Hour 4 – World Series Game 3!!!!

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Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. Maybe this game will
end before we get off the air medio. The Lakers
game is done. Lakers game started two hours after the
Dodgers Blue Jays started. And how many fans they were like, ah, man,

(00:52):
this is such a good game. But I got tickets
to the Lakers and night, I'm gonna go to the
Lakers game. All right, great, so go to the Lakers game.
I'm gonna miss the Dodgers. That's fine. Oh no, no,
the guy got to see the whole game, the game
end that I can run to a bar and go
see the end of it. Oh'm good, I didn't miss anything.
How good is Wi Fi at the crypt? Because they
would have been tested tonight. The number of people that
would have been logging on their phone. Oh, it's gonna

(01:15):
be like Wi Fi like is your your daughter's high school,
like where there's like hardly any Wi Fi. WiFi is
really bad good spots. Yeah, that's what it would have
been like at the cryptnight. Yeah, I gotta imagine a
lot of folks that weren't necessarily in TV frame doing
a dual screen experience. We are going to the bottom
of the thirteenth inning. Five to five is the score.

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Henriquez comes in. He is the next to last Dodger
pitcher left. Will Klein is the only one who was
not pitched, and show Heyo Tani who is tomorrow's starting pitcher.
So at some point there's got to be Do you
think there's a decision sometime? Henriquez was throwing u peas
though that inning he struck kind of Falifa on one

(02:01):
hundred and two mile an hour fastball that just he
just waved at it. So here we are bottom of
the thirteenth inning. If I should say, okay, Frostburg's even
bad at me when someone gets on base with the Dodgers,
show Hao Tani is due up fourth. He has been
intentionally walked the last two times up. And here's again
another reason how crazy tonight is. Sho Hao Tani is

(02:23):
having a night unlike anything we have seen in baseball history.
He's got two home runs and two doubles. He has
been intentionally walked every other time up, because why wouldn't you.
The last time a player had four extra base hits
in a World Series game was in nineteen oh six.
It's another one of incredible performances for sho Hao Tani,

(02:46):
who again is sitting with four extra base hits in
this game, two intentional walks. And the game's been so
going on so long, with so much great stuff happening,
like like you've forgotten that you've forgotten it o'ta just
to such a great game because the last couple of
times up he's just been intentionally wild. We even get
to see him hit. Don't know if that's gonna be
the case now. As Tommy Edmund, sorry Mets owner Tommy Edmond,

(03:10):
who let the Blue Jays back into this game with
a really bad error. Hey ball went under his glove.
It could have been an inning ending double play. Instead,
Kirk comes up with runners at first and third. It's
a three run homer. They get another run in the
inning to nothing. Dodgers lead is a four to two
deficit because Tommy had makes a really bad play, bad error,

(03:32):
ball goes under his glove. Since that time, I believe
he has saved as many runs as he allowed with
three great defensive plays throughout a guy at the plate,
throughout a guy at third, made a great play on
the bases loaded grounder when Kershaw was in last innington
to get the final out of the inning. Tommy Edmund
has just led off the bottom of the thirteenth inning

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with a double to the wall in right. So now
Edmund the winning run is at second base. Nobody out
Rojas is going to pinch hit here because apparently he's
the team's best bunner. But then I think that Straw
was the best bunner for the Blue Jay. Just saw
how that went well. So nobody out Rojas coming up

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ostensibly potentially to bunt. Then it will be Andy Pajes
and then show Heyotani, who may have the bat taken
out of his hand. I would assume if you're bunting
and you're putting a runner at third, they would probably
intentionally walk pahz and Otani to load the bases, because
at that point, why would you Why wouldn't you do that?

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You want to set up a big kind of force
or a double player or an out of the plate.
So I would assume if Rojas bunts him over to third,
you will get a double intentional walk, and it will
be Mookie Betts with one out and the bases loaded
to try to win this game. Again, I'm managing from
three thousand miles not three ye, I'm managing from twenty
five miles away. But I'm figuring out that's what was
gonna happen. Rojas does get the bunt down. It was

(05:00):
a high fastball, which is the hardest pitch to bunch. Yeah,
and he gets the bat on it successfully bunts Edmond
over to third base. So now you have the winning
run at third, one out. It is a high pitch
out of the strike zone. That's a tough bout. How
do you get that down? Good for him, he finds
a way to get it down. The Blue Jays I

