October 16, 2025 • 15 mins
On this week’s edition of Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob checks in live from Chavez Ravine ahead of the start of Game 3 of the NLCS between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers. ESPN MLB analyst Doug Glanville checks in to share his thoughts on the series, and later, Rob hits us with his latest appearance on MLB Network.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live
in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You give
us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop
on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number fifty seven, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come on, I've been covering Major League baseball for almost
forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,
in LA.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I love this game. Let's go. Welcome into the podcast.
I'm your host, Rob Parker. What a show we have
for you today?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Of course National League Championship Series action.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Today Brewers Dodgers Game three. We'll talk with ESPNS Doug Lamville,
a former Major league outfielder. Plus we'll check in with
MLB Network and MLB Now that and much more.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Here comes the big interview.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Listen and learn.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Let's welcome in former Major league outfielder Doug Glanville, centerfielder
right centerfield.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, I had to play as I got older, I
wasn't left.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's why I said outfielder. Anyway, joining us here on
Inside the Parker. Just want to ask you about this
Dodgers Brewers series. You're here covering it. Uh, you know,
to me, this series should be one one. Dodgers kind
of got away with winning Game one in Milwaukee, and
then of course they won Game two.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
How do you look at.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
This series and are you surprised that the Dodgers are
up to Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Well, yeah, the regular season, we knew the Brewers wiped
them out six to oh.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
But when you have Blake Snell and Yamamoto who are.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Here for this purpose, right to pitch in the postseason,
and they give you that kind of performance, that is
how the Dodgers were able to pull out Game one. Yeah,
they had that last inning where they went to the
bullpen and got a little shaky, but the starters like
that can make that difference to win games. It doesn't
seem like you should or could, but they neutralized everything
(02:14):
by eight.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Strong Game one and nine strong Game two.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
But in the postseason you do have to have closures.
I mean, I don't think the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Would have won all those World Series without Mariano.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And obviously you get eight to nine.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Innings, you're not gonna get that every time out.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
The bullpen is the weak link on this team and
if they are gonna lose or something goes wrong. To me,
Doug is the bullpen.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
You gotta get to the bullpen. It's just like you
can't steal first. You gotta get to that bullpen, and
that means you have to do damage against the starter.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
That's not happened so far.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
And that's why the Dodgers can really choose very wisely
as to how they're gonna use their bullpen. They're not
pressured into it when you knock someone out in the
third inning, and that's what the Brewers are gonna have
to try to do.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Now, how can you control that?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Hard to say, But if they can get into the
bullpen early third inning and then force the Dodgers, it
will impact Game three, but also impact Game four and five.
And that's that's the way that the Brewers can shift
this series.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Let me ask you about show hal Tani and his struggles.
I mean, this is not just okay hitting some hard luck.
I mean he struck out fifteen out of thirty four
at bats in the postseason that that's unusual, and he's
looked swinging at bad balls, really missing.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
What's happening here?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
What do you see?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Part of Shoeo Tani's game is he's gonna chase. I mean,
he expands his own he'll attack the first pitch and
when it's right, it works.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
When it's not, it can ripple.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
And now he's also rippling in a postseason where you're
facing guys like Sanchez and Philly and you know, some
really great pitchers. That's what the postseason brings out often. Right,
he got a dec of aces against you, so he
still has that impact though, you know, like he's a guy.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
They still intentionally walked him a couple of.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Times, they still put them on base, They're still careful.
He's still can impact the game. And by the way,
he's gonna pitch. So yeah, it's not his best right now,
but I know that one game, all of a sudden,
he gets three home runs and then you're just like, oh,
I forgot about the rest.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Okay, let me ask you this though, if you're the
Brewers and I get it. His reputation is great, he's
won the MVPs, he's one of the best players of
not the best player.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
In the league.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But don't you have to pitch and play for the moment.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
He currently is scuffling, so Now, if you're ever going
to pitch to him to get him out, it's this time.
