October 26, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Steve DeSaegher describe a play from Game 1 of the World Series that is going to break the internet; they tell you why this is going to be a Series we talk about for 30 years...and we react to one of the greatest endings to a World Series ever!!!
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My goodness, how much I love baseball? Oh my goodness.
So let's tell you where things are at right now?
Game one of the World Series, Top of the ninth,
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the Yankees have runners at first and second, two out.
Aaron Judges up, Blake trining in from the bullpen to
get the final out of the inning. This is drama enough,
right NU, But wait, do we tell you how we
got here? Uh one with two outs in the top
of the ninth. Everything was going the Yankees way. I
was going the Dodger's way. Everything was fine. Couple of
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big strikeouts to start the couple of big outs start
the inning, and then Labor Torres thumps one to the
wall in center field and it looks like it's gonna
go off the wall for a double. However, a fan
reaches out over the wall, catches and yeah, now with
a bare hand, that would have been something. Reaches over
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the wall with a glove and catches the ball on
the fly.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Irony. He is sitting what is known as in the
home run seats, those the first row at the wall
at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I'm actually looking.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I have to have the I have the seat chart
up and the guy's last nay, guy, it says, it
says d Jeter.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Did you see that? I mean, seconds after that, when
the umpires stopped the game to look at the video
and call it a double. He he motioned to the
people with him, let's go, and he starts putting stuff
in his.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, he couldn't leave fast enough. So but
we'll get to that in a second. So he leans
over the wall to catch the ball in the fly right,
Labor Torres is what's going on? He stops at second,
everything is stoppaile. They go and look at replay, and
replay gets the call right. This ball would have bounced
off the wall and it would have been a double.
But I mean to watch it and all of a sudden,
(02:37):
Jeffrey Meyer is trending and all kinds of crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Video review did not exist for that Yankee Playoffs game
in the nineties.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I think you're still paying that guy.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Jeter's not going to.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Pay this guy in his home college.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Uh and and and it was all of a sudden.
Steve Bartman is trending. It's it's just I think the
internet is broken. But they get the call right. It
would have been Now potentially could it have been a
big bounce and it and it goes back far and
it could be a trip.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's not an odd shaped wall at Dodger Stadium. I
think you're right then it probably would have bounced at
about the same spot as Otani's did. The previous said
bat he had over a right field and not quite
out clearly not quite out.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, potentially could it have gotten over Key k Hernandez's
head and it would have been a triple. Yeah, maybe,
but it clearly was gonna be inside the park. And
they went back and looked at it on review and
they got it right. And Glibrators is at second base
with a double, And then I get you're right, Steve,
how fast that guy started packing his stuff up.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He's throwing all this stuff in one of those clear
bags and they allow you to bring into the stadium, like,
come on, let's go, let's go. I don't know what's
gonna happen to which I'm gonna wait for catching that ball, Man,
I'm gonna pay for.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Everyone needs to be saying, you idiot forcing you to
leave a tow to two Yankees Dodgers World Series game
in the ninth inning. You did it to yourself. And
then a really rare thing is who is the NAXX banner?
Juan Soto is intentionally walked to get to Judge. I
think Swalt said on the telecast that it only happened
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twice this year. Who does that?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And Aaron Judge, you thought he would take that personally? However,
Blake trying and gets out of it. By getting judge
to pop to short so they get out of the
inning no runs in the ninth the Dodgers coming.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
About here with a chance to win the game.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It is two to two going to the bottom of
the ninth inning to Oscar Hernandez will leave things off
of the tame up and I'll tell you see, when
I saw that guy lean over and catch it, my
eyes were like Vegas slot machines, like, oh my god,
this is gonna be everything, This is gonna be everything.
But then it kind of calmed down because they got
the call right. This is why and this is why,
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this is.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Why replay started in baseball. Was a home run borders tall.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I mean, if they didn't have this, I mean you
can imagine what the reaction would be.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Like the Yankee, like the Jeffrey Mayer thing that you're
referenced exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It would be a glabor Torus home run. The Yankees
would be leading three to two. It would be oh
my goodness. But this makes you realize that, hey, we've
come a long way since nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Right, We've come a.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Long way in that Hey, we have a we have
a way to get things right. It was clear this
was not going to be a home run, and they
got it right now. It's it's gonna be an oddity
and it's gonna be a quirkiness. And yeah, you could
say this guy's gonna has to leave a World Series game,
but this guy's immortal. Man, Like, Hey, yeah, I was
a guy that caught the ball.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I had to believe the idiot. I had believe he's.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Gonna be doing interviews. Man, I'll tell you he's gonna be everywhere.
If Dan Patrick's show was on tomorrow morning, he'd be
on that show tomorrow morning talking about I guarantee.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And hammering him no doubt, because that was, I mean,
the stupidest of stupid moves because it was nowhere close
to the top of the wall.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I mean, oh, I.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Mean I maybe he knows that, Hey, look they're gonna
they're gonna look at this on replay and see it
was a double.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, IM fine, gonna catch this ball.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I mean, I think case he brought his glove. You know,
it's not just that he was wearing Dodger gear and
you know, gets to sit right next to the wall
for a World Series game. Imagine how much he paid
for those seats. Yeah, and he's not finishing the ninth thty.
He's forget the starting pitchers that are out early, he's
out early. Thanks so what thanks for coming?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But he caught that ball like, hey, I can sell
this thing and make some money on I mean, I'm
not going to make four and four million, Well you
are not, but I might make some cat I might
make fifty grand on this ball or ten grand on
this ball.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Can I just add as Jason no Dodger, this ball.
I think the Dodger fans will reject him wholesale, just
him personally, much less any ball he comes in contact with.
I think this is coming to mind because I had
the privilege of being at the last World Series weekend
the Dodgers hosted. But remember against the Red Sox there
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was an eighteen inning game and the walk off homer
was from Max Munsey. Max Munsey is due up in
the bottom of the ninth and a right hander is
on the mound. I'm just thinking ahead. It's it could
be extra innings, could very well be extra innings with
these two. But the cleanup guy has just popped out
to deep write yet another deep flyout for the Dodgers.
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This Max Mounsey's coming to the play with nobody on base.
He draws a walk like nobody else, so it's a
chance you get the lead run on. He does have power,
and as I speak, Fox is showing his twenty eighteen
World Series over run. Well there you go.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Now, I do want to say this too.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yes, he does draw a lot of walks, but this
is not the Mets pitching staff that walks everybody. Okay,
understand it's going to be all that was extreme. It's
going to be a little more difficult this series. And
just hey, there's three pitches outside the strike. Now it's
gonna be fun.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
You do realize what Jason just did there, right, brought
the Mets into it, into the world sees.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Of course, yeah, rare.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
There were two games away from it. But I think you've.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Walked him eleven times, so that is a valance. Can
I say before we even finished Game one that who
were the teams that walked more than any other lineups
in the major leagues this year? The Yankees and the Dodgers.
And it's been mentioned multiple times this week. The lineups
are not only deep, but they make it tough because
they lay off the outside pitches. And they can hammer
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the fastball, and as we see in the case of Stanton,
he can homer on the ball that may not even
be in the strike zone.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So again, this is where we sit right now, bottom
of the ninth inning, won out Max Monthcy at bat
for the Dodgers, after an incredible top of the ninth inning.
That look, it will go down as a quirky moment.
And and this World Series, I'm telling you, by the
time it's over, it'll be a world series that we
talk about for thirty years. It's going to be that
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kind of world series. Like so like the eighty six
Mets Red Sox. I mean, this series has absolutely everything
in it. The biggest market, the most popular.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
They're still talking about the Reggie World Series with yeah,
Yestadge years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You're talking about seventy seven, seventy eight, and eighty one
right in all the highlights from nineteen eighty one, the
last few days after the passing of Fernando Vealezuela, And
this is going to be one of those moments.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
That I guarantee you.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And I remember when I was a kid and I
went to baseball camp, and it was always a thing
in the middle of the day, we would cool off
and they would show us a World series reel really
like oh yeah, from old World Series. It was like,
you know, cause it was too hot. I didn't know why,
like why we're not playing baseball. It's like, okay, because
it's one thirty and it's it's one hundred degrees out
where everybody's gonna sit in the film for it and
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then we're gonna go back out at like three o'clock.
So we would go and we would watch the the
you know, the highlight wheels that were voiced over, like
the NFL films and the Differ World Series, and we
saw all these different world series and it was all
these these I mean this, I'm going back to the
curly nineteen eighties. We saw the two Yankees, Dodgers from
seventy seven to seventy eight.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
We saw seventy six. We saw seventy three with the.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Mets and the A's and and and the Mets, in
sixty nine with the Orioles.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
The classic was nineteen seventy five reds Red Sox Carlton.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Yes, we saw that too.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It was and I can already see something like that
happening where here's a crazy play in Game one and
here's this fan in center field.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
And actually that had the crazy player. Remember ed Armbrister
was trying to bunt and he bunted it off the
plate and high up into the air, and the interference
was called at home. That was talked about for years afterwards.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Right now he.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Ran into into him. It's thrown into center field.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I mean, I mean, this is gonna be that kind
of series, and I really and we just had a
great play to end the ninth inning. In the ninth
Alex Verdugo with a diving catch and left field to
Rob Keik Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And I'll review this, but I think he caught it
in short left to end the end.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Got it. I can see the replay. He got it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So we're gonna go to the tenth, which means Stanton
is coming up and it's gonna be great theater here.
