On this week’s edition of Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob discusses the Cleveland Guardians' wild Game 3 win over the New York Yankees in the ALCS, the Los Angeles Dodgers dominance over the the New York Mets so far in the NLCS and why Postseason baseball makes him feel almost romantic. Plus, former MLB outfielder Jacque Jones swings by to share his insight on both championship series and the narrative that all signs currently point to a Yankees-Dodgers World Series. Finally, NBC Los Angeles sports reporter Mario Solis checks in from New York to discuss how the Dodgers have managed to exercise their postseason demons so far.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live
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on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number seveny Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. A
very special postseason edition on this Friday. Dropping Yes, former
Major league outfielder Jack Jones drops by. He'll give us
some insight. Also from New York, we'll talk to Mario Saliz,
who is the sports anchor for KNBC in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
That and much more. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Better to lead off, it's getting robbed and keep them on.
Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major
League Baseball. Number one.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Okay, I'm not gonna take credit that I picked the
Dodgers and the Yankees to start the season that they
would both make it to the World Series, because now
it looks pretty obvious to me that the Mets are
dead and the Dodgers are probably gonna get there.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
They're up three to one.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It just doesn't feel like the same Mets team that
had the magic that got those big hits that got
them to this point that they're even that close to
the World Series. Because when the playoffs start, I changed
my pick. I picked the Mets because I just thought
the Dodgers didn't have enough pitching. And you know, Game
three was crucial. You know Walker Buehler, who I was
(01:37):
calling furious Bueller on MLB Network.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I just I didn't see it. He got hit around
like a rag.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Doll by the Padres. I thought the Mets would get
to him, that would be the game to give them
an advantage, especially they once they bounced back from Game two,
because remember they lost nine to nothing, and right away
people were saying in La, oh, it's gonna be a
sweep and this, that and the other thing, and you know,
and I didn't think baseball doesn't work like that. But
(02:06):
the Dodgers come to New York taking care of business
and really shut the Mets down. So I don't see
that happening. So I'm gonna be wrong on this, even
though I picked it before the season. I should never
you shouldn't change your picks. But I really believe that
the Mets had a better shot at it because of
the Dodgers pitching and the magic of the home runs
(02:27):
and the big hits that the Mets were riding, and
sometimes teams, you know, ride streaks like that right into
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
We saw it last year the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Remember they were a wild card, and all of a
sudden they beat up all these good teams and wound
up beat up Dodgers and Phillies and wound up in
the World Series. I thought the Mets were going to
do a similar run like that. But the Dodgers, despite
their injuries and despite everything that's going on, they just
have too much firepower and too many stars. So the
Dodgers look like they're on their way.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I know the sky's falling in the Bronx and Yankee
fans because it really looked like they were gonna be
up three to zero.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
And I get it. You know, you get back to
back home runs by.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Judge and Stanton, you take the lead in the game
that they looked like they were dead offensively, and then
your bullpen collapse two run home runs with two outs
in a nine two run home run in the tenth
with two outs. You know, so you know, the sky's falling.
Things look bad. But if that's what the Guardians needed
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to win a game at home. If you're the Yankees,
you shouldn't feel that bad. The good news is Aaron
Judges is home run bad is back and better like
he had been scuffling for most of the postseason. Now
he's had a couple of home runs in the last
three games. That's what you like to see because he
usually hits him in bunches. Stanton has been tremendous. You
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got Soto and Jash Chisholm. There's enough bats. Rizzo has
been playing, and they have pitching now. Luke Weaver gave
it up, who had been spectacular since he took over
the closure role. No one's gonna be perfect. It's that
kind of a game. It's very humbling. You think that
(04:14):
you got to figure it out. You're never going to
give up a hit or never going to give up
a run. Remember this Yankee bullpen gave up zero, zero
runs in the series against the Royals.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Zero. I think they pitched fifteen and two third innings.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Unheard of in Major League Baseball that they didn't get
touched up at all. So is it a bad spot
for them to get touched up? Absolutely, But it's not
the end of the World. I still like the Yankees
very much, so I think they bounced back. I think
they win today in Game four in Cleveland, take a
three to one lead, and then finish it out eventually,
whether it be Game five in Cleveland a Game six
(04:53):
in the Bronx. But I do expect the Yankees to
get there as well as the Dodgers in the World
Series three. I know there are a lot of big
moments in sports. The game winning three pointer to win
the game, the touchdown with you know, the last second touchdown,
the forty yard bomb, fifty yard bomb.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
There are big moments in sports. I get it. I'm sorry.
Game winning walk off home runs.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
There's nothing better if you go go back, go on
to Twitter and go see Fries and relive fries home
run and hear that crowd and the emotion going on
in that building. When you leave the yard to win
a game, especially in October, it's like it's unreal.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's unreal.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You don't even have to be a Guardians fan or
know who Fry is or care about what was going
on if you're a sports fan in the moment and
the drama, because in baseball, especially the postseason, it's every
pitch matters.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Not like the regular season.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
If I go to a game and I'm with my buddy,
I'm talking, we're eating, we're drinking, you know, and and
and the game is going on.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
In the postseason, you have to watch every pitch. Was
that a strike? You know what I mean? That should
have been a third out?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
No, you get you get to reprieve, and then he
takes advantage of it, like it's just a different animal.
