October 26, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Steve DeSaegher recap one of the greatest games in World Series history. Yankees manager Aaron Boone explains why he went with Nestor Cortes over Tim Hill. And on this date in 1986, Bill Buckner allowed a ball hit by Mookie Wilson to go through his legs!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
Harmon out Tonight's special delivery.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Steve de Saga is in and what a game one
of the World Series. Look, I know we're all prisoner
of the moments and we see something that happens, but
this is a World Series game that had absolutely everything.
You had drama, you had great defensive plays, you had
strategical questions.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Of both managers.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It was everything you could possible want in a baseball game.
If you watch us, if you don't know, I don't know,
if I like baseball, you watch this game and you go, Okay,
baseball is not your thing. Not for you watch something else,
because clearly it's not your thing. This is one of
the greatest World series games you will ever see. And
I told you all week, Look, this is a world
series we're going to talk about for the next three
plus decades. It's it's that big of a deal. Dodgers, Yankees,
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all the star power, the future Hall of Famers. It
is unbelievable. And to have a moment that ends Game
one being a walk off grand Slam. See if I
mean it's I really, I mean you're thinking, okay, maybe
Freddie fair a single something, a play it, but nope,
first pitch Tromester Cortes, he deposits in the right center
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field stands first walk off grand slam in World series history,
and the Dodgers take Game one six to three.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
As far as a walk off home run, that would
be rare enough walk off homer in a World series.
Pretty rare walk off homer when you are trailing the
World series game. That's Freddie Freeman tonight. That's Kirk Gibson
at Dodger Stadium in Game one of nineteen eighty eight,
and AP points out Joe Carter's Toronto Blue Jays were
trailing when he walked off the series with his clinching
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home run in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Immediately when this went out of the.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Park, amazingly, I was trying to think, in the last
twenty years or so, have I seen more amazing World
Series games than this that we witnessed in La tonight,
And only two came to mind. One was a Dodgers
loss the twenty twenty World Series that was held at
a neutral site. Tampa Bay was able to tie up
the series two games apiece because they beat ken Lee
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Jansen with two runs in the bottom of the ninth
in an eight seven final, and the wacky play that
finished it was not just what we thought was the
tying single to right field. Remember Randy a Rosarina was
stumbling around third base and fell and was not going
to score the winning run, and he's trying to race
back to third and to throw bobbled in the outfield
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cut off, and then the throw home gets away from
the catcher at a rosarat Of scores.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Anyway, And we'd never heard of.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Brett Phillips before, and he goes with his airplane impersonation
running into left center field and the series was tied.
As John Morosi pointed out, amazing things can happen. And
then it goes the other way for the next two games.
The Dodgers won the next two games and won the
World Series.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
World Series MVP was Kevin Cash for taking Blake Snell
out of Game seven, Yes, when he was absolutely dominating.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
When the opposing team says, oh, what a great move,
He's out a game.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You've never seen Mookie Betts the video in the dugout
of him. He was so excited. Oh he's out. Good, Okay, great, he's.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Not just they're not just over at the top of
the lineup that they thought was gonna face Snell for
a third time if they hadn't touched the ball. It
was ridiculous. The other phenomenal World Series game in the
last twenty years was the David Freeze game at Saint Louis.
It kept their season alive. They got two in the
ninth to tie, they retied it with two in the tenth,
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and they got to walk off in the eleventh to
beat Texas. Just stunning that he put the home run,
remember I think Joe Buck calling it in Saint Louis
of all places, and it went on to the grass
of the batter's eye they used in center field. And
then we'll see you tomorrow night for Game seven. Quoting
his dad, I believe that is correct. Those two the
Tampa Bay Wacky finish in twenty twenty and the David
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Freeze finished.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
In twenty eleven.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And I mean this, in the last twenty years, I
could not think of others that are the equal of
the craziness we saw tonight.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Now and Freeze was down to his last strike. It
was one more strike. The season series was over and
he was and he's able to say that was.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
A ten to nine game. By the way, there was
a completely wacky Dodgers at Houston game in twenty seventeen.
I think it was like a thirteen to twelve type
of game. Yeah cheated, Yeah exactly. I do not that
include that on the list because there's only one reason
the Astro scored thirteen in that game.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
For krying out Last.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
When you Darvish was tipping his pitches ah S game
on different game, that was the joke, see buzzy.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well, no, that was actually the eroldist Chapman an actual yeah, buzzy.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Now, now you mentioned the the Kirk Gibson home run,
the Freddie Freeman home run. The similarities on social media
are going absolutely crazy between these two.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Uh so, why don't we do this?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
This is Vin Scully's call of the Kirk Gibson home
run to win Game one of the nineteen eighty eight
World Series, one of the three most famous plays in
baseball history.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Here's how Vin Scully called it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And look, dude's coming up four three days two not
a bad opening act?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Right, had the radio call of that. I don't believe
what I just saw.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, I mean it was, you know, Scully's call, and
and Gibson with the home run and pumping his fist
as he goes around the bases. And now the comparison
with Freddie Freeman. And here's a and here's a great
Joe Davis call that paid a homage to that home run.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Or says, delivery pre hits the ball, right, builds good.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Judy made funny Game one of.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The World Series.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I just caught that for the first time. He said
she is gone, which is the act exact quote from
Vince Gully.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Did she is guy? I mean that's an awesome I mean,
it's a right, what a great call by.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
How about the best part about it is Freddy's not
even halfway to first base, and I love LA's playing.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I know he doesn't even get to first base. Play it.
Play it. We won just the playing. I love La.
Play it right.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
There, both a game one of the World Series, both
at Dodger Stadium, both with Dodger lefty hitters, both with
lefty hitters that have been hobbled. Both land into the
pavilion seats in right field. This is kind of astounding.
And by the way, you talked about the video that
has been shown ever since of the Gibson home run,
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and you can see break lights in right field off
somebody who had left early but is listening to the
radio call, Oh my goodness, they just hit it out
the guy who claims to be that driver. And I
have to use the word claims because there's no way
that I can check this. He is doing stats at
the USC game downtown tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I am not kidding, No.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Not kidding you, which is the second game on Fox
TV after the World Wait.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I'm watching it right now. Miller Moss is just throwing
a touchdown. Oh break lights. I see break lights in
the back of the guy leading the guy.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
No, he is actually working.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Attending the game for people to leave the game.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I see some people in the stands for this game. Sure,
there are some people there.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Jason Bennetti and the other Yeah, Brock.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
They are just starting the second half of this one.
This is gonna be a long night. Can I mention
out loud?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's ten ten pm in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
They are just kicking off the second half. Twelve.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It was an eight o'clock start because there was a
whole big traffic a gedden thing here in Los Angeles
day because you had Game one of the World Series.
You had usc playing at home, you had a big
concert at so Far, you had.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Like five different Flakers things. Lakers had a big Oh
by the.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Way, you had the big high school East LA game
at the Rams Stadium.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I mean, so everybody is crazy tonight with with traffic.
So they started this game at eight o'clock. And when
they said, Okay, we're gonna go for the UOC game
after the Dodger game is over, I'm like, are they
holding the kickoff for the end of the.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Until like nine?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
And then and then the baseball game goes extra innings
and Freddy Freeman with I have to mention it as
Freddy the Dodger hero Tonight Freddie Freeman and the guy
who was the Yankee starter in this same game tonight
are from the same place, Orange, California. They are both
from right across the freeway from the Angel Stadium in Anaheim.
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Freddie Freeman went to the public high school. Garrett Cole
went to the private high school, literally three miles apart,
and one starts game one and the other.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Ends game one in southern California.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
On top of that, we had the Yankee home run
Heron carlost.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
What you're saying, public school greater than private school, that's
what you're saying right now.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Okay, I guess you're saying that.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
All right.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Then we had the Yankee home run hero, jun Carlos
stan who had given them the lead in the sixth
and who did he hit the home run off of
Jack Flaherty, also from Los Angeles, the Dodger starter. Those
two from a mile apart in Sherman Oaks, California, because
Flaherty played at Sherman Oaks Little League and Stanton starred
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at Notre Dame High School on Riverside Drive one mile apart,
and one hit the homer off the other tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And Flerdy had been to well over one hundred Dodger games.
He grew up a huge Dodger.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Mom was there behind home late tonight.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I mean just just I mean, you say this this
game had everything.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I will add one thing that you've brought up before
that we've brought up multiple times on the show, that
they used Cortes coming off the injured list as the
lefty reliever in the tenth and not Tim Hill, a
guy who was used over and over with success against
the Cleveland Guardians to win the ALCS.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
His last four.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Games in that series, he was used and he did
not give up a run in any of those games.
