October 30, 2025 • 60 mins
DV takes your calls and talks to Jose Mota after the Dodgers fall to the Blue Jays, 6-1. Blake Snell, Freddie Freeman, Kiké Hernandez, and Will Smith address the media after the disappointing loss.
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Speaker 8 (00:46):
It's only been fourteen years. Every day, David Basse, we
are live at Dodgers Stadium. After the Blue Jays shockingly
beat the Dodgers Game four and now Game five to
take a three games to two lead in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Tonight, the final score six to one.
Speaker 8 (01:09):
David Vasse with you until ten o'clock tonight here on
AM five to seventy LA Sports. We are going to
get more postgame reaction. You'll hear from Blake Snell, Freddie Freeman,
Keike Hernandez, and Will Smith.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Jose Moto will check.
Speaker 8 (01:23):
In and we have a full border calls, not shocking,
full border calls tonight and hey, I'm here. I'm here
to answer all of your questions. You want to bring
the heat. Disappointing night for my guy, Blake Snell, your guy,
Blake Snell. Two losses in the World Series, after being
the best pitcher in the postseason for the Dodgers up
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until this point, allowing just two earned runs in his
previous starts before the World Series, and now again giving
up five earned runs and six and.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Two thirds innings. The most disappointing and support rising part
of this is that he gave up back to back
home runs to start the game. That's right, David Schneider
ambushed a first pitch fastball ninety seven at the top
of the strike zone for a home run, and then
Vladimir Guerrero Junior did the same thing, not on the
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first pitch and not in that same area, but it
was a fastball, and the Blue Jays quietly or quieted
this Dodger Stadium crowd right away. With a two nothing
lead on back to back home runs to start Game
five of the World Series. And look, there was no
secret about it.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
In Game one, Blake Snell did not have good fastball command,
especially up in the strike zone.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So the Blue Jays were smart.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
They knew that Snell was going to come out and
try to establish that fastball, and they ambushed him right away.
David Schneider, you wouldn't expect that to happen. Vladimir Guerrero Junior,
you can believe that a little bit more. But yeah,
nothing before the seats were worn in Game five of
the World Series was not ideal considering all we were
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talking about. All the Dodgers were talking about was getting
Snell some early runs because they believed he was going
to be good. And look, you gotta give Snell some
credit because after that he settled in. Tascar Hernandez made
a horrible decision to die for a bloop down the
line when he was shaded more towards the alley, and
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that turned into a leadoff triple for Dalton Varshow in
the fourth inning and turned into a run on an
Ernie Clement sacrifice fly to center field. If Tascar Hernandez
plays that straight var Show's at second base and that
run doesn't score, So instead of two to one after
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the top of the fourth inning, it's three to one.
And the Dodgers were playing from behind from the very beginning.
Kicky Hernandez hits that solo home run, gets the crowd
into the game leading off or with one out in
the third inning, that's a two to one game. But
then you give that run right back on a on
a ridiculous attempt by ta Oscar Hernandez in right field,
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and then I thought on the opposite end of it,
Addison Barger made the play of the game, robbing Shoheio
Tani leading off the sixth inning on a sinking line
drive that he had to dive head first for one
hundred and seventeen miles an hour. That's how hard that
ball was hit. If Barger doesn't make that catch, it's
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a triple for Otani, and all of a sudden, the
Dodgers are in business. But the defense of the Blue
Jays has been better in this series than the Dodgers,
and their offense has been much better and more tenacious
and on the attack and grinder like you know, their
offense reminds.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Me of the twenty seventeen Dodgers. That was their identity.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
Yeah, they had a couple of aircraft carriers and Cody
Bellinger and you know Yasiel Puigue in that point in
time of his career, Justin Turner. But Justin Turner and
the rest of the Dodgers were grinders. They would make
opposing pitchers work fell pitches off, not chase pitches outside
of the strike zone. That's who these Blue Jays are
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and that's been the difference in the series so far.
They have had the Dodgers on their heels from the
first inning of Game one, and the Dodgers have been
making mistakes. Their offense has been an all or nothing
type of approach, and that's why they're in this predicament
with their backs up against the wall, winner go home
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in Game six of the World Series. The Dodger offense
has only scored four runs in their last twenty eight innings.
They struck out twelve times against trey Ya Savage tonight.
They have struck out twenty two times in the last
two games. As Stu Lance would say, that won't get
it done. And it's just one of those weird laws
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again for this Dodger offense. Not to mention, the struggles
continued for Mookie Betts, despite Dave Roberts tweaking where he
hits in the order, he's hitting third. Mooki now is
just three for twenty three in the World Series. And
I had one of his former teammates text me about
fifteen minutes ago, and you know what he texted me.
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He said, I just want to see Mooki go out
there and compete. Just go out there, forget about thinking
about the approach, game plan swing. Just go out there
and compete. And maybe it's to that point right now
with the Dodgers in a winner go home situation in
Game six and Game seven if they win on Friday,
that Mookie Betts will just let it all go and
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just go out there and compete and.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Play free and easy.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Even his big brother from the Red Sox, Big Poppy,
David Ortiz said it moments after the final out tonight.
Mookie's confidence is at an all time low. He's gotta
find a way to believe in Mooki again, and teammates
are saying, just go out there and compete. That's what
they need from Mookie.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Betts. He was a zero for four tonight hitting third
in the lineup.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
I love the idea Dave Roberts had by having Will
Smith hit behind Shoe Aotani. I would like to see
Miguel Rojas now start Game six. You know, I was
such a big advocate for Tommy Edmond to be starting
in center field. Well, Tommy Edmond has not had a
good World Series either. He's three for twenty one in
the World Series. You know, Dave Roberts made a tweak tonight.
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Maybe it's time to make another tweak and have Miguel
Rojas in there at second base. So we'll see where
it goes. But certainly it can't. It's not just on
one or two guys. This is a team. A team
win and the team loses. And the Dodgers have not
been in a win or go home situation in the
postseason since Game four of last year's NLDS against the Padres.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It was the Padres offense that went cold.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
I think they went scoreless the last thirty innings of
that NLDS, and the Dodgers now have only scored four
runs in their last twenty eight innings in this World Series.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Here's another question for you.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Everybody was so certain that the life was sucked out
of the Blue Jays after the Dodgers won that eighteen
inning marathon in Game three.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Could it be it was the Dodgers that came.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Out flat the last two nights after playing those eighteen innings.
Were they the ones that were emotionally and physically spent.
It's a question that needs to be asked. But luckily
there's a day off tomorrow. The Dodgers have an opportunity
to regroup and just worry about the Game six. You know,
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I was talking to Charlie Steiner before the game, and
he said, when Don Zimmer was Joe Torre's bench coach
with the Yankees, the last team to repeat his champions
the mantra was just win the inning in the World
Series and in the postseason, just win the next inning,
Win this inning, win the next inning, when that inning,
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when the next one feels like the Dodgers are trying
to win three or four innings in one, especially when
they're at the plate. So Game six, win the first
inning and go on from there. Eight six, six, seven,
two five seventy is the phone number. Let's head downstairs
to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from a very frustrated
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and disappointed Blake Snell.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
I mean they really get to me. As a first
pitch of the game, ninety seven, passba up and then
he hits at ninety eight. It goes out pretty unlucky,
and I'm glad that's a Yeah, just a bad pitch now,
and then passball. But then after that, yeah, pretty pretty
smooth sailing, figured out their lineup, what they like to do,
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and var gets a triple on a seventy eight exit
v Low. It's just sound lucky. Yeah, I mean I'm
not I'm not wanting to make excuses or anything close
to that, but they're just pretty unlucky doing so much
you can do to where you know that sound lucky.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And then.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
The seventh thing in there, Yeah, good pitch, I mean
just yeah, it hits the ball and play. Barjia hits
the ball and play and then walk the nine hole
guy that has struck out twice already. Just gotta be
better there.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And then yeah, when you.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Look at just kind of how you were looking to
kind of close us from out the pitch cow getting up,
was there a part of you that was kind of
just like, how do I kind of dig deep to
navigate this back end of your routing?
Speaker 9 (10:48):
No, I mean I still I was doing nice on anything,
and I felt good. I feel strong. Yeah, I mean
my whole I'm in training to be to be ready
for this and be strong, and I felt good.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, like I trust me.
Speaker 9 (11:03):
So yeah, just just frustrating she's.
Speaker 11 (11:07):
Going away from the fastball a little back to the
Vlad homer. Is that short of just reacting to what
they were clearly trying to do?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Early encounts against you.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
I mean, Lad's you know, he's a really good hitter,
so you gotta, you know, do stuff there. But the
rest of the lineup, Yeah, they're like ambushing. I mean
I'll probably forget the game seven then I'll see him again,
so I can't I can't say much.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But no, I mean.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Yeah, just I mean all of a sudden, Yeah, Lad,
good hitter. Schnyder, I mean, hit it one mount our
harder than I threw it. Good location, varsoa triple curveball
capped like luck plays in baseball too.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
So yeah, do.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You feel like you you went away from the fastball
for twenty two pitchers after.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
That home under that?
Speaker 12 (12:00):
Why did you feel like you were leaving a toe
a toe.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
Yeah, No, I don't think there's towels. I just think
they're ambushing the fastball, especially after I go I'm gonna
throw fastballs.
Speaker 13 (12:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
It's got to.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Yeah, I don't think there's towels. Are just great swings
and yah, they're ambition and as they should, as I
thought they would.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
And yeah, do you feel like, all right, there's Blake
Snell and I thought he knew what was happening there.
David Schneider hit a really good pitch and I didn't
know it was ninety eight miles an hour on the
exit below, but it counts it went over the wall,
so I mean, that's not an excuse. Vladimir Guerra Junior
hit a bad executed pitch by Blake Snell. He didn't
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want to throw Oscar Hernandez under the bus, but it
was a bad play by Taoscar Hernandez, who hasn't been
that great and right field this year. So that led
to the third run, and I'm glad he brought up
Andres Mnez. I mean, that was the at bat of
the game in the seventh inning and really changed the
complexion of that seventh inning and in turn changed the
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complexion of this game, because after the seventh inning, this
wasn't a game anymore. The Dodger offense could come back
and win, especially with the way they're swinging the bats
these days.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Inexcusable for Blake snell to.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Walk Andres Semnez the ninth hitter after he struck him
out twice in the second and then in the fourth
inning one out walk to Andres Semenez did snell In
and the Dodgers in that seventh inning that that's got
to be the at bat that should keep him awake
until he's able to pitch again in Game seven eight
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six six, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Let's go out to Justin who is at Dodger Stadium tonight. Hi, Justin,
you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Thank you for uh taking when he first I was there,
I am very disgusted.
Speaker 14 (14:03):
This will be a little bit of a rent.
Speaker 13 (14:05):
I was at Game one of the World Sees last
year and the Dodgers were up two to one.
Speaker 14 (14:10):
This year, I thought I expected this to be the clincher,
wanted to witness in person. Instead, got disgusted, you know,
taste in my mouth. Everything was off today. You're right,
the energy of the Dodgers crowd sucks compared to the
Blue Jays giving up a home run on the first
pitch and then to the second powder definitely doesn't help. Yeah,
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I think it disappeared.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, I can understand that.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
When back to back home runs happened to start the game,
it takes the energy out of the stadium until keiy
k Hernandez hits that home run and then Taoscar Hernandez
boxes a ball and right field and takes the crowd
out of it again. So I'm not blaming the crowd tonight.
The Dodgers didn't give them much to cheer about.
Speaker 14 (14:52):
The offense has disappeared, and we can't get the guy
before show, hay on, we can't get the guy after
a show.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Hey on?
Speaker 14 (14:58):
So I got no solution there.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Yeah, the only solution is the Dodgers can't just hang
their heads. They've got to regroup, pick themselves up if
they want to win this World Series.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It doesn't come easy.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Justin repeating is not easy, and the Dodgers certainly know
that and are experiencing that.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But they're not They're not.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Going to be like, oh, we lost Game five, so
I guess we better not board that plane to Toronto.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Our season's over.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
No, those guys are gonna regroup, get that day off.
Hopefully they have some baseball talk on that plane to Toronto.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I mean they got that player's only plane.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
That's where they should be talking about the game, and
you know, picking each other up and looking each other
in the eye and making sure nobody is quitting on
the season, which I don't believe they will. Eight six
six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number. Ryan,
also at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Ryan, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 13 (15:57):
Hey, how the gondv.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well I've been better, Ryan.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
I would have liked to have seen the Dodgers win
one of these last two games. But uh, you know,
you have to wonder whether or not those eighteen innings
hurt the Dodgers more than the Blue Jays because, uh,
the bullpen is super thin and the offense is struggling
right now.
