July 3, 2025 • 36 mins
HE DID IT!!! 3000 STRIKE OUTS HAS BEEN OBTAINED!!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my bas friend Mike Harmon, where it may wind
up being a perfect night for Clayton Kershaw, because the
Dodgers might end tonight the night that Clayton Kershaw got
strikeout number three thousand with a win. They have scored
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twice in the bottom of the ninth inning. They are
now tied with the White Sox at four a piece. Show,
Hey Otani has just stolen second base. Will Smith is up?
Could walk it off here or at the very worst,
the Dodgers go to extra innings with the White Sox.
Now I want to say this because before we get
to Clayton Kersher, but I have to say this clearly.
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You will always live and die with whatever decision. Show
Haotani makes and just about anything on the field. But wow,
the Dodgers have the bases loaded, nobody out and Otani
up in the ninth inning. The White Sox pitcher has
just walked the last two batters. Okay, Kim walks, Edmund walks.
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Kim walks on four pitches. Okay, so you have two
walks in a row, right, the last one on four pitches.
The first pitch to Otani is ball one.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
This is now, This is now at a point where
you are saying, what the hell can we do here?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
What the what the hell can we do? Taylor can't
even find the strike zone. A one to zero count
to Otani, and there's a fastball that is at his eyes.
This is not even close to the strike zone. This
is not one of those balls, hey, up in the
zone Otani can handle.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I like the high ones.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
This is layoff the mule nag and Otani swings at it,
fouls it off, completely flips the at bat. What turns
into an eventual ground out run comes in, but instead
of what could it's two and you walk too in
a row. Gotta make the guy throw a strike. I mean,
I don't care if your show. Hey, Otani, you'll take walks.
There's nobody out here down two runs, Okay, if he
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can't throw a stroke, you gotta make him throw a strike.
And it's not like it was one. There was right
down the middle. You chased a pitch to was three
feet out of the strike zone and instead that changes
one pitch can change yet bat in Major League Baseball
and said he grounds out to second. A run comes
in on the force out, and they get the tying
run on a Mookie Bett's hit sacrifice fly to right field.
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But the game could have ended there. However, what I
just say, as I just finished talking right now, is
irrelevant because Freddy Freeman wins it for the Dodgers in
a walk off Freddie fingered Chicago. Freddie Freeman, with a
single to write, wins the game, brings in Otani with
the winning run. Otani, you still maybe because he said
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he's thrown in a bad pitch stealing second. As we said,
the Dodgers win with three in the ninth, giving Clayton
Kershaw and even happier, ending to a night in which
he had three thousand for his career spreads. The White
Sox didn't battle a little bit on the ball three
to Will Smith.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
That looked like it got some of the black.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, that was a pad in statche a bit a
punch out, and instead it goes to three to two.
Wilson misses with the next pitch to put Smith on first,
and then Freeman lines the hit to right field.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, that was a pitch that gave Clayton Kershaw strike
out number three thousand. And that's not a strike to
Will Smith.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I mean, obviously we're we're here in the studio.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
We don't have the sound one, but I gotta imagine
even the the Dodgers broadcast that we're watching, like, boy,
that's there, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
No one.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
We're going we got free baseball? No we don't.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Dodgers five to four, your final Freeman with the walk
off hit, show how toddy with the stolen base?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
So giving you some extra stats along the way.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So here's Clayton Kershaw strikeout number three thousand. How did
it sound? It sounded like this one two pitch strike.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Pree crowd, there is big battle with a slider strike
out number three thousand for Clayton Kershaw history at Dodger Stadium.
They will stop the game, Prushaw toughing his cap to
the crowd.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That's a boring crowd.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Here at Dodger Stadium as Clayton Krushaw enters the three
thousand club, just the twentieth member and only the fourth
left hander in the history of the game.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Dodgers TV on the call, Clayton Kershaw freezes Frank Capra.
Great Dodgers Radio. Sorry, M five to seventy on the
cause at Dodgers TV. Dodgers Radio M five to seventy
freezes Frank Capra. Mister Deans will not go to Washington.
It did happen one night. You can't take it with you.
He is your strikeout victim. And look it's a it
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was a perfect I mean, you talk about again. If
you're a scriptwriter, you believe in those things. It's Kershaw's
final pitch of the night.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Dave Roberts stuck with him on a night where he
had nothing. Okay, Clayton Kershaw had nothing. He was getting
hit around Chavez Ravine from the opening batter of the
game tonight. Even the outs were hard hit. Michael Confordo
pulled back but would have been a three run homer.
He got hit the entire night. Right, he did three
strikeouts for three thousand. He gets the second one in
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the fifth inning. Dave Roberts sends him back out there
for the sixth. Every buddy is there for Kershaw tonight,
his family is there. It's okay, let's give him one
more shot. He's at ninety pitches. What do we get
on his final pitch of the night, pitch number one hundred,
his signature, there's a called strike, there's signature pitch, a
called strike three. He walks off the mound to end
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the inning. You can't write it any better than that
for Clayton Kershaw for a strikeout number three thousand, a
mark we may never see anyone reach again in baseball history.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Well, the fact that we also know that Kershaw is
the type of guy that if that was the second
out of the inning, he would have doffed his cap
and said, let's go where's the pitch clock at? Let's
keep going, right, I got work to do to get
out of this inning. Instead, you know, obviously you and
I were still looking at the play before that. But
for now, let's just stay with the positivity and the
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good vibes here. Because caappra goes down. He will be
the answer to a trivia question, who is the last
guy to be the three thousandth victim of a pitcher?
Answer Vinnie Capro, who's also pitched a little bit for
the White Sox. Go figure journeyman infielder batting one twenty eight.
But he's a highly rated defensive guayer, so that one
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comes in handy, no question about it. But for Kershaw,
he battled right for the White Sox. A lot of hits,
a lot of hard hit balls. We can argue about
whether that Conforto play was as dramatic as it was
made to be, or whether it was he just misjudged
it and added some flare. It's an out. Nonetheless, the
White Sox failed to hit it where they weren't when
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it mattered, when they really did make good contact save
for that whole run early. But for Kershaw, dangerous living
up high in the zone, wasn't marking his spots, wasn't
able to get the signature movement that we've seen. But
in the end he gets a no decision, gets career
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strikeout three thousand, gets the end of inning celebration, which
delayed commercial time, but got everybody what they wanted fifty
four thousand ish on Yamamoto Bobblehead Day as well. So
you got a two fer. And now here's the part
that sucks about it, because yeah, there is, and you're
gonna say, wow, Jason, you and Mike really suck.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
We do?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
We do? We do? Because but not why you think so?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I've said eight nine August time right for the since
this we've gotten close to Kershaw getting to three thousand strikeouts,
I say, hey, watch this because you may never see
someone get to three thousand strikeouts again. Because in theory
and probably in an even chance, that Chris Sale gets there, right,
he's a twenty five hundred, he needs about four hundred
and fifty four to seventy more. Now he's thirty six,
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but he's still pitching really well. So I would say,
you know, give me an even chance, even fifty to
fifty chance. Again there maybe a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
As long as he doesn't sustain anymore random rib injuries
and things.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Of that nature.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
He's pitching at a higher level than Kershaw. He's pitching
really well, still a big strikeout pitcher, so you gotta
think he can get there. After that, there may not
be anyone ever, again, here's no one close, no one
who has started their career. I mean, Paul Scheme's really
gonna pitch enough.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
No one pitches enough innings anymore. They don't start enough
games well once they.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Go to a good team.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Yeah right, I mean look at look at Schooble, right,
who's a great strikeout artist, and he's going eight innings
and they've got a twelve what is a twelve or
thirteen game lead now in the division. Do you think
the beginning of August he's still going eighty you know,
eight innings and ninety eight pitches in a nothing game
when they're.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
That far ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
No, you had kid bench me for two whole weeks
in August, I would have won three of those starts,
mister Kamiski.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Twenty nine is not thirty eighty.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So no, we may And you're trying to extrapolate Paul
Schemes having a career of three thousand strikeouts, which come
on so we may never see that any right, what
do I say? See it seem we never see it
again except Mike and I bleep and missed it, even
though we're on the air doing a bleeping radio well.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I mean to be fair, I mean we were paying bills. Well,
but okay, so here's what happened, right. So here's what
happened right. This is where you say, boy, you guys
really suck. So right before the strikeout, Max Munsey gets hurt. Right,
Michael Taylor strives to tries to steal third base. Will
Smith's throw a third a little high into the side.