So we have a game one at Dodger Stadium and
Tim Hill, who's from southern California, born and raised in
Los Angeles, was not used, and the guy they pick
instead loses the game to the Dodgers in La Tim
Hill is from You're not in nils Ice cull.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
We'll have more on that part of the story coming
up in about ten minutes because Aaron Boone has just
talked about why Tim Hill didn't comitt he went to
to Cortes. But you think about this game, right, the
superlos for this game are just crazy. But you know,
I was thinking back, you know, I'd try to make
a comparison on this is that when the Force Awakens
came out in twenty fifteen, it was the rebirth of
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the Star Wars franchise. Everybody's excited, how is it going
to be? And you know what, Force Awakens was pretty good.
Basically it retold Star Wars. It was the same kind
of thing, right. The movie makers wanted to play it
safe a little bit. Hey what if we just kind
of retold Star Wars with new characters but a little
bit different way. And it was successful, right, And you
saw a lot of things from Force Awakens that we
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saw in the first Star Wars movie. Is great to
see those comparisons in this game tonight. Okay, there were
three callbacks to three of the most famous plays in
baseball history. Freddie Freeman's home run versus the Kirk Gibson
home run, right the play before Alex Verdugo was Now
it's going to be lost in history because the Yankees lost.
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Go makes an incredible catch along the left field line,
going into the stands to catch Shoheo Tani's fly ball
completely and fully into the stands, so much so that
the runners are allowed to get another base because he
actually left the field of play. He's limping as he
gets up, and I saw that, and I said, that's
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Jeter into the stands against the Red Sox from all
those years ago. And then also now that's going to
be lost on a footnote when it broke the internet.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Was the fan in center field.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Who reached over to grab Labor Torus's drive to the wall,
where in past years it would have been a home run.
But this Dodger fan decides, I want to catch the ball,
so with a glove, he reaches over the fence, catches
the ball. Now they go and look at it on
replay and you can see clearly the ball would have
been off the wall. It would have been a double.
They got the call right. This guy doesn't matter. He
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left the game so fast. He's packing up stuff into
his clear Dodger blatic back.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Time to go. Everybody hates me. I gotta I gotta go.
And you think about Jeffrey Mayor and Steve Bartman. So
you had one game of the World Series and we're
talking about not only what happened, but we're talking about
Kirk Gibson Derek Jeter, Jeffrey Mayer and Steve Bartman. That
is some hell of a game, Steve, that we're talking about,
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these four guys.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Wrapping all up and Jeter of course is there at
the Fox desk. And remember he had done that more
than once. He had the playoff game in Oakland flying
into the stands and the game against the Red Sox
as well. This was all phenomenal. I can't get enough
of this series. Bring me more.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
We will have more on this coming up next.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Again, we'll hear from Aaron Boone why did he go
to Nestor Cortes? And we will ask the biggest was
it worth a question?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Of Game one of the World Series?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Steve to Sayer, I'm gonna put you on the spot
with a was it worth a question?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Are you ready standing by?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
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Speaker 1 (15:02):
So there's a Joe Davis call, she is gone, give
me me Freddy, and not even around first base play.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I love la play it. Just play it. We're ready.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Uh so, now go to put you on the spot,
Steve di Sega with a big, big question, are you ready?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yes, we're gonna play. Was it worth it? Okay? Was
it worth it? So?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
One of the big plays in this game that that
had so many twists and turns. This is a game
for baseball purists. It was a game for the average
baseball fan and everybody. I mean, if if you couldn't,
if you couldn't like tonight, then just don't watch baseball.
Uh So, the first time we broke the internet tonight
was when the fan in center field reached over the
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wall to grab Labor Torus's drive.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It was ruled to be a double.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Jeffrey Mayer was invoked, Steve Bartman was invoked. Maybe he
was gonna ruin the game for the Dodgers and it
was gonna be a.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Home runs interfering with playoff hits.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But upon review, they got the call right. Torres was
allowed to go to second base. This fan, however, I
don't know if he was forced to leave the game
or just thought, hey, it's a good idea if I
leave the game, because now people are gonna be mad
at me. And you saw him pack up and leave,
packed up his stuff so fast, like me leaving a
buffet when they say here comes the asparagus. That's how
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fast he got out of there.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Now, let's play. Was it worth it? So he's infamous.
He catches that ball that could have been a home run.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
He'll do interviews people will talk to him, people will
want to see the ball. He will be an infamous figure.
But he misses Freddie Freeman's grand slab because he left
the game. So I ask you, Steve de Seger, was
it worth it for that fan to do what he
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did not getting to see Freddie Freeman?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
No? No, you go your whole life hoping to see
something like tonight in person. My only caveat is that
perhaps he packed up his bags quickly and the family
probably with him. There were other people he was talking to,
Let's go, we gotta go right now.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Oh no, no, no, we have to go.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Did they sneak into the upper level somehow stay on
the grounds of Dodger Stadium. Was he still able to
see the tenth inning Grand Slam? Because if not, oh
my goodness, what a loser. Seriously, you go your whole
life to be in person for a game like tonight,
your whole life any sport this happens with you in
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literally a front row seat. He had one of what
they called the home run seats at Dodger Stadium, separate
sections for the first two rows at the outfield fence,
and he blew it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Now, before you want to say, well, maybe it's worth
it for the guy because he's going to get to
meet all they want to see it. Let me just
tell you, this is how every conversation is gonna go. Wait,
so that was you? Yeah, yeah, that was me. He
here though, Oh my god, it was you. Here's a
picture of you on the wall. Here's the ball. Oh
my god, it really was you, dude. That was amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah. Hey, what was it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Like to be there when Freddy hit that home run?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You see the ball, it's right here. You want to
touch it. I'll let you hold it. You want to
hold the ball, it's right here.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, but do it. That home run must have been yeah. Yeah,
I think dinner ready. Let's go downstairs. I think dinner's ready.
So the question is you were you weren't there?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yes, I was forced to leave the game because Dodger
fans wanted to kill me.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
In the end, I don't know that there was a
reason for him to leave, because the play went as
it should have.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
If anything, he probably helped the.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Dodgers because the only thing that would have happened, right,
Let's just say he doesn't put his glove over to
get the ball.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Now, obviously it'd be a double off the wall anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Maybe yeah, you throw a lot of things up in
the air, because let's just say it was closer to
the top of the wall. Who knows how it would
have been adjudicated, right, But you could see on replay
the guy clearly reaches over the wall. It was going
to hit the wall, right, Even Yankee fans that I
know that I follow on social media, big ones with
check mark no, no right call was made. So and
the only thing he did really was potentially the ball
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could have bounced and taken a weird hop and gone
over keik Hernandez' head and maybe torres is on third.
So with that being a double, I mean.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
By admitting it was, he's getting instant derision though, because
it doesn't matter he's wearing a Dodger or sweatshirt or
shirt or whatever that was. He's not going to be
able to stay there, and then the security will, for
interfering with the game itself, will be kicking him out.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh that is true, the security would be there, but
really the fans will like that's the word, that's the
lowest part of it, because like, well, he really.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Kind of helped a little bit.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I also do might not have known the rule, the
new rule, so at first probably thought, oh my god,
he cost us Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Because he was packing up to leave when they were
still Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Well, I don't know if anybody, I mean, at that point,
you're so you're so emotional, you know, sure, just did
he just cost us a home run?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Did that just happened? Because when they showed him packing.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Up, Uh, it was you know, it was while they
were still looking at you know, it was why they's
to look at it, like did he did he get
all this stuff and he ran down all this stops up?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You can come back. It's okay, it's a double came back.
Point out.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
It's all seat location for this.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
He's in front of the pavilion fans in left field.
Where have the most problems been with throwing things at
Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Jason Smith, I have the answer, Okay, left field, that
is correct.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
It's the cheap seats out by the foul pole. There's
no way he would have been able to stay even
if he hadn't been quickly thrown out.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, that's you know, And the thing is, it's when
h when my wife went, I went to game two
in game.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Six and the NLCS, my wife is like, where do
you want to sit?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
We're looking it was not as good as game too,
and my WEF's like, where do you want to sit?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I'm looking for tickets.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
She's looking all over the place for game two and
I said, look, here's where I want to sit. I
want to sit behind the Mets dugout and I want
to sit in the lower bowl. She was okay, she's well,
I found these seats here for I.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Look.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I go, No, I'm not sitting in the bleachers wearing
wearing Mets care.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Not doing it.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
No, no, no, I want to be down but I
want to be down there. I'm not going to be
too far away. No, because the only thing is that
is is that when you sit down lower it's like, hey,
you're closer.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
There's a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Going on, there's more security, there's more people walking in
and out.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know, you don't reach your people on an island.