I assume trying and will come back out for the
tenth inning. Didn't throw a ton of pitches with kitchen in.
I assume he will come back out here for the tenth.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That is incredible. So we already got judge with two outs,
two on in the ninth, and we're gonna get Stanton
leading off the tenth who has already, by the way,
not only homer tonight. Remember when he was MVP of
the Alcs, he only had four hits against Cleveland the
whole series. They were all home runs. And this is
not the first postseason where Stanton has had five straight.
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Here's where all of them were homer. He did that
in twenty twenty. Also putting that in perspective, if you
add up every other player in Major League Baseball playoff history,
only one other guy's had a streak like Stanton has
head twice in his postseason career in the last five years.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So again, we're going to the top of the tenth
inning now, so we've got another inning to go here.
So we'll have more on the game coming up in
a few minutes, but really quick, I want to get
to this because this was a big topic that came
up right before the game.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
It's starting to get a lot of attention, and it.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Comes from mlbpa's executive director Tony Clark, who before Game
one talked about how how pitchers are used in today's
game of baseball needs to change because they're not staying
healthy and you're not getting the max performance out of them.
They're not getting the max performance out of their careers
and and something needs to change, and something needs to
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be really big.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And by the way, he's not just the union head.
He's a long time player.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
He played for a long time and that now and
now he's the executive director. His quote is, the conversations
we've had with our players have suggested that unless or
until you draw a line in the sand and force change,
the decision makers on any one particular team are going
to continue to make the decisions that they're making, which
is have pictures starting and relievers max effort for the
period of time that they can have them, and as
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soon as they run out of gas, the data suggests
they're gonna recycle them out and to burn out another pitcher.
And he is one hundred percent correct. Like we talk
about college football, where you think, all right, at some point,
somebody's got to throw the emergency brake, right, we got
to stop realignment every.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Five except nobody's in charge except.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
No, right exactly. It's like snow piercer. It's just a
train that keeps going. Can't we stop it? No, It's
gonna keep going. It's just Nope, it's gonna keep going
all the way round, all the way around, right, So
you need that there's but there's nobody there to pull
the brake. But that's where we are right now with
major League Baseball with pitching. Is that and a bigger
concern is you know, yes, there's the burnout of the
pitcher's arms. But something we mentioned really briefly the top
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of the show was that you can have a starting
pitcher and feel like we feel great going into the
postseason because we had our guy healthy all year.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
He started thirty games, and we're right, but they're out
of gas.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
When they get to the postseason, right, And not to
bring the Mets back into it, but it's a great
it's a great example is Sean Maneya, who was the
Mets star.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
He was there stood the last couple months of the year.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
He pitches great in Game two and he says when
he comes out of Game two against.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
The Dodgers, I kind of hit a wall at that point.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And then he has to come back for Game six,
he's got nothing left and the Dodgers knock him around
the park, they win Game six, they go to the
World Series. If teams would be able to commit to
something where and this is baseball where if you meet
halfway and let's just say this, if teams would go
to a six man rotation, right, and you can cut
guys starts about it's a long enough season and you have.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Enough changed the rules on minors to magers and movement.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And maybe you need to change how the how the
how the roster is assembled. Like you can have x
amount of pitchers, right, it can be we're gonna add
a couple of players so you can have an extra
reliever and an extra starting pitcher. Right if you go
to six man rotations and you know, not that you'd
go hard and fast on it, but hey, if you
go to six man rotation, if you're able to add
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an extra spot for relief pitcher, that way they'll be
able to extend careers.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
And guys won't pitch as many innings. I think that works.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
But something has to be done because you were's too
many games where we get to the end of the year.
And I think this is part of what Tony Clark
is talking about, is that look at the World Series
we're at right now. The Yankees have one starting pitcher.
The Dodgers came in with three starting pitchers and nine
relievers because they're all out and look at the injuries
they have and all the money that's being spent. So
it's like, there's got to be a rubber meets the
Road moment for pitchers.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Andy.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Maybe one of those ideas works, but there has to
be something that changes.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
This is what's happened in the starting pitch.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Because the Dodgers, even when you thin down to a
four man rotation for postseason, they don't have a fourth
man the entire postseason. Every time do they get to
that spot, it's an all.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Bullpen game exit. How about a fresca?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Jason Smith, Steve de Sag you're in for Mike carmon
top of the tenth one out, Jazz chishlm where they
single to right field. Mookie Betts cuts it off before
it can get to the wall, keeping him to a single,
so to two, top of the tenth, one out.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
We'll have more on this game and.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
More in a big developing story out of the NFL
coming up next right here.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
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Speaker 1 (15:28):
Game one is endy indication this is gonna be some
World Series. Jason Smith, Steve de Sager, and from Mike
Harmon tonight, going to the bottom of the tenth the
Yankees are three outs away from taking Game one.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
There have been so many subtle, big moments in this
game that have saved runs, that have moved the ball
night and move runners up ninety feet. It is really
one of those games where if you're a baseball fan,
you are loving what you saw. Let's tell you what
just happened. In the top of the tenth inning with
the Yankees and the Dodgers with one out, Jazz Chism
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singles to right field and he steals second base. Anthony
Rizzo has walked, but runners it first and second, and
then Jazz chishm steals third.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
A huge, huge play.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I think I saw Brian Cashman actually break his
arm patting himself on the back because of the trade
for Jazz Chism at the deadline. I think, I say you,
he actually is now in a full cast on his
arm patting himself on the back forgetting Jazz chism.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And that gave him his third steal of tonight's game too.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, and it turned out to be a huge steal
of third because then the Dodgers infield comes in and
it's a little weird, but I understand what happened.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
The Dodgers played the infield and obvice with runners a
first and third, one out, you can't allow the run
to score. Uh, Anthony Volpi, who already is on the
hook for an error that helped the Dodgers. Uh move
the move a runner up ninety feet and tie the game.
Vopie hits a ground ball back up the middle Tommy
Edmond on a play that he should make.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
It's a it's a bit of a difficult play.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He did dive and get it cleanly, but the transfer
he mobbled.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, he dives and gets it, and if he comes
up with it cleanly, which he should, it's probably a
double play and we're going to the bottom of the
tenth inning tied. However, he bobbles the ball and is
able to get the out at second base because for
some reason, Anthony Rizzo just stopped running.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I don't know why I'm gonna stand. Maybe i'd be
Reggie Jackson.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I'll stick my hip in the way like in seventy
seven out to do that, right, I would, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Rather, yeah, we had Jeffrey Mayer in the top of
the night there, we got Reggie Jackson from seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's all yeah, past Yankee playoff games, they come back here.
And by the way, it has been a shaky shortstop
for a guy who was starting in centerfield earlier this postseason,
Tommy Edmond because he had the earlier air tonight, remember,
and Miguel Rojas, the normal good defensive veteran you can
count on him type of short step, was not playing
at all due to injury in the last series. He
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is active now for this but not starting the game.
One absolutely expect Rojas to start at short step against
the lefty man.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Dave Roberts already said he's starting Game two. He said
that before the game that robots. I mean, maybe he
should have been in the game for defensive reasons there,
but Edmund should have come up. It's a second error
he's made tonight, made an error in the first inning,
but it did not come back to haunt them.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Except Edmond is due up, right, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, you got seven eight nine. You want the offense, Yeah,
turn it over to Otani. But it's a play he
probably should have made, but he can't make it, and
as a result, they get the out at second, but
Chisma is able to score on the fielder's choice, giving
him a three to two lead. Now, the thing is,
if they were playing normal double play depth, they probably
turned the double play. But clearly, hey, we're playing the infieldings.
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We're not going to let this score. And it's it's
too much of a risk to play double Look, you
have to make a decision, right, you know the corners
are going to be in and and maybe shortstop in
second or double play depth, so you could turn it.
But they made the decision to keep the infield in
and I can't like it's easy to sit back and say, oh,
they should have easily kept with double play, but look,
they were trying to stop the run.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
It was hit hard enough to the side for.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Him to have to go and make a diving play
to get it, and if he comes up with it clean,
it's a double play. But he doesn't, and that's how
the go ahead run crosses the base, acrosses the plate
for the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
So it's it's one of those.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Things where I understand they're gonna question Dave Roberts because
they always question everything he does.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
But all right, he had the he had he had
the infield play. That was a strategy.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We're gonna stop the run at home when you decide
to put the infield in. Okay, Uh, there's good. There's
gonna be good and bad outcomes that could come of this,
and that was one of them. And and it was
just one of those things that happened. But Jazz Chisholm
steal a third that completely made that happen. And I'll
tell you, when you can steal a base like that
without having to uh sat with the tie game, Yeah,
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when you don't have to sacrifice it out that that's
incredibly large in a game like this.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And from the Dodger perspective, Okay, they're behind to start
the bottom of the tenth with the Yankees have all
already used their closer. They brought Luke Weaver in the
inning before he threw one and two thirds. He's done.