Speaker 13 (16:18):
Yeah, it's crazy to think if we don't get that
eighteen inning game, we're looking at a sweep at home.
Speaker 15 (16:22):
It's like, come on, Ruth, definitely better than this, you know,
like very, very disappointing.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Yeah it is, but they got two more opportunities to
win games, and the Dodgers have won two in a
row many times, and the Blue Jays still have to
beat the Dodgers four times in a best of seven series.
I refuse to believe that they can do that until
they prove me otherwise. Eight six six eight seven two
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five seventy is the phone number. Let's head back downstairs
to the Dodger clubhouse to hear from Freddie Freeman on.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
His command from the first game.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
He had everything working tonight, but again I still got
to put some runs on the board and do a
better job, and we just haven't done that for about two.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And a half games.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
You guys have been in this situation before, backs against
the wall, looking to win this series.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
I mean, you're obviously not out of it.
Speaker 10 (17:14):
What is just kind of is there a conversation as
you guys traveled to Toronto to find a way to
get things going.
Speaker 11 (17:20):
I think it's kind of bigs for itself that they
just played a better game than us tonight balls and
dirt sater on guys, just corre position. They're getting it in,
just you know, they just pitched really good too, So
they just outplayed us today.
Speaker 14 (17:33):
I know it was like the regular season when you
guys are startling in and they're like, what.
Speaker 16 (17:36):
Did you learn from.
Speaker 15 (17:37):
That point in time that maybe you can apply to
try to turn things around for game six and seven.
Speaker 11 (17:42):
We all know what we're capable of them. We haven't
done it for two games, so maybe they awful cool
them down over there and we'll reunite us. Is to
carry over all eighteen of the news early? Is that
something that where it's just they kind of just responded
better the last couple of days. They just played better
baseball the last two days. I don't think anybody's thinking
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about a game two days ago. I mean, it was
just playing simple. They just played better than us today.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
There's a lot of character on this on this clubhouse.
What do you like about this team to lean into.
Speaker 11 (18:15):
We face this last year we were down to one
to the Podgers, and when two games in a row,
so we can do it again.
Speaker 14 (18:20):
When you talk a.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Lot about the offense that need to kind of come
alive or in.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
A pre game, do you have any considering the talent
of your line up?
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Do you have bes that this is what the.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Offense is done.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
When you go into this game, you tackle lane. And
our lane today was up against Savage and it was
just a complete one eighty from game one. His his
command was was pinpoint. Tonight we were fighting that lane
and he was still getting the slider and split it
down below his own for strikes. And that was the
difference from game one. He had a lot of non
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competitive misses in game one and today you didn't have that.
And credit to him. That was that was a really
good game pitched by him and Anthony and Jeff. And
you know, baseball is a hard game, and it's been
hard for us the.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Last two days.
Speaker 11 (19:06):
But like we said, we've been in a situation before
like we were last year, and we can do it again.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You're bachelor against the wall.
Speaker 15 (19:11):
But how good does it field to know that the
Bubbles pitching for you guys now?
Speaker 11 (19:15):
I mean, yeah, we feel really good about our starting
pitching and our pitching staff. So, uh, we're gonna need
Jokes to do it again, and hopefully as an offense
we can score some more runs for him.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
In addition, you Savage a splitter better this time around.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
Those It's all command. He just had command. He was
able to throw up the strikes on. Oh he wasn't
able to do that in Game one, So it was
all command tonight. When you get strike one and get
ahead of us, it's really hard to hit.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
We talked about, you know, being down to one of
the padres, but how much of that experience that you
guys have as a team. We won a World Series
last year, knowing the confidence going into a game six situation.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
Yeah, we're confident.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We know who we are.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
We know we got to play better baseball and we'll
try to do that in two days.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
You guys are crying to become the first repeat champions.
Speaker 11 (19:55):
We're just trying to play baseball game right now. If
you're thinking about trying to win some that's two wins away,
then you're thinking about the wrong thing. We need to
worry about Friday and play a better baseball game.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
All right.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
There's Freddy Freeman. He's got the right mindset. You can't
be worried about winning two games in Game six. You
have to win Game six to even have an opportunity
to win Game seven. And like I said before, you know,
with Don Zimmer relay to Joe Tory, you've got to
win the inning in front of you, and that's what
the Dodgers need to have in their minds going into
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Game six. You can't win all nine innings in the
first inning. The Dodgers need to win the first inning
and that will be a huge victory for Yamamoto and
the team. You heard Freddy Freeman talk about trey Ya Savage.
He was completely different than what they saw in Game one.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Strike one. He was in the zone with the slider.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
He was in the zone with his fastball, and he
got the Dodgers to chase his split fingered fastball. Twelve strikeouts,
no walks. That's the most strikeouts by a pitcher in
a World Series game without issuing a walk. Eight six, six, seven,
two five seventy is the phone number Toronto beats the
Dodgers in Game five of the World Series six to one.
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Let's go out to Sambino, who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight.
Hi Sambino, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Hi David, thank you for the call. Lost my voice
at the stadium.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You called me a problem number one. UH. And I
would love your opinion on this afterwards. But Roki Sasaki,
I feel like I should have came in into seventh
inning to put out the fire after Snow got pulled
out of the game. I feel like there's nothing to
save him for in this game when you're down at
that point. I would have loved to see that stop
gap there from Dave. I agree with you, you know.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I agree with you. Sometimes the game is not one
or lost in the ninth inning. It's one or lost
in situations like that in the seventh and the only
question I'm sure Dave had was, Okay, I go to
Sasaki right there in the seventh inning. Is he going
to finish the game for me? Even though we're losing
at that point in time. But yeah, the game was
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right there in the seventh inning, and you know me personally,
You've already pushed Blake SNeW to one hundred and sixteen
pitches and he just struck out David Schneider. I can
understand why you don't want him to face Vladimir Guerrero Junior.
But how about put up four fingers, walk Arero and
let Snell face an injured Bo Bashett. He can get
Bo Bashett, even though Bashett's had some success against him
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in the past, but he's not at one hundred percent
right now, So you know the pitch count for me.
Once you get to one sixteen, you've already pushed him
really far, So why not.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Just keep going?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I agree, and uh, you know, to that point. But
we got to get more than one run, you know.
And I think sometimes when I watch the Dodgers, especially
in the postseason, I feel like we got to play
a little bit more Pepper and a little less home
run Derby. As far as our approach, I feel like
the Jays are putting the ball in play and they're
seeing good results, and I feel like sometimes we're just
trying to hit that bomb a little bit too much.
But that I hated Tayo's play coming out of the top.
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You know, after we score the run and we get
the momentum back, I feel like he's gotta just that
was a mental error. And there were many mental errors tonight.
You know, not to beat up on rookie, but he
bobbles the ball second. But then Will Smith four pass
balls hired legs.
Speaker 13 (23:18):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It was just one of the sloppiest Dodger performances I've
seen in such a big game in a long time.
It was extremely disappointing. And I do agree with you.
By the way, we've seen Kevin Guizman a bunch of times.
I do think we win Game six and then it's
a dog fight, and so I'm optimistic. Go Dodgers, but
tough one tonight.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Yeah, no doubt, Sambino, and I am confident. I'll say
this on the record. I believe the Dodgers will force
a game seven. Yamamoto will deliver. I believe this Dodger
offense is going to finally wake up because at some
point they have to write you just hope they don't
run out of time before they do. So I'm all
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in for a game seven, and at that point in time,
it's a flip a coin. But the Dodgers have to
find a way to score runs. I have no doubts
about Yamamoto. If Blake Snell was more efficient at times,
you know, I know the line says six and two
thirds innings five in runs, but I really didn't believe
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Snell pitched that poorly. He did get ambushed in the
first inning, and that really did take a lot of
life out of this stadium and put their offense in
a spot considering they're struggling to score runs. But I
thought he'd pitched better than what his final line said,
something that Jose Moto brought up, and Jose will join
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us in about ten minutes. The Dodger relievers, when they
have come in with inherited runners, have not strainded those runners.
They have scored and a Guardo and Riquez happened to
allow those runs to score as well. Bonda did not
stop the bleeding last night. And just for the record,
it was four wild pitches, three of the four coming
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in that seven and thinning the four while pitches by
the Dodgers staff tonight the most in a World Series
game eight, six, six, seven, two, five seventy is the
phone number. Let's go out to Antonio and Santa Ana.
You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 17 (25:14):
Antonio, Hello, David, Hello, Dodger fans.
Speaker 13 (25:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (25:20):
Game five is in the past now, so that's it.
We pack our bags, We hop on the game six day,
we go forward. This team is built differently on the road.
This is another team. We don't give a We just
keep going. What do you think, David, are we positive
or not? I'm sure we're positive.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh yeah, they're positive.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
They're not just gonna put their head and not get
off the plane in Toronto when it lands Antonio. They're
gonna get off that plane in the early part of
the morning tomorrow and uh, you know, regroup.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And figure things out, and uh, you know.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
The confidence comes from having a starting pitcher like Yao
on the mount in game six. That's where the confidence begins.
If it was somebody else starting game six, I can
understand where the confidence would be wavering.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
But when you have a guy that has pitched back
to back.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Complete games, including Game two of the World Series in Toronto,
where Game six is going to be played, everybody has
confidence that Yamamoto is going to dominate and they just
have to do their part as an offense. If they
do that, they have a very good chance of forcing
a Game seven. Let's go out to Luis in LA.
(26:32):
You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 13 (26:33):
How you doing, Louis, Hi, David, I'm okay, just tired, obviously,
I'm I'm I'm very disappointed in the game today.
Speaker 14 (26:42):
But here here's the thing.
Speaker 13 (26:44):
For for Friday. I believe that the bats need to
wake up, and in order for that to happen, in
the first three innings, I want those I want one
scored and then just Yamamoto cruise throughout like for eight innings.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
And that was the plan tonight. Yeah, that was the
plan I had for tonight. Let's see if the Dodgers
can do that. Because there hasn't been a save opportunity
for Roki Sasaki in this World Series. I would love
to see that happen. It just the Dodgers have not
put him in that position. And now two consecutive games
where Roki was not needed, he should be well rested
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to be able to pitch multiple innings in Game six
and Game seven in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Thanks for the phone call, Luis.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
And speaking of Game six and seven, only three teams
in the last fifty years have won Game six and
seven on the road. That was the twenty nineteen Nationals
who beat the Astros in Houston, the sixteen Cubs who
won their first World Series in one hundred years in
Cleveland over the Indians, and the nineteen seventy nine Pirates
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went into Baltimore to beat the Orioles.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
In Game six and seven on the road.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
So the Dodgers are looking to be just the fourth
team in the last fifty years to win Game six
and seven on the road. Eight six six nine seven
two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Chris in LA. You're on Dodger Talk Live from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 15 (28:15):
Hi, Chris, Hey, Dave, Hey, you know I want to say.
You know, I told Fred and Rodney earlier that I
was telling my daughter after watching the game those guys,
I was telling them. She was asking me about baseball.
I told her, Honey, you just never know what baseball
and today was the perfect example. There is no way
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in the world you could have told anyone that Blake
Snell was going to throw two home runs in three
pitches and the Dodgers we were only going to have
three hits going into the ninth inning. Oh and by
the way, a kid from not Triple A, but Single A,
who's only been with the Blue Jays about a month
and a half is going to have the rookie record
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for strung against this incredible Dodger lineup.
Speaker 14 (29:02):
You couldn't have predicted that. But that's baseball.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
It's crazy.
Speaker 15 (29:07):
It's not like any other sport. And Yamamoto gives us
a really good chance on Friday, but you know, baseball,
there's no way we could say, yeah, we're gonna get
that game because we haven't supported him with runs all year,
you know.
Speaker 14 (29:21):
So I tell my.
Speaker 15 (29:23):
Daughter, Mike, look, enjoy the game, root for your team
with all your heart, but don't let it stress you out,
because at the end of the day, you just absolutely
never know. Because I thought Blake's new was gonna come
out and deal like you were saying. But you know
who knows, you know, and the bets. You know, it's
all about timely hitting and being hot at the right time.
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And right now, the Dodgers are not hot. So we're
gonna have to hope that they just pick it up
a little bit these next two games.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
But you know, it's it's tough man.
Speaker 14 (29:53):
Baseball.
Speaker 15 (29:53):
Baseball is a crazy sport.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Dave, Yeah it is. Chris, Thank you for the phone call.
