October 7, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith: Phillies failed bunt in the 9th is all the evidence you need about how bad a strategy bunting is in this era of baseball. So bad they bailed out Dave Roberts!
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Big night in the NFL. We'll get back into that
coming up in a few minutes. The Jaguars escape, sending
the Chiefs to two and three, thirty one to twenty eight.
But again another night of high drama in Major League Baseball.
Nothing bigger, nothing crazier than Dodgers Phillies Game two. That
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the Dodgers survive, no better way to say it. They
survive despite Dave Roberts' best efforts to not out, Yeah,
succeed and proceed. They win this game for to three,
take a two zip lead going back to Los Angeles,
And are there some things to talk about in this game? First,
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let's look at what happened in the ninth inning, a
game the Dodgers had led for nothing, and great pitching
performance by Blake Snell. Phenomenal, Right, he was great. This
is why I say he's got to pay all the
game ones when you can, because he's that guy and
he was terrific. But what do I say, Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Didn't avoid them as long as you can, then the
Dodger bullpen is gonna have a big say on the
Baseball playoffs, and not from a positive perspective.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
They're gonna have it. And what we saw in the
ninth inning tonight, I really I thought Dave Roberts isn't
gonna make it back to the bus before he gets
fired as Dodgers manager. Okay, now you know how bad
the Dodgers bullpen has been the last few months. They're
not solving this anytime soon. The bullpen has been absolutely abysmal.
There's no one you can trust. The only one you
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can trust is Roki Sasaki, right, and you gotta hope
to get to the ninth inning with a lead where
you just hand him the ball. And even Roki Sasaki
is not a guy like Hey, I've been able to
trust him all year, no size, In five appearances, he's
been good. So he's the only guy, right. He was
out for four and a half months, but he's the
only guy back ready to go. So you have no
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choice but to trust Asaka. Look, we talked about it
a week ago. Hey, guess what. He just became the
Dodgers closer, and Sasaki had to be. He's throwing great,
He's throwing a hundred, His stuff is moving phenomenal, and
the Dodgers get everything you need tonight. Six innings from
Blake Snell, two good innings from Emma Chian who gives
up one run. But okay, one run in two innings.
You're turning it over to the ninth inning, protect the
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three run lead. Okay, and this is where I'm saying
we're gonna get Roki Sasaki, right, Nope, seemed obvious. We
get Blake trining into Alex Vessia, finally to Sasaki, who
comes in and gets the final out of the game
with the game tying run at third base. But here's
where the Phillies decided, Oh, Dave Roberts, we can't take
this gift from you. We want to give it back
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to you. Ninth inning, Blake trying in two batters, two
base runners. Okay, you know it's not his night. And
I know Dave Roberts loves his guys, but you know
it's not trying his night. Second and third, nobody out,
and Costeano's comes up and a deep drive left. Actually
it's not. It was just a seeing eye. I'm gonna
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throw the bat out on the ball and he hits
a bad pitch, right, I'm not hits a bad pitch
from trying to but it goes down the line and left.
Two runs come in and he beats the throat to
second base. A good tag would have had him, but
the tag wasn't applied. It was kind of a sweep
tag and he was able to get in. So he's
a Samson base. The ball beat him there. Now if
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if the if they think in the you know, the
thing may be a little biased. No, I know you're biased.
But here's just a little bit, just a short thing
before you get to the whole. What happened after this
is that in you know, for a long time, everybody's
come up, the sweep tag is the one to make
because that's the one you cover most of the area with.
And if you sweep tag, that tells the umpire the
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ball beats you there and you're gonna get the out call.
But now with replay, if you sweep tag and miss,
guess what, you're not gonna get that call. Stereo. You
really need you really need to keep the butt, you know,
get down and keep that and keep that glove and
aim for the base and not really look for where
the guy's arm is because if you go middle of
the base, he's gonna put his arm into your glove
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and if he moves it up, then he move it
up and tag him. But the sweep tag is not
going to work anymore because of replay. And that's something
that's got to be drilled into players coming up. Now
the sweeptag doesn't do it before replay, was there, sweeptag,
You're out? What's I'm going to say?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Got you there?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You're done? But now Consteanos beats it, So okay, Now
Citizens Bank is going crazy. There's nobody out tying run
at second base. A game the Dodgers had in the bag.
Now all of a sudden, dodge your bullpen and all.
And guess what it could gonna be the worst ending
possible because again nobody out runner at second base. And
what does Rob Thompson decide to do. He decides to
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have stot bunt. And what do I don't need any
more evidence on me telling you how bad of an
idea and how bad a strategy of the bunt is
any more than this game. I should not have to
say it anymore. It's like dropping the ball before you
cross the goal line. Democado, you've seen it, don't do
it anymore. Bunting is such an antiquated strategy that no
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longer works. It no longer works because the teams are
too good. The odds of getting of getting a run
over is not what it was. When you play for
one run, you can get one run. But the main
thing is this, and this is what I keep going
back to, is that it's one thing to try to
bunt a runner over and play for a run when
it's the ninth inning of a game in May or June. Yeah,
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you're playing the Dodgers at home in Mays. Be a
big thing for us. We need a run, let's payer run.
It's quite another thing to execute a bunt when the
pressure of the world is on you in the playoffs,
where you absolutely have to lay this down because there's
a big there's a big sense of of there's a
sense of disproportionate belief from people who think this is
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a fundamental play that should be executed and the reality
of it, which is it's really hard to just say, well,
major Leagua should be able to bunt. Yeah, you're right,
but guess what they don't anymore. Well, but they don't bunt.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
But the other thing is he got the bunt down, right,
Because a lot of times we see guys, we had
a popped up bunt last week, right, or you just
go and flail and you make a half assed Effort's like,
if I gave up that strike, I guess I have
to swing away. Now, how often do you see that?
But Stott had three sacrifice bunts on the year, five
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hundred and fifty played appearances. And if he's gonna get
it down and give Dodgers all the credit for the
defensive structure that they put in to execute this, but
you've got to make lay down a perfect bunt. Like
it's not just a all right, did I bunt it here? No,
it's like you've got to pull it to the proper
spot to give yourself a chance for everything to work out.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And that's as are. Everything's gotta work. It's not just
about getting it don Because look the Red Sox their
season ended because they decided to bunt runners at first
and second. Nobody out seventh inning of Game two against
the Yankees, and then na have a scored to run
the rest of the way right pops it up. That
should have been that should have been the only evident
note up. But now we have the Phillies here and
they decide to bunt right, and the Dodgers run a
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wheel play that they never really practiced, but going in
for the for the pitching change because Alex Vesia comes
in after trying and gets hit and they decide, hey,
let's run a wheel play here. We'll get that and
go to third base because Costeanos is not a fast runner. Yeah,
they were inspired by Oceans thirteen and the cartwheel. All
of this goes into calling for the bunt. Forget about
the fact that you're giving the other team a out
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and you're going all in on one at bat. That's
not Harper, that's not Turner, that's not Schwarber. You're going
all in on one at bat with a runner at
third and one out. Right, you're going why are you
doing that? The Dodgers are on their heels. The bullpen
has been terrible, and look what happened. They gave up
another couple of runners. Right, the grounder might might have
scored the run. The ground ball to Freddie Freean might
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have scored the run. The base hit that happened, the
play after might have scored the run. But they decide
to bunt. And the thing is, so many things can
go wrong, especially when you're trying to bunt in a
high pressure situation. Scott's got to get the bunt down.
You gotta make sure that the run you get to third.
And it looked like Castanos had a horrible jump from
second to third. He's not fast anyway, and he gets
thrown out at third easy. And this was the plagu
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When the Phillies go home, they're gonna say that this
is the play that calls it for them.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Bessie A kicks and fire Stott gets the bunt down
to third, picked up by Muncie.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
He goes to third and Castianos is gonna be out.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
They execute the play to perfection.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Dodgers Radio Network on the call, and now, all of
a sudden, instead of runner at second, nobody trying to
figure it that you could still almost get a runner
at third and one out with a ground out to
the right spot or a fly ball. What a But
you decide to give the team an out, and then
the worst case scenario happens in which your lead runner
gets thrown out. Now you have a runner at first.
Next batter up gets a single, probably would have brought
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in the run. Then, if not the ground ball to
Freddie Freeman where he got the out at second, the
only place he could go with the ball that might
have brought the run in. I fail to understand how
MLB men and Rob Thomas has been doing this for
a little while. Now I fail to understand how they
still think this is a high percentage play. And we're, okay,
playing for one run. You're playing for one run. You
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got nobody out in a runner at second, You got
three shots to get the guy in from second base. Okay,
you got three chances to get the guy in, and
all you did was cost your team the game. Bunting
was a great strategy thirty years ago, forty years ago,
when most everybody in the lineup could bunt, right, when
everybody like could butt. Hey, we'll get a bunt down.