(05:21):
looked like the Blue Jays are kind of runing a
wheel play. There was no one at third base to
get the throw, so it looked like they were giving
up if you successfully but were to give this up. Now,
Andy Paz is up and I want, I really I
wonder what's gonna happen? Oh so sorry, Pause is being
pinch hit four. Call is up now. He will probably
go in to play center field if this game goes
to a fourteenth inning. So Alex, call is up now,

(05:44):
and it looks like the Blue Jays are going to
pitch to him. Uh, and then we'll see I'm sure
Shoeotan will be intentionally walking.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
There's a lot of debate before the game whether call
should have started ahead of Pa Haz who's been in
a prolonged slump call three for this postseason. So getting
an opportunity and he gets to keep the bat in
his hands with one out here in the bottom of
the thirteenth runner around third, think insane. I think if
the Dodgers could have betted Pa has tenth in this game,
they would have. I mean, he is just he is

(06:12):
just short bawling down the order. He has just not
hit the ball at all. It's been really, really difficult.
Although we said that about Mookie Betts and he delivered
a big hit his list well, there's a difference between
Mookie Bets and Andy poy and history, but a guy
who hadn't been seeing the ball very well either. But
you know, now we're in these final throws in the

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thirteenth couple of heavyweights throwing haymakers, trying not to stagger
to the to the mat. Now call is three for
four this postseason, and he's got it. He had a
two and oh count and he pops it up to shortstop.
That was a very difficult at bat. There what happens

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when you bunt Sometimes that's your result. A two and
o count, Carl gets a bad swing, he won, ends
up popping up to short show. Hey, Otani is coming up.
He's not even taking practice wings. Of course, they are
sending him down to first base. So now Mooki Bets
will bat. Maybe Mooki Bets will bat. You know, I
don't know if you want to try to get the
force play at any base, but it looks like Mookie

(07:15):
Bets coming up. They're gonna pitch to Muki and so
first and third, two outs, bottom of the thirteenth inning.
Bets will try to win this game. I assume Otani
will try to steal to try to get stay out
of the force play at second base. I don't know
you're gonna get a thrown down. Remember Kirk is out
of the game as well. They pinch ran for him.
It seems like eight innings ago, guys three for four

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with a big home running, the pinch ran for him.
So I assume Otani it will try to steal, to
try to at least do you know, avoid that they're sending.
But now, hang on, they have decided to make a
different decision. They are intentionally walking Mookie bets. That will
take that off the table. So now Freddie Freeman, who
I believe this is the one year anniversary of Freddie

(07:58):
Freeman's walk off home run in Game one of the
World Series last year. I might right, I'm on a
heater right now, I'm on a hero right now today
the day it was the other day, okay, a couple
days ago, So two days after the one year universe?
All right, so close, two days after you're trying to,
you know, speak the pageantry ain't to exist every every
every year at this time is Freddy Freeman time. No,

(08:19):
we celebrate Freddy Freeman as we go through just absolute chaos.
Bases loaded, Freeman with so many heroics in his history.
And now before we get to Freddy Freeman's at bat, show,
Hao Tani has now been on base seven times in
this game, four for four, three intentional walks. Yeah, the
home runs seven time. That three straight intentional walks. That

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has never happened in the history of Major League Baseball.
Show Hao Tani has been on base seven times in
this game. And it's still going. It's still going, and
Freddie Freeman has a chance to send this game and
end it in Instead, Freddy Freeman flies out to the

(09:03):
warning track that will end the thirteenth inning and bring
it to a fourteenth inning five to five, five five,
twenty nine runners now left on base in this one.
We've seen the heroics, just just shy of it there
because when when the ball left the bats like we
got a chance, like no to the track. But for

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Freddie Freeman, big opportunity, great job to pitch out of
that avenue intentionally walk two batters. Strategy works out. The
bunt attempt was fantastic, but then swinging on two to
zero call aggressively going after a pitch instead of making
the pitcher come to him, and it sets up the

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finish to what we just saw on this inning, Jason
was the stout you gave on ATONI right there, seven times,
been on base seven times tonight, and nobody's ever done that.
Steve Disager gave me the nod. No ever done that
in the World Series. This is why you can't compare
anybody to show hal Tony's okay when I compared him okay,
when I compared him to Ted Williams before. Right, this

