October 9, 2019 • 19 mins
This week on Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob previews a trio of Divisional Round Game 5's after the Rays took Game 4 against Houston to force an elimination game, the Nationals/Dodgers, and Braves/Cardinals deciding matchups, He also names his Top 3 MLB Teams of the Week.
Guest: Tim Cates - Dodgers pregame host looks at how the Dodgers blew a chance to close out the Nationals, and previews Game 5.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Berkshires 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 one oh three, Rob Parker. Welcome into Inside
(00:22):
the Parker. I'm your host, Rob Parker. Here you there.
We have a great show. We are talking playoffs wall
to wall. We'll get into that will preve you to
two big game fives. Also, we'll have foul Affair, that
and so much more coming up for you. Let's go
(00:44):
to lead off. It's getting robbed. To keep him on.
Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major
League Baseball. Number one say it isn't so the Tampa
Bay Rays or a lie somehow, some way, what a
(01:04):
guy named Diego Castillo who started for them. They win
Game four, and they move on for a Game five
that will be played in Houston with the winner taken.
All the Rays look dead in the water after the
first two games in Houston, and instead they come home
(01:28):
the Tropicana feel and they forced a fifth and deciding game.
Nobody would have imagined, especially when you thought of the
Astros and their voltage pitching rotation of Berland, Icole and Granky,
But there it is. So now there is a Game
five and the Rays have a chance to shock the
(01:50):
world to face the New York Yankees in the ALCS
if they're able to win Game number five. Number two.
The Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals play Game five
in Atlanta. Atlanta had a chance to close it out
trying to win two games in St. Louis. Cardinals come back,
(02:15):
of course, tie the series at two games apiece, and
now it's the young Atlanta Braves trying to knock off
the historic St. Louis Cardinals in a Game five, winner
takes all. This will be exciting. This is just me.
(02:36):
I'm gonna go with the Atlanta Braves to win this
series and to move on. I know they're young, I
know they haven't been in this spot in their history.
The Braves are three and five and have lost four
straight winner take all games in the postseason, so of
(03:00):
course it doesn't look good history wise for them, But
this is a different team, a young team. Ronald Lacuna Jr.
Is one of the best players in baseball and definitely
the best player in this series. I'm going with the
best player the Braves get it done. Number three. We
(03:22):
have another epic Game five, the Dodgers hosting the Nationals
at Dodgers Stadium, Winner takes All. Before this series started,
everybody assumed the Dodgers were gonna march to the NLD
(03:42):
NLCS and they were gonna head to the World Series
for a third time in a row. After all, they
had the most wins in the National League. They're loaded
with their roster. But the upstart Nationals who finally broke through,
finally playing with house money. To me, they're the favorite
in this game, winner take All because these big games
(04:06):
usually come down to pitching, and they have the guy,
Steven Strasburg with a career zero points six four e
r A. In the postseason, only Sandy ko Fax had
a better e r A. That's telling him a lot.
He's come up and been big in big games. And
(04:29):
Walker Bueller, the young pitcher stud pitcher for the Dodgers,
will be on the mount, not Kershaw, and uh, this
will be a big game. I think. When the series started,
I'm not so sure most Dodger fans wanted to see
the Nationals knew they would be a threat, and they
are a threat. This is the game most will be
watching to see. Have the Dodgers finally been dethroned and
(04:53):
not going back to the World Series? And have the
Nationals finally grown up and become the team a lot
of people thought they were gonna be years ago. Can't
wait for both game files, but can't wait to watch
Washington at the Dodgers. It was a big week in
(05:16):
the Big League. Who's Who's? Is it foul or is
it fair? And now here? Shadow League dot Com MLB
insider JR Gambo. The Twins won a hundred and one
(05:36):
games in the regular season, but they were swept by
the Yankees in the A L d S three games
to nothing pretty easily. In fact, Jr. Is it foul
or fair to say the Twin season was a total failure?