This guy leads the league in sacrifice bunts. Yet thirty
eight sacrifice bunts this year. Right, Okay, this isn't major
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league baseball anymore. But guys can't do that anymore. But
it's a different game.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
We bemoan the three outcome of walks and strikeouts and
home runs being the majority. And look, Dodgers generated runs
without the long ball today. You've seen that.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
A bit more.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
The execution of this strategy and the ability to put
balls in play, excepting when the aces are on the mount.
As soon as you get to anybody's bullpen anymore, it
all goes to hell. But it's just the idea of
bunting back in the day was all right, the pitcher
can't hit, so he either strikes out or he bunts
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if there's a run run, yeah, just because Yeah, but
you're also playing small ball. You scored a fewer runs,
you weren't hitting home runs at the same rate. I'm
going all the way back to my childhood, so we're
really kind of thinking about the age of the eighties
of Chicago Cubs baseball when I'd get home from school
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and you'd watch it a lot of National League bunting
going on. Well, the game's changed, and you're also not
playing for one run, right, you want to use every
one of those at bats. And to your point at
the start of it is he came in and you
had two base runners really fast, and if you look
at recent history, and I know Dave Roberts explanation for
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a lot of it is these guys have gotten us
a big out. So like that's last year, that doesn't
matter right now.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Now here's Rob Thompson, Phillies manager, trying to explain why
he decided to go for the bunt at that point
in the game. I thought you said, Rob Thomas, No,
Rob Thompson. Rob thoms Sorry, that's okay, that's all right.
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Here's Rob Thompson explaining why it always seems it always
seems to be raining when we call for that bunt.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Rob, what went into the decision? Now, persons stopped bunt
there as opposed to swing.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Just left on a lot for trying to tie the score.
I liked where our bullpen was at based on as
compared to theirs, So we played for the tie at home.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
It seemed like the Dodgers were expecting Was there any
thought of taking it off after.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Well, Mookie did a great job of disguising the wheel play.
And we teach our guys that if you see wheel,
just pull it back and slash because he's got you
had all kinds of room in the middle. But he,
MOOKI broke so late that it was tough for starting
to pick it up.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, it sounds like he knows he's toasted when it
comes to that. And look and not only not only that, right,
and you see all the things that could go wrong
with this play, right, Oh, we teach him to slash
it that. Well, that's that's a variable that goes into
things that you have to take into account, and it's like, Okay,
we'll get the bunt down. Okay, it's not that simple, right,
And people think it's a simple play, a simple thing.
You can't just get the bunt down. There's so many
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other things that go along with her. Albert Mooki broke relate. Okay,
well you don't think that that could be something the
Dodgers do. And and Constiano's the other thing too, is
that he's got the whole play in front of him. Right.
If he stops and says, okay, Munsey's got the ball,
he can just crawl back to second base, and it's
first and second in nobody out because there's running the
wheel play. Second base is not covered right, running that
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wheel play second base is not because Mooki's coming over
right and Munsey, Munsey's gonna throw there. The second baseman
goes to first base, first be if Freddie Freeman comes in,
nobody's at second he could he could just deon Sanders
dance all the way back to second base. Okay, we
didn't get the run of the third, but we have
runners at first and second. Now, now the winning run
is at first base, with only the tying run at
second and there's still nobody out like there's so again,
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so many things could happen with this play. There's so
many variables. It's not nearly as simple as bunting. You
can't just say bunting again, it's a bad strategy. But yeah,
what what do I know? I've only seen this now
twice in the last two week telling you about team
should stop bunting.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
No, all you reply with is, Mookie was great, we
were beaten by the best.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And how about did you have any thoughts of pinch
running for Castianos at that point? Any thoughts of putting
in a faster player? Dude, he thought about that, he
thought any thoughts about that? You wanted to butt if
you wanted to bunt, but you didn't put a guy
at second base and could make sure he could do it.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
They lose Saturday, Eagles lose. Now this exit ou ab
out of Fresca. But but the Flyers played, So it's fine.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Let's go NHL season exit out by a Fresca exit
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Speaker 1 (17:03):
You try to button an knife fitting and you lose.
Rob Thompson's gotta explain himself. We're down to going back
to la.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Hey, Mookie's the best. Okay, he he confused us, He
confounded us. We never saw it coming. We never saw
it coming. That's how great he is.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, a little bit
more on Dodger Philly drama before we get back into Shore.
Talk about drama at the end of the game tonight. Yeah,
let's go Jaguars and the Chiefs. But you know, not
enough has been talked about this. Look, we talked about
the bunt and again, awful decision. Bunting should be illegal,
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but or you just you know what, just don't bunt
and and you'll win more games.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Congratulations, outlawed first bunting of the tush push eight seven
seven night.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Now, Philadelphia fans want to see the toush pus. They
don't want to see bunting anymore. I'm not big. I
don't want to see a bunch. We can't bunch anymore.
I don't want to see that. You know, we do
blow a big lead to the Broncos. Now I don't
like it.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah, but you just good the end to the end
of that the hail Mary, the angle that they've shown
now of of Jalen Hurts sprinting after it, like it
was like he could be like Kurt Heading, remember, mister perfect.
And I'm gonna gonna run down to catch him myself
and throw it to myself, run down and catch him, right,
I'm gonna do gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Don't no, don't like it? Perfect. So this play we
don't spend enough time on tonight, Dodgers. After the bunt,
after the horrible bunt play that the that the Phillies try,
they get a single to put runners at first and second,
and then a ground ball to Freddie Freeman makes a
play on gets the out at second. Okay, first and third,
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two outs, and now Dave Roberts brings in Roki Sasaki. Okay,
you know what, Let's do it, not Leo blank that,
Let's do Daveberts right now. Now he brings in Sasaki. Okay,
with the game and the balance four to three, first
and third, two outs in the ninth, now Roki Sasaki
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comes in. Yeah, okay, Dave Roberts. I mean it. It
would have been hard for Dave Roberts that the Dodgers
to not fire Dave Roberts on the tarmac on the
way back to LA if the Phillies win this game. Okay,
you know how bad the bullpen is. We've talked about it, right,
I don't need to say anymore how bad it is.
The one guy you can trust? Is Sasaki right? One
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guy you can trust? Is Sasaki right? One guy you
can trust? And Okay, ninth inning, three run lead off
day tomorrow, it's he I could manage the Dodgers. Hey,
get Rokie up, he's coming into the ninth inning. Great
two winnings from Emmachian, phenomenal, nice job. Sasaki comes in.
He's the only reliever you can trust. Yes, he's been
throwing great, but mainly because he's not anybody else, and
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you cannot trust anyone else. How do you not go
right to your closer? Int? And I get that he
loves his guys right, And I get that, And I
get that Roberts is thinking about the bullpen in the
clubhouse and everything else. I love Blake trying and he's.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Been such a big part of the team whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I love Alex Vessia, I got But you're trying to
win a game. And I'm sorry, but the postseason is
not a place to say, Hey, I love my guys.
I believe in you. You either get it done or not.
There are two columns. There is a win column, there
is a loss coum. You either go on to play
or you go home. Blake Trinon has not been good. Right.
I get he got a couple of outs against the Reds,
but he has been You can't bring a guy in
the ninth inning that has a fifty percent success rate.
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He can't do it. And I get, and I understand
the philosophy behind well. Left handed hitters are coming up.
So here comes Alex Vesia. Uh dude, bring in your
best reliever. Okay, bring in your best guy that throws
a hundred and that they haven't seen in four and
a half months. Bring in your best guy, right, bring
in your best guy. Bring in Rookie Sasaki. You lose
with him, Okay, you lose. You brought in your best play.
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You lose with Vessa on the mound.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You lose.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
How can you defend that? How can you look at
your team and say, hey, I don't know what we tried? Guys, No, no, no,
Why did you not go to the guy who was
your closer? Why did you not go to your best reliever?
Dave Roberts tried to give this game back to the Phillies,
and he got bailed out by the fact Rob Thomps said,
oh no, no, We're gonna try to bunt, and then Finally,
I don't know what it was. Maybe it's a phone
call to the dugout. Maybe the players just grabbed Dave robertson, dude,
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bring Roki Sasaki in. What happens? He comes in, he
gets the ground out, and the Dodgers win. They go
up to sit. But Dave Roberts did all he could
to give this game to the Phillies. He hasn't gone
two out of three much at all. Just figuring the
run right there. Blake's pitched some of the biggest outs
innings in the postseason four us. Felt really confident right there,
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and with Vessie behind him if he needed and he
just keeps.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Going on and on, and eventually, you know, I thought
about it, but I went with what I've done before,
right So it's it's it's like the Rob Thompson thing.
He's like, well, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
What do you say, Thomas or Thompson? Rob Thompson. But
just all of the discussion, it's very, very, very smooth
that we're doing right now. Frostberger's very like guys that we've.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Seen nicely now for for the history, and I get it.
