October 31, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike react to the Dodgers winning their 8th World Series Championship. Plus, MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the show to celebrate the Dodgers and put a bow on an unbelievable baseball season!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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here we sit, Walker Buehller closes out the Yankees in
the bottom of the ninth inning and in a in
a playoff series where we keep looking back and seeing
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things that happen here, going back into history. Obviously, the
comparisons of the Kirk Gibson home run to the Freddie
Freeman home run.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But remember in eighty eight, the.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Dodgers win that World Series, it's Oral Herscheiser, who had
a much different year than than Walker Buhller did, winning
the Cy Young fifty nine consecutive scoreless innings.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It was Walker Buele, it was it was Oral.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Hrscheizer coming out of the bullpen to close out the
World Series for the Dodgers. And then here we are
in twenty twenty four and it's Walker Bueller, starting pitcher
coming in to close the game out and the World
Series out for the Dodgers. The first career save for
Walker Buehler who wins the World Series for the Dodgers,
and also coming off his last three games that he's pitched,
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is probably.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Gonna make a decent amount of money.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Whe The shutout anything it's against the Mets, the shutout
against the against the Yankees, and now closing out the
final ending of the World Series.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, I think that probably gets you paid pretty well
in today's Major League Baseball world.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Good for him.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I like the little Nike ad that they did where
they had it, you know, the storybook season here's the
cast like the end movie credits. So that was a
big win as well. But for Walker Buehler, I mean, wow,
how huge. I mean the fact you can link so
many things to that nineteen eighty eight squad because people
just miss the last World Series, which is wrong yeah
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and wrongheaded. Everybody played by the same rules.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Shut up.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, it's just tough because because in twenty twenty when
the Dodgers won, Yes, it was incredibly exciting. I still
remember Rius closing out the ninth inning and it was
so tense because the Dodgers bullpen was terrible. They're coming
off that big Game six with the big errors that
win the game for the Rays, and it was it
was tense, but it was just everybody's attention was still split.
It's a different thing. It was still even though people
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watch the game, it was a bit. Yeah, it was
still it was still elsewhere of what was going on
in the world. So there was still that part. And
that's same thing for the Lakers. Why that didn't resonate
as much to just because yes, we all watched, we
all saw it, everybody had the same rules, same everything.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It just didn't resonate.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now it's almost like it feel like the Dodgers validated
with their championship. Now yeah, so now this year, especially
the path you end up having to take, the fact
that you can beat both New York squads back to back,
they're New York state champions, well to New York igin.
We now have to fight the Bills.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I don't know what game we play to make that happen,
but that's about it. But the fact that you beat
the Padres sorry, family, I'm us, I'm not and then
you take down both New York squads to do this,
I mean, you want to talk about epic runs and
kind of being able to push down and little Brother,
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you know, and the Yankees fans will still.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Do there we go twenty seven and all of that nonsense.
It's been a minute, it's been a while.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
You had to, you know, invoke every distant memory that
you could in the series to try to extend just
saying well, remember this, remember when whatever, Like, no, none
of that matters because the Dodgers it was an odd series,
but a lot of big moments and unlikely heroes and scenarios.
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To your point about Bueller to come in and get
the save. All hands on deck, you know, we used
that phrasing a lot in games, but and in these
kind of series. But for Walker Buehler, you know, he's
in his postgame interview and he just had that wide
eyed like I just did that right for all of
the chest pumping and everything he did as he was
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coming out right fist pumping, chest thumping, looking at the
crowd like in the moment like when it all kind
of sunk in, He's like, Wow, what a path.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm thinking to two year, fifty million dollar deal for
Walker Buller coming off of just.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Three games and had a total of t ten innings.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I think you kind of have to give it to
him kind of there, who if nothing else, you can
hire him as your closer.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But look, let me just I like, clearly he looked
like he had his stuff back. You saw the breaking
pitches had a lot of bite to them. Yes, and
you know what, maybe you have something there with Maybe
maybe he's better suited as a closer. You know, guys
have made that that move before to being a Hey,
it was a really good starting pitcher, but arm injuries happen,
and now here I am, I can I have the
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bulldog mentality to handle the ninth inning of a game
and maybe we saw the birth of a closer tonight.
But I'll tell you this. You know who is going
to walk around like the biggest boss in the world,
who's the after winning the World Series. He's gonna walk
into the postgame press conference both middle fingers extended to
everybody going. I don't know they'll quite say that, maybe,
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but you are gonna see Dave roberts walk around going,
who wants to question my pitching plan?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Now? Why are you sons of Blake and he bikes?
Where are I?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Really?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Did?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I thought he meant Don Martin Fox Sports Radio as well.
Dave Robertson is going a walk round ago. Where's all
you blak any Blakes?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You guys had said we gave away Game four. My
pitching plan was back you in particular, smile.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
On all of you in front, and I'll be the
guy in front. I'll be he He's gotta wear it.
They won the World Series. It was a bad pitching plan.
They took a lot of chances.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Mike Harmon, they won.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Mike Harmon, Fox Sports Radio, Dave, how could you possibly
have added into your algorithm for your pitching plan? The
New York Yankees ineptitude on defense in the fifth inning.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
To your I'll tell you we'll get to the Yankees
defense in a minute, because that was just I don't
know what to say about that. Uh. Infield practice starts
tomorrow morning. Yeah, no, kidd, But you look back at
Roberts and where this game sat in the fifth inning,
a five to nothing Yankee lead, in which everything was
falling apart for the Dodgers. Everything had fallen apart, all
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their plans and every bit they had with the bullpen
games because they got by with the bullpen games against
the Mets, because the Mets got out to early leads
and the Dodgers didn't want to chase those wins. Right,
We talked, We talked about the last couple of nights,
Game two, in Game six of the NLCS, it was
bullpen games for the Dodgers, and so, all right, let's.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
See if it works. Well.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The Mets get out to a five to nothing lead,
a five to one, six to one lead. All right,
we're not gonna go crazy bringing in the high leverage guys.
We're gonna kind of, you know, put it away for
the next day. Okay, I understand that, and then they
rode the lightning again last night with a chance to
win the World Series, where the plan was low leverage
guys all night. But you have the lead in the
first inning, Freddie Freeman hit another home run. Nope, doesn't matter.
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It's a one run game. In the fifth n it,
Nope doesn't matter. We're not gonna go at any point
to any of our high leverage guys. Bases are loaded,
you got a two to one lead, Nope, gonna gonna
let him. Let Hudson pitch them to Volpie. And it
was a big fail And it was all set up
where the Dodgers made winning last night priority number two
or three. I've never heard a guy happier to lose
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eleven to four in a World Series game than Dave
Roberts after the game was over, when he was asked,
how do you feel about your pitch?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I feel great about it. Feel great, feel great. Everything
went on tonight, dude, you lost eleven four. You let
the Yankees back in the series. How are you so happy?
Everything was on tonight? And what happened?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Jack Flirer, He couldn't get out of the first inning.
The Yankees were bombing home runs, Judge hits a home run,
Stanton hits a home run, Chishm hits a home run.
It's a party. It's a party in Yankee Stadium, and
suddenly it's how are the Dodgers gonna finish this game
where they gonna use their low leverage guys again. The
Yankees have life, They're gonna come back to La swinging freely,
and suddenly it's boy, if Yamamoto doesn't win, what are
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we gonna do? In Game seven, everything was going the Yankees' way,
and the Dave Roberts pitching plan was about to be
something that blew up in his face and maybe cost
the Dodgers the World Series. And the Yankee defense did
their part, and the Dodgers get back into the game
and they win. And the Yankee bullp and the Dodger bullpen,
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they had nine relievers tonight. They come in and do
their job. Flaherty was terrible, but by and large a
eight innings, almost eight innings, phenomenal job. The high leverage
guys get it done. They don't let the Yankees dent
the scoreboard, and they win the World Series and Dave
Roberts or whoever else's plan it was is walking around
the middle Finger tour is beginning for the Dodgers, going,
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you want to question my plan, you want to question
my pitching plan.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
We just won the bleeping World Series on my pitching plan. Yeah.
It's like Joe Madden with the Cubs.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I still have questions for him all years later after
their win back in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But yeah, I mean you get to tryin in who gives.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You two and a third scoreless, only one hit, strikes
out three grad or all before him. I mean after
the third inning, they only gave up one run, right,
and that was the sacrifice fly to Stanton that he
hit a mile high and peacocked it.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
No, that was a run that was gonna score.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
But yeah, early on, Yeah, there were a lot of questions,
and then the game came back came back to you.
