Sax and Cates In The AM (Hour 1) 10/10/25

Steve Sax and Tim Cates react to the Dodgers dramatic walkoff win over the Phillies in Game 4 o the NLDS. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
They say, the hardest thing in sports isn't winning a title.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's hard to repeat seasons.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's winning it again.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
This year.

Speaker 4 (00:08):
Is not trying to win a championship, They're trying to repeat.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's October baseball for your world champion in La Dodger.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western
Division champions.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
And you know what that means.

Speaker 5 (00:22):
Saxon Kates and AM is back.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
This is Saxon Kates in the Morning with Tim Kates
and former World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
Reacting taking your phone calls talking Dodgers playoff baseball all
postseason long.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Now here they are on AM five to seventy LA
Sports and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Steve Sacks, Tim Kats, Tim.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Kates and World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
Hi Ho, hi Ho. It's off to the NLCS y go.
Welcome in Southern California. It's scam Saxon Kates to the
AM on this Friday morning, October tenth, twenty twenty five.
Thanks you being with us, Tim Kaids along by two
times two times World Series Champion, Rookie of the Year

(01:15):
and our favorite number three, The one and only Steve
Sacks sax A, good morning.

Speaker 6 (01:19):
Good morning, Tim.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
How are you feeling a lot better than I was
about twelve hours ago as the Dodgers were taking on
the Philadelphia Phillies and what turned out to be one
of the most dramatic postseason games I have seen in
my lifetime, with the ups and the downs, the twist
and the turns, and have finished that. Sacks, you played

(01:41):
fourteen years in the major leagues. You are a baseball
lifer through and through. You've seen more baseball than we'll
ever see in our lifetime, and you've experienced more than
we'll ever experience. Have you ever seen a wilder finish
than last ninety eleventh inning?

Speaker 6 (01:57):
First of all, did you see me shimmy today? Yes? Yes,
I was that. That means him in a good mood, right, Okay,
So you know that, And you know it's kind of
like a kind of nice fun thing to do. And
I see Kate's in the studio, and he can see
me in my little office here in my house, and
so I like to bring a little shimmy to Tim,
the timmy shimmy, whatever you want to call it. And

(02:19):
that's good. You know, because that's it's indicative of what's
to come. And that's a you know Dodgers win, Yes, Tim, Wow,
you know, look at this is uh you know you
hear everything. Well, you know they didn't. They only hit
one home run and for yeah, I mean that's that's
the great thing about it. Dodgers found ways to win
without hitting the ball out of the ballpark. They scratch, claude, bite, kick,

(02:42):
whatever you had to do to eat this one out.
And this was a real formidable foe right here. You know,
a lot of people say this was the real world Series.
This is the toughest team you're going to face, not
so dissimilar to what we faced in eighty eight with
the Mets. Thought they were the best team that we
faced all year long. And so I think that's what

(03:04):
the Dodgers are getting right now.

Speaker 7 (03:05):
Now.

Speaker 6 (03:06):
You can't look you can't look too far ahead and say, oh, well,
you know, it doesn't matter Cubs or Brewers, we're gonna
we're gonna torch these guys. Doesn't doesn't work that way.
So but I do think talent wise, and those three
chaps that they threw up here, of those lefties, they
were just amazing they listen, they matched whatever the Dodgers
threw at him. This was very, very comparable to one another.

(03:28):
When you talk about starting pitching, I mean they were
right there with the Dodgers the whole way. This is
a great pitching staff.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
We're gonna get a lot of the postgame reaction from
last night. David Vase will join us in the seven
o'clock hour. It's his birthday, by the way, today, so
we'll it is David's birthday.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
Birthday. Oh we got we got to ask him about
you know, worst Blake taking.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
Him's question number one cake?