He's thrown about twenty pitches tonight. So a thirty year
old who most of us have never heard, first year
as a Yankee is on in relief. Jake Cousins is
being asked to close out the tenth inning of the
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opening World Series game at Dodger Stadium. He got a
flyout to Will Smith and now we mentioned it's the
bottom of the order, so it's Gavin Lux and then
Tommy Edmond.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Mariano Rivera wasn't available.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Lit's see it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
But no, but hang on a second one. He's had
a great career with the Vikings. He's doing pretty well
this year with the Falcons. Why not bring Kirk Cousins in?
I'm sure because he's be quirky. You haven't seen a
lot of them, you know. Obviously if he falters, Michael
Pennix Junior will come in here.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Oh yeah, that's why you drafted.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Sure, yeah, but why I mean, but why not go
to Kirk Cousins here? I mean, I think it's a day.
I looked it up.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
With the Brewers last year, he got into nine games
in the majors, nine games all last year. Wow, what
is going on here?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
People? And he has just walked.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It walks Gavin Lux to get to Tommy Edmund one
out bottom of the tenth inning, Dodgers down a run
as long as there is no double play. And I
hate to say it, but I gotta say it. As
as there is no double play, don't do it. Show
he Otani will batting.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Coach is coming out to visit cousins. But remember how
quirky the Dodger batting order, the number nine guy and people.
When this batting order came down today, everybody in LA
raised an eyebro. Wait a minute, Tommy Edmonds just won
MVP of the NLCS. He was betting cleanup last game.
Wasn't yeah him at the ninth spot exactly for this reason.
So you have a guy that's been hitting can actually
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lead you into the top of the order. When Otani
gets up to the plate, they hope.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh this, I mean, this is some kind of drama,
the Yankees having to use their closer to get out
of a big jam and keep the game tied.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
And now this is what happens sometimes.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's like it's like in an NBA playoff game when
somebody fouls out and the guy's at me. I played
like four minutes. Now I gotta go in the third quarter.
I gotta go to Elija Wan come on, I can't
do that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Lean turn the guy in Hoosiers who still has the
warm ups on, or some kid who never bothers to
put the uniform on underneath. Oh, I never got into
the game. I just assumed I was not what tenth
inning World Series. I end Yes, Jake Cousins, you were
asked to be the man and close it out, and
if you can't get a double play here, you might
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be asked to be the man. I can't imagine that
they would keep him in, but that is Otani on
deck stee Way.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
If he can't get it done, they're going to the
Marcus Cousins.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
They should learn from the Padres and go to any
lefty they have in the bullpen. So I'm acts coming
in or whoever.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I bet Wait, they're actually showing right now Fox on
the broadcast in slides Eraaldus Chapman is running into Dodger
Stadium right now. He doesn't have a uniform on, but
he's getting right to the dugout to be ready to.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Pack and the visit. And the home team is putting
a buzzer on the next batter underneath the jersey, and
I'll find out it's gonna be a straight fastball and
that's the end of the game. We've seen this before
with Chaman in the postseason, and.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I got to tell you right now, Tommy Edmond is
facing an OH to two count.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Neither pitch was a strike. They showed you on the box.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You talked about this last night.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yes, both pitches were outside the box clearly, But instead
of a two and oher count after a walk, Edmond
is facing an OH to two count with one out
and the.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Tying run at first base.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Really, these were really difficult calls that weren't even close.
It's not even where you see the ball is on
the It's it's close to the line, like it's like
there's space between the ball and the box.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
It's like, how is that a strike?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And this same home plate umpire was calling the stuff
just off the plate balls for the first five innings,
especially with the starters.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
And Tommy Edmund has just singled to right field.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It went off the second second, Yes, it goes under
Willie Randolph's glove a.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Smalldol Cabrara just can there's your defensive.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, Cabrera, who is in there for defensive reasons. It's
a it's a nice shot up the middle. Again, it's
a ball he should get. Yes, he should get there,
stop and at least get one out. I don't think
you're getting the double play at this point because Edmund
runs well enough, but.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
He not only does he not get it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Gavin Lux looks like he's gonna try to go to third,
and he may get there, except Lux falls down rounding
second base and has to get up and go back
to second.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
This is all the same Gavin once tripped between second
and third in spring training and tore his knee and
was out for the year.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
By the way.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yeah, but guess who's coming up?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But now first and lefty against lefty coming up.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
With first and second, one out in the ten finnings,
Joe Tani is coming up, and here comes Eraaldas Chapman.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I mean he got dressed really fast.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
It's actually gonna come.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
It's actually the guy that caught the home the double uh.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
The ninth, and he's coming in. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
So now the Yankees are asking to get the final
two outs from a guy who's been out for what
a month and a half. Nestor Cortes pitched in the
All Star Game in this stadium a few sure years ago.
But he hasn't been pitching in the postseason. He's active
as reliever, only out five weeks with a strained elbow.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Oh so now we're gonna get Cortes back on the
back on the playoff roster, the starter. And yeah, and
look there's a look. Reading all the New York papers,
it was a whole big thing. Is he gonna be
able to come back? Is he gonna be able to pitch?
He's gonna be the same guy. And then you know,
here he is on the World Series roster. Hey, uh, congratulations,
you're gonna come in a face Otani with first and second,
one out. Good luck, good luck.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
He's as a starter, would be a good guy because
he doesn't walk a lot. He keeps a minimum guys
on base. It's not a lot of traffic against him.
He can get a strikeout. I mentioned he was an
All Star a couple of years ago. But my goodness,
right into the fire when you haven't pitched in five weeks,
and keep in mind there are no minor leagues going on.
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It's not like he had a week of rehabit triple A.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, five weeks, that's the last time he pitched. And
now here is goodluck so TONI you can't warm me
up against Edmund or somebody.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
But no, I don't get key k no, no, here
is okay okay, And.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It's only one out if there's no double play here,
Mookie Betts is on deck.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
It's it really, it really is something.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
So what again?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
We will we will have more on this. Why do
I love baseball?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Steve de Sager is going to catch up on everything
trending in the wide world of sports right now is
to wait through the pitching change and clearly, hey, the
world the seismic shaking with the Knicks win over the
Pacers tonight their home opener.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Steve, I repeat, not even New York. What's watching that
game today? Yankees lead in the bottom of the tenth
at Dodgers Stadium, three to two over LA. One out
in the tenth, pitching change going on. Here's how we
got here. Dodgers with two sacrifice fly for their scoring
in regulation. Will Smith sackfly in the fifth for a
brief one nothing lead. Mookie Betts tied it at two
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in the bottom of the eighth with a sackfly right
after a costly infield error. Gencarlo Stanton with the only
yanking scoring in regulation, a long two run homer in
the top of the sixth inning for the lead against
Dodgers starter Jack Flaherty. He lasted five and a third,
six strikeouts, ninety pitches thrown. Garrett Cole was the Yankee
Game one starter, six innings of work, just one run allowed.
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He threw eighty eight pitches. The Yankees took the lead
in the top of the eighth on a ground ball
fielder's choice to shortstop. The guy who set that up
was on base, Jazz Chisholm. Top of the tenth, he
had a one out single, stole second, stole, third scored
on a ball that didn't lead the infield. And now
it's Yankees three, Dodgers two. But La has Otani at
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the plate with one out, bottom of the tenth and
runners at first and second. And we can't say this
loudly enough. The pitcher that is called on has not
pitched in five weeks.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Oh, left field line by Verdugo.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Alex Verdugo goes, but he went into the sands.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
They should give the extra the runner the extra base. Oh.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
He goes into the stands fully and catches Otani's fly
ball for two outs.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
This is an amazing play.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Otani swings at the first pitch from Nestor Cortes. Verdugo
runs to the line and he catches it and he
fully falls out of the field of play and into
the stands. It is two outs and the runners are
still at first and second.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I think they're giving the pitcher on her third base.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I think you have to because he left the field
of play.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
So it's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It's gonna go in for a They're gonna have runners
at I don't know if the runner gets second base.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Yeah, it's a lucky catch like that they give you.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
So it's two outs.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Bottom of the tent.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Verdugo X Dodger makes the catch at the low wall
down the left field line.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I mean, he he really just really that is incredible.
He went into the stands that I mean, that's one
of those Derek Jeter into the stands plays from uh
that we see that he made against the.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Red Sox and flying forward with the momentum.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
But boy Otani now one for five on the night.
