Dodger Talk- NLCS Game 3 (10-16-25)

DV takes your calls and talks to Jose Mota after the Dodgers defeat the Brewers, 3-1 in Game 3 of the NLCS. Dave Roberts and Alex Vesia address the media. DV share his postgame interview with Mookie Betts. Tommy Edman talks about his go-ahead RBI single against Jacob Misiorowski.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 5 (00:24):
Now we go to your award winning broadcasters of the
world champion Dodgers.

Speaker 6 (00:29):
Here's your host of Dodger Talk.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's only been fourteen years. Every day, David Vasse. Your
Dodgers are just one win away from the World Series
after they beat the Brewers three to one in Game three,
the NLCS welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you
until eight o'clock tonight at eight six six nine eight

(00:55):
seven two five seventy. Jose Moto will check in at
seven thirty. Well head downstairs to get postgame reaction and
of course we want to hear from you at eight
sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. The Dodgers
are looking to become just the eleventh team to sweep
a championship series. The last to do it was the

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twenty two Astros when they swept the Yankees in the ALCS.
The last National League team to sweep the Championship Series
was the eventual world champion twenty nineteen Nationals, who swept
the Cardinals, and only three of the ten teams that
swept the Championship Series went on to win the World Series.

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I mentioned the nineteen Nationals. Also those twenty two Astros
did as well, and so did the nineteen ninety five Braves.
Eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
the phone number I thought. A pivotal inning in this
game was the second inning, after the Dodgers were able
to get a one nothing lead after an o time

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he leadoff triple, then Mookie Betts doubled him home. Tyler
Glass Noow was in a little bit of trouble. He
allowed one run in and there was a second run
standing at third base with the nine hitter for the Brewers,
Joey Ortiz at the plate. Max Munsey was playing in
at the edge of the grass and Ortiz hit a

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line drive right at Munsey on the ground. Munsey was
able to instinctually grab it and throw a perfect strike
to Will Smith to cut down the run and be
able to end that inning or get the second out
of that inning, and then Isaac Collins flew out to
end that Excuse me, Joey Ortiz. After Joey Ortize lined

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out to Munsey for the fielder's choice, he was able
to get Bowers at the plate and then Jackson Curio
flew out to end the inning. So that was a
great play by Munsey in the second inning to nail
Bowers at the plate. And after that in the third inning,
Glass now comes back and strikes out the side in order.
So that was a big turn of events right there.

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And that's the second great defensive play Max Munsey has
made at third base in this postseason. Remember that wheel
play in Game two, ninth inning to preserve a one
run win. Well, that was Max Munsey who made a
great throw to third base. And then tonight in the

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second inning making a great throw and stab to be
able to get Bowers at home plate. And it was
a one to one tie until the sixth inning when
Tommy Edmund broke it with a go ahead RBI single.
And give a lot of credit to the Dodger bullpen,
a lot of criticism, much maligned they came in after

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glass Now's five and two thirds innings and put up
zeros Vesia got the last out of the sixth inning,
came back and got the first out of the seventh,
then trying to closed out the seventh, Bonda pitched the
scoreless eighth inning, and then Roki Sasaki closed out the
game with an assist to Mookie Betts, who made a
tremendous play, a Derek Jeter esque play in the hole

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at shortstop for the first out of that ninth inning.
So like it's been all postseason, this was a team win.
So many different contributions offensively, defensively from the pitching side,
and the Dodgers got all of that tonight and that's
a big reason why they have only lost one game

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in this postseason. They are eight to one in this
year's playoffs with an opportunity to sweep the Brewers tomorrow
night at Dodgers Stadium. Eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number. Speaking up Mookie Betts.
We had a chance to catch up with the gold
Gloff candidate himself moments after the final out that was Jeter.

(05:00):
Ask that first stout man, it must feel good to
be able to help the team out and win this game.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Absolutely, that's all I that's all I care about, just
us winning ball games. You know, that's a that's the
reason why we play and that's what makes it fun.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Hey, no wonder, you're a Gold Glove finalist as short stop.
You showed everybody why.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
I mean, it's a lot of work. It's a lot
of work. A lot of people have helped me. But uh,
I'm just happy. Like I said, I'm just happy to
help the boys.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Mookie in the first inning, you guys got on the
board early. Not sure if you realize this, but you're
in the Dodger history books. You have the most doubles
and Dodger's postseason history after your RBI double to drive
in Otani, how good was it to see him get
on for you and be able to get that early run.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Ah, it's huge just to get on the board first,
getting show going. That's really important for us. It's kind
of like the Bulls playing without Michael Jordan.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
But he'll be there when it's time on you know,
he's your pitpin.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
No no, I'll not no, no, but he'll be there
when it's time. And I'm as you saw, he let
off with a triple, and we are to put one
on the board and play downhill from there.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
You guys have had such a team effort all year long.
You're one win away from going back to the World Series.
Can you even allow yourself to think that, allow yourself
to realize you're that close? Not yet?

Speaker 7 (06:18):
Not yet?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well, let's get one more win.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
And then hopefully we can take take a couple of
days or whatever it is, and then we can reset.
But we you know how hard it is to win
ball games, and so you can't turn your brain off,
and you really just got a grind through these through October.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Really, I know who will be the first guy out
here tomorrow, Marcus lim Betts. You better know it. Thanks
a lot for the time. Mookie.

Speaker 8 (06:43):
There.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
He is Mookie Bets, who certainly has made a statement
all season long. So many doubters out there believe that
he shouldn't be playing shortstop, he wasn't good at playing shortstop. Well,
he has certainly turned a lot of critics to fans
after the way he's played, especially the last two months

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of the season and going into the playoffs, he's done
a phenomenal job and he has an opportunity to make
history if he wins the goal Glove at shortstop. Can't
think of any other player out there that could say
that they won the gold Glove in right field six times,
and in their first full season playing shortstop of all positions,

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wins the gold Glove there. But that secondary to Mookie
getting another ring and the Dodgers winning back to back
World Series titles. Eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Brewers
three to one in Game three. We have a full
board of calls. Before we do go back out to

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the calls, I just want to make a statement. I
love Dodger fans. Without the fans, Uh, this show would
not exist. The Dodgers' success in the environment on their
way to a World's Series last year and on their
way to another one this year would not exist without
the fans. But you gotta be better tomorrow. You gotta

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be louder tomorrow. You want the Dodger players to always
be better, to strive to be better the next day, Well,
I'm calling you out be better tomorrow. Because Jacob Mizerowski
was way too comfortable in those five innings of work.
Everybody was on their hands. I was watching you. It
wasn't until you know, maybe the sixth inning when the

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crowd started to rise up, and in that ninth inning,
I was waiting for that all game long, the support
for Roki Sasaki. You've got to make the opposing pitcher
feel rattled, feel the pressure of the stadium, feel the
pressure of the Dodgers. The Dodgers give you a lot
to cheer about. They need their tenth man in you

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tomorrow and into the World Series. Eight six six eight
seven two five seventy is the phone number, Jeff, you
were at the game tonight. I was a little disappointed
with the fans this afternoon, but hopefully tomorrow you guys
bring your voices.

Speaker 9 (09:09):
Yeah, you know, Dave, I'm glad you said that, because
me and my buddy Marek also from Love from lovell Indo.

Speaker 10 (09:15):
It was kind of quite real sitting in that section.