I mean Kopek comes in, VESSI gets used before they
go to Gradol. I mean, go through and all your
high leverage guys get their run in this one, and
ultimately you're able to ride trying for two.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And a third.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
That's a hell of an effort that he put up
for them before seeding to Bueller, who came in and
had the best stuff. I mean, it was like he
was because you're always wondering, right, if a guy has
to come in and relief, is he gonna have any
of the command like he does training for his normal
start right, How regimented pitchers are. I mean, it's it's famous,
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the superstitions and all of those mechanics to get from
start day to the next start day. Right when you throw,
how you throw, You're stretching out all those things. For
Bueller to come in and have the inning that he did,
I mean that just look, Dave Robertson is gonna peak
cock about it, but look.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
At what his guys did.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Like in the end, they've got to make the performance
stand up to make him look like he had like
it was a master plan. Right, you could say it
all you could draw it all up. Everybody's got a
plan till they get punched in the face. Oh Dodgers
got punched in the face early.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And you know, and that's the thing about this plan
was that the This is why I didn't like it
is because it felt like it was just they only
had one one plan, right, there's only one plan. It
was the low leverage guys here, But what about no, no, no,
and then we do that, so we win the next
game with all the high leverage guys coming in, not
taking anything else into account that what if Flaherty gets bombed,
what if the Yankees start hitting? What if you don't hit?
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I mean, there's so many things because the other side
is trying to but it's like, the only plan was
we're going for this is how we're doing it. But
how are you gonna adjust on the fly. Nope, this
is gonna be our plan. And that's a bad plan.
Any plan that doesn't have any escape avenues or or
parachutes where okay we have to adjust the plan and
go here is not a great plan. But it doesn't
matter because it worked. Yeah, they're holding up the trophy.
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You know that they rode the lightning on the plan
and it worked. And what can you say because all
this stuff, what can I say?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
They won? They won the world to even.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Even yesterday in the the low you know leverage guys.
I mean that gave them four innings to give them
a chance. Right, He only gave up one earn in
his four innings of work before seeding to Honeywell, where
everything went off the rails like Dave Roberts, you want
to talk about peak hoggy if they've been able to
finish the sweep one it's a sweep, but have you
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been able to do it with that crew? I mean,
think about what he would have been doing. I mean,
that would have been full on Conor McGregor walking around chest.
But he was the first guy out of the dugout
and fired up so huge.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Here's the final call how it sounded on AM five
to seventy LA Sports, Flagship station of the Dodgers here
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Dave Roberts can hardly watch.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Here's the one two pitch.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Em Bueller got him swinging.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
That's a world series Flinn for LA.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
They've done it.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
They've finished the job and give Los Angeles the parade.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's been waiting for.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
A swarm of Dodgers on the right side of the infield,
grown men, but children again living out their dream.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Stephen Nelson, I AM five seventy congratulations of the Dodgers
Flagship station and Don Martin a seventy LA Sports. There's
gonna be about five million people at this parade, at
least a sheriff's office. We found that out. They couldn't
really have one in twenty twenty. Yeah, and there's gonna
be five. Look for all of the talk. Hey, the
Lakers own LA, they have Lebron, they're big. You know
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what list They'll trust me. He's living here for thirty years.
Like I always say, when I go back to Michigan,
what's the most popular.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Team in Michigan?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
More people are wearing University of Michigan. Every third person
is wearing something University of Jason. Everything else is besides
the point.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I got to correct. Go ahead, it's gonna be five
million and four five million? Why is that? Five? Four
Padre fans are gonna show up. I want to know
what it feels like to be a champion. Wow. But uh, it's.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Here in LA with all the big sports teams. Every
third person is wearing something Dodgers. It's Dodgers, then it's Lakers,
and it's others. It's one of the few cities where
baseball is number one. Look, and even in New York
with the Giants and the Jets the next the Yankees
of the number one draw, there's not many cities left
where baseball is by far and away the number one draw.
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But just walk around La for five minutes. You see
there's people. I'm not saying people aren't wearing Lakers gears,
but nobody to the extent of Dodger hats and Dodger tams,
which absolutely.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
You know my old measure how long it takes us
to drive up here in traffic as it gets to
the fall, it's all car flags and decals. Maybe that's
how that's how you know the measure of a team
in a city.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
The World Series MVP has been announced and it Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I know, I know what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You couldn't.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I couldn't do it. Come on, ye like it's gonna
be you. It's gonna be a cliffhanger. What am I
gonna say?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Who will find out? Coming up? Come on, man, I
couldn't do that. Come on, are your Freddy Freeman? And
you fingered New York? I couldn't. I couldn't give you this.
You should print those T shirts immediately. I couldn't give
you this. Danny, would you like some sausage? The Steve Money?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Would you like some sausage?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Maybe it's Freddy Freeman, maybe it's somebody else, Maybe it's
maybe it's Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
He said, I deserve this damn thing.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I was thinking back to Bruce Almighty when when they
when they go to Steve Carell and you know, for
a teaser, and he goes, are your children in dire jeopardy?
Find out after the game, like, I can't do that.
I can't do Freddy Freeman, is your m VP? Coming
up next? John Paul Morosi, MLB Network Insider, Extraordinary Stop Spies.
We break down the absolute thrill of what we saw,
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and hey, let's get an absolute consensus on whose fault
it was that the Dodgers won the World Series.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Was it the Yankee defense or was it the Yankee defense?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We'll debate that. That's coming up next right here, Jason
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Speaker 2 (16:24):
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Speaker 3 (16:34):
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Speaker 3 (16:42):
They're eighth title.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Walker Buehler closes out the Yankees in the bottom of
the ninth inning they beat the Dodgers seven six. Blake
trying in the hero two and third innings for the
Dodgers tonight. Yankee defense the hero for the Dodgers tonight,
allowing them to come back in this game. You were
doing Yankee defense bingo, and you had catchers interference and
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indifferent balk and drop fly balls and bad throws and
mental errors about covering first base. Boy, I tell you
won in Blackout. You blacked out every Bingo spot on
your card with what the Yankees did tonight to help
the Dodgers get back into this and win the series
in five games. Joining us now in the hot line,
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we just saw in New York City JP.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
What's happening, Buddy, I.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Am utterly baffled. I congratulate the Los Angeles Dodgers and
they're amazing fans, but the manner in which they one
I'm still trying to piece together all of those moments
in that fifth inning, and it's just remarkable. The most
the most unearned runs ever given up five in a
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World Series clinching game. No one we can stay this definitively.
No team has ever won a World Series in quite
the fashion that the Dodgers did tonight. This is the
remarkable bit of baseball history, quite a book end of
this World Series. Game one epic, Game five epic in
its own way, and here we are now reliving a
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truly unique night of Major League baseball.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I'll tell you, John Paul, I mean you'll obviously we'll
get to the Dodgers part of this in a second.
But with a five nothing lead, this should have been over.
It should have been over the Yankees. It was a
party night. They were hitting home runs, the Dodgers using
their low leverage guys, and then Volpie makes a bad throw,
Aaron Judge can't catch an easy fly ball, Garrett Cole
and and Rizzo miscommunication uncovering first base. Like we've talked
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about how frustrating it is to watch the Yankee succeed
despite the fact that defensively they're not very good, and
they run the bases poorly, and still they win I
eventually they got to pay the piper for this, and
while they wound up paying.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Tonight well in all in succession, and as as the
inning was unfolding, there was at least a brief sense
of foreboding. Once Judge clanks the ball in center field,
you think, well, I was kind of strange. It just
it was such a bizarre occurrence that that you were
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immediately surprised by it. And then I think at the
at the end of the day, was the play in
front of Volpie over it in the in the five
to six hole, maybe, but in that situation, the catcher's
running just get an house, you know, at that point,
just getting out and try to slow down the momentum.
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But they just could not help themselves down. And obviously
the play with Cole and Rizzo, I get it, Mookie's
fast and and perhaps Rizzo was expecting Cole to be
there and Cole was expecting Rizzo to take it himself.
But you can't assume in that moment. It is just
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as basic as basic pitchers fielding practice gets you gotta
sprint over there. It's Game five of the World Series,
and so I'm I'm just baffled by by the way
the way in which they they lost, and yet to
your point, at the same time, when you look at
the totality of the series, as much as the Yankees
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had their opportunities to win, they were too sloppy in
too many moments to be able to compete with the Dodgers.