So you're watching every pitch, and every pitch matters to
the to the point that you can't turn away. That
was a tremendous home run. It gave me goosebumps. It
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was one of the best games I've watched all year.
I mean the Yankee to the two Yankee home runs
in the eighth, and then the two run home run
by a pinch hitter who was one for sixteen Noel
all year pinch hitting, and then FRI's two run home
run to win it in the tent. Just the incredible stuff. Uh,
That's why I love baseball.
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Speaker 1 (08:54):
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Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's so good, all right, now, let's welcome in Jock Jones,
former major league outfielder who played nine big league seasons
broken with the Minnesota Twins back in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Jock, what's up, my man? How are you problem?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I'm good, Bro? How about you?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Man? October baseball? I'm good. You know how that is? Right?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
It's nothing like it. Man.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
If you don't you don't like sports, if you don't
like October Baseball, That's.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Like when I hear these people try to make some
excuse on what I'm like, Dude, what if you were
watching Thursday night and you were watching that Guardian's Yankees game.
I don't care who you're rooting for if you have
no interest in either team.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
That was incredible. First let's start here, Jock.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
The Yankees look dead, They're down three to one, and
then all of a sudden, Judge and Stin Well.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
I mean, those guys are game changers, man. They can
change the game with one swing. It doesn't matter if
they're they're it doesn't matter if they're cold. One swing
can change the game with those guys anytime they step
up to the plate. And both of them came through
in the clutch and they tied the game up, and
then the game went on from there.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And then you know, it looks like, okay, that's like
a crushing blow. If you're at the stadium in Cleveland
Progressive Field, you gotta be deflated, you know, like he's
gonna go down.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Zero three absolutely, And.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Then two outs in the ninth and and a man
on and this kid Noelle comes up, who was one
for sixteen as a pinchhitter.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Again ye gets a two run home runner. Tidy game.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I mean again, there's a guy that can change the
game with one swing. He's got big, big power, and
you saw it. I mean as soon as he connected,
he knew it was gone with the backflip. And I
mean he he put more. He put energy right back
into the stadium. After the Yankees took it out of him,
it took the airt of the stadium. He put it
right back in. And then here we go and it
(10:59):
goes into extra.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And then we need to go to of course extra innings,
and Fry comes up with a big, two ole, two
run home run and sends the place into delirium. I mean, wow, Like,
if you don't get goosebumps just watching that, you're not alive.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
I'm getting them right now just thinking about it.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
That guy's been as clutch as you could be in
the playoffs, him and Lane Thomas anytime they needed a
big hit, those guys have been coming through. And I
mean he sent everybody home last night and revitalized his team.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
And now we got a series, right.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Series is two to one.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It resumes tonight Friday night in Cleveland, the second of
three games there, and they've climbed back in the series.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Obviously you're down three, you're in trouble.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
But there's two schools of thought. And I've always said this.
In baseball, there's no momentum or carryover.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
We saw that the Dodgers skunk the Mets nine to
nothing in Game one. Mets came right back and scored
six runs in Dodger Stadium in Game two.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I'm just saying, Yep, it's.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
About the starting pitcher or you know, like the next day.
It could change everything.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
It could change every day, Rob.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
But I'm gonna have to disagree with I don't disagree
a lot, but I'm gonna have to disagree with you
on this one. And I'm gonna take you back a
little bit to the Padres Dodgers series where Padres hit
six homers. They got homer happy after that, Uh, the
Dodgers had a bullpen day. Seas comes back on three
days rest. The Dodgers knock him out in two innings.
They start rolling, the bullpen gets situated, they start dominating,
(12:36):
and it's carried over to the Mets series. Yes, they
blew the Mets out the first game. The Mets came
back the second game. But now the Dodgers have a
strong They have a stranglehold over this series because they
put guys in situations to succeed and hats off to
Doc Roberts. He gets a lot of flak. He's put
guys in situations to succeed, just like this this series, right,
(12:58):
the Guardians and the Gayankees. Uh, the Weaver's been phenomenal
for the Yankees since he's been in that closers role.
Right now he's got there's a little bit of doubt
now because they got to him.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
What about Cleveland's closer?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
He was Okay, this guy gave up six five earn
runs all year, okay, and he's given up six in
the postseason.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
The Tigers got him and the Yankees got him.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
So so you.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Gotta admit that even Cleveland in their situation, there's no
way he's the same guy anymore.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
No, absolutely, and I don't disagree with you on that.