Speaker 9 (09:17):
Nine are the reserve section, and we were only loud
to seem like during the ninth inning and also during
the six when we had runners all day, so other
than that, it was like really quiet. But what I
really want to ask you is do you think that
since the bullpen is such a really good job, you
know we were kind of freaked out when Blake Trannon
came in there. I know you love him, but he really,
you know, showed his poinies and did a great job.

(09:38):
Do you think this will like bring a lot of
like motivation and this will increase the confidence of this
bullpen moving forward as they go to the World.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Series without a doubt? Jeff, And look, I know it's
hard to believe guys like Blake Tryning, Alex Vessia, even
Anthony Banda who pitched so well last year into the
World Series, even they are hu and sometimes have self doubt.
But ever since the last regular season series in Seattle,

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I've seen a greater confidence and the old Blake Trining back.
And I saw that yesterday at the workout. I saw
that the day before in Milwaukee. He's just been a
more confident Blake Trining. And I believe you saw that
on display on the mound, and same with Vessia and Bonda.
It was great to see all of those guys be
able to not only get outs, but get them out

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pretty cleanly.

Speaker 10 (10:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (10:32):
Also, you know what the sixth inning was a really
big part because that you know that pitcher for Malat
can't think it was named he's a rookie. He was
like a rock for them until Will Smith got that
slap hit and started the whole rally.

Speaker 10 (10:42):
That was outstanding.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
It was Jeff, and that's why I needed That's why
I'm calling out the fans. He was too comfortable. It
was like a mid week game against the Rockies in June.
From about the second inning until the sixth inning.

Speaker 9 (10:56):
Jeff, Yeah, you know, it was like so allry. That
picture really kept us kept us quiet there.

Speaker 11 (11:02):
But then you know, there was a couple you know.

Speaker 9 (11:03):
Players in a couple of fans that were out there
that was outstated that kept trying to keep us motivated.
But I also want to give glasnow you know, some
credit to We really thought that we were like, oh great,
now you know the second ady of the first ady
happened when they when they got those runs, that one
run that we thought he was going to like totally
mess up the flow of the game, but no, he
took through it. I know, months he's an awesome feel
that when he pitched it through to that catcher, through

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to Will Smith, that really shut the momentum down for Milwaukee.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
No doubt. Thanks for the phone call. Jeff appreciate it.
Let's go out to Raymond, who also was that Dodger
Stadium today. Hi, Raymond, you're on Dodger Talk.

Speaker 12 (11:38):
Hey David, how are you.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
I'm doing great, Raymond.

Speaker 13 (11:42):
So I just want to say a few things. I mean,
that month he played, we had a great angle. We
were sitting in section two of the field, I mean
section ten.

Speaker 8 (11:49):
Of the field. What a play.

Speaker 13 (11:51):
I had to be a perfect throw, bang bang. And
I mean months he's been phenomenal. And the pitching on
both sides, I mean the Brewers pitching keptas at Bay.

Speaker 14 (12:04):
What a game.

Speaker 13 (12:05):
Yes, the crowd was out of it, and I think
I had to do with that with the pitching, but
we still yeh.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
But in those situations, Raymond, here's my thing. I've seen Seattle,
I've seen Philly, I've seen Milwaukee. Even when the pitcher's
on his game, they're trying to rattle that picture. He's
a young guy. And the stadium was absolutely quiet. The
fans could have done a better job to get loud,
to try to rattle and make things a little bit

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more difficult. I've seen Dodger Stadium so loud, where all
of a sudden they're having problems with the Pitchcolm, they
can't hear each other. That just wasn't the case today.
But luckily the Dodgers got the win. All I'm asking
for is for Dodger fans not to take this team
for granted and think, you know what, they got this,

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they got the World Series. They need the fans to
be that tenth man to really make things uncomfortable for
the opposing team. And I just didn't hear it today.

Speaker 12 (13:05):
Great point, David, you're and you're right.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I think we're taking it for granted.

Speaker 13 (13:09):
How you dominated in the look and we we we
we say we got it. Don't worry, we got it.

Speaker 8 (13:13):
You're right.

Speaker 12 (13:14):
I totally agree.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
I try my bath.

Speaker 13 (13:16):
But in that in that fo level section ten, there's
a lot of people with money there don't want to
cheer very hard compared to the Pavilions or the top
deg But.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
The way, Raymond, you start the way for those rich
people in the field section. Okay, thanks for the phone call.
Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Uh, let's go out to Jose who
also is at Dodgers Stadium. Jose, you got to see
a pretty well pitched game, and you got to see
the Dodgers knock on the door of going back to

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the World Series.

Speaker 14 (13:49):
Hey, what's up, mystery one eight?

Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's right, Hey to you, Jose, it's not mister eight
one eight, it's mister grade one eight.

Speaker 12 (13:58):
Oh okay, mister great one eight.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
Taking.

Speaker 11 (14:07):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 14 (14:08):
And you know, like from you know, mid season, when
they were struggling and it was it was it's it
was pretty hard. It was it was a tough you know,
mid or half of the season. And now they're playing
great and we're, like you said, we're sitting on on

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our on our hands.

Speaker 12 (14:30):
We should be loud and.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Susha and Steve Sachs saying it's cus the time. They said,
it's time for Dodger baseball. I know it's mid afternoon.
I like to take naps during the afternoon, but you
come to the game. You got to support your team.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes, I.

Speaker 14 (14:49):
Understand, Yeah, I I agree with you that when the
Miz was pitching, it was too too quiet. We we
we need to put pressure on their pictures, especially a
picture like his caliber. You got to get them off
his game.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Exactly. That's my point. That's all I'm asking and all
I'm asking for. I understand it's looking really good for
the Dodgers to get to the World Series. I understand
that they're definitely outplaying the Brewers right now. But you
can't take it for granted. You can't just be sitting
on your hands. A full house here at Dodgers Stadium,

(15:28):
and you know, allow a kid like that who's dominating,
has the shadows in his favor, have a quiet house
while he's pitching. I mean, that makes things really easy
for the opponent. In Milwaukee, they were on their feet
in the fourth inning. In Seattle, when those games didn't
mean anything, they were on their feet in the first inning.

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And in Milwaukee and Philly, same thing, on their feet
trying to make things a little bit more difficult for
the Dodgers, and the pictures on the mound the opposing team.
So come on. I know Dodger fans can get loud.
Today they were not loud at all. But the Dodgers
were able to win this game and do what they've

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done to the Brewers in the first three games of
this series. They just have too much pitching for the Brewers.
Today was basically, you know, Pat Murphy not holding anything back,
a little bit of desperation going with the opener and
Ashby again and then bringing in Misowski in the first inning.
Missowski's his best pitcher. He used him today they got

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jose Kntana trying to keep their season alive. That's how
dire the Brewers pitching situation is. I fully expect the Dodgers,
behind Otani pitching tomorrow to come out and close out
this series. I really do. But you can't take that
for granted. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Brewers three

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to one in Game three the NLCS. Let's head downstairs
right now to hear from manager Dave Roberts.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
Dave, coming into the postseason, obviously, we talked about the
issues guys were having the pen, between Vessia trying in
and Sasaki. It seems like you guys kind of have
a you know, kind of like a blueprint so to speak,
going forward here. How comfortable have you been with I
guess how that's been coming together?