And every time they seem to walk him, Mookie gets walked,
and you know, and you give up a run or
whatever the situation is. And I get it out of
respect for his resume, But don't you have to look
and say, he's scuffling.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Now, this is when we got to get him out. No, Doug,
that's the bar that I have a problem with.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Well, guess what, he's scuffling until he's not, and then
he's not, and then that.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Ball's off the scoreboard.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
So that it's the problem, Like, you do have a
body of work, and he is struggling, but will he
be struggling today? And that's the question you have to evaluate.
So that's why they still walk him. They're still putting
them on. Now, Yeah, you got a tough lefty Sanchez
get you know, you go at them.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
They did they have didn't do that.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
They're starting pitchers often to starting openers just for him,
So they're.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Definitely planning to pitch to him.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
But when it comes down to it, you're gonna have
to weigh that, like he might break out in this
one particular bat and you're gonna.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Be sorry for it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Our guess is Doug Lanville from ESPN.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Of course, former major league outfielder broken with the Cubs,
finished up with the Phillies, talking about the Dodgers and
the pressure of trying to repeat.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No team has repeated.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
In baseball twenty five years, the Yankees in ninety nine,
two thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's hard to repeat in this game.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
People think, oh, you got team put together, You're gonna
run off these wins.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
No, it doesn't happen.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
There's so much information now, there's so many good teams,
there's so many good pitchers, and then the injuries. You know,
two year pitching, are you going to be healthy all
of a sudden you don't have any starters left, Well,
you got a problem. So it's hard to do it.
And the competition is thick. Everybody has the same data
and information to try to find an edge. And the
Dodgers certainly have the resources to cover their losses, which
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is why, like their rotation is still really strong despite
all the injuries. But they didn't exactly win one hundred
and seventeen games this year either, so you know, that's
the nature of it. But they are in a great
position to be able to kind of change that fate
of twenty five years without a repeat champion.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
How about the Brewers.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
The Brewers and one of those teams they've been good
for years, Doug and coming into this postseason, they had
lost eleven out of thirteen playoff games. Of course, you
lose the first two games at home, and people go, oh,
here we go the postseason.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Milwaukee Brewers have shown up. Is that fair?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Well, it's not really fair. I mean, they had the
best record in baseball. It's a different season. They also
won nlds. They got this far, so it's something to
be looked at and considered as like a successful season.
But yeah, they've got to go against this juggernaut and
the Dodgers, and they're gonna have to show that those
you know, those ninety seven wins.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
We were the real deal.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
The postseason a little different, as we see with the
starters and the days off and all the things. But
I think they still have some good baseball left in
them to make this series interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Well, what's the key in Game three at Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Is there really one like you could jump out to
a lead? We saw Seattle jumped out to a lead
at home. It didn't matter. They were up to nothing.
The crowd was going crazy and they got bludgeoned right
by Toronto.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
That woke up.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So so is it just hoping to get a well
pitched game to control the Dodgers and I'll get to
their bullpen?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Is that a way that you could flip this series?
If you could knock the.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Starter out in the third or fourth inning and then
change the dynamics.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Is that I think the king of the Brewers is
to get to the starter early on and really tax
the bullpen, and that because that could pay dividends not
just Game three, but game four, game five. Now, how
do you do that? You can't control that, but maybe
with glass now you can walk a little bit more,
maybe you can bunt, maybe you can just contact, you
get a break with an error, something to make the
(08:16):
game turn out where the pitch, the starting pitcher of
the Dodgers isn't controlling everything. That's that's their objective today,
and that could make a big difference for multiple games,
not just game three.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
His name is Doug Lamville, former MLB outfielder and of
course ESPN Baseball analyst Always Doug, appreciate your insight.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Thank you, Thank you Rob.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
In case you missed Rob Parker on the MLB nextwords,
here's his latest appearance on Mlbina.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
It's showdown time. Rob Parker is here. I so look
forward to this. Rob. You're looking good. Great to have
you on the show always BK.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Let's get at it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I'm ready, all right.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Here we go. Shoho Tani hitting one forty seven in
the last two series. In nlesser series, he's hitting eighty,
slugging zero eighty. What's with Otani right about now?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I'm gonna say this. I know people don't want to
hear it, but the Dodgers actually don't need Otani because
he hasn't shown up BK in the postseason. Last year,
they won a World Series with him not hitting. I
know he was banged up in the World Series and
he did bitch and they won a World Series. This year,
(09:28):
he's missing in action. If this was Aaron Judge or
some other big name story, people would be going crazy.