Absolutely they're in the same boat.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
But but but now Weavers got a little chink in
his armor.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
So, oh, there's no doubt. He was lights out.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And I even saw somebody on the MLB network say
he was the best closer in the game.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And that's like, that's a that's.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
A prisoner of the moment because somebody's doing something.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You gotta have a track record, am I right?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Perforce to that and then next year being in this
all full time, he's got to show that he can
do it on a night in a night out.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Basis, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, Okay, so Game four, so it sounds like you
think Cleveland's got this series.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Or it's not that they it's not that they have
the serials tied up.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
They got some life into him. They got some life
into him. Now, that's a big, big win that.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
They held out. There's no doubt. But here's my pushback
on that. When you need that just to win one
game at home, like like, that's scary to me, and
that the Yankees were dead if you were watching that
game the entire game. Yeah, they come back and Judge
is alive now and Stanton is incredible. I want you
(14:42):
to talk about first Judge now had a couple of
home runs after not being able to hit anything, and
then talk about what Stanton does in the postseason because
he's on part with Babe Ruth.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
As far as home runs per bat in the postseason.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Some guys just lock in.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Man, Kirby Pucket god rest is Soul told me in
spring training, Man, sometimes when that little red light comes on,
some guys just lock in and then some guys get tight,
and it seems like Stan gets tight, I mean Stan
gets loose, Judge gets a little tight, right. But now
now Judge is coming back down to earth again and
(15:19):
he's gonna get hot. And that's I mean, that's bad
for Cleveland because now you've got the twin Towers and
now they're feeling good.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
But yeah, especially for that that home run for Judgia,
a two run home run with twelves the tide of game.
You notice you played the game a long time. That is,
if you if you don't feel good about yourself after that,
there's no way you feel good.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I'll tell you. The most important thing about that home run, man,
was it was in the opposite field, okay, because that's.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
When you're hitting the ball best, right, when you can
go the other way and with power.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
The first handful of games he was pulling off everything
he was. His bat was just short enough to miss
the outside breaking ball. But when he stays on the
bar and he stays in the big part of the park,
which is from left center to right center, he's great.
And to hit the ball the other way and to
know that he could do it again, I think that's
kind of locked him in.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Our guest is major League outfielder.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Former outfielder Jack Jones is also an analyst for mlbbro
dot com. Let's go and finish up with the Dodgers
and the Mets. I thought the Mets had an advantage.
I really did, because I just didn't think the Dodgers
had enough pitching.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
But Walker, Bulah, that was a big start because that
guy had been.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Getting hit around like a rag doll most of the
year and he was in a jam the first three
innings and was able to wiggle out of him. That
strikeout of Lindor with the bases loaded. I think that
turned the.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Series absolutely if you watch him, and I watched him
a little bit during the season, and then, like I
don't necessarily watch a lot of baseball than the regular season,
but I watch it all because in the postseason, because
every game hinges on every pitch, every play, every yet
back right, his first start against the Padres, his breaking
ball didn't have all that much tilt, but his second
(17:08):
start he got a little bit better, and then last
night that thing had amazing tilt on it. Okay to
go with that ninety five to ninety eight n hour
fastball that he has. He gave the book, the team
in the bullpen a little bit of link for four
and two thirds, I believe, or maybe five innings he
gave him And it was just a shot in.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
The arm man.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
And to go out and do what he did last
night and to pitch hisself in and out of Gams,
I mean, that was.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Really good on his part. And he's starting to get
the tilt back on his breaking ball.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, big, big for the Dodgers if he's back, Yeah
for them. Do the Dodgers end this series or do
the Mets push it back to Los Angeles? The Mets
look dead to me.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Yeah, I think the Dodgers are going to finish it out.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
As much as I hate to say, I think the
Dodgers are going to finish it out tonight, are today,
and uh, I'm pretty much banking on them being in
the World Series.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
And that would be one half of Major League Baseball's
dream matchup.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
If you're major League Baseball and you see the Dodgers
and the Yankees with a chance of playing, they e
haven't place his nineteen eighty one and the Star power
O Tawani, bets Rereddy Freeman, Judge Stanton Juan Soto.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I mean, are you kidding? Is that a dream? If
you're Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
It absolutely is a dream.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
B the old Brooklyn Dodgers Los Angeles Dodgers against the
New York Yankees unbelievable?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, well yeah, go ahead. Who do you think?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Who do you think when last one? Who do you
think wins the Yankees Guardians game? Is it three to
one Yankees or two to two?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
I think I think I think Cleveland will ride the
way from last and all the energy, and I think
they'll tie it up.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
All right, So you got to two Guardians type the
Yankees and the Mets go home for the season. His
name is Jack Jones, former Major league outfielder my Man.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I appreciate you. Thanks for your insight, Rob.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Thanks Man always anytime.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto,
if I'm writing, I'm ripping, Let's bring in a writer
or broadcaster, old or new.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Now, let's welcome in. Mario Salise.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He is the sports anchor for KNBC and Los Angeles,
also the host of the Challenge on Sunday nights.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
What's up, Mario, Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Hey, it's nice to be in New York. Beautiful sunny day.
I'm in The Dodgers dugout nonetheless, so I got a
prime seat here in New York at City Field. It
is a wonderful day for the Dodgers to wrap this
up early game today, says The Yankees played later, but uh,
Dodgers getting ready.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Man. You know, we talked about this.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Series when it started on the Challenge and you were
a big, big proponent that the Mets were gonna wake
up after that the initial pounding. But man, they looked
like guppies, you know, lifelessly floating in the Hudson River.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
It's not looking good.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
No, no, no, Mario, I'm with you. They look bad.
They look good now.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And it was you know this, The Dodgers pounded them
in Game one, nine to nothing, and then they bounced
right back in Game two, right, and that was incredible
in La. So I thought going to New York, you know,
they'd have some energy from that. They played the Dodgers tough.