A lot of cliches right there, Chris, appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
Age six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
the phone number.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
The Dodgers down three games to two after losing Game
five to the Blue Jays six to one. And look,
it does bear asking whether or not that eighteen inning
game affected the Dodgers more adversely than it affected the
Blue Jays. Everybody thought it was the Blue Jays that
we're gonna have nothing left in the tank for Game four,
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and they come out and get Shane Bieber to you know,
stifle the Dodger offense. They played into his hands and
the Dodger bullpen was thin after Dave Roberts had to
use everybody in that bullpen.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
In that eighteen inning game.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
He was kind of boxed in to have to use
Bonda and Trining in key spots.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Last night.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Uh, the Blue Jays seemed to have a little bit
more energy last night. Seemed like they had a little
bit more hung an energy to win this game tonight
as well, with a rookie on the mount and trey
Ya Savage who you know, Blakesnell after Game one said.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
He learned a lot and was going to make adjustments.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
Well, it seemed like young trey Ya Savage was the
one that learned a lot and made the bigger adjustments
because he was astronomically better than he was in Game one,
going seven innings tonight with twelve strikeouts and no walks.
And you know, the Dodgers tried to tweak the lineup.
They benched Andy Paez like we were talking about last night,
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Alex calling the ninth spot, and also they moved Mookie
Bets down to the three spot, had Will Smith move
up to the two spot, and it still didn't work.
And we'll see where it goes from here. But you know,
sometimes you're fit to be tied when you have a
picture throwing the way you Savage was thrown tonight. But
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the approach and the chase of the Dodgers was just
ahead Scratcher tonight. But you, Savage, you have to give
him a lot of credit. And the Blue Jays played
better tonight. Freddie Freeman said it. The Blue Jays played
better than the Dodgers tonight, and that's tough to swallow.
And like I said in that seventh inning, I believe
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this game is still a three to one game going
into the bottom of the seventh inning. If Blake Snell
doesn't walk the number nine hitter undress him Menez. He
had two strikes on him Nz, and he walks him
with one out, He's able to battle and get David
Schneider for the second out if he takes care of
business against him.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Nz.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
Schneider is the last out of that inning, and Vladimir
Guerrero Junior is left standing on deck to lead off
the eighth inning, and you give the Dodgers offense a
chance to come back and at least tie the score
in the bottom of the seventh inning. Instead, that seventh
inning completely unraveled after Blake Snell walked him in as
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struck out Schneider and Dave Roberts went to the bullpen
after Snell through his one hundred and sixteenth pitch just
completely fell apart right there, and it all started with
Snell walking him Menace eight six six, seven, two five
seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the Blue
Jayson Game five of the World Series six to one.
(33:26):
Let's go out to Diana and Granada Hills. You're on
Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Hi Diana, Hi David.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
So I have to say I really do appreciate your
positivity tonight and the callers ahead of me. That's that's
really great to hear. But I do have to say
to you that I think I have receipts on you
having receipts on me from the summer.
Speaker 8 (33:51):
Oh did I use one of your Oh yeah, I
used one of your calls where Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
On that off day Dodger Talk, I had receipts.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
You had receipts, but now I have the receipts on you.
Because I was calling about Mooky not producing any offense
during the summer, and I really wanted, well, really I
wanted him to move back to right field. Not because
he wasn't a great shortstop, because I do think he's
playing really well to our stop, but because Tao is
not a great right fielder. And so here we go tonight.
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You know exactly what I was afraid of, Hayo not
doing well and right and Mookie not producing. But then again,
the Dodger offense has gone to sleep for some reason
or other.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
Yeah, I will say this, Diana. I mean, that's been
a problem all summer long. Taskar Hernandez has not been
consistently good in right field, and he made a horrible
decision to dive for that ball from Dalton var Show.
But I will say last year, before Mookie Bets broke
his hand on a pitch that kept him out for
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six weeks, he was on his way to an MVP
because of the offense he was producing and the shortstop
he was playing, and he wasn't even playing as good
as he's playing it this year, but I think we
can both agree that, yeah, ta Oscar Hernandez in right
field hasn't looked right, no pun intended all year long,
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and it came back to hurt the Dodgers tonight in
a key spot. So I'm we can agree on that.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Well, thank you and thank you for the shout out
good or bad. I really appreciate it for Dodgers, all.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
Right, Dana, thank you for the phone call. Eight sixty
six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. Look,
the reason why I'm not Doomsday Dave tonight is because
the Dodgers have a really good lineup. They have really
good players, they're just not performing up to their capabilities.
And maybe the reason why I'm so optimistic as well
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is because Ya'mamoto's pitching Game six. He has been the
Dodgers' best postseason starter this year. It's not Blake Snell,
It's Yamamoto. Yamamoto is the one with two complete games
in his last two starts. Maybe that's why I'm so confident,
and I feel like that's the reason why that Dodger
clubhouse is so confident that they can force a Game seven,
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because Yama Moto will take them to the Promised Land.
All right, before we take a time out, let's hear
from Key Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
He's the one that drove in the only Dodger run.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
It was himself with a home run with one out
in the third inning.
Speaker 18 (36:32):
We are seems like a bouts for Snow playing on
us right now. Then we're missing them and then we're
expanding the zone with two strikes. And I think the
best thing that can happen for us is a day off,
you know, to find get a data, regroup and you know,
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figure it out. But as a group, it's time for
us to you know, show our character and put put
a fight, put up a fight, and uh, you know,
see what happens fight. I mean, I wouldn't say that
it hasn't been enough of a fight. It's just last
night we were a little bit flat. And then tonight,
you know, three pitches into the game, we were down
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to nothing and you know, he was on the just
howse was on that thought it was really good and
you know, hitting creates energy and we haven't. We weren't
getting hits, so we weren't really doing whatever it took
to to you know, find that energy. And I mean
it's it's tough right now, but I think I think
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we're gonna be all right.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Last year's team dug out against San Diego. Is this
your team capable of the same thing. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 18 (37:44):
I think we're more talented team that we were last year,
and we found a way to We found a way
to do it last year, and I thought we were
gonna bear a hole given the the situation where the
pitching staff last year. So right, I had the right
time on the mountain for us in Game six and
sent for us for for the offense to show up.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
What was the savage doing to get hit in account?
Speaker 16 (38:10):
As much as you guys strikes.
Speaker 18 (38:16):
His lighter was really good tonight. This lighter, I think
this slider was a difference maker. It was harder and
tighter than it was in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
And.
Speaker 18 (38:24):
Yeah, we weren't really they would pick it up and
then splayed us pretty good and just seemed like we
were I don't know for we're just in between kinda
and kudos to him, but we just gotta be better.
Speaker 16 (38:43):
It seems like you guys been in there in between,
and a couple of times from the postseas like when
you get in that mode that is an offense.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
You guys get out with us.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Find out.
Speaker 18 (38:54):
I don't have an answer right now, but we'll find out.
Speaker 8 (38:57):
All right, there's uh the leader, one of the leaders
in that clubhouse that has a huge voice and confidence
and uh that's uh Keiy a Hernandez. I would say
key K, Freddie Freeman, and Miguel Rojas are the three
loudest voices in that clubhouse. And when they say something,
when they diagnose something, uh, that's really you're getting a
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peek inside of what they're thinking in there. And obviously
KEYK a Hernandez believes the Dodgers can force a Game
seven A because they did it last year against the
Padres b Yamamotos on the mount, and I think that's
what gives those players the confidence to believe that if
they get some runs for Yamamoto, they can force a
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game seven eight sixty six, seven two, five seventy is
the phone number. We have a full board of calls.
We'll try to get to more of you, but next
Jose Moto will check in. After the Dodgers lose Game
five of the World Series six to one.
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Speaker 1 (40:25):
Keith k Hernandez crushes one forget about it and the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Hard with hit or on.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
That's a quarter of the way up the pavilion for
Keith k Hernandez, who has launched his first home run
of the postseason to give Dodgers Stadium some much needed wife.
Speaker 8 (40:46):
That was the only run the Dodgers scored tonight as
the Blue Jays shut them down. Trey Is Savage shuts
down the Dodger offense. That's the only run he gave up.
Twelve strikeouts, no walks, and seven innings. As to Toronto,
takes a three games to two lead in the World
Series with a six to one win in Game five.
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And just think about this, The Dodgers get a split
in Toronto the way they wanted, with three at home,
and Toronto after losing that eighteen inning marathon, beats the
Dodgers two out of three here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
That's that's hard to digest. That's hard to stomach.
Speaker 8 (41:26):
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World Series with Freddie Freeman's walk off home run, will
climb the unsung hero, the unexpected hero, and then the
Blue Jays are the ones that come back after that
eighteen inning loss to beat the Dodgers twice and take
a three games to two lead. Eight six six nine
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Speaker 6 (42:07):
It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mote.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
All right, Hose.
Speaker 8 (42:13):
I have sent a few texts to a few current
players former players that I trust, asking them this question,
was it the Dodger offense or was Trey Y Savage
that good.
Speaker 14 (42:25):
Dodger offense? When you hear Freddy Freeman and Kiki said
he threw a lot of strikes. What does that tell
you You're just not putting the right swings or proper
swings on the strikes. I mean, he wasn't running away
from his own He did out walk anybody. So in
that case, you got to go out there and look
at the books and go, Wow, this guy's feeling is one.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
What are we doing?
Speaker 14 (42:45):
And that's pretty much the answer right there.
Speaker 13 (42:46):
Dave.
Speaker 8 (42:48):
Yeah, it sounded like that's what Dave Roberts was seeing
in the middle of the game when Tom Verducci was
doing that in game interview, he was saying around the
third or fourth inning that you know, the Dodgers were
missing pitches in the strike zone, and that's something that
he said last night against Shane Bieber. What do you
attribute that to? Is it as simple as saying that's
just baseball? Is it approach?
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Is it trying to be the guy that hits a
home run? What do you believe that is the symptom of.
Speaker 14 (43:17):
It's once three and four. Number one is that Kika
runs into a fastball. But the rest of the bats,
I mean, pretty much about the series, we haven't seen
the run of personal Pika that we saw against the redge,
I mean truly and speaking honestly, and dave you what
I'm saying something. You know, the batter's box is big
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enough for you to move and to adjust. Home play
does not stay there for you to have to respect
like certain distance from it. You are free to move
in the batter's box. You're free to get closer to
home plate. And Alan ra Kirk, let me tell you
this kid knows understands and he's always looking at the
hitter speak. What does it tell you? Are they just
or not? If they're not adjusting, that's going the same
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thing they think they're going to get to, you know.
And one thing too with his split finger and his
slider is and I was telling Lose this in the broadcast,
the way that he throws at sixty or re angle.
You have to think it's almost like on a swing
to hit a curve ball. And Justin Turner told me
his years ago like long changle is not what you're saying.
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Long changle is you find them the right path of
your back to the baseball on a particular pitch to
launch the right way. So if you're going to be
taking the same swings with the guys throwing that high
versus a guy that throws three quarters, you're not.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Going to get it.
Speaker 14 (44:33):
But you've got to be able to move around and
see how come you're not reaching those pitches if you're
throwing strikes, and also you're creating a lot of strikes
because you're swinging out of his own Well, perhaps it's
all on you and it's not on him. Take for example,
Dave real quick here, Tommy Edmund decides to hit from
right side, reason reason, I want to take away the splitter,
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and Saber says with that singing that you're taking I'm
from the splitter because you just swinging it right over
the baseball and around the baseball. So that just tells
you that to me, for a guy like Tommy Edmund,
not just putting blame on him, but if you're going
to do that, you've got to be disciplined enough to
tell yourself a right handed slider's gonna run away from me.
I don't see that in most season because I'm betting
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from the left side. In other words, it's okay if
i'm wait, it's okay, if it's okay if I get
me with a fasketball boat. Tobby was like swings, especially
in the left seat, and it just doesn't play out.
I would have just abandoned that plan after one about
to say, you know what, he's thrown up to me
right or lefty. Let me stay with the side that
I know better and make the right adjustments. And it
was made.
Speaker 8 (45:37):
Yeah, the Dodgers obviously have not made many adjustments during
this World Series. They've only scored four runs in the
last twenty eight innings. Mookie Betts, the Dodgers need him
to be more than just a guy. Mookie said after
the game that he's just been horrible. It's not because
of a lack of effort. We understand that.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
But does Mookie Betts need to just go out there.
Speaker 8 (45:59):
And compete, eat and not worry about the mechanics of
the swing or whatever analytics data he has. At some point,
don't you just have to go in there and compete
and be successful at that point.
Speaker 17 (46:12):
In time and enjoy the game.