And it's almost as though as soon as the Dodgers
had had that glimpse of opportunity in the fifth inning,
they took it and it was game over. It was
just an extraordinary a series of events. And the other
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great note from Ops to stats later in the game
is that no team had ever erased a five run episode,
then falling behind again and then come back to win
in a World series clinching game like this. It's just
a night that we are never ever going to forget.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Hollywood's storybook kind of ending here. And certainly Jason and
I we just watched every movement of Dave Roberts, because
while it looked a bit spotty in the end, bullpen management,
pitching management, victory for Dave Roberts, it.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Was and he did I think an excellent job overall.
I thought last night, I know we talked about it
a bit, I didn't really have a huge issue with
the way the last night unfolded, because I'm not sure
who else he would have gone to. You might have said, hey,
go a little bit longer with Casparrius, but last night
was last night. Tonight was I'm going to go to
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my leverage relievers and keep the game close and hope
that we get back into it. And at the time
when when things before things started to turn, the Yankees
had an eighty nine percent chance to win that game
based on win probability eighty nine percent, and I think,
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and to be curious, I'd be curious to hear from
Dave as he talks after the game. I wonder if
if the five run lead was about the limit to
where he was still going to chase chase that game
and try to and try to win it with his
with his a bullpen, if the Yankees had gotten to
a six run lead, a seven run lead, maybe it's different.
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And that's where again we talk about the Yankees issues. Tonight.
They stranded twelve runners and they left the bases loaded twice,
and so certainly we're going to zero in on the
fifth ending because it's just it's there, and we're going
to talk about it forever. And then obviously there were
some issues later on on the game with but the
catchers interference falk and.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Do you know Tom? Do you know Tom Amansky?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
They need one of his videos ideo?
Speaker 6 (23:11):
They do? They do? And I think too, you know,
uh Kinley couldn't throw a strike. This is real pressure.
And and as much as we talk about the struggles
in this World Series of Otani and up until tonight
of these offensively the struggles of Judge, it's hard. It's
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hard to be this great on this stage. And and
even even the best, the best players, they get tired,
they get worn down, mentally tired, and they just the
Yankees had it for a moment early and then just
couldn't reclaim it. And I think one of the greatest
ironies too is Judge Hobart in the first inning and
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at that point you're thinking they got this, They're they're
rolling game six man tonight, it's gonna be awesome, and
and all of a sudden, it all changed very quickly.
And I think that's the tough part for me, is that,
you know, on the Yankee side, the judge who had
such an extraordinary season, We're gonna think back on this
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World Series and say what for the early home run
in Game five? He struggled a lot offensively, and then
he made the misque that began the sequence of events
that had led us to the Dodgers celebrating on the
Yankee stadiums field instead of the Yankees getting ready to
fly out to La And it's and it's not his fault,
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but certainly this is going to be a part of
his off season and the way that he enters it
is very uncomfortable period. So it's it's a it's a
difficult stretch for him, but the Yankees and this is
going to be one of those very very difficult seasons
to get over. And oh, by the way, one so
was a free agent, so what could happen there?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Well, I will say that, Look, I have good news
for the Yankees on that front. Hey, if it comes
down to the Yankees and the Mets for Juan Soto,
there is absolutely no way the Yankees let him go
to the Mets, as much as Brian Cash and the
Yankees don't spend money there. He says, I got to
walk around this town. There is whatever the Mets offer him,
they will offer him more. There is no the best
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the Mets. You're going to do is drive up the price.
If it's between the Mets and the Yankees, there's no
way Wan Soto is leading.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
That's just not will see.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Fortunately, Fortunately on Monday, we have our our MLB Network
off season programming getting started, and you'll be enjoying Hotsto
brought to you by Juan Soto for the entire Inspire
or winter, And I can assure you that we'll be
will be analyzing every last I'll at some point in time,
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I'll be doing the Soto shuffle in my in my
office as I'm doing my segments. He's going to be
that important to the show that this winter, So you'll
get plenty of Soto talk from me. Anytime you want
you call me, I'll be I'll be in Soto mode
this winter.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Jason'll be trying to insert himself into the conversation, offering
to be a caddy for Sterns or whatever he needs
to do to help make the pitch right.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
And I'm sure that the foursome for the negotiation will
be turns Soto, me and Jason. I think that's that's
the play. I'll have. I will it's funny. I had
one one very accomplished baseball player who wants asked me, Hey, John,
would you ever would you ever want to come golfing
with me? And I said, I'll just be honest about this,
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having golf since I was sixteen and wasn't good, wasn't
very good back then. He's like, Okay, we'll probably have
lunch sometime then instead, So that's like, then, that's totally true.
I wish, I wish I could be a functional contributor
to a golf foursome, but I am. I am a
total zero.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I'm with you. I am much better contributed to lunch.
I will contribute. I'd contribute to whatever is on the plate,
one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Lunch is always a good idea. I will always be
in favor of lunch.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Now, now here's the Shaker party, because if I'm sure,
if I told you before the series started that sho
hey Otani and Max Munsey were going to combine to
go two for thirty four, you would say, well, the
World Series is going through the canyon of heroes.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
But this is what we saw.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Munsey struggles as hot as he was in the NLCS,
and I don't know if it's just the injury for
Otani John Paul, but he really wasn't the same in
the World Series. I don't know that he was the
same overall in the playoffs. He only tried to steal
two bases after stealing fifty nine in the regular season.
And some of his swings look good in the World Series,
some of them looked like they were really awkward. I
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really wonder if he's been dealing with something even before
the slide into second base the other night.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Yeah, it's a very fair question, and maybe we'll get
a little bit more intel, or maybe we won't because
with show A there's a lot that we don't know
with respect to even the nature of the elbow surgery
that he had last year, so there's still a lot
unknown there. It does those seem to me that at
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least he has arrived at this point, and certainly I
think winning will do a lot to set a really
good course for his off seasons. It seems like at
the end of the day, even though I agree that
he did seem like he wasn't fully himself in October,
he is still healthy enough to have played this month,
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and that means that for the most parties entering the
off season healthy. We'll see what ends up going on
with his shoulder and if that requires any additional work.
But for the Dodgers, it's difficult for them to imagine
a better year one for Otani in the Dodger uniform.
They win the World Series, he goes fifty to fifty
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for the first time ever, and he ends the year
from the standpoint of his right arm, his prize pitching
arm in a good place to where him pitching in
twenty twenty five is a very realistic idea for them.
So it's hard, I'm sure for the Dodgers, who basically
have anything editing to complain about right now. But I
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will agree with you that didn't really seem like he
was necessarily in his best form. But all of a
sudden that no longer is all that terribly concerning because
there is no longer a Game six to play and
the Dodgers the champions of the Baseball World JP.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
We talked a lot about Freddie Freeman last night and
his heroics twelve rbi for the series, tying a World
Series record. Let's move back to the manager for second,
Dave Roberts. How much of the speech that he makes
now when he's enshrined in Cooperstown, is dedicated to his
bullpen management.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Here there you go, And I love what you said
there about his Hall of Fame bona fides. Because he's
now a two time World Series champ, best winning percentage
ever for a Dodgers manager. With a sufficient number of games,
he no longer has to answer any questions. And I'll
be really curious to hear as he talks about the
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decision making process and in the bullpen management tonight how
much of it was as he had planned it early
and how much of it was him improvising in a
good way as the game went along. And Walker Buehler
saying that kid rose with all the field after the game,
that he hadn't thrown a ball until he started warming
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up today in the bullpen before the ninth inning. Just
how amazing is that? And I go back, I remember
years ago he had Clayton Kershaw close out of postseason
series when no one expected it, and I believe one
day of rest in a somewhat similar situation. So he's
shown me the willingness to be creative and to go
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to different pictures in different circumstances. And that was the
case with Buehler tonight, and Bueler, by the way, someone
who had a six era in the month of August
and now he is all of a sudden on the
pitching mount rushmore for the Dodgers in the month of October.