Speaker 15 (17:18):
Very I think the thing about our guys is they're
battle tested and they know that I've never lost faith
in them. They never lost confidence in each other, and
so you know, so for what to see what they're
doing right now, I'm not surprised, and we knew all
along that we're gonna need these guys, and these guys
are delivering, which which is huge. And you know, we're

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doing a great job of preventing runs and the bullpen
deserves a lot of credit.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
And obviously you kind of needed that extra inning today
and you went to Bonda there. Uh, you know, he's
pitched what he pitched once in like the last three weeks.
How are you comfortable going to him? And in that situation,
I just.

Speaker 15 (17:56):
Think that Anthony's grown a lot. I think the moment
and is now is not going to be too big
for him. I just feel that he's, you know, ready
for whatever is asked of him. He's in a good
mental space and the stuff is obviously very good. So
for me, regardless of inning, I trust him And like

(18:20):
I said, he's still in the baseball has a lot
of confidence right now, and so to run him out
there against the middle of the order, I had no
problem with that.

Speaker 16 (18:28):
Go here in the front row so your left, Hey, Dave,
can you just talk a little bit about just Mookie's
defense and what you've seen how it continues to just
evolve and it gets elevates and really comes and clutch.

Speaker 15 (18:40):
He's made big plays. Yeah, that play going to his
backhand just to kind of let Rokie settle in. He
just continues to make great plays and it's rightfully so
he's in the gold Glove conversation at shortstop and that
was a big play. You just never know, get the
leadoff runner on. You know how that inning could have evolved.
And earlier that play by Munsey was a heck of

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a play, you know, infield drawn in going to his
left spin make an accurate throw to get get that
out at home. That was a big play as well.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Go here second roll in the right Dave.

Speaker 17 (19:12):
Earlier this season, after one of his early outings, Rokie,
there's a visual of him looking emotional. It wasn't the
performance he wanted to have, but for him to, you know,
go through his rookie year, come back from injury and
now deliver in these high leverage situations. What can you
say about his growth?

Speaker 15 (19:30):
His growth has been certainly not linear. At that point
in time where you know he was scuffling and emotional
on the bench, and there's a lot of you know,
video and photos of that and for him to kind
of self reflect, get healthy and put himself back on
the radar for our twenty twenty five ball club speaks

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to his fight. And you know, I don't think anyone
could have, you know, for seeing him in this role
in April or May, and so I give a lot
of credit to Roki to kind of get to that point.
And now you know he can look back at twenty
twenty five and look fondly at it.

Speaker 16 (20:15):
Fourth row in the middle here in the blue.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Hey, Dave, I know you're up three. Oh so this
is kind of tough question.

Speaker 14 (20:21):
But you seems if you're leaving a lot of tack
on runs on the basis not moving runners over, and
does that.

Speaker 10 (20:26):
Concern you at all?

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Say that again, not getting.

Speaker 18 (20:28):
Runners in from third with less than two hours, not
moving runners over, does that concern you at all?

Speaker 15 (20:33):
I wouldn't say concerned.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
But we got to be better.

Speaker 15 (20:36):
I think that you're always trying to figure out how
you can improve as a ball club. And I do
think that. You know, Tommy's at bat today was huge,
runners in scoring position. I thought Freddy's at bat to
get him up was a huge at bat. But yeah,
I do think that the situational we can be better
at that. For sure, we got to be better.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
We have time for two more.

Speaker 15 (20:58):
We'll start with Russell in the back there near the camera.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Duck.

Speaker 16 (21:02):
A lot of pitches for Todder through that first two innings.
What did you see the change from him in the
third that was allowed able to allow him to get
to five and two thirds.

Speaker 15 (21:10):
I thought the curveball got better. The curveball started to
become more of a more of a pitch for him,
and they went heavy left today and that was a
pitch that was able to neutralize those guys. I thought
Will did a great job the sequencing using the fastball enough.
But yeah, you know, I think for me is that's

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really proud of Tyler in the sense of the pitch
count was early and knowing we still needed length from
him and for him to kind of stay, you know,
keep his wits about him, and to keep making pitches,
keep competing and shorten the game. That's what we need
from him. And he's done that. The last call it,
you know, six or seven starts.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
All right, there's manager Dave Roberts moments ago in the
press conference room. I guess that one reporter doesn't like
the fact the Dodgers have only lost one playoff game
this year. He's a little TICKI tak right there. Huh,
don't recognize that voice. How about have that guy introduced
himself and give some background. Huh. Eight six six ninety
seven two five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers

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one went away from going back to the World Series
after a three to one win in Game three of
the NLCS. And for the Brewers, their offense has just
hit a lull at the worst time of the year.
The Milwaukee offense has only scored nine runs in their
last six games. The Dodgers starters have a lot to

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say about that, but also the fact that the Brewers
are a team that likes to walk and string hits together.
They just have not been able to get anything going
against the Dodgers pitching. And obviously, going back to that
NLDS that they beat the Cubs in five games, the
offense just hasn't been hitting on all cylinders while the
Dodger offense has been hitting on all cylinders for the

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last couple of weeks. And it says a lot. You know,
I know, everybody wants to continue to focus on the
fact that O'tani has struggled offensively this postseason, which he has,
but what does it say about the Dodgers that they
are one win away from sweeping the Brewers and going
back to the World Series With Otani not even being

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a factor offensively in the postseason. That's got to be
scary for the next round the World Series for either
the Blue Jays or the Mariners, because Otani's not going
to be held down for much longer. We saw him
hit a slider, he kind of reached out for it.
It turned into a triple down the right field line. Jacksonurio,

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who normally doesn't play right field, didn't jump on it.
He's also been nursing a right hamstring injury, and we
found out from Jackson Curio after the game that it
wasn't a blowout of the hamstring. It was a cramp
that he just couldn't get out and he expects to
be in the lineup tomorrow for Game four. But going
back to Otani, yes, he hasn't been a factor. The

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running scored in the first inning was the first run
that he has scored since the Wildcard series against the Reds.
But look at the Dodgers in Game two, it was
the five through nine hitters that provided the offense. Tonight
it was Tommy Edmond Mookie Betts, a bad throw by
admir Yuribe that allowed the pitching staff to have a

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two run cushion. So combined with the Dodgers starting pitching,
that just beats you down as an opponent when you
know you have to face glassnew in game three. If
glassnow was wearing a Brewers uniform, there's a good chance
he's starting Game one for them. Blake Snell and Yamamoto
are certainly starting Game one for them, and the Dodgers

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have Type four of those type of pitchers aces tomorrow
another one's on the mound in Otani. So there's just
too much, too much from the Dodgers. And look, if
you want to get into you know this is such
an unfair matchup between the little old Brewers and the
big bad Dodgers. We can get into it because if

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you want to look at the Dodgers starting lineup, I'll
tell you how these guys got here in the same lineup.
And it wasn't just the Dodgers throwing a bunch of
Kashia guys. Show hey Otani, Yes, seven hundred million dollar contract.
But the reality is he's only a two million hit
against the luxury tax because he and the Dodgers strategically

(25:37):
structured it that way. And oh, by the way, Otani
offered that to all the teams that were a finalist,
the Blue Jays, the Angels, and the Dodgers. But the
Dodgers and their ownership and their front office and their
marketing have done a better job of maximizing the show
Hey Otani brand than the Angels did. So that's on

(25:59):
the Angels, Mookie Betts. How did he get here?

Speaker 15 (26:03):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, that's right. The Red Sox did not want to
continue to try to work out a contract with him
and traded him away for Alex Verdugo and Connor Wong.
Will Smith drafted and developed by the Dodgers, extended by
the Dodgers. Freddie Freeman cast off from the Braves. Can
you believe that Freddie Freeman? The Braves didn't want him?