Speaker 14 (46:14):
You lot to have fun too, I mean, don't make
it so hard on yourself where you're not enjoying the
game and grinding through a bass and you know, keep
that smile and that grin and say, hey man, you
beat me one time. But I'm gonna get you again.
You got to keep that environment in your head and
that looseness in your head too. Last night you asked
me about this too, and I said, Mookie doesn't need
to be taking extra swings during the game. It's a
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great TV graphic, great scene or segue, but you know what,
he doesn't need to be doing that. It's late October.
You should know exactly what you need to do it.
In other words, I would even say, say those good
swings for the game, nothing else. I don't care what
TV says, whether it's showing or not. I know it
looks pretty and everything, but no, he doesn't need to
be anything else. And if anything, cut it down and
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take less swings to make sure you say we're best.
Wing for one is better. This is a general point
that you know Kika made, and it's true. Perhaps an
off day a reset, and you know what, Dave, sometimes
you just got to look across the other dugout the
opposing team to learn what you're not doing. So the
blue collar blue Jays right now are teaching a lesson
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on how how to play fundamental baseball. The sack flies
running the basis, hitting balls on the ground, because the
Dodgers had come into this game today having hit listen
to this over twenty more fly ball outs than the
Blue Jays in this series. That says something about the swings.
Speaker 8 (47:35):
Makes sense, and twenty two strikeouts in the last two
games is not going to generate the offense that you want.
Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers fall to
the Blue Jays in Game five of the World Series
six to one. Here's a question for you, Jose, that
I've been asking. Everybody thought the Dodgers would be the
one to benefit after playing eighteen innings, but the Blue
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Jays are the team that see seems to have a
little bit more life, their pitching seems to be better
in the last two games and then winning the last
two games of the World Series. Do you feel like
the Dodgers were the ones that were emotionally and physically
and bullpen depleted after that eighteen inning game.
Speaker 14 (48:18):
I mean, the results are there, the type of the
bets they take, the execution from their bullpen, the inherited
runners from their bullpen, and how they have stopped the bleeding. Unfortunately,
again for Blake Snell, even though he has nothing to
do with the extraining game has been disappointed because he
has given up ten runs now in the World Series,
not all his faults, but he's got to execute better.
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That puts you in a whole right of way. And
then on top of that, you go to the ex
rainning game. The ad Betts of the Dodgers had extra
that game should have been over and perhaps nine or tenantings,
there's no doubt. But luckily the Blue Jays would not
execute it either. But if you took to their approach
and how they face pitchers, how they adjusted, just making
sure you guys move over, get a runner over and
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play the game has been much different. I mean today,
I mean Barjo Hares the ground ball to the right
side in the eighth inning and the first guy out
of that dugout is the highest paid player in the
highest played athlete in Canada's history, Rod Guerrero. It tells
you a whole lot about when things are going right,
what happens. Now, here's the optimistic thing. Dodgers weren't to
buyd last year against the Pods. Now you've got to
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feel better about the aft coming, the reset and the
starting pitcher that is not in flux. You have guys
that can depend on It didn't happen today, but you
have you have a multa on them. Ount make sure
you take the crowd out in Canada because the talent
is there. They've manadjustment to four and certainly it could
be one inning that just gets them going on again.
You win the ending, as Charlie said, and as many
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times if Don Zimmer told that to me personally, and
then things change. But you got to be able to
play a cleaner game overall.
Speaker 8 (49:51):
Yeah, we shared that story about what he used to
tell Joe Torre and it makes a lot of sense.
The Dodgers need to win the first inning of Game six. Jose,
We'll see you in Toronto tomorrow. Okay, there he goes
Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
Eight six to six, nine to eighty seven. Two five
seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8 (50:11):
Dodgers lose Game five of the World Series by a
final score of six to one. And like we mentioned earlier,
this is the last home game for the Dodgers in
twenty twenty five, and it is the last home game
in the career of Clayton Kershaw. And Kershaw, as you know,
part of the Dodger bullpen in this postseason h usually
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relievers go through the back tunnel out of the bullpen
to the clubhouse, but Kershaw instead came through the bullpen
gates one final time at Dodger Stadium to take in
the walk from the bullpen to the dugout to the clubhouse.
And as he got closer to the near side of
the Dodger dugout, he looked up and blue kisses to
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his wife, Ellen and his kids, And after the game
was over, the kids and the family came down to
the field. They spent one last night here at Dodger
Stadium with their dad as a member of the LA Dodgers,
as an active pitcher for the LA Dodgers at Dodger Stadium,
because Kershaw will forever be a Dodger and there'll be
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a lot more moments for them to come to the
field and be around Dodger Stadium. But this was the
last home game for Clayton Kershaw in his Hall of
Fame career. Eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two five
seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
Let's go out to Rich in LA. You're on Dodger
Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 12 (51:34):
Rich. Yeah, hi u talking about his last active, you know,
career game. That's what you know. I know you like
Dave Roberts and all, but I'm pretty disgusted with him
right now.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
I mean, I think.
Speaker 12 (51:49):
Clayton deserves a lot better than what he's gotten this
this postseason. I mean, you know, I've been to all
I went to all four games at I call at
four because Monday was an eighteen inning game, which was
like two and you know, he put him in there
for one batter, for one single batter, And you know
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that's because he used every single pitcher that game. There
was an eighteen inning game and then but then today,
I mean the game was over. You know, people were
leaving at the eighth inning and it was six to one,
and why he couldn't put Clayton Kershaw in for you know,
his last and final appearance at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 14 (52:31):
I thought that was pretty pretty low.
Speaker 8 (52:34):
You know, well, I could understand you want to take
the glasses half empty route, Rich, but some people would
be upset that he brought in Kershaw in a mop
up roll in a six to one game.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
So you're in a you can't make everybody happy. He
brought Clayton.
Speaker 8 (52:50):
Kershaw in in a crucial situation in extra innings in
the twelfth inning, and you know it's not that he's
shining away from him, but he needs Kershaw to be able.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
To be ready to go in six or seven if
they need him.
Speaker 8 (53:03):
So, you know, I disagree with you on that, Rich,
but I know a lot of people wanted to see
him tonight, but they got to see him in the
twelfth inning in a huge spot at Dodgers Stadium two
nights ago. So sometimes the game doesn't dictate what everybody wants.
In a ceremonial fashion, thank you for the phone call.
Let's go out to Kevin in Culver City. You're on
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Dodger Talk.
Speaker 14 (53:25):
Hi, Kevin David my man, Hey, keep your head up.
Speaker 19 (53:30):
You've been doing a phenomenal job. I loved hearing Freddy
Freeman sound like that. I've never heard Freddy Freeman that
angry as a member of the Dodgers. He sounded pissed,
and he sounded like, let's get down to business and
let's get after it.
Speaker 14 (53:44):
I want to give you some things to.
Speaker 19 (53:46):
Hold your head up up the Seatle Mariners won two
games in Toronto. Remember that they were one pitch away
from winning Game seven in Toronto.
Speaker 15 (53:54):
It can be done.
Speaker 19 (53:55):
And we got mister there is losing his nine option.
Yamamoto on the man for game six, and you know,
good and well, if we get to game seven, if
Otani it's glass now, it's now, it's all hands on deck.
And we've done this before. And there's no other team
I'd rather be in this situation with than those guys
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that you saw on that field tonight. Freddie is a professional,
Mookie's a professional, and Otani is a superstar. And you
know better than anybody in this town with RP, Kobe Bryant,
Shaquille O'Neil, superstars like Magic Johnson step up in big games.
And let's see what showtime Otani is all about. For
two games in Toronto. All the pressures on the Blue
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Jays because if they lose, don't lose game six, because
if we get to game seven, anything can happen.
Speaker 14 (54:45):
And we've done it before.
Speaker 19 (54:47):
Let's go two games to win the World Series, David,
keep these Dodgers heads up and keep these stand stairs up.
Let's get into that Toronto and make history.
Speaker 2 (54:55):
Let's do it, all right, Thanks for the phone call, Kevin.
I agree with you.
Speaker 8 (55:00):
If the Dodgers force a Game seven, they are in
a very good spot with their pitching. With all hands
on deck in a game seven, I would imagine, since
Dave Roberts said before today's game that all hands would
be on deck for a game seven, that if you're
going to use Otani as a pitcher in game seven,
you would have to use them as an opener or
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be the guy that gets the last three outs. But
if you're planning on using Otani and we all know
when Otani pitches, there has to be a mapped out
plan with not just Dave Roberts and Mark Pryor and
Andrew Freeman involved. You gotta get Otani's team and doctor
Neil elatrosh on board as well. So I would imagine
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the thing that makes the most sense if there is
a game seven, instead of having Tyler Glass now start
Game seven on the road, you would go with Otani
to open up that game and see where it takes
you and how far it takes you, and then you
bring in Glass now and go match up to match
up at that point in time, eight six, six, seven,
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two five seventy is the phone number before we say
good night. I want to share Will Smith with you,
because it looked like his legs were starting to get
a little tired there after catching all eighteen innings a
couple of nights ago and being counted on to be
a main force in this offense. Let's head downstairs to
the Dodger clubhouse to hear from the Dodger catcher.
Speaker 16 (56:26):
Yeah, you know, it's been a long flight tonight, getting
us some rest, uh, you know where you re recovered tomorrow,
be ready to go.
Speaker 9 (56:34):
This team obviously battled back last year against the Padres.
Speaker 6 (56:36):
You've been in this position before.
Speaker 9 (56:39):
What can you learn from that experience with your backs
up against the wall.
Speaker 6 (56:43):
Yeah, just keep fighting, you know, keep keep hitting back.
Speaker 16 (56:45):
You'll just go one pitch at the time, offensively, one
pitch time, defensively, pitch one, you know, one pitch at
a time.
Speaker 6 (56:51):
Just keep fighting.
Speaker 2 (56:53):
It was just doing today. It was just totally different
than Game one.
Speaker 16 (56:56):
Yeah, he was throwing strikes. You know, he was landing
a squitter. He's landing a slider, you know, strowing hears
in the zone. Just execute pitches. You know, you pitch
really well. I thought he pitched really well, honestly, you know,
the first you know, two homers lead off the game.
Then he kind of settled in.
Speaker 2 (57:13):
He up the one run a little later, but I
thought he pitched.
Speaker 18 (57:15):
Well, guys are really pushing fastballs for sure early in
the game.
Speaker 2 (57:21):
Well, going into a close out.
Speaker 5 (57:23):
Game for them, you know, you guys can mentioned it's
been in that spot before, being down to one. How
confident are you guys? I mean, obviously the bats are,
they're they're slumping a little bit. Obviously good pitching, but
confident going in there and being able to get this
thing to seven?
Speaker 16 (57:36):
Yeah, No, we we we trust each other. You know,
we we believe we're the best year in baseball. You know,
we've had our backs against the wall a lot this year,
fighting their injuries, fighting through you know, expectations and all that.
Just a tough group and uh, you know I got
I got no no problem going in behind two games,
going in there and winning two games, and uh, you
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know we'll be ready for that. How that good is
this field?
Speaker 4 (57:59):
To know?
Speaker 6 (58:00):
Your next picture is Yamamoto dot Yeah, he pitched great.
Speaker 16 (58:03):
Luck signed up. You know we're gonna we're gonna need
to get start out of him. I let the offense
can get ahead and you know, force Game seven.
Speaker 14 (58:09):
After that.
Speaker 8 (58:10):
All right, there's Will Smith, who was hitting second tonight
as Dave Roberts made a small tweak to see whether
or not Smith could be the guy that comes up
with some runners in scoring position and take some pressure
off Mookie Betts. It just didn't work tonight, as the
Dodgers go down quietly against trey Ya Savage and the
Blue Jays six to one in Game five of the
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World Series. Now, Game six is on Friday at Rogers Center.
Our coverage begins at four o'clock with Dodgers on deck,
Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck and Rick Monday and Steven
Nelson will have first pitch at five oh eight from
Toronto Tomorrow morning. Don't forget, our coverage continues live in
local with Steve Sacks and Tim Cats. They will have
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scam until nine am, and I'll be on my way
to Toronto tomorrow morning to catch up with the Dodgers.
We'll be at the workout at Rogers Center. We'll have
reports all day on a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (59:08):
That'll do it for us. Tonight.
Speaker 8 (59:09):
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to get to you tomorrow or call Saxon Kids in
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thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and
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Once again, the final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium. In
Game five of the World Series, the Blue Jays beat
the Dodgers six to one and now have a three
games to two lead in the World Series.
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It's only been fourteen years. Every day, David Basse, we
are live at Dodgers Stadium. After the Blue Jays shockingly
beat the Dodgers Game four and now Game five to
take a three games to two lead in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Tonight, the final score six to one.