Like I've done that before.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Like I learned my lesson when I was younger, going
to games wearing jet ski er an other stadium, sitting
in the chiefs.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
HEAs I'm going, Oh, I shouldn't have done this.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Cheap seats. People don't think.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
It's not just that they have nothing to lose, is
they don't think in the first place, this.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Is a bad idea. Man, I'm not doing it, but
you know it really he kind of helped him. But yeah,
you know, the whole part of the security going to
interfere with the game and we have to move you.
But like, I don't know if they moved him out
of the stadium. Did they make him leave, like and
was he there with his family? Like did he have
a kid there? And suddenly I guess, sorry, don't get
it looked like because because dad caught a foul ball.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Well, keep in mind the history of Dodger security on
balls that do go to the fans four actual home runs,
you know, they kind of want to steal it from
you and get it back to the player.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
And here's a couple of bats and that's it.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
And so if this guy robbed what he thought was
a home run because he thinks he's gonna be an
instant millionaire, hey guess what wasn't a home run? And
we all saw it on video review. B you can't
stay see security is coming. Hello, the hat trick. Does
he deserve the needle eight?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I wanted to see him, you know, if you could
put a GoPro on him.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Hey, And he gets into the Yankee Clubhouse after the game, going, hey,
you want to buy this ball from me? It's the
tourist ball that I bet it pulled. Who wants to
buy this ball? Anybody you got? Why are you guys
so down? Why you guys? Come on, man, it was
a great game. You want to buy this ball, I'll
give you the ball.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
He would find out quickly how powerful the right cross
of one Aaron Judge is or Jim Carlos Stand, Hey, guys,
real question for you. Yeah, who's dumber tonight?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Oh boy?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
That that fan doing what he did?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Or Aaron Boone going with Nester? Well, it was not
written on the back of Aaron's Boone's ticket that he
could not interfere with the bullpen.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
So I'll go with the fan.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, it says right here, I can't interfere with the bullpen. Look,
we're gonna hear from Aaron Boone in a second. Because
he looked knowing New York sports.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
As I do, knowing what it's like to be a fit.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
This might be talked about.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
You're saying no, well.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Not only just talked about, but you know how when
Seattle Seahawks fans wake up every day and the first
thought is, Okay, let me get ready, are we on time?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
What's the weather?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Like?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
What do I need to wear? I can't believe we
didn't give the ball to Marshall on the goal line. Like,
that's going to be thought every day. That's everybody's third
thought of the day in Seattle for the rest of
their lives. Right, why do we give the ball to
Marshal on If the Yankees lose the World Series? Every
Yankee fan in New York City, this is gonna be
a thirty or forty year daily thing of why the
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hell wasn't Tim Hill in that game? Why the hell
wasn't a guy that pitched great in the and the Alcs.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Has been really good all year long times?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Why was he not in that game?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
And why was Nesta Cortes, who hasn't pitched in September eighteenth?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Why was he in the game?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Like that's what's gonna be And every Yankee fan is
gonna wake up every day and that's gonna be their
first thought. Trust me, I know, I still think about
Jets games from the eighties. I still wonder how Mark
Gasto late hit Bernie Cozar. I still wonder how the
hell Blair Thomas fumbled on Monday Night in Chicago in
nineteen ninety one. Like all these things, I still think
about out as many testaverity time. You know, like I said,
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there's games that you still think about, and a lot
of fan bases have them. And this is gonna be
a thirty year question for a franchise that doesn't have
a lot of moments where hey, we really made a
bad decision. Right the last time you look back and say,
hey we lost in two thousand and three, right the
last night of the Yankee Dynasty, the buster only that
made him a big star. Okay, Rivera got beat Okay,
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what are you gonna do? But so so that's the
one moment Yankee fans have been living with. But it
was like, hey, our closer got beaten the ninth inning. Okay,
oh we lost to the Red Sox. We blew a
three nothing lead. Well that is what stayed with them
more than the Rivera thing for the last twenty years,
because it was their arch rival. The first time a
team had blown a three zero lead and had to
watch the Red Sox win the World Series. Turn into
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a mini dynasty. They've been living with that for twenty years.
That will now be gone. They won't even think about that.
If the Yankees lose this World Series. It's gonna be
why the hell was Tim Hill not in the game?
And why was Nestor Cortez in the game. That's gonna
be all they think about.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
So it's a very short list in Yankee history. So
you can add tonight to giving up the Bill Mazeroski
homer to lose the World Series in nineteen sixty and
the Dave Roberts stolen base that started the Red Sox
come back twenty years ago in the playoffs. Aside from that,
I think other teams have longer lists than the New
York Yankees, which brings us to Derek Jeter, the Yankee
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captain who's at the desk for Fox pre and postgame,
and he said, first off, in his comment postgame on
FS one, I know we talk about how pitchers are
used these days, and inevitably we wind up saying, you know,
back in my day, But I'll give you this example.
He said, in my day and it was just over
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twenty years ago there was a Mets Yankees World Series
and he said al Lighter threw one hundred and forty pitches,
and then he talks about the Yankees had a starter
tonight going Garrett Cole.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
He was dominating the game.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
And if you take him out after eighty eight pitches
for I don't know what reason, it's a domino effect
on not only this game tonight, tomorrow's game, and the
rest of the series.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
So I preach in the background from X Yankee Alex Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
But look, it's because we're gonna hear from Aaron Boone
coming up in a second. But it's not like Garrett
Cole was just okay's coming out. He went back out
there to pitch into the seventh inning and Hernandez single
to start the inning, so he had thrown eighty eight
pitches and okay, he's but now it's okay, we didn't
just take you out of the game, because that was
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the way we take you out. Don't watch you see
the lineup again. They took him out when he gave
up a leadoff single. Okay, right, they went. I was
actually okay with that because you know they took It's
not like they just took him out to take him out.
They took him out after he gave it. Okay, there's
nobody out. Maybe you're running out of gas right now.
The last one want is the second guy to come
up and clock one and suddenly now we have to
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take you out.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
And instead of.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Our new reliever coming in, which is Clay Holmes, instead
of Clay Holmes coming in and inheriting no oubt and
somebody on first, which okay, he's inheriting, nobody out and
runners at second and third, and suddenly our two to
one lead is going to evaporate. I was actually okay
with them taking Garret Cole out at that point, but.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
They didn't take him out for like a specific lefty
against lefty situation. They removed the right handed starter for
Clay Holmes, a right handed reliever. The guy who was
so bad late season he lost his role as the closer.
His era in the month of September was like six.
And that's how they found Luke Weaver to be their
closer is because the guy lost the job, not that
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Weaver won it. And what does he do with the
first batter he faces after they pulled Garrett Cole.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
He hits Max Munsey.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
And if not for that bunt, the Dodgers might have
scored that inning that they took Cole out.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
So let's hear from Aaron Boone.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
A few moments ago, he was asked, Hey, why would
does Nester Cortez in the game in the tenth inning
instead of Tim Hill?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
And here was Aaron Boone's.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Answer, Because I'm dumb?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Did he say it like johnck Andrew dice Clay? Hey,
because I'm dumb.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
You know I mentioned all the local ties tonight.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
This was UCLA's Dave Roberts out managing USC's Aaron Boone.
They faced each other as players in college. What all Boone?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah, that is a great quote for Booon.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Hey, I well, we'll hear from Boon in the second.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Let's find out what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports. Steed to sagas d what he got.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Hickory Dickory Cortes and the Dodger Steed Game one of
the World Series. Well only at the last stroke of bennight,
so to speak, a grand slam by Freddie Freeman beats
the Yankees in ten innings, six to three. Now we
call Sarah Langs the amazing Sarah Langs because she's the
best baseball researchers out there.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
She has topped herself with this one.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
We have made all the massive amount of analogies to
the Dodgers winning Game one of the nineteen eighty eight
World Series in dramatic fashion with Kirk Gibson's walk off.
That game ended at eight thirty nine PM at Dodger Stadium.
Tonight's game ended at eight thirty eight PM at Dodger Stadium,
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and the games did not start at the same time.
