Wan Soto currently plays for. I can't know.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
We are playoffs only, John, playoffs.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
They they might be playing tomorrow. I didn't see him
play to day, but maybe they're playing tomorrow. But well,
we'll check back down. But I saw I saw the
stat from from op the stats that you may have
seen it too. This was the first game in postseason
history in which a team loaded the bases in the
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bottom of the ninth inning with no one out, and
neither scored a run nor won the game. It had
never happened before that, there was no runs scored and
and that was and obviously, let's let's be fair here,
they were going up against one of the great closers
ever and and Chapman's Hall of Fame credentials are getting
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better and better by the day. I mean, just his
the way that he's fishing. Again, it wasn't it was
not textbook and longtime Chapman watched well remember that in
the postseason he has not always been those spoots. But man,
he made a huge pitch when he had to to
Grisham and obviously to the two hitters before that, and
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all of a sudden, now it seems like the Yankees
man after free pitch that well, you're watching him dominate.
It did not feel like that that after the game,
that the Yankees would be thrust into the middle of
a crisis. But here they are, and now all the
pressure is on them. And here we have it too.
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The Yankees. Their ability to play fundamentally sound baseball in
the biggest of spots is just not there. It is
It is not there. It was not there in the
World Series last year. There's still an immensely talented team.
And last year they had stanted in Soto hitting home runs.
And this year, I still believe that there's there's going
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to be a way that Judge imposes his will on
a playoff series. But goodness, there were a couple of
key moments where they couldn't execute, and obviously the bullpen
was not as good as freed. And and here we
are now having this conversation again. The Yankees will face
elimination on Day two of the postseason.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
What does it mean for Aaron Boone if they do
goog quietly into the good night?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Well, it's it's a fair question about where where he's
at for next year. I'm sure that there'll be plenty
of questions about his job security. There were questions about
Carlos Mendoza's job security across town. Of course he's coming back,
but I.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Why no.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
If there if they go out in two games, I'm
not sure that anyone can feel too confident about exactly
how it's going to play out. I realized that they
they did not bring back, so do I get that?
But they were fairly active at the deadline. Some of
the moves worked out well. Bednar in my view, has
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helped them out, I think a fair amount. But the
whole situation with Volpi, who by the way, he showed
up in a big way tonight, so I was happy
for Antony to see him at least answer some of
the critics by being able to get on the board
with a huge home run tonight. But in general, if
they go out quickly after the way the last year's
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World Series ended, I'm sure there'll be a lot of questions,
and really hal Steinbrenner is the only one that can
really answer them once the season wraps up.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Well, the biggest thing, John Paul two things. Obviously, you know,
taking Max Freed out when he gets to one hundred
pitches watching on the other side, and the other dugout
where hey, Garrett Crochet is going to stay in for
one hundred and twenty, that's one thing. But starting the
lie of the stuff, because whatever Aaron Boone decides is wrong, right,
I'm completely on board with that that. I think if
they go out tomorrow, he's going to be out as
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Yankee manager. But I think the story that's going to
sort of start taking over going tonight into tomorrow. Is
that boy, no Jazz Chishm to start this game? No
Ben Rice, And I know Chisholm. If you're if you're
good enough to hit, you're good enough to play. I
just feel like, wow, they did like whatever metrics the
Yankees were looking at here that.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Don't you want him in the lineup? I mean, don't
you want him in the lineup as much as you can? Like,
I was really surprised at that.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I don't think anybody is saying we got to start
Ahmed Rosario, you know, instead of a second base, right well,
I think.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
That's probably the move. And again Jazz's reaction afterward, it's
just it's not it's not a good look. And and
I'm not necessarily saying that that they lost this game
because they started Goldschmid instead of Rice. You know, of
course Gold had two hits tonight. I thought he had
a very solid game. I think that the the overarching
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question in the overarching comparison is how late Crochet went
into the game and how late Freed did not go
into the game. And I realized Boone defended the move.
There there were reasons. There were reasons the Aaron had
his reasons, But at the end of the day, it's
it's a carbon copy situation of two dominant left handers,
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both of whom are signed to long term contracts, both
of them seem to be at the peak of their powers.
And I would say this that the Yankee bullpen had
more questions about it than the Red Sox bullpen, and
Alex Korra made the point that Crochet had said he
wants to hand the ball directly to Chapman. He did that.
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The Yankees, I'm just not sure that really they had
many guys back in that bullpen, and certainly the way
that it played out, these concerns are well founded. They
didn't have anybody back there who was as good as
Freed in the short first and we were struggled, obviously,
and we all saw what happened. It's it is a
difficult way to all of a sudden be thrust into
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the pressure situation. And this then is the difference in
the tiebreaker between the Yankees and the Blue Jays. If
the Yankees win one more game at any point in
time in the season, they're not playing right now and
Jays who have to stress the face with the Red Sox.
