November 1, 2025 • 42 mins
Jason and Mike open hour 2 reacting live as the Dodgers win Game 6 of the World Series to force a Game 7! MLB insider Jon Paul Morosi joins immediately postgame to help the guys break down all the action.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, welcome inside and absolutely nerve racking ninth inning of
Game six of the World Series. Oh, by the way,
Happy Halloween. Yeah, The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Speaker 4 (01:17):
You know, Jason, we got the World Series and all
of this other big sporting you know events all over
the place.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
You forgot that.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's the beginning of the Emirates Cup competition.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It is the NBA Cup tonight. Listen about that. It's hey, hey, hey,
let me tell you. I told you last night. And
you know I'm not lying. I'm believing in your Bulls
and how good they are. And they just absolutely boat
race the NIXT tonight. I was like, wow, me down,
but we were down by twenty at half time.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I said, Okay, that's nice. Yeah, but they made a
nice run in the second.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
But I'm telling you, nobody likes playing against Nobody likes
playing against the Bulls. Their pace, everything they do. They're
a pain in the ass to play against. And even
though they didn't have any big improvements in the offseason,
they still don't have their best player. But they play fast,
they get rid of the ball. This is a really
good team. They are sneaky good regular season team.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Thirty two for Giddie, twenty six for Vucevic. You know
I'm watching and the Lakers. You know, it's a big
game because Luca is back. Yep, yep, yep, yep, you
do it matters because it's the Emirates Cup. He might
not be back if it wasn't for the Cup.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Is tonight? Oh well, okay, well, I.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Mean I gotta show up. They're gonna have those weirdly
painted courts. I gotta be back for that.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But here we are, ninth inning, Game six of the
World Series. Roki Sasaki, the only reliever the Dodgers can
trust because Eric Ganye not available, gets out of a
jam in the bottom of the eighth inning, begins the
ninth inning by hitting Alejandro Kirk with a pitch. So
now the Blue Jays have the tying run at bat.
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Nobody out in the ninth inning, Justin Dean in center
field for the Dodgers, and now they're running for Kirk
at first base. Addison Bard your is up. So now, hey,
if you thought last inning all the Dodgers got through it.
Sasaki hits the first batter of the bottom of the
ninth inning, and now nobody out, tying run at the plate.
Dodgers lead at three to one as the Blue Jay's
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bat here in the bottom of the night.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Never a dull moment, I've been singing the Jethro Toll classic.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Nothing's easy.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Uh here in the studio tonight as watching this because
there is no straight path for any of this. And
maybe for Sasaki, you just need that runner on and
it makes him focus, don't It's like Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, no, no, I don't like this clean inning. Nobody on
not don't give me this four to one lead in
the night. I'm gonna hit a guy, then I'm gonna
walk a guy. Then I'll get a strikeout, then I'll
walk another guy, and now the bases are loaded, and
now suddenly it's a game.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's a long at my best. Yeah, it's not a
heat check. It's a heart check for the city that
you pitch in.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, that's I am at my best right there. I
I can't just come in and get three outs. I
can't do that for you, No, no, no no, I'm
gonna load the bases and turn it into a one
run game and then I'll get the final out, because
you know what, what fun is just coming in going one, two,
three and winning this game four to one. That's no
fun at all.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Boring.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, I mean, where's the bill, where's the anticip patient
on a Halloween night.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I will tell you this. Obviously, here we are, ninth inning,
Dodgers lead at three to one. If the Dodgers win
this game three to one, I guarantee you Schneider is
going to sit back after this game. Blue Jay's manager,
and he's gonna the thing that's gonna go through his
head of all the decisions, everything going on in this game,
he's gonna go back to intentionally walking Otani in the
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third inning with two outs. Right the third, that's when
the Dodgers got all three of their runs. Keikey Hernandez
struck out, Todmy Edmond doubled, Rojas struck out. So you
have two outs. Of course, yeah, let's walk show hey
Otani runner at second? Why are we doing that? Then
Will Smith doubles to left. That brings the first run in,
and now it becomes a three to nothing lead because
Mookie Betts gets a single and that brings in the
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extra run to make it a three to one game
and instead of a two to one game. So now
this is where we sit in the ninth inning. But
now we have all kinds of drama happening, and okay,
let's see what happens here. So Barger hits one to
the wall in left center field. The ball lands at
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the base of the wall and it sticks. Okay, so
Sasaki gets taken to the wall. It's gonna be a double.
And the ball just sticks at the bottom. It doesn't
go anywhere, It just it. I've never seen this before. Again,
the Jason Stark baseball on hundred and fifty years. You
see some they've never seen before. So the ball gets
stuck at the bottom of the wall, right between the
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wall and the dirt. It doesn't move. It's like a
golf shot that just sticks. And so uh, both outfielders
go to the ball and they put their hands up
because it's stuck. Because you know, if you put your
hands up and it's stuck, the umpire start. It's a
ground rule double, and everybody's got a you know, runners
at second and third, and it's still a three to
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one game because if you go try to dislodge the ball,
get it. Let's say you can't dislodge it. You can't
get it. Who knows what happens? Extra runners score and
and and all of a sudden it's a one run
game and the tying run is at third base. So
the smart play, and it's a really really smart play.
Hey Dave Roberts, you know, patch yourself on the back
with the moves you're making in the outfield. They are
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going to be going to the ninth inning. Because Dean
does the right thing. The ball sticks and right away
he puts his hands up. It's stuck. I can't get it.
It's like the ball in the ivy at Rigg. It's stuck.
I can't get it. Right, key Y Hernand is the
same thing. Throws his hands up, it's stuck. I can't
get it. The Blue Jays round the bases because of course,
you never know how this is gonna go. And he
doesn't go after the ball. He goes he stands at
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the wall and he holds his hands up and he's saying,
I can't get this. I got I can't get it.
I can't get it. And the Blue Jays keep rounding
the bases. Finally Dean grabs the ball and throws it
in because everybody's rounding and scoring, and so the bumpires
make the ruling, and it's the absolute right call. It's
a ground rule double when the ball gets stuck in
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that situation. So the runners go back to second and third,
and now you are seeing another pitching change. Roki Sasaki
is coming out of the game after the hit by
pitching the bottom of the ninth the double to the wall.
And now Tyler glassnow will be asked to come in
and send this to game seven. Mike Carmon, take a
(07:31):
quick peek. Who is scheduled to be your Game seven
starter for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Won.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That's gonna bez.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
It's now just a giant picture.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
So here comes Tyler Glass now in in relief to
try to get this to game seven. But the Blue
Jays have the tying run at second and nobody out again,
second and third, nobody out after Barger's double to the wall.
And quite honestly, what what happened in the grand scheme
of things probably is not that big a deal. Now wait,
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see we could get craziness. But let's just say the
ball hits there, and you saw Dean go over and
pull the ball out without too much of a problem.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
That's dead.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
That was the old Could you have made an effort, sure,
but the rules are the rules.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You saw he didn't have a tough time play. He
could he went over. Wait when he finally went to
it and he pulled the ball out. So what kind
of advantages this for the Dodgers or the Blue Jays.
It's really not because it's a two run game. If
it was a one run game, okay, huge advantage because
the tying run doesn't score, but the Blue Jays need
to if they If he goes and gets that ball,
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Barger gets a double, I mean likely you are going
to get var Show, You're gonna get Straw, who's pinch
running for Kirk. Straw is gonna come around to score
on that. So okay, So now it's three to two
of the runner at second instead of three run with
a runner at second and third. Now, who knows what
could happen here. There could be a chopper in front
of the plate. You can get it out of the plate.
But where you sit right now. As far as the
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advantage for the Dodgers or the Blue Jays, yeah, I
don't think this was something that the Blue Jayson go
oh man, this really screwed us again. One run game
is different. But because it's a two run game, right here,
this is where I could say, all right, we're at
where we should be. The umpire has made the right call.
There's been no change of the game. The time run
is still at second base, So I think it's okay.
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It's a zero sum play and now we see how
things go the rest of the way.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah, in the end, the ground rules are what they are.
You can see the dent in the wall as the
ball down there, right, So in the end, yeah, he
could could have picked it up quickly. But again it's
knowing the nuances of the rules.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
It's the old.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Dog eared rule book that Bill Belichick carried around with
him in the National.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Football League for all those years.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Like, that's not a legal formation, Oh it is right
here on page nine seventy two, right, that kind of thing.