Did Dodge keep winning without him? So he get there?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
You know what they are doing. You know what they
are doing. He is getting the free pass he just
spent in the re pass. They're still intentionally walking him.
They're intentionally walking Otani still to load the bases for Betts.
Most incredible thing I've seen while he's won for his
last twenty. And they go, well, he's still showing Otani.
I'm like, not today, he's not. Clearly he's not today one.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's all for reputation, and sometimes it doesn't make any sense.
You have to look at the player. Now, he's scuffling.
Pitch to him, he's getting itself out. He's struck out
fifteen out of what is it, fifteen out of thirty four?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Thirty four?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
I think yeah, forty means maybe, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You're ever gonna go at him. It's now, it's not
next season.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Be smart, be smart, go at him with a lefty right,
I'll be smart, Like, let's not just be you know,
he's going to break out at some point. I want
to bring this up too, because the headlines I thought
were misleading, and says Otani says pitching not affecting his hitting.
What he said through a translator was, I don't necessarily
think that my pitching has affected my hitting performance. But
he also wants to say it's hard to say. I
(10:44):
think he's acknowledging that there is a price to be
paid being in the rotation.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
No doubt about it, And at some point they'll make
a decision on him. I think he's way too good
to not play just every day and swing the bat.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
I get the pitching, yeah, but I just gave you.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
The Dodgers won last year with him not pitching at all,
and look at where they are at this point without you.
We're in full agreement. How about this, then we'll try this.
Because no one seems to agree with me on this.
I'm amazed.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Where are you on, Bryce Terrag of the Brewers avoiding
the hit by pitch with the bases loaded, with two
outs down one run in the ninth, Where are you
on that?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Help me?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You gotta get hit, you gotta take it one for
the team.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm sorry, what.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Are you jumping out of the way for?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I mean, you joy in this?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
You're right?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I take no joy in it, Rob, because, like I know,
he felt terrible about it everything. But you have to
know the situation. Bases loaded, two outs of the ninth,
you're down one, you're two out, you're done. You're there
are seasons in jeopardy because he's like, oh, it's a
normal reaction. You can't you're you're you're trained professional. We
don't want a normal reaction. We want a trained professional reaction.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And the idea that uh people are like, well, that's
the It's not like he's trying to jump into the
way of the pitch because he doesn't think he can hit.
The guy threw the ball at him right at that situation.
Take the hit, we take the base, tie the game,
give you a team a chance.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I don't understand it.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
I know I would have gone HiT's our players here
in the building, a long name number like BK. You
don't know. How would you feel a fastball being thrown out?
I guarantee you that's hitting my leg like, it's different.
If it's coming at your face, that's different. You gotta
get back off that. But it's being thrown at. The
bases are loaded, you're down one, it's two outs in
the ninth. I'm incredulus. I don't want to beat the
(12:35):
kid up, but I'm incredulous. Where are you on taking
out Blake Snell? That was a Dave Roberts decision that
I thought was a terrible move.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Again, just overmanaging when there's no reason to overmanage.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The worst Dave.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Roberts move was when he took out Clayton Kershew is
pitching a perfect.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Game when eighty pitches through seven innings and they took
him out. Oh, we don't want them to get.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Hurt down the road made no sense, and in this
case Blake Snell was dominating.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Let them get in trouble.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
First, I'm sorry, stop overmanaging, and you're not bringing in
Mariano Rivera, okay, and even then still hesitate.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Yeah, we're in complete agreement on this, all right, So
Rob your old school where are you on this nonsense
that the Dodgers feel they have to think? It's the
it's the classy Dodgers, it's hedge fund baseball. And they're
out there dance.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh you're like you like that?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
You like that?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Here we are, This is where me and you separate.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, b K, I'm gonna translate what you're saying to
everybody at MLB Networking, MLB Erica.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
You ready, yeah, go ahead?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Rob, Hey, you kids get off.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
My lord, that's wrong, that's wrong, that's stupid at any age.