Speaker 8 (01:09):
David Vasse with you until ten o'clock tonight here on
AM five to seventy LA Sports. We are going to
get more postgame reaction. You'll hear from Blake Snell, Freddie Freeman,
Keike Hernandez, and Will Smith.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Jose Moto will check.
Speaker 8 (01:23):
In and we have a full border calls, not shocking,
full border calls tonight and hey, I'm here. I'm here
to answer all of your questions. You want to bring
the heat. Disappointing night for my guy, Blake Snell, your guy,
Blake Snell. Two losses in the World Series, after being
the best pitcher in the postseason for the Dodgers up
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until this point, allowing just two earned runs in his
previous starts before the World Series, and now again giving
up five earned runs and six and.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Two thirds innings. The most disappointing and support rising part
of this is that he gave up back to back
home runs to start the game. That's right, David Schneider
ambushed a first pitch fastball ninety seven at the top
of the strike zone for a home run, and then
Vladimir Guerrero Junior did the same thing, not on the
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first pitch and not in that same area, but it
was a fastball, and the Blue Jays quietly or quieted
this Dodger Stadium crowd right away. With a two nothing
lead on back to back home runs to start Game
five of the World Series. And look, there was no
secret about it.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
In Game one, Blake Snell did not have good fastball command,
especially up in the strike zone.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So the Blue Jays were smart.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
They knew that Snell was going to come out and
try to establish that fastball, and they ambushed him right away.
David Schneider, you wouldn't expect that to happen. Vladimir Guerrero Junior,
you can believe that a little bit more. But yeah,
nothing before the seats were worn in Game five of
the World Series was not ideal considering all we were
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talking about. All the Dodgers were talking about was getting
Snell some early runs because they believed he was going
to be good. And look, you gotta give Snell some
credit because after that he settled in. Tascar Hernandez made
a horrible decision to die for a bloop down the
line when he was shaded more towards the alley, and
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that turned into a leadoff triple for Dalton Varshow in
the fourth inning and turned into a run on an
Ernie Clement sacrifice fly to center field. If Tascar Hernandez
plays that straight var Show's at second base and that
run doesn't score, So instead of two to one after
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the top of the fourth inning, it's three to one.
And the Dodgers were playing from behind from the very beginning.
Kicky Hernandez hits that solo home run, gets the crowd
into the game leading off or with one out in
the third inning, that's a two to one game. But
then you give that run right back on a on
a ridiculous attempt by ta Oscar Hernandez in right field,
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and then I thought on the opposite end of it,
Addison Barger made the play of the game, robbing Shoheio
Tani leading off the sixth inning on a sinking line
drive that he had to dive head first for one
hundred and seventeen miles an hour. That's how hard that
ball was hit. If Barger doesn't make that catch, it's
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a triple for Otani, and all of a sudden, the
Dodgers are in business. But the defense of the Blue
Jays has been better in this series than the Dodgers,
and their offense has been much better and more tenacious
and on the attack and grinder like you know, their
offense reminds.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Me of the twenty seventeen Dodgers. That was their identity.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
Yeah, they had a couple of aircraft carriers and Cody
Bellinger and you know Yasiel Puigue in that point in
time of his career, Justin Turner. But Justin Turner and
the rest of the Dodgers were grinders. They would make
opposing pitchers work fell pitches off, not chase pitches outside
of the strike zone. That's who these Blue Jays are
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and that's been the difference in the series so far.
They have had the Dodgers on their heels from the
first inning of Game one, and the Dodgers have been
making mistakes. Their offense has been an all or nothing
type of approach, and that's why they're in this predicament
with their backs up against the wall, winner go home
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in Game six of the World Series. The Dodger offense
has only scored four runs in their last twenty eight innings.
They struck out twelve times against trey Ya Savage tonight.
They have struck out twenty two times in the last
two games. As Stu Lance would say, that won't get
it done. And it's just one of those weird laws
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again for this Dodger offense. Not to mention, the struggles
continued for Mookie Betts, despite Dave Roberts tweaking where he
hits in the order, he's hitting third. Mooki now is
just three for twenty three in the World Series. And
I had one of his former teammates text me about
fifteen minutes ago, and you know what he texted me.
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He said, I just want to see Mooki go out
there and compete. Just go out there, forget about thinking
about the approach, game plan swing. Just go out there
and compete. And maybe it's to that point right now
with the Dodgers in a winner go home situation in
Game six and Game seven if they win on Friday,
that Mookie Betts will just let it all go and
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just go out there and compete and.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Play free and easy.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Even his big brother from the Red Sox, Big Poppy,
David Ortiz said it moments after the final out tonight.
Mookie's confidence is at an all time low. He's gotta
find a way to believe in Mooki again, and teammates
are saying, just go out there and compete. That's what
they need from Mookie.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Betts. He was a zero for four tonight hitting third
in the lineup.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
I love the idea Dave Roberts had by having Will
Smith hit behind Shoe Aotani. I would like to see
Miguel Rojas now start Game six. You know, I was
such a big advocate for Tommy Edmond to be starting
in center field. Well, Tommy Edmond has not had a
good World Series either. He's three for twenty one in
the World Series. You know, Dave Roberts made a tweak tonight.
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Maybe it's time to make another tweak and have Miguel
Rojas in there at second base. So we'll see where
it goes. But certainly it can't. It's not just on
one or two guys. This is a team. A team
win and the team loses. And the Dodgers have not
been in a win or go home situation in the
postseason since Game four of last year's NLDS against the Padres.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It was the Padres offense that went cold.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
I think they went scoreless the last thirty innings of
that NLDS, and the Dodgers now have only scored four
runs in their last twenty eight innings in this World Series.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Here's another question for you.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Everybody was so certain that the life was sucked out
of the Blue Jays after the Dodgers won that eighteen
inning marathon in Game three.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Could it be it was the Dodgers that came.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Out flat the last two nights after playing those eighteen innings.
Were they the ones that were emotionally and physically spent.
It's a question that needs to be asked. But luckily
there's a day off tomorrow. The Dodgers have an opportunity
to regroup and just worry about the Game six. You know,
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I was talking to Charlie Steiner before the game, and
he said, when Don Zimmer was Joe Torre's bench coach
with the Yankees, the last team to repeat his champions
the mantra was just win the inning in the World
Series and in the postseason, just win the next inning,
Win this inning, win the next inning, when that inning,
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when the next one feels like the Dodgers are trying
to win three or four innings in one, especially when
they're at the plate. So Game six, win the first
inning and go on from there. Eight six, six, seven,
two five seventy is the phone number. Let's head downstairs
to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from a very frustrated
(09:33):
and disappointed Blake Snell.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
I mean they really get to me. As a first
pitch of the game, ninety seven, passba up and then
he hits at ninety eight. It goes out pretty unlucky,
and I'm glad that's a Yeah, just a bad pitch now,
and then passball. But then after that, yeah, pretty pretty
smooth sailing, figured out their lineup, what they like to do,
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and var gets a triple on a seventy eight exit
v Low. It's just sound lucky. Yeah, I mean I'm
not I'm not wanting to make excuses or anything close
to that, but they're just pretty unlucky doing so much
you can do to where you know that sound lucky.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And then.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
The seventh thing in there, Yeah, good pitch, I mean
just yeah, it hits the ball and play. Barjia hits
the ball and play and then walk the nine hole
guy that has struck out twice already. Just gotta be
better there.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And then yeah, when you.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Look at just kind of how you were looking to
kind of close us from out the pitch cow getting up,
was there a part of you that was kind of
just like, how do I kind of dig deep to
navigate this back end of your routing?
Speaker 9 (10:48):
No, I mean I still I was doing nice on anything,
and I felt good. I feel strong. Yeah, I mean
my whole I'm in training to be to be ready
for this and be strong, and I felt good.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, like I trust me.
Speaker 9 (11:03):
So yeah, just just frustrating she's.
Speaker 11 (11:07):
Going away from the fastball a little back to the
Vlad homer. Is that short of just reacting to what
they were clearly trying to do?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Early encounts against you.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
I mean, Lad's you know, he's a really good hitter,
so you gotta, you know, do stuff there. But the
rest of the lineup, Yeah, they're like ambushing. I mean
I'll probably forget the game seven then I'll see him again,
so I can't I can't say much.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But no, I mean.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Yeah, just I mean all of a sudden, Yeah, Lad,
good hitter. Schnyder, I mean, hit it one mount our
harder than I threw it. Good location, varsoa triple curveball
capped like luck plays in baseball too.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
So yeah, do.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You feel like you you went away from the fastball
for twenty two pitchers after.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
That home under that?
Speaker 12 (12:00):
Why did you feel like you were leaving a toe
a toe.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
Yeah, No, I don't think there's towels. I just think
they're ambushing the fastball, especially after I go I'm gonna
throw fastballs.
Speaker 13 (12:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
It's got to.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Yeah, I don't think there's towels. Are just great swings
and yah, they're ambition and as they should, as I
thought they would.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
And yeah, do you feel like, all right, there's Blake
Snell and I thought he knew what was happening there.
David Schneider hit a really good pitch and I didn't
know it was ninety eight miles an hour on the
exit below, but it counts it went over the wall,
so I mean, that's not an excuse. Vladimir Guerra Junior
hit a bad executed pitch by Blake Snell. He didn't
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want to throw Oscar Hernandez under the bus, but it
was a bad play by Taoscar Hernandez, who hasn't been
that great and right field this year. So that led
to the third run, and I'm glad he brought up
Andres Mnez. I mean, that was the at bat of
the game in the seventh inning and really changed the
complexion of that seventh inning and in turn changed the
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complexion of this game, because after the seventh inning, this
wasn't a game anymore. The Dodger offense could come back
and win, especially with the way they're swinging the bats
these days.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Inexcusable for Blake snell to.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Walk Andres Semnez the ninth hitter after he struck him
out twice in the second and then in the fourth
inning one out walk to Andres Semenez did snell In
and the Dodgers in that seventh inning that that's got
to be the at bat that should keep him awake
until he's able to pitch again in Game seven eight
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six six, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Let's go out to Justin who is at Dodger Stadium tonight. Hi, Justin,
you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Thank you for uh taking when he first I was there,
I am very disgusted.
Speaker 14 (14:03):
This will be a little bit of a rent.
Speaker 13 (14:05):
I was at Game one of the World Sees last
year and the Dodgers were up two to one.
Speaker 14 (14:10):
This year, I thought I expected this to be the clincher,
wanted to witness in person. Instead, got disgusted, you know,
taste in my mouth. Everything was off today. You're right,
the energy of the Dodgers crowd sucks compared to the
Blue Jays giving up a home run on the first
pitch and then to the second powder definitely doesn't help. Yeah,
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I think it disappeared.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, I can understand that.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
When back to back home runs happened to start the game,
it takes the energy out of the stadium until keiy
k Hernandez hits that home run and then Taoscar Hernandez
boxes a ball and right field and takes the crowd
out of it again. So I'm not blaming the crowd tonight.
The Dodgers didn't give them much to cheer about.
Speaker 14 (14:52):
The offense has disappeared, and we can't get the guy
before show, hay on, we can't get the guy after
a show.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Hey on?
Speaker 14 (14:58):
So I got no solution there.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Yeah, the only solution is the Dodgers can't just hang
their heads. They've got to regroup, pick themselves up if
they want to win this World Series.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It doesn't come easy.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Justin repeating is not easy, and the Dodgers certainly know
that and are experiencing that.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But they're not They're not.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Going to be like, oh, we lost Game five, so
I guess we better not board that plane to Toronto.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Our season's over.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
No, those guys are gonna regroup, get that day off.
Hopefully they have some baseball talk on that plane to Toronto.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I mean they got that player's only plane.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
That's where they should be talking about the game, and
you know, picking each other up and looking each other
in the eye and making sure nobody is quitting on
the season, which I don't believe they will. Eight six
six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number. Ryan,
also at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Ryan, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 13 (15:57):
Hey, how the gondv.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well I've been better, Ryan.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
I would have liked to have seen the Dodgers win
one of these last two games. But uh, you know,
you have to wonder whether or not those eighteen innings
hurt the Dodgers more than the Blue Jays because, uh,
the bullpen is super thin and the offense is struggling
right now.
Speaker 13 (16:18):
Yeah, it's crazy to think if we don't get that
eighteen inning game, we're looking at a sweep at home.
Speaker 15 (16:22):
It's like, come on, Ruth, definitely better than this, you know,
like very, very disappointing.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Yeah it is, but they got two more opportunities to
win games, and the Dodgers have won two in a
row many times, and the Blue Jays still have to
beat the Dodgers four times in a best of seven series.