He swings early against against Nestor Cortez, which is really
weird that he would come. Otani must have seen something
that he thought he would like, but again it's a
it's a weak foul ball down the third bit, down
the third base.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
They did give both runners second and third, which opens
a bass. They intentionally walk moved Mookie Bets and Freddie
Freeman is gonna bat with basses loaded, two outs in
the bottom of the tenth Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
You think Freddy Freeman's gonna take this personally, Steve, he might,
he might take this personally.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
You know, the Freddie Freeman of a week ago. There
would be around Dodger Stadium nerves right now because he
didn't have his legs, which you know, his greatness as
a hitter is that he can spray it to left
center field, and with no ankle, he really can't dig
into the box. And we saw the lack of extra
base hits that he was getting in the postseason. He's
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had a few days off. We'll see if that means
anything in this final a bad It is one for four.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
One for four tonight again, bases loaded, two outs, bottom
of the tenth inning, and Freddie Freeman, oh my goodness.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Oh my god, Freddy Freeman just hits a Grand Slam.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Goodness.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
The Dodgers win Game one, sixty three.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Oh my god, Oh my god. I love baseball. I
love baseball. He's posing rounding the bases. He knew it
was gone when he hit it. Aaron Boone and the
Yankees are stunned. Going back into the dugout, the entire
Dodgers team is.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
At home plate. They are beating the crap out of Freeman.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Standing on home plate, the first pitch from Nestor Cortes
is deposited into the stands in right center field. The
Dodgers win a game. I don't know, man, this is
only Game one. I told you it's gonna be I
told her it's gonna be a series we want, we're
gonna talk about for thirty years. We are absolutely going
to see that. The Dodgers win Game one, six to three.
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Freddie Freeman a Grand Slam home run. And look, that
had to be something that was talked about right really quick.
You just watched Otanian Freeman. First, we hit the first
pitch that Nestor Cortes threw. Now, whether this was something
they knew, Hey, when Cortes comes in, he's gonna try
to give you something, get right over the plate with it,
or it was Hey, the guy hasn't pitched in five weeks.
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I'm sure he's gonna just try to sneak over a strike.
You can be hacking at that first pitch. It looked
weird when Otani did it. Boy, he didn't see any pitches.
But it turned out great for Freddie Freeman. He crushed it.
He knew it. He puts his bat up in the air,
he knew it was gone when he hit it. The
Dodgers lead the World Series one game to none. We
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will have more on one of the greatest World Series
games in history coming up next. Right here, I feel
like the show is just starting. Jason Smith, Steve de Sager,
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Basses loaded, two outs, bottom of the tenth inning, Freddie
Freeman a Grand Slam home run in the first pitch
he sees from Nestor Cortes. The Dodgers lead the World
Series over the Yankees, one game to none in one
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of the great World Series games, of all time. And
I'll tell you Steve de Sager and an injured left
handed batter for the Dodgers who could barely swing a
bat grunting in the tunnel, comes up and hits a
big home run.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
How many times have you seen it?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I guess we've answered the question from last segment whether
he has his front footback after the ankle injury.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I mean, there's so much incredible drama from this game,
but none bigger than Freddie Freeman a walk off Grand
Slam home run to win Game one.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Here's how it sounded on the Dodgers radio network. Cortez deliveries,
Freeman hits the ball.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
The right field says good, Gibby made Freddy Game one of.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
The World Series.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Fox.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Oh, that's a great call, I said, Dodgers rabbis. That
was Fox team to give me me Freddie. I mean,
that's that's an unreal call. That's an unreal call. I mean,
you're you're talking about that's the third play from tonight's
game that has reminded you of incredibly famous plays from
playoff games and in the history of of of baseball.
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Because you go back one play before Alex Verdugo going
into the stands to get that fly ball from Ote
was like Jeter going in the stands against.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
The Red Sox and it was foul down the left
field line. Same thing, all right.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
And then you had the Jeffrey mayor Steve Bartman play.
The guy grabs the ball that looks like it's going
off the wall. They have to look at it to
in the eighth inning, but their Yankees are kept off
the scoreboard. In the old days, it would have been
a home run, but they're able to review it. I mean,
you had Jeffrey Mayor, Steve Bartman, Kirk Gibson, and Derek
Jeter all in one day. I mean, I don't know, Steve,
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it's only game one. Yeah, I don't know that I
need six more games or three or how many more games.
I can just have enough with just this game.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I really can we play best of nine between these.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Two teams plays more games.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
And by the way, that one pitch that Freeman saw
it was an inside fastball about ninety three miles an hour,
and boy did he get around on it because that
was out to right field and out and then some.
It was over four hundred and twenty feet. The Gibbie
reference on the great Joe Davis call that we just
turned on Fox TV. Joe Davis. By the way, regular
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season is the Dodger announcer Kirk Gibson's home run one.
You guessed it game one of a World Series. Yes,
it was at Dodger Stadium. It was against the mighty
power of the American League back then, the Coonseko McGuire,
Oakland A's And this is one of the rare World
Series matchups that we have where the two MVPs of
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the season, likely to be Otani and one League and
Judge and the other are facing off their teams in
the World Series. One of the rare times that happened
was Kurt Gibson against jose Canseco's team in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Well, I will say this, I think all the ballots
are coming back. A great season for Otani. First fifty
to fifty guy in the history of the game. Freddie
Freeman's now the new MVP. I've got it there. Now
they're going to be have the ceremony before Game two
and give him the MVP.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Jason.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
If this holds up, He's never buying a beer again.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
It doesn't matter what happens after he can win Game one.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Like that if they lose the series?
Speaker 4 (35:55):
No, oh my god. I mean, look, well this is
the problem.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Eighty eight they had the Dodgers with Oral Hrscheizer to
pitch every inning the rest of the series. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Well that was the fifty nine consecutive scoreless innings for
orl Hersheys that year.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Eight.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
But look, let's just for a second off of this
play because I have two big points to make, Steve,
because one, I'm coming around to something.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
You said a little bit ago. But first is this.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
We mentioned this really briefly a few minutes ago, but
clearly there was something whether it was a scouting report
coming in or an on the.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Fly strategy adjustment.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
You know, we saw this earlier on in the playoffs
when Devin Williams came in and Pete a Lonza with
the big home run. You could see Carlos Mendoza talking
to him before his big at bat, the big three
run on which was the big home run in the
playoffs before this one, telling him, Hey, that's the change up,
that's what you're looking for. So some kind of strategy
on the fly there was really helped out the Mets
I don't know if this was a scouting report or
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if it was something that on the fly they said,
this is what we're going to do. But you saw
Otani and Freeman both swing at the first pitch from
Nestor Cortez. This is a guy that hasn't pitched in
September eighteenth, and he's a big part of the Yankee bullpen,
and they put him back on the roster for.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
The World Series.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
And I don't know if it was something where, hey,
this is what he likes to do, or if it
was coming in, Hey, you know what, he hasn't pitched,
and he's coming into this game at this moment. He's
just gonna try to get something over the plate here.
And if you see a nice ninety three mile an
hour fastball, you want to take a hack at go
ahead and do it. Otani swings the first pitch and
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fouls out kind of meekly down the third base line.
Freddie Freeman swings to the first pitch and puts it
twenty rows into the stands in right center field.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
So, and I know Dave.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Roberts is talking about it right now, but I guarantee
you that was either something they knew about him coming
in or on the fly. It was, Hey, this is
what he's gonna do. This is what we like, This
is what I would do if I haven't pitched in
five weeks and suddenly I'm in the World Series. Let
me just throw that first one over the plate, right,
Because maybe you're sitting back and you don't want it
to be over eager at something. But the Dodgers came
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into this game just for this at bat. But they
came into the game swinging much more than they did
in the NLCS. They held back against the Mets. The
Mets like to walk a lot of batters. How many
walks of the Dodgers get They walked set at least
seven times in every game in the NLC.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
It was eleven for the series. Just for monthly I think.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Right, yeah, it was insane the number of times the
Dodgers walked because they knew the Mets, Hey, they like
to try to nibble at the corners and get you
to swing. They had a great strategy for the NLCS,
but it was different here because they came out right away.
Otana you swinging early in the count. Mookie bets are
swinging early at the count. At Garrett Cole, Freddie Freeman
swinging early at the count. This was a much different
strategy coming in for the Dodgers. Now, obviously things change
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as the game goes on, and maybe it's a little
bit different for Cortes, but clearly that was something going
on right there for Cortes specifically, because both you're talking
about two of the best hitters on the team decide
first pitch, we're going after it and trying to end
this thing.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
And so we have to mention, as we did earlier
in the show, Nester Cortes was an All star starting
pitcher for the Yankees two years ago, and in these
past three seasons he's been almost exclusively a starting pitcher.
How he worked these two batters, and he only threw
two pitches total in relief to three batters because there
was the intentional walk in between. He pitched like a
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starting pitcher, like, you know, I already got I got
another bat at the face behind me. No, you give
up something here, the game is over. You're a closer,
not a starter. I can remember when Jim Abbott, for example,
was returning to Anaheim. He had been Angel pitcher for
a year and became a Yankee pitcher, and he had
the starter's mentality, even in the last inning of the
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game where he gave up a home run, it flew
out and he actually motioned for a new baseball from
the catcher and they had to tell him, no, that's
the game. This is the last inning that you're pitching.
This starter. They're using only in relief, and it cost
him tonight.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
And right now, Dave Roberts just gets off the Fox
set and he's being hugged by Billy gene Kak, co
owner the Dodger having a nice moment right there with
Billy Jean King.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Everybody's hugging Dave Ray He's hugging everybody and.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
A lot of class. Also, it's game.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
One, uh, the first walk off Grand Slam in World
Series history. Coming up next, MLB Network insider John Paul
Morosi joins us what is next following one of the
great World Series games of all time?