So creativity plus for the Dodgers and having the conviction
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to go to his a bullpen even when the score
was not in his favor or even close to it
is one of the ways that we're going to remember
this as being an absolute apex game. As the manager
for Dave.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Roberts, well, if we let you go, John Paul, I
do want to say this. I know I could have
done that. I know I could give him too much
credit for creativity because if I was in the dugout
with Dave Roberts, he turned me says what do you
think for the ninth inning, I would have said, well,
in eighty eight was sort of went to horror and
closed out the world series.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Let's bring Walker Buller in. Oh okay, great, I mean
I got to come up with that.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
There you go, and that's a pretty good, pretty good
plot twist, pretty good way of tying it all together.
Eighty eight to the twenty twenty four, and I thought
Joe Davis's call was brilliant. Of course, Joe's been at
the mic for so many great moments of Dodgers and
for baseball overall here in the last several years. That
was a great call there. And the Dodgers now will
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have their parade, and I'm sure every sports fan in
LA is going to want to have a connection to
at least those who are non angel fans. We'll want
to have a piece of that amazing celebration on Friday.
So good, good things out of the Dodgers, all very
well deserved the off season ahead and also ahead will
be a rousing seventeen to fourteen victory at Lambeau for
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the Lions on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
That's John Morosi, MLB Network, Inside of John Paul Morosi.
John Paul as always, thank you for everything. Thank you
for a busy week this week. We'll talk soon as
we get into the off season.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
That was great. My friends always love our conversations, appreciate
all of them during the course of the year.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Thanks for having all ll brother be good, the unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
John Paul Morosi now the unreal Brian Finley, who's got
what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
My microphone is on. Okay, am I allowed to talk?
You speak, let me talk.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Okay. I'll make it really quick.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
I'll make it sixty seconds.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
All right. So here we go. We got the Dodgers
winning the World Series.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
They do it seven to six tonight in a Game
five against the Yankees, and so, yeah, the parade is
coming up, and yeah, so many good things for the Dodgers.
It is their eighth World Series, it's their first since
twenty twenty, and they do it by coming back from
five runs. They were down five to nothing in the
fifth inning. Garrett Cole had a no hitter going five
unearned runs were scored, and then there were two sack
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flies that brought in runs in the top of the
eighth and the Dodgers took it from there. Lastly, guys,
one more score in the NBA. Let's get right to
the Lakers and they lost one thirty four to one
ten on the road against the Cavs. But the good
news was late in the game, there were rumors about
Bronnie James lebron James is unplaying in this game, he
got in five minutes of work. He made his first
NBA field goal. He does it though in a loss.
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His dad Lebron had twenty eight points and the Lakers
lose this one again, one thirty four to one ten.
With that, let's get it back to Jason Smith and
Mike Carmon.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Thank you very much, be I appreciate it. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Tirack dot
Com Studios. Coming up next. The Dodgers are your World
Series champions, and they wouldn't have the title without the
biggest play of the night tonight we break it down
because it went down a little bit different than you.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Thought it would. That's coming up next.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Right here, Jason, Mike, you are listening to Fox Sports Radio,
where the Los Angeles Dodgers are the champions of Major
League Baseball, beating the Yankees seven to six for the
World Series.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
First and foremost, I thank God, I thank my players.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
They're families.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
The coaching staff, training staff, ownership, scouting, player development, as
Andrews said, the finger prints on Dodger Nation.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
This belongs to everybody.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Dave Roberts, victorious Dodgers manager, the Dave Roberts middle finger.
You want to question my pitching decisions tour that begins now.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Well we have the other the first line that he
uttered in his speech as well.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
I have.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Then you didn't like my pitching plan, How do you
like it?
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
The Jason Smith Show with the Mike Carmon live from
the tire rag dot Com Studios. How do you like them? Apples?
The Dodgers are world champions. They hold off the Yankees
seven to six in an absolute thriller of the game.
But look, this game comes down to the errors the
Yankees made to allow the Dodgers back into this game.
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The Yankees started this game a continuation of last night.
They knocked Jack Flaherty out in the second inning. Aaron Judge,
it's a home run. Jeren Carlos stan it's a home run.
It's five nothing Yankees after four innings, and then in
the top of the fifth, the Rankees make a slew
of errors that just allow the Dodgers to tie the game.
Aaron Judge drops a line drive to center field that
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he's got to catch, but you can see the replay
takes his eye off the ball, looking at keyk Hernandez,
maybe looking to see if he has to throw into second,
and instead of an out, you have runners at first
and second. The next ball is a ground ball to
short and Anthony Volpi, who I felt like made every
other play in the World Series, which you can't have
a five hundred feelie wasenter a short stuff makes a
really bad throw to third, and that loads the bases
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with nobody out. Now the Dodgers are able to or
the Yankees able to get out of the next two batters.
O Tani strikes out, and Mookie Bets is up with
two outs and the bass is loaded, and he hits
a ground ball to Anthony Rizzo at first, and there's
some sort of miscommunication with him and Garrett Cole. Mookie
Bets is safe, a run comes in, Freddie Freeman knocks
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in two with a hit to ask her. Hernandez knocks
in two with a double, and the game is tied.
And the opinion following this look the Garrett Cole Anthony
Rizzo play is a play the Yankee fans are going
to see in their head for the rest of their lives. Right,
just like Red Sox fancy the Buckner play, They're gonna
see this Rizzo play, which actually has a lot in
common with with the Buckner play, because in the end,
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I don't think it matters, because I think Mookie Betts
was gonna beat it out no matter what. The ground
ball to first and Rizzo comes up thinking he's gonna
toss to Garrett Cole. Cole stops and points for him
to run to the bag himself. He doesn't get there, obviously,
and Betts beats it out. Now I know it was
all Garrett Cole was going off the mound. He thought
the ending was over. That's not what I've seen this
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play now thirty times. And I guarantee you Cole knew
he wasn't getting the first base ahead of Mookie Betts.
He knew very because he had a pretty good break.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Off the mound.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
The ball was hit and he starts running. He knew
he wasn't gonna get there in time, and he made
that split decision to stop and point to first to
tell Rizzo, you gotta take it. I'm not getting there.
And Rizzo, who of course didn't come up because he thought,
I'm coming up to throw to first And look, that's
how it's taught everywhere in any level of baseball. When
a ball is up to the right side, the pitcher's
got to go to first base. But Cole wasn't getting there.
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Bets looked like he was ahead of him, so he
made that split decision, and Rizzo fielded the ball not
aggressively in the way where I'm gonna get it and
tossed the first.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
For the end of the inning.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
And because of that, he had no chance to beat
mooki Bets the bag. So I mean, Rizzo's got to
own a lot of it because he came up with
it thinking I'm just gonna be this easy play.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
But it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
It wasn't Garrett Cole being too locked in or he
didn't leave it off. He just knew I wasn't gonna
get there, and you have to take it yourself now.
And I'll try to make Yankee fans like my dad
feel better.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Like I said, I don't think it would have mattered
because the way that Rizzo fielded the ball, he wasn't
gonna beat MOOKI Bet Bets to the bag anyway. So
MOOKI was gonna wind up being saved. Now, if you
handle it differently, if he's charging it, it's different. But
the way it was, Bets was getting there.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Oh but that's the thing, the way the ball comes
off the bat, like Rizzo before he he looks to
go gratt, you know, make the play. He sees Cole
get off the mound, so I think he doesn't come
at it as aggressively, thinking, all right, he's heading over,
and then by time the point happens, it's too late, right,
He's he's not in a in the aggressive you know,
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rounding off the ball and on a full sprint to
first base. It's the oh we're caught no man's land.
And Mookie Bets is hustling down the line because he
sees the opportunity. He sees the way this this inning
is starting to move and this might be their only
shot to break the break back through.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
So that's I'm sorry. See, I gotta be careful though.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
It's an excitable you know time, and the last thing
I want to do is have get myself dumped because
you know nothing, Oh no, that I don't know that
I'd be able to contain myself with the bleeping because
it was Mookie Betts, who you know, shone in that moment,
speed down to first base, and for Garrett Cole that
inning couldn't en and made just one comedy of errors.
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They end up with three on the night once you
add the catcher's interference, which is also a very large
play because there's no guarantee Shoeo Tani was doing anything.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
With the bat. Yes, just huge all around.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
As much credit you have to give the Dodgers coming
back in this game when it looked like it was
going back to Game six, Boy, the Yankees just decided
to handle them because they are awful in the field.