I didn't think the Dodgers had enough pitching.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
But here we are. The Dodgers are on.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
The cusp of doing what a lot of people had
expected to be honest going into the season, right that
they would make it to the World Series.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Yeah, definitely, that was always the goal.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
We kept saying, it's a World Series or bust, right,
And a lot of criticism has been directed as manager
Dave Roberts. But I think he's been handling this pitching
situation masterfully, don't you think, you know, going with the
bullpen games, deciding exactly when to rest these guys. Today
he's got Flarity up on the mound, first pitch at
(21:15):
two to eight. Flarity as well.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Know he's been He's been pretty effective, pretty lights out.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
He's one and one, got a two point nine two ERA,
and I think he scratched.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
I saw him.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Walking down the hallway last night, you know, very focused,
not smiling at all.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
This is a big dude.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
He doesn't look that big on camera when he's when
he's on the mound. This guy's a giant man and
he is ready to go. You were talking about the
complete domination of the Mets. The Dodgers in their three
wins have scored twenty seven runs and allowed only to
look what happened yesterday, Yamamoto was lights out, only two
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runs and what four and a third? And then the
other three guys come in and completely dominate whatever was
left of the Mets hitting. That was a pretty imprecisive
I talked to I talked to him one of the
guys yesterday. I actually talked to a bunch of them,
but specifically Phillips, you know, Honeybunton, And I asked him, Hey,
(22:15):
can you taste the champagne? Can you taste the World Series?
And I know he gave me the canned answer. He goes,
you know what, man, I don't really think about that,
but can you imagine you've gone through all this, you know,
hard work and spent all this money. You know, everyone's
thinking about the World Series. So he just said, we're
I'm taking it one day at a time. I asked
the Oscar what about the World Series? He smiled from
(22:37):
ear to ear and he said, I can already taste it. Matt,
I'm so excited about finally participating in October baseball?
Speaker 8 (22:46):
Who else Payas also is looking forward to it? These
are guys that know that it's within reach. They can
taste that champagne.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
I know it would you know taste a lot sweeter
in Los Angeles back in Travis Ravine. But they're gonna
pop some quarks to if they can. It should be
a really good matchup.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Our guest is Mario Salise, KNBC main sports anchor on
the News and of course, hosts of The Challenge Sunday
nights after Sunday Night Football on KNBC Channel four. Yeah,
I mean it looks like it. Obviously, it's not over
till it's over. I've seen teams come back from three
to o to Yankees had a three old lead on
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the Red Sox and wind up losing four straight. I
believe the Dodgers are gonna win. It just feels like that,
and the Mets don't feel the same to me.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Show.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Hey, a very weird series in that when no one's
on base, he hasn't been able to get hits, but
when people are on base, he's lights out.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
It just seemed strange, doesn't it?
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:45):
It had, And that was I think the big question
mark what's going on? Why isn't Dave Roberts moving him
a little bit further up in the lineup? But what
happens yesterday? He comes on top of the first boom
solo homer. So let's put an end to that theory
that you can't hit with.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
No one on board. Man, this guy can do it
all right.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
He's just such a unicorn, and he's a phenomenal guy
to watch even you know, people here in New York
they appreciate good baseball. Every time he comes up to
the plate, everyone is just paying attention.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
This guy is a is.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
A special human being, a special player, and it's been
a great privilege being able to watch him up close.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
During this entire season with La We saw him with
the Angels.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
It just wasn't the.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Same thing, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Last thing, Mookie Bets broke out to four RBIs right,
four hits career highs in the postseason. Mookie Bets is
a big part of making this team go as well.
You know, there was a scuffling. You remember he had
that Ozero for twenty two stretch at one point to
start the playoffs. But he's really turned it on lately.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Yeah, he totally has now batting two ninety three postseason baseball.
The cool thing about it his lineup and even though
as you said, Mochi's bat finally has woken up. I
was talking to the Oscar yesterday after the game, and
I said, isn't it an amazing thing to be on
a team where if one guy doesn't doesn't respond or
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is you know, hitting a pretty flat streak, the other
guys are going to pick him up and they're going
to pick up the slack. And he smiled and he says,
you know what, I know what you're talking about. You're
talking about me, And it's okay because I'm not hitting
right now, but everyone around me is getting it done.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
So as a team, they're just firing in all similars.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
And I know it's a cliche phraise, but every guy
is just locked in, ready to go.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Every single guy in the lineup yesterday.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Got on base one way or another, whether you know
whether they got hit by a or walked, or.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
They hit singles or doubles or homers.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Everyone on board yesterday and that's pretty spectacular.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
So there it is, Mario. You think this series is
over tonight?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Today's game starts this afternoon in New York, So you
think it's all a wrap.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (26:09):
Yeah, I don't think the Mets can come back from
this deep hole. I don't know if it happens today,
maybe the Mets wake up early and get it done
early today and get out of here and go back
to La. But I think the Dodgers have it in
the bag. Whether it's today or back at Travis Ravine,
one way or another, they're gonna get it done.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
His name is Mario Salise, giving us the insight. He's
covering the Dodgers in New York Friday, Game four, Game five,
Dodgers up three games to one.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Mario, we appreciate it. Thank you, my man, travel safe.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
My pleasure to rob.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
See you Sunday night. Man, We're gonna make fun of
you on Sunday. If the Dodgers already got this thing wrapped.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Up, it wouldn't be the first time you making fun
of me on a Sunday.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
You know, buddy, it's all good faith. You know, it's
all love, man, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
You know. We have fun every Sunday night.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Appreciate alright, welly,
From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live
in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give
us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop
on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number seveny Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. A
very special postseason edition on this Friday. Dropping Yes, former
Major league outfielder Jack Jones drops by. He'll give us
some insight. Also from New York, we'll talk to Mario Saliz,
who is the sports anchor for KNBC in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
That and much more. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Better to lead off, it's getting robbed and keep them on.
Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major
League Baseball. Number one.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Okay, I'm not gonna take credit that I picked the
Dodgers and the Yankees to start the season that they
would both make it to the World Series, because now
it looks pretty obvious to me that the Mets are
dead and the Dodgers are probably gonna get there.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
They're up three to one.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It just doesn't feel like the same Mets team that
had the magic that got those big hits that got
them to this point that they're even that close to
the World Series. Because when the playoffs start, I changed
my pick. I picked the Mets because I just thought
the Dodgers didn't have enough pitching. And you know, Game
three was crucial. You know Walker Buehler, who I was
(01:37):
calling furious Bueller on MLB Network.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I just I didn't see it. He got hit around
like a rag.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Doll by the Padres. I thought the Mets would get
to him, that would be the game to give them
an advantage, especially they once they bounced back from Game two,
because remember they lost nine to nothing, and right away
people were saying in La, oh, it's gonna be a
sweep and this, that and the other thing, and you know,
and I didn't think baseball doesn't work like that. But
(02:06):
the Dodgers come to New York taking care of business
and really shut the Mets down. So I don't see
that happening. So I'm gonna be wrong on this, even
though I picked it before the season. I should never
you shouldn't change your picks. But I really believe that
the Mets had a better shot at it because of
the Dodgers pitching and the magic of the home runs
(02:27):
and the big hits that the Mets were riding, and
sometimes teams, you know, ride streaks like that right into
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
We saw it last year the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Remember they were a wild card, and all of a
sudden they beat up all these good teams and wound
up beat up Dodgers and Phillies and wound up in
the World Series. I thought the Mets were going to
do a similar run like that. But the Dodgers, despite
their injuries and despite everything that's going on, they just
have too much firepower and too many stars. So the
Dodgers look like they're on their way.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I know the sky's falling in the Bronx and Yankee
fans because it really looked like they were gonna be
up three to zero.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
And I get it. You know, you get back to
back home runs by.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Judge and Stanton, you take the lead in the game
that they looked like they were dead offensively, and then
your bullpen collapse two run home runs with two outs
in a nine two run home run in the tenth
with two outs. You know, so you know, the sky's falling.
Things look bad. But if that's what the Guardians needed
(03:32):
to win a game at home. If you're the Yankees,
you shouldn't feel that bad. The good news is Aaron
Judges is home run bad is back and better like
he had been scuffling for most of the postseason. Now
he's had a couple of home runs in the last
three games. That's what you like to see because he
usually hits him in bunches. Stanton has been tremendous. You
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got Soto and Jash Chisholm. There's enough bats. Rizzo has
been playing, and they have pitching now. Luke Weaver gave
it up, who had been spectacular since he took over
the closure role. No one's gonna be perfect. It's that
kind of a game. It's very humbling. You think that
(04:14):
you got to figure it out. You're never going to
give up a hit or never going to give up
a run. Remember this Yankee bullpen gave up zero, zero
runs in the series against the Royals.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Zero. I think they pitched fifteen and two third innings.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Unheard of in Major League Baseball that they didn't get
touched up at all. So is it a bad spot
for them to get touched up? Absolutely, But it's not
the end of the World. I still like the Yankees
very much, so I think they bounced back. I think
they win today in Game four in Cleveland, take a
three to one lead, and then finish it out eventually,
whether it be Game five in Cleveland a Game six
(04:53):
in the Bronx. But I do expect the Yankees to
get there as well as the Dodgers in the World
Series three. I know there are a lot of big
moments in sports. The game winning three pointer to win
the game, the touchdown with you know, the last second touchdown,
the forty yard bomb, fifty yard bomb.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
There are big moments in sports. I get it. I'm sorry.
Game winning walk off home runs.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
There's nothing better if you go go back, go on
to Twitter and go see Fries and relive fries home
run and hear that crowd and the emotion going on
in that building. When you leave the yard to win
a game, especially in October, it's like it's unreal.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's unreal.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You don't even have to be a Guardians fan or
know who Fry is or care about what was going
on if you're a sports fan in the moment and
the drama, because in baseball, especially the postseason, it's every
pitch matters.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Not like the regular season.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
If I go to a game and I'm with my buddy,
I'm talking, we're eating, we're drinking, you know, and and
and the game is going on.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
In the postseason, you have to watch every pitch. Was
that a strike? You know what I mean? That should
have been a third out?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
No, you get you get to reprieve, and then he
takes advantage of it, like it's just a different animal.
So you're watching every pitch, and every pitch matters to
the to the point that you can't turn away. That
was a tremendous home run. It gave me goosebumps. It
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was one of the best games I've watched all year.