So it's an awkward play. Michael Taylor slides. It looked
like it was a play where look it was a
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bang bang play. It wasn't anything where Taylor had a
dirty slide. But Max Munsey gets caught off balance, goes
down and hurts his knee. He's on the ground for
a few minutes, and he doesn't leave the game under
his own power. He has to have two people help
him off. It's a knee injury and it didn't look good.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Now, while this is going on, Clayton Kershaw is warming
up and he's getting ready because you know, the game
was delayed for about five minutes, so he's getting ready
to he's warming up before he gets ready for the
next batter, which turns out to be Capra. So that happens,
and we finished talking, and we go to our commercial break,
and when that happened, you said, here the I got
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the play right here, So you on your computer.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
We go over and.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Look back and see because we want to see, Hey,
was this slide into third? Was it dirty? Was it
Max Munsey just lost his balance?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It was? And we saw okay, and you know, Kershaw's
warming up where watches going, okay, watch it probably half
a dozen times, going a right, look at the slide here. No,
it looks fine. It looks like he came in. It
looks like Munsey got off balance. You can see where
it hits his knee right there. Okay, great, No, it
looks fine. And I look up and I see Dave
Roberts with his fist in the air, and I'm like, did.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
We bleep and just miss that? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
That was the definition of him miss it? Bang bang
play right there, Kershaw's.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Walking off and he's waving his cap and Freddie Freeman
is going crazy and the crowd is going nuts, and
they cut to Kershaw's family.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I'm going, did I really just miss that? Because we
were watching that?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Key?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Did we chuck?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
After I've said for ten days, watch it because you
may never see it again, and I didn't. I feel
this way because I think I missed Haley's comment when
it showed up in like nineteen eighty five, and I'm
never gonna see that again. Oh I can't pull it.
That's how I feel, like, how did I miss it?
How did I miss it?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Live? I mean, I've seen it now one hundred times since.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yes, and it's a great it's a pitch you've seen
Clayton show strike guys out before looking a hundred times.
It was awesome, But we missed it because we're looking
at the injury at all. If you love my head going,
I've just been telling people for like ten days, make
sure you watch us because you may never see it again.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
And i'd bleep admit we both missed it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah what he said. Yeah, but also look, we're trying
to do our job. Max Muntsey has been on an
absolute terror uh and has been an absolute terror to
opposing teams, a big cog in their offense. And it's
a monster play. Like we're trying to go through the
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film if it's a big deal, and you know, and
Kershaw's what's a big deal? And and he's warming up
so like we're kind of paying attention, but that's just dansked.
We also didn't get any help, nobody yelling hey knuckleheads.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah well, I mean, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But we had our headphones off.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
We weren't we were well, okay, great, but I mean
that's gonna be my memory of Kershaw three, the last one.
I'll e forget to say, did you see it? No,
because we're looking at Max Munchy's injury. My memory is
Dave Roberts with his fist in the air. It's pretty
good memory, though, yeah it is. It's a unique memory.
I have a different story. This is why I have
all these great stories by the entire time, but there
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my entire sports life because stuff like this happened.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
What do you got, Frostburg, That crappy memory will fit
right in with all your Mets, Jets and Knicks memories.
Wait wait, wait, but we have to ask. Was it
doubled down on the fact that you didn't advance in
your beat the streak? Or did you have a hit today? No,
we gott to weave advance today. Oh okay, good my
dad no, my dad crazy?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Did he make the pick? Here's how much my dad
was Darren Judge Yoto. He was so mad at the Yankees,
and he says, there pitching's job. He took George Springer.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Today, Wow, disqualified.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, yet it hit his first time up, Like, okay,
I'll get you my guy tomorrow. I think we're at
five games, five or six now, right close to.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
The end of the week. By the way.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
To tie this all on a nice, beautiful knot, we
had a little reference to a league of their own.
Yesterday was the thirty third anniversary of the Trileaes. Evelyn Evelyn, Evelyn, Evelyn,
I like the High Ones.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
What team do you play for? I'm a pet. Well,
I was just wondering because.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I want to know why you would throw home when
we've got a two run lead.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Jason, What do you do for a living? I'm a
sports talk radio host.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Well, I was just.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Wondering because I'm wondering why you're not watching Clayton Kershaw
and you're watching a computer for a player who's not
Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
What do you gotta strike out? Number three thousand? You
gotta use your brain.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
That's set up three feet above your ass. Are you crying, Jason, No, No,
are you crying? You crying.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
No, I'm honestly a little bit sad. White Sox lose
five to four. Yeah, but not the first nor the
last White Sox loss you have seen. Yeah, but it
was the first and last today. Yeah, but were you
not entertained?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Was very It was entertained.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I was entertained.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I still want that third strike on Will Smith because
we should still be playing baseball.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
The twentieth player with three thousand strikeouts for his career, amazing,
Clayton Kershaw does it. We'll have Moron Kershaw coming up
because now we'll ask the big question about Kershaw now
that he's gotten to three thousand strikeouts. So we have
more on this story, plus what the Lakers are daring
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Lebron James to do after their moves the last couple
of days. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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Speaker 5 (16:11):
One two pitch, strike.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Three CODs pink out them with a sire squike out
number three thousand for Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
His story at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Dodgers Radio Am five seventy on the call Dodgers walk
off of five to four win against the White Sox tonight,
in which Clayton Kershaw reaches strikeout number three thousand, the
twentieth player in MLB history to get there. Right now,
he's taking pictures on the field with his wife, his family.
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He's hugging the ground. Screw guys like, well, they've been
around a while. Hey, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Hey, you just keep hugging every by if you stayed
around long enough and they didn't shoot you out of
the stands.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I bet you get yourself a hug too.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
So let's see if a little bit of Dave Roberts
meeting the media now. First one up, after Clayton Kershaw's
three thousand strikeout.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Game, getting the called third strike. It wasn't a slider,
but it was a strikeout. So you can see the
emotion that he had today trying to, you know, get
that third strike. And I think, you know, you look
at the first probably fourteen fifteen hitters. He got to
two strikes, probably ten of them and just couldn't put
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them away, and so I just couldn't execute that final pitch.
But I think it just happened the way it's supposed
to happen, in the sense that it was the third out.