Dave Roberts, we've talked about his loyalty to his guys,
long standing relievers, starters, they're going to get an extra
turn in the rotation during the regular like all of
those things. He is very loyal to a fault and
then and then they played to the numbers and this
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is one of those all right, how much is the
equation versus the gut feel?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
And we play that game all the time?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That yo, yo. But for the recent history of what
you've seen from this relief staff, like there's a reason
you've been going to Sasaki Kershaw, damn it. Guys that
have been starters more than your actual bullpen.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
You go.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
When you get to the ninth inning of the game,
do the Mets say, oh, we got three lefties coming up?
Or do the Mets say we're bringing in Edwin d
Mets say we quit has had a great year. No, no, listen,
the Phillies in the y stop stop the Phillies and
the Yankees losing is like the Mets winning. It's the
same thing. Right now, I can wear my Mets gear
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with the Yankees and the Phillies losing. Man, it'd be
it'd be an awesome playoff after after this, this could
be better. It'd be an awesome. Actually, probably better, isn't
it. It might be better, but it's because it's still you know,
it's it's fun to wallow in the mission. You should
probably call a doctor.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, in four hours, Well it'll be better. The Yankees finally, yeah,
the Yankee one and the Phillies right, because oh, my dad,
my dad is he's not picking up.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
My dad is not doing well. He said, what what
did he tell me? You should call me before the
first inning of the Yankees game, because after the first
inning of the Yankees game, Yeah, he's like done. Comes up.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Every game that's played by play might might have been
the best thing I heard all weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Every game it's eight nothing in the first gave Wills.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Talking about how I'm glad Gurel has been killing him.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh, I know, by the way, the number of people
because when we made our predictions for this last week,
I said, the Yankees are gonna just absolutely rake the
beginning of this series. They're gonna beat the Blue Jays.
They're hot, they're gonna ray. Obviously it's gone the other
way and the Blue jed and so many people now
all all yesterday on my timeline, you're wrong, giving giving
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me a gives I'm like, oh my god, oh my god.
And what I wanted to come back and just say,
is you think I'm unhappy to be wrong about this.
You think I'm oh, the Yankees are losing and they
may go home. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I don't care
if I got that wrong. Yeah I got it wrong.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I don't we make a million predictions. There's gonna be
a lot of wrong ones. Case. This also gives you
the satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Of you no gonna lose. Oh my goodness. Uh So,
I don't get Dave Roberts. I don't understand what he
was trying to do. I mean, you bring in your
best reliever. Everybody brings in their closing. You don't mess
around and say, oh, I kind of like the when
Sasaki is pitching out the way, he is like, what
are you doing here? Are You're so overmanaging the game?
(25:04):
Go to your best guy. I mean that's what I think.
I can't Roberts. Dave Roberts me, Jason, I mean I
know he isn't. I mean, I know he loves it,
but at some point you have to say, Okay, I know, like, dude,
you don't There's no rule that says you have to
bring in three reliefs, but bring in your best guy
and that's it. Go home.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
But here's the thing, right, we can go all the
way back to twenty sixteen when the Cubs won the
World Series. How many times did Joe Madden do something?
And we're looking at each other going, that doesn't make
any sense, And damned if they didn't have the horseshoe
to get to the end line. Right with Dave Roberts,
look at last year, how many times did he go
to the penny? You're like, all right, now we're on that.
How many relievers and it worked? Yeah, so he's in bolden.
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Eventually they're gonna pitch a solid scoreless inning. Damn it.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Uh So, really, I don't understand how that happened. And yes,
the Phillies bailed him out by bunting, but also bailing
out Dave Roberts was Freddy Freeman. Because this ground ball
that Roki Sasaki gets with the tying run at third
and the game was not just your garden variety ground
ball to a good infielder throws him out at first.
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Tommy Edmond nearly threw the game away for the Dodgers.
And Freddie Freeman had to save it. Turner to second base,
Tommy Edman low throw Tlenny Freeman with a scoop and
the ball game is over. Oh my goodness, Tommy Edmond
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spiked it in the Tommy Edmond threw it into the dirt.
Freddy Freeman is able to dig it out and keep
his foot on first base. Remember long stretch turner, running
fast player, He's able to somehow stay connected to the
bag hold onto the ball. Wasn't even a replay challenge
after because you could see Freddie Freeman somehow stayed on
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the bag and he saves that game. Made a great
defense to play the play before it. I mean, really,
I think Freddie once he got one gold Glove Frostburg
his career, Freddy Frame, I think that's pretty accurate. Something
like that. I don't know, man, she's absolutely criminal, because
he does this all the time. You got to give
it to him. You got to give him miss one
just for that play. I mean, he absolutely said. I mean,
Tommy Yeman, it's an easy throwing. He lollipops it to
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first base and Freddy Freeman's got to make a really
hard play.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
How many guys make that play? In that situation. But
he doesn't bobble it and there's no to stretch off
the bag or any question of it. It's it's an
immediate run, close, close out an inning, and get the save.
But looking at his fielding, let's see what do we
got not in the box score. But he wins games
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doing this. No, but that's just it runs saved and such.
Certainly we've got the runs created. I'm curious where if
we have a run saved space for him, though, But
we've watched this time and again, right, there have been
some truly suspect plays through that Dodger infield for as
many years as he's been manning first base that he's
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saved the day. Think about how much worse those reliever
stats would look at out Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And you know what else is amazing by Freddy Freeman
is the guy runs like he needs a hip replacement,
like really, like yeah, I think gloves twenty eighteen, Yeah, yeah,
seven years ago. And you know what, it was a
co co he shared it with. I think Anthony Rizzo
that year. Wow, you didn't even win it out right, man,
I mean the guy can barely move, he can barely run.
He run. You know, he runs. He runs like my dad.
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My dad's seventy eight, and that's kind of how my
dad runs, like a little oh, just kind of kind
of stepping up a little bit, like he runs like
he needs gonna need a hip replacement. Like, boy, it's
gonna be tough. He's gonna be sidelined a long time
when he gets that new hip. Like he can't even move,
and still he's able to make plays like he made
for the second out of the inning, like he made
there at the end of the game. It defies logic
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that he's able to make those plays. Watch Freddy Freeman run.
Don't know how he has so many? He doubles like
he got I mean, how does he get the second base?
He kind of just lumbers in, and you know, it's
almost it's almost like Freddy Freeman's a robot. And when
they get in, they go, Okay, start decreasing speed, decreasing speed,
like you're landing a plane or something. You're slowing the
train down, all right, pressing buttony Okay, we're slowing down,
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slowing down, arriving and we're at the base. Speaking of
people moving very very very slow, how about the play
Miguel rojas Man man that slide into third base to
beat Trey Turner of the bag. I mean that that
could have been the game. You know, hey again, and
what did I say last week all about Dodger defense.
Dodger defense is gonna be his absolute killer. It's so bad,
it's so bad. And then had three big plays tonight
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to save the game. Actually, okay, three big play one
because Edmund was a bad play. But Freddy Freeman made
a good play, so you didn't make that. Yeah, it
gets it done, Roki Sasaki. By the way, Christian Walker
has won the last three. Freddie Freeman should wring this
year just for that plane to night.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
He should three straight, and then Goldschmidt and then you
go back to Rizzo for a couple of years, and
then that tie in twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Christian Water just for tonight, just for hey, sorry, everything
he did in the regular season, Christian was great, all yeah,
but Freddie wins just for that play tonight, just for
making that play. I'd be right, And no challenge from
the Phillies not you'd say no. He stayed on there,
He stayed on there. He saw it, he got it.
It was it was I mean, that was an amazing
play that could have been absolute disaster the Dodgers. I
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feel like they The one thing I could say for
the Phillies, right, if I could say anything positive for
them going back to La down to Zip, is that
maybe the Dodgers are out of miracles, right, maybe you know,
the selling their souls to the devil. Maybe, Okay, we're
done now, We've given you. We gave you the bunt play,
we gave you the Freddie Freeman play at for today's right,
we gave you. Now we got to kind of make
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things even for the Phillies. That's the only thing I
could say positive for Philadelphia. Go.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I remember they're they're up to nothing and to this point,
Shoho Tani's only made good contact on one one at bat.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah, in these two games.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
That change, it'll get get it worse for you.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
But again, was it the big hit tonight? I mean,
the game's tied. If O'tama does that big insurance run,
that big round, that is a groundball that maybe should
have been stopped. It was a little little bit, but man,
I'll tell you, Dave Roberts, if the Dodgers fighting away,
Dave Roberts, Oh, I could get fired. No, instead, we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Win the year of living dangerously, Dodgers for three winners.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Sasaki to save tell now to find out what's trending
in the wide world of sports. But guy's been called
the rookie Sasaki of Fox Sports Radio. He says, you
wait till now to put me on the air. It's
Steve de Sager.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Huh, no speak English. By the way, I predict that
Christian Walker will not win the Gold Glove in the
National League this year.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's pretty that's pretty bold. Same, that's pretty bold, Staman
resident play in the National League. Any how, what irony.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
By the way, the gold glove first baseman in the
NL might be the guy that the Atlanta Braves picked
to be their first baseman instead of Freddie Freeman pat Olsen.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
But Freddy wins it. But just with that play, he's
gotta win it.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. And remember he had a similar play
that he could not backhand in Game one at philadel
And I would note that with the three great defensive
plays today by the Dodgers, all three were in the infield,
none by that porous outfield. The starting pitching has been
incredible for LA in the past month, and Blake Snell
got the game to win tonight four to three at Philadelphia.