Coming up next, we'll have more reaction to the Dodgers
winning the World Series, including who the happiest and unhappiest
people are right now and they're not who you think
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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here we sit, Walker Buehller closes out the Yankees in
the bottom of the ninth inning and in a in
a playoff series where we keep looking back and seeing
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things that happen here, going back into history. Obviously, the
comparisons of the Kirk Gibson home run to the Freddie
Freeman home run.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But remember in eighty eight, the.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Dodgers win that World Series, it's Oral Herscheiser, who had
a much different year than than Walker Buhller did, winning
the Cy Young fifty nine consecutive scoreless innings.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It was Walker Buele, it was it was Oral.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Hrscheizer coming out of the bullpen to close out the
World Series for the Dodgers. And then here we are
in twenty twenty four and it's Walker Bueller, starting pitcher
coming in to close the game out and the World
Series out for the Dodgers. The first career save for
Walker Buehler who wins the World Series for the Dodgers,
and also coming off his last three games that he's pitched,
(02:00):
is probably.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Gonna make a decent amount of money.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Whe The shutout anything it's against the Mets, the shutout
against the against the Yankees, and now closing out the
final ending of the World Series.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, I think that probably gets you paid pretty well
in today's Major League Baseball world.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Good for him.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I like the little Nike ad that they did where
they had it, you know, the storybook season here's the
cast like the end movie credits. So that was a
big win as well. But for Walker Buehler, I mean, wow,
how huge. I mean the fact you can link so
many things to that nineteen eighty eight squad because people
just miss the last World Series, which is wrong yeah
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and wrongheaded. Everybody played by the same rules.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Shut up.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, it's just tough because because in twenty twenty when
the Dodgers won, Yes, it was incredibly exciting. I still
remember Rius closing out the ninth inning and it was
so tense because the Dodgers bullpen was terrible. They're coming
off that big Game six with the big errors that
win the game for the Rays, and it was it
was tense, but it was just everybody's attention was still split.
It's a different thing. It was still even though people
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watch the game, it was a bit. Yeah, it was
still it was still elsewhere of what was going on
in the world. So there was still that part. And
that's same thing for the Lakers. Why that didn't resonate
as much to just because yes, we all watched, we
all saw it, everybody had the same rules, same everything.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It just didn't resonate.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now it's almost like it feel like the Dodgers validated
with their championship. Now yeah, so now this year, especially
the path you end up having to take, the fact
that you can beat both New York squads back to back,
they're New York state champions, well to New York igin.
We now have to fight the Bills.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I don't know what game we play to make that happen,
but that's about it. But the fact that you beat
the Padres sorry, family, I'm us, I'm not and then
you take down both New York squads to do this,
I mean, you want to talk about epic runs and
kind of being able to push down and little Brother,
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you know, and the Yankees fans will still.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Do there we go twenty seven and all of that nonsense.
It's been a minute, it's been a while.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
You had to, you know, invoke every distant memory that
you could in the series to try to extend just
saying well, remember this, remember when whatever, Like, no, none
of that matters because the Dodgers it was an odd series,
but a lot of big moments and unlikely heroes and scenarios.
(04:20):
To your point about Bueller to come in and get
the save. All hands on deck, you know, we used
that phrasing a lot in games, but and in these
kind of series. But for Walker Buehler, you know, he's
in his postgame interview and he just had that wide
eyed like I just did that right for all of
the chest pumping and everything he did as he was
(04:42):
coming out right fist pumping, chest thumping, looking at the
crowd like in the moment like when it all kind
of sunk in, He's like, Wow, what a path.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm thinking to two year, fifty million dollar deal for
Walker Buller coming off of just.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Three games and had a total of t ten innings.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I think you kind of have to give it to
him kind of there, who if nothing else, you can
hire him as your closer.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But look, let me just I like, clearly he looked
like he had his stuff back. You saw the breaking
pitches had a lot of bite to them. Yes, and
you know what, maybe you have something there with Maybe
maybe he's better suited as a closer. You know, guys
have made that that move before to being a Hey,
it was a really good starting pitcher, but arm injuries happen,
and now here I am, I can I have the
(05:26):
bulldog mentality to handle the ninth inning of a game
and maybe we saw the birth of a closer tonight.
But I'll tell you this. You know who is going
to walk around like the biggest boss in the world,
who's the after winning the World Series. He's gonna walk
into the postgame press conference both middle fingers extended to
everybody going. I don't know they'll quite say that, maybe,
(05:48):
but you are gonna see Dave roberts walk around going,
who wants to question my pitching plan?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Now? Why are you sons of Blake and he bikes?
Where are I?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Really?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Did?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I thought he meant Don Martin Fox Sports Radio as well.
Dave Robertson is going a walk round ago. Where's all
you blak any Blakes?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You guys had said we gave away Game four. My
pitching plan was back you in particular, smile.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
On all of you in front, and I'll be the
guy in front. I'll be he He's gotta wear it.
They won the World Series. It was a bad pitching plan.
They took a lot of chances.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Mike Harmon, they won.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Mike Harmon, Fox Sports Radio, Dave, how could you possibly
have added into your algorithm for your pitching plan? The
New York Yankees ineptitude on defense in the fifth inning.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
To your I'll tell you we'll get to the Yankees
defense in a minute, because that was just I don't
know what to say about that. Uh. Infield practice starts
tomorrow morning. Yeah, no, kidd, But you look back at
Roberts and where this game sat in the fifth inning,
a five to nothing Yankee lead, in which everything was
falling apart for the Dodgers. Everything had fallen apart, all
(07:00):
their plans and every bit they had with the bullpen
games because they got by with the bullpen games against
the Mets, because the Mets got out to early leads
and the Dodgers didn't want to chase those wins. Right,
We talked, We talked about the last couple of nights,
Game two, in Game six of the NLCS, it was
bullpen games for the Dodgers, and so, all right, let's.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
See if it works. Well.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The Mets get out to a five to nothing lead,
a five to one, six to one lead. All right,
we're not gonna go crazy bringing in the high leverage guys.
We're gonna kind of, you know, put it away for
the next day. Okay, I understand that, and then they
rode the lightning again last night with a chance to
win the World Series, where the plan was low leverage
guys all night. But you have the lead in the
first inning, Freddie Freeman hit another home run. Nope, doesn't matter.
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It's a one run game. In the fifth n it,
Nope doesn't matter. We're not gonna go at any point
to any of our high leverage guys. Bases are loaded,
you got a two to one lead, Nope, gonna gonna
let him. Let Hudson pitch them to Volpie. And it
was a big fail And it was all set up
where the Dodgers made winning last night priority number two
or three. I've never heard a guy happier to lose
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eleven to four in a World Series game than Dave
Roberts after the game was over, when he was asked,
how do you feel about your pitch?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I feel great about it. Feel great, feel great. Everything
went on tonight, dude, you lost eleven four. You let
the Yankees back in the series. How are you so happy?
Everything was on tonight? And what happened?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Jack Flirer, He couldn't get out of the first inning.
The Yankees were bombing home runs, Judge hits a home run,
Stanton hits a home run, Chishm hits a home run.
It's a party. It's a party in Yankee Stadium, and
suddenly it's how are the Dodgers gonna finish this game
where they gonna use their low leverage guys again. The
Yankees have life, They're gonna come back to La swinging freely,
and suddenly it's boy, if Yamamoto doesn't win, what are
(08:41):
we gonna do? In Game seven, everything was going the Yankees' way,
and the Dave Roberts pitching plan was about to be
something that blew up in his face and maybe cost
the Dodgers the World Series. And the Yankee defense did
their part, and the Dodgers get back into the game
and they win. And the Yankee bullp and the Dodger bullpen,
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they had nine relievers tonight. They come in and do
their job. Flaherty was terrible, but by and large a
eight innings, almost eight innings, phenomenal job. The high leverage
guys get it done. They don't let the Yankees dent
the scoreboard, and they win the World Series and Dave
Roberts or whoever else's plan it was is walking around
the middle Finger tour is beginning for the Dodgers, going,
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you want to question my plan, you want to question
my pitching plan.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
We just won the bleeping World Series on my pitching plan. Yeah.
It's like Joe Madden with the Cubs.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I still have questions for him all years later after
their win back in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But yeah, I mean you get to tryin in who gives.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You two and a third scoreless, only one hit, strikes
out three grad or all before him. I mean after
the third inning, they only gave up one run, right,
and that was the sacrifice fly to Stanton that he
hit a mile high and peacocked it.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
No, that was a run that was gonna score.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
But yeah, early on, Yeah, there were a lot of questions,
and then the game came back came back to you.