We got a chance to really celebrate him him to
take the moment. Will Venable and the and the White
Sox and Wolfie and the umpires did a great job
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given Clayton's time, So it was a it was a
huge moment, and.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
That pitch really well, you know, experience giving them strike
three calls, but it was a little outside.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
This was like you.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
It was in the box.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
I think this is probably you know, the three hundred
wins for Clayton. I'm sure, but I think this is
you know the cy Youngs certainly, but I think that
to do to get three thousand strikeouts, that that takes
a long time and a lot of you know, trials, tribulations, surgeries, rehab,
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frustration tiers, to continue to fight back, come back, show
up and post. That's hard to do.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So there's a bit of Dave Robertson.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
He really gets into what's going to be the big
question now for Clayton Kershaw because he's not getting to
three hundred wins, right, two hundred and eighteen wins, two
or seventeen wins thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You can see him slowing down.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
This is the last big milestone individually that he's going
to get to in his career. Certain there's other mile
you could talk about other milds, but hey, three thousand strikeouts,
that's talk about rarefied air. This is the last milestone
he will reach individually. He's done it all for his career, right,
he's individual achievement a time for what individual achievement, Individual
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achievement teams. He's won a couple of World Series No,
not quite part of the team. He wanted to be
a year ago, but he still won a couple of
World Series and you can see that, and you know
that his role on the team is not what it
was and he's not getting it back right Like as
you heard Dave Roberts talk about all the stops and
starts of what he's dealing with, Kershaw was really a
depth guy. Right They went out and signed a lot
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of starting pitchers in the offseason, and you know clearly
with the Dodge of what happens is they sign a
starting picture, he gets hurt. But they have a lot
of talent and a lot of money and a lot
of pitchers who are younger that just are in a
different part of their career that they're gonna rely on
more than Clayton Kershaw, and Kershaw getting his opportunity now
because there are a lot of Dodger starters who are
who are not healthy and seeing how this season is
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going to go h okay, maybe this is my last
shot at a World Series where I'm going to get
to actually pitch. Maybe I pitched down this stream, maybe
because you don't know when guys are going to come back,
how healthy they're going to be. As you see, they
have a lot they have a lot of issues.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Snows right, you signed these are sy young guys that
are supposed to be in starting rotation and there's only
so many slots.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It's Sasaki when he comes back. But this gets my
point that you're thinking that, okay for next year. If
you're Kershaw, you're saying, is there really going to be
a slot for me?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You want to think the Dodge are going to do
whatever they can for you. Maybe do a Roger Clemons
where I'm gonna not pitch the first half of the
season and come back the end. This is this is now,
I can see this. This is going to be now
the Clayton Kershaw retirement Tour. He's going to ride the
wave this season whatever he has left, and after this
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season is over, he'll retire. It's been a lot for
him to stay motivated to come back, all the injuries
he's had late in his career. Not that this milestone
was white. I want to get there and then I
want to walk off. It's not like I want to
get to three thousand. This is but yeah, I want
to get to three thousand strikeouts. I want to get
there if I can, and I want to have one
I want to be able to contribute while I can
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next year. I don't know what his role would even
be with the Dodgers, like you want to think he
would have it. But that's why, you know, seeing this tonight,
I feel like we're kicking off the summer of Kershaw,
his goodbye whatever we wind up seeing the rest of
the regular season and playoffs from him. Like now, you
can really start putting a small number on the number
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of Kershaw starts. You know, the best left handed pitcher
that I that I've seen. You can really start putting
a you know, a clock on how many more he
has left, because I really think this is it for Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Yeah, it's just a question of are you just wanting
to be a guy along for the ride? I don't
know that he's that guy, right, I mean there's gonna
be spots where physically he's not gonna be able to go.
Are we thinking he's going all the way to October
at this point?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Maybe maybe not today. You know you're in that clip
from Dave Roberts. We watched it a lot of get
two strike counts. Yeah, and then he'd hang a meatball
that would get hammered, fortunately directly at an outfielder several times,
but you look at overall he's at an era is
at a little over a three strikeout rates down. But
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you've got a team with that support, and you're gonna
certainly get enough run support. But what are you a
fifth starter or a sixth starter? You get through? Clearly last
year didn't get to participate except as you know, Yoda
to the pitchers and a great guy on the bench
and in the clubhouse, but clearly wants more than that.
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He's been there for eighteen year and that was one
of the big moments, right We talked about it, Walter Johnson,
Bob Gibson, the only guys to go three thousand strikeouts
with their original team before Kershaw does it today. A
couple of years ago, it was like, yeah, you could
see him as a ranger. You could see him going
back to Texas and pitching. I can't see that anymore now.
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I can't see him just wanting to pitch for the
sake of pitching, like and he still loves it. Clearly
you saw the emotion, but how much of that is
elation and yeah, I got that versus relief and trying
to figure out where that is on the wheel, and
then let's see physically where he is four months from
now and where he is psychologically, because if you do
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get the run at that's expected from the Dodgers, it's
probably enough to say I'm taking my lway, I'm taking
my bettis, I'm taking my insert other player here moment,
I'm gonna wave and I'm gonna walk off.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And in the end, I wonder how long he's been
wrestling with the retirement decision. Sure, you know last there's
certain moments where you say, boy, he's keeping the ball
after that strike, and why is he keeping the ball?
Like what you wonder with all the injuries and wondering
is this gonna be as good? I want to end
as good as possible, right, That's what all superstars want.
They want to end as good as possible. They're not
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They're not guys who are gonna say I'm gonna be
out there till they rip the uniform off because.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
They don't want to ruin their legacy. They don't want
to they don't want people remember you at the end.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
When I couldn't get anybody out right, and clearly the Dodgers,
it would have to be a tough conversation going Clayton,
I mean, we love you, but you look at what
we've done Yamamoto and Sasaki and Snell and Glass.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Now, okay, I like your theory though, the clements thing
we got. Yeah, I look Walter's box. Oh my god,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
But I've never seen this before. Why did you go?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Edith Bonker sitting next to Mary hot outside. Look at
that sitting next to Mary heart. This is gonna be
coming back.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But I mean, that's why I look at it, that
this is a clean end for him. I got my
three thousand strike out. I have a summer tour of
being able to say goodbye whatever we have in the playoffs.
And that's kind of it.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
But as we were talking about it, even before we
heard that sound clip, but it just magnified it. Dave
Roberts in his comments, the love that he's got for
Clayton Kershaw, and we've certainly seen it at a number
of stretches where given the fact that they do have
let's call it what it is, an unlimited payroll and
the ability to go get whatever they want, that he
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still would say twenty two is my guy? All right,
it doesn't matter. We don't need him now, let him
rehab and on his time he'll be back and he'll
be part of things.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Man.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
That goes a long way for Freedman, for the you know,
the guys in the front office, and obviously for Dave
Roberts on the bench, you know Mark Pryor and and
and the others on the staff. I mean that how
they've backed and that that relationship is I think something
we don't don't get to see that in sports a lot, right,
A lot of it is turn the page next guy,
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whether it's a coach, a GM or a PL player,
We'll find a younger arm, bigger, faster, stronger, cheaper. But
instead you get to this milestone, very special moment for
baseball and for the Dodger organization.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I mean, we may never see it again. And you
and I missed it live because you know bleep and
we're watching the replay a Monthsy's injury right now. Research
the research they are digging up the pitching rubber, which
I assume would be to give it to Clayton Kershaw
because it's not like, hey, they're doing the other game. No,
there's lots of people hanging out. Kershaw is hanging out
while they're digging up the pitching rubber on the mound.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Now that's actually all them flipping Max Mounsey offten.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Son. Does this go to Cooperstown? Absolutely? Does he get
to keep it and some dirt? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I just gorgeous scrabbing handfuls of dirt right now. I'm
sure what the family is. I'm sure Kershaw's got a
live Jason. To your point, this is what we're watching
right here that you're painting a picture of. To your point, exactly,
this is this is this is the tour officially starts.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
This is the night where father Toime caught up with him. Yeah,
I mean, now your lifelong Dodger guy. I mean they
have your saying what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Well, because that's what we need to do, because we're
all about emotion and like to baseball nerds, Smith and
I I mean, it's not our team, but this is
a guy we've watched since he was a kid.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Yeah, it's special, special.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Night, you think, because you know it's funny you say that.