I mean the Yankee to the two Yankee home runs
in the eighth, and then the two run home run
by a pinch hitter who was one for sixteen Noel
all year pinch hitting, and then FRI's two run home
run to win it in the tent. Just the incredible stuff. Uh,
That's why I love baseball.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
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Speaker 1 (08:54):
You get your podcast. Here comes the big interview headler.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's so good, all right, now, let's welcome in Jock Jones,
former major league outfielder who played nine big league seasons
broken with the Minnesota Twins back in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Jock, what's up, my man? How are you problem?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I'm good, Bro? How about you?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Man? October baseball? I'm good. You know how that is? Right?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
It's nothing like it. Man.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
If you don't you don't like sports, if you don't
like October Baseball, That's.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Like when I hear these people try to make some
excuse on what I'm like, Dude, what if you were
watching Thursday night and you were watching that Guardian's Yankees game.
I don't care who you're rooting for if you have
no interest in either team.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
That was incredible. First let's start here, Jock.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
The Yankees look dead, They're down three to one, and
then all of a sudden, Judge and Stin Well.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
I mean, those guys are game changers, man. They can
change the game with one swing. It doesn't matter if
they're they're it doesn't matter if they're cold. One swing
can change the game with those guys anytime they step
up to the plate. And both of them came through
in the clutch and they tied the game up, and
then the game went on from there.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And then you know, it looks like, okay, that's like
a crushing blow. If you're at the stadium in Cleveland
Progressive Field, you gotta be deflated, you know, like he's
gonna go down.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Zero three absolutely, And.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Then two outs in the ninth and and a man
on and this kid Noelle comes up, who was one
for sixteen as a pinchhitter.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Again ye gets a two run home runner. Tidy game.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I mean again, there's a guy that can change the
game with one swing. He's got big, big power, and
you saw it. I mean as soon as he connected,
he knew it was gone with the backflip. And I
mean he he put more. He put energy right back
into the stadium. After the Yankees took it out of him,
it took the airt of the stadium. He put it
right back in. And then here we go and it
(10:59):
goes into extra.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And then we need to go to of course extra innings,
and Fry comes up with a big, two ole, two
run home run and sends the place into delirium. I mean, wow, Like,
if you don't get goosebumps just watching that, you're not alive.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
I'm getting them right now just thinking about it.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
That guy's been as clutch as you could be in
the playoffs, him and Lane Thomas anytime they needed a
big hit, those guys have been coming through. And I
mean he sent everybody home last night and revitalized his team.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
And now we got a series, right.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Series is two to one.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It resumes tonight Friday night in Cleveland, the second of
three games there, and they've climbed back in the series.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Obviously you're down three, you're in trouble.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
But there's two schools of thought. And I've always said this.
In baseball, there's no momentum or carryover.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
We saw that the Dodgers skunk the Mets nine to
nothing in Game one. Mets came right back and scored
six runs in Dodger Stadium in Game two.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I'm just saying, Yep, it's.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
About the starting pitcher or you know, like the next day.
It could change everything.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
It could change every day, Rob.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
But I'm gonna have to disagree with I don't disagree
a lot, but I'm gonna have to disagree with you
on this one. And I'm gonna take you back a
little bit to the Padres Dodgers series where Padres hit
six homers. They got homer happy after that, Uh, the
Dodgers had a bullpen day. Seas comes back on three
days rest. The Dodgers knock him out in two innings.
They start rolling, the bullpen gets situated, they start dominating,
(12:36):
and it's carried over to the Mets series. Yes, they
blew the Mets out the first game. The Mets came
back the second game. But now the Dodgers have a
strong They have a stranglehold over this series because they
put guys in situations to succeed and hats off to
Doc Roberts. He gets a lot of flak. He's put
guys in situations to succeed, just like this this series, right,
(12:58):
the Guardians and the Gayankees. Uh, the Weaver's been phenomenal
for the Yankees since he's been in that closers role.
Right now he's got there's a little bit of doubt
now because they got to him.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
What about Cleveland's closer?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
He was Okay, this guy gave up six five earn
runs all year, okay, and he's given up six in
the postseason.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
The Tigers got him and the Yankees got him.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
So so you.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Gotta admit that even Cleveland in their situation, there's no
way he's the same guy anymore.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
No, absolutely, and I don't disagree with you on that.
Absolutely they're in the same boat.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
But but but now Weavers got a little chink in
his armor.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
So, oh, there's no doubt. He was lights out.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And I even saw somebody on the MLB network say
he was the best closer in the game.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And that's like, that's a that's.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
A prisoner of the moment because somebody's doing something.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You gotta have a track record, am I right?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Perforce to that and then next year being in this
all full time, he's got to show that he can
do it on a night in a night out.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Basis, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, Okay, so Game four, so it sounds like you
think Cleveland's got this series.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Or it's not that they it's not that they have
the serials tied up.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
They got some life into him. They got some life
into him. Now, that's a big, big win that.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
They held out. There's no doubt. But here's my pushback
on that. When you need that just to win one
game at home, like like, that's scary to me, and
that the Yankees were dead if you were watching that
game the entire game. Yeah, they come back and Judge
is alive now and Stanton is incredible. I want you
(14:42):
to talk about first Judge now had a couple of
home runs after not being able to hit anything, and
then talk about what Stanton does in the postseason because
he's on part with Babe Ruth.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
As far as home runs per bat in the postseason.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Some guys just lock in.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Man, Kirby Pucket god rest is Soul told me in
spring training, Man, sometimes when that little red light comes on,
some guys just lock in and then some guys get tight,
and it seems like Stan gets tight, I mean Stan
gets loose, Judge gets a little tight, right. But now
now Judge is coming back down to earth again and
(15:19):
he's gonna get hot. And that's I mean, that's bad
for Cleveland because now you've got the twin Towers and
now they're feeling good.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
But yeah, especially for that that home run for Judgia,
a two run home run with twelves the tide of game.