(26:28):
He signed after spring training started Tommy Edmond. The Dodgers
used their prospects to acquire him and Michael Kopek last
trade deadline. They gave up Miguel Vargas for him. Thank you,
Saint Louis Teoscar Hernandez. Nobody wanted to sign him. Last year,
the Dodgers gave him a one year contract and worked

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out another one. Max Munsey and keyk Hernandez. Nobody heard
of those guys before the Dodgers brought them up through
the system and they arrived on the scene. Key Gain fifteen,
Max Munsey in eighteen. Andy Pah has drafted and developed. Yes,
the Dodgers have thrown money at their starting pitchers, but

(27:11):
well worth it. So I don't want to hear about
the Dodgers winning is bad for baseball or it's going
to trigger some sort of labor issue. Take a step back,
don't be irrational and realize that it's other teams that
actually helped the Dodgers build this juggernaut of a lineup.

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And they did go out and trade for Glass, now
extend him. They did sign Blake Snell, but there were
a lot of other teams that could have kept Blake Snell,
namely the Padres. But they chose to extend Jake Croninworth
and Joe Musgrove and give Many Machado even more money.
Who's that on the Dodgers or the Padres? So some

(27:52):
of these organizations sounds like Fomo and sour grapes. Eight
six six nine eight seven two seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers beat the Brewers three to one in are on
the cusp of returning to the World Series, and then
from that point on we'll talk about their place not
only in Dodger history, but in baseball history. Let's go

(28:16):
out to Charlie, who is at Dodgers Stadium today. Hi Charlie,
you're on Dodger Talk.

Speaker 11 (28:21):
Hey DV, thanks for getting me on. I just want
to say you're one hundred percent on our fan base.
We've been going to a lot of playoff games and
this season we've gone to about eleven games, and we're
the games we've gone to my family and we've been
ten and one. So I'm I don't know if it's superstition,
but I feel that we definitely have an impact on
the game. We've had some field seats and we sat

(28:43):
on the on the on the behind the dugout, and
I just got to say a lot of our fans
just kind of sit back, like if it's a preseason game,
like they're watching.

Speaker 8 (28:51):
It from home.

Speaker 11 (28:52):
And so I'm that guy that gets up and rallies everybody.
And we have a rally toul for a reason. And
I don't care if the people behind me are telling
me sit down. I'm up there and trying to ride
our people because we do make an impact. We do
make a difference on our team, and definitely when we're
at two strikes, you know, we definitely got to help
our picture out and rally them to get that dirt strike,

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you know. So I'm one hundred percent we have to
do better and it definitely we can't take it for granted.
So I appreciate you taking my call at DVD.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Hey, thank you, Charlie. And you keep those spirits high,
you keep waving that towel, you keep being the loudest
guy in your section. Because I'm a big believer it's
okay to stand up at times at a game when
it's appropriate. Nobody wants to sit behind the guys standing
up for all nine innings, but have some feel in situations.
And the Dodgers needed the fans to try to rattle

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Mizowski and they just never did. Eight six six seven
two five seventy is the phone number if you're at
a concert or a sporting event. There are times that
you can stand up for extended period of times. I
have no issues with that. I don't love sitting behind
a guy that is standing up the entire concert or

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the entire game, But there are moments in time that
it's called for, and Dodger fans needed to do something
to try to rattle and make things a little more
uncomfortable for Jacob Mizerowski. Eight six six seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Richard
and Santa Clarita, Dodger fans. I know you'll show up

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and you'll be louder tomorrow and in the world series.
Don't be spoiled. Don't take it for granted. Richard, you're
on Dodger Talk.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Go ahead, Hi, Steve has going Steve.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
I'm not Scuba Steve. No no, no, no, no, no,
no no. You can't call in to hear your own
voice and not know my name. Let's go out to
Brian and Irvine. You're on Dodger Talk. Brian, go ahead,
what do you got? Do you know who I am?
Do you want me to stand up and describe who
I am? Like Pat Murphy wants every media member to do.

(31:01):
I could stand up. I'm David Vasse from Wiland Hills.
I've been hosting the show for fourteen years. Brian, David,
not Steve.

Speaker 19 (31:10):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (31:11):
DV? Badass TV Man. I know exactly who you are,
and I want to say I love blowouts, but man, oh.

Speaker 10 (31:21):
Brian, you're watching.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Start over. Brian, you were in cell hell. I'll give
you one more chance.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Do you hear me now? DV?

Speaker 1 (31:32):
We can go ahead.

Speaker 11 (31:35):
Man.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
I love a good blowout, but I gotta say tonight,
as a Dodger fan, this was such a good win,
watching everybody contribute in so many different ways. And I
watched the game actually in San Diego at an event,
so I'm around a bunch of pissed off, no energy
Padre fans were just miserable at their lives. It felt
so good. But I want to say, man like, even

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as a Dodger fan, it's been really hard putting our
faith in the bullpen, and tonight was such an incredible.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
It was incredible. Brian. Your phone call was almost incredible,
but it fell short. Eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the
Brewers three to one. They are on the cusp of
becoming the eleventh team in baseball history to sweep a
championship series. Ever since it expanded to a best of

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seven format back in nineteen eighty five, there have been
ten sweeps for in the National League, six in the
American League. The last team to sweep an NLCS was
the eventual world champion Nationals in twenty nineteen, who swept
the Cardinals. Let's head back downstairs to hear from one
of the bullpen dogs. He was our pregame guest, Alex Vesia.

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He ended up being the winning pitcher.

Speaker 20 (32:55):
It's a good feeling to you know, get outs, lockdown
the back half of a game. Obviously tonight Glass Now
was great. You know, for myself, it was kind of
just one pitch at a time. Obviously, giving up the
double wasn't wasn't ideal. Blake comes in, continues the battle
band that comes in awesome, and then you know Brookie

(33:17):
comes in and you know, pumping one hundred. So it
was a good day for the boys.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
To start the season. You guys had a goal to
go back to the World Series. You're now one win
away of just achieving being back there. What does that
say as kind of what it the feeling is right
now and how special that is for you all.

Speaker 20 (33:31):
Yeah, I mean I think I've said it before that too.
To win a World Series and then have you know,
front office, go go get some guys. It's you know,
for for myself, it's super motivating.

Speaker 16 (33:46):
Now.

Speaker 20 (33:46):
I remember, you know, working out in my my gym
and like that was that was awesome. That was such
a good feeling that like we can potentially go and
do that again. Right now, we're here and you know,
it's been a long season of ups and downs and
and and whatnot, but you know, we believe in each
other and you know we have one more and you
know we'll continue to play play in baseball.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Excuse are eight and one in the playoffs?

Speaker 6 (34:10):
Now, did you see a run like this coming when
October started giving just that up and down regular season
that you mentioned?

Speaker 20 (34:17):
Not necessarily, I think it's just you know, when the
when the postseason rolls around, we all kind of lean
on each other a little harder, you know, because the
one hundred and sixty two games is a long season.
Things go away, things don't you know, But it is
a breath of fresh air when October comes aroun.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
All right, there's Alex Vesia on sports Net LA and
I'll just say this, take it for what it's worth.
Max Munsey was the pregame guest before Game two of
the NLCS, and he hit a big home run and
tonight a big defensive play in the second inning. And
tonight Alex Vesia or today Alex Vesia was our pregame guest.