I know you say that because you think about the
way that you get right, because it may because what
Justin says makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Because here's a night where he needed three three strikeouts, right,
it's the White Sox. Man, Come on, come on, man,
you should have got three in the first inning. Over
under was four and a half. You should got three
in the first inning. Even if Will Smith dropped a strike,
could have got four in the first inning. But this
is a night where Clayton Kershaw was not good. Right,
Clayton Kershaw got hit hard from the opening batter of
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the game. Okay, line drives the entire night line one
hundred mile an hour lineouts to left field, in centerfield. Yeah,
and Michael Confordo potentially made a three run homer saving
grab in the in the second in right of this game,
he got hit real, even in the end he got
the strikeout. He's getting hit hard, right, and and so
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kind of kurshowus. Even though he's had a good season
so far, right still undefeated, era is somewhat low. This
tells you that, hey, here's Kershaw near the end, because
on a night where you see him celebrated like only
nineteen other people have ever been celebrated in MLB history,
it's all tonight where you realize, Yeah, he's not Clayton
Kersh anymore. Right, he's a guy that against the White
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Sox is going out and getting hit really hard, and
I think he's gonna actually keep the pitching rubber because
he's just got it in his hands and he's holding it,
so maybe he gets to leave with the pitch.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Realize how deep those are?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Like see those on earthed, right, it's like some of
those oh yeah, you should find on the sea shore.
It's like, eh, I think, wait a minute, that's a long,
longest thing going on. Or the roots on your lawn
when you're trying to weed and whatever. But no, a
really cool scene. They're probably still what forty people around
the mound and guys, as they were doing that, I
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am being told that Kershaw did arrive in the game
in the U haul truck. Oh wow, now you've you've
gone from I love you. I gotta wash my hands
of you. Three thousand bucks and a pitching rubber for
a laughter this season? Guys, he's his family's problems. Wow, Hey,
is Matthew Stafford there?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I mean, because I look, he was taking big pictures
on the mound with his family.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
I was looking.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Is Matthew Stafford there? I'm gonna pretend he was there? Yes,
all right, very good and well we could always go
to them. Yeah they went to high school. No, no, Wow,
he blew my mind.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I mean, this is the night Clayton Kershaw's final MLB
tour began. Enjoy it the next few months. Enjoy it
because he's he's been the best left handed picture I've
ever seen. I mean, better than Randy Johnson.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Better than Johnson, better than Sabathia bet Like, there's there's
three or four guys we've had the pleasure of watching.
Go back to Glavin uh and the work that he did,
I mean, because Kershaw did all of it, and you know,
and the finesse with the I mean that that curveball
is something.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And that's the thing is like if you say to me,
what's your memory of Clayton Kershaw, Like when you think
of Clayton Kershaw, and it's weird, But this is what
I think of. I think of that first pitch of
the at bat where he snaps that curve or slider
and and it's it's it's five feet outside the strike
zone and it winds up dead center for an easy
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called strike. One in the batter goes, how the hell
am I supposed to hit that man? But how many
times have we seen him snap one of those pitches
over the strike zone.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
He saw a few of them tonight with the hell Man.
That was a final strikeout. That was that was that
was strike out number three.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Man White Sox didn't get that call in the uh they.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Did not time out. Find out what's trending in the wide.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
World of sports from Martin Wise m what he got
for us.
Speaker 10 (31:06):
You're right, Clayton Kershaw wasn't missing a lot of bats today,
but he did strike out the three that he needed
to get to three thousand on the night. And it
couldn't have been scripted any better. After getting that third
strike out to end the inning, so he had everybody
kind of give him that moment of adelation enough to
stop the game because the game had actually been stopped
the batter before, as Max Munch he was injured on
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the play.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
He then got helped off. Kershaw three thousand.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
He's now the twentieth pittuer with three thousand strikeouts, joining
Walter Johnson and Bob Gibson. Has three pitchers to do
it exclusively with one club and joins Randy Johnson, Steve
Carlton and sees he's a. Bathia as the fourth left
handed pitcher to achieve this feat. According to Jason and Mike,
he is Where's he ranked according to Steve Carlton. Is
he better or worse than him?
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Well, though, like Lefty was done when I was well,
I mean his White Sox Hall of Famer, but that
was like eight where he was just kind of hanging
on at that point, Like, yeah, I would have been
a I was small when he was at his best.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I got him at the end of his dominance the Phillies,
and so he was still really really good, but not
quite the guy with the Cardinals and the Phillies.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Yeah, that was a guy we saw the memo stats.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, what I honestly remember is the greatest pickoff move
I've ever seen in the history of the game. Okay,
I don't know how anybody ever stole a base on him.
Watch his bits like, oh my, oh my god, how
does he? Oh my god, I think.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
About to do that.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I got Carlton and sever and Griffy Jr. Yeah, White
Sox Hall of Famers.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
There you go.
Speaker 10 (32:34):
So Corey to Jason and Mike Kershaw at least the
second best left handed pitcher to achieved his feet.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
The MLV All Star lineups.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
Were announced show Hey O Tany and Aaron Judge the
two leading vote kiitters. The Tigers lead the American League
with three starters, second basement at Labor Torres, outfielders right
of the green and Hobby bye Is. This is actually guy.
It is this third time making the All Star team,
and he's made it at three different positions his first
time in the AA. The Dodgers lead the National League
with three starters as well. First base from Freddie Freeman
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and catcher Will Smith will join Otani, who will dight.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And not pitch.
Speaker 10 (33:09):
MLB hom erun leader Kyle Raley makes his first All
Star selection, and A's rookie shorts up Jacob Wilson is
the only the second rookie short stop ever to start.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
He's the only rookie to make the game.
Speaker 10 (33:20):
Jose Altuve moved in a second place on the all
time Nationals hit list as Houston beat Colorado five to three.
The Mets snap a four game losing streets splitting a
doubleheader against the Brewers, but the Phillies also split a
doubleheader against the Padres, so Philadelphia has.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
A two game lead in the NL East.
Speaker 10 (33:36):
And in US men's national soccer team advances to the
Gold Cup Final after a two to one win over
Guatemala Diego Luna with the what.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Did you call it earlier? The bunch.
Speaker 11 (33:49):
In the game is a brace two goals in the
first fifteen minutes. About that a brace for Diego Luna
two to one. The win for United States advance into
the Gold Cup Final. Back to you guys, thanks a bunk, Martin.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Let's get a couple of minutes of Clayton Kershaw here
meeting the media following strikeout number three thousand time.
Speaker 12 (34:06):
I've been here. So it's it's a great feeling to
see them up there too. It's pretty awesome.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
When your care has kind of gone the last few years,
you've kind of had the right things out.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I think we need more can.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Be had to write this topics and I really pushed
for that.
Speaker 12 (34:24):
No, I wanted to come easy. Yeah, absolutely not. I'd
rather much rather just got it done in the first
So but you know, now looking back on it, with
us winning the game and uh, the last pitch of that,
i'd be in the last the strikeout, I don't think
I would change it now. I mean, I'll give up
less runs probably, but for us to come out on
top like that and to be able to end it
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like that was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And you're on a select list of just twenty pitchers.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Is there a name on that list that really resonates, that.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
Hits home and makes you really get some perspective.
Speaker 12 (34:55):
On where you It's a it's an incredible list. I'm
super h it's super grateful to be a part of it.
I think I think for me, the most recent you know,
with c C is probably what I when I remember
most obviously having Sures and Verlander on there too, like
guys that I basically pitched my whole career with, and
it's it's special to finally be in that group with them.
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But uh, you know, I remember watching c C and
when he got traded over to the Brewers and he
pitched on three days rest constantly to try to get
him into the playoffs all the way through, all the
way through, all the way through and just really put
his team on his back, and it really just kind
of resonated with me, like what what a starting pitcher
can be and what he can do for a team
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like that and just kind of no regard for himself.
Doing everything he can to get his team into the playoffs,
and and he succeeded. He did it. So it just
to see him get that three thousands, I just have
a lot of respect for him. I think that was
that was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I'd say a little bit of Clayton Kershaw strike got
number three thousand for him.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Great stuff about C. C.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Sabathia, one of the most dominant runs between him and
Rick Utcliff in nineteen eighty four when he came over
from Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Listening to him there, he's gonna be a great broadcaster
if he wants.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Oh yeah, well, yeah, yeah, he'll be. He'll be doing
Dodger games in a couple of years. Sure he can
be calling him like some other guy.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my bas friend Mike Harmon, where it may wind
up being a perfect night for Clayton Kershaw, because the
Dodgers might end tonight the night that Clayton Kershaw got
strikeout number three thousand with a win. They have scored
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twice in the bottom of the ninth inning. They are
now tied with the White Sox at four a piece. Show,
Hey Otani has just stolen second base. Will Smith is up?