Speaker 6 (03:51):
You know, is it is it gonna be? I don't
want to say a date, but you know, I mean
they gotta maybe they do a broke man's lunch or something,
you know, a little lunch, a little dinner too's there's
gonna be a candle, but you know maybe right I
can see it from there, right, I can see it
from there.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
I love it. Well, we'll talk to Dave about his
birthday plans. He was in the clubhouse last night with
all the reaction that you're gonna hear coming up over
the next three hours. Our buddy John Harttong from Sports
in at LA he's gonna join us covering the Dodgers,
and a lot of fun working with him over at
Sports in at LA. But what a finished last night
in the eleventh thinning. If you miss it, if you
live under a rock, here's what happened. With the bases loaded,

(04:29):
bottom of the eleventh inning, Dodgers and Phillies tied it
at one with Andy Pye has at the plate, heart
rates through the roof the oh one pitch Pie has
grounds it back to Kirkery. He can't find it.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
He says home.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
It's one, ten scores and the Dodgers are going to
the Championship Series. Fil alerts golf in center field. The
Dodgers celeb right here. First pat on a ground ball

(05:02):
back to the picture. Andy Potz somehow gets the job done.

Speaker 6 (05:09):
Well.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Andy Piz was the one at bat. Andy Pie is
the one who got sawed off and hit the ball
back to the pitcher. But it wasn't Andy pie Has
who delivered. It was Oryan Kirkering who absolutely blundered that
ball back to the mound. And it is something there
talking about all over Philadelphia last night and this morning,
and we'll all offseason long, and I feel bad for

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the young man who got the job done just did
not execute the throw when he needed it. And Steve,
you've been in a situation, high pressured situation, the ball
gets hit to you. What what do you think was
going through his mind when the initial ball hit off
his glove and then he's racing around to bare handed
and figure out what to do with it to get
the final out of the inning and keep its tie

(05:55):
to one.

Speaker 6 (05:56):
Yeah, well, he just panicked. You could see it all
over him when he when he didn't feel that clearly
panic set in. And you know the play was at
first base, that's where the easy play was, and you know,
with a run streaming home right there, he just panicked
and and launched it. But uh, you know a lot
of people talking about I feel so sorry for him

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and the man, the manager or the coach. The manager
hugged him after the game. And first of all, this
is not going to affect Ryan Kirkreen's career whatsoever, not
in the least. This guy's got a great arm. He's
going to be around a while. Believe me, He's going
to be a nemesis for the Dodgers for quite a while.
This guy is is super good talented guy. So this

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is not going to affect his career one iota. I
guarantee you that. And I felt really bad for him
after the game. I've been there, I've I've tossed some balls,
not in any situations like that, but you know, I
know what it feels like when you when you when
you launch one. And I felt for him for a
little bit. But then I started thinking about, you know
what nobody cared about Bill Buckner, you know, seriously, you know,

(07:02):
they just ostracized him. And but you know what, I
do feel for this kid, you know, I really do.
But he's gonna get over it. He's gonna get by.
It'll be a learning experience for him, and you know
he'll be better for it. So he's gonna have a
magnificent career. So I feel bad for him for a while,
but I'm happy for the Dodgers. They they found a
way to win without hitting home runs.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
Absolutely the play was the first base. You can see JT.
Real Muto, the catcher for the Phillies, pointing with his
right hand throw the ball to first base. I'm sure
the third basement crashing in is yelling one one one
to make sure he throws the first But in the moment, people,
I guess don't really understand when they hear, Oh, it's
the moment sped up on him. What is that like

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for him? As the game is speeding up, you're looking
at kind of at your periphery, You're seeing Kim run
down the line, just kind of this white uniform, probably
in a blur. You're thinking, oh, my gosh, what do
I do? What do I do? What do I do?
Is it just panic set in?

Speaker 8 (07:56):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (07:56):
I don't know what to do? And your first end
think is go to the close is possible spot?

Speaker 6 (08:01):
And yeah, I think so. After he after he bobbled
the ball, if it shot away from him, you know, actually, uh,
if if it's hit right away and he's going towards home,
he could get the easy out at home. He could
he could just underhand it to the catcher. But when
the ball scored it away, the easy play was at
first base. I mean, he would have had him by
you know, half the baseline, and uh, he he just

(08:23):
panicked and when he launched it it was over. I mean,
and you know the runner missed home plate.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yeah, Kim missed it, but he missed it.