I refuse to believe that they can do that until
they prove me otherwise. Eight six six eight seven two
(16:49):
five seventy is the phone number. Let's head back downstairs
to the Dodger clubhouse to hear from Freddie Freeman on.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
His command from the first game.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
He had everything working tonight, but again I still got
to put some runs on the board and do a
better job, and we just haven't done that for about two.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And a half games.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
You guys have been in this situation before, backs against
the wall, looking to win this series.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
I mean, you're obviously not out of it.
Speaker 10 (17:14):
What is just kind of is there a conversation as
you guys traveled to Toronto to find a way to
get things going.
Speaker 11 (17:20):
I think it's kind of bigs for itself that they
just played a better game than us tonight balls and
dirt sater on guys, just corre position. They're getting it in,
just you know, they just pitched really good too, So
they just outplayed us today.
Speaker 14 (17:33):
I know it was like the regular season when you
guys are startling in and they're like, what.
Speaker 16 (17:36):
Did you learn from.
Speaker 15 (17:37):
That point in time that maybe you can apply to
try to turn things around for game six and seven.
Speaker 11 (17:42):
We all know what we're capable of them. We haven't
done it for two games, so maybe they awful cool
them down over there and we'll reunite us. Is to
carry over all eighteen of the news early? Is that
something that where it's just they kind of just responded
better the last couple of days. They just played better
baseball the last two days. I don't think anybody's thinking
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about a game two days ago. I mean, it was
just playing simple. They just played better than us today.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
There's a lot of character on this on this clubhouse.
What do you like about this team to lean into.
Speaker 11 (18:15):
We face this last year we were down to one
to the Podgers, and when two games in a row,
so we can do it again.
Speaker 14 (18:20):
When you talk a.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Lot about the offense that need to kind of come
alive or in.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
A pre game, do you have any considering the talent
of your line up?
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Do you have bes that this is what the.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Offense is done.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
When you go into this game, you tackle lane. And
our lane today was up against Savage and it was
just a complete one eighty from game one. His his
command was was pinpoint. Tonight we were fighting that lane
and he was still getting the slider and split it
down below his own for strikes. And that was the
difference from game one. He had a lot of non
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competitive misses in game one and today you didn't have that.
And credit to him. That was that was a really
good game pitched by him and Anthony and Jeff. And
you know, baseball is a hard game, and it's been
hard for us the.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Last two days.
Speaker 11 (19:06):
But like we said, we've been in a situation before
like we were last year, and we can do it again.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You're bachelor against the wall.
Speaker 15 (19:11):
But how good does it field to know that the
Bubbles pitching for you guys now?
Speaker 11 (19:15):
I mean, yeah, we feel really good about our starting
pitching and our pitching staff. So, uh, we're gonna need
Jokes to do it again, and hopefully as an offense
we can score some more runs for him.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
In addition, you Savage a splitter better this time around.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
Those It's all command. He just had command. He was
able to throw up the strikes on. Oh he wasn't
able to do that in Game one, So it was
all command tonight. When you get strike one and get
ahead of us, it's really hard to hit.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
We talked about, you know, being down to one of
the padres, but how much of that experience that you
guys have as a team. We won a World Series
last year, knowing the confidence going into a game six situation.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
Yeah, we're confident.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We know who we are.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
We know we got to play better baseball and we'll
try to do that in two days.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
You guys are crying to become the first repeat champions.
Speaker 11 (19:55):
We're just trying to play baseball game right now. If
you're thinking about trying to win some that's two wins away,
then you're thinking about the wrong thing. We need to
worry about Friday and play a better baseball game.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
All right.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
There's Freddy Freeman. He's got the right mindset. You can't
be worried about winning two games in Game six. You
have to win Game six to even have an opportunity
to win Game seven. And like I said before, you know,
with Don Zimmer relay to Joe Tory, you've got to
win the inning in front of you, and that's what
the Dodgers need to have in their minds going into
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Game six. You can't win all nine innings in the
first inning. The Dodgers need to win the first inning
and that will be a huge victory for Yamamoto and
the team. You heard Freddy Freeman talk about trey Ya Savage.
He was completely different than what they saw in Game one.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Strike one. He was in the zone with the slider.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
He was in the zone with his fastball, and he
got the Dodgers to chase his split fingered fastball. Twelve strikeouts,
no walks. That's the most strikeouts by a pitcher in
a World Series game without issuing a walk. Eight six, six, seven,
two five seventy is the phone number Toronto beats the
Dodgers in Game five of the World Series six to one.
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Let's go out to Sambino, who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight.
Hi Sambino, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Hi David, thank you for the call. Lost my voice
at the stadium.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You called me a problem number one. UH. And I
would love your opinion on this afterwards. But Roki Sasaki,
I feel like I should have came in into seventh
inning to put out the fire after Snow got pulled
out of the game. I feel like there's nothing to
save him for in this game when you're down at
that point. I would have loved to see that stop
gap there from Dave. I agree with you, you know.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I agree with you. Sometimes the game is not one
or lost in the ninth inning. It's one or lost
in situations like that in the seventh and the only
question I'm sure Dave had was, Okay, I go to
Sasaki right there in the seventh inning. Is he going
to finish the game for me? Even though we're losing
at that point in time. But yeah, the game was
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right there in the seventh inning, and you know me personally,
You've already pushed Blake SNeW to one hundred and sixteen
pitches and he just struck out David Schneider. I can
understand why you don't want him to face Vladimir Guerrero Junior.
But how about put up four fingers, walk Arero and
let Snell face an injured Bo Bashett. He can get
Bo Bashett, even though Bashett's had some success against him
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in the past, but he's not at one hundred percent
right now, So you know the pitch count for me.
Once you get to one sixteen, you've already pushed him
really far, So why not.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Just keep going?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I agree, and uh, you know, to that point. But
we got to get more than one run, you know.
And I think sometimes when I watch the Dodgers, especially
in the postseason, I feel like we got to play
a little bit more Pepper and a little less home
run Derby. As far as our approach, I feel like
the Jays are putting the ball in play and they're
seeing good results, and I feel like sometimes we're just
trying to hit that bomb a little bit too much.
But that I hated Tayo's play coming out of the top.
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You know, after we score the run and we get
the momentum back, I feel like he's gotta just that
was a mental error. And there were many mental errors tonight.
You know, not to beat up on rookie, but he
bobbles the ball second. But then Will Smith four pass
balls hired legs.
Speaker 13 (23:18):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It was just one of the sloppiest Dodger performances I've
seen in such a big game in a long time.
It was extremely disappointing. And I do agree with you.
By the way, we've seen Kevin Guizman a bunch of times.
I do think we win Game six and then it's
a dog fight, and so I'm optimistic. Go Dodgers, but
tough one tonight.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Yeah, no doubt, Sambino, and I am confident. I'll say
this on the record. I believe the Dodgers will force
a game seven. Yamamoto will deliver. I believe this Dodger
offense is going to finally wake up because at some
point they have to write you just hope they don't
run out of time before they do. So I'm all
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in for a game seven, and at that point in time,
it's a flip a coin. But the Dodgers have to
find a way to score runs. I have no doubts
about Yamamoto. If Blake Snell was more efficient at times,
you know, I know the line says six and two
thirds innings five in runs, but I really didn't believe
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Snell pitched that poorly. He did get ambushed in the
first inning, and that really did take a lot of
life out of this stadium and put their offense in
a spot considering they're struggling to score runs. But I
thought he'd pitched better than what his final line said,
something that Jose Moto brought up, and Jose will join
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us in about ten minutes. The Dodger relievers, when they
have come in with inherited runners, have not strainded those runners.
They have scored and a Guardo and Riquez happened to
allow those runs to score as well. Bonda did not
stop the bleeding last night. And just for the record,
it was four wild pitches, three of the four coming
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in that seven and thinning the four while pitches by
the Dodgers staff tonight the most in a World Series
game eight, six, six, seven, two, five seventy is the
phone number. Let's go out to Antonio and Santa Ana.
You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 17 (25:14):
Antonio, Hello, David, Hello, Dodger fans.
Speaker 13 (25:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (25:20):
Game five is in the past now, so that's it.
We pack our bags, We hop on the game six day,
we go forward. This team is built differently on the road.
This is another team. We don't give a We just
keep going. What do you think, David, are we positive
or not? I'm sure we're positive.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh yeah, they're positive.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
They're not just gonna put their head and not get
off the plane in Toronto when it lands Antonio. They're
gonna get off that plane in the early part of
the morning tomorrow and uh, you know, regroup.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And figure things out, and uh, you know.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
The confidence comes from having a starting pitcher like Yao
on the mount in game six. That's where the confidence begins.
If it was somebody else starting game six, I can
understand where the confidence would be wavering.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
But when you have a guy that has pitched back
to back.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Complete games, including Game two of the World Series in Toronto,
where Game six is going to be played, everybody has
confidence that Yamamoto is going to dominate and they just
have to do their part as an offense. If they
do that, they have a very good chance of forcing
a Game seven. Let's go out to Luis in LA.
(26:32):
You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 13 (26:33):
How you doing, Louis, Hi, David, I'm okay, just tired, obviously,
I'm I'm I'm very disappointed in the game today.
Speaker 14 (26:42):
But here here's the thing.
Speaker 13 (26:44):
For for Friday. I believe that the bats need to
wake up, and in order for that to happen, in
the first three innings, I want those I want one
scored and then just Yamamoto cruise throughout like for eight innings.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
And that was the plan tonight. Yeah, that was the
plan I had for tonight. Let's see if the Dodgers
can do that. Because there hasn't been a save opportunity
for Roki Sasaki in this World Series. I would love
to see that happen. It just the Dodgers have not
put him in that position. And now two consecutive games
where Roki was not needed, he should be well rested
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to be able to pitch multiple innings in Game six
and Game seven in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Thanks for the phone call, Luis.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
And speaking of Game six and seven, only three teams
in the last fifty years have won Game six and
seven on the road. That was the twenty nineteen Nationals
who beat the Astros in Houston, the sixteen Cubs who
won their first World Series in one hundred years in
Cleveland over the Indians, and the nineteen seventy nine Pirates
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went into Baltimore to beat the Orioles.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
In Game six and seven on the road.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
So the Dodgers are looking to be just the fourth
team in the last fifty years to win Game six
and seven on the road. Eight six six nine seven
two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Chris in LA. You're on Dodger Talk Live from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 15 (28:15):
Hi, Chris, Hey, Dave, Hey, you know I want to say.
You know, I told Fred and Rodney earlier that I
was telling my daughter after watching the game those guys,
I was telling them. She was asking me about baseball.
I told her, Honey, you just never know what baseball
and today was the perfect example. There is no way
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in the world you could have told anyone that Blake
Snell was going to throw two home runs in three
pitches and the Dodgers we were only going to have
three hits going into the ninth inning. Oh and by
the way, a kid from not Triple A, but Single A,
who's only been with the Blue Jays about a month
and a half is going to have the rookie record
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for strung against this incredible Dodger lineup.
Speaker 14 (29:02):
You couldn't have predicted that. But that's baseball.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
It's crazy.
Speaker 15 (29:07):
It's not like any other sport. And Yamamoto gives us
a really good chance on Friday, but you know, baseball,
there's no way we could say, yeah, we're gonna get
that game because we haven't supported him with runs all year,
you know.
Speaker 14 (29:21):
So I tell my.
Speaker 15 (29:23):
Daughter, Mike, look, enjoy the game, root for your team
with all your heart, but don't let it stress you out,
because at the end of the day, you just absolutely
never know. Because I thought Blake's new was gonna come
out and deal like you were saying. But you know
who knows, you know, and the bets. You know, it's
all about timely hitting and being hot at the right time.
(29:43):
And right now, the Dodgers are not hot. So we're
gonna have to hope that they just pick it up
a little bit these next two games.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
But you know, it's it's tough man.
Speaker 14 (29:53):
Baseball.
Speaker 15 (29:53):
Baseball is a crazy sport.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Dave, Yeah it is. Chris, Thank you for the phone call.
A lot of cliches right there, Chris, appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
Age six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
the phone number.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
The Dodgers down three games to two after losing Game
five to the Blue Jays six to one. And look,
it does bear asking whether or not that eighteen inning
game affected the Dodgers more adversely than it affected the
Blue Jays. Everybody thought it was the Blue Jays that
we're gonna have nothing left in the tank for Game four,
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and they come out and get Shane Bieber to you know,
stifle the Dodger offense. They played into his hands and
the Dodger bullpen was thin after Dave Roberts had to
use everybody in that bullpen.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
In that eighteen inning game.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
He was kind of boxed in to have to use
Bonda and Trining in key spots.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Last night.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Uh, the Blue Jays seemed to have a little bit
more energy last night. Seemed like they had a little
bit more hung an energy to win this game tonight
as well, with a rookie on the mount and trey
Ya Savage who you know, Blakesnell after Game one said.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
He learned a lot and was going to make adjustments.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
Well, it seemed like young trey Ya Savage was the
one that learned a lot and made the bigger adjustments
because he was astronomically better than he was in Game one,
going seven innings tonight with twelve strikeouts and no walks.