Freddie Freeman tonight zero, beating Nestor Cortes, who threw two
pitches in relief. The Yanks wound up losing because in
part they left eleven men on base. Jazz Chisholm had
three stolen bases, two of them in the top of
the tenth. He scored the go ahead run on a
fielder's choice. Gen Carlos Stanton La Native a two run homer,
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a long one to left in the sixth inning for
the Yankees. It came off starter for the Dodgers. Jack Flaherty.
LA's offense in regulation had sackflies from Will Smith in
the fifth and in the bottom of the eighth, Mookie
Betts the sack fly to tie at two to two.
Dodgers win it on a walk off slam six to
three over the Yankees in ten. Game two, also on
Fox TV Saturday, eight pm Eastern Time, Carlos Rodin, Yoshinobo
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Yamamoto the scheduled starters, and we have to say again
out loud. Cortes was used in the tenth even though
this was literally his first game back from the injured list.
He'd been out five weeks with a strained elbow. John,
We've got college football going on Fox TV right now
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from downtown la is leading thirty five twenty over Rutgers
in the third quarter and five minutes left in the game.
Seventeenth rank Boise State with a short lead at UNLV
of twenty nine twenty four Heisman candidate running back Ashton
genty on twenty nine carries as one hundred nine yards
rushing and a score, and a reminder that Washington Commander's
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quarterback Jaden Daniels with the rib injury, did return to
limited practice today.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Game time decision, See you, thank.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
You, Steve.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
All right, so let's hear from Aaron Boone real fast
talking about why he brought in Cortes instead of Tim Hill,
a question that will linger in Yankee fans minds maybe
for the rest of eternity.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
I brought I'm sure had not pitched some September eighteenth.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Why did you like him in that tenth inner?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Just like the matchup.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
The reality is he's been throwing the ball really well
the last few weeks as he's gotten ready for this.
I knew with one out there would be tough to
double up show Hey, if Tim Hill gets him on
the ground and then Mooky behind him, is tough matchup there.
So felt convicted with Nester in that spot, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
So basically what he's saying is that he thought he
had better better ability to get a pop up than
a ball on the ground with Otani that was maybe
not going to extend the inning.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
And he was right.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
He was right about that because he got the pop
up to Otani on the first pitch that Alec Fradugo
makes the great play on, so.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Which a normal foul ball on most ad bets yes.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And and and and So he was right about that.
So I'm glad he at least had a reason for
it doesn't mean anybody's gonna say, oh, okay, I get
it all. All of the good will that Aaron Boone
won by getting the Ankees of the World Series, that's
all gone now because that that is going to be
questioned for the rest of eternity. That's that's what Aaron
Boone has done with one. It was a lot better
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justin you are right, it was a lot, a lot
more to the point again, let's hear the first quote
again from from Aaron Boone.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
I'm a dumbass.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I think it's a little different from the first quote.
But that's okay, that's all right. It worked out that way.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
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Speaker 3 (33:13):
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Speaker 1 (33:14):
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Speaker 2 (33:18):
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Speaker 3 (33:26):
Deliveries, prem hits the ball.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Right, build sees it's good. Getty made Jay game one
of the World Series.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Joe Davis on the call, She is gone.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Freddie Freeman's Grand Slam one of the great World Series
games you will ever watch. And you know, it's funny, Steve,
because there's so much comparison going on right now, Jason Smith,
Steve de Sager.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Uh justify with nineteen eighty eight and the Open year with.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
The Freeman home run and the Gibson what's a bigger
home run? This is the Yankees. This is such a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And and I get that, but you know, the Kirk
Gibson home run is probably one of the three most
famous plays in baseball history. Agreed, right, Because I'll give
you I'll give you the Gibson home run, the Buckner
play and Bobby Thompson shot her around the world fifty one.
Those are the three biggest big The Giants win. The Pennant,
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the Giants win.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Because with those it was so unlikely that he was
even on the field. Yes, at least Freddy Freeman with
the ankle, he'd had the week off in between rounds.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, with Gibson, it was the Dodgers were a team that, look,
you said, didn't even deserve to be there.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
They weren't that great.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
They upset the Mets in the in the playoffs, and
here are the A's that are the huge Bash Brothers
A's and Eckerslee is lights out, and it's Conseko and McGuire.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Great starting stash.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And and the Dodgers were the worst lineup in the
history of the World Series. I mean, it was so
shocking to have that for a walk off home run
because that was back when we just hadn't had a
lot of walk off home runs in that kind of situation.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Before Joe Carter, before Toronto, before the early nineties.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah we have, we haven't had that, so that was
such a big deal. And yeah, here's Freddy Freemore with
a walk off Grand Slam. First time we saw it. Yes,
it's a huge it's a huge play. But I mean,
just think about and you're talking about in the history
of the game. That's the three most famous plays that
we have ever seen.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
And what makes that especially astounding that Gibson home run
is because the Dodgers followed it up with the cy
Young pitcher the next night, who not only had a
two run double, but could pitch another complete game, and
then came back in Game five with another complete game,
and they wrapped it up because the cy young winner
pitched two complete games. As I recall, I mean they
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had the workhorse. There is no such thing as a
workhorse in their rotation. So still the story of this
series has yet to be written.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
And now you want anything to come full circle, there
then to come full circle, going into the three most
famous players in baseball history. Freddie Freeman walk off home
run in the World Series tonight, probably the second most
famous play on this day in World Series history, because
it was thirty eight years ago today.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Vin Scully told us what it was like when a
little time.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Why what what are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (36:24):
This is a classic.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
This is where we're bringing a full circle.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
What you're doing here, Vin Scully, Vin's into the World
Series conversation. You're just so lucky, Vins on the call.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
That's why we're doing it.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
It was when Vin Scully told us what happened with
a little baseball rolls behind the bag.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Little roller up along firsh behind the bag gets throng.
But there it comes night.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
And I have a technical point to make okay it
was after midnight because that was such a long game,
No boo. Technically that was October twenty sixth that that occurred.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
God.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
And on top of that, we had a walk off
rouge in the CFL tonight, So really it's a battle
for what was the biggest.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
A walk off rouge.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
And hey, let me let me just say this because
you obviously look that this this owned the night tonight.
The Knicks blew out the Pacers in the early game
of the night in the NBA. I'm feeling much better
about the Knicks now than they did after the Celtics game.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
But the Lakers come from twenty two down to win.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And the video is great from the crypt when they
show Freddie Freeman's home run on the jumbo tron. Bradley Beale,
who was out of the game for the Suns, his
video of him seeing the home one going man Freddie
Freeman just just smacked that for the win.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Wow. The Lakers.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I don't know, it's only two games, but clearly they
look to be a different team than they were last year.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
And it's not just about the health.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Early part of the season obviously, look early part of
the season for veterans when they're playing well because they've
had a lot of rest. But you see players that
JJ Reddick was supposed to come in and light a
fire under, and it's Austin Reeves and Ruey Hotchimoora and
D'Angelo Russell, and these guys have been really good in
the first couple of games. This maybe the Lakers might
be a little bit better than we thought. Okay, yeah, okay,
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it's the Suns, but it's the Suns tonight and it
was the Timberwolves the other night. Hang on a second,
Maybe the Lakers are a little bit better than we
think they.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Are, and Anthony Davis can be good on back to
back games. I looked it up. After a beal bucket
early second quarter in LA. The Suns lead was forty
five twenty three over the Lakers, and the Lakers wound
up coming back to win by seven against me. Peve
let me guess how they did it. Brownie James came
in and went, let's see back like twelve shots hours
box score.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
But he had four threes in a row, and then
the Sons called time out. Then he hit four more
threes in a row, and then the Son's called time
out again.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Let's see DNP coaches decision. What does that DNP mean?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Oh, by the way, you want another bring full circle.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Watch the first base angle of Freddie Freeman's home run.
Who do you see in the background losing his mind
before anybody.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Else does, knowing the ball is gone? Magic Johnson?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Oh really, watch watch the video from the first base
angle because he's at standing there. Yes, and you see
mag just go like before anybody else Thatt, like before
Mary Hart sees everything like Magic Johns. Who not at
the Laker playoff game, or not the Laker game, at
the Dodger game.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
He's the guy losing his mind first.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Amazing that Freddy Freeman hit it so well. He fairly
quickly just raises his right arm with the bat in
the hand. And what did we say right before that swing?
Throughout the playoffs without the ankle, he didn't have two
firm feet in the box. But now he's had days
off and he hits that first pitch.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
And clearly he and Otani saw something from Cortes. Each
of them were first ball swinging. They saw fastballs they liked.