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Dodgers are up two games to none in this best
of five NL Division series. In Game one, shoe Heyo
Tani was the starting pitcher with that great Kerve ball,
he got a swing and miss twenty three times. Tonight,
Blake Snell got a swing and miss from the Phillies
twenty three times. In fact, Snell finished up for the
fourth time in his postseason career and outing with at
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least nine strikeouts and no more than two hits allowed.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
That is a record. I thought the Phillies were good, Steve.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
The Phillies actually had more wins than the Dodgers in
the regular season ninety six and had a first round
by after they took the NL East by thirteen games
over the Mets. The Phillies and this was key bottom
of the ninth did bunt into an out at third base.
Sasaki got save getting the final out. Aaron Nola of
Philadelphia will be starting Game three in LA Wednesday, with
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the season on the line for him, going up against
Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Is it the Aaronola of four years ago exactly.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Great decade with Philadelphia and then this year in Era
of six the only good thing that Philly people can
look at as well. He had a couple of great
outings in the last month. Maybe he found something or
he'll be there a very short amount of time, and
Ranger Suarez is coming in early people. Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Brewers,
the top overall seeds, up two games to none in
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their series after beating the Cubs seven to three. Cubs
offense after a three run homer in the top of
the first, went two for twenty eight at the plate
with eleven strikeouts the rest of the night. In fact,
the Cubs are the first team in playoff history to
hit a three run homer in the first and not
score again after that and lose the playoff game. This
was the first playoff game ever where each team hit
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a three run homer in the first. In fact, the
Brewers wound up with three long balls and the winning
pitcher was Jacob Miserowski, three scoreless innings, four strikeouts when
he came in, his first eight pitches were all fast balls,
the slowest of them one hundred and two miles an hour.
By the end of the night, Misserrowski with thirty one
different pitches at at least one hundred miles an hour,
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needless to say, the most by any playoff pitcher since
they started this pitch tracking over fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I feel like he pitched eleven innings tonight. Every time
he is still on the mount long down. Other people
now gives a four hour game and not three. It's
three hours later. He's still on the mountain. He's only
pitched four innings, but he's still on.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
The mount The American League games are on FS one
again tomorrow. What a Monday night football matchup it turned
out to be. Jacksonville gets a touchdown with under thirty
seconds left to beat Kansas City thirty one twenty eight.
Jags are four and one. Kansas City, it turns out,
is the team of Jags two and three. Patrick Mahomes
one touchdown run, one touchdown pass, and one key interception
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return ninety nine yards for a score. He looked at
the goal line, Mahomes through the ball. This was gonna
be career touchdown pass number three hundred set the record
the fastest to three hundred TD passes in NFL history.
He stepping in front the life touchdown it to go
the other way, Devin Lloyd the hero Two other notes,
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Patriots running back Antonio Gibson out for the year, torn
acl Chargers are putting running back Omrion Hampton on IR
back to you.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carbon Coming up next, we got more baseball
on the way, but straight ahead, we get back into
the big drama tonight the Chiefs and the Jaguars and
a big, fat hot take on one really popular quarterback.
That's next right here, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Sports Radio The Jason's Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
Touchdown Ready, big heroics tonight on Monday Night Football, Jaguars,
Devin Lloyd, That was nice, Devin light was nice. Trevor
Lawrence owns the night. A career defining touchdown, a career
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changing touchdown in the final minute of regulation gives the
Jaguars the thirty one to twenty eight win over Kansas City.
And look we talked about it on this final drive. Hey,
they get the ball back just under two minutes left
to go. This is the biggest drive for Trevor Lawrence
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that we've seen in quite a long time. Things get
amped up on Monday and Thursday nights. He needed a
game winning kind of drive to flip the narrative on
his career, which is, yeah, the guy's getting paid a
lot of money, but he's in league average quarterback. He's
not been great. The team has been winning so far
because they've been able to run the football, play really
good defense. But once in a while, you need a
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quarterback you decided to give fifty million dollars to because well,
we took him number one overall, it's kind of embarrassing
if we don't give him that money. You need that
guy to make a play for you. You need to flip
that narrative because Trevor Lawrence pun intended, he's been a jag.
He's just been a guy. And the final play that
they have the ball tonight, where they need a touchdown
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on it's absolute disaster that turns into a miracle for Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Trevor under center, he he slip that he fell down.
Tremor fell down on the play.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
The gonna run down, cut down, touchdown, begun up.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
He felt.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
It.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I got ten to Senny.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Trevor Lawrence Trey very happy. Jaguars Radio Network on the call.
Trevor Lawrence is gets his footstepped on by the right guard.
He falls down. He tries to get up, he falls
down again. He somehow gets up. The Chiefs have him
in the backfield. He escapes. He runs twenty yards on
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the play to gain one yard. That one yard to
get in the end zone for the go ahead touchdown.
Doesn't matter how far you have to run, how do
you get in? He gets in and you can see
the rest of the game. It was like ESPN was
anointing him as this is the guy. Finally he wears
the crown. He's the guy everybody thought he was gonna be.
He who had taken number one. Overall, all the congratulations
(38:34):
on the sideline. The camera follows him into the tunnel.
It's his birthday. He comes back out for cake with
Scott Van Pelt was. This wasn't just hey, here's a
quarterback made a big play. This was a career altering play.
This was the biggest play of his career. Yes, you
want to look back and say you add the collapse,
the big comeback win against the charge of the playoffs. Okay,
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that's great, but it was also the Chargers collapse. You
played poorly in the first half, big thing. But individually,
for Trevor Lawrence, this was the biggest moment, the biggest
play of his career because he needed this to show
I am an elite quarterback. And he gets it on
the day where he celebrates his birthdays, having cake with
with Van Pelt on the ESPN set and everything is
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coming up Trevor Lawrence. It wasn't just a win. It
was an anointing what we saw after this game at
least push forward right three and one, and a lot
of questions of how much they're winning in spite of
and not because of, like the run game and defense.
To this point, coming into tonight's game, they were plus
nine in the turnover battle. That's going to help you
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win football games. We know the old stat, right, seventy
five percent of the time team with the that wins
the turnover battle finishes the job. But for Trevor Lawrence,
to what he's just over a thousand passing yard, six touchdowns,
five picks. Again, not world beating, but made the big
plays when they matter. Does it change the narrative all together? No,
But it's a big moment and it's a win in
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over Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Right. Everything gets amplified when you go and you knock
off the top guy. Right. Eli Manning's eventually gonna be
a Hall of Famer. Not because he has two super
Bowl wins. Wins, that's part of it. But those two
super Bowl wins were over Tom Brady, so they get magnified.
Speaker 5 (40:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Ever, Lawrence, when you have a big moment on the
big stage, the standalone game, which Jacksonville does not do, right,
I forget what the data was, but it's been a
minute since Monday Night football has been hanging around in Jacksonville. Right,
We've seen a bunch of Thursday night games that we
have seen. We have seen them be the host at
many a European destination though these many years, No, No, No,
(40:39):
and Monday Night Football wearing those classy jerseys and getting
the best of Patrick Mahomes in dramatic fashion. Yeah, it's
everything you can want for that springboard and in an
AFC that's got a lot of questions for all your
top teams in Jacksonville. They're saying, why not us? They
start a head coach, and look, they figured out a
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pretty good for him. They run the football really well.
They look when you traded ten bigs b week two,
it's like, we know we can run the football.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
We got our guys right. Your defense is playing really well.
You haven't really got a lot from Travis Hunter, although
he did catch a couple of passes to night pass.
Maybe you're gonna get more from him, more from the
passing game. Brown is back now. They wanted him back,
and he had a big catch his first one near
the end of the game to get you inside the
ten yard line. So you got some stuff going on
with David Jackson.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Throw to Brian Thomas, who seemed the most confused that
it got to him.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
You got some You got some stuff going on right
now if you're Jacksonville. All of a sudden, Liam Cohen
Coach of the Year. Every hair commercial tomorrow, Well there's
a flip side to Trevor Lawrence and that's Patrick Mahomes.