Could walk it off here or at the very worst,
the Dodgers go to extra innings with the White Sox.
Now I want to say this because before we get
to Clayton Kersher, but I have to say this clearly.
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You will always live and die with whatever decision. Show
Haotani makes and just about anything on the field. But wow,
the Dodgers have the bases loaded, nobody out and Otani
up in the ninth inning. The White Sox pitcher has
just walked the last two batters. Okay, Kim walks, Edmund walks.
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Kim walks on four pitches. Okay, so you have two
walks in a row, right, the last one on four pitches.
The first pitch to Otani is ball one.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
This is now, This is now at a point where
you are saying, what the hell can we do here?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
What the what the hell can we do? Taylor can't
even find the strike zone. A one to zero count
to Otani, and there's a fastball that is at his eyes.
This is not even close to the strike zone. This
is not one of those balls, hey, up in the
zone Otani can handle.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I like the high ones.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
This is layoff the mule nag and Otani swings at it,
fouls it off, completely flips the at bat. What turns
into an eventual ground out run comes in, but instead
of what could it's two and you walk too in
a row. Gotta make the guy throw a strike. I mean,
I don't care if your show. Hey, Otani, you'll take walks.
There's nobody out here down two runs, Okay, if he
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can't throw a stroke, you gotta make him throw a strike.
And it's not like it was one. There was right
down the middle. You chased a pitch to was three
feet out of the strike zone and instead that changes
one pitch can change yet bat in Major League Baseball
and said he grounds out to second. A run comes
in on the force out, and they get the tying
run on a Mookie Bett's hit sacrifice fly to right field.
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But the game could have ended there. However, what I
just say, as I just finished talking right now, is
irrelevant because Freddy Freeman wins it for the Dodgers in
a walk off Freddie fingered Chicago. Freddie Freeman, with a
single to write, wins the game, brings in Otani with
the winning run. Otani, you still maybe because he said
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he's thrown in a bad pitch stealing second. As we said,
the Dodgers win with three in the ninth, giving Clayton
Kershaw and even happier, ending to a night in which
he had three thousand for his career spreads. The White
Sox didn't battle a little bit on the ball three
to Will Smith.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
That looked like it got some of the black.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, that was a pad in statche a bit a
punch out, and instead it goes to three to two.
Wilson misses with the next pitch to put Smith on first,
and then Freeman lines the hit to right field.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, that was a pitch that gave Clayton Kershaw strike
out number three thousand. And that's not a strike to
Will Smith.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I mean, obviously we're we're here in the studio.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
We don't have the sound one, but I gotta imagine
even the the Dodgers broadcast that we're watching, like, boy,
that's there, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
No one.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
We're going we got free baseball? No we don't.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Dodgers five to four, your final Freeman with the walk
off hit, show how toddy with the stolen base?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
So giving you some extra stats along the way.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So here's Clayton Kershaw strikeout number three thousand. How did
it sound? It sounded like this one two pitch strike.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Pree crowd, there is big battle with a slider strike
out number three thousand for Clayton Kershaw history at Dodger Stadium.
They will stop the game, Prushaw toughing his cap to
the crowd.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That's a boring crowd.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Here at Dodger Stadium as Clayton Krushaw enters the three
thousand club, just the twentieth member and only the fourth
left hander in the history of the game.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Dodgers TV on the call, Clayton Kershaw freezes Frank Capra.
Great Dodgers Radio. Sorry, M five to seventy on the
cause at Dodgers TV. Dodgers Radio M five to seventy
freezes Frank Capra. Mister Deans will not go to Washington.
It did happen one night. You can't take it with you.
He is your strikeout victim. And look it's a it
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was a perfect I mean, you talk about again. If
you're a scriptwriter, you believe in those things. It's Kershaw's
final pitch of the night.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Dave Roberts stuck with him on a night where he
had nothing. Okay, Clayton Kershaw had nothing. He was getting
hit around Chavez Ravine from the opening batter of the
game tonight. Even the outs were hard hit. Michael Confordo
pulled back but would have been a three run homer.
He got hit the entire night. Right, he did three
strikeouts for three thousand. He gets the second one in
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the fifth inning. Dave Roberts sends him back out there
for the sixth. Every buddy is there for Kershaw tonight,
his family is there. It's okay, let's give him one
more shot. He's at ninety pitches. What do we get
on his final pitch of the night, pitch number one hundred,
his signature, there's a called strike, there's signature pitch, a
called strike three. He walks off the mound to end
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the inning. You can't write it any better than that
for Clayton Kershaw for a strikeout number three thousand, a
mark we may never see anyone reach again in baseball history.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Well, the fact that we also know that Kershaw is
the type of guy that if that was the second
out of the inning, he would have doffed his cap
and said, let's go where's the pitch clock at? Let's
keep going, right, I got work to do to get
out of this inning. Instead, you know, obviously you and
I were still looking at the play before that. But
for now, let's just stay with the positivity and the
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good vibes here. Because caappra goes down. He will be
the answer to a trivia question, who is the last
guy to be the three thousandth victim of a pitcher?
Answer Vinnie Capro, who's also pitched a little bit for
the White Sox. Go figure journeyman infielder batting one twenty eight.
But he's a highly rated defensive guayer, so that one
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comes in handy, no question about it. But for Kershaw,
he battled right for the White Sox. A lot of hits,
a lot of hard hit balls. We can argue about
whether that Conforto play was as dramatic as it was
made to be, or whether it was he just misjudged
it and added some flare. It's an out. Nonetheless, the
White Sox failed to hit it where they weren't when
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it mattered, when they really did make good contact save
for that whole run early. But for Kershaw, dangerous living
up high in the zone, wasn't marking his spots, wasn't
able to get the signature movement that we've seen. But
in the end he gets a no decision, gets career
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strikeout three thousand, gets the end of inning celebration, which
delayed commercial time, but got everybody what they wanted fifty
four thousand ish on Yamamoto Bobblehead Day as well. So
you got a two fer. And now here's the part
that sucks about it, because yeah, there is, and you're
gonna say, wow, Jason, you and Mike really suck.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
We do?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
We do? We do? Because but not why you think so?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I've said eight nine August time right for the since
this we've gotten close to Kershaw getting to three thousand strikeouts,
I say, hey, watch this because you may never see
someone get to three thousand strikeouts again. Because in theory
and probably in an even chance, that Chris Sale gets there, right,
he's a twenty five hundred, he needs about four hundred
and fifty four to seventy more. Now he's thirty six,
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but he's still pitching really well. So I would say,
you know, give me an even chance, even fifty to
fifty chance. Again there maybe a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
As long as he doesn't sustain anymore random rib injuries
and things.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Of that nature.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
He's pitching at a higher level than Kershaw. He's pitching
really well, still a big strikeout pitcher, so you gotta
think he can get there. After that, there may not
be anyone ever, again, here's no one close, no one
who has started their career. I mean, Paul Scheme's really
gonna pitch enough.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
No one pitches enough innings anymore. They don't start enough
games well once they.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Go to a good team.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Yeah right, I mean look at look at Schooble, right,
who's a great strikeout artist, and he's going eight innings
and they've got a twelve what is a twelve or
thirteen game lead now in the division. Do you think
the beginning of August he's still going eighty you know,
eight innings and ninety eight pitches in a nothing game
when they're.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
That far ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
No, you had kid bench me for two whole weeks
in August, I would have won three of those starts,
mister Kamiski.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Twenty nine is not thirty eighty.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So no, we may And you're trying to extrapolate Paul
Schemes having a career of three thousand strikeouts, which come
on so we may never see that any right, what
do I say? See it seem we never see it
again except Mike and I bleep and missed it, even
though we're on the air doing a bleeping radio well.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I mean to be fair, I mean we were paying bills. Well,
but okay, so here's what happened, right. So here's what
happened right. This is where you say, boy, you guys
really suck. So right before the strikeout, Max Munsey gets hurt. Right,
Michael Taylor strives to tries to steal third base. Will
Smith's throw a third a little high into the side.