That is a foul ball. The twin season was the
(05:59):
total failure. They just ran into a bus. Stoll called
the New York Yankees a team that's complete from top
to bottom with pitters and sluggers. And on top of that,
we have to admit the Twins are in the middle
of a bit of a curse. That's fifteen straight playoff
games without a loss. They have a beat the Yankees
(06:22):
since forever, so I think it was progressed, not that
they had three hundred gold runs. They have to add more.
They can't be a one dimensional team. No one expected
them to be Houston. No one expected them to beat
the Yankees. We know that the regular season is not
the post season. We've seen the marriages when what a
(06:43):
hundred sixteen games before not make it. We've seen teams
run away with their divisions and not make it. The
Twins aren't playoffs built. That's where you find out. That's
when the money is on the Yankees. Houston that built
for the playoffs. The Twins don't have the pitching and
still rob is today's game. All right, my man, that's great.
(07:11):
Fasten your seatbell, give me here comes Parker's top three
MLB teams this week. Number three the Washington Nationals. You
heard me right, the Washington Nationals. Who would have thought
(07:34):
wild card team coming in no postseason success to this point,
they could barely get into, you know, advancing the playoffs,
and now here they are. They bounch back, forcing a
game five against the vaunted Los Angeles Dodgers who are
(07:54):
trying to get to the World Series for the third
year in a row. And I hate to break it
to you, but going into Game five at Dodgers Stadium,
the Nationals have the advantage. They have the best postseason
picture with a minimum of four starts going in their favor.
(08:16):
Steven Strasburg, you ready his e r A zero point
six four. Only Sandy Kofax has a lower e r
A in the history of baseball in the postseason oh
nine five. Yes, the Astros could upset the Apple Card,
(08:37):
could shock the Dodgers right now. They are the third
best team left in the playoffs. Number two, That Houston Astros. Yes,
we know it. They have everything you'd want to go
including a World Series from ten. They have the hitting,
(08:59):
they have the itching, they have everything you want. They
jumped out to a two nothing lead against the Tampa
Bay Rays and the game they lost in the first
three Zach Grinky, the had big trade peace at the deadline.
Of course, had a stinker. Game four was Tuesday night,
(09:23):
But they do have still everything. You gotta look at
that team and think, whenever you have Verlander, Cole and Grinky,
you are always gonna have a chance to win a
series and move on. So the Astros, even with bumps
in the road, are still the second best team left
(09:44):
in the playoffs. Number one the New York freaking Yankees.
Have you listened to this podcast all year? I've been
telling you from day one? Almost did you see the
quick work they worked over the minute? So the Twins
like a Burger and fries a three games sweep the
(10:05):
Twins one a hundred and one games, hit a major
league record three hundred and seven home runs. And let's
be honest, they really weren't in this. They were not
in this. This was about the Yankees. They jumped all
over the Twins. They've now beaten the Twins thirteen straight
(10:27):
playoff games, which is unheard of, and the Yankees move
on with ease. And it wasn't just all about the
Yankees hitting home runs. They got pitching from their starters,
they got bullpen pitching from their bullpen, they got defense
by their uh fielders, and yes, they got a couple
of long balls to mix in. The New York Yankees
(10:49):
are at full strength. They are ready to compete, and
with a chance to go to the World Series for
the first time in two thousand nine. The Yankees are
the best team out in the playoffs. Take out the paper,
then the track. It's time for trash talk Twitter with
your chance to trash anyone or anything in Major League Baseball.
(11:12):
Take off. This week's winner is Ed Green and you
don't get three seven, six for one. This is what
he tweeted at me at justin Berland or show just
two colors after he leaves the Detroit Tiger got the papers?
Where were the winds when we needed them in Detroit?
(11:33):
You don't get the pick if you want to win
a New Year staff back camp, just like you gonna
send your trash to a Rob Parker fs one on Twitter.
When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto,
if I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer
(11:56):
of broadcaster, older new All right, now, let's welcome to
the podcast Tim Kates. He does the Dodger pregame show
on A M five seventy k l a C. What's
happened to Mr Kates? Rob park Man doing great? Here
we go Game five Dodgers Stadium, tell me about it.