(10:10):
is watching this game tonight, seeing this generation get to
experience this game with Shoeo Tony, really sho Heo Tani's career,
but this game because now Otani you could really say
may have the two best postseason games of all time,
the great game he had at the end of the
NLCS right when six innings, ten strikeouts, three home runs,

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and now first person ever be on base seven times
in a playoff game, two home runs, two doubles. Getting
to see that's why this getting to see this, this
is like how I felt because I didn't get to
see a player this good growing I saw a lot
of great players growing up. You and I saw a
lot of great players in the seventies and eighties, whether
it was Mike Schmid, Steve Carlton, Tom sever all, these

(10:52):
all times sluggers. I mean, pick your poison. You had them,
the big time pitchers. Watching Nolan Ryan dominate into his forties,
I mean, come on, yeah, I mean that was but
that was I got the end of you know what
I meant. So we still got to see him. Oh yeah, yeah,
abso one hundred percent. But to see to this generation,
to get for gen Z now, to get to see
Shoho Tani and it's really you know, the the the

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kind of the lower end of millennials, because how much
do you remember experience, you know, you go back ten
years or so. This is like how I would have
felt if in the seventies and eighties I got to
see Ted Williams play, because growing up he was the guy.
And look, they're incredible guys in baseball history, players that
you just hear mythical things about that you can't believe
were this good. Yet hey, in the grand scheme of things,

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they compare to some of your latter day All stars, right,
but you hear names like May's and Mantle and Williams
and DiMaggio and Ruth and Gerrigan, all of these players.
But for me, growing up the guy I would because
growing up in baseball and baseball history being a part
of it, like Ted Williams was the guy that I
just couldn't believe the stuff that he had done, and

(11:57):
he reading about his career and hearing the things that
he had been able to do, and plus oh, by
the way, let's talk about the middle of his career,
he goes and fights in World War Two for three years.
I mean, come on, I mean that's I mean, come on, man, Ted,
what else do you want to say about that? But like,
that's the that's the level of player you're getting to see.
It's like me getting to you and I getting to see.

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The mystique and the mythicness of Ted Williams is what
people are now right now getting to see show Heyo
Tani and seeing him now two weeks apart having probably
the two greatest playoff games in baseball history. I mean,
think about that again. Go back to that game, last
game of the NLCS and tonight, and it's hard to say, well,
all right, he hasn't had a great game in like

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six innings, but he's been walked. It that's what you
when you have two on runs and two doubles first
four times up, you're gonna get walked every time up.
I mean, you think about what years seven times seven
played appearances. Only one guy in baseball history has gotten
seven hits in a game, and I was Rennie Stennit
back in like nineteen seventy eight. You're talking about a
guy now being on base seven times in this like that.
That's the that's the equivalent of gi of geeing get

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you get to see this, like I think, and for
somebody else of our age, maybe it's Ted Williams, maybe
it's Joe DiMaggio. But that's kind of the mythic quality
of what we're getting to see and appreciate, right, those
are the names we always saw when it's the graphic
of the next great hitter or great pitcher, depending on
which side you're looking at, what it was the hitter.
I was like, all right, here's the best five years

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since and it would always be Ted Williams. And here's
a sample size of Mickey Mantle or whatever. It was
the same three or four players time and time again.
And so now with show how Tani, he's writing his
whole a whole other page in the record book, comparing
between eras right. We can. We can do that all
the time, and you have to caveaut and caveat out
a bunch of different things that have changed in the game,

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ballparks and whatever else. This is really just next level
stuff that we're watching the respect of. You know, we're
not even gonna bother. We're in the extra innings of
Game three of a World Series, knowing what that means,
but we're still gonna intentionally walk you. That's just crazy stuff.
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Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon. Henriquez sets the Blue Jays down one, two
three in the top of the fourteenth. We go to
the bottom of the fourteenth, Dodger and Blue Jays tied
at five apiece of Game three. I mean, I mean,

(15:31):
I'm running out of historical comparisons, but just just think
about this for a second. Guy, it's really tough to fathom.
This is that Shoeotani we talked about. He's been on
base seven times today, right, two doubles, two home runs,
intentionally walked the last three times because he's incredibly hot.
I think he's put to bed. The Heyotani's not hitting