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Comes in in a big spot, gets the win in relief.
Is there some pregame karma? Who wants in tomorrow? Eight
six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the
phone number. And speaking of pregame, it was great to
see two of my childhood favorite Dodgers from my favorite

(35:20):
childhood Dodger team, the nineteen eighty eight Dodgers. Steve Sachs,
who obviously does a great job with Tim Kats in
the morning during the postseason. He is a ball of
energy and positivity. I love Steve Sacks and Mike's Osha,
one of my all time favorites as well, was on

(35:40):
the field throwing out the first pitch, and I loved
that after the first pitch was over, Shoho Tani went
out of his way to come out of the dugout
to pay respects to his first major league manager, and
that was Mikesosha with the Angels. And that was a
pretty cool scene. And it was great to see Steve
and mikes Oshia up here in the press box. Got

(36:01):
a chance to talk to them. They were watching the
first or the first couple of innings from right outside
our broadcast booth, and I offered Mike so Oshi my seat.
I said, hey, you could sit in my seat and
tell all your friends you sat in David Vase's chair
and Dodger Talk. He refused politely. I think eight six
six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.

(36:25):
Dodgers beat the Brewers. Everybody's feeling great in La. The
Dodgers are on their way back to the World Series.
I'll just say that. Go ahead, Pat Murphy, use that
for bulletin board material. I don't care. There's nothing you
can do to stop this freight train, which is the
twenty twenty five Dodgers and their pitching staff. Let's go

(36:45):
out to San Diego. Felix, you're on Dodger Talk. How
you doing, Felix?

Speaker 10 (36:50):
What's going on?

Speaker 12 (36:51):
David hey Man? Before I actually start, if you don't mind,
I like to say thank you to you for everything
you do. And the other thing man, especially with me,
I call in a lot from down here. You guys
keep me sane.

Speaker 10 (37:05):
Yeah, but I've talked.

Speaker 12 (37:06):
To you about it in the past, about Trident specifically,
and you've always gone to back for him, and we've
we've gone back and forth on there a couple of times.
With that said, I'll tell you what, man, you keep
saying that you know as far as we need to
or the people at the stadium need to need to
take it up a notch. I'm gonna tell us every
fellow Los ANGELESO everyone, and I hope you guys listen

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to me. Twenty fifteen, our manager was down here with
the Madres as a first base coach. They didn't give
him a shot.

Speaker 19 (37:38):
We did.

Speaker 12 (37:39):
Since then, the Madres have had eight coaches, eight managers,
whatever you want to call them. That's that's their battle.
But what I'm getting at to you is our manager,
whether you like him or not, I'm all for him.
He's about to win his fourth ring Vessia Banda try

(38:00):
in Sasaki bumping his chest. I'm all for that man.
And the last thing, too, is you mentioned those names David,
you forgot three Sasaki. Everybody had a chance with him, Yoshi,
everybody had a chance, has I'm Kim. Everybody had a chance,
whether they chose to come, whether we I think I

(38:21):
heard that with Yoshi specifically, they were looking at him
for three years before they even went to him. So
we're blessed to be doctor Blue and we're going back. Man,
I don't care what anybody says. And I'll tell you what, David,
if you can bring in Otani to try to get
him in an interview so you can crush it tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Hey, maybe Otani wants a pregame interview get his postseason
turned around. Not a bad idea. I feel like, say,
it's out there. If Otani's agent, nez Blelo's listening right now,
if Otani wants in for a pregame interview. It's worked
for Muncie and Vesia and of course that stretch time
for JD. Martinez with a dead fish handshake, which turned

(39:04):
around his thirty home run one hundred RBI season back
in twenty twenty three. But I think Otani's gonna be okay.
I'm a big believer in track record. That's why I
believed in Blake Trining. I know he was pushed to
the limits last year and I feel like we all
needed to give him some grace for that. But similar

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to a lot of these Dodgers, they paced themselves for
the right time, and not a lot of players, and
not a lot of players on the same team can
kind of flip that switch when they need to, But
the Dodgers have. And let's not forget this. This is
something that is lost in all of this. The last

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two seasons, the Dodgers have started before every other team,
starting their year in South Korea before the twenty four
championship season and then turning around after winning the World
Series in October of last year, coming back and being
the first team back to spring training to get ready

(40:08):
again to start the season in a different country, this
time Tokyo, Japan. And here they are again. They're going
to be playing and one of the last two teams standing.
There needs to be some sort of greater appreciation. And
I'll say this, I'm a big believer in the Dodgers
being able to win the World Series again. To me,

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with all that being considered in the expectations, I would
say the Dodgers back to back champions would have to
be considered one of the greatest teams of all time,
not just Dodgers but major League history. Eight six, six nine,
eight seven, two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
go out to Gonzalo. You're on Dodger Talk live from

(40:55):
Dodgers Stadium. Hi, Gonzalo.

Speaker 11 (40:58):
Hey, how's it going, Dave?

Speaker 8 (41:00):
How are you doing tonight?

Speaker 7 (41:02):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Tremendous, Gonzalo. It's easy when you're watching the best show
in baseball.

Speaker 20 (41:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (41:09):
I just wanted to ask, when do you think is
applopium times to start.

Speaker 14 (41:13):
The wave.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Anytime? I'm a big fan of the wave, Gonzalo, start
at anytime?

Speaker 13 (41:20):
You.

Speaker 7 (41:21):
We were out in right field and they were trying
to start it in the top of the inning and
the bother of the inning, and it seemed like if
we could never really get the crowd going.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
So I would actually say the wave is more effective
if you're trying to be strategic about it. I would
say the wave would be the most effective when the
opposing team is hitting, because that could be distracting to
the opposing hitters. So I would say, if I had
to lean one way or the other, wave etiquette, I

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would say when the other team is.

Speaker 11 (41:53):
Hitting, So you so one way on the fence.

Speaker 7 (41:57):
I agree, because they were trying to start it at
the top of the inning and it looked like, I
mean at the bottom of any when we were up,
and it looked like no one would say attention.

Speaker 11 (42:05):
Everyone just locked in.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
That was the weakest wave ever. I never saw Gonzalo
try to start it again tomorrow. Thanks for the phone call.
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. I
can I could solve a lot of problems, and there
are a lot of problems I can't solve, but I
can give you some tips on wave etiquette. So I'm

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leaning towards the opposing team hitting. So the top half
of any inning, eight six six nine eighty seven two
five seventy is the phone number. We're gonna take a
time out when we continue more of your phone calls.
We'll head back downstairs to get more postgame reaction. But
coming up next, we'll check in with Jose Mota, who
was on the call on the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast

(42:49):
with Luis Cochito Cruz. After the Dodgers beat the Brewers
in Game three the NLCS three to one on a
five to seventy LA Sports.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
On air at AM five to seventy, online at AM
five seventy LA sports dot com, and available by podcast
on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
This is Dodger Talk with David Bassa. Here's Bookie Betts
the chances to start the scoring.

Speaker 11 (43:20):
In Game three, Ashby deals bet sweets pace head right
finnerfield into the cap, Botany scrolls home.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
BET's heading for second to.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Throw in is laid Harbi double Bookie Bets and the
Dodgers out of the gates in Game three one to nothing,
and Bets.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
As taking double right out of the batters.