(12:20):
First of all, let's get the game four Dodgers were
hoping after they had that big Game three explosion that
they could wrap it up and move on, but it
didn't happen. They got fight back from the Nationals. Uh.
What happened in Game four? I'll tell you what happened.
There's a couple of blunders from Dave Roberts manager in
this game. Uh. I think it started in the fifth
(12:40):
inning when the score was tied one one and Max
Erzer was the middle of cruising Kenta Maiana, who came
in into third etning and bailed out Rich Hill had
a one two three uh. Fourth inning outside of an
nfield hit, but got out of it pretty clean. Julio
Reus then took over from the fifth inning because they
pitch hit it for Julio or for Kento maaa in
the top half of the fifth in right there, I
(13:01):
think there was a big mistake. It's a one one game.
It's a pictures duel. Mya is dealon. He's a former starter.
Keep him in, all right, keep him in, and all
of a sudden they pull him for a J. Paulock,
who does what he does best here and strikes out
for the tenth time in the season. That was blunder
number one. Blunder number two was why go to Julioorius
in the bottom of the fifth inning, and that's when
everything's unraveled. Why not go to Clayton Kershaw. You need
(13:22):
a solid any to keep this momentum from going back
to the Washington Nationals with Scherzer dominating your hitters, and
they go to Julioorius, who pitched the day before two winning's,
and he comes out and gives up two hits in
the first three hitters, and all of a sudden you're
down two to one. But blunder number three, I'll tell
you the biggest one, Rob Parker was in the sixth
the seventh inning. They had the bases loaded into one
out and Max Serser is like a heavyweight fighter on
(13:43):
the rope not to get knocked out. And you put
Chris Taylor up to bat instead of David Freeze, who's
a three hundred average hitter in October. What were they
thinking not putting David Freeze up there to bat? And
let's be honest, free had a big hit in Game
three to keep that unbelieving a bowl inning going right.
He's a proving guy, especially in October. Those are all
(14:05):
great points. Now we get to uh Game five, at
Dodger Stadium, and uh, I mean a big spot for
Walker Bullah, who's who pitched well in game, won six
scoreless innings. But he's going up against a stud when
we talk about the postseason and Steven Strasburg, let's just
be honest. Zero points six four in the postseason for Strasburg.
(14:28):
I think he has an advantage him. Tell me he doesn't.
I think he's got a little bit of advantage because
he's got a chip on his shoulder because he wants
to shove everybody that a couple of years ago when
he couldn't pitch in the postseason because the innings limited.
He wants to come back and show everybody that he's
ready to go here in October and can get over
the hump of winning the series. But I'll tell you
why the Dodgers are gonna win this game, and that's
because he's pitching for the third time in eight days.
(14:49):
I think he's gonna run out of gas. He's gonna
be running on adrenaline. It's gonna be tight, maybe the
first two innings, but then he's gonna run out of
gas emotionally and physically. He's gonna run out of gas.
Out there and the Dodgers are gonna take it to him,
and they're gonna explode, and the Cody Bellers just gonna
get up off the schneide where he's been for the
first four games of this series, and the Dodgers offense.
I was gonna bust loose onto Steven Strasburg. At the
same time, Walker Dealer. He's not afraid of a big game.
(15:11):
This guy is literally a gamer. Last night and this
postgame press conference, talking about Game five, he told the media,
I like pressure because I like to to to win.
Throw it around my mind a little bit, and I
think about it and laugh because I don't care about pressure.
I'm immune to it. He goes out there and pitches
in big games. Robbed last year Game seven n LCS
in Milwaukee, he pitched. They got the win game one
(15:33):
of sixty three to win the division. Last year Dodger
stayd Um against the Rockies, he got the start. Dodgers win.
This is a This is the guy who pitched games
three the World Series last year they won an eight
ten innians. He didn't get the win, but he had
seven shutout innings in the only Dodger winning in the
World Series. Last year. This guy doesn't care about pressure.
He's gonna go out there. He's gonna throw upper nineties
and dominate tomorrow. Can the Dodgers trust Clayton Curshaw if
(15:57):
they need to go to him tomorrow in a close
game and or say, you know, uh, Buella struggles or
something and they have to get somebody to hold him down.