Otani pops up. Freddie Freeman puts his head into the
seats and right center fields. They saw something. They knew
what happened coming up next. Burn and Bernie
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Speaker 1 (00:38):
Steve de Saga is in and what a game one
of the World Series. Look, I know we're all prisoner
of the moments and we see something that happens, but
this is a World Series game that had absolutely everything.
You had drama, you had great defensive plays, you had
strategical questions.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Of both managers.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It was everything you could possible want in a baseball game.
If you watch us, if you don't know, I don't know,
if I like baseball, you watch this game and you go, Okay,
baseball is not your thing. Not for you watch something else,
because clearly it's not your thing. This is one of
the greatest World series games you will ever see. And
I told you all week, Look, this is a world
series we're going to talk about for the next three
plus decades. It's it's that big of a deal. Dodgers, Yankees,
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all the star power, the future Hall of Famers. It
is unbelievable. And to have a moment that ends Game
one being a walk off grand Slam. See if I
mean it's I really, I mean you're thinking, okay, maybe
Freddie fair a single something, a play it, but nope,
first pitch Tromester Cortes, he deposits in the right center
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field stands first walk off grand slam in World series history,
and the Dodgers take Game one six to three.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
As far as a walk off home run, that would
be rare enough walk off homer in a World series.
Pretty rare walk off homer when you are trailing the
World series game. That's Freddie Freeman tonight. That's Kirk Gibson
at Dodger Stadium in Game one of nineteen eighty eight,
and AP points out Joe Carter's Toronto Blue Jays were
trailing when he walked off the series with his clinching
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home run in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Immediately when this went out of the.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Park, amazingly, I was trying to think, in the last
twenty years or so, have I seen more amazing World
Series games than this that we witnessed in La tonight,
And only two came to mind. One was a Dodgers
loss the twenty twenty World Series that was held at
a neutral site. Tampa Bay was able to tie up
the series two games apiece because they beat ken Lee
(02:38):
Jansen with two runs in the bottom of the ninth
in an eight seven final, and the wacky play that
finished it was not just what we thought was the
tying single to right field. Remember Randy a Rosarina was
stumbling around third base and fell and was not going
to score the winning run, and he's trying to race
back to third and to throw bobbled in the outfield
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cut off, and then the throw home gets away from
the catcher at a rosarat Of scores.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Anyway, And we'd never heard of.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Brett Phillips before, and he goes with his airplane impersonation
running into left center field and the series was tied.
As John Morosi pointed out, amazing things can happen. And
then it goes the other way for the next two games.
The Dodgers won the next two games and won the
World Series.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
World Series MVP was Kevin Cash for taking Blake Snell
out of Game seven, Yes, when he was absolutely dominating.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
When the opposing team says, oh, what a great move,
He's out a game.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You've never seen Mookie Betts the video in the dugout
of him. He was so excited. Oh he's out. Good, Okay, great, he's.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Not just they're not just over at the top of
the lineup that they thought was gonna face Snell for
a third time if they hadn't touched the ball. It
was ridiculous. The other phenomenal World Series game in the
last twenty years was the David Freeze game at Saint Louis.
It kept their season alive. They got two in the
ninth to tie, they retied it with two in the tenth,
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and they got to walk off in the eleventh to
beat Texas. Just stunning that he put the home run,
remember I think Joe Buck calling it in Saint Louis
of all places, and it went on to the grass
of the batter's eye they used in center field. And
then we'll see you tomorrow night for Game seven. Quoting
his dad, I believe that is correct. Those two the
Tampa Bay Wacky finish in twenty twenty and the David
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Freeze finished.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
In twenty eleven.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And I mean this, in the last twenty years, I
could not think of others that are the equal of
the craziness we saw tonight.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Now and Freeze was down to his last strike. It
was one more strike. The season series was over and
he was and he's able to say that was.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
A ten to nine game. By the way, there was
a completely wacky Dodgers at Houston game in twenty seventeen.
I think it was like a thirteen to twelve type
of game. Yeah cheated, Yeah exactly. I do not that
include that on the list because there's only one reason
the Astro scored thirteen in that game.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
For krying out Last.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
When you Darvish was tipping his pitches ah S game
on different game, that was the joke, see buzzy.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well, no, that was actually the eroldist Chapman an actual yeah, buzzy.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Now, now you mentioned the the Kirk Gibson home run,
the Freddie Freeman home run. The similarities on social media
are going absolutely crazy between these two.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Uh so, why don't we do this?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
This is Vin Scully's call of the Kirk Gibson home
run to win Game one of the nineteen eighty eight
World Series, one of the three most famous plays in
baseball history.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Here's how Vin Scully called it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And look, dude's coming up four three days two not
a bad opening act?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Right, had the radio call of that. I don't believe
what I just saw.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, I mean it was, you know, Scully's call, and
and Gibson with the home run and pumping his fist
as he goes around the bases. And now the comparison
with Freddie Freeman. And here's a and here's a great
Joe Davis call that paid a homage to that home run.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Or says, delivery pre hits the ball, right, builds good.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Judy made funny Game one of.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The World Series.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I just caught that for the first time. He said
she is gone, which is the act exact quote from
Vince Gully.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Did she is guy? I mean that's an awesome I mean,
it's a right, what a great call by.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
How about the best part about it is Freddy's not
even halfway to first base, and I love LA's playing.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I know he doesn't even get to first base. Play it.
Play it. We won just the playing. I love La.
Play it right.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
There, both a game one of the World Series, both
at Dodger Stadium, both with Dodger lefty hitters, both with
lefty hitters that have been hobbled. Both land into the
pavilion seats in right field. This is kind of astounding.
And by the way, you talked about the video that
has been shown ever since of the Gibson home run,
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and you can see break lights in right field off
somebody who had left early but is listening to the
radio call, Oh my goodness, they just hit it out
the guy who claims to be that driver. And I
have to use the word claims because there's no way
that I can check this. He is doing stats at
the USC game downtown tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I am not kidding, No.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Not kidding you, which is the second game on Fox
TV after the World Wait.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I'm watching it right now. Miller Moss is just throwing
a touchdown. Oh break lights. I see break lights in
the back of the guy leading the guy.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
No, he is actually working.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Attending the game for people to leave the game.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I see some people in the stands for this game. Sure,
there are some people there.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Jason Bennetti and the other Yeah, Brock.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
They are just starting the second half of this one.
This is gonna be a long night. Can I mention
out loud?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's ten ten pm in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
They are just kicking off the second half. Twelve.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It was an eight o'clock start because there was a
whole big traffic a gedden thing here in Los Angeles
day because you had Game one of the World Series.
You had usc playing at home, you had a big
concert at so Far, you had.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Like five different Flakers things. Lakers had a big Oh
by the.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Way, you had the big high school East LA game
at the Rams Stadium.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I mean, so everybody is crazy tonight with with traffic.
So they started this game at eight o'clock. And when
they said, Okay, we're gonna go for the UOC game
after the Dodger game is over, I'm like, are they
holding the kickoff for the end of the.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Until like nine?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
And then and then the baseball game goes extra innings
and Freddy Freeman with I have to mention it as
Freddy the Dodger hero Tonight Freddie Freeman and the guy
who was the Yankee starter in this same game tonight
are from the same place, Orange, California. They are both
from right across the freeway from the Angel Stadium in Anaheim.
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Freddie Freeman went to the public high school. Garrett Cole
went to the private high school, literally three miles apart,
and one starts game one and the other.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Ends game one in southern California.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
On top of that, we had the Yankee home run
Heron carlost.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
What you're saying, public school greater than private school, that's
what you're saying right now.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Okay, I guess you're saying that.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
All right.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Then we had the Yankee home run hero, jun Carlos
stan who had given them the lead in the sixth
and who did he hit the home run off of
Jack Flaherty, also from Los Angeles, the Dodger starter. Those
two from a mile apart in Sherman Oaks, California, because
Flaherty played at Sherman Oaks Little League and Stanton starred
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at Notre Dame High School on Riverside Drive one mile apart,
and one hit the homer off the other tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And Flerdy had been to well over one hundred Dodger games.
He grew up a huge Dodger.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Mom was there behind home late tonight.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I mean just just I mean, you say this this
game had everything.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I will add one thing that you've brought up before
that we've brought up multiple times on the show, that
they used Cortes coming off the injured list as the
lefty reliever in the tenth and not Tim Hill, a
guy who was used over and over with success against
the Cleveland Guardians to win the ALCS.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
His last four.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Games in that series, he was used and he did
not give up a run in any of those games.