The Yankees are hanging out getting ready for Game one
at home on Saturday. Instead, they've got to play these
highly pressurized games. And everybody in this organization now, from
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Rodin to Boone to Aaron Judge too, is under extreme duress.
Less than twenty four hours after the playoffs begin.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Talk about the excellence of execution.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
You had Cleveland with a runner on third, nobody out,
can't find the way home, Detroit and during schoopl just
took away everything in the angst of the second half
of the season in one start.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
He was unbelievable. And I think that there I had
a feeling that he would show up in a big way,
because of course he had lost the game of the
Guardians at home late, he had lost the game to
them in Cleveland last week, he had lost Game five
to the Guardians in the playoffs last year. This is
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an elite competitor, and you could tell he did not
want to have this be the way that his season.
So I just thought that it was a magnificent performance.
I mean, I'm you know, I'm old enough to remember
way back in the year of black and white television,
when ninety miles an hour was a fastball and trek
School was throwing nine to mint hour changeups that people
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just did not have a prayer of cutdown and so,
and then he was throwing one hundred and one mile
an hour fastball in the fifth inning. I mean, this
is like vintage eighth with a capitol A. I mean,
this was unreal. Going back to, of course, the most
strikeouts in the posts and game since Garrett Cole back
in twenty nineteen, this is the elite of the elite.
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And if anybody was second guessing School, and by the way,
Williams was really close to him for a lot of
the game, sure, but if anybody was second guessing just
how great Schooble is and why he could very easily
win the sign from back to back years, man, it
was on display it And you know, even on the
opposite side, Steven Vote tipping his cap to to what
schoobl did rhetorically, of course, It's just it was a
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very very impressive out and one that if the Tigers
win this series, if they're able to potentially get past
the Mariners in the next round, this game that we
saw today is going to be one of those all
timers that we go back to and watch on the
October highlight reels for years to come.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
All right, John Paul.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Lastly, I'll put you on the spot in ten seconds
or less, what teams are punching their tickets in the
next round tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
The Tigers will win, the Cubs will lose, the Red
Sox will lose, the Dodgers will win. So I've got
Tigers and Dodgers, and then we'll have two game threes
on Thursday. That feels about right. We usually don't have
that many game threes, but I think we'll have at
least a couple of game threes on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, That is at John Morossi,
MLB Network Insider extraordinary, John Paul, we'll talk to you
Thursday night after the games and we'll take a look
back at this round and preview.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
The next one.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I can't wait. Do you guys reach out anytime, my friends.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I will.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
I will stay up play watching ball with you guys.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Anytime sounds great. We'll talk to you then, John Paul,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
We got to get his lines prediction ill he's undefeated
to the Lions prediction so far this season along he's
good through four weeks. Time know to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. But guy's been
called the jazz Chisholm of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
Don't you there.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
There are lots of times tonight he was not happy
with what was going on. It's Steve to say, I'm.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Turning my back on you as we speak. Oh No.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Dodgers win ten to five over Cincinnati, hitting five home runs,
including a leadoff rocket of a shot to right field
by sho Hey Otani. He hit a two run homer
in the sixth as well, but that leadoff home run
came off one hundred mile an hour inside pitch. He
turned on it beautifully and it was sent to the
right field seats quickly, almost one hundred and eighteen miles
an hour off the bet I mentioned last hour, hardest
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hit home run in a decade at least off one
hundred mile an hour pitch. They've only had the stat
cast for a decade. But if you look at a
list of the hardest hit batted balls the Dodgers have
had over the last decade, the sixteen hardest hit are
all Otani hits, and he's only been in LA two years.
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Winning pitcher Blake's noew seven innings, nine strikeouts, ninety one
pitches thrown, and then the bullpen made it interesting, allowing
three more runs in the top of the eighth, nearly
sixty pitches to get the three outs in the eighth.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start for LA and tomorrow Night's Game
two against Zach Lttel. Shoheo Tani could start a game
three if necessary. These are best of three series this
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week in baseball. All the games at the better seeded team.