So knowing know the rules, that's what we always say, right,
know the rules, rules of engagement.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And as we say, wow, a big big you could
tell this was part of their advanced scouting, most likely
a big out for the Dodgers and Glass. Now because
Clement pops up to the right side of the infield
on the first pitch from Tyler Glassnow, whatever they were doing,
they were hunting that pitch and he pops up to
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Freddie Freeman, no run scores the runners stay put. So
now it's one out, runners at second and third, bottom
of the ninth inning. Glassnow trying to get this to
Game seven. I mean, they'll get work with Blake Snell.
But you could tell coming in here it's okay. We
think Glassnow's gonna try to do this, so we think
we can.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Jump on it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And it is a pop up to first base. That
is a huge out for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
They showed the replay and his eyes got really wide
at the plate, did Clement, Oh.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
My god, Oh we're going to game seven. Oh my goodness,
what just happened? Oh my goodness, andres him Andez lines
out to left field. Key a Hernandez runs in, makes
the catch on the fly in one motion, throws to
second base, doubles off the runner at second for a
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game ending double play. The Dodgers have forced Game seven.
Miguel Rojas makes an incredible catch.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
That's my guy.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I told didn't do it bare handed, but it was incredible. Nonetheless,
he gets to the bag, steps on the bag. It's
a one bounce throw. He is able to grab it
before he falls off the bag. We're gonna look at
it on.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Replay, but the Dodgers have one Game six with a
game ending double play. We will have game seven in
the World series see from toy story. I mean Will
Smith loving, I mean this is some kind of play.
Key A Hernandez makes a great decision. Yeah he's out.
(11:53):
On the replay, it's clear he is out. Hernandez makes
the makes the look to third. Runner was not tagging
because it was too shallow uh in left center, but
runner at second Clement tries to tries to. Obviously, you
want to try to get off the bag as much
as possible because if it's dinking in there, you want
to try to score the game tying run. He is
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way too far off the bag and keik Hernandez mister
Day he is he is mister bat this time he
is mister October. There is that Reggie Jackson. There should
be a ceremony where Reggie Jackson actually hands the title
of miss he hands the scepter and the crown. Two
key K Hernandez, Well do we give him a different title?
(12:36):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Do we go into like a hierarchical thing, I mean,
what's what what do we do other than mister we
call him sir?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
No, no, no, No, you're mister.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, no, no, you're sir. Hooper, You're sir. You're sir, October,
you are sir.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
He's mister.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I mean that was already taken.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Unbelievable, unbelievable end of this game.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Did you ever think defense was gonna get it done
for the Dodgers in any of these games?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
No, I never knew, especially especially after that ground ball
went under Muncie's glove in the first Oh.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
My goodness, yeah again, Ray, listening to the radio for
those few minutes. I was in the stuck in traffic
trying to get in here. When that ball went under
his glove. That was a I don't know that I've
heard a pause like that on a Dodger's radio broadcast
in a while.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh, but I saw that.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I said, oh boy, here, cause everything I have said
for the Dodgers, they're starting pitching is getting a bounce.
The bullpen is terrible, the defense is not good. It's
all coming home to round.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
It amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But the Dodgers escape three to one.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And now glassnow, who was scheduled to pitch Game seven
in theory, Now we can talk about shoe hayl Tia
in theory. Now, he didn't throw a lot, but it is,
you know, to get him to warm up tonight to
come into the game.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
He only threw three pitches.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
So it's operation there maybe, I mean, I mean three.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Obviously it's an all hands on deck kind of day,
and you don't know what this would have done to
glassnow coming into tomorrow. But if he's now a guy
that because of the warm up tonight, the adrenaline getting
in the game throwing, if this is where maybe it's
a piggyback situation tomorrow. I mean, I'm sure the Dodge
would rather go with starting Otani because you don't lose
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his bat in the lineup if you start him at pitcher.
Maybe it's an Otani starting the game and then it
would be glassnow would be the next guy coming in.
I could see something like that tomorrow and then it
wouldn't be that big a deal. So if your plan
was to have Otani come in and pitch anyway, if
you're doing something like that, this would be an acceptable alternative.
But wow, you have Game seven on deck right now
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because the Dodgers defensively get it done with a great
play in the ninth inning.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yes, say then again.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I never thought i'd say, is this ai Jason Smith
and Mike Carmen because they don't say stuff like that.
Dodgers get it done defensively. No, no, no, you.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Were about four seconds ahead of us on your feed,
you know, to pull the curtain back for a second.
So as as you started to talk, Steve started leaning
forward into his chair and anticipation of what was about
to come on our screen. And I was doing the
same here in the studio, like oh oh oh, cause,
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I mean you had that little build there, and fortunately
the video then catches up and look, this is this
is an incredible moment. I mean, we had a lot
of anxious folks around these parts. You talked about it
in the first hour. Just anywhere you went in the
city today. I went to the store and walking the dog, whatever.
It was just everybody wearing their Dodge or blue and commiserating.
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So it brought people together, but it was a very
anxious bringing people together.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
What are you think?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I don't know what are you gonna do? But here
we are Game seven. Yeah. I thought it would be
o tawny to start and then glass now Killian Murphy
come in, you know, member of the peaky blinders and
taking care of business like you did here.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
The Dodgers survive, they win Game six, Now Game seven
for all the marbles, and we will have a look
back at Game six. A preview of Game seven. John
Paul Morosi, NLB Network Insider's gonna stop by with us
as well. Jason Bishing Football Friday. It's Halloween. We got
a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Mike car I got a question for you, though, Go ahead.
How could you not be romantic about baseball?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Not after this? Not after this?
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Speaker 3 (16:49):
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Speaker 1 (16:52):
You will hear what it sounded like the end of
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Speaker 5 (17:46):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The Dodgers force Game seven getting it done defensively.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
This is not AI.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
This is me actually saying they get it done defensively.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Keith A.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Hernandez catches a liner and shallow left center field off
the bat of Andre Simonez Barger is too far off
second base and on the run. In one motion, Hernandez
throws to second to Miguel Rojas, who makes a great
play on a one bounce to game and double play
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and force Game seven. My goodness. Joining us now in
the hot line. A man chomping at the bit to
talk this with us. Probably if you put him out
on the mound, he could give you a couple of
innings right now. He's as amped up as we are.
He is MLB Network insider extraordinary. You can follow him
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It is the Pope, John Paul Morosi, John Paul, just
how we drew it up. The Dodgers great defense saves
them in the ninth inning.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Wow. Wow is about all I can say. And let's
let's make this point. When you think about the great
play having Keith Aronandez in the left field got Miguel Rojas,
I thought made an excellent play to reach and stretch
and get that ball just before Barger slid back in.
That was a great defensive play. Just like the previous inning,
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it ended with a great defensive play made there at
second base by Rojas. So maybe some lineup adjustments getting
a little more experienced in there. Dave Roberts rewarded for that,
and of course just the excellent bullpen management by him
late to bring in Glass now or that that was
not at all a push button or easy decision. He
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had to go outside the box to make that move
in the ninth inning, one of the more studding and
stunning endings that I have ever seen to a World
Series game or any major sporting event of this magnitude.
Was just incredible, where the Jays thought that maybe if
the ball is not lodged, that perhaps Miles Stross scores
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from first base instead. The umpiring crew, John Tom Payne,
was on it made the right call to lodge ball.
So that means it's a second and third situation, the clement,
the quick pop out, and then all of a sudden,
the double play ball. It's just it's a cunning ending,
but a well deserved win for the Dodgers. I thought
Yamamoto was been stational, and I think that is probably
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the biggest reason of all as to why we're going
to have a seventh game of the World Series less
than twenty four hours from right now.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, I gotta tell you, John Paul, you see this
ninth inning, and there's all sorts of drama. Obviously, the play,
the ball getting stuck in a bit between the turf
and between the dirt and the fence. I mean, you've
never seen that before, and here it is, you know,
Game six of the World Series.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It could be a game altering play.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But overall, yeah, I mean, you could say, oh, if
the ball hadn't a bounce and it bounced off the wall,
But I feel like everybody had it right in the situation.
The Dodgers made the right play. And look, when when
you're out there in center field, the first thing it
gets stuck. Hey, hey, can't get the ball. Can't get
the ball, runners have to go back. I don't think
that the result of that play affected the game as
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much because it was it was a two run game
instead of a one run game, and that, okay, you
know you still you were still going to have the
tying run at second base no matter what, and the
game still could have ended the way it did with
a line out to left. And of course Barge is
going to try to get off the bag as much
as he can off too much.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
That's a big mistake.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
By him, right, And I guess I would say that
that if if all, let's just say for the sake
of argument, that if the ball is not lodge and
again a lodge ball, it's a it's a rare play.