Million dollars, what else are you have on for best
side of going every five days and doing what he
did this year and having a good season, giving up,
you know, three runs of game and winning most of
his starts in the second half of the season. Why
(16:20):
else is he there? He's got to come in and pitch.
Scherzer and Corbin and Strasbord, all these guys are laying
it on the line. We saw the Ashrows do it
two years ago with their starters. Last year, the Red
Sox did it against the Dodgers. You go out there,
you gotta put it on the line and give everything
you've got and get to the next game, or in
this case, get to the next round. This is what
he gets paid a million dollars to start for Go
on and do it, Clayton Kershaw. Enough, there you go.
(16:42):
His name is Tim Kates, Dodger pre game host A
M five seventy k L A C in Los Angeles.
You're the best, Tim Kates, Thanks for joining the podcast.
Now bringing the closer. Here's why m L is better
than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close.
(17:08):
Reason number one thousand five D and why baseball is
better than the NBA and the NFL. Have you seen
these baseball playoffs? I mean, I know playoffs at all sports.
Always people say it is all great. I'm not always
so sure. But there's one thing that changes in October,
(17:33):
and it's the way you watch baseball. And let's just
be honest. During the regular season, you could tune in,
you could tune out, you could have a hot dog,
you can walk around the stadium. And the difference come
playoff time is that every pitch matters. Every single pitch.
(17:54):
When you watch the next playoff game, watch the stands.
There's no empty seats. People on on the Ferriss wheel
or in the gift shop. They're sitting on the edge
of their seat watching every single pitch. A single pitch
could change the course of the playoff game, the playoffs series.
(18:15):
Even when you're at home. You're not willing to get
up and walk away from the set during in it
at bat or during an inning until it's complete. You
have to see every single pitch. The game is heightened
this time of the year. That's why October baseball feels
(18:38):
so good, smells so good, taste so good. It's better
than regular season baseball. It's the best postseason going bar none.
(19:00):
In the words of New York TV legend the late
Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until
next time. Rob Parker out he can't get it. This
could be an inside the Parker to see you next weekend.
Save bad time, Save Man Station Now
From the Berkshires 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 one oh three, Rob Parker. Welcome into Inside
(00:22):
the Parker. I'm your host, Rob Parker. Here you there.
We have a great show. We are talking playoffs wall
to wall. We'll get into that will preve you to
two big game fives. Also, we'll have foul Affair, that
and so much more coming up for you. Let's go
(00:44):
to lead off. It's getting robbed. To keep him on.
Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major
League Baseball. Number one say it isn't so the Tampa
Bay Rays or a lie somehow, some way, what a
(01:04):
guy named Diego Castillo who started for them. They win
Game four, and they move on for a Game five
that will be played in Houston with the winner taken.
All the Rays look dead in the water after the
first two games in Houston, and instead they come home
(01:28):
the Tropicana feel and they forced a fifth and deciding game.
Nobody would have imagined, especially when you thought of the
Astros and their voltage pitching rotation of Berland, Icole and Granky,
But there it is. So now there is a Game
five and the Rays have a chance to shock the
(01:50):
world to face the New York Yankees in the ALCS
if they're able to win Game number five. Number two.
The Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals play Game five
in Atlanta. Atlanta had a chance to close it out
trying to win two games in St. Louis. Cardinals come back,
(02:15):
of course, tie the series at two games apiece, and
now it's the young Atlanta Braves trying to knock off
the historic St. Louis Cardinals in a Game five, winner
takes all. This will be exciting. This is just me.
(02:36):
I'm gonna go with the Atlanta Braves to win this
series and to move on. I know they're young, I
know they haven't been in this spot in their history.
The Braves are three and five and have lost four
straight winner take all games in the postseason, so of
(03:00):
course it doesn't look good history wise for them, But
this is a different team, a young team. Ronald Lacuna Jr.