Speaker 6 (08:31):
Touch it Kim had to go back and touch it right,
and the Empire was sitting there watching, going mm hm,
you haven't touched home yet. And then uh he came
back and did it. But man, what an ending. And
you and I were on the phone exactly when that happened, right,
and I'm saying, uh, you know they won, they won,
and and uh, you know you're going, what are you
talking about? Your TV feed must be ahead of mine
because you didn't see it for a bit.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, I was like twenty seconds behind you, and you're like, oh,
he grid it into the pitch. I couldn't believe. I
was little seen. Uh kirkeran in the in the wind
up and trying to figure out what he was gonna
do with the ball.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
It was.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
It was a wild sequence at Dodgers Stadium. And uh
the Dodgers are they receiving in of that gift that
they'll take to advance to the NLCS. We mentioned Ryan
Kirkran here he is stand up guy after the game
last night, stood in front of his locker. Steve Sackson
addressed the media. Here he is, Oh all right, we'll

(09:26):
hear from him in a second. Uh. He he stood tall,
He stood right in front of the media there. Uh,
and Dodger Stadium was visiting clubhouse and he talked to
the media and he you know he uh he stood
there and you know, answered all the questions and he
was consoled as you mentioned by by Thompson, the manager

(09:46):
of the Phillies, as soon as he came off the field.

Speaker 7 (09:49):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
And here he is post came with the media.

Speaker 9 (09:52):
I mean just kind of until the pressure got to
manager thought it was a faster thrower, the JT. Coulture
thrower trying to cosmoty at the price though.

Speaker 10 (10:03):
Yeah, did you did you hear them calling telling you
to go to first at all?

Speaker 6 (10:07):
Or were you just in the moment that you wasn't
even just in the moment.

Speaker 7 (10:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Can you can you see to your pointing in that
moment or is it just kind of looking up, just.

Speaker 9 (10:15):
Kind of looking up.

Speaker 6 (10:15):
Just be ready again.

Speaker 9 (10:18):
Trow me a lot of guys that energy, and like
the first one's there, Just look, guys.

Speaker 7 (10:22):
See you in that one.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
Keep your head up.

Speaker 9 (10:24):
It's lost mistake. Just it's baseball and just keep your
head up would be good for long time in the
com It's not my fault done. Just to that opportunity
to score had a different.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Rob to be saying. The photostats that I mean about those.

Speaker 9 (10:40):
Guys picking you off so quick means a lot, shows
they care a lot. Just means everything for sure. I'm
sure a lot of guys in the here I've had
moments early in their carew hear that, you know, I
think kind of remember very good that they.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah, how much do you think you can use this
kind of.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
Off season two two? So you know for good?

Speaker 9 (11:04):
For sure the wall with a test ball for sure.
But yeah, just kind of keep going with it, hopefully
a starting a long career. Just keep back in my
head of that's really ups right now, but hopefully keep
pushing on to get over this home.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
Keep pushing.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
All right, there's Ryan Kirkery and twenty four years old
made a blunder last night to Costa Phillies and the
eleventh in and I give him a lot of credit, Steve.
He was a man stood in front of that locker,
addressed the media, talked about the play, talked about his
emotions during that play and what happened, and man, I
feel for that young man because what a game it was.

(11:43):
I hope it doesn't take away from the pitching match up,
the back and forth chess match between the two managers,
the bullpens, what they were able to do yesterday both sides,
Lozardo coming in and pitching almost two innings of relieve,
Rookie Sasaki three shutout, lockdown innings of relief, Vessia coming in,

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Shean coming in the two starters. Glass Now, was absolutely
fantastic yesterday, outside of the way and any of which
we're solely happy about. You couldn't ask for more of
a baseball game in October. It was absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 6 (12:17):
It was amazing, It was amazing. It featured so much drama,
and I just think it's for Dodger fans out there.
Was only fitting that Lozardo got the loss because he
is just nails. Man. This guy is so hard to beat.
If you're ever gonna hang an l on him, maybe
you have to do it in kind of a strange
fashion like this, because he is just nails. He was

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hitting those corners, His slider was so effective. Oh Tani
was swinging it at pitches that were eighteen inches inside
because that ball had so much movement on it. And
you know, he's just really dastardly against the left handed hitters,
they got no chance on this guy. So, you know, Kirkering,
as far as I'm concerned, Now, what did he say