So it's an awkward play. Michael Taylor slides. It looked
like it was a play where look it was a
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bang bang play. It wasn't anything where Taylor had a
dirty slide. But Max Munsey gets caught off balance, goes
down and hurts his knee. He's on the ground for
a few minutes, and he doesn't leave the game under
his own power. He has to have two people help
him off. It's a knee injury and it didn't look good.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Now, while this is going on, Clayton Kershaw is warming
up and he's getting ready because you know, the game
was delayed for about five minutes, so he's getting ready
to he's warming up before he gets ready for the
next batter, which turns out to be Capra. So that happens,
and we finished talking, and we go to our commercial break,
and when that happened, you said, here the I got
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the play right here, So you on your computer.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
We go over and.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Look back and see because we want to see, Hey,
was this slide into third? Was it dirty? Was it
Max Munsey just lost his balance?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It was? And we saw okay, and you know, Kershaw's
warming up where watches going, okay, watch it probably half
a dozen times, going a right, look at the slide here. No,
it looks fine. It looks like he came in. It
looks like Munsey got off balance. You can see where
it hits his knee right there. Okay, great, No, it
looks fine. And I look up and I see Dave
Roberts with his fist in the air, and I'm like, did.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
We bleep and just miss that? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
That was the definition of him miss it? Bang bang
play right there, Kershaw's.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Walking off and he's waving his cap and Freddie Freeman
is going crazy and the crowd is going nuts, and
they cut to Kershaw's family.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I'm going, did I really just miss that? Because we
were watching that?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Key?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Did we chuck?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
After I've said for ten days, watch it because you
may never see it again, and I didn't. I feel
this way because I think I missed Haley's comment when
it showed up in like nineteen eighty five, and I'm
never gonna see that again. Oh I can't pull it.
That's how I feel, like, how did I miss it?
How did I miss it?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Live? I mean, I've seen it now one hundred times since.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yes, and it's a great it's a pitch you've seen
Clayton show strike guys out before looking a hundred times.
It was awesome, But we missed it because we're looking
at the injury at all. If you love my head going,
I've just been telling people for like ten days, make
sure you watch us because you may never see it again.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
And i'd bleep admit we both missed it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah what he said. Yeah, but also look, we're trying
to do our job. Max Muntsey has been on an
absolute terror uh and has been an absolute terror to
opposing teams, a big cog in their offense. And it's
a monster play. Like we're trying to go through the
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film if it's a big deal, and you know, and
Kershaw's what's a big deal? And and he's warming up
so like we're kind of paying attention, but that's just dansked.
We also didn't get any help, nobody yelling hey knuckleheads.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah well, I mean, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But we had our headphones off.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
We weren't we were well, okay, great, but I mean
that's gonna be my memory of Kershaw three, the last one.
I'll e forget to say, did you see it? No,
because we're looking at Max Munchy's injury. My memory is
Dave Roberts with his fist in the air. It's pretty
good memory, though, yeah it is. It's a unique memory.
I have a different story. This is why I have
all these great stories by the entire time, but there
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my entire sports life because stuff like this happened.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
What do you got, Frostburg, That crappy memory will fit
right in with all your Mets, Jets and Knicks memories.
Wait wait, wait, but we have to ask. Was it
doubled down on the fact that you didn't advance in
your beat the streak? Or did you have a hit today? No,
we gott to weave advance today. Oh okay, good my
dad no, my dad crazy?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Did he make the pick? Here's how much my dad
was Darren Judge Yoto. He was so mad at the Yankees,
and he says, there pitching's job. He took George Springer.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Today, Wow, disqualified.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, yet it hit his first time up, Like, okay,
I'll get you my guy tomorrow. I think we're at
five games, five or six now, right close to.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
The end of the week. By the way.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
To tie this all on a nice, beautiful knot, we
had a little reference to a league of their own.
Yesterday was the thirty third anniversary of the Trileaes. Evelyn Evelyn, Evelyn, Evelyn,
I like the High Ones.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
What team do you play for? I'm a pet. Well,
I was just wondering because.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I want to know why you would throw home when
we've got a two run lead.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Jason, What do you do for a living? I'm a
sports talk radio host.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Well, I was just.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Wondering because I'm wondering why you're not watching Clayton Kershaw
and you're watching a computer for a player who's not
Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
What do you gotta strike out? Number three thousand? You
gotta use your brain.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
That's set up three feet above your ass. Are you crying, Jason, No, No,
are you crying? You crying.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
No, I'm honestly a little bit sad. White Sox lose
five to four. Yeah, but not the first nor the
last White Sox loss you have seen. Yeah, but it
was the first and last today. Yeah, but were you
not entertained?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Was very It was entertained.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I was entertained.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I still want that third strike on Will Smith because
we should still be playing baseball.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
The twentieth player with three thousand strikeouts for his career, amazing,
Clayton Kershaw does it. We'll have Moron Kershaw coming up
because now we'll ask the big question about Kershaw now
that he's gotten to three thousand strikeouts. So we have
more on this story, plus what the Lakers are daring
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Lebron James to do after their moves the last couple
of days. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
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Speaker 5 (16:11):
One two pitch, strike.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Three CODs pink out them with a sire squike out
number three thousand for Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
His story at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Dodgers Radio Am five seventy on the call Dodgers walk
off of five to four win against the White Sox tonight,
in which Clayton Kershaw reaches strikeout number three thousand, the
twentieth player in MLB history to get there. Right now,
he's taking pictures on the field with his wife, his family.
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He's hugging the ground. Screw guys like, well, they've been
around a while. Hey, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Hey, you just keep hugging every by if you stayed
around long enough and they didn't shoot you out of
the stands.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I bet you get yourself a hug too.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
So let's see if a little bit of Dave Roberts
meeting the media now. First one up, after Clayton Kershaw's
three thousand strikeout.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Game, getting the called third strike. It wasn't a slider,
but it was a strikeout. So you can see the
emotion that he had today trying to, you know, get
that third strike. And I think, you know, you look
at the first probably fourteen fifteen hitters. He got to
two strikes, probably ten of them and just couldn't put
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them away, and so I just couldn't execute that final pitch.
But I think it just happened the way it's supposed
to happen, in the sense that it was the third out.