You notice you played the game a long time. That is,
if you if you don't feel good about yourself after that,
there's no way you feel good.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I'll tell you. The most important thing about that home run, man,
was it was in the opposite field, okay, because that's.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
When you're hitting the ball best, right, when you can
go the other way and with power.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
The first handful of games he was pulling off everything
he was. His bat was just short enough to miss
the outside breaking ball. But when he stays on the
bar and he stays in the big part of the park,
which is from left center to right center, he's great.
And to hit the ball the other way and to
know that he could do it again, I think that's
kind of locked him in.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Our guest is major League outfielder.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Former outfielder Jack Jones is also an analyst for mlbbro
dot com. Let's go and finish up with the Dodgers
and the Mets. I thought the Mets had an advantage.
I really did, because I just didn't think the Dodgers
had enough pitching.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
But Walker, Bulah, that was a big start because that
guy had been.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Getting hit around like a rag doll most of the
year and he was in a jam the first three
innings and was able to wiggle out of him. That
strikeout of Lindor with the bases loaded. I think that
turned the.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Series absolutely if you watch him, and I watched him
a little bit during the season, and then, like I
don't necessarily watch a lot of baseball than the regular season,
but I watch it all because in the postseason, because
every game hinges on every pitch, every play, every yet
back right, his first start against the Padres, his breaking
ball didn't have all that much tilt, but his second
(17:08):
start he got a little bit better, and then last
night that thing had amazing tilt on it. Okay to
go with that ninety five to ninety eight n hour
fastball that he has. He gave the book, the team
in the bullpen a little bit of link for four
and two thirds, I believe, or maybe five innings he
gave him And it was just a shot in.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
The arm man.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
And to go out and do what he did last
night and to pitch hisself in and out of Gams,
I mean, that was.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Really good on his part. And he's starting to get
the tilt back on his breaking ball.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, big, big for the Dodgers if he's back, Yeah
for them. Do the Dodgers end this series or do
the Mets push it back to Los Angeles? The Mets
look dead to me.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Yeah, I think the Dodgers are going to finish it out.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
As much as I hate to say, I think the
Dodgers are going to finish it out tonight, are today,
and uh, I'm pretty much banking on them being in
the World Series.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
And that would be one half of Major League Baseball's
dream matchup.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
If you're major League Baseball and you see the Dodgers
and the Yankees with a chance of playing, they e
haven't place his nineteen eighty one and the Star power
O Tawani, bets Rereddy Freeman, Judge Stanton Juan Soto.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I mean, are you kidding? Is that a dream? If
you're Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
It absolutely is a dream.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
B the old Brooklyn Dodgers Los Angeles Dodgers against the
New York Yankees unbelievable?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, well yeah, go ahead. Who do you think?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Who do you think when last one? Who do you
think wins the Yankees Guardians game? Is it three to
one Yankees or two to two?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
I think I think I think Cleveland will ride the
way from last and all the energy, and I think
they'll tie it up.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
All right, So you got to two Guardians type the
Yankees and the Mets go home for the season. His
name is Jack Jones, former Major league outfielder my Man.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I appreciate you. Thanks for your insight, Rob.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Thanks Man always anytime.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto,
if I'm writing, I'm ripping, Let's bring in a writer
or broadcaster, old or new.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Now, let's welcome in. Mario Salise.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He is the sports anchor for KNBC and Los Angeles,
also the host of the Challenge on Sunday nights.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
What's up, Mario, Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Hey, it's nice to be in New York. Beautiful sunny day.
I'm in The Dodgers dugout nonetheless, so I got a
prime seat here in New York at City Field. It
is a wonderful day for the Dodgers to wrap this
up early game today, says The Yankees played later, but uh,
Dodgers getting ready.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Man. You know, we talked about this.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Series when it started on the Challenge and you were
a big, big proponent that the Mets were gonna wake
up after that the initial pounding. But man, they looked
like guppies, you know, lifelessly floating in the Hudson River.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
It's not looking good.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
No, no, no, Mario, I'm with you. They look bad.
They look good now.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And it was you know this, The Dodgers pounded them
in Game one, nine to nothing, and then they bounced
right back in Game two, right, and that was incredible
in La. So I thought going to New York, you know,
they'd have some energy from that. They played the Dodgers tough.