I mean Kopek comes in, VESSI gets used before they
go to Gradol. I mean, go through and all your
high leverage guys get their run in this one, and
ultimately you're able to ride trying for two.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And a third.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
That's a hell of an effort that he put up
for them before seeding to Bueller, who came in and
had the best stuff. I mean, it was like he
was because you're always wondering, right, if a guy has
to come in and relief, is he gonna have any
of the command like he does training for his normal
start right, How regimented pitchers are. I mean, it's it's famous,
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the superstitions and all of those mechanics to get from
start day to the next start day. Right when you throw,
how you throw, You're stretching out all those things. For
Bueller to come in and have the inning that he did,
I mean that just look, Dave Robertson is gonna peak
cock about it, but look.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
At what his guys did.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Like in the end, they've got to make the performance
stand up to make him look like he had like
it was a master plan. Right, you could say it
all you could draw it all up. Everybody's got a
plan till they get punched in the face. Oh Dodgers
got punched in the face early.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And you know, and that's the thing about this plan
was that the This is why I didn't like it
is because it felt like it was just they only
had one one plan, right, there's only one plan. It
was the low leverage guys here, But what about no, no, no,
and then we do that, so we win the next
game with all the high leverage guys coming in, not
taking anything else into account that what if Flaherty gets bombed,
what if the Yankees start hitting? What if you don't hit?
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I mean, there's so many things because the other side
is trying to but it's like, the only plan was
we're going for this is how we're doing it. But
how are you gonna adjust on the fly. Nope, this
is gonna be our plan. And that's a bad plan.
Any plan that doesn't have any escape avenues or or
parachutes where okay we have to adjust the plan and
go here is not a great plan. But it doesn't
matter because it worked. Yeah, they're holding up the trophy.
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You know that they rode the lightning on the plan
and it worked. And what can you say because all
this stuff, what can I say?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
They won? They won the world to even.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Even yesterday in the the low you know leverage guys.
I mean that gave them four innings to give them
a chance. Right, He only gave up one earn in
his four innings of work before seeding to Honeywell, where
everything went off the rails like Dave Roberts, you want
to talk about peak hoggy if they've been able to
finish the sweep one it's a sweep, but have you
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been able to do it with that crew? I mean,
think about what he would have been doing. I mean,
that would have been full on Conor McGregor walking around chest.
But he was the first guy out of the dugout
and fired up so huge.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Here's the final call how it sounded on AM five
to seventy LA Sports, Flagship station of the Dodgers here
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Dave Roberts can hardly watch.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Here's the one two pitch.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Em Bueller got him swinging.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
That's a world series Flinn for LA.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
They've done it.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
They've finished the job and give Los Angeles the parade.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's been waiting for.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
A swarm of Dodgers on the right side of the infield,
grown men, but children again living out their dream.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Stephen Nelson, I AM five seventy congratulations of the Dodgers
Flagship station and Don Martin a seventy LA Sports. There's
gonna be about five million people at this parade, at
least a sheriff's office. We found that out. They couldn't
really have one in twenty twenty. Yeah, and there's gonna
be five. Look for all of the talk. Hey, the
Lakers own LA, they have Lebron, they're big. You know
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what list They'll trust me. He's living here for thirty years.
Like I always say, when I go back to Michigan,
what's the most popular.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Team in Michigan?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
More people are wearing University of Michigan. Every third person
is wearing something University of Jason. Everything else is besides
the point.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I got to correct. Go ahead, it's gonna be five
million and four five million? Why is that? Five? Four
Padre fans are gonna show up. I want to know
what it feels like to be a champion. Wow. But uh, it's.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Here in LA with all the big sports teams. Every
third person is wearing something Dodgers. It's Dodgers, then it's Lakers,
and it's others. It's one of the few cities where
baseball is number one. Look, and even in New York
with the Giants and the Jets the next the Yankees
of the number one draw, there's not many cities left
where baseball is by far and away the number one draw.
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But just walk around La for five minutes. You see
there's people. I'm not saying people aren't wearing Lakers gears,
but nobody to the extent of Dodger hats and Dodger tams,
which absolutely.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
You know my old measure how long it takes us
to drive up here in traffic as it gets to
the fall, it's all car flags and decals. Maybe that's
how that's how you know the measure of a team
in a city.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
The World Series MVP has been announced and it Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I know, I know what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You couldn't.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I couldn't do it. Come on, ye like it's gonna
be you. It's gonna be a cliffhanger. What am I
gonna say?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Who will find out? Coming up? Come on, man, I
couldn't do that. Come on, are your Freddy Freeman? And
you fingered New York? I couldn't. I couldn't give you this.
You should print those T shirts immediately. I couldn't give
you this. Danny, would you like some sausage? The Steve Money?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Would you like some sausage?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Maybe it's Freddy Freeman, maybe it's somebody else, Maybe it's
maybe it's Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
He said, I deserve this damn thing.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I was thinking back to Bruce Almighty when when they
when they go to Steve Carell and you know, for
a teaser, and he goes, are your children in dire jeopardy?
Find out after the game, like, I can't do that.
I can't do Freddy Freeman, is your m VP? Coming
up next? John Paul Morosi, MLB Network Insider, Extraordinary Stop Spies.
We break down the absolute thrill of what we saw,
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and hey, let's get an absolute consensus on whose fault
it was that the Dodgers won the World Series.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Was it the Yankee defense or was it the Yankee defense?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We'll debate that. That's coming up next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio this time.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from the
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Speaker 3 (16:42):
They're eighth title.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Walker Buehler closes out the Yankees in the bottom of
the ninth inning they beat the Dodgers seven six. Blake
trying in the hero two and third innings for the
Dodgers tonight. Yankee defense the hero for the Dodgers tonight,
allowing them to come back in this game. You were
doing Yankee defense bingo, and you had catchers interference and
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indifferent balk and drop fly balls and bad throws and
mental errors about covering first base. Boy, I tell you
won in Blackout. You blacked out every Bingo spot on
your card with what the Yankees did tonight to help
the Dodgers get back into this and win the series
in five games. Joining us now in the hot line,
nobody better. He's our man alls here every year. MLB
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Network insider extraordinary, John Paul Morosi. He is on Twitter
at John Morosi. He is putting down his studying of
the Lions roster to talk to us now about what
we just saw in New York City JP.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
What's happening, Buddy, I.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Am utterly baffled. I congratulate the Los Angeles Dodgers and
they're amazing fans, but the manner in which they one
I'm still trying to piece together all of those moments
in that fifth inning, and it's just remarkable. The most
the most unearned runs ever given up five in a
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World Series clinching game. No one we can stay this definitively.
No team has ever won a World Series in quite
the fashion that the Dodgers did tonight. This is the
remarkable bit of baseball history, quite a book end of
this World Series. Game one epic, Game five epic in
its own way, and here we are now reliving a
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truly unique night of Major League baseball.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I'll tell you, John Paul, I mean you'll obviously we'll
get to the Dodgers part of this in a second.
But with a five nothing lead, this should have been over.
It should have been over the Yankees. It was a
party night. They were hitting home runs, the Dodgers using
their low leverage guys, and then Volpie makes a bad throw,
Aaron Judge can't catch an easy fly ball, Garrett Cole
and and Rizzo miscommunication uncovering first base. Like we've talked
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about how frustrating it is to watch the Yankee succeed
despite the fact that defensively they're not very good, and
they run the bases poorly, and still they win I
eventually they got to pay the piper for this, and
while they wound up paying.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Tonight well in all in succession, and as as the
inning was unfolding, there was at least a brief sense
of foreboding. Once Judge clanks the ball in center field,
you think, well, I was kind of strange. It just
it was such a bizarre occurrence that that you were
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immediately surprised by it. And then I think at the
at the end of the day, was the play in
front of Volpie over it in the in the five
to six hole, maybe, but in that situation, the catcher's
running just get an house, you know, at that point,
just getting out and try to slow down the momentum.
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But they just could not help themselves down. And obviously
the play with Cole and Rizzo, I get it, Mookie's
fast and and perhaps Rizzo was expecting Cole to be
there and Cole was expecting Rizzo to take it himself.