It doesn't happen very often. And when you think about it.
One of the more unique things about a play like
this is that anybody that grows up playing baseball in
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the US or anywhere else on the youth field that
you play on, it's a call that never happens because
there's no because it only happens on a wall that
has padding, and by definition, that only comes into play
when you're playing professional baseball. So you don't see this
play very often. It was called absolutely correct. You do
see it from time to time, but it's rare, and
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certainly rare in the ninth sitting of a potentially clinching
wall series game. And so that part of it was unique,
not without precedent, but certainly unique in that regard. And
I think the one thing I would say about the
way the inning unfolded is this, if it is if
it's a double, which it easily could have been, maybe
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even a triple. Bargar runs well enough. But let's say
it's a double and Miles Straw somehow scores from first base,
which is possibly one of the fastest people in baseball.
That would I think change a little bit of it
would just change the circumstances of the clement at that
it would change where maybe the depth that the Keith
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Aaron Anders was playing for the Humenes at that it
would maybe change the way that Bargar was leading off
a second base. So the fact that it was the
runners ended up at second and third instead of a
second and a run being in, I think it did
change the way the rest of the inning was approached.
Things had to be exactly the way they were in
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so many different ways for that played unfold in that fashion,
similar to the unique ball strike call rather against Dolan
varshow in Game three at Dodge Stadium, where the whole
scenario and Bobachhett being caught off the first base, that
that all happened in a very unique sequence that made
the whole thing possible. And so this is just a
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reminder that baseball is the is both the most beautiful
and maddening game there's ever been. It will it will
tantalize you. I mean, second and third, nobody out at
bottom of the ninth inning, Game six of the World Series,
Joe Carter, are you kidding me? I mean, it's it's
all right there for you. And I think it just
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it just calls to mind how how beautiful, how sometimes cruel,
this great game of baseball can be. And when you
think about all the back and forth and what a
topsy turvy series to spend, perhaps it is fitting that
we are going to see a seventh game with the
World Series tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Night Glass called in to save it and the defensive
play to earn it. But I mean, Miguel Rojas's gotta.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Be get some votes for MVP with his defensive prowess.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I mean that Brier hand or earlier in the game
made all these big moments, and rookie Betts after the
game was crediting him with how he was positioned in
what he was doing in the final innings.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Just crazy it was.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
And I think that's the value of experience. That's also
the value of a deep bench. And when the Dodgers
needed to you saw it again in the eighteen inning game.
The Dodgers had better options to go too late than
what the Blue Jays did in terms of the Jays
having to really empty their bench earlier. They had Tyler
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Heineman in the game for Kirk, they had to go
to their options early and and the Dodgers, they have
a bench that gives you different looks, different options. They
brought in Dean for defense. They brought in Pachez for defense.
They were able to obviously have Rojas start the game.
And again let's not overlook the really important play. And
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I think Joe Davis mentioned this on the broadcast of
Justin Dean in centerfield. Just put in the game for defense,
knowing that in that situation you have to put your
hands up so that way the umpire sees that you
as the outfitter, you're declaring it to be a lodge
ball because you're the closest person to it. So you
turn and you put your hands up to basically make
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sure the umpire sees that you can't make a play
on it. And he Dean did his job. John Timpayne
did his job of recognizing it. And again you've got
the credit Dave Roberts for utilizing his bench in what
I think was an absolute masterclass of managing tonight. Bullpen moves,
bench moves, lineup construction. You, Dave Roberts skid an absolute
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gold star all across the board for the job he
did tonight.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You know what, I was saying this to Mike before
we had the drama the ninth inning. I guarantee you
Schneider goes back and says, why did I walk Otani?
Why did I walk Otani? That gave them that? Why
did I know I should have with a runner at
second and a free base and two out, I should
walk Otani. But that gave the Dodgers the extra run
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that made it three to one. I'm sure that's going
to be what he says to himself tonight after the game.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Yeah, I think among many things, and I actually didn't.
I didn't hate that move. I think you're right. In
the end, it didn't work out because it was a
free base runner that ended up coming around to score.
The Dodgers are here and they have a chance to
win the World Series tomorrow night, really because of one
good inning tonight. Offensively. Now, there's a lot of things
that did defensively and pitching wise, but you're right. I mean,
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they did their damage in one single solitary inning, and
in that one inning, I thought Goslin stuff was really good.
Even in that ending, I thought it was really good.
And so I think that from that standpoint, the Dodgers
maybe they they benefited from from having Otani be put
on bass there. But I also think this that he
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Otani has shown that he's had so many great at
bats in at least isolated games in this series to
where you don't want to give Otani a chance to
get his swings in and get feeling good again. That
you have to pick your spots to attack him and
then also pick your spots to pitch around him. And
I think that was the case as it was tonight.
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They just they did not like that spot to have
to try to attack them there with the base open
you put them on. Obviously didn't work out in the end,
but the Jay's had their chances. I thought They're at
back quality was better tonight than it was against Yamamoto
the first time around, and they had their chances against Thesaki.
If you had told me that Yamamoto's out of the
game after six and the Dodger bullpen had to get
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nine outs and that Sasaki was going to struggle a
little bit in the way that he did, my goodness,
I would have said that the Jays would be celebrating
right now. And listen, they once they got second and third,
they they had a hard time executing at the end.
You know, the clement I wanted those speak on his behalf.
His game is swinging early in the count. That's what
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he does, and so it's hard. It's hard, I think,
for anybody to criticize him for swinging of the first pitch.
He does that all the time. Now, glassdown made a
good pitch. It ran in enough that it got on
his hands and he wasn't really able to elevate the
ball and get into the outfield. But if that pitch
moves maybe like, you know, half an inch less, he
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might he might have dunked that in the right field.
And it's in both run score. I mean, it's the
margins are that small. And I think glass now made
just an excellent.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Excellent pitch Clement with two hits tonight, And you know,
it was one of the things we commented on right away.
JP was on the replay, what is eye like his
eyes got wide, like I got one?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
And then yeah, it tailed exactly so. But you know,
you talk.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
We've talked a lot about the top of the order
for the Dodgers, and while it wasn't a massive barrage
of you know, an outpouring congo line of runs, got
to be encouraged by the fact all four guys at
the top of the lineup walked and three of the
fourhead hits, so you know, hey, little breakthroughs after game six,
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all right.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
And Mike, that's that's the beauty. By the way of
when you play baseball a long time in the month
of October is that it goes so long that it
almost gives you time to get into and out of slumps. Right,
it's a month of baseball. When you play a month
of baseball games and you're looking at it over the
one sixty two, you're going to have moments where guys
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are trending up and guys are trending down. And and
here you have a Dodger team with plenty of name
brand players. I mean, these are names we've seen in
the playoffs year after year after year, and we know
what they're all about. And and it's only a matter
of time before Mookie gets going and Freddie gets going.
And I thought tonight, as much as the game is
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known as the Moto Game in so many ways, it
was also the Mookie game. And I thought the way
that he was able to cash in with a huge hit.
I thought Tom Product did a really good job on
the broadcast talking about how he was under the ball,
under the ball then he was and he was just
level with it. He finally got on time. And when
a hitter that talented gets on time, watch out. Because
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you know this was June, you'd say, Okay, here he is.
He's gonna go off for the next week or ten days. Well,
if he goes off tomorrow night, it's a pretty good
chance the Dodgers are the World Series champions. So just
it's it's been so much fun just to watch these
characters develop over a month, and that's what it is.
It's like, this is the best best kind of Hollywood
drama mini series. Take any of your good reality TV
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whatever whatever you like to watch. This is better than
all of it. Okay, this is better than all of
it because you've got the players doing one of the
hardest things there is to do in athletics, which has
hit a baseball and then of course pitch it and
field it. And they're doing it at a time where
you're watching their own personal stories unfold in the midst
of the months. Just a beautiful, a beautiful world series
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that that's going to go to the limit, and we're
gonna have baseball in November and I can't wait for
tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Now, I would say this just just judging by how
Dave Roberts did this. You know what he did in
the ninth inning. Bring in Tyler Glass Now, I would
assume the pitching plan would be Otani to start, so
you can take him out of the game and not
lose his DH position. Otani to start, followed by glassnow
in a piggyback situation, and then obviously whatever you need
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to do after that. But I assume it will be
Otani to glassnow tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
I agree. I think Otani starts and then you're Dave
Roberts mentioned this to Ken Rosen a lot of the game.