All the game ones were today, the game twos tomorrow,
and again if necessary Thursday at Wrigleyfield, Chicago, the Cubs
beat the Padres three to one. The Cubs hit back
to back home runs in the fifth Sey Suzuki and
Carson Kelly, hitting into the wind. Suzuki homered well now
(31:53):
for a fifth straight game. Padres don't hit many homers
down near the bottom of the league. In that steat,
they do strikeout the fewest in the National League. They
just couldn't get things together.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
It just sucks.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Steve Padres offense got back to back doubles in the
second inning and then the rest of the game. They
went two for twenty five at the plate. The Cubs
starter Matthew Boyd pitched four and a third, but then
the Cubs bullpen did not allow a base runner in
the other four and two third innings. Boston beat the
Yankees three to one in New York. Garrett Crochet the
win seven and two thirds and early home run allowed,
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and then he retired seventeen straight, eleven strikeouts no walks
for him. The Red Sox took the lead on a
two run pinch single in the seventh. Yankees had bases
loaded no out's bottom of the ninth against Eraaldus Chapman,
who got them strikeout, flyout, strike it, strikeout to end it.
And the Yankee offense during the regular season was number
one in the major leagues in homers, in RBIs, in walks,
(32:47):
in run scored. Boston takes Game one, and third baseman
Alex Bregman did play after illness over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
He had two hits, a walk, and an.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
RBI double the loss to Luke Weaver, ruining a great
start for Max Free Detroit got two hundred runs and
one two to one. At Cleveland, the Guardians offense went
four for thirty with fifteen strikeouts, barely getting the ball
out of the infield today. The winner with fourteen ks
Trek Scooble, who pitched seven and two thirds. Attendance was
just twenty six thousand in Cleveland. The best of five
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division series all start this Saturday, including the American League
on Fox. Angels manager Ron Washington will not return next season.
He went thirty six and thirty eight before leaving the
team to have heart surgery. Turned seventy four next year.
The Angels have had ten straight losing seasons. Cardinals manager
Ollie Marmol will return. The sale of the Tampa Bay
Rays was finalized. WNBA semi finals ended tonight with Game
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five and the best of five going overtime at Las Vegas.
The Aces eliminated Indiana one oh seven ninety eight Asia
Wilson with not only thirty five points in the victory,
eight rebounds, five assists, four steals, only one turnover. Minnesota
had been eliminated at Phoenix night. The finals are set.
The WNBA's worst team, Dallas, fired its coach Chris Kochlanis
(34:06):
today after a ten and thirty four record in his
only season he had been a USC assistant. Dallas had
the rookie of the year Page Beckers, New York and
Seattle have also fired their head coaches in this league.
In the NBA, Golden State resigned for where Jonathan kaminga
one year plus a team option potentially worth about forty
eight million. The Warriors sign guard Seth Curry. Camp starts
(34:27):
on Wednesday. Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill had surgery on
his dislocated knee. Raiders tackle Colton Miller went uninjured reserve.
The Ravens Wednesday are due to give an update on
quarterback Lamar Jackson's hamstring injury. According to The Baltimore Sun,
he could miss two to three weeks. UCLA parted ways
with offensive coordinator Tino Sunseri. Assistant Jerry Neuheisel will be
(34:48):
the play caller now. And former Syracuse basketball star Lawrence
Moten was found dead at his home at the age
of fifty three. He is the school's all time leading scorer.
Molten averaged nineteen points a game in his four seas
there through nineteen ninety five. His jersey is retired at Syracuse.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. Yeah, I just
gutted when I read about Lawrence Moten today. Sucked Man
poetry the high socks.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I mean he when I was at Syracuse, he was
was his first two years were there and he came in.
I remember he was this recruit that all of a sudden,
he's starting, like the third game of the season, Like
who the hell is it? Like we're loaded, like who
was this guy? And his first game he had like
twenty five points. It was oh man, he's guy. Yeah,
and Beyheim, I'm even Beheim saying that we all saw
(35:33):
right away when he showed up that he had to
play right away. Like we all saw Lawrence had to
play right away. And he was still Syracuse's all time
leading scorer.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Thirty years later. It's a long time. Thirty years later,
he's still Syracuse leading scorer. It's told my brother this morning.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I called him and like, hey, your guy, and he
just started going off on games and tried to emulate
that shooting style.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Poetry and motin Man, Lawrence moten Uh, Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon Live from the Fox Sports or Radio studios coming
up next, speaking of basketball, do we have a Lebron
James story coming your way? That's next, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
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Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
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Speaker 1 (36:21):
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Speaker 2 (36:48):
So lock it in, ripped it up off, brother.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
We get back into two big takes coming off of
Day one of the MLB playoffs coming up in a
few minutes. Yes, and real quick, Yeah, what do you
got frost proy internets out? What time the Mets play?