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My goodness, how much I love baseball? Oh my goodness.
So let's tell you where things are at right now?
Game one of the World Series, Top of the ninth,
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the Yankees have runners at first and second, two out.
Aaron Judges up, Blake trining in from the bullpen to
get the final out of the inning. This is drama enough,
right NU, But wait, do we tell you how we
got here? Uh one with two outs in the top
of the ninth. Everything was going the Yankees way. I
was going the Dodger's way. Everything was fine. Couple of
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big strikeouts to start the couple of big outs start
the inning, and then Labor Torres thumps one to the
wall in center field and it looks like it's gonna
go off the wall for a double. However, a fan
reaches out over the wall, catches and yeah, now with
a bare hand, that would have been something. Reaches over
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the wall with a glove and catches the ball on
the fly.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Irony. He is sitting what is known as in the
home run seats, those the first row at the wall
at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I'm actually looking.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I have to have the I have the seat chart
up and the guy's last nay, guy, it says, it
says d Jeter.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Did you see that? I mean, seconds after that, when
the umpires stopped the game to look at the video
and call it a double. He he motioned to the
people with him, let's go, and he starts putting stuff
in his.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, he couldn't leave fast enough. So but
we'll get to that in a second. So he leans
over the wall to catch the ball in the fly right,
Labor Torres is what's going on? He stops at second,
everything is stoppaile. They go and look at replay, and
replay gets the call right. This ball would have bounced
off the wall and it would have been a double.
But I mean to watch it and all of a sudden,
(02:37):
Jeffrey Meyer is trending and all kinds of crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Video review did not exist for that Yankee Playoffs game
in the nineties.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I think you're still paying that guy.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Jeter's not going to.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Pay this guy in his home college.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Uh and and and it was all of a sudden.
Steve Bartman is trending. It's it's just I think the
internet is broken. But they get the call right. It
would have been Now potentially could it have been a
big bounce and it and it goes back far and
it could be a trip.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's not an odd shaped wall at Dodger Stadium. I
think you're right then it probably would have bounced at
about the same spot as Otani's did. The previous said
bat he had over a right field and not quite
out clearly not quite out.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, potentially could it have gotten over Key k Hernandez's
head and it would have been a triple. Yeah, maybe,
but it clearly was gonna be inside the park. And
they went back and looked at it on review and
they got it right. And Glibrators is at second base
with a double, And then I get you're right, Steve,
how fast that guy started packing his stuff up.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He's throwing all this stuff in one of those clear
bags and they allow you to bring into the stadium, like,
come on, let's go, let's go. I don't know what's
gonna happen to which I'm gonna wait for catching that ball, Man,
I'm gonna pay for.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Everyone needs to be saying, you idiot forcing you to
leave a tow to two Yankees Dodgers World Series game
in the ninth inning. You did it to yourself. And
then a really rare thing is who is the NAXX banner?
Juan Soto is intentionally walked to get to Judge. I
think Swalt said on the telecast that it only happened
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twice this year. Who does that?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And Aaron Judge, you thought he would take that personally? However,
Blake trying and gets out of it. By getting judge
to pop to short so they get out of the
inning no runs in the ninth the Dodgers coming.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
About here with a chance to win the game.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It is two to two going to the bottom of
the ninth inning to Oscar Hernandez will leave things off
of the tame up and I'll tell you see, when
I saw that guy lean over and catch it, my
eyes were like Vegas slot machines, like, oh my god,
this is gonna be everything, This is gonna be everything.
But then it kind of calmed down because they got
the call right. This is why and this is why,
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this is.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Why replay started in baseball. Was a home run borders tall.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I mean, if they didn't have this, I mean you
can imagine what the reaction would be.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Like the Yankee, like the Jeffrey Mayer thing that you're
referenced exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It would be a glabor Torus home run. The Yankees
would be leading three to two. It would be oh
my goodness. But this makes you realize that, hey, we've
come a long way since nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Right, We've come a.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Long way in that Hey, we have a we have
a way to get things right. It was clear this
was not going to be a home run, and they
got it right now. It's it's gonna be an oddity
and it's gonna be a quirkiness. And yeah, you could
say this guy's gonna has to leave a World Series game,
but this guy's immortal. Man, Like, Hey, yeah, I was
a guy that caught the ball.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I had to believe the idiot. I had believe he's.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Gonna be doing interviews. Man, I'll tell you he's gonna be everywhere.
If Dan Patrick's show was on tomorrow morning, he'd be
on that show tomorrow morning talking about I guarantee.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And hammering him no doubt, because that was, I mean,
the stupidest of stupid moves because it was nowhere close
to the top of the wall.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I mean, oh, I.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Mean I maybe he knows that, Hey, look they're gonna
they're gonna look at this on replay and see it
was a double.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, IM fine, gonna catch this ball.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I mean, I think case he brought his glove. You know,
it's not just that he was wearing Dodger gear and
you know, gets to sit right next to the wall
for a World Series game. Imagine how much he paid
for those seats. Yeah, and he's not finishing the ninth thty.
He's forget the starting pitchers that are out early, he's
out early. Thanks so what thanks for coming?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But he caught that ball like, hey, I can sell
this thing and make some money on I mean, I'm
not going to make four and four million, Well you
are not, but I might make some cat I might
make fifty grand on this ball or ten grand on
this ball.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Can I just add as Jason no Dodger, this ball.
I think the Dodger fans will reject him wholesale, just
him personally, much less any ball he comes in contact with.
I think this is coming to mind because I had
the privilege of being at the last World Series weekend
the Dodgers hosted. But remember against the Red Sox there
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was an eighteen inning game and the walk off homer
was from Max Munsey. Max Munsey is due up in
the bottom of the ninth and a right hander is
on the mound. I'm just thinking ahead. It's it could
be extra innings, could very well be extra innings with
these two. But the cleanup guy has just popped out
to deep write yet another deep flyout for the Dodgers.
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This Max Mounsey's coming to the play with nobody on base.
He draws a walk like nobody else, so it's a
chance you get the lead run on. He does have power,
and as I speak, Fox is showing his twenty eighteen
World Series over run. Well there you go.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Now, I do want to say this too.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yes, he does draw a lot of walks, but this
is not the Mets pitching staff that walks everybody. Okay,
understand it's going to be all that was extreme. It's
going to be a little more difficult this series. And
just hey, there's three pitches outside the strike. Now it's
gonna be fun.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
You do realize what Jason just did there, right, brought
the Mets into it, into the world sees.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Of course, yeah, rare.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
There were two games away from it. But I think you've.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Walked him eleven times, so that is a valance. Can
I say before we even finished Game one that who
were the teams that walked more than any other lineups
in the major leagues this year? The Yankees and the Dodgers.
And it's been mentioned multiple times this week. The lineups
are not only deep, but they make it tough because
they lay off the outside pitches. And they can hammer
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the fastball, and as we see in the case of Stanton,
he can homer on the ball that may not even
be in the strike zone.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So again, this is where we sit right now, bottom
of the ninth inning, won out Max Monthcy at bat
for the Dodgers, after an incredible top of the ninth inning.
That look, it will go down as a quirky moment.
And and this World Series, I'm telling you, by the
time it's over, it'll be a world series that we
talk about for thirty years. It's going to be that
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kind of world series. Like so like the eighty six
Mets Red Sox. I mean, this series has absolutely everything
in it. The biggest market, the most popular.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
They're still talking about the Reggie World Series with yeah,
Yestadge years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You're talking about seventy seven, seventy eight, and eighty one
right in all the highlights from nineteen eighty one, the
last few days after the passing of Fernando Vealezuela, And
this is going to be one of those moments.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
That I guarantee you.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And I remember when I was a kid and I
went to baseball camp, and it was always a thing
in the middle of the day, we would cool off
and they would show us a World series reel really
like oh yeah, from old World Series. It was like,
you know, cause it was too hot. I didn't know why,
like why we're not playing baseball. It's like, okay, because
it's one thirty and it's it's one hundred degrees out
where everybody's gonna sit in the film for it and
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then we're gonna go back out at like three o'clock.
So we would go and we would watch the the
you know, the highlight wheels that were voiced over, like
the NFL films and the Differ World Series, and we
saw all these different world series and it was all
these these I mean this, I'm going back to the
curly nineteen eighties. We saw the two Yankees, Dodgers from
seventy seven to seventy eight.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
We saw seventy six. We saw seventy three with the.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Mets and the A's and and and the Mets, in
sixty nine with the Orioles.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
The classic was nineteen seventy five reds Red Sox Carlton.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Yes, we saw that too.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It was and I can already see something like that
happening where here's a crazy play in Game one and
here's this fan in center field.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
And actually that had the crazy player. Remember ed Armbrister
was trying to bunt and he bunted it off the
plate and high up into the air, and the interference
was called at home. That was talked about for years afterwards.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Right now he.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Ran into into him. It's thrown into center field.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I mean, I mean, this is gonna be that kind
of series, and I really and we just had a
great play to end the ninth inning. In the ninth
Alex Verdugo with a diving catch and left field to
Rob Keik Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And I'll review this, but I think he caught it
in short left to end the end.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Got it. I can see the replay. He got it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So we're gonna go to the tenth, which means Stanton
is coming up and it's gonna be great theater here.