Maybe it's two innings, maybe it's four, whatever it ends
up being. It's it's probably not seven. It's it's probably
a shorter outing than what we've seen him have in
the past. But you you now have I think some
more of the of the bulk guys. I think Emmitt Sheen,
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who was who was an option maybe late in the
game today he could be an option too, I think
tomorrow maybe in more of a bulk role. The left handers.
It's interesting they've they've gone to Robleski. They seem to
so in some ways trust him a bit more than
they trust Bonder right now. But I think you'll see
a lot of the rightings. So this could be a
game where the Jays really need their lefty bats to
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get going. And obviously for a young player in Barger,
it's a hard way to end the game getting picked off.
That's tough. You got Springer coming up and then the
top of the lineup from there. But but you gotta
gotta watch it, gotta let it go because with playoff
baseball like this, you got another game tomorrow, so it's
but yeah, I think that from the Dodger perspective, they'll
be seeing a lot of right handed arms, which which
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might play into the favor of someone like a Barger
and maybe maybe helps him or bar Show or Jim
Andez even have have a big game from the left
side tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
All right, real quickly, John Paul, as you are are
celebrity Lions picker. Your wrecker this year is incredible. You are,
I believe, seven and one picking Lions games Lions Vikings
on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
What do you got?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
The Detroit Lions win that football game by a score
of thirty one to twenty. Detroit Lions thirty one Minnesota twenty.
How about that.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
John Paul Morosi, who is seven and one against the spread,
not just seven and one picking games seven and one
against the spread, celebrity Lions picker. Add that to your bio,
John Paul, as always, thank you so much. Enjoy Game
seven tomorrow. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
I love it, guys, and enjoy game seven. Beautiful words.
What a great weekend of football and baseball. Certainly tomorrow night. Everybody,
just clear your challengers. It's all baseball tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Thanks a lot, buddy.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
There goes John Paul Morosi and income special delivery Steve
de Sager. He's coming in with what's trending, like keyk
Hernandez was coming in.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
To catch that fly ball in and force a double play? Steve, O,
what do you got for it?
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Well, somebody's gonna have to be my Miguel Rojas, because
that was Dan Roberts' move to start the veteran glove
man as the second baseman tonight and put Tommy Edmond
in center field, and the veteran with the glove came
through to end the game and force a Game seven
in Toronto Saturday at about eight pm Eastern time on
Fox TV, one of the crazier endings of a recent
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years in World Series history. This game ends when the
Blue Jays line into a double play to short left field,
the third double play turned by La tonight. Remember an
hour ago, I was saying, they've turned two tonight, They're
probably gonna need a third assist to Keike Hernandez put
out at second by the veteran Rojas. Go seven to
four in your score book, and the Great Sarah Langs
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looked it up with the Elijah sportspeople, and that was
the first game ending seven to four double play in
the long history of the postseason.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
The Great Sarah Langs with the detail.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
By the way, David Vat said, Dodgers radio reporter for years,
points out that the last time we had an LA
at Toronto Game seven, it was Wayne Gretzky beating the
Maple Leafs in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Oh, that was going into the McSorley Round.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Absolutely, And that.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
Was also the same year that the Blue Jays took
back to back World Series. They were nineteen ninety three
World Series champs in that calendar year. The Dodgers trying
to become back to back World Series champs. That hasn't
happened with a National League team, by the way, since
the Big Red Machine of nineteen seventy five and seventy
six with Cincinnati. Nobody in either league has won back
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to back World Series since the Yankees twenty five years ago.
But it's rare enough that we're gonna have in this
Blue Jays postseason two game sevens for them. They had
won in the LCS to advance only once in the
last thirty years, as the same team played two game
sevens in the same postseason. The Dodgers, with a three
to one win at Toronto tonight, three runs in the third,
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all after the two out intentional walk to show hey Otani,
so Kevin Gosman, who was mowing him down early, winds
up taking the lass. The wind Oshinobu Yamamoto six innings,
six strikeouts, ninety six pitches thrown, the save to Tyler
Glass now who got the last three outs on three pitches.
So yes, he says he's available tomorrow. Yamamoto, by the way,
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in his last three starts, each of them, no more
than one run allowed, no more than five hits allowed,
no more than one walk issued, striking out at least
five batters every time earned the win in each of
these last three starts. No one else in baseball history
has done that in three straight postseason starts. He saves
the season tonight and the Dodgers get the defense late
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to win three to one. The Dolphins, who are two
and seven, parted ways with general manager Chris Greer. Chicago
Bulls five and oh after beating New York Boston Edge
Philly one nine, one oh eight, and the Lakers are
back in the lead at Memphis one oh five ninety
seven under seven minutes to go. Luka Donsige thirty seven points.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Back to you. Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Coming up next, we dissect that final game ending double
play for the Dodgers, including something that could have flipped
it in the Blue Jays favor.
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Speaker 1 (37:21):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
We are still stunned at the lightning fast end to
Game six of the World Series Andres Jimenez lines out
to Keike Hernandez in left field. Coming on, he catches
the ball in shallow left field in one motion, throws
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to second, doubles Barger off the bag the game with
a double play for the Dodgers. The Jays had had
second and third nobody out in the ninth inning, and
they had knocked Roki Sasaki out of the game. You think, well,
here comes Joe Carter, here comes under the three run
homer to win the World Series. Instead we look at
Game seven. Now, thanks to John Paul Morosi for stopping
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by with us, we have much more breakdown of this game.
But I gotta say this because we gotta be fair
both sides here. Keyk Hernandez makes an incredible play, right,
He makes an incredible play coming in catching.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
The ball, taking the quick look to third.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
And that's the first thing that I think Straw could
have done that might have might might have affected the
play a little bit because Key K peaks over at him,
and Straw is just taking a couple of steps back
toward third base. Obviously he's not going, but if he
like stops or freezes, maybe Key K freezes a little
bit like is he going?
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Because as great a play as Keik made, like he
just got barged rout by a hair at second base,
if he if he hesitates just a second, then that play,
that inning is still going. There's two outs and runners
at second and third. So if Straw just kind of
freezes a little bit like some gamesmanship instead of just
standing up walking back to the bag, maybe that play
is differently because Keik just gives that quick glance to
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third and throws the second. An incredible play, incredible play
by Rojas to stay on the bag on a on
a one bounce short hop. But I gotta tell you,
Barger makes a horrendous base running choice here. You see
where he is when Kei k settles under the ball
to catch it. It is absolutely inexcusable that he is
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off the base that far because you know you're off
second base. You see the jump, you see the ball
as hit over your head, you know where the ball
is going to land. Okay, so there's no reason to
try to get closer to third base. This is not
the short stops going back that the left fielder's coming
in and it's gonna bounce. You can see that either Okay,
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Keyk's going to catch this on a fly, in which
case I gotta bust my ass back to second base,
or he's going to catch it on a quick bounce,
which means that likely I'm only getting to third.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
I'm not getting home.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
And if the ball bounces and it bounces by key K,
well I'm scoring and I'm walking home because it's going
all the way to the wall, right and we have
a triple and a runner at third with with with
one out, So like for him to be that far
off the bed, like there was no win for him, Mike.
There was no way for him to say, if I'm
this far, I can score. He was either going to
go back to second base or going to third there
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was a huge mistake by it, or.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
If it drops in, I mean keek with it.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
How quickly he got up, you know, and was would
have come up with the ball, Like you're still potentially
in a situation where you get yourself thrown out at third.
