10-1-25 WEDNESDAY MORNING SPORTS

The Dodgers bomb Greene, Reds in Game 1; Tigers slip past Tribe; Cubs and Sox win; Browns bench Flacco in favor of Gabriel

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the WYMA Sports desk. The very first app bat
in the bottom of the first last night in Los
Angeles set the tone. Red's ace Hunter Green faced a
Dodger Superstar show Hey Otani. Green threw a one hundred
mile per hour fastball. Otani hit a one hundred and
eighteen miles an hour from a home run, the first
of his two bombs, and the Dodgers went on to

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bomb Green and the Reds ten to five. Otani homer twice,
so did Teoscar hernandez as La took Game one of
the best of three series. After Otani's solo home run
of the first, the Dodgers added four more of the
third as they chased Hunter Green. Later, the Dodgers did
two more home runs off Connor Phillips to blow the
game open. Meanwhile, the Reds scored mostly meaningless runs in

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the seventh and eighth. They could an eight nothing lead
to a ten to five final score. After the game,
manager Terry Francona talked about Hunter Green's struggles.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
You know, he just he didn't locate and like he
threw a couple breaking balls, one to te Oscar, the
next one to Headman that were just you know, it
wasn't where he was trying to throw them, and when
he didn't locate, he really paid a price for it.
And that happened to us with other you know, with
suit or two, if you make a mistake, they can

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make you pay.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Even though the Reds late offense ultimately didn't matter, the
manager said he liked the team's fight.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Steve O had a really good at beat if he
can find a way to flip one in there or something,
you know, but it's a big deficit. That's a lot
to ask. But they kept playing. That's what's what you're
supposed to do.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
So the Reds face elimination tonight against the defending World
Series champions nine to eight. His game time again. We'll
have the pregame at eight thirty eight, Zach Lttel. We'll
get the ball for Cincinnati. Yoshinobu Yamamoto goes for LA.
Early in the day, it was the Guardians hosting the Tigers.
Of course, the Guardians overcame that big Tiger lead to

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win the division, but none of that matters when the
playoffs come, and Detroit took one two to one, thanks
mainly to Trek Skubele. He tied a Tiger's postseason record
with fourteen strikeouts as he went the first seven and
two thirds innings, and then Will Vest got the final
four outs for the victory. But it didn't come without
some drama. In the ninth inning, Jose Ramirez let off

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with an infield single and went to third when the
ball was thrown away by Hovey Baiez. After a strikeout,
Kyle Manzardo hit a grounder back to the mound. Ramirez
broke for home but was cut off by Vest, who
chased him down and tagged him out, and then a
flyout ended the game. Meanwhile, both of Detroit's runs were unearned.
As pitching totally dominated Game one. There were only a

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total of nine hits in the ballgame. Afterward, Cleveland manager
Stephen Vode talked about Ramirez being put out between home
and third in that ninth inning.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
That ball's two feet either way, he scores. It just
happened to go right back to Vest. So we play aggressive.
We always do. We run the basis aggressive. I wouldn't
play that any other way. His hope run around third
lesson too. We get a ball to the outfield there
weren't able to do it and that'stuff happens again. Our
guys have played hard all year. You make mistakes. You
hope it doesn't happen in a game like this, but
it's going to happen. We're going to bounce back. We've

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done it all year. We love having our backs against
the wall. We're going to come out ready and hungry
tomorrow and ready to take one.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
This afternoon again at one o eight. Cleveland looks to
extend the series to a third and final game as
they run out Tanner Biby. The Tigers counter with Casey Mize.
Two other game ones in best of three series. Yesterday,
the Cubs beat the Padres three to one and the
Red Sox down the Yankees three to one. Both of
those series have game two today as well. One other

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note from Major League Baseball, the Angels yesterday fired manager
Ron Washington. Their manager they are set to hire will
be their sixth in the last nine years. Moving to
the NFL. At ESPN reporting, the Browns well bench veteran
quarterback Joe Flacco and hand the starting job to rookie
Dylan Gabriel. This Sunday, when the Browns played the Vikings

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in London, and the bad news for the Baltimore Ravens.
According to the Baltimore Sun, quarterback Lamar Jackson could miss
two to three weeks with a hamstring injury that knocked
him out of Sunday's loss at Kansas City. With eleven
fifty WYMA Sports, I'm Todd Walker.