I assume trying and will come back out for the
tenth inning. Didn't throw a ton of pitches with kitchen in.
I assume he will come back out here for the tenth.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That is incredible. So we already got judge with two outs,
two on in the ninth, and we're gonna get Stanton
leading off the tenth who has already, by the way,
not only homer tonight. Remember when he was MVP of
the Alcs, he only had four hits against Cleveland the
whole series. They were all home runs. And this is
not the first postseason where Stanton has had five straight.
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Here's where all of them were homer. He did that
in twenty twenty. Also putting that in perspective, if you
add up every other player in Major League Baseball playoff history,
only one other guy's had a streak like Stanton has
head twice in his postseason career in the last five years.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So again, we're going to the top of the tenth
inning now, so we've got another inning to go here.
So we'll have more on the game coming up in
a few minutes, but really quick, I want to get
to this because this was a big topic that came
up right before the game.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
It's starting to get a lot of attention, and it.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Comes from mlbpa's executive director Tony Clark, who before Game
one talked about how how pitchers are used in today's
game of baseball needs to change because they're not staying
healthy and you're not getting the max performance out of them.
They're not getting the max performance out of their careers
and and something needs to change, and something needs to
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be really big.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And by the way, he's not just the union head.
He's a long time player.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
He played for a long time and that now and
now he's the executive director. His quote is, the conversations
we've had with our players have suggested that unless or
until you draw a line in the sand and force change,
the decision makers on any one particular team are going
to continue to make the decisions that they're making, which
is have pictures starting and relievers max effort for the
period of time that they can have them, and as
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soon as they run out of gas, the data suggests
they're gonna recycle them out and to burn out another pitcher.
And he is one hundred percent correct. Like we talk
about college football, where you think, all right, at some point,
somebody's got to throw the emergency brake, right, we got
to stop realignment every.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Five except nobody's in charge except.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
No, right exactly. It's like snow piercer. It's just a
train that keeps going. Can't we stop it? No, It's
gonna keep going. It's just Nope, it's gonna keep going
all the way round, all the way around, right, So
you need that there's but there's nobody there to pull
the brake. But that's where we are right now with
major League Baseball with pitching. Is that and a bigger
concern is you know, yes, there's the burnout of the
pitcher's arms. But something we mentioned really briefly the top
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of the show was that you can have a starting
pitcher and feel like we feel great going into the
postseason because we had our guy healthy all year.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
He started thirty games, and we're right, but they're out
of gas.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
When they get to the postseason, right, And not to
bring the Mets back into it, but it's a great
it's a great example is Sean Maneya, who was the
Mets star.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
He was there stood the last couple months of the year.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
He pitches great in Game two and he says when
he comes out of Game two against.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
The Dodgers, I kind of hit a wall at that point.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And then he has to come back for Game six,
he's got nothing left and the Dodgers knock him around
the park, they win Game six, they go to the
World Series. If teams would be able to commit to
something where and this is baseball where if you meet
halfway and let's just say this, if teams would go
to a six man rotation, right, and you can cut
guys starts about it's a long enough season and you have.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Enough changed the rules on minors to magers and movement.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And maybe you need to change how the how the
how the roster is assembled. Like you can have x
amount of pitchers, right, it can be we're gonna add
a couple of players so you can have an extra
reliever and an extra starting pitcher. Right if you go
to six man rotations and you know, not that you'd
go hard and fast on it, but hey, if you
go to six man rotation, if you're able to add
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an extra spot for relief pitcher, that way they'll be
able to extend careers.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
And guys won't pitch as many innings. I think that works.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
But something has to be done because you were's too
many games where we get to the end of the year.
And I think this is part of what Tony Clark
is talking about, is that look at the World Series
we're at right now. The Yankees have one starting pitcher.
The Dodgers came in with three starting pitchers and nine
relievers because they're all out and look at the injuries
they have and all the money that's being spent. So
it's like, there's got to be a rubber meets the
Road moment for pitchers.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Andy.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Maybe one of those ideas works, but there has to
be something that changes.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
This is what's happened in the starting pitch.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Because the Dodgers, even when you thin down to a
four man rotation for postseason, they don't have a fourth
man the entire postseason. Every time do they get to
that spot, it's an all.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Bullpen game exit. How about a fresca?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Jason Smith, Steve de Sag you're in for Mike carmon
top of the tenth one out, Jazz chishlm where they
single to right field. Mookie Betts cuts it off before
it can get to the wall, keeping him to a single,
so to two, top of the tenth, one out.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
We'll have more on this game and.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
More in a big developing story out of the NFL
coming up next right here.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
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Speaker 1 (15:28):
Game one is endy indication this is gonna be some
World Series. Jason Smith, Steve de Sager, and from Mike
Harmon tonight, going to the bottom of the tenth the
Yankees are three outs away from taking Game one.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
There have been so many subtle, big moments in this
game that have saved runs, that have moved the ball
night and move runners up ninety feet. It is really
one of those games where if you're a baseball fan,
you are loving what you saw. Let's tell you what
just happened. In the top of the tenth inning with
the Yankees and the Dodgers with one out, Jazz Chism
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singles to right field and he steals second base. Anthony
Rizzo has walked, but runners it first and second, and
then Jazz chishm steals third.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
A huge, huge play.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I think I saw Brian Cashman actually break his
arm patting himself on the back because of the trade
for Jazz Chism at the deadline. I think, I say you,
he actually is now in a full cast on his
arm patting himself on the back forgetting Jazz chism.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And that gave him his third steal of tonight's game too.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, and it turned out to be a huge steal
of third because then the Dodgers infield comes in and
it's a little weird, but I understand what happened.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
The Dodgers played the infield and obvice with runners a
first and third, one out, you can't allow the run
to score. Uh, Anthony Volpi, who already is on the
hook for an error that helped the Dodgers. Uh move
the move a runner up ninety feet and tie the game.
Vopie hits a ground ball back up the middle Tommy
Edmond on a play that he should make.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
It's a it's a bit of a difficult play.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He did dive and get it cleanly, but the transfer
he mobbled.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, he dives and gets it, and if he comes
up with it cleanly, which he should, it's probably a
double play and we're going to the bottom of the
tenth inning tied. However, he bobbles the ball and is
able to get the out at second base because for
some reason, Anthony Rizzo just stopped running.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I don't know why I'm gonna stand. Maybe i'd be
Reggie Jackson.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I'll stick my hip in the way like in seventy
seven out to do that, right, I would, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Rather, yeah, we had Jeffrey Mayer in the top of
the night there, we got Reggie Jackson from seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's all yeah, past Yankee playoff games, they come back here.
And by the way, it has been a shaky shortstop
for a guy who was starting in centerfield earlier this postseason,
Tommy Edmond because he had the earlier air tonight, remember,
and Miguel Rojas, the normal good defensive veteran you can
count on him type of short step, was not playing
at all due to injury in the last series. He
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is active now for this but not starting the game.
One absolutely expect Rojas to start at short step against
the lefty man.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Dave Roberts already said he's starting Game two. He said
that before the game that robots. I mean, maybe he
should have been in the game for defensive reasons there,
but Edmund should have come up. It's a second error
he's made tonight, made an error in the first inning,
but it did not come back to haunt them.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Except Edmond is due up, right, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, you got seven eight nine. You want the offense, Yeah,
turn it over to Otani. But it's a play he
probably should have made, but he can't make it, and
as a result, they get the out at second, but
Chisma is able to score on the fielder's choice, giving
him a three to two lead. Now, the thing is,
if they were playing normal double play depth, they probably
turned the double play. But clearly, hey, we're playing the infieldings.
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We're not going to let this score. And it's it's
too much of a risk to play double Look, you
have to make a decision, right, you know the corners
are going to be in and and maybe shortstop in
second or double play depth, so you could turn it.
But they made the decision to keep the infield in
and I can't like it's easy to sit back and say, oh,
they should have easily kept with double play, but look,
they were trying to stop the run.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
It was hit hard enough to the side for.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Him to have to go and make a diving play
to get it, and if he comes up with it clean,
it's a double play. But he doesn't, and that's how
the go ahead run crosses the base, acrosses the plate
for the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
So it's it's one of those.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Things where I understand they're gonna question Dave Roberts because
they always question everything he does.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
But all right, he had the he had he had
the infield play. That was a strategy.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We're gonna stop the run at home when you decide
to put the infield in. Okay, Uh, there's good. There's
gonna be good and bad outcomes that could come of this,
and that was one of them. And and it was
just one of those things that happened. But Jazz Chisholm
steal a third that completely made that happen. And I'll
tell you, when you can steal a base like that
without having to uh sat with the tie game, Yeah,
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when you don't have to sacrifice it out that that's
incredibly large in a game like this.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And from the Dodger perspective, Okay, they're behind to start
the bottom of the tenth with the Yankees have all
already used their closer. They brought Luke Weaver in the
inning before he threw one and two thirds. He's done.