Speaker 18 (43:41):
Us Mookie Betts with his nineteenth career postseason double, wearing
a Dodger uniform that ties Justin Turner for the most
postseason doubles and Dodger franchise history.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Mookie Bets also play great shortstop tonight for the Dodgers
to help them beat the Brewers three to one in
Game three the NLCS. The Dodgers are one win away
from heading back to the World Series. Daniels Jewelers presents
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your chance to win a fifty dollars Daniels Jeweler's gift
card predicting the number of home runs in the very
next game. Daniels Jewelers Own the Dream. It's time to
go around the horn with Jose Mota. Jose Mota on
the call for the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast tonight with
Luis Cochito Cruz. How big of a play was Max

(44:43):
Munsey's great defensive play in the second inning to cut
down Jake Bowers at the plate tonight, Jose.

Speaker 10 (44:51):
Well, David, It's a play that changes the com plush
of the old game. Why because, as you heard Tellerglasso
talk about, that is a team that you have to
defend well against and that pretty much means two runs
right there. I mean, but the good thing is that
when you're guarding a lot against the bunt, and I
learned this a long time ago, it actually makes you

(45:12):
be a little bit more aware and to be quicker
in decisions. So think about Monthly and where he was
playing in the very first sitting we come the line drive,
Sure you now that play there take him to his left,
but he spins and throws. I mean, that was like
you know what Adrian Beltri top of player right there,
that was outstanding change a game.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Man. That's side praise right there. When you say Adrian
Beltrade type, I mean that was one of the best
third basemen ever. And Munsey is one of the more
underrated defensive players out there.

Speaker 10 (45:41):
And listen, let's I'm gonna make it very clear, I
am not comparing Max Munsey to Adrian Beltrade. I'm saying
that is the tope of game Beltray will play and
a play he would make to change a game. So
for Max Monsey, tip your hat because remember the guy's
at the leg injury and the side injury and so
many things that I think right now we're seeing the
best out of you know, defensively because of the guy

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really cares that.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
We know that without a doubt. And from the Brewer
side of things, you know, miss Rowski was outstanding today.
But it felt like those shadows, you know, hearing from
former players that have actually played in these games at
this stadium with those type of conditions, how much did
that play into the middle innings of either team not

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really putting the ball in play?

Speaker 10 (46:27):
Oh, Dave a lot. Any former player can tell you that,
especially we have guys that throw hard, and the pitch
that is toughest to defenders the fastball. So I've also
seen guys get in trouble, guys with big arms, you know,
good stature by spending the ball a lot. And think
about this, all hitting does is timing and reaction, right,

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So if your reaction time is just slightly up because
you can't see the ball, then go to your fastball.
And that's why I say Glassen was so good, why
Mesrosky was so good because he was able to spend
the ball quite well. But you gotta respect one of two,
one o three. We saw some one o three today.
But overall, I think the guys attacking, the attacking his
own makes a big difference in what the shadows could do.

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Because at the same time, if you're not throwing strikes,
so you walking guys, it takes one pitsh for you
to make a mistake. Can go out there and you
know hurt you about them. It happened to glass now
last time we saw him on the mound, because the
phillies is a big difference, and phillies guys told me that,
and certainly it was good to see guys executing the
way that he did, and perhaps not let the shadows
get in the way of what you have to do
with the cash. You just throw the mitt and laser

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in and get the job done.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Jose. We've seen Mookie Betts get better and better from
the start of spring training to where he's at right
now defensively at shortstop. But to make that plane the
ninth inning on this stage, that was Jeter esque, and
it feels like now people are finally buying into the
fact that this guy is truly a shortstop.

Speaker 10 (47:56):
Oh yeah, I mean he's on his way to winning
a Gold Glove. He gets to the base, who's going
to catch a baseball? But I think there's no doubt
as the years progressed, Dave his conference level and getting
to Baseball's positioning has been much better. And even his
throwing consider how many throws Freddie Freeman saved him from
that would be errors. But now he's not lobbing the

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ball as much. He's throwing the ball with conviction. We
talk about condition when you pitch same thing as an
inter as an alfielder, it all applies. His footwork is
much better and to be watching mooki best play in
his best defense at this stage means a whole lot
about a guy that cares and understands what it means
to the fan against teams in the postseason, understanding positioning

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strengths and weaknesses, and watch how many times Muki does
not have to reach or die. He doesn't need to
get dirty because he's so used to it as an
outfielder anticipating some swings and reading swings that in the infield,
he's taking that instinct where you have less time and
has made himself better by known hitters and understanding also
who's on the mount and what is expected of him
on certain positions in certain areas of the field.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
When you look at the bullpen tonight, Jose Yes, Vesia
and trying In and Bonda, we're outstanding. But Roki Sasaki,
who had his first little speed bump of the postseason,
bounce back really nicely tonight. Did you feel like he
looked more like himself because the velocity was back up
to ninety nine one hundred miles an hour, and that

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seems to be very important to him.

Speaker 10 (49:26):
It is, Dave, you know, the separation is important to him.
If he was rocky when he pitches, he is looking
to see velocity. He wants separation, but he wants to
see triple digits. I mean, he's proud of that, and
certainly he knows that hitters are aware of that. What
I like the most though, is that if he needs
to double up on a splitter, he'll do it. But
you know that the fascial was coming, and it's still

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hard to time it because his fascia has been sole
in line with location, velocity movement. His four seamurt naturally
moves and it's tough to gauge where it's going to go.
And then from the younger that he throws from the
you know, the long legs and the big stride is
tough tough to gauge. But to get him back on
his feet where he belongs and certainty will success in

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attacking the zone, not shine away and understanding more about
the bruise approach, I think was the biggest difference here tonight.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Is there anything to make us believe that the Dodgers
won't close this series out tomorrow?

Speaker 10 (50:24):
I think you're gonna believe that they will only because
for show heal tany on the mound. It's not a
three nothing lead right now, he's thinking, my outing what
does my team need from me? And what do I
need to do? So I think the mentality throughout the
clubhouse and tongue into a lot of guys all throughout
the postseason. Davis wanted to wear today, what is it
that we need to do to finish off our business

(50:44):
to play better? If it's bouncing back from a loss,
perhaps what is it that we need to do a
little bit better? So I think the mentality is going
to be the same tomorrow, not even thinking of three
nothing or whatever. It's just thinking about take care of
your own business and for Showhy, it's about making sure
that also he's upstaged by those guys on the mound
and he wants to be just as good as you
have a model Snell and Glass down here tonight. So

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he's up to the challenge. I believe in he'll have
a very good outing and there's no limits.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
The Dodgers should slam the door on the Brewers tomorrow
and take that cash money out to the World Series. Jose,
thanks a lot for checking in. We'll talk to you
tomorrow after. I should be a little bit more smellier
of champagne when we do this.

Speaker 10 (51:26):
That'd be great. I will never call you Steve Davis.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Okay, I appreciate that, Hosey. I would never call you, Joe.

Speaker 10 (51:34):
Thank you, David.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
There he goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish
radio broadcast. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Brewers three
to one. They beat the Brewers best. Pat Murphy shot
his best shot, having Jacob Mizerowski pitching tonight's game. He
still loses and now has to turn to Jose Cantana

(51:59):
and a bunch of relievers that the Dodgers already have
gotten a pretty good look at already in this series.
Trevor McGill abner your uibay, they saw him again today,
Jerry Kanig Uh, there's a few guys the Dodgers, Chad Patrick.
They've seen their guys, they've seen their best, and they
feel very comfortable going into Game four the NLCS eight

(52:23):
six six seven two five seventy. Let's go back out
to the phones. David in Fontana, you're on Dodger Talk.
How you doing, David?