That's next.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
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Big night in the NFL. We'll get back into that
coming up in a few minutes. The Jaguars escape, sending
the Chiefs to two and three, thirty one to twenty eight.
But again another night of high drama in Major League Baseball.
Nothing bigger, nothing crazier than Dodgers Phillies Game two. That
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the Dodgers survive, no better way to say it. They
survive despite Dave Roberts' best efforts to not out, Yeah,
succeed and proceed. They win this game for to three,
take a two zip lead going back to Los Angeles,
And are there some things to talk about in this game? First,
(01:48):
let's look at what happened in the ninth inning, a
game the Dodgers had led for nothing, and great pitching
performance by Blake Snell. Phenomenal, Right, he was great. This
is why I say he's got to pay all the
game ones when you can, because he's that guy and
he was terrific. But what do I say, Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Didn't avoid them as long as you can, then the
Dodger bullpen is gonna have a big say on the
Baseball playoffs, and not from a positive perspective.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
They're gonna have it. And what we saw in the
ninth inning tonight, I really I thought Dave Roberts isn't
gonna make it back to the bus before he gets
fired as Dodgers manager. Okay, now you know how bad
the Dodgers bullpen has been the last few months. They're
not solving this anytime soon. The bullpen has been absolutely abysmal.
There's no one you can trust. The only one you
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can trust is Roki Sasaki, right, and you gotta hope
to get to the ninth inning with a lead where
you just hand him the ball. And even Roki Sasaki
is not a guy like Hey, I've been able to
trust him all year, no size, In five appearances, he's
been good. So he's the only guy, right. He was
out for four and a half months, but he's the
only guy back ready to go. So you have no
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choice but to trust Asaka. Look, we talked about it
a week ago. Hey, guess what. He just became the
Dodgers closer, and Sasaki had to be. He's throwing great,
He's throwing a hundred, His stuff is moving phenomenal, and
the Dodgers get everything you need tonight. Six innings from
Blake Snell, two good innings from Emma Chian who gives
up one run. But okay, one run in two innings.
You're turning it over to the ninth inning, protect the
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three run lead. Okay, and this is where I'm saying
we're gonna get Roki Sasaki, right, Nope, seemed obvious. We
get Blake trining into Alex Vessia, finally to Sasaki, who
comes in and gets the final out of the game
with the game tying run at third base. But here's
where the Phillies decided, Oh, Dave Roberts, we can't take
this gift from you. We want to give it back
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to you. Ninth inning, Blake trying in two batters, two
base runners. Okay, you know it's not his night. And
I know Dave Roberts loves his guys, but you know
it's not trying his night. Second and third, nobody out,
and Costeano's comes up and a deep drive left. Actually
it's not. It was just a seeing eye. I'm gonna
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throw the bat out on the ball and he hits
a bad pitch, right, I'm not hits a bad pitch
from trying to but it goes down the line and left.
Two runs come in and he beats the throat to
second base. A good tag would have had him, but
the tag wasn't applied. It was kind of a sweep
tag and he was able to get in. So he's
a Samson base. The ball beat him there. Now if
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if the if they think in the you know, the
thing may be a little biased. No, I know you're biased.
But here's just a little bit, just a short thing
before you get to the whole. What happened after this
is that in you know, for a long time, everybody's
come up, the sweep tag is the one to make
because that's the one you cover most of the area with.
And if you sweep tag, that tells the umpire the
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ball beats you there and you're gonna get the out call.
But now with replay, if you sweep tag and miss,
guess what, you're not gonna get that call. Stereo. You
really need you really need to keep the butt, you know,
get down and keep that and keep that glove and
aim for the base and not really look for where
the guy's arm is because if you go middle of
the base, he's gonna put his arm into your glove
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and if he moves it up, then he move it
up and tag him. But the sweep tag is not
going to work anymore because of replay. And that's something
that's got to be drilled into players coming up. Now
the sweeptag doesn't do it before replay, was there, sweeptag,
You're out? What's I'm going to say?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Got you there?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You're done? But now Consteanos beats it, So okay, Now
Citizens Bank is going crazy. There's nobody out tying run
at second base. A game the Dodgers had in the bag.
Now all of a sudden, dodge your bullpen and all.
And guess what it could gonna be the worst ending
possible because again nobody out runner at second base. And
what does Rob Thompson decide to do. He decides to
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have stot bunt. And what do I don't need any
more evidence on me telling you how bad of an
idea and how bad a strategy of the bunt is
any more than this game. I should not have to
say it anymore. It's like dropping the ball before you
cross the goal line. Democado, you've seen it, don't do
it anymore. Bunting is such an antiquated strategy that no
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longer works. It no longer works because the teams are
too good. The odds of getting of getting a run
over is not what it was. When you play for
one run, you can get one run. But the main
thing is this, and this is what I keep going
back to, is that it's one thing to try to
bunt a runner over and play for a run when
it's the ninth inning of a game in May or June. Yeah,
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you're playing the Dodgers at home in Mays. Be a
big thing for us. We need a run, let's payer run.
It's quite another thing to execute a bunt when the
pressure of the world is on you in the playoffs,
where you absolutely have to lay this down because there's
a big there's a big sense of of there's a
sense of disproportionate belief from people who think this is
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a fundamental play that should be executed and the reality
of it, which is it's really hard to just say, well,
major Leagua should be able to bunt. Yeah, you're right,
but guess what they don't anymore. Well, but they don't bunt.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
But the other thing is he got the bunt down, right,
Because a lot of times we see guys, we had
a popped up bunt last week, right, or you just
go and flail and you make a half assed Effort's like,
if I gave up that strike, I guess I have
to swing away. Now, how often do you see that?
But Stott had three sacrifice bunts on the year, five
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hundred and fifty played appearances. And if he's gonna get
it down and give Dodgers all the credit for the
defensive structure that they put in to execute this, but
you've got to make lay down a perfect bunt. Like
it's not just a all right, did I bunt it here? No,
it's like you've got to pull it to the proper
spot to give yourself a chance for everything to work out.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And that's as are. Everything's gotta work. It's not just
about getting it don Because look the Red Sox their
season ended because they decided to bunt runners at first
and second. Nobody out seventh inning of Game two against
the Yankees, and then na have a scored to run
the rest of the way right pops it up. That
should have been that should have been the only evident
note up. But now we have the Phillies here and
they decide to bunt right, and the Dodgers run a
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wheel play that they never really practiced, but going in
for the for the pitching change because Alex Vesia comes
in after trying and gets hit and they decide, hey,
let's run a wheel play here. We'll get that and
go to third base because Costeanos is not a fast runner. Yeah,
they were inspired by Oceans thirteen and the cartwheel. All
of this goes into calling for the bunt. Forget about
the fact that you're giving the other team a out
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and you're going all in on one at bat. That's
not Harper, that's not Turner, that's not Schwarber. You're going
all in on one at bat with a runner at
third and one out. Right, you're going why are you
doing that? The Dodgers are on their heels. The bullpen
has been terrible, and look what happened. They gave up
another couple of runners. Right, the grounder might might have
scored the run. The ground ball to Freddie Freean might
(08:51):
have scored the run. The base hit that happened, the
play after might have scored the run. But they decide
to bunt. And the thing is, so many things can
go wrong, especially when you're trying to bunt in a
high pressure situation. Scott's got to get the bunt down.
You gotta make sure that the run you get to third.
And it looked like Castanos had a horrible jump from
second to third. He's not fast anyway, and he gets
thrown out at third easy. And this was the plagu
(09:13):
When the Phillies go home, they're gonna say that this
is the play that calls it for them.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Bessie A kicks and fire Stott gets the bunt down
to third, picked up by Muncie.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
He goes to third and Castianos is gonna be out.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
They execute the play to perfection.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Dodgers Radio Network on the call, and now, all of
a sudden, instead of runner at second, nobody trying to
figure it that you could still almost get a runner
at third and one out with a ground out to
the right spot or a fly ball. What a But
you decide to give the team an out, and then
the worst case scenario happens in which your lead runner
gets thrown out. Now you have a runner at first.
Next batter up gets a single, probably would have brought
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in the run. Then, if not the ground ball to
Freddie Freeman where he got the out at second, the
only place he could go with the ball that might
have brought the run in. I fail to understand how
MLB men and Rob Thomas has been doing this for
a little while. Now I fail to understand how they
still think this is a high percentage play. And we're, okay,
playing for one run. You're playing for one run. You
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got nobody out in a runner at second, You got
three shots to get the guy in from second base. Okay,
you got three chances to get the guy in, and
all you did was cost your team the game. Bunting
was a great strategy thirty years ago, forty years ago,
when most everybody in the lineup could bunt, right, when
everybody like could butt. Hey, we'll get a bunt down.