I'm sorry you think that's fine. By the way that
those guys are thirty five years old. They're not kids.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
They're not on my lawn.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
They're in the Brewer's face.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Bet do you see the Brewers game?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
BK, BK.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It ain't that serious.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It's a ball game. This is not church, this is
not the Supreme Court. It's a ball game. Bekay, Let
the kids have fun. If a thirty five year old
wants to contort his body for a couple of seconds
after he gets a knock, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Rob.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Anytime you're watching with someone who doesn't watch baseball every
single day, let's say it's your mother in law, right,
or it's your your your sister, or it's just a
guy friend that watches just football, he will watch a
Dodger game and go, what the hell is that? Literally
every single person that goes what is that? What is
that that? It's beneath them? You're the Dodgers. If I'm
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running them, I'd go say, hey, do we need to
do that? Why are we doing that? And why shake
it in the Brewer's face. We're beating them already. Let
the sleeping Brewers lie.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Hey, if the Brewers don't like it, don't give up
the double. Don't get them don't let them get on base,
or that they can't do the or whatever it is.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
I mean, you know you're not good at it. By
the way, I'm better at it than you.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, you like that.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
You like that. Hey, Rob, I'm gonna do this on
the way out, all right, I'll see you, see you, Rob,
you were right for Salt. You're having such a good
segment too, and then you lost it. All right, we'll
take a break.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
We gotta go.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
In the words of New York TV legend the late
Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until
next time.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Rob Parker out he can't get it. This could be
an inside of Parker.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
See you next week, same bat time, same Matt station.
From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live
in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You give
us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop
on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number fifty seven, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come on, I've been covering Major League baseball for almost
forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,
in LA.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I love this game. Let's go. Welcome into the podcast.
I'm your host, Rob Parker. What a show we have
for you today?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Of course National League Championship Series action.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Today Brewers Dodgers Game three. We'll talk with ESPNS Doug Lamville,
a former Major league outfielder. Plus we'll check in with
MLB Network and MLB Now that and much more.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Here comes the big interview.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Listen and learn.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Let's welcome in former Major league outfielder Doug Glanville, centerfielder
right centerfield.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, I had to play as I got older, I
wasn't left.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's why I said outfielder. Anyway, joining us here on
Inside the Parker. Just want to ask you about this
Dodgers Brewers series. You're here covering it. Uh, you know,
to me, this series should be one one. Dodgers kind
of got away with winning Game one in Milwaukee, and
then of course they won Game two.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
How do you look at.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
This series and are you surprised that the Dodgers are
up to Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Well, yeah, the regular season, we knew the Brewers wiped
them out six to oh.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
But when you have Blake Snell and Yamamoto who are.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Here for this purpose, right to pitch in the postseason,
and they give you that kind of performance, that is
how the Dodgers were able to pull out Game one. Yeah,
they had that last inning where they went to the
bullpen and got a little shaky, but the starters like
that can make that difference to win games. It doesn't
seem like you should or could, but they neutralized everything
(02:14):
by eight.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Strong Game one and nine strong Game two.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
But in the postseason you do have to have closures.