Maybe maybe not, but you don't have the force behind you, right,
so there's no reason to be drifting, you know, trying
to account for a situation that doesn't exist right to
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where you got a runner coming from first to second
that you have to worry about. So all of that
to say, yeah, drifting that far off the bag, I
mean it's right in front of you. Like that play's
not you know, drifting down the line or to the
right field line. It's literally what twenty five thirty feet
from you? Maybe forty, I don't know. I'm trying to
figure out down distance. I need the all twenty two
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tape like I watch for NFL stuff. But all of that, like,
there's no win there at best, you're going to third
and the inning continues instead game over. I mean, you
have to know where that ball is going to land
and seeing it and going, okay, it's either in his
glove or it's a short bounce and I'm going to
third right, like one of those, because nobody's at third.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Nobody's at third. Right, he trots the third base and
the runner scores from third. That's what's gonna happen. But instead, Wow,
the Blue Jays now looking at game seven when they
thought they were taking Game six. Coming up next, we
have more on this incredible ending, including a guy that
absolutely has to go had so much credit for this victory.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
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Speaker 4 (01:17):
You know, Jason, we got the World Series and all
of this other big sporting you know events all over
the place.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
You forgot that.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's the beginning of the Emirates Cup competition.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It is the NBA Cup tonight. Listen about that. It's hey, hey, hey,
let me tell you. I told you last night. And
you know I'm not lying. I'm believing in your Bulls
and how good they are. And they just absolutely boat
race the NIXT tonight. I was like, wow, me down,
but we were down by twenty at half time.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I said, Okay, that's nice. Yeah, but they made a
nice run in the second.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
But I'm telling you, nobody likes playing against Nobody likes
playing against the Bulls. Their pace, everything they do. They're
a pain in the ass to play against. And even
though they didn't have any big improvements in the offseason,
they still don't have their best player. But they play fast,
they get rid of the ball. This is a really
good team. They are sneaky good regular season team.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Thirty two for Giddie, twenty six for Vucevic. You know
I'm watching and the Lakers. You know, it's a big
game because Luca is back. Yep, yep, yep, yep, you
do it matters because it's the Emirates Cup. He might
not be back if it wasn't for the Cup.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Is tonight? Oh well, okay, well, I.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Mean I gotta show up. They're gonna have those weirdly
painted courts. I gotta be back for that.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But here we are, ninth inning, Game six of the
World Series. Roki Sasaki, the only reliever the Dodgers can
trust because Eric Ganye not available, gets out of a
jam in the bottom of the eighth inning, begins the
ninth inning by hitting Alejandro Kirk with a pitch. So
now the Blue Jays have the tying run at bat.
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Nobody out in the ninth inning, Justin Dean in center
field for the Dodgers, and now they're running for Kirk
at first base. Addison Bard your is up. So now, hey,
if you thought last inning all the Dodgers got through it.
Sasaki hits the first batter of the bottom of the
ninth inning, and now nobody out, tying run at the plate.
Dodgers lead at three to one as the Blue Jay's
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bat here in the bottom of the night.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Never a dull moment, I've been singing the Jethro Toll classic.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Nothing's easy.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Uh here in the studio tonight as watching this because
there is no straight path for any of this. And
maybe for Sasaki, you just need that runner on and
it makes him focus, don't It's like Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, no, no, I don't like this clean inning. Nobody on
not don't give me this four to one lead in
the night. I'm gonna hit a guy, then I'm gonna
walk a guy. Then I'll get a strikeout, then I'll
walk another guy, and now the bases are loaded, and
now suddenly it's a game.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's a long at my best. Yeah, it's not a
heat check. It's a heart check for the city that
you pitch in.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, that's I am at my best right there. I
I can't just come in and get three outs. I
can't do that for you, No, no, no no, I'm
gonna load the bases and turn it into a one
run game and then I'll get the final out, because
you know what, what fun is just coming in going one, two,
three and winning this game four to one. That's no
fun at all.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Boring.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, I mean, where's the bill, where's the anticip patient
on a Halloween night.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I will tell you this. Obviously, here we are, ninth inning,
Dodgers lead at three to one. If the Dodgers win
this game three to one, I guarantee you Schneider is
going to sit back after this game. Blue Jay's manager,
and he's gonna the thing that's gonna go through his
head of all the decisions, everything going on in this game,
he's gonna go back to intentionally walking Otani in the
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third inning with two outs. Right the third, that's when
the Dodgers got all three of their runs. Keikey Hernandez
struck out, Todmy Edmond doubled, Rojas struck out. So you
have two outs. Of course, yeah, let's walk show hey
Otani runner at second? Why are we doing that? Then
Will Smith doubles to left. That brings the first run in,
and now it becomes a three to nothing lead because
Mookie Betts gets a single and that brings in the
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extra run to make it a three to one game
and instead of a two to one game. So now
this is where we sit in the ninth inning. But
now we have all kinds of drama happening, and okay,
let's see what happens here. So Barger hits one to
the wall in left center field. The ball lands at
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the base of the wall and it sticks. Okay, so
Sasaki gets taken to the wall. It's gonna be a double.
And the ball just sticks at the bottom. It doesn't
go anywhere, It just it. I've never seen this before. Again,
the Jason Stark baseball on hundred and fifty years. You
see some they've never seen before. So the ball gets
stuck at the bottom of the wall, right between the
(05:44):
wall and the dirt. It doesn't move. It's like a
golf shot that just sticks. And so uh, both outfielders
go to the ball and they put their hands up
because it's stuck. Because you know, if you put your
hands up and it's stuck, the umpire start. It's a
ground rule double, and everybody's got a you know, runners
at second and third, and it's still a three to
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one game because if you go try to dislodge the ball,
get it. Let's say you can't dislodge it. You can't
get it. Who knows what happens? Extra runners score and
and and all of a sudden it's a one run
game and the tying run is at third base. So
the smart play, and it's a really really smart play.
Hey Dave Roberts, you know, patch yourself on the back
with the moves you're making in the outfield. They are
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going to be going to the ninth inning. Because Dean
does the right thing. The ball sticks and right away
he puts his hands up. It's stuck. I can't get it.
It's like the ball in the ivy at Rigg. It's stuck.
I can't get it. Right, key Y Hernand is the
same thing. Throws his hands up, it's stuck. I can't
get it. The Blue Jays round the bases because of course,
you never know how this is gonna go. And he
doesn't go after the ball. He goes he stands at
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the wall and he holds his hands up and he's saying,
I can't get this. I got I can't get it.
I can't get it. And the Blue Jays keep rounding
the bases. Finally Dean grabs the ball and throws it
in because everybody's rounding and scoring, and so the bumpires
make the ruling, and it's the absolute right call. It's
a ground rule double when the ball gets stuck in
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that situation. So the runners go back to second and third,
and now you are seeing another pitching change. Roki Sasaki
is coming out of the game after the hit by
pitching the bottom of the ninth the double to the wall.
And now Tyler glassnow will be asked to come in
and send this to game seven. Mike Carmon, take a
(07:31):
quick peek. Who is scheduled to be your Game seven
starter for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Won.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That's gonna bez.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
It's now just a giant picture.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
So here comes Tyler Glass now in in relief to
try to get this to game seven. But the Blue
Jays have the tying run at second and nobody out again,
second and third, nobody out after Barger's double to the wall.
And quite honestly, what what happened in the grand scheme
of things probably is not that big a deal. Now wait,
(08:05):
see we could get craziness. But let's just say the
ball hits there, and you saw Dean go over and
pull the ball out without too much of a problem.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
That's dead.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
That was the old Could you have made an effort, sure,
but the rules are the rules.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You saw he didn't have a tough time play. He
could he went over. Wait when he finally went to
it and he pulled the ball out. So what kind
of advantages this for the Dodgers or the Blue Jays.
It's really not because it's a two run game. If
it was a one run game, okay, huge advantage because
the tying run doesn't score, but the Blue Jays need
to if they If he goes and gets that ball,
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Barger gets a double, I mean likely you are going
to get var Show, You're gonna get Straw, who's pinch
running for Kirk. Straw is gonna come around to score
on that. So okay, So now it's three to two
of the runner at second instead of three run with
a runner at second and third. Now, who knows what
could happen here. There could be a chopper in front
of the plate. You can get it out of the plate.
But where you sit right now. As far as the
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advantage for the Dodgers or the Blue Jays, yeah, I
don't think this was something that the Blue Jayson go
oh man, this really screwed us again. One run game
is different. But because it's a two run game, right here,
this is where I could say, all right, we're at
where we should be. The umpire has made the right call.
There's been no change of the game. The time run
is still at second base, So I think it's okay.
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It's a zero sum play and now we see how
things go the rest of the way.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah, in the end, the ground rules are what they are.
You can see the dent in the wall as the
ball down there, right, So in the end, yeah, he
could could have picked it up quickly. But again it's
knowing the nuances of the rules.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
It's the old.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Dog eared rule book that Bill Belichick carried around with
him in the National.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Football League for all those years.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Like, that's not a legal formation, Oh it is right
here on page nine seventy two, right, that kind of thing.
So knowing know the rules, that's what we always say, right,
know the rules, rules of engagement.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And as we say, wow, a big big you could
tell this was part of their advanced scouting, most likely
a big out for the Dodgers and Glass. Now because
Clement pops up to the right side of the infield
on the first pitch from Tyler Glassnow, whatever they were doing,
they were hunting that pitch and he pops up to
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Freddie Freeman, no run scores the runners stay put. So
now it's one out, runners at second and third, bottom
of the ninth inning. Glassnow trying to get this to
Game seven. I mean, they'll get work with Blake Snell.