We got a chance to really celebrate him him to
take the moment. Will Venable and the and the White
Sox and Wolfie and the umpires did a great job
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given Clayton's time, So it was a it was a
huge moment, and.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
That pitch really well, you know, experience giving them strike
three calls, but it was a little outside.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
This was like you.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
It was in the box.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
I think this is probably you know, the three hundred
wins for Clayton. I'm sure, but I think this is
you know the cy Youngs certainly, but I think that
to do to get three thousand strikeouts, that that takes
a long time and a lot of you know, trials, tribulations, surgeries, rehab,
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frustration tiers, to continue to fight back, come back, show
up and post. That's hard to do.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So there's a bit of Dave Robertson.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
He really gets into what's going to be the big
question now for Clayton Kershaw because he's not getting to
three hundred wins, right, two hundred and eighteen wins, two
or seventeen wins thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You can see him slowing down.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
This is the last big milestone individually that he's going
to get to in his career. Certain there's other mile
you could talk about other milds, but hey, three thousand strikeouts,
that's talk about rarefied air. This is the last milestone
he will reach individually. He's done it all for his career, right,
he's individual achievement a time for what individual achievement, Individual
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achievement teams. He's won a couple of World Series No,
not quite part of the team. He wanted to be
a year ago, but he still won a couple of
World Series and you can see that, and you know
that his role on the team is not what it
was and he's not getting it back right Like as
you heard Dave Roberts talk about all the stops and
starts of what he's dealing with, Kershaw was really a
depth guy. Right They went out and signed a lot
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of starting pitchers in the offseason, and you know clearly
with the Dodge of what happens is they sign a
starting picture, he gets hurt. But they have a lot
of talent and a lot of money and a lot
of pitchers who are younger that just are in a
different part of their career that they're gonna rely on
more than Clayton Kershaw, and Kershaw getting his opportunity now
because there are a lot of Dodger starters who are
who are not healthy and seeing how this season is
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going to go h okay, maybe this is my last
shot at a World Series where I'm going to get
to actually pitch. Maybe I pitched down this stream, maybe
because you don't know when guys are going to come back,
how healthy they're going to be. As you see, they
have a lot they have a lot of issues.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Snows right, you signed these are sy young guys that
are supposed to be in starting rotation and there's only
so many slots.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It's Sasaki when he comes back. But this gets my
point that you're thinking that, okay for next year. If
you're Kershaw, you're saying, is there really going to be
a slot for me?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You want to think the Dodge are going to do
whatever they can for you. Maybe do a Roger Clemons
where I'm gonna not pitch the first half of the
season and come back the end. This is this is now,
I can see this. This is going to be now
the Clayton Kershaw retirement Tour. He's going to ride the
wave this season whatever he has left, and after this
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season is over, he'll retire. It's been a lot for
him to stay motivated to come back, all the injuries
he's had late in his career. Not that this milestone
was white. I want to get there and then I
want to walk off. It's not like I want to
get to three thousand. This is but yeah, I want
to get to three thousand strikeouts. I want to get
there if I can, and I want to have one
I want to be able to contribute while I can
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next year. I don't know what his role would even
be with the Dodgers, like you want to think he
would have it. But that's why, you know, seeing this tonight,
I feel like we're kicking off the summer of Kershaw,
his goodbye whatever we wind up seeing the rest of
the regular season and playoffs from him. Like now, you
can really start putting a small number on the number
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of Kershaw starts. You know, the best left handed pitcher
that I that I've seen. You can really start putting
a you know, a clock on how many more he
has left, because I really think this is it for Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Yeah, it's just a question of are you just wanting
to be a guy along for the ride? I don't
know that he's that guy, right, I mean there's gonna
be spots where physically he's not gonna be able to go.
Are we thinking he's going all the way to October
at this point?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Maybe maybe not today. You know you're in that clip
from Dave Roberts. We watched it a lot of get
two strike counts. Yeah, and then he'd hang a meatball
that would get hammered, fortunately directly at an outfielder several times,
but you look at overall he's at an era is
at a little over a three strikeout rates down. But
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you've got a team with that support, and you're gonna
certainly get enough run support. But what are you a
fifth starter or a sixth starter? You get through? Clearly last
year didn't get to participate except as you know, Yoda
to the pitchers and a great guy on the bench
and in the clubhouse, but clearly wants more than that.
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He's been there for eighteen year and that was one
of the big moments, right We talked about it, Walter Johnson,
Bob Gibson, the only guys to go three thousand strikeouts
with their original team before Kershaw does it today. A
couple of years ago, it was like, yeah, you could
see him as a ranger. You could see him going
back to Texas and pitching. I can't see that anymore now.
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I can't see him just wanting to pitch for the
sake of pitching, like and he still loves it. Clearly
you saw the emotion, but how much of that is
elation and yeah, I got that versus relief and trying
to figure out where that is on the wheel, and
then let's see physically where he is four months from
now and where he is psychologically, because if you do
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get the run at that's expected from the Dodgers, it's
probably enough to say I'm taking my lway, I'm taking
my bettis, I'm taking my insert other player here moment,
I'm gonna wave and I'm gonna walk off.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And in the end, I wonder how long he's been
wrestling with the retirement decision. Sure, you know last there's
certain moments where you say, boy, he's keeping the ball
after that strike, and why is he keeping the ball?
Like what you wonder with all the injuries and wondering
is this gonna be as good? I want to end
as good as possible, right, That's what all superstars want.
They want to end as good as possible. They're not
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They're not guys who are gonna say I'm gonna be
out there till they rip the uniform off because.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
They don't want to ruin their legacy. They don't want
to they don't want people remember you at the end.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
When I couldn't get anybody out right, and clearly the Dodgers,
it would have to be a tough conversation going Clayton,
I mean, we love you, but you look at what
we've done Yamamoto and Sasaki and Snell and Glass.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Now, okay, I like your theory though, the clements thing
we got. Yeah, I look Walter's box. Oh my god,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
But I've never seen this before. Why did you go?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Edith Bonker sitting next to Mary hot outside. Look at
that sitting next to Mary heart. This is gonna be
coming back.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But I mean, that's why I look at it, that
this is a clean end for him. I got my
three thousand strike out. I have a summer tour of
being able to say goodbye whatever we have in the playoffs.
And that's kind of it.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
But as we were talking about it, even before we
heard that sound clip, but it just magnified it. Dave
Roberts in his comments, the love that he's got for
Clayton Kershaw, and we've certainly seen it at a number
of stretches where given the fact that they do have
let's call it what it is, an unlimited payroll and
the ability to go get whatever they want, that he
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still would say twenty two is my guy? All right,
it doesn't matter. We don't need him now, let him
rehab and on his time he'll be back and he'll
be part of things.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Man.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
That goes a long way for Freedman, for the you know,
the guys in the front office, and obviously for Dave
Roberts on the bench, you know Mark Pryor and and
and the others on the staff. I mean that how
they've backed and that that relationship is I think something
we don't don't get to see that in sports a lot, right,
A lot of it is turn the page next guy,
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whether it's a coach, a GM or a PL player,
We'll find a younger arm, bigger, faster, stronger, cheaper. But
instead you get to this milestone, very special moment for
baseball and for the Dodger organization.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I mean, we may never see it again. And you
and I missed it live because you know bleep and
we're watching the replay a Monthsy's injury right now. Research
the research they are digging up the pitching rubber, which
I assume would be to give it to Clayton Kershaw
because it's not like, hey, they're doing the other game. No,
there's lots of people hanging out. Kershaw is hanging out
while they're digging up the pitching rubber on the mound.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Now that's actually all them flipping Max Mounsey offten.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Son. Does this go to Cooperstown? Absolutely? Does he get
to keep it and some dirt? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I just gorgeous scrabbing handfuls of dirt right now. I'm
sure what the family is. I'm sure Kershaw's got a
live Jason. To your point, this is what we're watching
right here that you're painting a picture of. To your point, exactly,
this is this is this is the tour officially starts.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
This is the night where father Toime caught up with him. Yeah,
I mean, now your lifelong Dodger guy. I mean they
have your saying what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Well, because that's what we need to do, because we're
all about emotion and like to baseball nerds, Smith and
I I mean, it's not our team, but this is
a guy we've watched since he was a kid.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Yeah, it's special, special.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Night, you think, because you know it's funny you say that.