I mean, I don't think the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Would have won all those World Series without Mariano.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And obviously you get eight to nine.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Innings, you're not gonna get that every time out.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
The bullpen is the weak link on this team and
if they are gonna lose or something goes wrong. To me,
Doug is the bullpen.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
You gotta get to the bullpen. It's just like you
can't steal first. You gotta get to that bullpen, and
that means you have to do damage against the starter.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
That's not happened so far.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
And that's why the Dodgers can really choose very wisely
as to how they're gonna use their bullpen. They're not
pressured into it when you knock someone out in the
third inning, and that's what the Brewers are gonna have
to try to do.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Now, how can you control that?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Hard to say, But if they can get into the
bullpen early third inning and then force the Dodgers, it
will impact Game three, but also impact Game four and five.
And that's that's the way that the Brewers can shift
this series.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Let me ask you about show hal Tani and his struggles.
I mean, this is not just okay hitting some hard luck.
I mean he struck out fifteen out of thirty four
at bats in the postseason that that's unusual, and he's
looked swinging at bad balls, really missing.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
What's happening here?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
What do you see?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Part of Shoeo Tani's game is he's gonna chase. I mean,
he expands his own he'll attack the first pitch and
when it's right, it works.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
When it's not, it can ripple.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
And now he's also rippling in a postseason where you're
facing guys like Sanchez and Philly and you know, some
really great pitchers. That's what the postseason brings out often. Right,
he got a dec of aces against you, so he
still has that impact though, you know, like he's a guy.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
They still intentionally walked him a couple of.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Times, they still put them on base, They're still careful.
He's still can impact the game. And by the way,
he's gonna pitch. So yeah, it's not his best right now,
but I know that one game, all of a sudden,
he gets three home runs and then you're just like, oh,
I forgot about the rest.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Okay, let me ask you this though, if you're the
Brewers and I get it. His reputation is great, he's
won the MVPs, he's one of the best players of
not the best player.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
In the league.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But don't you have to pitch and play for the moment.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
He currently is scuffling, so Now, if you're ever going
to pitch to him to get him out, it's this time.
And every time they seem to walk him, Mookie gets walked,
and you know, and you give up a run or
whatever the situation is. And I get it out of
respect for his resume, But don't you have to look
and say, he's scuffling.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Now, this is when we got to get him out. No, Doug,
that's the bar that I have a problem with.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Well, guess what, he's scuffling until he's not, and then
he's not, and then that.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Ball's off the scoreboard.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
So that it's the problem, Like, you do have a
body of work, and he is struggling, but will he
be struggling today? And that's the question you have to evaluate.
So that's why they still walk him. They're still putting
them on. Now, Yeah, you got a tough lefty Sanchez
get you know, you go at them.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
They did they have didn't do that.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
They're starting pitchers often to starting openers just for him,
So they're.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Definitely planning to pitch to him.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
But when it comes down to it, you're gonna have
to weigh that, like he might break out in this
one particular bat and you're gonna.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Be sorry for it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Our guess is Doug Lanville from ESPN.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Of course, former major league outfielder broken with the Cubs,
finished up with the Phillies, talking about the Dodgers and
the pressure of trying to repeat.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No team has repeated.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
In baseball twenty five years, the Yankees in ninety nine,
two thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's hard to repeat in this game.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
People think, oh, you got team put together, You're gonna
run off these wins.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
No, it doesn't happen.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
There's so much information now, there's so many good teams,
there's so many good pitchers, and then the injuries. You know,
two year pitching, are you going to be healthy all
of a sudden you don't have any starters left, Well,
you got a problem. So it's hard to do it.
And the competition is thick. Everybody has the same data
and information to try to find an edge. And the
Dodgers certainly have the resources to cover their losses, which
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is why, like their rotation is still really strong despite
all the injuries. But they didn't exactly win one hundred
and seventeen games this year either, so you know, that's
the nature of it. But they are in a great
position to be able to kind of change that fate
of twenty five years without a repeat champion.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
How about the Brewers.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
The Brewers and one of those teams they've been good
for years, Doug and coming into this postseason, they had
lost eleven out of thirteen playoff games. Of course, you
lose the first two games at home, and people go, oh,
here we go the postseason.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Milwaukee Brewers have shown up. Is that fair?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Well, it's not really fair. I mean, they had the
best record in baseball. It's a different season. They also
won nlds. They got this far, so it's something to
be looked at and considered as like a successful season.