(15:52):
in the clutch, but the batting average up for the
for the playoffs up at two eighty three. Did that
silence some posts? I think maybe a little bit, maybe
a little bit, but just think about think about this
right because because now I'm going to make a comparison
to this game. The two most famous World Series games
of all time. Okay, we were very lucky because we

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saw them within a span of two years. Game six
eighty six World Series Mets Red Sox, Game one eighty eight,
Dodgers in the Ace. Now, Game six was a better
game than Dodgers A's Dodgers are really the ninth inning
Gibson's home run, obviously, but those are the two most
famous plays in World Series history. We were very lucky.
I mean, can think about that, right, Like in one

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hundred and fifty years of baseball, the two biggest game
to be two years so close to one another, and
you can get video of them. You can see them
if you didn't if you didn't experience them live. Shoe
Otani has put together the two best postseason games, two
best playoff games in baseball history a week apart. Not
he had one great game early in his career, then

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later on, few years later, he has put together the
two best playoff games we have ever seen a week apart.
Right last week, we'll all remember the NLCS. Three home runs,
ten strikeouts, and six innings. No one's ever done that before, right,
greatest thing we've ever seen. And now tonight Shoheo Tani
on base seven times. No one in baseball history has

(17:21):
ever done that, four for four, three home three RBI,
two home runs, intentionally walked three times. No one's ever
done that. This is just the just the extra base
hits part, right, just the four extra base hits in
the ers, all the way back to nineteen oh six.
Your guys, right, your guy right? Was he a white
so White Sox right series? Yes, White Sox comes World Series. Yeah,

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that's scary to say, isn't it. Yeah, because that's not
happening for a look. No, hey, the White Sox are
on the coup. But well we'll talk about that in
the off season as we go there. Yeah, it was
frank Is Bill had four in a game. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean that's I mean, I I I don't know,
that's that's that's how incredible that is. That's how incredible

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that is. He had four doubles in that game. I mean, yeah,
I only had four double double like that guy or
whatever like that guy. Uh, but just think about that,
is that Otani is two best playoff games in baseball
history a week apart. Yeah, we've been talking about individual performances, right,
and you can find it and and and dot the

(18:30):
the map of baseball history with those, right, the Reggie
game and and all of those things. And then we
look at you know, for for games, right, you were
talking about the eighty six Mets, uh, you know, and
and some of those performances we talk about, you know,
Carlton fisks on run, go back to Luis Gonzales off
Mariano Rivera after Shilling and Clemens had been masterful, Like,

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there's lots of that. There's nothing like what Shoho Tani's done.
And we are not going to see. Oh my goodness,
the way Will Smith flipped his bat. You thought it
was over pee cocking. He flipped his bat, thought he
got it, but it was a flyout to the fence

(19:13):
in left center field. Will Smith hit it, flipped his bat.
He's going, come on, come on, get up, and it's
caught at the wall for the first came He's trying
to build drama, drama, dramas. Enough drama already, Steve Desager

(19:33):
stood up in the in the studio with his hands
up in the air and it was a flyout to
the fence. But you know what, something that's trended the
last week or two with Will Smith. I can't see
it now that it's shown up in my timeline. Yeah,
he looks like the kid from Toy Story. Looks like
sid Oh yeah, he does look a little bit. Remember
when he made the tag at home plate and he

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was doing the fist pumping and he had that you know,
kind of angry. Yeah, come out. It's like, I can't
see it now. Yeah, oh he does pasady now oh yeah, yeah,
that great camera. Who's going to catch that? Yeah? But
the way Will Smith flipped his bat, you say you
thought always got it? He just did one of those.

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I was like, all right, man, he's gone. That was
the baseball card post. That's an eight hundred foot home
running Yankee Stadium. Oh yeah, easily easily that that's that's
over the stadium. On a night in which the Dodgers
did what we said they should do, we said, hey,
they have to put a plaque where Sho Tani's fourner
and sixty nine foot home run land. You have to
have that so people could visit that every day. They

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did that today. Yeah, the list, they listened to it. Oh,
of course it's fuzzy myth. But you have to have
at least some sort of plaque where where fans go
and go, this is where the home run landed, and
they did it today. Okay, that's awesome victory. So that's
where we sit right now now to think about this game,
just to just to take a deep breath, as we're