But you can't assume in that moment. It is just
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as basic as basic pitchers fielding practice gets you gotta
sprint over there. It's Game five of the World Series,
and so I'm I'm just baffled by by the way
the way in which they they lost, and yet to
your point, at the same time, when you look at
the totality of the series, as much as the Yankees
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had their opportunities to win, they were too sloppy in
too many moments to be able to compete with the Dodgers.
And it's almost as though as soon as the Dodgers
had had that glimpse of opportunity in the fifth inning,
they took it and it was game over. It was
just an extraordinary a series of events. And the other
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great note from Ops to stats later in the game
is that no team had ever erased a five run episode,
then falling behind again and then come back to win
in a World series clinching game like this. It's just
a night that we are never ever going to forget.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Hollywood's storybook kind of ending here. And certainly Jason and
I we just watched every movement of Dave Roberts, because
while it looked a bit spotty in the end, bullpen management,
pitching management, victory for Dave Roberts, it.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Was and he did I think an excellent job overall.
I thought last night, I know we talked about it
a bit, I didn't really have a huge issue with
the way the last night unfolded, because I'm not sure
who else he would have gone to. You might have said, hey,
go a little bit longer with Casparrius, but last night
was last night. Tonight was I'm going to go to
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my leverage relievers and keep the game close and hope
that we get back into it. And at the time
when when things before things started to turn, the Yankees
had an eighty nine percent chance to win that game
based on win probability eighty nine percent, and I think,
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and to be curious, I'd be curious to hear from
Dave as he talks after the game. I wonder if
if the five run lead was about the limit to
where he was still going to chase chase that game
and try to and try to win it with his
with his a bullpen, if the Yankees had gotten to
a six run lead, a seven run lead, maybe it's different.
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And that's where again we talk about the Yankees issues. Tonight.
They stranded twelve runners and they left the bases loaded twice,
and so certainly we're going to zero in on the
fifth ending because it's just it's there, and we're going
to talk about it forever. And then obviously there were
some issues later on on the game with but the
catchers interference falk and.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Do you know Tom? Do you know Tom Amansky?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
They need one of his videos ideo?
Speaker 6 (23:11):
They do? They do? And I think too, you know,
uh Kinley couldn't throw a strike. This is real pressure.
And and as much as we talk about the struggles
in this World Series of Otani and up until tonight
of these offensively the struggles of Judge, it's hard. It's
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hard to be this great on this stage. And and
even even the best, the best players, they get tired,
they get worn down, mentally tired, and they just the
Yankees had it for a moment early and then just
couldn't reclaim it. And I think one of the greatest
ironies too is Judge Hobart in the first inning and
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at that point you're thinking they got this, They're they're
rolling game six man tonight, it's gonna be awesome, and
and all of a sudden, it all changed very quickly.
And I think that's the tough part for me, is that,
you know, on the Yankee side, the judge who had
such an extraordinary season, We're gonna think back on this
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World Series and say what for the early home run
in Game five? He struggled a lot offensively, and then
he made the misque that began the sequence of events
that had led us to the Dodgers celebrating on the
Yankee stadiums field instead of the Yankees getting ready to
fly out to La And it's and it's not his fault,
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but certainly this is going to be a part of
his off season and the way that he enters it
is very uncomfortable period. So it's it's a it's a
difficult stretch for him, but the Yankees and this is
going to be one of those very very difficult seasons
to get over. And oh, by the way, one so
was a free agent, so what could happen there?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Well, I will say that, Look, I have good news
for the Yankees on that front. Hey, if it comes
down to the Yankees and the Mets for Juan Soto,
there is absolutely no way the Yankees let him go
to the Mets, as much as Brian Cash and the
Yankees don't spend money there. He says, I got to
walk around this town. There is whatever the Mets offer him,
they will offer him more. There is no the best
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the Mets. You're going to do is drive up the price.
If it's between the Mets and the Yankees, there's no
way Wan Soto is leading.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
That's just not will see.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Fortunately, Fortunately on Monday, we have our our MLB Network
off season programming getting started, and you'll be enjoying Hotsto
brought to you by Juan Soto for the entire Inspire
or winter, And I can assure you that we'll be
will be analyzing every last I'll at some point in time,
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I'll be doing the Soto shuffle in my in my
office as I'm doing my segments. He's going to be
that important to the show that this winter, So you'll
get plenty of Soto talk from me. Anytime you want
you call me, I'll be I'll be in Soto mode
this winter.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Jason'll be trying to insert himself into the conversation, offering
to be a caddy for Sterns or whatever he needs
to do to help make the pitch right.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
And I'm sure that the foursome for the negotiation will
be turns Soto, me and Jason. I think that's that's
the play. I'll have. I will it's funny. I had
one one very accomplished baseball player who wants asked me, Hey, John,
would you ever would you ever want to come golfing
with me? And I said, I'll just be honest about this,
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having golf since I was sixteen and wasn't good, wasn't
very good back then. He's like, Okay, we'll probably have
lunch sometime then instead, So that's like, then, that's totally true.
I wish, I wish I could be a functional contributor
to a golf foursome, but I am. I am a
total zero.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I'm with you. I am much better contributed to lunch.
I will contribute. I'd contribute to whatever is on the plate,
one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Lunch is always a good idea. I will always be
in favor of lunch.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Now, now here's the Shaker party, because if I'm sure,
if I told you before the series started that sho
hey Otani and Max Munsey were going to combine to
go two for thirty four, you would say, well, the
World Series is going through the canyon of heroes.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
But this is what we saw.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Munsey struggles as hot as he was in the NLCS,
and I don't know if it's just the injury for
Otani John Paul, but he really wasn't the same in
the World Series. I don't know that he was the
same overall in the playoffs. He only tried to steal
two bases after stealing fifty nine in the regular season.
And some of his swings look good in the World Series,
some of them looked like they were really awkward. I
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really wonder if he's been dealing with something even before
the slide into second base the other night.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Yeah, it's a very fair question, and maybe we'll get
a little bit more intel, or maybe we won't because
with show A there's a lot that we don't know
with respect to even the nature of the elbow surgery
that he had last year, so there's still a lot
unknown there. It does those seem to me that at
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least he has arrived at this point, and certainly I
think winning will do a lot to set a really
good course for his off seasons. It seems like at
the end of the day, even though I agree that
he did seem like he wasn't fully himself in October,
he is still healthy enough to have played this month,
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and that means that for the most parties entering the
off season healthy. We'll see what ends up going on
with his shoulder and if that requires any additional work.
But for the Dodgers, it's difficult for them to imagine
a better year one for Otani in the Dodger uniform.
They win the World Series, he goes fifty to fifty
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for the first time ever, and he ends the year
from the standpoint of his right arm, his prize pitching
arm in a good place to where him pitching in
twenty twenty five is a very realistic idea for them.
So it's hard, I'm sure for the Dodgers, who basically
have anything editing to complain about right now. But I
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will agree with you that didn't really seem like he
was necessarily in his best form. But all of a
sudden that no longer is all that terribly concerning because
there is no longer a Game six to play and
the Dodgers the champions of the Baseball World JP.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
We talked a lot about Freddie Freeman last night and
his heroics twelve rbi for the series, tying a World
Series record. Let's move back to the manager for second,
Dave Roberts. How much of the speech that he makes
now when he's enshrined in Cooperstown, is dedicated to his
bullpen management.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Here there you go, And I love what you said
there about his Hall of Fame bona fides. Because he's
now a two time World Series champ, best winning percentage
ever for a Dodgers manager. With a sufficient number of games,
he no longer has to answer any questions. And I'll
be really curious to hear as he talks about the
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decision making process and in the bullpen management tonight how
much of it was as he had planned it early
and how much of it was him improvising in a
good way as the game went along. And Walker Buehler
saying that kid rose with all the field after the game,
that he hadn't thrown a ball until he started warming
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up today in the bullpen before the ninth inning. Just
how amazing is that? And I go back, I remember
years ago he had Clayton Kershaw close out of postseason
series when no one expected it, and I believe one
day of rest in a somewhat similar situation. So he's
shown me the willingness to be creative and to go
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to different pictures in different circumstances. And that was the
case with Buehler tonight, and Bueler, by the way, someone
who had a six era in the month of August
and now he is all of a sudden on the
pitching mount rushmore for the Dodgers in the month of October.