And you know, the Dodgers tried to tweak the lineup.
They benched Andy Paez like we were talking about last night,
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Alex calling the ninth spot, and also they moved Mookie
Bets down to the three spot, had Will Smith move
up to the two spot, and it still didn't work.
And we'll see where it goes from here. But you know,
sometimes you're fit to be tied when you have a
picture throwing the way you Savage was thrown tonight. But
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the approach and the chase of the Dodgers was just
ahead Scratcher tonight. But you, Savage, you have to give
him a lot of credit. And the Blue Jays played
better tonight. Freddie Freeman said it. The Blue Jays played
better than the Dodgers tonight, and that's tough to swallow.
And like I said in that seventh inning, I believe
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this game is still a three to one game going
into the bottom of the seventh inning. If Blake Snell
doesn't walk the number nine hitter undress him Menez. He
had two strikes on him Nz, and he walks him
with one out, He's able to battle and get David
Schneider for the second out if he takes care of
business against him.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Nz.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
Schneider is the last out of that inning, and Vladimir
Guerrero Junior is left standing on deck to lead off
the eighth inning, and you give the Dodgers offense a
chance to come back and at least tie the score
in the bottom of the seventh inning. Instead, that seventh
inning completely unraveled after Blake Snell walked him in as
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struck out Schneider and Dave Roberts went to the bullpen
after Snell through his one hundred and sixteenth pitch just
completely fell apart right there, and it all started with
Snell walking him Menace eight six six, seven, two five
seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the Blue
Jayson Game five of the World Series six to one.
(33:26):
Let's go out to Diana and Granada Hills. You're on
Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Hi Diana, Hi David.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
So I have to say I really do appreciate your
positivity tonight and the callers ahead of me. That's that's
really great to hear. But I do have to say
to you that I think I have receipts on you
having receipts on me from the summer.
Speaker 8 (33:51):
Oh did I use one of your Oh yeah, I
used one of your calls where Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
On that off day Dodger Talk, I had receipts.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
You had receipts, but now I have the receipts on you.
Because I was calling about Mooky not producing any offense
during the summer, and I really wanted, well, really I
wanted him to move back to right field. Not because
he wasn't a great shortstop, because I do think he's
playing really well to our stop, but because Tao is
not a great right fielder. And so here we go tonight.
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You know exactly what I was afraid of, Hayo not
doing well and right and Mookie not producing. But then again,
the Dodger offense has gone to sleep for some reason
or other.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
Yeah, I will say this, Diana. I mean, that's been
a problem all summer long. Taskar Hernandez has not been
consistently good in right field, and he made a horrible
decision to dive for that ball from Dalton var Show.
But I will say last year, before Mookie Bets broke
his hand on a pitch that kept him out for
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six weeks, he was on his way to an MVP
because of the offense he was producing and the shortstop
he was playing, and he wasn't even playing as good
as he's playing it this year, but I think we
can both agree that, yeah, ta Oscar Hernandez in right
field hasn't looked right, no pun intended all year long,
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and it came back to hurt the Dodgers tonight in
a key spot. So I'm we can agree on that.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Well, thank you and thank you for the shout out
good or bad. I really appreciate it for Dodgers, all.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
Right, Dana, thank you for the phone call. Eight sixty
six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. Look,
the reason why I'm not Doomsday Dave tonight is because
the Dodgers have a really good lineup. They have really
good players, they're just not performing up to their capabilities.
And maybe the reason why I'm so optimistic as well
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is because Ya'mamoto's pitching Game six. He has been the
Dodgers' best postseason starter this year. It's not Blake Snell,
It's Yamamoto. Yamamoto is the one with two complete games
in his last two starts. Maybe that's why I'm so confident,
and I feel like that's the reason why that Dodger
clubhouse is so confident that they can force a Game seven,
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because Yama Moto will take them to the Promised Land.
All right, before we take a time out, let's hear
from Key Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
He's the one that drove in the only Dodger run.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
It was himself with a home run with one out
in the third inning.
Speaker 18 (36:32):
We are seems like a bouts for Snow playing on
us right now. Then we're missing them and then we're
expanding the zone with two strikes. And I think the
best thing that can happen for us is a day off,
you know, to find get a data, regroup and you know,
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figure it out. But as a group, it's time for
us to you know, show our character and put put
a fight, put up a fight, and uh, you know,
see what happens fight. I mean, I wouldn't say that
it hasn't been enough of a fight. It's just last
night we were a little bit flat. And then tonight,
you know, three pitches into the game, we were down
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to nothing and you know, he was on the just
howse was on that thought it was really good and
you know, hitting creates energy and we haven't. We weren't
getting hits, so we weren't really doing whatever it took
to to you know, find that energy. And I mean
it's it's tough right now, but I think I think
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we're gonna be all right.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Last year's team dug out against San Diego. Is this
your team capable of the same thing. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 18 (37:44):
I think we're more talented team that we were last year,
and we found a way to We found a way
to do it last year, and I thought we were
gonna bear a hole given the the situation where the
pitching staff last year. So right, I had the right
time on the mountain for us in Game six and
sent for us for for the offense to show up.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
What was the savage doing to get hit in account?
Speaker 16 (38:10):
As much as you guys strikes.
Speaker 18 (38:16):
His lighter was really good tonight. This lighter, I think
this slider was a difference maker. It was harder and
tighter than it was in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
And.
Speaker 18 (38:24):
Yeah, we weren't really they would pick it up and
then splayed us pretty good and just seemed like we
were I don't know for we're just in between kinda
and kudos to him, but we just gotta be better.
Speaker 16 (38:43):
It seems like you guys been in there in between,
and a couple of times from the postseas like when
you get in that mode that is an offense.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
You guys get out with us.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Find out.
Speaker 18 (38:54):
I don't have an answer right now, but we'll find out.
Speaker 8 (38:57):
All right, there's uh the leader, one of the leaders
in that clubhouse that has a huge voice and confidence
and uh that's uh Keiy a Hernandez. I would say
key K, Freddie Freeman, and Miguel Rojas are the three
loudest voices in that clubhouse. And when they say something,
when they diagnose something, uh, that's really you're getting a
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peek inside of what they're thinking in there. And obviously
KEYK a Hernandez believes the Dodgers can force a Game
seven A because they did it last year against the
Padres b Yamamotos on the mount, and I think that's
what gives those players the confidence to believe that if
they get some runs for Yamamoto, they can force a
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game seven eight sixty six, seven two, five seventy is
the phone number. We have a full board of calls.
We'll try to get to more of you, but next
Jose Moto will check in. After the Dodgers lose Game
five of the World Series six to one.
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Speaker 1 (40:25):
Keith k Hernandez crushes one forget about it and the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Hard with hit or on.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
That's a quarter of the way up the pavilion for
Keith k Hernandez, who has launched his first home run
of the postseason to give Dodgers Stadium some much needed wife.
Speaker 8 (40:46):
That was the only run the Dodgers scored tonight as
the Blue Jays shut them down. Trey Is Savage shuts
down the Dodger offense. That's the only run he gave up.
Twelve strikeouts, no walks, and seven innings. As to Toronto,
takes a three games to two lead in the World
Series with a six to one win in Game five.
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And just think about this, The Dodgers get a split
in Toronto the way they wanted, with three at home,
and Toronto after losing that eighteen inning marathon, beats the
Dodgers two out of three here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
That's that's hard to digest. That's hard to stomach.
Speaker 8 (41:26):
After the Dodgers won that first home game of the
World Series with Freddie Freeman's walk off home run, will
climb the unsung hero, the unexpected hero, and then the
Blue Jays are the ones that come back after that
eighteen inning loss to beat the Dodgers twice and take
a three games to two lead. Eight six six nine
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Speaker 6 (42:07):
It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mote.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
All right, Hose.
Speaker 8 (42:13):
I have sent a few texts to a few current
players former players that I trust, asking them this question,
was it the Dodger offense or was Trey Y Savage
that good.
Speaker 14 (42:25):
Dodger offense? When you hear Freddy Freeman and Kiki said
he threw a lot of strikes. What does that tell
you You're just not putting the right swings or proper
swings on the strikes. I mean, he wasn't running away
from his own He did out walk anybody. So in
that case, you got to go out there and look
at the books and go, Wow, this guy's feeling is one.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
What are we doing?
Speaker 14 (42:45):
And that's pretty much the answer right there.
Speaker 13 (42:46):
Dave.
Speaker 8 (42:48):
Yeah, it sounded like that's what Dave Roberts was seeing
in the middle of the game when Tom Verducci was
doing that in game interview, he was saying around the
third or fourth inning that you know, the Dodgers were
missing pitches in the strike zone, and that's something that
he said last night against Shane Bieber. What do you
attribute that to? Is it as simple as saying that's
just baseball? Is it approach?
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Is it trying to be the guy that hits a
home run? What do you believe that is the symptom of.
Speaker 14 (43:17):
It's once three and four. Number one is that Kika
runs into a fastball. But the rest of the bats,
I mean, pretty much about the series, we haven't seen
the run of personal Pika that we saw against the redge,
I mean truly and speaking honestly, and dave you what
I'm saying something. You know, the batter's box is big
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enough for you to move and to adjust. Home play
does not stay there for you to have to respect
like certain distance from it. You are free to move
in the batter's box. You're free to get closer to
home plate. And Alan ra Kirk, let me tell you
this kid knows understands and he's always looking at the
hitter speak. What does it tell you? Are they just
or not? If they're not adjusting, that's going the same
(43:59):
thing they think they're going to get to, you know.
And one thing too with his split finger and his
slider is and I was telling Lose this in the broadcast,
the way that he throws at sixty or re angle.
You have to think it's almost like on a swing
to hit a curve ball. And Justin Turner told me
his years ago like long changle is not what you're saying.
(44:19):
Long changle is you find them the right path of
your back to the baseball on a particular pitch to
launch the right way. So if you're going to be
taking the same swings with the guys throwing that high
versus a guy that throws three quarters, you're not.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Going to get it.
Speaker 14 (44:33):
But you've got to be able to move around and
see how come you're not reaching those pitches if you're
throwing strikes, and also you're creating a lot of strikes
because you're swinging out of his own Well, perhaps it's
all on you and it's not on him. Take for example,
Dave real quick here, Tommy Edmund decides to hit from
right side, reason reason, I want to take away the splitter,
(44:55):
and Saber says with that singing that you're taking I'm
from the splitter because you just swinging it right over
the baseball and around the baseball. So that just tells
you that to me, for a guy like Tommy Edmund,
not just putting blame on him, but if you're going
to do that, you've got to be disciplined enough to
tell yourself a right handed slider's gonna run away from me.
I don't see that in most season because I'm betting
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from the left side. In other words, it's okay if
i'm wait, it's okay, if it's okay if I get
me with a fasketball boat. Tobby was like swings, especially
in the left seat, and it just doesn't play out.
I would have just abandoned that plan after one about
to say, you know what, he's thrown up to me
right or lefty. Let me stay with the side that
I know better and make the right adjustments. And it
was made.
Speaker 8 (45:37):
Yeah, the Dodgers obviously have not made many adjustments during
this World Series. They've only scored four runs in the
last twenty eight innings. Mookie Betts, the Dodgers need him
to be more than just a guy. Mookie said after
the game that he's just been horrible. It's not because
of a lack of effort. We understand that.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
But does Mookie Betts need to just go out there.
Speaker 8 (45:59):
And compete, eat and not worry about the mechanics of
the swing or whatever analytics data he has. At some point,
don't you just have to go in there and compete
and be successful at that point.
Speaker 17 (46:12):
In time and enjoy the game.
Speaker 14 (46:14):
You lot to have fun too, I mean, don't make
it so hard on yourself where you're not enjoying the
game and grinding through a bass and you know, keep
that smile and that grin and say, hey man, you
beat me one time. But I'm gonna get you again.
You got to keep that environment in your head and
that looseness in your head too. Last night you asked
me about this too, and I said, Mookie doesn't need
to be taking extra swings during the game. It's a
(46:34):
great TV graphic, great scene or segue, but you know what,
he doesn't need to be doing that. It's late October.