(13:00):
in the interview? Would did? Did? Did he say this
is my fault? Is that what he said? I couldn't.
I couldn't hear it.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
He said he made a BS throw and he should
have gone to first with it.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yeah, but I mean the word fault came out. Did
he say this is not my fault or he said
this is my fault? I think my fault? Yeah? Yeah,
I feel for him. I mean, it's it's tough, and
and and and again it's not gonna it's not gonna
affect his career whatsoever. This guy had a phenomenal year
this year and he was eight and four with a
three thirty e r A. He struck out more than
one an inning, and he was really really good. So

(13:32):
you know, I feel for him. He's sounds like an
upstanding young man, and uh, you know he'll get over this,
and uh, you know, it is what it is. But
for the Dodgers to you know, beat these guys with
one home run they hit in four games, and to
beat him in four games is pretty great when you
think that this team was better than anybody in their
own park. And the Dodgers went over there to to

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the bank and they won both games there. So that
says something about the Dodgers don't necessarily have to hit
home run home run. It shows you the strength of
the starting pitching on this team.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
No doubt. Yesterday two teams, we thought the ball was
gonna fly out during an afternoon game, the shadows were
going to be effect they were because the hitters were
stifled for a few innings while the shadows went through
Dodger Stadium. Sanchez was great, Glass Now was great. They
both went six plus innings. The runs didn't come until
the seventh inning, and then the game winning run didn't
come until the eleventh inning. The both teams combined for

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eleven hits. Yesterday. The Dodgers won with two runs on
seven hits. The Phillies had one run on four hits. Yesterday.
There wasn't a lot of traffic on the base pass
and when there was the Dodgers yesterday, Steve had golden
opportunities couple of bases loaded situations. They stranded eleven base
runners during the course of the game before ultimately getting

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that game winning run in that gift in the eleventh thinning.
But they were zero for six with runners in scoring position.
They had multiple chances, and we were talking about it
in the moment to bust through and take the lead,
but they just couldn't get they hit, They kept striking out,
they kept flying out. And credit to the Phillies bullpen,
credit to Duran and Lozardo. Those guys were fantastic. But yeah, man,

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they had opportunities to win this in nine innings.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
Yeah, tip your cap to the Phillies pitching staff. I
mean so consistent, you know throughout this throughout this series.
The Phillies top four, you know, the big monsters on
top of that order there two for seventeen with four k's,
and the team struck out twelve times. The Dodgers on
the other hand, how about this for parody, The Dodgers
on the other hand, three for eighteen, eight strikeouts on

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the top four guys and they struck out as well
twelve times. So just so evenly matched. And to come
out in the eleventh and get a two to one victory,
you know, this is it was flip a coin. I
could see this going down. I could see this going
back to the bank. It could have been. But I
don't know if the Dodgers are going to face as

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top a starting pitching staff as they have here in Philadelphia.
We'll see, And you can't take anything for granted. There's
still eight wins away. There's still long ways away from
winning the world title, but you know you can you
can start to see it coming insight.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
Now we're gonna get a lot of the post game
reaction from the Dodgers coming up throughout the next three
hours here, and you're gonna hear in their voices, you're
gonna hear a common theme of wow, we just got
through that series. Wow, those Phillies left handers. Freddie Freeman,
in particular with David last night in the post game
sighed really heavy on the air and said those were

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the toughest left handers. S they we're gonna face this season.
And he said him and Otani grinded, and he goes,
I know we didn't have the greatest of the series,
but we would just batt and we were trying to
figure out those left handers, and he just he's shaking
his head, like, my gosh, I don't know how we
got through this series. Without me and Otani doing it.
The other guy's picked us up, and you can see
the relief on his face, Steve that thank goodness, we

(16:59):
don't got to face these lefties anymore.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
Yeah, the biggest blow, I think you could say was
the Tioscar home run, the one and only home run
they hit in these four games that you know, of
course won the game for him basically, but it was
just back and forth with the pitchers. And you know, look, people,
besides the eight to two game that the Dodgers lost,
people got to see what is really exciting about baseball

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besides the run game that's really not is a prolific
in baseball now, but starting pitching and the ability for
these guys to be so exciting to watch, and the
cat and mouse game between the hitter and the pitcher.
And I just think it was a beautiful series. Not
a ton of offense, but man, the essence of the game,
the intricate undergirdings of what makes the team really really

(17:45):
special is the ability for these starting pitchers to carry
the mail, and boy they certainly did was a This
was a fun series to watch.