Speaker 3 (52:32):
Pretty good day?

Speaker 10 (52:33):
How you doing?

Speaker 3 (52:33):
First of all, A great first name man, great first name.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
That's why you're on the show. You were from Fontana there,
but because your name's David, I put you on.

Speaker 12 (52:45):
Good.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Yeah, I just want I just want to talk about
Mookie's play man, like you said top of the ninth,
and I'm in a big stage NLCS right now, and
to come up with that play man, It's not every
day you see a now field their go to shortstop
and make plays like.

Speaker 12 (53:01):
That as well.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
It's uh, I think one in a million, man that
some outfield, I mean, like Mookie can just go from
outfield to infield make that play. And just I mean,
I think give them the goals already, give them the
gold glove and give them another World series read and
give the Dodgers another World series ring man. Like I'm
telling you, Dodgers are going to go all the way

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to the World Series again. And it's it's gonna be
amazing tomorrow. It's gonna be amazing with show time out
there on the mound. It's gonna be final fantastic job
for him tomorrow. So let's, like you said, pop that
champagne and let's celebrate tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
All right, David in Fontana, thank you for the phone call,
and consider this another subplot to the World Series, and
really the dominance of the Dodgers the last two years
is the fact that last year's right fielder in the
World Series, Mookie Betts, will be starting at shortstop in
this year's World Series. And off the top of my head,

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I can't think of another player that won six goal
gloves in right field, maybe even just one goal glove
in the outfield, and then the very next year goes
out and wins a Gold Glove at a big premium
position like shortstop on the infield. I mean, that's just
a testament to how great of an athlete Mookie Betts is.

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We always talk about, you know, how great of a
bowler he is, how great of a pickleball player he is.
He's just been blessed with great athleticism. And he's not
a big guy, which is also you know, a testament
to him as well, because you hear his mom tell
the stories about how she would coach the little league
teams because everybody thought he was too small. I'm sure

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when he was drafted people didn't believe in him because
of his size, But here he is now one of
the greatest players of his generation, well on his way
to Baseball's Hall of Fame, and it's just something that
you can't take for granted. It really isn't.

Speaker 21 (55:00):
I know.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
We all marvel at Otani, and rightfully so, at what
he can do being a dominant pitcher and being a
great hitter. But how about Mookie Betts. How many people
could do what Mookie Betts has done the last two years,
play Gold Glove right field and be a great hitter.
I mean, he was on his way to the MVP
last year before he got hit by a pitch which

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broke his wrist, and then come back this year and
be as great of a shortstop as he has been.
And I wasn't joking. The first guy we'll see that
comes out here tomorrow afternoon is Mookie Betts. And we
just found it thanks to our guy Dwayne McDonald, who
finds everything if he doesn't have it at the top
of his head. Darren Erstad was the only other outfielder

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that moved to the infield to win a Gold Glove.
Erstad won the Gold Glove for Mikesosha with the Angels
in two thousand and two thousand and two, and then
was moved to first base in two two thousand and
four and won't won the gold Glove there. Darren Erstadt
the only other outfielder that won multiple goal gloves to

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move to the infield first base not shortstop, much different,
and won the gold Glove there. And he was a
punter at Nebraska. Mookie never punted. Eight sixty six nine
eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
go out to Bellflower. Michael, You're on Dodger Talk Live
from Dodgers Stadium. Hi, Michael, Hey, Dave. Okay.

Speaker 8 (56:32):
I just wanted to thank you for going through the
lineup and breaking down where a lot of these players
have come from. I think people forget the Dodgers. They
do it better than everybody else. It's this whole thing,
this run here. I don't know if you want to
call it a run or not, but this kind of
started with Ned Coletti flipping Milton Bradley for a young
Andre Ethier, and then fast forward you figure a guy

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like Munci in the minor leagues in twenty and seventeen
when the Dodgers managed the World Series. He comes out
in eighteen boom burst on the scene, and then he's
an All Star first baseman, eight hundred ops guess what,
we just find a guy. You got to go play
somewhere else. Okay, I'll go play third. And to see
the place he's making in this play in these playoffs

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is remarkable. A guy like that just coming through consistently, NonStop.

Speaker 10 (57:22):
People.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
Hey, Michael, remember when Max Munsey was playing second base?
Remember Max Munsey the second baseman. So he's been part
of World Series teams where he's played second base, first base,
DH and now third base. I think we all forgot Munths.
He played second for a full season.

Speaker 8 (57:43):
The Dodgers go out and signed Freddy Freeman, and hey,
guess what, You're a man without a home because you
got injured. Guess what, go play third? Okay, what do
I do? I'll put up another seedon. That's great. People
forget about that. And I just want to say, I
think the Dodgers, like you said, they're probably one hundred
percent going to go to the They're three and oh
I know, Dave Robertson the boys out in Boston were

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able to flip a three to zero too, a World
Series bunch of ticket. But he's hammenagers and Milwaukee are
not Dodgers going to the World Series.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Yeah, I believe it's over tomorrow. Michael, thank you for
the phone call and going back to Max Munsey. We
would not have gotten that type of call about Max
Mounsey in April or May or June. Max Monsey is
the epitome of not knowing what you have until it's gone.
And when he was hurt, this Dodger offense was not

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hitting on all cylinders. Key Y Hernandez did and Miguel
Rojas did a great job filling in at third base,
but this lineup sorely missed Max Munsey. And now all
of a sudden, it feels like everybody is starting to
appreciate Max Munsey more than ever. And I'm gonna challenge
Colin Yee go back and find some of those calls

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from the middle of the summer where everybody who's thinking
the sky was falling Monsey stinks. T Oscar Hernandez needs
to be benched or moved to left field. How about
the first couple of weeks of the season everybody wanted
Andy pa has sent down. Now look at Andy pah Haz,
You just got to understand that the Dodgers always had

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a bigger picture in mind, and you're seeing it play out. Now,
this is the perfect storm, complete perfect storm, that all
four of these starting pitchers are healthy and pitching their
best at the same time. That's what the Dodgers had
hoped for. But now it's unfolding. On the field. Snell

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is on another level. He's second half Snell like he
was the last two years. He went on a historic
ten start run to end his season last year. And oh,
by the way, I guess his teammates don't hate him
the way the San Francisco media, in fact, one guy
try to portray. You got sho hey Otani, who the

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Dodgers played perfectly to get him back to pitching at
his best and healthy. You got Tyler Glass now who's
feeling in nicely as the fourth starter, who the Dodgers
had go slow with his injury, and he's been awesome
since the second half of the year. And you got Yamamoto,

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who made thirty starts this year. It's just a perfect
storm in the offense playing its best at the right
time for a second straight year. A perfect storm. And
Jack Harris of the La Times actually said this, could
you imagine if the Dodger bullpen was pitching the way

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they thought it would pitch when they signed guys like
Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates and didn't have the injuries
that they have had to their bullpen. I mean, the
Dodgers are probably only going to lose one more in
my opinion, before they win the World Series. There is
a chance. I mean, how much better could it have been.
I maybe just a better regular season record. I don't

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know how much better it could be in the postseason.
With them being eight and one, I don't see them
losing more than one game in the World Series to
either the Blue Jays or the Mariners. And the Blue
Jays are going to even up this series at two
games apiece. They're up six to two in Seattle in
the bottom of the seventh innings. So if the Dodgers

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could wrap up the NLCS tomorrow, all of a sudden,
now their pitching's going to be on extra rest again
to begin the World Series like it was to begin
the NLCS. Sho hey Otani when he takes the mound
tomorrow is going to be on eleven days rest. That's
similar to the schedule the Dodgers laid out for him

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during the regular season. Eight six, six nine eight seven
two five seven is the phone number. Let's go out
to Yvonne. Yvonne, you're on Dodgery Talk. How you doing.