But yeah, they've got to go against this juggernaut and
the Dodgers, and they're gonna have to show that those
you know, those ninety seven wins.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
We were the real deal.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
The postseason a little different, as we see with the
starters and the days off and all the things. But
I think they still have some good baseball left in
them to make this series interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Well, what's the key in Game three at Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Is there really one like you could jump out to
a lead? We saw Seattle jumped out to a lead
at home. It didn't matter. They were up to nothing.
The crowd was going crazy and they got bludgeoned right
by Toronto.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
That woke up.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So so is it just hoping to get a well
pitched game to control the Dodgers and I'll get to
their bullpen?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Is that a way that you could flip this series?
If you could knock the.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Starter out in the third or fourth inning and then
change the dynamics.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Is that I think the king of the Brewers is
to get to the starter early on and really tax
the bullpen, and that because that could pay dividends not
just Game three, but game four, game five. Now, how
do you do that? You can't control that, but maybe
with glass now you can walk a little bit more,
maybe you can bunt, maybe you can just contact, you
get a break with an error, something to make the
(08:16):
game turn out where the pitch, the starting pitcher of
the Dodgers isn't controlling everything. That's that's their objective today,
and that could make a big difference for multiple games,
not just game three.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
His name is Doug Lamville, former MLB outfielder and of
course ESPN Baseball analyst Always Doug, appreciate your insight.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Thank you, Thank you Rob.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
In case you missed Rob Parker on the MLB nextwords,
here's his latest appearance on Mlbina.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
It's showdown time. Rob Parker is here. I so look
forward to this. Rob. You're looking good. Great to have
you on the show always BK.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Let's get at it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I'm ready, all right.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Here we go. Shoho Tani hitting one forty seven in
the last two series. In nlesser series, he's hitting eighty,
slugging zero eighty. What's with Otani right about now?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I'm gonna say this. I know people don't want to
hear it, but the Dodgers actually don't need Otani because
he hasn't shown up BK in the postseason. Last year,
they won a World Series with him not hitting. I
know he was banged up in the World Series and
he did bitch and they won a World Series. This year,
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he's missing in action. If this was Aaron Judge or
some other big name story, people would be going crazy.
Did Dodge keep winning without him? So he get there?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
You know what they are doing. You know what they
are doing. He is getting the free pass he just
spent in the re pass. They're still intentionally walking him.
They're intentionally walking Otani still to load the bases for Betts.
Most incredible thing I've seen while he's won for his
last twenty. And they go, well, he's still showing Otani.
I'm like, not today, he's not. Clearly he's not today one.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's all for reputation, and sometimes it doesn't make any sense.
You have to look at the player. Now, he's scuffling.
Pitch to him, he's getting itself out. He's struck out
fifteen out of what is it, fifteen out of thirty four?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Thirty four?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
I think yeah, forty means maybe, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You're ever gonna go at him. It's now, it's not
next season.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Be smart, be smart, go at him with a lefty right,
I'll be smart, Like, let's not just be you know,
he's going to break out at some point. I want
to bring this up too, because the headlines I thought
were misleading, and says Otani says pitching not affecting his hitting.
What he said through a translator was, I don't necessarily
think that my pitching has affected my hitting performance. But
he also wants to say it's hard to say. I
(10:44):
think he's acknowledging that there is a price to be
paid being in the rotation.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
No doubt about it, And at some point they'll make
a decision on him. I think he's way too good
to not play just every day and swing the bat.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
I get the pitching, yeah, but I just gave you.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
The Dodgers won last year with him not pitching at all,
and look at where they are at this point without you.
We're in full agreement. How about this, then we'll try this.
Because no one seems to agree with me on this.