Is one of the best players in baseball and definitely
the best player in this series. I'm going with the
best player the Braves get it done. Number three. We
(03:22):
have another epic Game five, the Dodgers hosting the Nationals
at Dodgers Stadium, Winner takes All. Before this series started,
everybody assumed the Dodgers were gonna march to the NLD
(03:42):
NLCS and they were gonna head to the World Series
for a third time in a row. After all, they
had the most wins in the National League. They're loaded
with their roster. But the upstart Nationals who finally broke through,
finally playing with house money. To me, they're the favorite
in this game, winner take All because these big games
(04:06):
usually come down to pitching, and they have the guy,
Steven Strasburg with a career zero points six four e
r A. In the postseason, only Sandy ko Fax had
a better e r A. That's telling him a lot.
He's come up and been big in big games. And
(04:29):
Walker Bueller, the young pitcher stud pitcher for the Dodgers,
will be on the mount, not Kershaw, and uh, this
will be a big game. I think. When the series started,
I'm not so sure most Dodger fans wanted to see
the Nationals knew they would be a threat, and they
are a threat. This is the game most will be
watching to see. Have the Dodgers finally been dethroned and
(04:53):
not going back to the World Series? And have the
Nationals finally grown up and become the team a lot
of people thought they were gonna be years ago. Can't
wait for both game files, but can't wait to watch
Washington at the Dodgers. It was a big week in
(05:16):
the Big League. Who's Who's? Is it foul or is
it fair? And now here? Shadow League dot Com MLB
insider JR Gambo. The Twins won a hundred and one
(05:36):
games in the regular season, but they were swept by
the Yankees in the A L d S three games
to nothing pretty easily. In fact, Jr. Is it foul
or fair to say the Twin season was a total failure?
That is a foul ball. The twin season was the
(05:59):
total failure. They just ran into a bus. Stoll called
the New York Yankees a team that's complete from top
to bottom with pitters and sluggers. And on top of that,
we have to admit the Twins are in the middle
of a bit of a curse. That's fifteen straight playoff
games without a loss. They have a beat the Yankees
(06:22):
since forever, so I think it was progressed, not that
they had three hundred gold runs. They have to add more.
They can't be a one dimensional team. No one expected
them to be Houston. No one expected them to beat
the Yankees. We know that the regular season is not
the post season. We've seen the marriages when what a
(06:43):
hundred sixteen games before not make it. We've seen teams
run away with their divisions and not make it. The
Twins aren't playoffs built. That's where you find out. That's
when the money is on the Yankees. Houston that built
for the playoffs. The Twins don't have the pitching and
still rob is today's game. All right, my man, that's great.
(07:11):
Fasten your seatbell, give me here comes Parker's top three
MLB teams this week. Number three the Washington Nationals. You
heard me right, the Washington Nationals. Who would have thought
(07:34):
wild card team coming in no postseason success to this point,
they could barely get into, you know, advancing the playoffs,
and now here they are. They bounch back, forcing a
game five against the vaunted Los Angeles Dodgers who are
(07:54):
trying to get to the World Series for the third
year in a row. And I hate to break it
to you, but going into Game five at Dodgers Stadium,
the Nationals have the advantage. They have the best postseason
picture with a minimum of four starts going in their favor.
(08:16):
Steven Strasburg, you ready his e r A zero point
six four. Only Sandy Kofax has a lower e r
A in the history of baseball in the postseason oh
nine five. Yes, the Astros could upset the Apple Card,
(08:37):
could shock the Dodgers right now. They are the third
best team left in the playoffs. Number two, That Houston Astros. Yes,
we know it. They have everything you'd want to go
including a World Series from ten. They have the hitting,
(08:59):
they have the itching, they have everything you want. They
jumped out to a two nothing lead against the Tampa
Bay Rays and the game they lost in the first
three Zach Grinky, the had big trade peace at the deadline.
Of course, had a stinker. Game four was Tuesday night,
(09:23):
But they do have still everything. You gotta look at
that team and think, whenever you have Verlander, Cole and Grinky,
you are always gonna have a chance to win a
series and move on. So the Astros, even with bumps
in the road, are still the second best team left
(09:44):
in the playoffs. Number one the New York freaking Yankees.