You should know exactly what you need to do it.
In other words, I would even say, say those good
swings for the game, nothing else. I don't care what
TV says, whether it's showing or not. I know it
looks pretty and everything, but no, he doesn't need to
be anything else. And if anything, cut it down and
(46:56):
take less swings to make sure you say we're best.
Wing for one is better. This is a general point
that you know Kika made, and it's true. Perhaps an
off day a reset, and you know what, Dave, sometimes
you just got to look across the other dugout the
opposing team to learn what you're not doing. So the
blue collar blue Jays right now are teaching a lesson
(47:18):
on how how to play fundamental baseball. The sack flies
running the basis, hitting balls on the ground, because the
Dodgers had come into this game today having hit listen
to this over twenty more fly ball outs than the
Blue Jays in this series. That says something about the swings.
Speaker 8 (47:35):
Makes sense, and twenty two strikeouts in the last two
games is not going to generate the offense that you want.
Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers fall to
the Blue Jays in Game five of the World Series
six to one. Here's a question for you, Jose, that
I've been asking. Everybody thought the Dodgers would be the
one to benefit after playing eighteen innings, but the Blue
(47:58):
Jays are the team that see seems to have a
little bit more life, their pitching seems to be better
in the last two games and then winning the last
two games of the World Series. Do you feel like
the Dodgers were the ones that were emotionally and physically
and bullpen depleted after that eighteen inning game.
Speaker 14 (48:18):
I mean, the results are there, the type of the
bets they take, the execution from their bullpen, the inherited
runners from their bullpen, and how they have stopped the bleeding. Unfortunately,
again for Blake Snell, even though he has nothing to
do with the extraining game has been disappointed because he
has given up ten runs now in the World Series,
not all his faults, but he's got to execute better.
(48:39):
That puts you in a whole right of way. And
then on top of that, you go to the ex
rainning game. The ad Betts of the Dodgers had extra
that game should have been over and perhaps nine or tenantings,
there's no doubt. But luckily the Blue Jays would not
execute it either. But if you took to their approach
and how they face pitchers, how they adjusted, just making
sure you guys move over, get a runner over and
(49:01):
play the game has been much different. I mean today,
I mean Barjo Hares the ground ball to the right
side in the eighth inning and the first guy out
of that dugout is the highest paid player in the
highest played athlete in Canada's history, Rod Guerrero. It tells
you a whole lot about when things are going right,
what happens. Now, here's the optimistic thing. Dodgers weren't to
buyd last year against the Pods. Now you've got to
(49:23):
feel better about the aft coming, the reset and the
starting pitcher that is not in flux. You have guys
that can depend on It didn't happen today, but you
have you have a multa on them. Ount make sure
you take the crowd out in Canada because the talent
is there. They've manadjustment to four and certainly it could
be one inning that just gets them going on again.
You win the ending, as Charlie said, and as many
(49:44):
times if Don Zimmer told that to me personally, and
then things change. But you got to be able to
play a cleaner game overall.
Speaker 8 (49:51):
Yeah, we shared that story about what he used to
tell Joe Torre and it makes a lot of sense.
The Dodgers need to win the first inning of Game six. Jose,
We'll see you in Toronto tomorrow. Okay, there he goes
Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
Eight six to six, nine to eighty seven. Two five
seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8 (50:11):
Dodgers lose Game five of the World Series by a
final score of six to one. And like we mentioned earlier,
this is the last home game for the Dodgers in
twenty twenty five, and it is the last home game
in the career of Clayton Kershaw. And Kershaw, as you know,
part of the Dodger bullpen in this postseason h usually
(50:33):
relievers go through the back tunnel out of the bullpen
to the clubhouse, but Kershaw instead came through the bullpen
gates one final time at Dodger Stadium to take in
the walk from the bullpen to the dugout to the clubhouse.
And as he got closer to the near side of
the Dodger dugout, he looked up and blue kisses to
(50:55):
his wife, Ellen and his kids, And after the game
was over, the kids and the family came down to
the field. They spent one last night here at Dodger
Stadium with their dad as a member of the LA Dodgers,
as an active pitcher for the LA Dodgers at Dodger Stadium,
because Kershaw will forever be a Dodger and there'll be
(51:16):
a lot more moments for them to come to the
field and be around Dodger Stadium. But this was the
last home game for Clayton Kershaw in his Hall of
Fame career. Eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two five
seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
Let's go out to Rich in LA. You're on Dodger
Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 12 (51:34):
Rich. Yeah, hi u talking about his last active, you know,
career game. That's what you know. I know you like
Dave Roberts and all, but I'm pretty disgusted with him
right now.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
I mean, I think.
Speaker 12 (51:49):
Clayton deserves a lot better than what he's gotten this
this postseason. I mean, you know, I've been to all
I went to all four games at I call at
four because Monday was an eighteen inning game, which was
like two and you know, he put him in there
for one batter, for one single batter, And you know
(52:11):
that's because he used every single pitcher that game. There
was an eighteen inning game and then but then today,
I mean the game was over. You know, people were
leaving at the eighth inning and it was six to one,
and why he couldn't put Clayton Kershaw in for you know,
his last and final appearance at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 14 (52:31):
I thought that was pretty pretty low.
Speaker 8 (52:34):
You know, well, I could understand you want to take
the glasses half empty route, Rich, but some people would
be upset that he brought in Kershaw in a mop
up roll in a six to one game.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
So you're in a you can't make everybody happy. He
brought Clayton.
Speaker 8 (52:50):
Kershaw in in a crucial situation in extra innings in
the twelfth inning, and you know it's not that he's
shining away from him, but he needs Kershaw to be able.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
To be ready to go in six or seven if
they need him.
Speaker 8 (53:03):
So, you know, I disagree with you on that, Rich,
but I know a lot of people wanted to see
him tonight, but they got to see him in the
twelfth inning in a huge spot at Dodgers Stadium two
nights ago. So sometimes the game doesn't dictate what everybody wants.
In a ceremonial fashion, thank you for the phone call.
Let's go out to Kevin in Culver City. You're on
(53:24):
Dodger Talk.
Speaker 14 (53:25):
Hi, Kevin David my man, Hey, keep your head up.
Speaker 19 (53:30):
You've been doing a phenomenal job. I loved hearing Freddy
Freeman sound like that. I've never heard Freddy Freeman that
angry as a member of the Dodgers. He sounded pissed,
and he sounded like, let's get down to business and
let's get after it.
Speaker 14 (53:44):
I want to give you some things to.
Speaker 19 (53:46):
Hold your head up up the Seatle Mariners won two
games in Toronto. Remember that they were one pitch away
from winning Game seven in Toronto.
Speaker 15 (53:54):
It can be done.
Speaker 19 (53:55):
And we got mister there is losing his nine option.
Yamamoto on the man for game six, and you know,
good and well, if we get to game seven, if
Otani it's glass now, it's now, it's all hands on deck.
And we've done this before. And there's no other team
I'd rather be in this situation with than those guys
(54:17):
that you saw on that field tonight. Freddie is a professional,
Mookie's a professional, and Otani is a superstar. And you
know better than anybody in this town with RP, Kobe Bryant,
Shaquille O'Neil, superstars like Magic Johnson step up in big games.
And let's see what showtime Otani is all about. For
two games in Toronto. All the pressures on the Blue
(54:40):
Jays because if they lose, don't lose game six, because
if we get to game seven, anything can happen.
Speaker 14 (54:45):
And we've done it before.
Speaker 19 (54:47):
Let's go two games to win the World Series, David,
keep these Dodgers heads up and keep these stand stairs up.
Let's get into that Toronto and make history.
Speaker 2 (54:55):
Let's do it, all right, Thanks for the phone call, Kevin.
I agree with you.
Speaker 8 (55:00):
If the Dodgers force a Game seven, they are in
a very good spot with their pitching. With all hands
on deck in a game seven, I would imagine, since
Dave Roberts said before today's game that all hands would
be on deck for a game seven, that if you're
going to use Otani as a pitcher in game seven,
you would have to use them as an opener or
(55:21):
be the guy that gets the last three outs. But
if you're planning on using Otani and we all know
when Otani pitches, there has to be a mapped out
plan with not just Dave Roberts and Mark Pryor and
Andrew Freeman involved. You gotta get Otani's team and doctor
Neil elatrosh on board as well. So I would imagine
(55:42):
the thing that makes the most sense if there is
a game seven, instead of having Tyler Glass now start
Game seven on the road, you would go with Otani
to open up that game and see where it takes
you and how far it takes you, and then you
bring in Glass now and go match up to match
up at that point in time, eight six, six, seven,
(56:03):
two five seventy is the phone number before we say
good night. I want to share Will Smith with you,
because it looked like his legs were starting to get
a little tired there after catching all eighteen innings a
couple of nights ago and being counted on to be
a main force in this offense. Let's head downstairs to
the Dodger clubhouse to hear from the Dodger catcher.
Speaker 16 (56:26):
Yeah, you know, it's been a long flight tonight, getting
us some rest, uh, you know where you re recovered tomorrow,
be ready to go.
Speaker 9 (56:34):
This team obviously battled back last year against the Padres.
Speaker 6 (56:36):
You've been in this position before.
Speaker 9 (56:39):
What can you learn from that experience with your backs
up against the wall.
Speaker 6 (56:43):
Yeah, just keep fighting, you know, keep keep hitting back.
Speaker 16 (56:45):
You'll just go one pitch at the time, offensively, one
pitch time, defensively, pitch one, you know, one pitch at
a time.
Speaker 6 (56:51):
Just keep fighting.
Speaker 2 (56:53):
It was just doing today. It was just totally different
than Game one.
Speaker 16 (56:56):
Yeah, he was throwing strikes. You know, he was landing
a squitter. He's landing a slider, you know, strowing hears
in the zone. Just execute pitches. You know, you pitch
really well. I thought he pitched really well, honestly, you know,
the first you know, two homers lead off the game.
Then he kind of settled in.
Speaker 2 (57:13):
He up the one run a little later, but I
thought he pitched.
Speaker 18 (57:15):
Well, guys are really pushing fastballs for sure early in
the game.
Speaker 2 (57:21):
Well, going into a close out.
Speaker 5 (57:23):
Game for them, you know, you guys can mentioned it's
been in that spot before, being down to one. How
confident are you guys? I mean, obviously the bats are,
they're they're slumping a little bit. Obviously good pitching, but
confident going in there and being able to get this
thing to seven?
Speaker 16 (57:36):
Yeah, No, we we we trust each other. You know,
we we believe we're the best year in baseball. You know,
we've had our backs against the wall a lot this year,
fighting their injuries, fighting through you know, expectations and all that.
Just a tough group and uh, you know I got
I got no no problem going in behind two games,
going in there and winning two games, and uh, you
(57:57):
know we'll be ready for that. How that good is
this field?
Speaker 4 (57:59):
To know?
Speaker 6 (58:00):
Your next picture is Yamamoto dot Yeah, he pitched great.
Speaker 16 (58:03):
Luck signed up. You know we're gonna we're gonna need
to get start out of him. I let the offense
can get ahead and you know, force Game seven.
Speaker 14 (58:09):
After that.
Speaker 8 (58:10):
All right, there's Will Smith, who was hitting second tonight
as Dave Roberts made a small tweak to see whether
or not Smith could be the guy that comes up
with some runners in scoring position and take some pressure
off Mookie Betts. It just didn't work tonight, as the
Dodgers go down quietly against trey Ya Savage and the
Blue Jays six to one in Game five of the
(58:31):
World Series. Now, Game six is on Friday at Rogers Center.
Our coverage begins at four o'clock with Dodgers on deck,
Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck and Rick Monday and Steven
Nelson will have first pitch at five oh eight from
Toronto Tomorrow morning. Don't forget, our coverage continues live in
local with Steve Sacks and Tim Cats. They will have
(58:54):
scam until nine am, and I'll be on my way
to Toronto tomorrow morning to catch up with the Dodgers.
We'll be at the workout at Rogers Center. We'll have
reports all day on a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (59:08):
That'll do it for us. Tonight.
Speaker 8 (59:09):
I leave a full border calls on hold. We'll try
to get to you tomorrow or call Saxon Kids in
the morning. Thanks to Colin Ye back at our Burbank Studios,
thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and
thanks to you for listening. In case you missed any
of the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
You can also follow me on social media on x
(59:30):
at the Real Underscore DV and on Instagram at officially Basse.
Once again, the final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium. In
Game five of the World Series, the Blue Jays beat
the Dodgers six to one and now have a three
games to two lead in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (59:48):
There is no tomorrow. Have a great night.
Speaker 4 (59:54):
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