He's thrown about twenty pitches tonight. So a thirty year
old who most of us have never heard, first year
as a Yankee is on in relief. Jake Cousins is
being asked to close out the tenth inning of the
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opening World Series game at Dodger Stadium. He got a
flyout to Will Smith and now we mentioned it's the
bottom of the order, so it's Gavin Lux and then
Tommy Edmond.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Mariano Rivera wasn't available.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Lit's see it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
But no, but hang on a second one. He's had
a great career with the Vikings. He's doing pretty well
this year with the Falcons. Why not bring Kirk Cousins in?
I'm sure because he's be quirky. You haven't seen a
lot of them, you know. Obviously if he falters, Michael
Pennix Junior will come in here.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Oh yeah, that's why you drafted.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Sure, yeah, but why I mean, but why not go
to Kirk Cousins here? I mean, I think it's a day.
I looked it up.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
With the Brewers last year, he got into nine games
in the majors, nine games all last year. Wow, what
is going on here?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
People? And he has just walked.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It walks Gavin Lux to get to Tommy Edmund one
out bottom of the tenth inning, Dodgers down a run
as long as there is no double play. And I
hate to say it, but I gotta say it. As
as there is no double play, don't do it. Show
he Otani will batting.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Coach is coming out to visit cousins. But remember how
quirky the Dodger batting order, the number nine guy and people.
When this batting order came down today, everybody in LA
raised an eyebro. Wait a minute, Tommy Edmonds just won
MVP of the NLCS. He was betting cleanup last game.
Wasn't yeah him at the ninth spot exactly for this reason.
So you have a guy that's been hitting can actually
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lead you into the top of the order. When Otani
gets up to the plate, they hope.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh this, I mean, this is some kind of drama,
the Yankees having to use their closer to get out
of a big jam and keep the game tied.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
And now this is what happens sometimes.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's like it's like in an NBA playoff game when
somebody fouls out and the guy's at me. I played
like four minutes. Now I gotta go in the third quarter.
I gotta go to Elija Wan come on, I can't
do that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Lean turn the guy in Hoosiers who still has the
warm ups on, or some kid who never bothers to
put the uniform on underneath. Oh, I never got into
the game. I just assumed I was not what tenth
inning World Series. I end Yes, Jake Cousins, you were
asked to be the man and close it out, and
if you can't get a double play here, you might
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be asked to be the man. I can't imagine that
they would keep him in, but that is Otani on
deck stee Way.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
If he can't get it done, they're going to the
Marcus Cousins.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
They should learn from the Padres and go to any
lefty they have in the bullpen. So I'm acts coming
in or whoever.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I bet Wait, they're actually showing right now Fox on
the broadcast in slides Eraaldus Chapman is running into Dodger
Stadium right now. He doesn't have a uniform on, but
he's getting right to the dugout to be ready to.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Pack and the visit. And the home team is putting
a buzzer on the next batter underneath the jersey, and
I'll find out it's gonna be a straight fastball and
that's the end of the game. We've seen this before
with Chaman in the postseason, and.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I got to tell you right now, Tommy Edmond is
facing an OH to two count.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Neither pitch was a strike. They showed you on the box.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You talked about this last night.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yes, both pitches were outside the box clearly, But instead
of a two and oher count after a walk, Edmond
is facing an OH to two count with one out
and the.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Tying run at first base.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Really, these were really difficult calls that weren't even close.
It's not even where you see the ball is on
the It's it's close to the line, like it's like
there's space between the ball and the box.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
It's like, how is that a strike?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And this same home plate umpire was calling the stuff
just off the plate balls for the first five innings,
especially with the starters.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
And Tommy Edmund has just singled to right field.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It went off the second second, Yes, it goes under
Willie Randolph's glove a.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Smalldol Cabrara just can there's your defensive.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, Cabrera, who is in there for defensive reasons. It's
a it's a nice shot up the middle. Again, it's
a ball he should get. Yes, he should get there,
stop and at least get one out. I don't think
you're getting the double play at this point because Edmund
runs well enough, but.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
He not only does he not get it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Gavin Lux looks like he's gonna try to go to third,
and he may get there, except Lux falls down rounding
second base and has to get up and go back
to second.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
This is all the same Gavin once tripped between second
and third in spring training and tore his knee and
was out for the year.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
By the way.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yeah, but guess who's coming up?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But now first and lefty against lefty coming up.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
With first and second, one out in the ten finnings,
Joe Tani is coming up, and here comes Eraaldas Chapman.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I mean he got dressed really fast.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
It's actually gonna come.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
It's actually the guy that caught the home the double uh.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
The ninth, and he's coming in. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
So now the Yankees are asking to get the final
two outs from a guy who's been out for what
a month and a half. Nestor Cortes pitched in the
All Star Game in this stadium a few sure years ago.
But he hasn't been pitching in the postseason. He's active
as reliever, only out five weeks with a strained elbow.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Oh so now we're gonna get Cortes back on the
back on the playoff roster, the starter. And yeah, and
look there's a look. Reading all the New York papers,
it was a whole big thing. Is he gonna be
able to come back? Is he gonna be able to pitch?
He's gonna be the same guy. And then you know,
here he is on the World Series roster. Hey, uh, congratulations,
you're gonna come in a face Otani with first and second,
one out. Good luck, good luck.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
He's as a starter, would be a good guy because
he doesn't walk a lot. He keeps a minimum guys
on base. It's not a lot of traffic against him.
He can get a strikeout. I mentioned he was an
All Star a couple of years ago. But my goodness,
right into the fire when you haven't pitched in five weeks,
and keep in mind there are no minor leagues going on.
(26:05):
It's not like he had a week of rehabit triple A.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, five weeks, that's the last time he pitched. And
now here is goodluck so TONI you can't warm me
up against Edmund or somebody.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
But no, I don't get key k no, no, here
is okay okay, And.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It's only one out if there's no double play here,
Mookie Betts is on deck.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
It's it really, it really is something.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
So what again?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
We will we will have more on this. Why do
I love baseball?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Steve de Sager is going to catch up on everything
trending in the wide world of sports right now is
to wait through the pitching change and clearly, hey, the
world the seismic shaking with the Knicks win over the
Pacers tonight their home opener.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Steve, I repeat, not even New York. What's watching that
game today? Yankees lead in the bottom of the tenth
at Dodgers Stadium, three to two over LA. One out
in the tenth, pitching change going on. Here's how we
got here. Dodgers with two sacrifice fly for their scoring
in regulation. Will Smith sackfly in the fifth for a
brief one nothing lead. Mookie Betts tied it at two
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in the bottom of the eighth with a sackfly right
after a costly infield error. Gencarlo Stanton with the only
yanking scoring in regulation, a long two run homer in
the top of the sixth inning for the lead against
Dodgers starter Jack Flaherty. He lasted five and a third,
six strikeouts, ninety pitches thrown. Garrett Cole was the Yankee
Game one starter, six innings of work, just one run allowed.
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He threw eighty eight pitches. The Yankees took the lead
in the top of the eighth on a ground ball
fielder's choice to shortstop. The guy who set that up
was on base, Jazz Chisholm. Top of the tenth, he
had a one out single, stole second, stole, third scored
on a ball that didn't lead the infield. And now
it's Yankees three, Dodgers two. But La has Otani at
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the plate with one out, bottom of the tenth and
runners at first and second. And we can't say this
loudly enough. The pitcher that is called on has not
pitched in five weeks.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Oh, left field line by Verdugo.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Alex Verdugo goes, but he went into the sands.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
They should give the extra the runner the extra base. Oh.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
He goes into the stands fully and catches Otani's fly
ball for two outs.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
This is an amazing play.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Otani swings at the first pitch from Nestor Cortes. Verdugo
runs to the line and he catches it and he
fully falls out of the field of play and into
the stands. It is two outs and the runners are
still at first and second.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I think they're giving the pitcher on her third base.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I think you have to because he left the field
of play.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
So it's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It's gonna go in for a They're gonna have runners
at I don't know if the runner gets second base.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Yeah, it's a lucky catch like that they give you.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
So it's two outs.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Bottom of the tent.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Verdugo X Dodger makes the catch at the low wall
down the left field line.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I mean, he he really just really that is incredible.
He went into the stands that I mean, that's one
of those Derek Jeter into the stands plays from uh
that we see that he made against the.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Red Sox and flying forward with the momentum.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
But boy Otani now one for five on the night.