I didn't think the Dodgers had enough pitching.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
But here we are. The Dodgers are on.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
The cusp of doing what a lot of people had
expected to be honest going into the season, right that
they would make it to the World Series.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Yeah, definitely, that was always the goal.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
We kept saying, it's a World Series or bust, right,
And a lot of criticism has been directed as manager
Dave Roberts. But I think he's been handling this pitching
situation masterfully, don't you think, you know, going with the
bullpen games, deciding exactly when to rest these guys. Today
he's got Flarity up on the mound, first pitch at
(21:15):
two to eight. Flarity as well.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Know he's been He's been pretty effective, pretty lights out.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
He's one and one, got a two point nine two ERA,
and I think he scratched.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
I saw him.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Walking down the hallway last night, you know, very focused,
not smiling at all.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
This is a big dude.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
He doesn't look that big on camera when he's when
he's on the mound. This guy's a giant man and
he is ready to go. You were talking about the
complete domination of the Mets. The Dodgers in their three
wins have scored twenty seven runs and allowed only to
look what happened yesterday, Yamamoto was lights out, only two
(21:54):
runs and what four and a third? And then the
other three guys come in and completely dominate whatever was
left of the Mets hitting. That was a pretty imprecisive
I talked to I talked to him one of the
guys yesterday. I actually talked to a bunch of them,
but specifically Phillips, you know, Honeybunton, And I asked him, Hey,
(22:15):
can you taste the champagne? Can you taste the World Series?
And I know he gave me the canned answer. He goes,
you know what, man, I don't really think about that,
but can you imagine you've gone through all this, you know,
hard work and spent all this money. You know, everyone's
thinking about the World Series. So he just said, we're
I'm taking it one day at a time. I asked
the Oscar what about the World Series? He smiled from
(22:37):
ear to ear and he said, I can already taste it. Matt,
I'm so excited about finally participating in October baseball?
Speaker 8 (22:46):
Who else Payas also is looking forward to it? These
are guys that know that it's within reach. They can
taste that champagne.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
I know it would you know taste a lot sweeter
in Los Angeles back in Travis Ravine. But they're gonna
pop some quarks to if they can. It should be
a really good matchup.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Our guest is Mario Salise, KNBC main sports anchor on
the News and of course, hosts of The Challenge Sunday
nights after Sunday Night Football on KNBC Channel four. Yeah,
I mean it looks like it. Obviously, it's not over
till it's over. I've seen teams come back from three
to o to Yankees had a three old lead on
(23:24):
the Red Sox and wind up losing four straight. I
believe the Dodgers are gonna win. It just feels like that,
and the Mets don't feel the same to me.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Show.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Hey, a very weird series in that when no one's
on base, he hasn't been able to get hits, but
when people are on base, he's lights out.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
It just seemed strange, doesn't it?
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:45):
It had, And that was I think the big question
mark what's going on? Why isn't Dave Roberts moving him
a little bit further up in the lineup? But what
happens yesterday? He comes on top of the first boom
solo homer. So let's put an end to that theory
that you can't hit with.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
No one on board. Man, this guy can do it
all right.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
He's just such a unicorn, and he's a phenomenal guy
to watch even you know, people here in New York
they appreciate good baseball. Every time he comes up to
the plate, everyone is just paying attention.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
This guy is a is.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
A special human being, a special player, and it's been
a great privilege being able to watch him up close.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
During this entire season with La We saw him with
the Angels.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
It just wasn't the.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Same thing, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Last thing, Mookie Bets broke out to four RBIs right,
four hits career highs in the postseason. Mookie Bets is
a big part of making this team go as well.
You know, there was a scuffling. You remember he had
that Ozero for twenty two stretch at one point to
start the playoffs. But he's really turned it on lately.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Yeah, he totally has now batting two ninety three postseason baseball.
The cool thing about it his lineup and even though
as you said, Mochi's bat finally has woken up. I
was talking to the Oscar yesterday after the game, and
I said, isn't it an amazing thing to be on
a team where if one guy doesn't doesn't respond or
(25:14):
is you know, hitting a pretty flat streak, the other
guys are going to pick him up and they're going
to pick up the slack. And he smiled and he says,
you know what, I know what you're talking about. You're
talking about me, And it's okay because I'm not hitting
right now, but everyone around me is getting it done.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
So as a team, they're just firing in all similars.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
And I know it's a cliche phraise, but every guy
is just locked in, ready to go.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Every single guy in the lineup yesterday.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Got on base one way or another, whether you know
whether they got hit by a or walked, or.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
They hit singles or doubles or homers.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Everyone on board yesterday and that's pretty spectacular.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
So there it is, Mario. You think this series is
over tonight?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Today's game starts this afternoon in New York, So you
think it's all a wrap.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (26:09):
Yeah, I don't think the Mets can come back from
this deep hole. I don't know if it happens today,
maybe the Mets wake up early and get it done
early today and get out of here and go back
to La. But I think the Dodgers have it in
the bag. Whether it's today or back at Travis Ravine,
one way or another, they're gonna get it done.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
His name is Mario Salise, giving us the insight. He's
covering the Dodgers in New York Friday, Game four, Game five,
Dodgers up three games to one.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Mario, we appreciate it. Thank you, my man, travel safe.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
My pleasure to rob.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
See you Sunday night. Man, We're gonna make fun of
you on Sunday. If the Dodgers already got this thing wrapped.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Up, it wouldn't be the first time you making fun
of me on a Sunday.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
You know, buddy, it's all good faith. You know, it's
all love, man, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
You know. We have fun every Sunday night.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Appreciate alright, welly,
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