But you could tell coming in here it's okay. We
think Glassnow's gonna try to do this, so we think
we can.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Jump on it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And it is a pop up to first base. That
is a huge out for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
They showed the replay and his eyes got really wide
at the plate, did Clement, Oh.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
My god, Oh we're going to game seven. Oh my goodness,
what just happened? Oh my goodness, andres him Andez lines
out to left field. Key a Hernandez runs in, makes
the catch on the fly in one motion, throws to
second base, doubles off the runner at second for a
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game ending double play. The Dodgers have forced Game seven.
Miguel Rojas makes an incredible catch.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
That's my guy.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I told didn't do it bare handed, but it was incredible. Nonetheless,
he gets to the bag, steps on the bag. It's
a one bounce throw. He is able to grab it
before he falls off the bag. We're gonna look at
it on.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Replay, but the Dodgers have one Game six with a
game ending double play. We will have game seven in
the World series see from toy story. I mean Will
Smith loving, I mean this is some kind of play.
Key A Hernandez makes a great decision. Yeah he's out.
(11:53):
On the replay, it's clear he is out. Hernandez makes
the makes the look to third. Runner was not tagging
because it was too shallow uh in left center, but
runner at second Clement tries to tries to. Obviously, you
want to try to get off the bag as much
as possible because if it's dinking in there, you want
to try to score the game tying run. He is
(12:15):
way too far off the bag and keik Hernandez mister
Day he is he is mister bat this time he
is mister October. There is that Reggie Jackson. There should
be a ceremony where Reggie Jackson actually hands the title
of miss he hands the scepter and the crown. Two
key K Hernandez, Well do we give him a different title?
(12:36):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Do we go into like a hierarchical thing, I mean,
what's what what do we do other than mister we
call him sir?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
No, no, no, No, you're mister.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, no, no, you're sir. Hooper, You're sir. You're sir, October,
you are sir.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
He's mister.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I mean that was already taken.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Unbelievable, unbelievable end of this game.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Did you ever think defense was gonna get it done
for the Dodgers in any of these games?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
No, I never knew, especially especially after that ground ball
went under Muncie's glove in the first Oh.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
My goodness, yeah again, Ray, listening to the radio for
those few minutes. I was in the stuck in traffic
trying to get in here. When that ball went under
his glove. That was a I don't know that I've
heard a pause like that on a Dodger's radio broadcast
in a while.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh, but I saw that.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I said, oh boy, here, cause everything I have said
for the Dodgers, they're starting pitching is getting a bounce.
The bullpen is terrible, the defense is not good. It's
all coming home to round.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
It amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But the Dodgers escape three to one.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And now glassnow, who was scheduled to pitch Game seven
in theory, Now we can talk about shoe hayl Tia
in theory. Now, he didn't throw a lot, but it is,
you know, to get him to warm up tonight to
come into the game.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
He only threw three pitches.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
So it's operation there maybe, I mean, I mean three.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Obviously it's an all hands on deck kind of day,
and you don't know what this would have done to
glassnow coming into tomorrow. But if he's now a guy
that because of the warm up tonight, the adrenaline getting
in the game throwing, if this is where maybe it's
a piggyback situation tomorrow. I mean, I'm sure the Dodge
would rather go with starting Otani because you don't lose
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his bat in the lineup if you start him at pitcher.
Maybe it's an Otani starting the game and then it
would be glassnow would be the next guy coming in.
I could see something like that tomorrow and then it
wouldn't be that big a deal. So if your plan
was to have Otani come in and pitch anyway, if
you're doing something like that, this would be an acceptable alternative.
But wow, you have Game seven on deck right now
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because the Dodgers defensively get it done with a great
play in the ninth inning.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yes, say then again.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I never thought i'd say, is this ai Jason Smith
and Mike Carmen because they don't say stuff like that.
Dodgers get it done defensively. No, no, no, you.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Were about four seconds ahead of us on your feed,
you know, to pull the curtain back for a second.
So as as you started to talk, Steve started leaning
forward into his chair and anticipation of what was about
to come on our screen. And I was doing the
same here in the studio, like oh oh oh, cause,
(15:23):
I mean you had that little build there, and fortunately
the video then catches up and look, this is this
is an incredible moment. I mean, we had a lot
of anxious folks around these parts. You talked about it
in the first hour. Just anywhere you went in the
city today. I went to the store and walking the dog, whatever.
It was just everybody wearing their Dodge or blue and commiserating.
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So it brought people together, but it was a very
anxious bringing people together.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
What are you think?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I don't know what are you gonna do? But here
we are Game seven. Yeah. I thought it would be
o tawny to start and then glass now Killian Murphy
come in, you know, member of the peaky blinders and
taking care of business like you did here.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
The Dodgers survive, they win Game six, Now Game seven
for all the marbles, and we will have a look
back at Game six. A preview of Game seven. John
Paul Morosi, NLB Network Insider's gonna stop by with us
as well. Jason Bishing Football Friday. It's Halloween. We got
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Speaker 4 (16:24):
Mike car I got a question for you, though, Go ahead.
How could you not be romantic about baseball?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Not after this? Not after this?
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Speaker 3 (16:49):
Keep it here. We're just getting started. We look back.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
You will hear what it sounded like the end of
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Speaker 5 (17:46):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The Dodgers force Game seven getting it done defensively.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
This is not AI.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
This is me actually saying they get it done defensively.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Keith A.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Hernandez catches a liner and shallow left center field off
the bat of Andre Simonez Barger is too far off
second base and on the run. In one motion, Hernandez
throws to second to Miguel Rojas, who makes a great
play on a one bounce to game and double play
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and force Game seven. My goodness. Joining us now in
the hot line. A man chomping at the bit to
talk this with us. Probably if you put him out
on the mound, he could give you a couple of
innings right now. He's as amped up as we are.
He is MLB Network insider extraordinary. You can follow him
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(18:40):
It is the Pope, John Paul Morosi, John Paul, just
how we drew it up. The Dodgers great defense saves
them in the ninth inning.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Wow. Wow is about all I can say. And let's
let's make this point. When you think about the great
play having Keith Aronandez in the left field got Miguel Rojas,
I thought made an excellent play to reach and stretch
and get that ball just before Barger slid back in.
That was a great defensive play. Just like the previous inning,
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it ended with a great defensive play made there at
second base by Rojas. So maybe some lineup adjustments getting
a little more experienced in there. Dave Roberts rewarded for that,
and of course just the excellent bullpen management by him
late to bring in Glass now or that that was
not at all a push button or easy decision. He
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had to go outside the box to make that move
in the ninth inning, one of the more studding and
stunning endings that I have ever seen to a World
Series game or any major sporting event of this magnitude.
Was just incredible, where the Jays thought that maybe if
the ball is not lodged, that perhaps Miles Stross scores
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from first base instead. The umpiring crew, John Tom Payne,
was on it made the right call to lodge ball.
So that means it's a second and third situation, the clement,
the quick pop out, and then all of a sudden,
the double play ball. It's just it's a cunning ending,
but a well deserved win for the Dodgers. I thought
Yamamoto was been stational, and I think that is probably
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the biggest reason of all as to why we're going
to have a seventh game of the World Series less
than twenty four hours from right now.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, I gotta tell you, John Paul, you see this
ninth inning, and there's all sorts of drama. Obviously, the play,
the ball getting stuck in a bit between the turf
and between the dirt and the fence. I mean, you've
never seen that before, and here it is, you know,
Game six of the World Series.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It could be a game altering play.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But overall, yeah, I mean, you could say, oh, if
the ball hadn't a bounce and it bounced off the wall,
But I feel like everybody had it right in the situation.
The Dodgers made the right play. And look, when when
you're out there in center field, the first thing it
gets stuck. Hey, hey, can't get the ball. Can't get
the ball, runners have to go back. I don't think
that the result of that play affected the game as
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much because it was it was a two run game
instead of a one run game, and that, okay, you
know you still you were still going to have the
tying run at second base no matter what, and the
game still could have ended the way it did with
a line out to left. And of course Barge is
going to try to get off the bag as much
as he can off too much.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
That's a big mistake.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
By him, right, And I guess I would say that
that if if all, let's just say for the sake
of argument, that if the ball is not lodge and
again a lodge ball, it's a it's a rare play.