Have you listened to this podcast all year? I've been
telling you from day one? Almost did you see the
quick work they worked over the minute? So the Twins
like a Burger and fries a three games sweep the
(10:05):
Twins one a hundred and one games, hit a major
league record three hundred and seven home runs. And let's
be honest, they really weren't in this. They were not
in this. This was about the Yankees. They jumped all
over the Twins. They've now beaten the Twins thirteen straight
(10:27):
playoff games, which is unheard of, and the Yankees move
on with ease. And it wasn't just all about the
Yankees hitting home runs. They got pitching from their starters,
they got bullpen pitching from their bullpen, they got defense
by their uh fielders, and yes, they got a couple
of long balls to mix in. The New York Yankees
(10:49):
are at full strength. They are ready to compete, and
with a chance to go to the World Series for
the first time in two thousand nine. The Yankees are
the best team out in the playoffs. Take out the paper,
then the track. It's time for trash talk Twitter with
your chance to trash anyone or anything in Major League Baseball.
(11:12):
Take off. This week's winner is Ed Green and you
don't get three seven, six for one. This is what
he tweeted at me at justin Berland or show just
two colors after he leaves the Detroit Tiger got the papers?
Where were the winds when we needed them in Detroit?
(11:33):
You don't get the pick if you want to win
a New Year staff back camp, just like you gonna
send your trash to a Rob Parker fs one on Twitter.
When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto,
if I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer
(11:56):
of broadcaster, older new All right, now, let's welcome to
the podcast Tim Kates. He does the Dodger pregame show
on A M five seventy k l a C. What's
happened to Mr Kates? Rob park Man doing great? Here
we go Game five Dodgers Stadium, tell me about it.
(12:20):
First of all, let's get the game four Dodgers were
hoping after they had that big Game three explosion that
they could wrap it up and move on, but it
didn't happen. They got fight back from the Nationals. Uh.
What happened in Game four? I'll tell you what happened.
There's a couple of blunders from Dave Roberts manager in
this game. Uh. I think it started in the fifth
(12:40):
inning when the score was tied one one and Max
Erzer was the middle of cruising Kenta Maiana, who came
in into third etning and bailed out Rich Hill had
a one two three uh. Fourth inning outside of an
nfield hit, but got out of it pretty clean. Julio
Reus then took over from the fifth inning because they
pitch hit it for Julio or for Kento maaa in
the top half of the fifth in right there, I
(13:01):
think there was a big mistake. It's a one one game.
It's a pictures duel. Mya is dealon. He's a former starter.
Keep him in, all right, keep him in, and all
of a sudden they pull him for a J. Paulock,
who does what he does best here and strikes out
for the tenth time in the season. That was blunder
number one. Blunder number two was why go to Julioorius
in the bottom of the fifth inning, and that's when
everything's unraveled. Why not go to Clayton Kershaw. You need
(13:22):
a solid any to keep this momentum from going back
to the Washington Nationals with Scherzer dominating your hitters, and
they go to Julioorius, who pitched the day before two winning's,
and he comes out and gives up two hits in
the first three hitters, and all of a sudden you're
down two to one. But blunder number three, I'll tell
you the biggest one, Rob Parker was in the sixth
the seventh inning. They had the bases loaded into one
out and Max Serser is like a heavyweight fighter on
(13:43):
the rope not to get knocked out. And you put
Chris Taylor up to bat instead of David Freeze, who's
a three hundred average hitter in October. What were they
thinking not putting David Freeze up there to bat? And
let's be honest, free had a big hit in Game
three to keep that unbelieving a bowl inning going right.
He's a proving guy, especially in October. Those are all
(14:05):
great points. Now we get to uh Game five, at
Dodger Stadium, and uh, I mean a big spot for
Walker Bullah, who's who pitched well in game, won six
scoreless innings. But he's going up against a stud when
we talk about the postseason and Steven Strasburg, let's just
be honest. Zero points six four in the postseason for Strasburg.