(20:57):
seeing an all time great World Series game. There are
so many different twists and turns in this game. Going
back to the second inning, you add a horrible Blue
Jays base running mistake by Bobashett. You had a bad
base running mistake by Freddie Freeman. Great defensive play by

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the Blue Jays. You had a bad base running mistake
by Taaskar Hernandez. Great defensive play by the Blue Jess.
Both teams making getting out from the right side of
the infield to the left side of the infield tonight
at third base has been insane. How many plays have
we seen Vlad Junior or Tommy Edmund make where the
ball is hit to them and they're making a play

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at third base for the lead run. But think about
that Edmund play right, It goes off of Freddie Freeman's glove.
He slides yes and in one motion comes up gunning.
It's just just incredible, like headiness and precision with the throw.
I mean, it's just absurd. That is the That's the
defensive aspects of this game, Tawnie's Night, which again you

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are seeing in this game. And that's what makes this
game that great because you need something incredible that people remember, right,
every big game, every big World Series game, anything else
you can, but you have to have that something that
brings everybody back, right, brings everbody of this game, the
Buckner game, the Buckner error. Right, you have all this
stuff goes along with it, but this little roller up
along the first base line behind the bag, like you

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have that moment you have from this game with everything
that's happened, Otani's Knight. You have Otani's Night, Smack Davin
Bell again, the best World Series game we have seen
anybody have and the second best playoff game anybody's ever had.
Again because of the pitching last week in the NLCS,
the defensive plays that Tommy Edmund has made, the defensive

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mistakes that Tommy Edmund has made the defensive plays that
Taoscar Hernandez has made, and again yes he's made the
bad defensive plays and base running that tit Oskar Hernandez
has made. Right the drama of Clayton Kershaw coming in
on a three to two pitch with the bases LOWVDD
and getting a ground out that Tommy Edmond makes a
great defensive play on to keep this game going, the

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game that Vlad Junior has had completely under the radar
because of the game Otani has had. And now we're
in the fourteenth inning and it's it's it's at this
point you have no end. You're running, your motor is
running on just empty. It's it's adrenaline and it's seeing
the greatness of this game and again prisoner of the moment.

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But I compare it. I think watching this game, I
think back to what it was like the eighty six
Game six of the Mets in the Red Sox. That's
kind of the game this compares to. And and there's
other great World Series games, right, we had Cardinals, Rangers,
we had the Great World here David Freeze, all kinds
of great moments in those games. We had those this
Dodgers Blue Jays is something different, and Sho Heyo Tani

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is the difference in it because he's the guy bringing
you this incredible game that makes this game so great,
that takes you past the pantheon of games that will
live for that. Boy, these great World series games, and
I think about this and this and this, But Otani's
Night takes this past that, and so I'm going back.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Now.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Look, I'd have to go back and again. This is
doing the show and talking about it live. But this,
this game is like the eighty six Red Sox Mets world.
So don't bring them in this. And maybe they played
the most famous World Series game of all time. I'm sorry,
but Dodgers win. It's the greatest game ever played. Oh
if the Dodgers winning Otani hits a home run, it'd

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be the greatest. Think about this. It's fourteen innings out here,
which means it's it's like twenty four innings in Toronto
right now. Oh yeah, yeah, if we played this game there, yeah,
we'd still be going. There's no question it would be.
I think the longest baseball game ever went thirty three innings.
I read a great book on a minor league game
from the late eighties. No, no, no, yeah, early eighties.

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It was about a minor league baseball game between paw
Tucket and Rochester that went thirty three. Is called Bottom
of the thirty third, one of the best baseball book
I've ever Right, it's about this game. It's just about
the game. And that's the longest game I believe in
uh in bait and recorded baseball history. This game is
probably not gonna get there, But I don't know. Bottom
of the fourteenth World Series game. I think the break,

(25:12):
you know, we're almost halfway. It was a great White
Sox Brewers game that went twenty five innings that was
ended by Harold Bain's home run. When the reporter asked him, boy,
you got all of that, he looked at him and said,
evidently all you need to know how great of a
game this is. Yeah, Mary Hart is still there, Mary there,
Shagic Johnson is still there. Everybody over the age of