I'm amazed.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Where are you on, Bryce Terrag of the Brewers avoiding
the hit by pitch with the bases loaded, with two
outs down one run in the ninth, Where are you
on that?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Help me?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You gotta get hit, you gotta take it one for
the team.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm sorry, what.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Are you jumping out of the way for?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I mean, you joy in this?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
You're right?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I take no joy in it, Rob, because, like I know,
he felt terrible about it everything. But you have to
know the situation. Bases loaded, two outs of the ninth,
you're down one, you're two out, you're done. You're there
are seasons in jeopardy because he's like, oh, it's a
normal reaction. You can't you're you're you're trained professional. We
don't want a normal reaction. We want a trained professional reaction.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And the idea that uh people are like, well, that's
the It's not like he's trying to jump into the
way of the pitch because he doesn't think he can hit.
The guy threw the ball at him right at that situation.
Take the hit, we take the base, tie the game,
give you a team a chance.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I don't understand it.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
I know I would have gone HiT's our players here
in the building, a long name number like BK. You
don't know. How would you feel a fastball being thrown out?
I guarantee you that's hitting my leg like, it's different.
If it's coming at your face, that's different. You gotta
get back off that. But it's being thrown at. The
bases are loaded, you're down one, it's two outs in
the ninth. I'm incredulus. I don't want to beat the
(12:35):
kid up, but I'm incredulous. Where are you on taking
out Blake Snell? That was a Dave Roberts decision that
I thought was a terrible move.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Again, just overmanaging when there's no reason to overmanage.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The worst Dave.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Roberts move was when he took out Clayton Kershew is
pitching a perfect.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Game when eighty pitches through seven innings and they took
him out. Oh, we don't want them to get.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Hurt down the road made no sense, and in this
case Blake Snell was dominating.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Let them get in trouble.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
First, I'm sorry, stop overmanaging, and you're not bringing in
Mariano Rivera, okay, and even then still hesitate.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Yeah, we're in complete agreement on this, all right, So
Rob your old school where are you on this nonsense
that the Dodgers feel they have to think? It's the
it's the classy Dodgers, it's hedge fund baseball. And they're
out there dance.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh you're like you like that?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
You like that?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Here we are, This is where me and you separate.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, b K, I'm gonna translate what you're saying to
everybody at MLB Networking, MLB Erica.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
You ready, yeah, go ahead?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Rob, Hey, you kids get off.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
My lord, that's wrong, that's wrong, that's stupid at any age.
I'm sorry you think that's fine. By the way that
those guys are thirty five years old. They're not kids.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
They're not on my lawn.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
They're in the Brewer's face.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Bet do you see the Brewers game?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
BK, BK.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It ain't that serious.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It's a ball game. This is not church, this is
not the Supreme Court. It's a ball game. Bekay, Let
the kids have fun. If a thirty five year old
wants to contort his body for a couple of seconds
after he gets a knock, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Rob.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Anytime you're watching with someone who doesn't watch baseball every
single day, let's say it's your mother in law, right,
or it's your your your sister, or it's just a
guy friend that watches just football, he will watch a
Dodger game and go, what the hell is that? Literally
every single person that goes what is that? What is
that that? It's beneath them? You're the Dodgers. If I'm
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running them, I'd go say, hey, do we need to
do that? Why are we doing that? And why shake
it in the Brewer's face. We're beating them already. Let
the sleeping Brewers lie.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Hey, if the Brewers don't like it, don't give up
the double. Don't get them don't let them get on base,
or that they can't do the or whatever it is.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
I mean, you know you're not good at it. By
the way, I'm better at it than you.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, you like that.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
You like that. Hey, Rob, I'm gonna do this on
the way out, all right, I'll see you, see you, Rob,
you were right for Salt. You're having such a good
segment too, and then you lost it. All right, we'll
take a break.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
We gotta go.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
In the words of New York TV legend the late
Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until
next time.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Rob Parker out he can't get it. This could be
an inside of Parker.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
See you next week, same bat time, same Matt station.
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