It doesn't happen very often. And when you think about it.
One of the more unique things about a play like
this is that anybody that grows up playing baseball in
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the US or anywhere else on the youth field that
you play on, it's a call that never happens because
there's no because it only happens on a wall that
has padding, and by definition, that only comes into play
when you're playing professional baseball. So you don't see this
play very often. It was called absolutely correct. You do
see it from time to time, but it's rare, and
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certainly rare in the ninth sitting of a potentially clinching
wall series game. And so that part of it was unique,
not without precedent, but certainly unique in that regard. And
I think the one thing I would say about the
way the inning unfolded is this, if it is if
it's a double, which it easily could have been, maybe
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even a triple. Bargar runs well enough. But let's say
it's a double and Miles Straw somehow scores from first base,
which is possibly one of the fastest people in baseball.
That would I think change a little bit of it
would just change the circumstances of the clement at that
it would change where maybe the depth that the Keith
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Aaron Anders was playing for the Humenes at that it
would maybe change the way that Bargar was leading off
a second base. So the fact that it was the
runners ended up at second and third instead of a
second and a run being in, I think it did
change the way the rest of the inning was approached.
Things had to be exactly the way they were in
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so many different ways for that played unfold in that fashion,
similar to the unique ball strike call rather against Dolan
varshow in Game three at Dodge Stadium, where the whole
scenario and Bobachhett being caught off the first base, that
that all happened in a very unique sequence that made
the whole thing possible. And so this is just a
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reminder that baseball is the is both the most beautiful
and maddening game there's ever been. It will it will
tantalize you. I mean, second and third, nobody out at
bottom of the ninth inning, Game six of the World Series,
Joe Carter, are you kidding me? I mean, it's it's
all right there for you. And I think it just
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it just calls to mind how how beautiful, how sometimes cruel,
this great game of baseball can be. And when you
think about all the back and forth and what a
topsy turvy series to spend, perhaps it is fitting that
we are going to see a seventh game with the
World Series tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Night Glass called in to save it and the defensive
play to earn it. But I mean, Miguel Rojas's gotta.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Be get some votes for MVP with his defensive prowess.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I mean that Brier hand or earlier in the game
made all these big moments, and rookie Betts after the
game was crediting him with how he was positioned in
what he was doing in the final innings.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Just crazy it was.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
And I think that's the value of experience. That's also
the value of a deep bench. And when the Dodgers
needed to you saw it again in the eighteen inning game.
The Dodgers had better options to go too late than
what the Blue Jays did in terms of the Jays
having to really empty their bench earlier. They had Tyler
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Heineman in the game for Kirk, they had to go
to their options early and and the Dodgers, they have
a bench that gives you different looks, different options. They
brought in Dean for defense. They brought in Pachez for defense.
They were able to obviously have Rojas start the game.
And again let's not overlook the really important play. And
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I think Joe Davis mentioned this on the broadcast of
Justin Dean in centerfield. Just put in the game for defense,
knowing that in that situation you have to put your
hands up so that way the umpire sees that you
as the outfitter, you're declaring it to be a lodge
ball because you're the closest person to it. So you
turn and you put your hands up to basically make
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sure the umpire sees that you can't make a play
on it. And he Dean did his job. John Timpayne
did his job of recognizing it. And again you've got
the credit Dave Roberts for utilizing his bench in what
I think was an absolute masterclass of managing tonight. Bullpen moves,
bench moves, lineup construction. You, Dave Roberts skid an absolute
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gold star all across the board for the job he
did tonight.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You know what, I was saying this to Mike before
we had the drama the ninth inning. I guarantee you
Schneider goes back and says, why did I walk Otani?
Why did I walk Otani? That gave them that? Why
did I know I should have with a runner at
second and a free base and two out, I should
walk Otani. But that gave the Dodgers the extra run
(26:24):
that made it three to one. I'm sure that's going
to be what he says to himself tonight after the game.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Yeah, I think among many things, and I actually didn't.
I didn't hate that move. I think you're right. In
the end, it didn't work out because it was a
free base runner that ended up coming around to score.
The Dodgers are here and they have a chance to
win the World Series tomorrow night, really because of one
good inning tonight. Offensively. Now, there's a lot of things
that did defensively and pitching wise, but you're right. I mean,
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they did their damage in one single solitary inning, and
in that one inning, I thought Goslin stuff was really good.
Even in that ending, I thought it was really good.
And so I think that from that standpoint, the Dodgers
maybe they they benefited from from having Otani be put
on bass there. But I also think this that he
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Otani has shown that he's had so many great at
bats in at least isolated games in this series to
where you don't want to give Otani a chance to
get his swings in and get feeling good again. That
you have to pick your spots to attack him and
then also pick your spots to pitch around him. And
I think that was the case as it was tonight.
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They just they did not like that spot to have
to try to attack them there with the base open
you put them on. Obviously didn't work out in the end,
but the Jay's had their chances. I thought They're at
back quality was better tonight than it was against Yamamoto
the first time around, and they had their chances against Thesaki.
If you had told me that Yamamoto's out of the
game after six and the Dodger bullpen had to get
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nine outs and that Sasaki was going to struggle a
little bit in the way that he did, my goodness,
I would have said that the Jays would be celebrating
right now. And listen, they once they got second and third,
they they had a hard time executing at the end.
You know, the clement I wanted those speak on his behalf.
His game is swinging early in the count. That's what
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he does, and so it's hard. It's hard, I think,
for anybody to criticize him for swinging of the first pitch.
He does that all the time. Now, glassdown made a
good pitch. It ran in enough that it got on
his hands and he wasn't really able to elevate the
ball and get into the outfield. But if that pitch
moves maybe like, you know, half an inch less, he
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might he might have dunked that in the right field.
And it's in both run score. I mean, it's the
margins are that small. And I think glass now made
just an excellent.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Excellent pitch Clement with two hits tonight, And you know,
it was one of the things we commented on right away.
JP was on the replay, what is eye like his
eyes got wide, like I got one?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
And then yeah, it tailed exactly so. But you know,
you talk.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
We've talked a lot about the top of the order
for the Dodgers, and while it wasn't a massive barrage
of you know, an outpouring congo line of runs, got
to be encouraged by the fact all four guys at
the top of the lineup walked and three of the
fourhead hits, so you know, hey, little breakthroughs after game six,
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all right.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
And Mike, that's that's the beauty. By the way of
when you play baseball a long time in the month
of October is that it goes so long that it
almost gives you time to get into and out of slumps. Right,
it's a month of baseball. When you play a month
of baseball games and you're looking at it over the
one sixty two, you're going to have moments where guys
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are trending up and guys are trending down. And and
here you have a Dodger team with plenty of name
brand players. I mean, these are names we've seen in
the playoffs year after year after year, and we know
what they're all about. And and it's only a matter
of time before Mookie gets going and Freddie gets going.
And I thought tonight, as much as the game is
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known as the Moto Game in so many ways, it
was also the Mookie game. And I thought the way
that he was able to cash in with a huge hit.
I thought Tom Product did a really good job on
the broadcast talking about how he was under the ball,
under the ball then he was and he was just
level with it. He finally got on time. And when
a hitter that talented gets on time, watch out. Because
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you know this was June, you'd say, Okay, here he is.
He's gonna go off for the next week or ten days. Well,
if he goes off tomorrow night, it's a pretty good
chance the Dodgers are the World Series champions. So just
it's it's been so much fun just to watch these
characters develop over a month, and that's what it is.
It's like, this is the best best kind of Hollywood
drama mini series. Take any of your good reality TV
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whatever whatever you like to watch. This is better than
all of it. Okay, this is better than all of
it because you've got the players doing one of the
hardest things there is to do in athletics, which has
hit a baseball and then of course pitch it and
field it. And they're doing it at a time where
you're watching their own personal stories unfold in the midst
of the months. Just a beautiful, a beautiful world series
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that that's going to go to the limit, and we're
gonna have baseball in November and I can't wait for
tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Now, I would say this just just judging by how
Dave Roberts did this. You know what he did in
the ninth inning. Bring in Tyler Glass Now, I would
assume the pitching plan would be Otani to start, so
you can take him out of the game and not
lose his DH position. Otani to start, followed by glassnow
in a piggyback situation, and then obviously whatever you need
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to do after that. But I assume it will be
Otani to glassnow tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
I agree. I think Otani starts and then you're Dave
Roberts mentioned this to Ken Rosen a lot of the game.