So we have a game one at Dodger Stadium and
Tim Hill, who's from southern California, born and raised in
Los Angeles, was not used, and the guy they pick
instead loses the game to the Dodgers in La Tim
Hill is from You're not in nils Ice cull.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
We'll have more on that part of the story coming
up in about ten minutes because Aaron Boone has just
talked about why Tim Hill didn't comitt he went to
to Cortes. But you think about this game, right, the
superlos for this game are just crazy. But you know,
I was thinking back, you know, I'd try to make
a comparison on this is that when the Force Awakens
came out in twenty fifteen, it was the rebirth of
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the Star Wars franchise. Everybody's excited, how is it going
to be? And you know what, Force Awakens was pretty good.
Basically it retold Star Wars. It was the same kind
of thing, right. The movie makers wanted to play it
safe a little bit. Hey what if we just kind
of retold Star Wars with new characters but a little
bit different way. And it was successful, right, And you
saw a lot of things from Force Awakens that we
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saw in the first Star Wars movie. Is great to
see those comparisons in this game tonight. Okay, there were
three callbacks to three of the most famous plays in
baseball history. Freddie Freeman's home run versus the Kirk Gibson
home run, right the play before Alex Verdugo was Now
it's going to be lost in history because the Yankees lost.
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Go makes an incredible catch along the left field line,
going into the stands to catch Shoheo Tani's fly ball
completely and fully into the stands, so much so that
the runners are allowed to get another base because he
actually left the field of play. He's limping as he
gets up, and I saw that, and I said, that's
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Jeter into the stands against the Red Sox from all
those years ago. And then also now that's going to
be lost on a footnote when it broke the internet.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Was the fan in center field.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Who reached over to grab Labor Torus's drive to the wall,
where in past years it would have been a home run.
But this Dodger fan decides, I want to catch the ball,
so with a glove, he reaches over the fence, catches
the ball. Now they go and look at it on
replay and you can see clearly the ball would have
been off the wall. It would have been a double.
They got the call right. This guy doesn't matter. He
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left the game so fast. He's packing up stuff into
his clear Dodger blatic back.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Time to go. Everybody hates me. I gotta I gotta go.
And you think about Jeffrey Mayor and Steve Bartman. So
you had one game of the World Series and we're
talking about not only what happened, but we're talking about
Kirk Gibson Derek Jeter, Jeffrey Mayer and Steve Bartman. That
is some hell of a game, Steve, that we're talking about,
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these four guys.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Wrapping all up and Jeter of course is there at
the Fox desk. And remember he had done that more
than once. He had the playoff game in Oakland flying
into the stands and the game against the Red Sox
as well. This was all phenomenal. I can't get enough
of this series. Bring me more.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
We will have more on this coming up next.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Again, we'll hear from Aaron Boone why did he go
to Nestor Cortes? And we will ask the biggest was
it worth a question?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Of Game one of the World Series?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Steve to Sayer, I'm gonna put you on the spot
with a was it worth a question?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Are you ready standing by?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
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Speaker 6 (14:50):
Right, build seed good, gimme may.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
So there's a Joe Davis call, she is gone, give
me me Freddy, and not even around first base play.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I love la play it. Just play it. We're ready.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Uh so, now go to put you on the spot,
Steve di Sega with a big, big question, are you ready?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yes, we're gonna play. Was it worth it? Okay? Was
it worth it? So?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
One of the big plays in this game that that
had so many twists and turns. This is a game
for baseball purists. It was a game for the average
baseball fan and everybody. I mean, if if you couldn't,
if you couldn't like tonight, then just don't watch baseball.
Uh So, the first time we broke the internet tonight
was when the fan in center field reached over the
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wall to grab Labor Torus's drive.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It was ruled to be a double.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Jeffrey Mayer was invoked, Steve Bartman was invoked. Maybe he
was gonna ruin the game for the Dodgers and it
was gonna be a.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Home runs interfering with playoff hits.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But upon review, they got the call right. Torres was
allowed to go to second base. This fan, however, I
don't know if he was forced to leave the game
or just thought, hey, it's a good idea if I
leave the game, because now people are gonna be mad
at me. And you saw him pack up and leave,
packed up his stuff so fast, like me leaving a
buffet when they say here comes the asparagus. That's how
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fast he got out of there.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Now, let's play. Was it worth it? So he's infamous.
He catches that ball that could have been a home run.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
He'll do interviews people will talk to him, people will
want to see the ball. He will be an infamous figure.
But he misses Freddie Freeman's grand slab because he left
the game. So I ask you, Steve de Seger, was
it worth it for that fan to do what he
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did not getting to see Freddie Freeman?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
No? No, you go your whole life hoping to see
something like tonight in person. My only caveat is that
perhaps he packed up his bags quickly and the family
probably with him. There were other people he was talking to,
Let's go, we gotta go right now.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Oh no, no, no, we have to go.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Did they sneak into the upper level somehow stay on
the grounds of Dodger Stadium. Was he still able to
see the tenth inning Grand Slam? Because if not, oh
my goodness, what a loser. Seriously, you go your whole
life to be in person for a game like tonight,
your whole life any sport this happens with you in
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literally a front row seat. He had one of what
they called the home run seats at Dodger Stadium, separate
sections for the first two rows at the outfield fence,
and he blew it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Now, before you want to say, well, maybe it's worth
it for the guy because he's going to get to
meet all they want to see it. Let me just
tell you, this is how every conversation is gonna go. Wait,
so that was you? Yeah, yeah, that was me. He
here though, Oh my god, it was you. Here's a
picture of you on the wall. Here's the ball. Oh
my god, it really was you, dude. That was amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah. Hey, what was it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Like to be there when Freddy hit that home run?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You see the ball, it's right here. You want to
touch it. I'll let you hold it. You want to
hold the ball, it's right here.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, but do it. That home run must have been yeah. Yeah,
I think dinner ready. Let's go downstairs. I think dinner's ready.
So the question is you were you weren't there?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yes, I was forced to leave the game because Dodger
fans wanted to kill me.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
In the end, I don't know that there was a
reason for him to leave, because the play went as
it should have.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
If anything, he probably helped the.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Dodgers because the only thing that would have happened, right,
Let's just say he doesn't put his glove over to
get the ball.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Now, obviously it'd be a double off the wall anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Maybe yeah, you throw a lot of things up in
the air, because let's just say it was closer to
the top of the wall. Who knows how it would
have been adjudicated, right, But you could see on replay
the guy clearly reaches over the wall. It was going
to hit the wall, right, Even Yankee fans that I
know that I follow on social media, big ones with
check mark no, no right call was made. So and
the only thing he did really was potentially the ball
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could have bounced and taken a weird hop and gone
over keik Hernandez' head and maybe torres is on third.
So with that being a double, I mean.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
By admitting it was, he's getting instant derision though, because
it doesn't matter he's wearing a Dodger or sweatshirt or
shirt or whatever that was. He's not going to be
able to stay there, and then the security will, for
interfering with the game itself, will be kicking him out.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh that is true, the security would be there, but
really the fans will like that's the word, that's the
lowest part of it, because like, well, he really.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Kind of helped a little bit.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I also do might not have known the rule, the
new rule, so at first probably thought, oh my god,
he cost us Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Because he was packing up to leave when they were
still Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Well, I don't know if anybody, I mean, at that point,
you're so you're so emotional, you know, sure, just did
he just cost us a home run?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Did that just happened? Because when they showed him packing.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Up, Uh, it was you know, it was while they
were still looking at you know, it was why they's
to look at it, like did he did he get
all this stuff and he ran down all this stops up?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You can come back. It's okay, it's a double came back.
Point out.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
It's all seat location for this.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
He's in front of the pavilion fans in left field.
Where have the most problems been with throwing things at
Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Jason Smith, I have the answer, Okay, left field, that
is correct.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
It's the cheap seats out by the foul pole. There's
no way he would have been able to stay even
if he hadn't been quickly thrown out.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, that's you know, And the thing is, it's when
h when my wife went, I went to game two
in game.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Six and the NLCS, my wife is like, where do
you want to sit?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
We're looking it was not as good as game too,
and my WEF's like, where do you want to sit?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I'm looking for tickets.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
She's looking all over the place for game two and
I said, look, here's where I want to sit. I
want to sit behind the Mets dugout and I want
to sit in the lower bowl. She was okay, she's well,
I found these seats here for I.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Look.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I go, No, I'm not sitting in the bleachers wearing
wearing Mets care.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Not doing it.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
No, no, no, I want to be down but I
want to be down there. I'm not going to be
too far away. No, because the only thing is that
is is that when you sit down lower it's like, hey,
you're closer.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
There's a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Going on, there's more security, there's more people walking in
and out.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know, you don't reach your people on an island.