(25:34):
sixty is still at this game. Just showed Coofax reacting
to the near home run. Yeah, Clayton gershot came out
of the dugout. Mary Hart's it's the cutout of her.
Oh yeah, she was gone. She's gone in the sixth inning. Wait,
Kofax is still there. He's still at this game. Kofax
is like ninety and it's ten thirty at night. Do
you think the Dodgers had an announcement? And I'm sorry

(25:57):
we had to cut off beer sales here as we
get to the fourteenth, but we are serving coffee on
the lower concourse. If anybody would like a quick cup
of java to help you out between innings, come on in.
We're just got pouring it for you, right, great opportunity
for whoever the official coffee is of the Dodgers. Yeah,
don't even yeah, don't even don't even sell it, just
give it away. I mean, how sore are to rules
fingers right now? For Black and Blue? Oh dude, dude

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can't even play. You're kidding. He's got sausage fingers. He's
gonna have double carpal tunnel surgery tomorrow. He can't possibly play.
Those who aren't familiar. That's the organist the Dodgers stadium.
The legend did they get the Abby Duncans the official
coffee of the Dodgers? So, I mean, do you think
at the end of the game they go to Kursha
go dude, you played like eight minutes. Just see get

(26:40):
out of here, just take us out of the game.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
What do you want from it?

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Played like eight minutes? I mean really that that's the
that's the type of of level this game is at.
I mean, it's like eighty six Mets. And and granted
there is a part of it because it is the Dodgers,
right that Rangers car Cardinal's phenomena. Right, I still remember
how great you're being down to your last strike World Series,

(27:04):
David Freeze. But there is something to be said for Okay, Cardinals,
great historical team, not the Dodgers, right, Rangers, not the Dodgers.
Dodgers in this game, like Blue Jay's like that, it's
almost like the opponent is irrelevant. Like the greatness of
this game. It's there's a lot of there's a lot
of different teams that could be and we're seeing this
kind of night still continue to unfold. One thirty in

(27:26):
the morning on the East Coast, ten thirty at night.
Here a game that began at a quarter after five.
The Lakers game, which started two hours later, ended an
hour ago. Lakers game started two hours later. In this game,
it ended an hour ago. Yeah, lower now up to
thirty nine pitches. This one's historic, all the twists and turns.
You'll write thousands and thousands of words on it, many

(27:48):
thought piece. How many titles for articles and leads have
been ripped up and torn away by scribes for blogs
and newspapers across the country, Like, yes, that doesn't matter anymore,
that there's been so much action since this that the
other Like Tommy Edmonds at the plate as we talk here,
I mean that error is the lifetime ago yet this

(28:11):
point right, I mean you're just watching the twists and
turns of this game and been just immeasurable. I mean
it's innumerable. I guess is the proper word. I mean,
which one is the key? Which one is the sparton?
Like right now it's the next pitch. So with one out,
a Max Munsey walk and ta Oscar Hernandez again keeping

(28:31):
both teams in the game tonight with his offensive play
and defensive play, uh to Oscar Hernandez. A single to
left center field puts runners at first and second. However,
Tommy Edmund with a chance to make up and really
be accountable for more runs than he's allowed in this
game because of his error, Pops up to second. So
now there are two outs bottom of the fourteenth inning,

(28:53):
Dodgers have the winning run at second in Max Munsey
lower is forty one pitches. Now the night Rojas is
up was just five minutes ago. Rojas pinch hit to
get a bunt down, and that guy one that would
have hit him in the chest if he en missed
it got the game when he run to third, but
Alex call pops up Otani and Betser walked. Freddy Freeman
flies out to center field to end the inning, and

(29:15):
so now Rojas is up for his second at bat
of the game with the winning run at second base
and two outs in the bottom of the fourteenth inning.
Can't write a better Hollywood script, I'd be really. I mean, man,
act three is usually where things fall apart here. I mean,
it's still just the anticipation of it all as to
how who's going to be the ultimate hero on either

(29:36):
side And you're going back to your gravity of the game. Yeah,
it's the Dodgers, right, because you're either a Dodger fan,
maybe you're just an Otani fan, maybe you just love
historical teams, or you've decided that they're the super villain
that needs to be get their come up ins. So
we are going to the fifteenth inning. Rojas with a

(29:58):
ground out to Bird ends it for the Dodgers. We
will go to the fifth teenth inning tied at five apiece.
It feels like forty five minutes ago. Will Smith almost
ended it with a home run, but fly out to
the wall. That camera man's gonna get it. Time now