Speaker 20 (01:02:07):
Good?

Speaker 19 (01:02:07):
How you doing?

Speaker 11 (01:02:08):
David?

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
Did I get your name right?

Speaker 8 (01:02:10):
Is it?

Speaker 19 (01:02:13):
No? I go by Ivan. It's actually Ivan in Leo
right now, we're still stuck in traffic coming out Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Ivan and Leo. That's like an ice cream right there.

Speaker 19 (01:02:24):
Hopefully maybe I'll make him millionaires. But David, you know
I listened to you a lot, and my son is five,
so he was at the game today, and I just
want to show some appreciation for the fans that actually
showed up today. I know you got your criticisms that
we didn't bring it, you know, like some of the
other places. But it was a three pm game.

Speaker 10 (01:02:44):
I have to take it hot.

Speaker 19 (01:02:45):
It was I picked up my son early from school,
and you know, we showed up. I mean, you know, we.

Speaker 11 (01:02:50):
Did our best, and it was hot.

Speaker 19 (01:02:52):
You know, we were in reserve forty, you know, right
right baking the sun. And my son I got I
got receipts of him cheering throughout the whole game, you know,
And it's just she also appreciation to the fans that
actually showed up. At three pm on a Thursday game.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
I do appreciate that it was a full house, but Ivan,
you got here, so why not contribute to the atmosphere
of the stadium. If you made the effort to come
to the game, be part of it, be the tenth man.
That's all I'm asking for.

Speaker 19 (01:03:24):
No, that's no, absolutely, I'm just saying, you know, that's
a generalization of all the fans.

Speaker 10 (01:03:29):
Whereas we were contributing, it was pretty quiet.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
It was pretty quiet today, Ivan, Even the Brewers people
were saying, what's going on here? This is the quietest
we have heard Dodger Stadium in a playoff game. I'm
just letting you know, after all these playoffs series, I
just don't want there to be complacency setting in. And
I completely understand the game time for today was unfair

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to LA fans. Thankfully tomorrow will be five point thirty.
But I agree with you. Unfair to West Coast fans
to schedule a game midweek at three o'clock. But it
was a packed house.

Speaker 19 (01:04:07):
Yes, it was a packed house. That's all I'm saying,
you know, just appreciation to all the fans showed up.
And lastly, I want to shout out to my boy,
Max Munsey. Anybody that knows me because I've been forward
in Max Montsy is my boy. You know I was
at the longest World Series game ever played. You know,
if you were there, you remember Max Mussey hit the
walk off against the Boston Red Sauce. Unfortunately we lost

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that best series, but you know it's the best baseball
game I ever been to. And I'm trying to relivet
that with my son every time I go to the
Dodgers game.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
All right, Ivan, I love that. I love that you
brought your son to a playoff game. That's a memory
maker right there. And yeah, that was Game four the
twenty eighteen World Series. Monsey hit the walk off home
run off of Nathan Valdi. I do not wish another
eighteen inning game on you, or me or anybody else.
Let's go out to Ronnie, who was at Dodgers Stadium. Ronnie,

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were you complacent today or do you feel like I've
been too harsh? Ronnie? Oh, Ronnie, there you go. All right,
before we close things out, I want to hear from
Tommy Edmund. He came up with the big hit against
Jason Mizerowski in the sixth inning. Let's hear from Edmund

(01:05:21):
on Sports at LA.

Speaker 21 (01:05:23):
Yeah, he's good. You know, his his stuff is electric.
He had good command of everything today. Not the easiest
day to see either, but you know, we're just doing
our best to battle up there and we're just fortunately
we scraped.

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
That run across well, djustments were you looking to make there?
Does it seem like with each at bat you were
able to take some more information to find different ways
to get to him.

Speaker 21 (01:05:41):
Yeah, you know, that was the first time i'd faced him,
so just you know, knowing how his pitches move. You know,
it's a very unique pitture. He's got a lot of extensions,
so it seems like he's releasing it right on top
of you. So I think just getting some familiarity with
with his pitch types and everything and how how you
need to attack him. But you know, he's i mean
really good stuff and really picture starting.

Speaker 19 (01:06:01):
To go more to the secondary stuff that second time
through the order and that what's for allowed to just
for stay back on that slider for the base.

Speaker 21 (01:06:07):
Yeah, you know, I mean I'm not really looking for that.
If there was one hundred and two miles an hour,
so you got to be ready for the fastball, and
I think the swing that I took, I just was
able to kind of stay through it and you know,
get it out to center field. But you know, you
can't look for ospied against a.

Speaker 19 (01:06:21):
Guy like that.

Speaker 20 (01:06:22):
And Rebn's pick up throw, he seemed like you were
barely off the bag.

Speaker 17 (01:06:25):
Weren't surprised at already?

Speaker 10 (01:06:27):
Yeah, you know I was.

Speaker 21 (01:06:28):
I was really surprised, and you know, I'm glad it
happened though, to give us that insurance.

Speaker 5 (01:06:32):
Run at the place where you would run there, or
is you're ankle I got the place where you would
run there in the right spot.

Speaker 21 (01:06:38):
Or was it just kind of obviously it's situational, but
you know, it's feeling really good in it right now,
and you know, definitely getting closer to one hundred percent,
so you know, hopefully I can start to be more
of a threat out there.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
On the basis feeling.

Speaker 9 (01:06:51):
For this team being one game away from making it
back to a seven.

Speaker 15 (01:06:53):
Straat World Series.

Speaker 21 (01:06:54):
Yeah, we're really excited. You know, it's it's been a
bit of a trying year. We didn't play the best
during the season, but you know we're getting hot at
the right time, and you know, just one went away
and hoping we can finish it off tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
All right, there's Tommy Edmond on sports net LA. He
played a big part in the Dodgers scoring two runs
in the sixth inning. He knocked Jacob Mizerowski out of
the game after a go ahead base hit to center
field in the sixth inning, and then Abner Uibe, thinking
Tommy Edmund was gonna run with two outs and Max
Muncy at the plate, Freddie Freeman at third base unwisely

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threw over there and threw the ball poorly, and Freeman
was able to score the second run on that bad
pickoff throw by Abner Uibe, and the Dodgers go on
to beat the Brewers today three to one. Now, coming
up tomorrow, Game four with the Dodgers on the verge
of sweeping the Brewers and going onto the World Series
for his second straight year as defending champions, show hey

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Otani will be on the mound on eleven days rest.
The last time he started a game was Game one
of the NLDS, going up against left Jose Kantana, who
the Dodgers have seen three different times in postseasons. This
will be the fourth start Katana has made against the
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calling in a couple of you let me down. We're
not there when I came to you. One guy called
me Steve. But all in all, it was a win.
I'll take it. I'll feel good on my drive home
once again. The final score tonight the Dodgers defeat the
Brewers in Game three, the NLCS three to one sweep.
On the way Book it Otani pregame interview. I got

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the karma just putting it out there. We'll talk to
you tomorrow. Have a great rest of your Thursday. See
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