Like I've done that before.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Like I learned my lesson when I was younger, going
to games wearing jet ski er an other stadium, sitting
in the chiefs.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
HEAs I'm going, Oh, I shouldn't have done this.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Cheap seats. People don't think.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
It's not just that they have nothing to lose, is
they don't think in the first place, this.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Is a bad idea. Man, I'm not doing it, but
you know it really he kind of helped him. But yeah,
you know, the whole part of the security going to
interfere with the game and we have to move you.
But like, I don't know if they moved him out
of the stadium. Did they make him leave, like and
was he there with his family? Like did he have
a kid there? And suddenly I guess, sorry, don't get
it looked like because because dad caught a foul ball.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Well, keep in mind the history of Dodger security on
balls that do go to the fans four actual home runs,
you know, they kind of want to steal it from
you and get it back to the player.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
And here's a couple of bats and that's it.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
And so if this guy robbed what he thought was
a home run because he thinks he's gonna be an
instant millionaire, hey guess what wasn't a home run? And
we all saw it on video review. B you can't
stay see security is coming. Hello, the hat trick. Does
he deserve the needle eight?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I wanted to see him, you know, if you could
put a GoPro on him.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Hey, And he gets into the Yankee Clubhouse after the game, going, hey,
you want to buy this ball from me? It's the
tourist ball that I bet it pulled. Who wants to
buy this ball? Anybody you got? Why are you guys
so down? Why you guys? Come on, man, it was
a great game. You want to buy this ball, I'll
give you the ball.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
He would find out quickly how powerful the right cross
of one Aaron Judge is or Jim Carlos Stand, Hey, guys,
real question for you. Yeah, who's dumber tonight?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Oh boy?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
That that fan doing what he did?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Or Aaron Boone going with Nester? Well, it was not
written on the back of Aaron's Boone's ticket that he
could not interfere with the bullpen.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
So I'll go with the fan.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, it says right here, I can't interfere with the bullpen. Look,
we're gonna hear from Aaron Boone in a second. Because
he looked knowing New York sports.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
As I do, knowing what it's like to be a fit.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
This might be talked about.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
You're saying no, well.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Not only just talked about, but you know how when
Seattle Seahawks fans wake up every day and the first
thought is, Okay, let me get ready, are we on time?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
What's the weather?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Like?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
What do I need to wear? I can't believe we
didn't give the ball to Marshall on the goal line. Like,
that's going to be thought every day. That's everybody's third
thought of the day in Seattle for the rest of
their lives. Right, why do we give the ball to
Marshal on If the Yankees lose the World Series? Every
Yankee fan in New York City, this is gonna be
a thirty or forty year daily thing of why the
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hell wasn't Tim Hill in that game? Why the hell
wasn't a guy that pitched great in the and the Alcs.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Has been really good all year long times?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Why was he not in that game?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
And why was Nesta Cortes, who hasn't pitched in September eighteenth?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Why was he in the game?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Like that's what's gonna be And every Yankee fan is
gonna wake up every day and that's gonna be their
first thought. Trust me, I know, I still think about
Jets games from the eighties. I still wonder how Mark
Gasto late hit Bernie Cozar. I still wonder how the
hell Blair Thomas fumbled on Monday Night in Chicago in
nineteen ninety one. Like all these things, I still think
about out as many testaverity time. You know, like I said,
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there's games that you still think about, and a lot
of fan bases have them. And this is gonna be
a thirty year question for a franchise that doesn't have
a lot of moments where hey, we really made a
bad decision. Right the last time you look back and say,
hey we lost in two thousand and three, right the
last night of the Yankee Dynasty, the buster only that
made him a big star. Okay, Rivera got beat Okay,
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what are you gonna do? But so so that's the
one moment Yankee fans have been living with. But it
was like, hey, our closer got beaten the ninth inning. Okay,
oh we lost to the Red Sox. We blew a
three nothing lead. Well that is what stayed with them
more than the Rivera thing for the last twenty years,
because it was their arch rival. The first time a
team had blown a three zero lead and had to
watch the Red Sox win the World Series. Turn into
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a mini dynasty. They've been living with that for twenty years.
That will now be gone. They won't even think about that.
If the Yankees lose this World Series. It's gonna be
why the hell was Tim Hill not in the game?
And why was Nestor Cortez in the game. That's gonna
be all they think about.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
So it's a very short list in Yankee history. So
you can add tonight to giving up the Bill Mazeroski
homer to lose the World Series in nineteen sixty and
the Dave Roberts stolen base that started the Red Sox
come back twenty years ago in the playoffs. Aside from that,
I think other teams have longer lists than the New
York Yankees, which brings us to Derek Jeter, the Yankee
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captain who's at the desk for Fox pre and postgame,
and he said, first off, in his comment postgame on
FS one, I know we talk about how pitchers are
used these days, and inevitably we wind up saying, you know,
back in my day, But I'll give you this example.
He said, in my day and it was just over
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twenty years ago there was a Mets Yankees World Series
and he said al Lighter threw one hundred and forty pitches,
and then he talks about the Yankees had a starter
tonight going Garrett Cole.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
He was dominating the game.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
And if you take him out after eighty eight pitches
for I don't know what reason, it's a domino effect
on not only this game tonight, tomorrow's game, and the
rest of the series.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
So I preach in the background from X Yankee Alex Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
But look, it's because we're gonna hear from Aaron Boone
coming up in a second. But it's not like Garrett
Cole was just okay's coming out. He went back out
there to pitch into the seventh inning and Hernandez single
to start the inning, so he had thrown eighty eight
pitches and okay, he's but now it's okay, we didn't
just take you out of the game, because that was
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the way we take you out. Don't watch you see
the lineup again. They took him out when he gave
up a leadoff single. Okay, right, they went. I was
actually okay with that because you know they took It's
not like they just took him out to take him out.
They took him out after he gave it. Okay, there's
nobody out. Maybe you're running out of gas right now.
The last one want is the second guy to come
up and clock one and suddenly now we have to
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take you out.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
And instead of.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Our new reliever coming in, which is Clay Holmes, instead
of Clay Holmes coming in and inheriting no oubt and
somebody on first, which okay, he's inheriting, nobody out and
runners at second and third, and suddenly our two to
one lead is going to evaporate. I was actually okay
with them taking Garret Cole out at that point, but.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
They didn't take him out for like a specific lefty
against lefty situation. They removed the right handed starter for
Clay Holmes, a right handed reliever. The guy who was
so bad late season he lost his role as the closer.
His era in the month of September was like six.
And that's how they found Luke Weaver to be their
closer is because the guy lost the job, not that
(28:08):
Weaver won it. And what does he do with the
first batter he faces after they pulled Garrett Cole.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
He hits Max Munsey.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
And if not for that bunt, the Dodgers might have
scored that inning that they took Cole out.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
So let's hear from Aaron Boone.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
A few moments ago, he was asked, Hey, why would
does Nester Cortez in the game in the tenth inning
instead of Tim Hill?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
And here was Aaron Boone's.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Answer, Because I'm dumb?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Did he say it like johnck Andrew dice Clay? Hey,
because I'm dumb.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
You know I mentioned all the local ties tonight.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
This was UCLA's Dave Roberts out managing USC's Aaron Boone.
They faced each other as players in college. What all Boone?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah, that is a great quote for Booon.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Hey, I well, we'll hear from Boon in the second.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Let's find out what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports. Steed to sagas d what he got.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Hickory Dickory Cortes and the Dodger Steed Game one of
the World Series. Well only at the last stroke of bennight,
so to speak, a grand slam by Freddie Freeman beats
the Yankees in ten innings, six to three. Now we
call Sarah Langs the amazing Sarah Langs because she's the
best baseball researchers out there.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
She has topped herself with this one.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
We have made all the massive amount of analogies to
the Dodgers winning Game one of the nineteen eighty eight
World Series in dramatic fashion with Kirk Gibson's walk off.
That game ended at eight thirty nine PM at Dodger Stadium.
Tonight's game ended at eight thirty eight PM at Dodger Stadium,
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and the games did not start at the same time.
Freddie Freeman tonight zero, beating Nestor Cortes, who threw two
pitches in relief. The Yanks wound up losing because in
part they left eleven men on base. Jazz Chisholm had
three stolen bases, two of them in the top of
the tenth. He scored the go ahead run on a
fielder's choice. Gen Carlos Stanton La Native a two run homer,
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a long one to left in the sixth inning for
the Yankees. It came off starter for the Dodgers. Jack Flaherty.