(30:19):
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
A guy who stood up with his hands in the
air only have to put them down again because it
was a flyout. It is Steve Disager.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Actually, that goes to my earlier point in this show.
This is the coldest game of the three in LA
by far, and the ball didn't carry exactly because of that.
If he hits that same ball either of the next
two nights, it goes out. It's sixty degrees right now.
It's gonna be a high temp of ninety the next
two days in LA and by first pitch it'll still

(30:49):
be about eighty degrees.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Not tonight.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
You talked about long games like the Mets NLCS clincher
in nineteen eighty six that went sixty sixteen innings. The
postseason record longest eighteen innings. It's been done a few times,
including in a World Series game at Dodger Stadium that
Max Mounsey won with a home run against Boston in
twenty eighteen. Monsey hit a long foul ball just now

(31:15):
and that had home run distance. But the Dodgers are retired,
and they yes did have the fourteenth inning stretch right
before this recent half inning. One baseball writer Jeff Fletcher
tweeted out, if you think going through fourteen innings is long,
it's really like the equal of nineteen innings Canadian.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
So there's that.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
And you mentioned the very long time ago that someone
had had four extra base hits in a World Series
game nineteen oh six. That was with the dead ball.
Almost nobody was hitting home runs back then, So four
doubles in that game an accomplishment.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
I looked it up. Twelve was the home run leader
that two of the doubles were in front of the
pitcher and they couldn't find the ball because the grass
was so high.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
But Joe Otani is his first four at bats, four
extra base hits, including the solo I'm going to tie
at bottom of the seventh. Then three intentional Walks. So, yeah,
it's the first time in any postseason game a player
has reached base safely seven times, And in Dodger history,
in any game, postseason or otherwise, only one other time

(32:15):
had a Dodger reach base safely seven times in a game,
and that happened nineteen thirty nine. Cookie lavagetto with Brooklyn. Toronto,
of course, is playing the longest playoff game in its history.
They had a five hour playoff game a decade ago
against the Rangers. They've also left the most on base
in any postseason game in Toronto history. They've used the

(32:38):
most players in any Toronto playoff game ever. When they
had a guy last inning foul a ball off his
own leg, the first thing the announcer said is they
don't have a sub. He's got to finish thet bet
and he's got to play defensively because they are done.
As for the Dodgers, they are literally using their final
pitcher right now. Will Klein has just come in the game,

(33:00):
but he texted me.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
I'll remember there's one more pitcher they haven't gone to
and it's still in the game. And that's exactly there's
another guy who could come in tomorrow. It started all right,
But here's the thing, pitches tomorrow. What are you saying
he could pitch now it's tomorrow. We can't, Hey, Ken,
it's tomorrow anyway. May he may just be ready to go. Now, Hey,

(33:23):
I could start and do that thing already. I could
start in twelve hours. You could bring me in now,
it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
There's that long Dodgers Mets playoff game in nineteen eighty
eight where they sent the starting pitcher home and they
almost ran out of players. I think that was twelve innings.
Nobody's been sent home here. It's top of the fifteenth.
Blue Jays five, Dodgers five, and yes, Will Klein has
retired the first batter he faced on a strikeout. What

(33:51):
an incredible game we are witnessing. Monday night football at
Kansas City went to the Chiefs over Washington twenty eight
to seven. Patrick Maholmes three TD passes in the second
half in the late game in LA. In the NBA,
Portland beat the Lakers one twenty two to one to
oh eight Austin Reeves forty one points in defeat. Is
Luca Donsitch is out at least a week with a
sprain left Finger and Bruce Legg and of course Lebron

(34:13):
James still out with the bad back at Utah. Fifty
one points for Lowry Mark in an overtime win for
the Jazz against Phoenix. Victories for Oklahoma City and Denver.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon,
live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. The game had
started an hour half before we came on the show tonight.
We're gonna finish in nineteen minutes in the game, might
still be going Dodgers and Blue Jays top of the
fifteenth inning. As Steve said, Will Klein is in. Who
the hell is Will Klin? Will Klin is in for

(34:44):
the Dodgers. We'll give you more on this one of
the greatest World Series games you'll ever see, maybe only
number two behind the Red Sox Mets nineteen eighty six.
Tom Hankey is up in the bullpen for the Blue Jays.
It's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
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