Maybe it's two innings, maybe it's four, whatever it ends
up being. It's it's probably not seven. It's it's probably
a shorter outing than what we've seen him have in
the past. But you you now have I think some
more of the of the bulk guys. I think Emmitt Sheen,
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who was who was an option maybe late in the
game today he could be an option too, I think
tomorrow maybe in more of a bulk role. The left handers.
It's interesting they've they've gone to Robleski. They seem to
so in some ways trust him a bit more than
they trust Bonder right now. But I think you'll see
a lot of the rightings. So this could be a
game where the Jays really need their lefty bats to
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get going. And obviously for a young player in Barger,
it's a hard way to end the game getting picked off.
That's tough. You got Springer coming up and then the
top of the lineup from there. But but you gotta
gotta watch it, gotta let it go because with playoff
baseball like this, you got another game tomorrow, so it's
but yeah, I think that from the Dodger perspective, they'll
be seeing a lot of right handed arms, which which
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might play into the favor of someone like a Barger
and maybe maybe helps him or bar Show or Jim
Andez even have have a big game from the left
side tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
All right, real quickly, John Paul, as you are are
celebrity Lions picker. Your wrecker this year is incredible. You are,
I believe, seven and one picking Lions games Lions Vikings
on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
What do you got?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
The Detroit Lions win that football game by a score
of thirty one to twenty. Detroit Lions thirty one Minnesota twenty.
How about that.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
John Paul Morosi, who is seven and one against the spread,
not just seven and one picking games seven and one
against the spread, celebrity Lions picker. Add that to your bio,
John Paul, as always, thank you so much. Enjoy Game
seven tomorrow. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
I love it, guys, and enjoy game seven. Beautiful words.
What a great weekend of football and baseball. Certainly tomorrow night. Everybody,
just clear your challengers. It's all baseball tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Thanks a lot, buddy.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
There goes John Paul Morosi and income special delivery Steve
de Sager. He's coming in with what's trending, like keyk
Hernandez was coming in.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
To catch that fly ball in and force a double play? Steve, O,
what do you got for it?
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Well, somebody's gonna have to be my Miguel Rojas, because
that was Dan Roberts' move to start the veteran glove
man as the second baseman tonight and put Tommy Edmond
in center field, and the veteran with the glove came
through to end the game and force a Game seven
in Toronto Saturday at about eight pm Eastern time on
Fox TV, one of the crazier endings of a recent
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years in World Series history. This game ends when the
Blue Jays line into a double play to short left field,
the third double play turned by La tonight. Remember an
hour ago, I was saying, they've turned two tonight, They're
probably gonna need a third assist to Keike Hernandez put
out at second by the veteran Rojas. Go seven to
four in your score book, and the Great Sarah Langs
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looked it up with the Elijah sportspeople, and that was
the first game ending seven to four double play in
the long history of the postseason.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
The Great Sarah Langs with the detail.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
By the way, David Vat said, Dodgers radio reporter for years,
points out that the last time we had an LA
at Toronto Game seven, it was Wayne Gretzky beating the
Maple Leafs in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Oh, that was going into the McSorley Round.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Absolutely, And that.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
Was also the same year that the Blue Jays took
back to back World Series. They were nineteen ninety three
World Series champs in that calendar year. The Dodgers trying
to become back to back World Series champs. That hasn't
happened with a National League team, by the way, since
the Big Red Machine of nineteen seventy five and seventy
six with Cincinnati. Nobody in either league has won back
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to back World Series since the Yankees twenty five years ago.
But it's rare enough that we're gonna have in this
Blue Jays postseason two game sevens for them. They had
won in the LCS to advance only once in the
last thirty years, as the same team played two game
sevens in the same postseason. The Dodgers, with a three
to one win at Toronto tonight, three runs in the third,
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all after the two out intentional walk to show hey Otani,
so Kevin Gosman, who was mowing him down early, winds
up taking the lass. The wind Oshinobu Yamamoto six innings,
six strikeouts, ninety six pitches thrown, the save to Tyler
Glass now who got the last three outs on three pitches.
So yes, he says he's available tomorrow. Yamamoto, by the way,
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in his last three starts, each of them, no more
than one run allowed, no more than five hits allowed,
no more than one walk issued, striking out at least
five batters every time earned the win in each of
these last three starts. No one else in baseball history
has done that in three straight postseason starts. He saves
the season tonight and the Dodgers get the defense late
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to win three to one. The Dolphins, who are two
and seven, parted ways with general manager Chris Greer. Chicago
Bulls five and oh after beating New York Boston Edge
Philly one nine, one oh eight, and the Lakers are
back in the lead at Memphis one oh five ninety
seven under seven minutes to go. Luka Donsige thirty seven points.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Back to you. Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Coming up next, we dissect that final game ending double
play for the Dodgers, including something that could have flipped
it in the Blue Jays favor.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
We'll tell you next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (37:33):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
We are still stunned at the lightning fast end to
Game six of the World Series Andres Jimenez lines out
to Keike Hernandez in left field. Coming on, he catches
the ball in shallow left field in one motion, throws
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to second, doubles Barger off the bag the game with
a double play for the Dodgers. The Jays had had
second and third nobody out in the ninth inning, and
they had knocked Roki Sasaki out of the game. You think, well,
here comes Joe Carter, here comes under the three run
homer to win the World Series. Instead we look at
Game seven. Now, thanks to John Paul Morosi for stopping
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by with us, we have much more breakdown of this game.
But I gotta say this because we gotta be fair
both sides here. Keyk Hernandez makes an incredible play, right,
He makes an incredible play coming in catching.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
The ball, taking the quick look to third.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
And that's the first thing that I think Straw could
have done that might have might might have affected the
play a little bit because Key K peaks over at him,
and Straw is just taking a couple of steps back
toward third base. Obviously he's not going, but if he
like stops or freezes, maybe Key K freezes a little
bit like is he going?
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Because as great a play as Keik made, like he
just got barged rout by a hair at second base,
if he if he hesitates just a second, then that play,
that inning is still going. There's two outs and runners
at second and third. So if Straw just kind of
freezes a little bit like some gamesmanship instead of just
standing up walking back to the bag, maybe that play
is differently because Keik just gives that quick glance to
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third and throws the second. An incredible play, incredible play
by Rojas to stay on the bag on a on
a one bounce short hop. But I gotta tell you,
Barger makes a horrendous base running choice here. You see
where he is when Kei k settles under the ball
to catch it. It is absolutely inexcusable that he is
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off the base that far because you know you're off
second base. You see the jump, you see the ball
as hit over your head, you know where the ball
is going to land. Okay, so there's no reason to
try to get closer to third base. This is not
the short stops going back that the left fielder's coming
in and it's gonna bounce. You can see that either Okay,
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Keyk's going to catch this on a fly, in which
case I gotta bust my ass back to second base,
or he's going to catch it on a quick bounce,
which means that likely I'm only getting to third.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
I'm not getting home.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
And if the ball bounces and it bounces by key K,
well I'm scoring and I'm walking home because it's going
all the way to the wall, right and we have
a triple and a runner at third with with with
one out, So like for him to be that far
off the bed, like there was no win for him, Mike.
There was no way for him to say, if I'm
this far, I can score. He was either going to
go back to second base or going to third there
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was a huge mistake by it, or.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
If it drops in, I mean keek with it.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
How quickly he got up, you know, and was would
have come up with the ball, Like you're still potentially
in a situation where you get yourself thrown out at third.
Maybe maybe not, but you don't have the force behind you, right,
so there's no reason to be drifting, you know, trying
to account for a situation that doesn't exist right to
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where you got a runner coming from first to second
that you have to worry about. So all of that
to say, yeah, drifting that far off the bag, I
mean it's right in front of you. Like that play's
not you know, drifting down the line or to the
right field line. It's literally what twenty five thirty feet
from you? Maybe forty, I don't know. I'm trying to
figure out down distance. I need the all twenty two
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tape like I watch for NFL stuff. But all of that, like,
there's no win there at best, you're going to third
and the inning continues instead game over. I mean, you
have to know where that ball is going to land
and seeing it and going, okay, it's either in his
glove or it's a short bounce and I'm going to
third right, like one of those, because nobody's at third.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Nobody's at third. Right, he trots the third base and
the runner scores from third. That's what's gonna happen. But instead, Wow,
the Blue Jays now looking at game seven when they
thought they were taking Game six. Coming up next, we
have more on this incredible ending, including a guy that
absolutely has to go had so much credit for this victory.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
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