He swings early against against Nestor Cortez, which is really
weird that he would come. Otani must have seen something
that he thought he would like, but again it's a
it's a weak foul ball down the third bit, down
the third base.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
They did give both runners second and third, which opens
a bass. They intentionally walk moved Mookie Bets and Freddie
Freeman is gonna bat with basses loaded, two outs in
the bottom of the tenth Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
You think Freddy Freeman's gonna take this personally, Steve, he might,
he might take this personally.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
You know, the Freddie Freeman of a week ago. There
would be around Dodger Stadium nerves right now because he
didn't have his legs, which you know, his greatness as
a hitter is that he can spray it to left
center field, and with no ankle, he really can't dig
into the box. And we saw the lack of extra
base hits that he was getting in the postseason. He's
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had a few days off. We'll see if that means
anything in this final a bad It is one for four.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
One for four tonight again, bases loaded, two outs, bottom
of the tenth inning, and Freddie Freeman, oh my goodness.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Oh my god, Freddy Freeman just hits a Grand Slam.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Goodness.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
The Dodgers win Game one, sixty three.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Oh my god, Oh my god. I love baseball. I
love baseball. He's posing rounding the bases. He knew it
was gone when he hit it. Aaron Boone and the
Yankees are stunned. Going back into the dugout, the entire
Dodgers team is.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
At home plate. They are beating the crap out of Freeman.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Standing on home plate, the first pitch from Nestor Cortes
is deposited into the stands in right center field. The
Dodgers win a game. I don't know, man, this is
only Game one. I told you it's gonna be I
told her it's gonna be a series we want, we're
gonna talk about for thirty years. We are absolutely going
to see that. The Dodgers win Game one, six to three.
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Freddie Freeman a Grand Slam home run. And look, that
had to be something that was talked about right really quick.
You just watched Otanian Freeman. First, we hit the first
pitch that Nestor Cortes threw. Now, whether this was something
they knew, Hey, when Cortes comes in, he's gonna try
to give you something, get right over the plate with it,
or it was Hey, the guy hasn't pitched in five weeks.
(31:38):
I'm sure he's gonna just try to sneak over a strike.
You can be hacking at that first pitch. It looked
weird when Otani did it. Boy, he didn't see any pitches.
But it turned out great for Freddie Freeman. He crushed it.
He knew it. He puts his bat up in the air,
he knew it was gone when he hit it. The
Dodgers lead the World Series one game to none. We
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will have more on one of the greatest World Series
games in history coming up next. Right here, I feel
like the show is just starting. Jason Smith, Steve de Sager,
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Speaker 3 (32:08):
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Speaker 1 (32:15):
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Basses loaded, two outs, bottom of the tenth inning, Freddie
Freeman a Grand Slam home run in the first pitch
he sees from Nestor Cortes. The Dodgers lead the World
Series over the Yankees, one game to none in one
(32:36):
of the great World Series games, of all time. And
I'll tell you Steve de Sager and an injured left
handed batter for the Dodgers who could barely swing a
bat grunting in the tunnel, comes up and hits a
big home run.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
How many times have you seen it?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I guess we've answered the question from last segment whether
he has his front footback after the ankle injury.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I mean, there's so much incredible drama from this game,
but none bigger than Freddie Freeman a walk off Grand
Slam home run to win Game one.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Here's how it sounded on the Dodgers radio network. Cortez deliveries,
Freeman hits the ball.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
The right field says good, Gibby made Freddy Game one of.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
The World Series.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Fox.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Oh, that's a great call, I said, Dodgers rabbis. That
was Fox team to give me me Freddie. I mean,
that's that's an unreal call. That's an unreal call. I mean,
you're you're talking about that's the third play from tonight's
game that has reminded you of incredibly famous plays from
playoff games and in the history of of of baseball.
(33:53):
Because you go back one play before Alex Verdugo going
into the stands to get that fly ball from Ote
was like Jeter going in the stands against.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
The Red Sox and it was foul down the left
field line. Same thing, all right.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
And then you had the Jeffrey mayor Steve Bartman play.
The guy grabs the ball that looks like it's going
off the wall. They have to look at it to
in the eighth inning, but their Yankees are kept off
the scoreboard. In the old days, it would have been
a home run, but they're able to review it. I mean,
you had Jeffrey Mayor, Steve Bartman, Kirk Gibson, and Derek
Jeter all in one day. I mean, I don't know, Steve,
(34:29):
it's only game one. Yeah, I don't know that I
need six more games or three or how many more games.
I can just have enough with just this game.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I really can we play best of nine between these.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Two teams plays more games.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
And by the way, that one pitch that Freeman saw
it was an inside fastball about ninety three miles an hour,
and boy did he get around on it because that
was out to right field and out and then some.
It was over four hundred and twenty feet. The Gibbie
reference on the great Joe Davis call that we just
turned on Fox TV. Joe Davis. By the way, regular
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season is the Dodger announcer Kirk Gibson's home run one.
You guessed it game one of a World Series. Yes,
it was at Dodger Stadium. It was against the mighty
power of the American League back then, the Coonseko McGuire,
Oakland A's And this is one of the rare World
Series matchups that we have where the two MVPs of
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the season, likely to be Otani and one League and
Judge and the other are facing off their teams in
the World Series. One of the rare times that happened
was Kurt Gibson against jose Canseco's team in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Well, I will say this, I think all the ballots
are coming back. A great season for Otani. First fifty
to fifty guy in the history of the game. Freddie
Freeman's now the new MVP. I've got it there. Now
they're going to be have the ceremony before Game two
and give him the MVP.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Jason.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
If this holds up, He's never buying a beer again.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
It doesn't matter what happens after he can win Game one.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Like that if they lose the series?
Speaker 4 (35:55):
No, oh my god. I mean, look, well this is
the problem.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Eighty eight they had the Dodgers with Oral Hrscheizer to
pitch every inning the rest of the series. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Well that was the fifty nine consecutive scoreless innings for
orl Hersheys that year.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Eight.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
But look, let's just for a second off of this
play because I have two big points to make, Steve,
because one, I'm coming around to something.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
You said a little bit ago. But first is this.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
We mentioned this really briefly a few minutes ago, but
clearly there was something whether it was a scouting report
coming in or an on the.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Fly strategy adjustment.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
You know, we saw this earlier on in the playoffs
when Devin Williams came in and Pete a Lonza with
the big home run. You could see Carlos Mendoza talking
to him before his big at bat, the big three
run on which was the big home run in the
playoffs before this one, telling him, Hey, that's the change up,
that's what you're looking for. So some kind of strategy
on the fly there was really helped out the Mets
I don't know if this was a scouting report or
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if it was something that on the fly they said,
this is what we're going to do. But you saw
Otani and Freeman both swing at the first pitch from
Nestor Cortez. This is a guy that hasn't pitched in
September eighteenth, and he's a big part of the Yankee bullpen,
and they put him back on the roster for.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
The World Series.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
And I don't know if it was something where, hey,
this is what he likes to do, or if it
was coming in, Hey, you know what, he hasn't pitched,
and he's coming into this game at this moment. He's
just gonna try to get something over the plate here.
And if you see a nice ninety three mile an
hour fastball, you want to take a hack at go
ahead and do it. Otani swings the first pitch and
(37:27):
fouls out kind of meekly down the third base line.
Freddie Freeman swings to the first pitch and puts it
twenty rows into the stands in right center field.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
So, and I know Dave.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Roberts is talking about it right now, but I guarantee
you that was either something they knew about him coming
in or on the fly. It was, Hey, this is
what he's gonna do. This is what we like, This
is what I would do if I haven't pitched in
five weeks and suddenly I'm in the World Series. Let
me just throw that first one over the plate, right,
Because maybe you're sitting back and you don't want it
to be over eager at something. But the Dodgers came
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into this game just for this at bat. But they
came into the game swinging much more than they did
in the NLCS. They held back against the Mets. The
Mets like to walk a lot of batters. How many
walks of the Dodgers get They walked set at least
seven times in every game in the NLC.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
It was eleven for the series. Just for monthly I think.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Right, yeah, it was insane the number of times the
Dodgers walked because they knew the Mets, Hey, they like
to try to nibble at the corners and get you
to swing. They had a great strategy for the NLCS,
but it was different here because they came out right away.
Otana you swinging early in the count. Mookie bets are
swinging early at the count. At Garrett Cole, Freddie Freeman
swinging early at the count. This was a much different
strategy coming in for the Dodgers. Now, obviously things change
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as the game goes on, and maybe it's a little
bit different for Cortes, but clearly that was something going
on right there for Cortes specifically, because both you're talking
about two of the best hitters on the team decide
first pitch, we're going after it and trying to end
this thing.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
And so we have to mention, as we did earlier
in the show, Nester Cortes was an All star starting
pitcher for the Yankees two years ago, and in these
past three seasons he's been almost exclusively a starting pitcher.
How he worked these two batters, and he only threw
two pitches total in relief to three batters because there
was the intentional walk in between. He pitched like a
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starting pitcher, like, you know, I already got I got
another bat at the face behind me. No, you give
up something here, the game is over. You're a closer,
not a starter. I can remember when Jim Abbott, for example,
was returning to Anaheim. He had been Angel pitcher for
a year and became a Yankee pitcher, and he had
the starter's mentality, even in the last inning of the
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game where he gave up a home run, it flew
out and he actually motioned for a new baseball from
the catcher and they had to tell him, no, that's
the game. This is the last inning that you're pitching.
This starter. They're using only in relief, and it cost
him tonight.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
And right now, Dave Roberts just gets off the Fox
set and he's being hugged by Billy gene Kak, co
owner the Dodger having a nice moment right there with
Billy Jean King.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Everybody's hugging Dave Ray He's hugging everybody and.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
A lot of class. Also, it's game.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
One, uh, the first walk off Grand Slam in World
Series history. Coming up next, MLB Network insider John Paul
Morosi joins us what is next following one of the
great World Series games of all time?
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