LA's offense in regulation had sackflies from Will Smith in
the fifth and in the bottom of the eighth, Mookie
Betts the sack fly to tie at two to two.
Dodgers win it on a walk off slam six to
three over the Yankees in ten. Game two, also on
Fox TV Saturday, eight pm Eastern Time, Carlos Rodin, Yoshinobo
(30:36):
Yamamoto the scheduled starters, and we have to say again
out loud. Cortes was used in the tenth even though
this was literally his first game back from the injured list.
He'd been out five weeks with a strained elbow. John,
We've got college football going on Fox TV right now
(30:58):
from downtown la is leading thirty five twenty over Rutgers
in the third quarter and five minutes left in the game.
Seventeenth rank Boise State with a short lead at UNLV
of twenty nine twenty four Heisman candidate running back Ashton
genty on twenty nine carries as one hundred nine yards
rushing and a score, and a reminder that Washington Commander's
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quarterback Jaden Daniels with the rib injury, did return to
limited practice today.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Game time decision, See you, thank.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
You, Steve.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
All right, so let's hear from Aaron Boone real fast
talking about why he brought in Cortes instead of Tim Hill,
a question that will linger in Yankee fans minds maybe
for the rest of eternity.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
I brought I'm sure had not pitched some September eighteenth.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Why did you like him in that tenth inner?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Just like the matchup.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
The reality is he's been throwing the ball really well
the last few weeks as he's gotten ready for this.
I knew with one out there would be tough to
double up show Hey, if Tim Hill gets him on
the ground and then Mooky behind him, is tough matchup there.
So felt convicted with Nester in that spot, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
So basically what he's saying is that he thought he
had better better ability to get a pop up than
a ball on the ground with Otani that was maybe
not going to extend the inning.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
And he was right.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
He was right about that because he got the pop
up to Otani on the first pitch that Alec Fradugo
makes the great play on, so.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Which a normal foul ball on most ad bets yes.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And and and and So he was right about that.
So I'm glad he at least had a reason for
it doesn't mean anybody's gonna say, oh, okay, I get
it all. All of the good will that Aaron Boone
won by getting the Ankees of the World Series, that's
all gone now because that that is going to be
questioned for the rest of eternity. That's that's what Aaron
Boone has done with one. It was a lot better
(32:43):
justin you are right, it was a lot, a lot
more to the point again, let's hear the first quote
again from from Aaron Boone.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
I'm a dumbass.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I think it's a little different from the first quote.
But that's okay, that's all right. It worked out that way.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Steve de Seger
in for Harmon. Tonight an amazing night in Major League Baseball.
We will give you the final big hot takes coming
off of Game one and get you set for the
big day of college football as well.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
On the way in a few hours.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
That's next right here, Jason Smith, Steve de Sager, Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, or says.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Deliveries, prem hits the ball.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Right, build sees it's good. Getty made Jay game one
of the World Series.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Joe Davis on the call, She is gone.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Freddie Freeman's Grand Slam one of the great World Series
games you will ever watch. And you know, it's funny, Steve,
because there's so much comparison going on right now, Jason Smith,
Steve de Sager.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Uh justify with nineteen eighty eight and the Open year with.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
The Freeman home run and the Gibson what's a bigger
home run? This is the Yankees. This is such a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And and I get that, but you know, the Kirk
Gibson home run is probably one of the three most
famous plays in baseball history. Agreed, right, Because I'll give
you I'll give you the Gibson home run, the Buckner
play and Bobby Thompson shot her around the world fifty one.
Those are the three biggest big The Giants win. The Pennant,
(34:31):
the Giants win.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Because with those it was so unlikely that he was
even on the field. Yes, at least Freddy Freeman with
the ankle, he'd had the week off in between rounds.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, with Gibson, it was the Dodgers were a team that, look,
you said, didn't even deserve to be there.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
They weren't that great.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
They upset the Mets in the in the playoffs, and
here are the A's that are the huge Bash Brothers
A's and Eckerslee is lights out, and it's Conseko and McGuire.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Great starting stash.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And and the Dodgers were the worst lineup in the
history of the World Series. I mean, it was so
shocking to have that for a walk off home run
because that was back when we just hadn't had a
lot of walk off home runs in that kind of situation.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Before Joe Carter, before Toronto, before the early nineties.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah we have, we haven't had that, so that was
such a big deal. And yeah, here's Freddy Freemore with
a walk off Grand Slam. First time we saw it. Yes,
it's a huge it's a huge play. But I mean,
just think about and you're talking about in the history
of the game. That's the three most famous plays that
we have ever seen.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
And what makes that especially astounding that Gibson home run
is because the Dodgers followed it up with the cy
Young pitcher the next night, who not only had a
two run double, but could pitch another complete game, and
then came back in Game five with another complete game,
and they wrapped it up because the cy young winner
pitched two complete games. As I recall, I mean they
(35:49):
had the workhorse. There is no such thing as a
workhorse in their rotation. So still the story of this
series has yet to be written.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
And now you want anything to come full circle, there
then to come full circle, going into the three most
famous players in baseball history. Freddie Freeman walk off home
run in the World Series tonight, probably the second most
famous play on this day in World Series history, because
it was thirty eight years ago today.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Vin Scully told us what it was like when a
little time.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Why what what are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (36:24):
This is a classic.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
This is where we're bringing a full circle.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
What you're doing here, Vin Scully, Vin's into the World
Series conversation. You're just so lucky, Vins on the call.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
That's why we're doing it.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
It was when Vin Scully told us what happened with
a little baseball rolls behind the bag.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Little roller up along firsh behind the bag gets throng.
But there it comes night.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
And I have a technical point to make okay it
was after midnight because that was such a long game,
No boo. Technically that was October twenty sixth that that occurred.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
God.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
And on top of that, we had a walk off
rouge in the CFL tonight, So really it's a battle
for what was the biggest.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
A walk off rouge.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
And hey, let me let me just say this because
you obviously look that this this owned the night tonight.
The Knicks blew out the Pacers in the early game
of the night in the NBA. I'm feeling much better
about the Knicks now than they did after the Celtics game.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
But the Lakers come from twenty two down to win.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And the video is great from the crypt when they
show Freddie Freeman's home run on the jumbo tron. Bradley Beale,
who was out of the game for the Suns, his
video of him seeing the home one going man Freddie
Freeman just just smacked that for the win.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Wow. The Lakers.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I don't know, it's only two games, but clearly they
look to be a different team than they were last year.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
And it's not just about the health.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Early part of the season obviously, look early part of
the season for veterans when they're playing well because they've
had a lot of rest. But you see players that
JJ Reddick was supposed to come in and light a
fire under, and it's Austin Reeves and Ruey Hotchimoora and
D'Angelo Russell, and these guys have been really good in
the first couple of games. This maybe the Lakers might
be a little bit better than we thought. Okay, yeah, okay,
(38:29):
it's the Suns, but it's the Suns tonight and it
was the Timberwolves the other night. Hang on a second,
Maybe the Lakers are a little bit better than we
think they.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Are, and Anthony Davis can be good on back to
back games. I looked it up. After a beal bucket
early second quarter in LA. The Suns lead was forty
five twenty three over the Lakers, and the Lakers wound
up coming back to win by seven against me. Peve
let me guess how they did it. Brownie James came
in and went, let's see back like twelve shots hours
box score.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
But he had four threes in a row, and then
the Sons called time out. Then he hit four more
threes in a row, and then the Son's called time
out again.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Let's see DNP coaches decision. What does that DNP mean?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Oh, by the way, you want another bring full circle.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Watch the first base angle of Freddie Freeman's home run.
Who do you see in the background losing his mind
before anybody.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Else does, knowing the ball is gone? Magic Johnson?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Oh really, watch watch the video from the first base
angle because he's at standing there. Yes, and you see
mag just go like before anybody else Thatt, like before
Mary Hart sees everything like Magic Johns. Who not at
the Laker playoff game, or not the Laker game, at
the Dodger game.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
He's the guy losing his mind first.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Amazing that Freddy Freeman hit it so well. He fairly
quickly just raises his right arm with the bat in
the hand. And what did we say right before that swing?
Throughout the playoffs without the ankle, he didn't have two
firm feet in the box. But now he's had days
off and he hits that first pitch.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
And clearly he and Otani saw something from Cortes. Each
of them were first ball swinging. They saw fastballs they liked.
Otani pops up. Freddie Freeman puts his head into the
seats and right center fields. They saw something. They knew
what happened coming up next. Burn and Bernie
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