This guy leads the league in sacrifice bunts. Yet thirty
eight sacrifice bunts this year. Right, Okay, this isn't major
(10:33):
league baseball anymore. But guys can't do that anymore. But
it's a different game.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
We bemoan the three outcome of walks and strikeouts and
home runs being the majority. And look, Dodgers generated runs
without the long ball today. You've seen that.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
A bit more.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
The execution of this strategy and the ability to put
balls in play, excepting when the aces are on the mount.
As soon as you get to anybody's bullpen anymore, it
all goes to hell. But it's just the idea of
bunting back in the day was all right, the pitcher
can't hit, so he either strikes out or he bunts
(11:13):
if there's a run run, yeah, just because Yeah, but
you're also playing small ball. You scored a fewer runs,
you weren't hitting home runs at the same rate. I'm
going all the way back to my childhood, so we're
really kind of thinking about the age of the eighties
of Chicago Cubs baseball when I'd get home from school
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and you'd watch it a lot of National League bunting
going on. Well, the game's changed, and you're also not
playing for one run, right, you want to use every
one of those at bats. And to your point at
the start of it is he came in and you
had two base runners really fast, and if you look
at recent history, and I know Dave Roberts explanation for
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a lot of it is these guys have gotten us
a big out. So like that's last year, that doesn't
matter right now.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Now here's Rob Thompson, Phillies manager, trying to explain why
he decided to go for the bunt at that point
in the game. I thought you said, Rob Thomas, No,
Rob Thompson. Rob thoms Sorry, that's okay, that's all right.
(12:28):
Here's Rob Thompson explaining why it always seems it always
seems to be raining when we call for that bunt.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Rob, what went into the decision? Now, persons stopped bunt
there as opposed to swing.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Just left on a lot for trying to tie the score.
I liked where our bullpen was at based on as
compared to theirs, So we played for the tie at home.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
It seemed like the Dodgers were expecting Was there any
thought of taking it off after.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Well, Mookie did a great job of disguising the wheel play.
And we teach our guys that if you see wheel,
just pull it back and slash because he's got you
had all kinds of room in the middle. But he,
MOOKI broke so late that it was tough for starting
to pick it up.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, it sounds like he knows he's toasted when it
comes to that. And look and not only not only that, right,
and you see all the things that could go wrong
with this play, right, Oh, we teach him to slash
it that. Well, that's that's a variable that goes into
things that you have to take into account, and it's like, Okay,
we'll get the bunt down. Okay, it's not that simple, right,
And people think it's a simple play, a simple thing.
You can't just get the bunt down. There's so many
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other things that go along with her. Albert Mooki broke relate. Okay,
well you don't think that that could be something the
Dodgers do. And and Constiano's the other thing too, is
that he's got the whole play in front of him. Right.
If he stops and says, okay, Munsey's got the ball,
he can just crawl back to second base, and it's
first and second in nobody out because there's running the
wheel play. Second base is not covered right, running that
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wheel play second base is not because Mooki's coming over
right and Munsey, Munsey's gonna throw there. The second baseman
goes to first base, first be if Freddie Freeman comes in,
nobody's at second he could he could just deon Sanders
dance all the way back to second base. Okay, we
didn't get the run of the third, but we have
runners at first and second. Now, now the winning run
is at first base, with only the tying run at
second and there's still nobody out like there's so again,
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so many things could happen with this play. There's so
many variables. It's not nearly as simple as bunting. You
can't just say bunting again, it's a bad strategy. But yeah,
what what do I know? I've only seen this now
twice in the last two week telling you about team
should stop bunting.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
No, all you reply with is, Mookie was great, we
were beaten by the best.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And how about did you have any thoughts of pinch
running for Castianos at that point? Any thoughts of putting
in a faster player? Dude, he thought about that, he
thought any thoughts about that? You wanted to butt if
you wanted to bunt, but you didn't put a guy
at second base and could make sure he could do it.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
They lose Saturday, Eagles lose. Now this exit ou ab
out of Fresca. But but the Flyers played, So it's fine.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Let's go NHL season exit out by a Fresca exit
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Speaker 1 (17:03):
You try to button an knife fitting and you lose.
Rob Thompson's gotta explain himself. We're down to going back
to la.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Hey, Mookie's the best. Okay, he he confused us, He
confounded us. We never saw it coming. We never saw
it coming. That's how great he is.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, a little bit
more on Dodger Philly drama before we get back into Shore.
Talk about drama at the end of the game tonight. Yeah,
let's go Jaguars and the Chiefs. But you know, not
enough has been talked about this. Look, we talked about
the bunt and again, awful decision. Bunting should be illegal,
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but or you just you know what, just don't bunt
and and you'll win more games.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Congratulations, outlawed first bunting of the tush push eight seven
seven night.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Now, Philadelphia fans want to see the toush pus. They
don't want to see bunting anymore. I'm not big. I
don't want to see a bunch. We can't bunch anymore.
I don't want to see that. You know, we do
blow a big lead to the Broncos. Now I don't
like it.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah, but you just good the end to the end
of that the hail Mary, the angle that they've shown
now of of Jalen Hurts sprinting after it, like it
was like he could be like Kurt Heading, remember, mister perfect.
And I'm gonna gonna run down to catch him myself
and throw it to myself, run down and catch him, right,
I'm gonna do gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Don't no, don't like it? Perfect. So this play we
don't spend enough time on tonight, Dodgers. After the bunt,
after the horrible bunt play that the that the Phillies try,
they get a single to put runners at first and second,
and then a ground ball to Freddie Freeman makes a
play on gets the out at second. Okay, first and third,
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two outs, and now Dave Roberts brings in Roki Sasaki. Okay,
you know what, Let's do it, not Leo blank that,
Let's do Daveberts right now. Now he brings in Sasaki. Okay,
with the game and the balance four to three, first
and third, two outs in the ninth, now Roki Sasaki
(19:12):
comes in. Yeah, okay, Dave Roberts. I mean it. It
would have been hard for Dave Roberts that the Dodgers
to not fire Dave Roberts on the tarmac on the
way back to LA if the Phillies win this game. Okay,
you know how bad the bullpen is. We've talked about it, right,
I don't need to say anymore how bad it is.
The one guy you can trust? Is Sasaki right? One
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guy you can trust? Is Sasaki right? One guy you
can trust? And Okay, ninth inning, three run lead off
day tomorrow, it's he I could manage the Dodgers. Hey,
get Rokie up, he's coming into the ninth inning. Great
two winnings from Emmachian, phenomenal, nice job. Sasaki comes in.
He's the only reliever you can trust. Yes, he's been
throwing great, but mainly because he's not anybody else, and
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you cannot trust anyone else. How do you not go
right to your closer? Int? And I get that he
loves his guys right, And I get that, And I
get that Roberts is thinking about the bullpen in the
clubhouse and everything else. I love Blake trying and he's.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Been such a big part of the team whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I love Alex Vessia, I got But you're trying to
win a game. And I'm sorry, but the postseason is
not a place to say, Hey, I love my guys.
I believe in you. You either get it done or not.
There are two columns. There is a win column, there
is a loss coum. You either go on to play
or you go home. Blake Trinon has not been good. Right.
I get he got a couple of outs against the Reds,
but he has been You can't bring a guy in
the ninth inning that has a fifty percent success rate.
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He can't do it. And I get, and I understand
the philosophy behind well. Left handed hitters are coming up.
So here comes Alex Vesia. Uh dude, bring in your
best reliever. Okay, bring in your best guy that throws
a hundred and that they haven't seen in four and
a half months. Bring in your best guy, right, bring
in your best guy. Bring in Rookie Sasaki. You lose
with him, Okay, you lose. You brought in your best play.
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You lose with Vessa on the mound.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You lose.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
How can you defend that? How can you look at
your team and say, hey, I don't know what we tried? Guys, No, no, no,
Why did you not go to the guy who was
your closer? Why did you not go to your best reliever?
Dave Roberts tried to give this game back to the Phillies,
and he got bailed out by the fact Rob Thomps said,
oh no, no, We're gonna try to bunt, and then Finally,
I don't know what it was. Maybe it's a phone
call to the dugout. Maybe the players just grabbed Dave robertson, dude,
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bring Roki Sasaki in. What happens? He comes in, he
gets the ground out, and the Dodgers win. They go
up to sit. But Dave Roberts did all he could
to give this game to the Phillies. He hasn't gone
two out of three much at all. Just figuring the
run right there. Blake's pitched some of the biggest outs
innings in the postseason four us. Felt really confident right there,
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and with Vessie behind him if he needed and he
just keeps.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Going on and on, and eventually, you know, I thought
about it, but I went with what I've done before,
right So it's it's it's like the Rob Thompson thing.
He's like, well, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
What do you say, Thomas or Thompson? Rob Thompson. But
just all of the discussion, it's very, very, very smooth
that we're doing right now. Frostberger's very like guys that we've.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Seen nicely now for for the history, and I get it.