They play at n never o'clock. Yeah, just wait, Soto
is pitching and hitting clean up. It's gonna be awesome
in Cancun. Yes, yes, well that's where the playoffs are, right,
aren't they? In Knco were the Mets playoff?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Tony Cabo was down there too, when the Cowboy or something. Yeah,
but at least you played one hundred and sixty two
all the way through.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Every one of a mat who played all Oh, yes,
we did right, as opposed to my squad that it
was over when it started. Normally it's like, oh, it's spring,
it's hope. It's like it's yeah, Opening Day ended it
for you. That's great, hey, opening, We waved our hat,
we gave the pirate, we gave him, gave the fans
a thrill. Now it's over, by the way. From the
from this game?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Did I right?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Did we haven't mentioned it? Joe Kelly wore the Mariachi
jacket out there to throw off the first Joe. I mean,
come on, Joe still thinks he pitches for the Dodgers.
I think I'm just not with them right now. You know,
I'm just not there. I'm still a Dodger.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
It's like when when when when uh, you know, two
people break up and the one person moves on as
dating someone else the other and goes, yeah, we're kind
of broken up a little bit for now.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
It's a little bit. No, dude, it's over, man, It's
it's over. I heard they just went to Cangoon together.
They met up with the Mets.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
So Laker training camp open today and it opened without
Lebron James absent with what head coach JJ Reddick called
a little bit of nerve irritation in the glute. So
he had glute irritation problem in the ass now also
called ibs no no uh woa no nerve irritation in
(38:32):
the gluten. For Lebron, the goal is to try to
activate his glues. The goal is for him to get
back for Opening Night next month against Golden State, and
JJ Reddick said today couldna wind up being a little
bit longer for a ramp up for Lebron leading into
opening that. Look, he's be the first NBA player played
twenty three years in the league. Uh so a little
bit longer for Lebron.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
You know what Kareem Abdul Jabbar would have gotten there
if he didn't keep retiring. You never know, that's true,
that's true. Let me be the first say farewell.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Uh this is just really awkward because I thought for Shakay,
you know what he's gonna He's gonna be on a
new team by the time we get to middle September.
It's he's going into a season where he's a lame
duck player. Lebron doesn't do things like this. He's not
an afterthought. He's not an afterthought on a team ever,
even though yes, it's Luca's team. This is gonna be
(39:23):
so awkward this season with Lebron and the Lakers, so
incredibly awkward. But I'll give you a bold prediction now
because I see how things are gonna get are gonna
get handled throughout the year. As you saw last year,
Luca and Lebron didn't need too much to get on
the same page together.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Lebron knows this is my last year here. I gotta
make the best of it. At this point, because I
opted in, I couldn't control my trade destination. Maybe my
my my trade value wasn't as high. But I can
already see that the amount of time Lebron is gonna
be with the Lakers will be as little as possible,
whether it's ramping up for the season, whether it's getting
(40:02):
time off during the season, whether it's a groat injury
that Lebron is away from the team for two and
a half weeks. At some point, Mille, as long as
the Lakers are winning enough games, and then it's not
to the point where hey, we got to start winning
a bunch to avoid the playing. I just I just
get this sense that the amount of time Lebron spends
away from the Lakers will be really significant.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Jason, I just I'm sorry to enter.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
I just want to add that.
Speaker 5 (40:25):
Yeah, Lebron is currently doing the cabbage patch on Kay
Sanatt's stream right now.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Oh is he doing the cabbage He's doing the batsay,
but I thought he's hurt.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Yeah, he's he's breaking it down on like onkat like stream.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Do you mean breaking up? He's dancing break dancing like
the Australia Lady. Yeah, yeah, now he was. He was.
He was breaking it as campy. No you can, I
think you can still do the cabbage patch, the worm
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Oh he was doing the worm too, Yeah, so as
glute might not I mean, so, I mean you need
your glute. Oh no, you need your glute for the worm,
don't you.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
I mean, Hey, from carsonat stream, it looked like he
used all of it. He shook what his mom gave him.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Okay, all right again, Lebron James will be away from
the Lakers of goodly large.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
I go back to this, he had the opportunity to
go wherever the hell he wanted if he didn't opt
into the contract. I know we all want a little
bit more money. He could have done whatever he wanted
and gotten away from this. Instead, he's making it something.
So I hope the Lakers tell him to beat it.
They don't pay him out. You want to, you want
to buy out. Here's here's five bucks. We'll buy you
a Starbucks. That's all you get.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
M beat it.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
See, I could go for free coffee because you also
had a lot of the teammates. I was reading some quotes.
He was an afterthought in most days, like talking about
things and working up plans with Luca, oh.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
And for Lebron and whomever.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
You tell.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
The amount of time he's away from the Lakers is
gonna be something. Yeah, but evidently his ass works. Coming
up next, two big hot takes off a day
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