I know you say that because you think about the
way that you get right, because it may because what
Justin says makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Because here's a night where he needed three three strikeouts, right,
it's the White Sox. Man, Come on, come on, man,
you should have got three in the first inning. Over
under was four and a half. You should got three
in the first inning. Even if Will Smith dropped a strike,
could have got four in the first inning. But this
is a night where Clayton Kershaw was not good. Right,
Clayton Kershaw got hit hard from the opening batter of
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the game. Okay, line drives the entire night line one
hundred mile an hour lineouts to left field, in centerfield. Yeah,
and Michael Confordo potentially made a three run homer saving
grab in the in the second in right of this game,
he got hit real, even in the end he got
the strikeout. He's getting hit hard, right, and and so
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kind of kurshowus. Even though he's had a good season
so far, right still undefeated, era is somewhat low. This
tells you that, hey, here's Kershaw near the end, because
on a night where you see him celebrated like only
nineteen other people have ever been celebrated in MLB history,
it's all tonight where you realize, Yeah, he's not Clayton
Kersh anymore. Right, he's a guy that against the White
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Sox is going out and getting hit really hard, and
I think he's gonna actually keep the pitching rubber because
he's just got it in his hands and he's holding it,
so maybe he gets to leave with the pitch.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Realize how deep those are?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Like see those on earthed, right, it's like some of
those oh yeah, you should find on the sea shore.
It's like, eh, I think, wait a minute, that's a long,
longest thing going on. Or the roots on your lawn
when you're trying to weed and whatever. But no, a
really cool scene. They're probably still what forty people around
the mound and guys, as they were doing that, I
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am being told that Kershaw did arrive in the game
in the U haul truck. Oh wow, now you've you've
gone from I love you. I gotta wash my hands
of you. Three thousand bucks and a pitching rubber for
a laughter this season? Guys, he's his family's problems. Wow, Hey,
is Matthew Stafford there?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I mean, because I look, he was taking big pictures
on the mound with his family.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
I was looking.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Is Matthew Stafford there? I'm gonna pretend he was there? Yes,
all right, very good and well we could always go
to them. Yeah they went to high school. No, no, Wow,
he blew my mind.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I mean, this is the night Clayton Kershaw's final MLB
tour began. Enjoy it the next few months. Enjoy it
because he's he's been the best left handed picture I've
ever seen. I mean, better than Randy Johnson.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Better than Johnson, better than Sabathia bet Like, there's there's
three or four guys we've had the pleasure of watching.
Go back to Glavin uh and the work that he did,
I mean, because Kershaw did all of it, and you know,
and the finesse with the I mean that that curveball
is something.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And that's the thing is like if you say to me,
what's your memory of Clayton Kershaw, Like when you think
of Clayton Kershaw, and it's weird, But this is what
I think of. I think of that first pitch of
the at bat where he snaps that curve or slider
and and it's it's it's five feet outside the strike
zone and it winds up dead center for an easy
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called strike. One in the batter goes, how the hell
am I supposed to hit that man? But how many
times have we seen him snap one of those pitches
over the strike zone.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
He saw a few of them tonight with the hell Man.
That was a final strikeout. That was that was that
was strike out number three.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Man White Sox didn't get that call in the uh they.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Did not time out. Find out what's trending in the wide.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
World of sports from Martin Wise m what he got
for us.
Speaker 10 (31:06):
You're right, Clayton Kershaw wasn't missing a lot of bats today,
but he did strike out the three that he needed
to get to three thousand on the night. And it
couldn't have been scripted any better. After getting that third
strike out to end the inning, so he had everybody
kind of give him that moment of adelation enough to
stop the game because the game had actually been stopped
the batter before, as Max Munch he was injured on
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the play.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
He then got helped off. Kershaw three thousand.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
He's now the twentieth pittuer with three thousand strikeouts, joining
Walter Johnson and Bob Gibson. Has three pitchers to do
it exclusively with one club and joins Randy Johnson, Steve
Carlton and sees he's a. Bathia as the fourth left
handed pitcher to achieve this feat. According to Jason and Mike,
he is Where's he ranked according to Steve Carlton. Is
he better or worse than him?
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Well, though, like Lefty was done when I was well,
I mean his White Sox Hall of Famer, but that
was like eight where he was just kind of hanging
on at that point, Like, yeah, I would have been
a I was small when he was at his best.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I got him at the end of his dominance the Phillies,
and so he was still really really good, but not
quite the guy with the Cardinals and the Phillies.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Yeah, that was a guy we saw the memo stats.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, what I honestly remember is the greatest pickoff move
I've ever seen in the history of the game. Okay,
I don't know how anybody ever stole a base on him.
Watch his bits like, oh my, oh my god, how
does he? Oh my god, I think.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
About to do that.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I got Carlton and sever and Griffy Jr. Yeah, White
Sox Hall of Famers.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
There you go.
Speaker 10 (32:34):
So Corey to Jason and Mike Kershaw at least the
second best left handed pitcher to achieved his feet.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
The MLV All Star lineups.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
Were announced show Hey O Tany and Aaron Judge the
two leading vote kiitters. The Tigers lead the American League
with three starters, second basement at Labor Torres, outfielders right
of the green and Hobby bye Is. This is actually guy.
It is this third time making the All Star team,
and he's made it at three different positions his first
time in the AA. The Dodgers lead the National League
with three starters as well. First base from Freddie Freeman
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and catcher Will Smith will join Otani, who will dight.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And not pitch.
Speaker 10 (33:09):
MLB hom erun leader Kyle Raley makes his first All
Star selection, and A's rookie shorts up Jacob Wilson is
the only the second rookie short stop ever to start.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
He's the only rookie to make the game.
Speaker 10 (33:20):
Jose Altuve moved in a second place on the all
time Nationals hit list as Houston beat Colorado five to three.
The Mets snap a four game losing streets splitting a
doubleheader against the Brewers, but the Phillies also split a
doubleheader against the Padres, so Philadelphia has.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
A two game lead in the NL East.
Speaker 10 (33:36):
And in US men's national soccer team advances to the
Gold Cup Final after a two to one win over
Guatemala Diego Luna with the what.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Did you call it earlier? The bunch.
Speaker 11 (33:49):
In the game is a brace two goals in the
first fifteen minutes. About that a brace for Diego Luna
two to one. The win for United States advance into
the Gold Cup Final. Back to you guys, thanks a bunk, Martin.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Let's get a couple of minutes of Clayton Kershaw here
meeting the media following strikeout number three thousand time.
Speaker 12 (34:06):
I've been here. So it's it's a great feeling to
see them up there too. It's pretty awesome.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
When your care has kind of gone the last few years,
you've kind of had the right things out.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I think we need more can.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Be had to write this topics and I really pushed
for that.
Speaker 12 (34:24):
No, I wanted to come easy. Yeah, absolutely not. I'd
rather much rather just got it done in the first
So but you know, now looking back on it, with
us winning the game and uh, the last pitch of that,
i'd be in the last the strikeout, I don't think
I would change it now. I mean, I'll give up
less runs probably, but for us to come out on
top like that and to be able to end it
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like that was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And you're on a select list of just twenty pitchers.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Is there a name on that list that really resonates, that.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
Hits home and makes you really get some perspective.
Speaker 12 (34:55):
On where you It's a it's an incredible list. I'm
super h it's super grateful to be a part of it.
I think I think for me, the most recent you know,
with c C is probably what I when I remember
most obviously having Sures and Verlander on there too, like
guys that I basically pitched my whole career with, and
it's it's special to finally be in that group with them.
(35:16):
But uh, you know, I remember watching c C and
when he got traded over to the Brewers and he
pitched on three days rest constantly to try to get
him into the playoffs all the way through, all the
way through, all the way through and just really put
his team on his back, and it really just kind
of resonated with me, like what what a starting pitcher
can be and what he can do for a team
(35:38):
like that and just kind of no regard for himself.
Doing everything he can to get his team into the playoffs,
and and he succeeded. He did it. So it just
to see him get that three thousands, I just have
a lot of respect for him. I think that was
that was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I'd say a little bit of Clayton Kershaw strike got
number three thousand for him.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Great stuff about C. C.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Sabathia, one of the most dominant runs between him and
Rick Utcliff in nineteen eighty four when he came over
from Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Listening to him there, he's gonna be a great broadcaster
if he wants.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Oh yeah, well, yeah, yeah, he'll be. He'll be doing
Dodger games in a couple of years. Sure he can
be calling him like some other guy.
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