Dave Roberts, we've talked about his loyalty to his guys,
long standing relievers, starters, they're going to get an extra
turn in the rotation during the regular like all of
those things. He is very loyal to a fault and
then and then they played to the numbers and this
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is one of those all right, how much is the
equation versus the gut feel?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
And we play that game all the time?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That yo, yo. But for the recent history of what
you've seen from this relief staff, like there's a reason
you've been going to Sasaki Kershaw, damn it. Guys that
have been starters more than your actual bullpen.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
You go.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
When you get to the ninth inning of the game,
do the Mets say, oh, we got three lefties coming up?
Or do the Mets say we're bringing in Edwin d
Mets say we quit has had a great year. No, no, listen,
the Phillies in the y stop stop the Phillies and
the Yankees losing is like the Mets winning. It's the
same thing. Right now, I can wear my Mets gear
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with the Yankees and the Phillies losing. Man, it'd be
it'd be an awesome playoff after after this, this could
be better. It'd be an awesome. Actually, probably better, isn't
it. It might be better, but it's because it's still you know,
it's it's fun to wallow in the mission. You should
probably call a doctor.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, in four hours, Well it'll be better. The Yankees finally, yeah,
the Yankee one and the Phillies right, because oh, my dad,
my dad is he's not picking up.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
My dad is not doing well. He said, what what
did he tell me? You should call me before the
first inning of the Yankees game, because after the first
inning of the Yankees game, Yeah, he's like done. Comes up.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Every game that's played by play might might have been
the best thing I heard all weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Every game it's eight nothing in the first gave Wills.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Talking about how I'm glad Gurel has been killing him.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh, I know, by the way, the number of people
because when we made our predictions for this last week,
I said, the Yankees are gonna just absolutely rake the
beginning of this series. They're gonna beat the Blue Jays.
They're hot, they're gonna ray. Obviously it's gone the other
way and the Blue jed and so many people now
all all yesterday on my timeline, you're wrong, giving giving
(24:21):
me a gives I'm like, oh my god, oh my god.
And what I wanted to come back and just say,
is you think I'm unhappy to be wrong about this.
You think I'm oh, the Yankees are losing and they
may go home. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I don't care
if I got that wrong. Yeah I got it wrong.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I don't we make a million predictions. There's gonna be
a lot of wrong ones. Case. This also gives you
the satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Of you no gonna lose. Oh my goodness. Uh So,
I don't get Dave Roberts. I don't understand what he
was trying to do. I mean, you bring in your
best reliever. Everybody brings in their closing. You don't mess
around and say, oh, I kind of like the when
Sasaki is pitching out the way, he is like, what
are you doing here? Are You're so overmanaging the game?
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Go to your best guy. I mean that's what I think.
I can't Roberts. Dave Roberts me, Jason, I mean I
know he isn't. I mean, I know he loves it,
but at some point you have to say, Okay, I know, like, dude,
you don't There's no rule that says you have to
bring in three reliefs, but bring in your best guy
and that's it. Go home.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
But here's the thing, right, we can go all the
way back to twenty sixteen when the Cubs won the
World Series. How many times did Joe Madden do something?
And we're looking at each other going, that doesn't make
any sense, And damned if they didn't have the horseshoe
to get to the end line. Right with Dave Roberts,
look at last year, how many times did he go
to the penny? You're like, all right, now we're on that.
How many relievers and it worked? Yeah, so he's in bolden.
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Eventually they're gonna pitch a solid scoreless inning. Damn it.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Uh So, really, I don't understand how that happened. And yes,
the Phillies bailed him out by bunting, but also bailing
out Dave Roberts was Freddy Freeman. Because this ground ball
that Roki Sasaki gets with the tying run at third
and the game was not just your garden variety ground
ball to a good infielder throws him out at first.
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Tommy Edmond nearly threw the game away for the Dodgers.
And Freddie Freeman had to save it. Turner to second base,
Tommy Edman low throw Tlenny Freeman with a scoop and
the ball game is over. Oh my goodness, Tommy Edmond
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spiked it in the Tommy Edmond threw it into the dirt.
Freddy Freeman is able to dig it out and keep
his foot on first base. Remember long stretch turner, running
fast player, He's able to somehow stay connected to the
bag hold onto the ball. Wasn't even a replay challenge
after because you could see Freddie Freeman somehow stayed on
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the bag and he saves that game. Made a great
defense to play the play before it. I mean, really,
I think Freddie once he got one gold Glove Frostburg
his career, Freddy Frame, I think that's pretty accurate. Something
like that. I don't know, man, she's absolutely criminal, because
he does this all the time. You got to give
it to him. You got to give him miss one
just for that play. I mean, he absolutely said. I mean,
Tommy Yeman, it's an easy throwing. He lollipops it to
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first base and Freddy Freeman's got to make a really
hard play.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
How many guys make that play? In that situation. But
he doesn't bobble it and there's no to stretch off
the bag or any question of it. It's it's an
immediate run, close, close out an inning, and get the save.
But looking at his fielding, let's see what do we
got not in the box score. But he wins games
(27:46):
doing this. No, but that's just it runs saved and such.
Certainly we've got the runs created. I'm curious where if
we have a run saved space for him, though, But
we've watched this time and again, right, there have been
some truly suspect plays through that Dodger infield for as
many years as he's been manning first base that he's
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saved the day. Think about how much worse those reliever
stats would look at out Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And you know what else is amazing by Freddy Freeman
is the guy runs like he needs a hip replacement,
like really, like yeah, I think gloves twenty eighteen, Yeah, yeah,
seven years ago. And you know what, it was a
co co he shared it with. I think Anthony Rizzo
that year. Wow, you didn't even win it out right, man,
I mean the guy can barely move, he can barely run.
He run. You know, he runs. He runs like my dad.
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My dad's seventy eight, and that's kind of how my
dad runs, like a little oh, just kind of kind
of stepping up a little bit, like he runs like
he needs gonna need a hip replacement. Like, boy, it's
gonna be tough. He's gonna be sidelined a long time
when he gets that new hip. Like he can't even move,
and still he's able to make plays like he made
for the second out of the inning, like he made
there at the end of the game. It defies logic
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that he's able to make those plays. Watch Freddy Freeman run.
Don't know how he has so many? He doubles like
he got I mean, how does he get the second base?
He kind of just lumbers in, and you know, it's
almost it's almost like Freddy Freeman's a robot. And when
they get in, they go, Okay, start decreasing speed, decreasing speed,
like you're landing a plane or something. You're slowing the
train down, all right, pressing buttony Okay, we're slowing down,
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slowing down, arriving and we're at the base. Speaking of
people moving very very very slow, how about the play
Miguel rojas Man man that slide into third base to
beat Trey Turner of the bag. I mean that that
could have been the game. You know, hey again, and
what did I say last week all about Dodger defense.
Dodger defense is gonna be his absolute killer. It's so bad,
it's so bad. And then had three big plays tonight
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to save the game. Actually, okay, three big play one
because Edmund was a bad play. But Freddy Freeman made
a good play, so you didn't make that. Yeah, it
gets it done, Roki Sasaki. By the way, Christian Walker
has won the last three. Freddie Freeman should wring this
year just for that plane to night.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
He should three straight, and then Goldschmidt and then you
go back to Rizzo for a couple of years, and
then that tie in twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Christian Water just for tonight, just for hey, sorry, everything
he did in the regular season, Christian was great, all yeah,
but Freddie wins just for that play tonight, just for
making that play. I'd be right, And no challenge from
the Phillies not you'd say no. He stayed on there,
He stayed on there. He saw it, he got it.
It was it was I mean, that was an amazing
play that could have been absolute disaster the Dodgers. I
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feel like they The one thing I could say for
the Phillies, right, if I could say anything positive for
them going back to La down to Zip, is that
maybe the Dodgers are out of miracles, right, maybe you know,
the selling their souls to the devil. Maybe, Okay, we're
done now, We've given you. We gave you the bunt play,
we gave you the Freddie Freeman play at for today's right,
we gave you. Now we got to kind of make
(30:45):
things even for the Phillies. That's the only thing I
could say positive for Philadelphia. Go.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I remember they're they're up to nothing and to this point,
Shoho Tani's only made good contact on one one at bat.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah, in these two games.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
That change, it'll get get it worse for you.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
But again, was it the big hit tonight? I mean,
the game's tied. If O'tama does that big insurance run,
that big round, that is a groundball that maybe should
have been stopped. It was a little little bit, but man,
I'll tell you, Dave Roberts, if the Dodgers fighting away,
Dave Roberts, Oh, I could get fired. No, instead, we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Win the year of living dangerously, Dodgers for three winners.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Sasaki to save tell now to find out what's trending
in the wide world of sports. But guy's been called
the rookie Sasaki of Fox Sports Radio. He says, you
wait till now to put me on the air. It's
Steve de Sager.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Huh, no speak English. By the way, I predict that
Christian Walker will not win the Gold Glove in the
National League this year.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's pretty that's pretty bold. Same, that's pretty bold, Staman
resident play in the National League. Any how, what irony.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
By the way, the gold glove first baseman in the
NL might be the guy that the Atlanta Braves picked
to be their first baseman instead of Freddie Freeman pat Olsen.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
But Freddy wins it. But just with that play, he's
gotta win it.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. And remember he had a similar play
that he could not backhand in Game one at philadel
And I would note that with the three great defensive
plays today by the Dodgers, all three were in the infield,
none by that porous outfield. The starting pitching has been
incredible for LA in the past month, and Blake Snell
got the game to win tonight four to three at Philadelphia.