(14:28):
I think he has an advantage him. Tell me he doesn't.
I think he's got a little bit of advantage because
he's got a chip on his shoulder because he wants
to shove everybody that a couple of years ago when
he couldn't pitch in the postseason because the innings limited.
He wants to come back and show everybody that he's
ready to go here in October and can get over
the hump of winning the series. But I'll tell you
why the Dodgers are gonna win this game, and that's
because he's pitching for the third time in eight days.
(14:49):
I think he's gonna run out of gas. He's gonna
be running on adrenaline. It's gonna be tight, maybe the
first two innings, but then he's gonna run out of
gas emotionally and physically. He's gonna run out of gas.
Out there and the Dodgers are gonna take it to him,
and they're gonna explode, and the Cody Bellers just gonna
get up off the schneide where he's been for the
first four games of this series, and the Dodgers offense.
I was gonna bust loose onto Steven Strasburg. At the
same time, Walker Dealer. He's not afraid of a big game.
(15:11):
This guy is literally a gamer. Last night and this
postgame press conference, talking about Game five, he told the media,
I like pressure because I like to to to win.
Throw it around my mind a little bit, and I
think about it and laugh because I don't care about pressure.
I'm immune to it. He goes out there and pitches
in big games. Robbed last year Game seven n LCS
in Milwaukee, he pitched. They got the win game one
(15:33):
of sixty three to win the division. Last year Dodger
stayd Um against the Rockies, he got the start. Dodgers win.
This is a This is the guy who pitched games
three the World Series last year they won an eight
ten innians. He didn't get the win, but he had
seven shutout innings in the only Dodger winning in the
World Series. Last year. This guy doesn't care about pressure.
He's gonna go out there. He's gonna throw upper nineties
and dominate tomorrow. Can the Dodgers trust Clayton Curshaw if
(15:57):
they need to go to him tomorrow in a close
game and or say, you know, uh, Buella struggles or
something and they have to get somebody to hold him down.
Million dollars, what else are you have on for best
side of going every five days and doing what he
did this year and having a good season, giving up,
you know, three runs of game and winning most of
his starts in the second half of the season. Why
(16:20):
else is he there? He's got to come in and pitch.
Scherzer and Corbin and Strasbord, all these guys are laying
it on the line. We saw the Ashrows do it
two years ago with their starters. Last year, the Red
Sox did it against the Dodgers. You go out there,
you gotta put it on the line and give everything
you've got and get to the next game, or in
this case, get to the next round. This is what
he gets paid a million dollars to start for Go
on and do it, Clayton Kershaw. Enough, there you go.
(16:42):
His name is Tim Kates, Dodger pre game host A
M five seventy k L A C in Los Angeles.
You're the best, Tim Kates, Thanks for joining the podcast.
Now bringing the closer. Here's why m L is better
than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close.
(17:08):
Reason number one thousand five D and why baseball is
better than the NBA and the NFL. Have you seen
these baseball playoffs? I mean, I know playoffs at all sports.
Always people say it is all great. I'm not always
so sure. But there's one thing that changes in October,
(17:33):
and it's the way you watch baseball. And let's just
be honest. During the regular season, you could tune in,
you could tune out, you could have a hot dog,
you can walk around the stadium. And the difference come
playoff time is that every pitch matters. Every single pitch.
(17:54):
When you watch the next playoff game, watch the stands.
There's no empty seats. People on on the Ferriss wheel
or in the gift shop. They're sitting on the edge
of their seat watching every single pitch. A single pitch
could change the course of the playoff game, the playoffs series.
(18:15):
Even when you're at home. You're not willing to get
up and walk away from the set during in it
at bat or during an inning until it's complete. You
have to see every single pitch. The game is heightened
this time of the year. That's why October baseball feels
(18:38):
so good, smells so good, taste so good. It's better
than regular season baseball. It's the best postseason going bar none.
(19:00):
In the words of New York TV legend the late
Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until
next time. Rob Parker out he can't get it. This
could be an inside the Parker to see you next weekend.
Save bad time, Save Man Station Now
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Rob Parker
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