So creativity plus for the Dodgers and having the conviction
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to go to his a bullpen even when the score
was not in his favor or even close to it
is one of the ways that we're going to remember
this as being an absolute apex game. As the manager
for Dave.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Roberts, well, if we let you go, John Paul, I
do want to say this. I know I could have
done that. I know I could give him too much
credit for creativity because if I was in the dugout
with Dave Roberts, he turned me says what do you
think for the ninth inning, I would have said, well,
in eighty eight was sort of went to horror and
closed out the world series.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Let's bring Walker Buller in. Oh okay, great, I mean
I got to come up with that.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
There you go, and that's a pretty good, pretty good
plot twist, pretty good way of tying it all together.
Eighty eight to the twenty twenty four, and I thought
Joe Davis's call was brilliant. Of course, Joe's been at
the mic for so many great moments of Dodgers and
for baseball overall here in the last several years. That
was a great call there. And the Dodgers now will
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have their parade, and I'm sure every sports fan in
LA is going to want to have a connection to
at least those who are non angel fans. We'll want
to have a piece of that amazing celebration on Friday.
So good, good things out of the Dodgers, all very
well deserved the off season ahead and also ahead will
be a rousing seventeen to fourteen victory at Lambeau for
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the Lions on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
That's John Morosi, MLB Network, Inside of John Paul Morosi.
John Paul as always, thank you for everything. Thank you
for a busy week this week. We'll talk soon as
we get into the off season.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
That was great. My friends always love our conversations, appreciate
all of them during the course of the year.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Thanks for having all ll brother be good, the unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
John Paul Morosi now the unreal Brian Finley, who's got
what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
My microphone is on. Okay, am I allowed to talk?
You speak, let me talk.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Okay. I'll make it really quick.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
I'll make it sixty seconds.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
All right. So here we go. We got the Dodgers
winning the World Series.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
They do it seven to six tonight in a Game
five against the Yankees, and so, yeah, the parade is
coming up, and yeah, so many good things for the Dodgers.
It is their eighth World Series, it's their first since
twenty twenty, and they do it by coming back from
five runs. They were down five to nothing in the
fifth inning. Garrett Cole had a no hitter going five
unearned runs were scored, and then there were two sack
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flies that brought in runs in the top of the
eighth and the Dodgers took it from there. Lastly, guys,
one more score in the NBA. Let's get right to
the Lakers and they lost one thirty four to one
ten on the road against the Cavs. But the good
news was late in the game, there were rumors about
Bronnie James lebron James is unplaying in this game, he
got in five minutes of work. He made his first
NBA field goal. He does it though in a loss.
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His dad Lebron had twenty eight points and the Lakers
lose this one again, one thirty four to one ten.
With that, let's get it back to Jason Smith and
Mike Carmon.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Thank you very much, be I appreciate it. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Tirack dot
Com Studios. Coming up next. The Dodgers are your World
Series champions, and they wouldn't have the title without the
biggest play of the night tonight we break it down
because it went down a little bit different than you.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Thought it would. That's coming up next.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Right here, Jason, Mike, you are listening to Fox Sports Radio,
where the Los Angeles Dodgers are the champions of Major
League Baseball, beating the Yankees seven to six for the
World Series.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
First and foremost, I thank God, I thank my players.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
They're families.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
The coaching staff, training staff, ownership, scouting, player development, as
Andrews said, the finger prints on Dodger Nation.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
This belongs to everybody.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Dave Roberts, victorious Dodgers manager, the Dave Roberts middle finger.
You want to question my pitching decisions tour that begins now.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Well we have the other the first line that he
uttered in his speech as well.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
I have.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Then you didn't like my pitching plan, How do you
like it?
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
The Jason Smith Show with the Mike Carmon live from
the tire rag dot Com Studios. How do you like them? Apples?
The Dodgers are world champions. They hold off the Yankees
seven to six in an absolute thriller of the game.
But look, this game comes down to the errors the
Yankees made to allow the Dodgers back into this game.
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The Yankees started this game a continuation of last night.
They knocked Jack Flaherty out in the second inning. Aaron Judge,
it's a home run. Jeren Carlos stan it's a home run.
It's five nothing Yankees after four innings, and then in
the top of the fifth, the Rankees make a slew
of errors that just allow the Dodgers to tie the game.
Aaron Judge drops a line drive to center field that
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he's got to catch, but you can see the replay
takes his eye off the ball, looking at keyk Hernandez,
maybe looking to see if he has to throw into second,
and instead of an out, you have runners at first
and second. The next ball is a ground ball to
short and Anthony Volpi, who I felt like made every
other play in the World Series, which you can't have
a five hundred feelie wasenter a short stuff makes a
really bad throw to third, and that loads the bases
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with nobody out. Now the Dodgers are able to or
the Yankees able to get out of the next two batters.
O Tani strikes out, and Mookie Bets is up with
two outs and the bass is loaded, and he hits
a ground ball to Anthony Rizzo at first, and there's
some sort of miscommunication with him and Garrett Cole. Mookie
Bets is safe, a run comes in, Freddie Freeman knocks
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in two with a hit to ask her. Hernandez knocks
in two with a double, and the game is tied.
And the opinion following this look the Garrett Cole Anthony
Rizzo play is a play the Yankee fans are going
to see in their head for the rest of their lives. Right,
just like Red Sox fancy the Buckner play, They're gonna
see this Rizzo play, which actually has a lot in
common with with the Buckner play, because in the end,
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I don't think it matters, because I think Mookie Betts
was gonna beat it out no matter what. The ground
ball to first and Rizzo comes up thinking he's gonna
toss to Garrett Cole. Cole stops and points for him
to run to the bag himself. He doesn't get there, obviously,
and Betts beats it out. Now I know it was
all Garrett Cole was going off the mound. He thought
the ending was over. That's not what I've seen this
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play now thirty times. And I guarantee you Cole knew
he wasn't getting the first base ahead of Mookie Betts.
He knew very because he had a pretty good break.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Off the mound.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
The ball was hit and he starts running. He knew
he wasn't gonna get there in time, and he made
that split decision to stop and point to first to
tell Rizzo, you gotta take it. I'm not getting there.
And Rizzo, who of course didn't come up because he thought,
I'm coming up to throw to first And look, that's
how it's taught everywhere in any level of baseball. When
a ball is up to the right side, the pitcher's
got to go to first base. But Cole wasn't getting there.
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Bets looked like he was ahead of him, so he
made that split decision, and Rizzo fielded the ball not
aggressively in the way where I'm gonna get it and
tossed the first.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
For the end of the inning.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
And because of that, he had no chance to beat
mooki Bets the bag. So I mean, Rizzo's got to
own a lot of it because he came up with
it thinking I'm just gonna be this easy play.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
But it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
It wasn't Garrett Cole being too locked in or he
didn't leave it off. He just knew I wasn't gonna
get there, and you have to take it yourself now.
And I'll try to make Yankee fans like my dad
feel better.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Like I said, I don't think it would have mattered
because the way that Rizzo fielded the ball, he wasn't
gonna beat MOOKI Bet Bets to the bag anyway. So
MOOKI was gonna wind up being saved. Now, if you
handle it differently, if he's charging it, it's different. But
the way it was, Bets was getting there.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Oh but that's the thing, the way the ball comes
off the bat, like Rizzo before he he looks to
go gratt, you know, make the play. He sees Cole
get off the mound, so I think he doesn't come
at it as aggressively, thinking, all right, he's heading over,
and then by time the point happens, it's too late, right,
He's he's not in a in the aggressive you know,
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rounding off the ball and on a full sprint to
first base. It's the oh we're caught no man's land.
And Mookie Bets is hustling down the line because he
sees the opportunity. He sees the way this this inning
is starting to move and this might be their only
shot to break the break back through.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
So that's I'm sorry. See, I gotta be careful though.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
It's an excitable you know time, and the last thing
I want to do is have get myself dumped because
you know nothing, Oh no, that I don't know that
I'd be able to contain myself with the bleeping because
it was Mookie Betts, who you know, shone in that moment,
speed down to first base, and for Garrett Cole that
inning couldn't en and made just one comedy of errors.
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They end up with three on the night once you
add the catcher's interference, which is also a very large
play because there's no guarantee Shoeo Tani was doing anything.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
With the bat. Yes, just huge all around.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
As much credit you have to give the Dodgers coming
back in this game when it looked like it was
going back to Game six, Boy, the Yankees just decided
to handle them because they are awful in the field.
Coming up next, we'll have more reaction to the Dodgers
winning the World Series, including who the happiest and unhappiest
people are right now and they're not who you think
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