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Dodgers are up two games to none in this best
of five NL Division series. In Game one, shoe Heyo
Tani was the starting pitcher with that great Kerve ball,
he got a swing and miss twenty three times. Tonight,
Blake Snell got a swing and miss from the Phillies
twenty three times. In fact, Snell finished up for the
fourth time in his postseason career and outing with at
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least nine strikeouts and no more than two hits allowed.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
That is a record. I thought the Phillies were good, Steve.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
The Phillies actually had more wins than the Dodgers in
the regular season ninety six and had a first round
by after they took the NL East by thirteen games
over the Mets. The Phillies and this was key bottom
of the ninth did bunt into an out at third base.
Sasaki got save getting the final out. Aaron Nola of
Philadelphia will be starting Game three in LA Wednesday, with
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the season on the line for him, going up against
Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Is it the Aaronola of four years ago exactly.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Great decade with Philadelphia and then this year in Era
of six the only good thing that Philly people can
look at as well. He had a couple of great
outings in the last month. Maybe he found something or
he'll be there a very short amount of time, and
Ranger Suarez is coming in early people. Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Brewers,
the top overall seeds, up two games to none in
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their series after beating the Cubs seven to three. Cubs
offense after a three run homer in the top of
the first, went two for twenty eight at the plate
with eleven strikeouts the rest of the night. In fact,
the Cubs are the first team in playoff history to
hit a three run homer in the first and not
score again after that and lose the playoff game. This
was the first playoff game ever where each team hit
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a three run homer in the first. In fact, the
Brewers wound up with three long balls and the winning
pitcher was Jacob Miserowski, three scoreless innings, four strikeouts when
he came in, his first eight pitches were all fast balls,
the slowest of them one hundred and two miles an hour.
By the end of the night, Misserrowski with thirty one
different pitches at at least one hundred miles an hour,
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needless to say, the most by any playoff pitcher since
they started this pitch tracking over fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I feel like he pitched eleven innings tonight. Every time
he is still on the mount long down. Other people
now gives a four hour game and not three. It's
three hours later. He's still on the mountain. He's only
pitched four innings, but he's still on.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
The mount The American League games are on FS one
again tomorrow. What a Monday night football matchup it turned
out to be. Jacksonville gets a touchdown with under thirty
seconds left to beat Kansas City thirty one twenty eight.
Jags are four and one. Kansas City, it turns out,
is the team of Jags two and three. Patrick Mahomes
one touchdown run, one touchdown pass, and one key interception
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return ninety nine yards for a score. He looked at
the goal line, Mahomes through the ball. This was gonna
be career touchdown pass number three hundred set the record
the fastest to three hundred TD passes in NFL history.
He stepping in front the life touchdown it to go
the other way, Devin Lloyd the hero Two other notes,
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Patriots running back Antonio Gibson out for the year, torn
acl Chargers are putting running back Omrion Hampton on IR
back to you.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carbon Coming up next, we got more baseball
on the way, but straight ahead, we get back into
the big drama tonight the Chiefs and the Jaguars and
a big, fat hot take on one really popular quarterback.
That's next right here, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Sports Radio The Jason's Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
Touchdown Ready, big heroics tonight on Monday Night Football, Jaguars,
Devin Lloyd, That was nice, Devin light was nice. Trevor
Lawrence owns the night. A career defining touchdown, a career
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changing touchdown in the final minute of regulation gives the
Jaguars the thirty one to twenty eight win over Kansas City.
And look we talked about it on this final drive. Hey,
they get the ball back just under two minutes left
to go. This is the biggest drive for Trevor Lawrence
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that we've seen in quite a long time. Things get
amped up on Monday and Thursday nights. He needed a
game winning kind of drive to flip the narrative on
his career, which is, yeah, the guy's getting paid a
lot of money, but he's in league average quarterback. He's
not been great. The team has been winning so far
because they've been able to run the football, play really
good defense. But once in a while, you need a
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quarterback you decided to give fifty million dollars to because well,
we took him number one overall, it's kind of embarrassing
if we don't give him that money. You need that
guy to make a play for you. You need to flip
that narrative because Trevor Lawrence pun intended, he's been a jag.
He's just been a guy. And the final play that
they have the ball tonight, where they need a touchdown
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on it's absolute disaster that turns into a miracle for Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Trevor under center, he he slip that he fell down.
Tremor fell down on the play.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
The gonna run down, cut down, touchdown, begun up.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
He felt.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
It.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I got ten to Senny.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Trevor Lawrence Trey very happy. Jaguars Radio Network on the call.
Trevor Lawrence is gets his footstepped on by the right guard.
He falls down. He tries to get up, he falls
down again. He somehow gets up. The Chiefs have him
in the backfield. He escapes. He runs twenty yards on
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the play to gain one yard. That one yard to
get in the end zone for the go ahead touchdown.
Doesn't matter how far you have to run, how do
you get in? He gets in and you can see
the rest of the game. It was like ESPN was
anointing him as this is the guy. Finally he wears
the crown. He's the guy everybody thought he was gonna be.
He who had taken number one. Overall, all the congratulations
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on the sideline. The camera follows him into the tunnel.
It's his birthday. He comes back out for cake with
Scott Van Pelt was. This wasn't just hey, here's a
quarterback made a big play. This was a career altering play.
This was the biggest play of his career. Yes, you
want to look back and say you add the collapse,
the big comeback win against the charge of the playoffs. Okay,
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that's great, but it was also the Chargers collapse. You
played poorly in the first half, big thing. But individually,
for Trevor Lawrence, this was the biggest moment, the biggest
play of his career because he needed this to show
I am an elite quarterback. And he gets it on
the day where he celebrates his birthdays, having cake with
with Van Pelt on the ESPN set and everything is
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coming up Trevor Lawrence. It wasn't just a win. It
was an anointing what we saw after this game at
least push forward right three and one, and a lot
of questions of how much they're winning in spite of
and not because of, like the run game and defense.
To this point, coming into tonight's game, they were plus
nine in the turnover battle. That's going to help you
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win football games. We know the old stat, right, seventy
five percent of the time team with the that wins
the turnover battle finishes the job. But for Trevor Lawrence,
to what he's just over a thousand passing yard, six touchdowns,
five picks. Again, not world beating, but made the big
plays when they matter. Does it change the narrative all together? No,
But it's a big moment and it's a win in
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over Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Right. Everything gets amplified when you go and you knock
off the top guy. Right. Eli Manning's eventually gonna be
a Hall of Famer. Not because he has two super
Bowl wins. Wins, that's part of it. But those two
super Bowl wins were over Tom Brady, so they get magnified.
Speaker 5 (40:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Ever, Lawrence, when you have a big moment on the
big stage, the standalone game, which Jacksonville does not do, right,
I forget what the data was, but it's been a
minute since Monday Night football has been hanging around in Jacksonville. Right,
We've seen a bunch of Thursday night games that we
have seen. We have seen them be the host at
many a European destination though these many years, No, No, No,
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and Monday Night Football wearing those classy jerseys and getting
the best of Patrick Mahomes in dramatic fashion. Yeah, it's
everything you can want for that springboard and in an
AFC that's got a lot of questions for all your
top teams in Jacksonville. They're saying, why not us? They
start a head coach, and look, they figured out a
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pretty good for him. They run the football really well.
They look when you traded ten bigs b week two,
it's like, we know we can run the football.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
We got our guys right. Your defense is playing really well.
You haven't really got a lot from Travis Hunter, although
he did catch a couple of passes to night pass.
Maybe you're gonna get more from him, more from the
passing game. Brown is back now. They wanted him back,
and he had a big catch his first one near
the end of the game to get you inside the
ten yard line. So you got some stuff going on
with David Jackson.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Throw to Brian Thomas, who seemed the most confused that
it got to him.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
You got some You got some stuff going on right
now if you're Jacksonville. All of a sudden, Liam Cohen
Coach of the Year. Every hair commercial tomorrow, Well there's
a flip side to Trevor Lawrence and that's Patrick Mahomes.
That's next.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
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