Speaker 5 (17:53):
It really was, and the pitching was on top. Like
you said, the hitting was at a premium and it
took an air from a Phillies reliever to bring in
the game winning run for the Dodgers in the bottom
half of the eleventh innings. And your Dodgers are moving
on to the NLCS. We'll take a break, we'll come back.
We got a full show coming up between now and
nine o'clock, and we want you to be a part

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of it. At eighty sixty six nine eight, seven to two,
five seventy, the Dodgers beat the Phillies two to one
and eleven Indians. They punched their ticket to the National
League Championship Series seven times in the last ten years.
Dodgers are going to the Championship Series. They await the
winner of the Brewers and the Cubs, who will play

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a decisive Game five tomorrow in Milwaukee. More on that
coming up, as the Cubs shut out the Brewers last
night at Ridley six to nothing to force a Game five.
Game one on the NLCS is Monday night. What time
where we'll find out as the Dodgers could be at
home against the Cubs or they'll start off on the
road in Milwaukee, depending on what happens in that other series.

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We're gonna break it all down. You'll get a lot
of the postgame react. David Vasse, John Hartong will join
us and you eight sixty six ninety seven two five
seventy Saxon Kates in the am on your home of
the Dodgers who are going to the NLCS right here
on an FI seventy I Sports, Saxon Kates in the

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am here on M five to seventy LAS Sports. Thanks
for being with us on this Friday morning. As the
Dodgers advance to the National League Championship Series with a
two to one win over the Phillies last night, at
eleven inning win, they walk off the Phillies in dramatic fashion.
O'Ryan kirkering ground ball back to him from Andy Patas,

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with the bases loaded in two outs, bumbles the ball. Then,
instead of throwing the ball the first for the final loud,
he tries to throw home and throws it over the
head of J. T. Real Muto as the Dodgers have
the winning run come across and they get the win
two to one and eleven innings as they advance to
the National League Championship Series yet again, and they await

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the winner of the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs,
who will have a Game five of their National League
Divisional Series tomorrow night in Milwaukee. A winner moves on
to the NLCS, and what an exciting series that has been,
no doubt, and the Dodgers grateful for a few days
off now before finding out tomorrow night who they'll face
Monday in the NLCS, whether it will be the Cubs

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or whether it'll be the Brewers, whether it'll be at
home or it'll be at road. We'll find out come
tomorrow night in milw Bill. It's gonna be fantastic. It
is gonna be absolutely great. The Dodgers are gonna have
their starting rotation lined up, and it is the rotation
that has completely turned around this Dodgers team in September
and now in the postseason. And they posted a picture

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on social media of the four starters from this NLDS.
You saw Yamamoto, you saw Snell, you saw Otani, and
you saw Tyler Glass now in a pitcher in a
celebration last night. And it was only fitting because the
four of them were really good in this four game
series against Philadelphia, and Tyler Glass Now rose to the

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occasion yesterday, Steve. I cannot be more praise of this
guy for what he did. Six shutout innings to hit
eight strikeouts. He left after eighty three pitches and find
out afterwards he was cramping up a little bit like
he has a couple of times throughout the season the season,
but eighteen of the twenty three batters first pitch strikes,

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he was attacking the strike zone. He was elevating the
fastball and getting swing and missus. He was getting him
with the auspeed curveball, which is so good Tyler Glass. Now,
yesterday Steve was absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 6 (21:44):
He was amazing, and just the points that you mentioned
here about strike one, that's everything, and he was doing
that consistently tim all throughout his time on the mound yesterday.
And I love the way he changes at eye angle.
And I know we talk about that quite a bit,
but it's so important, especially got somebody with really good
stuff that can pitch up successfully in the strike zone.

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Enabled you to get that ball up and then drop
that curveball that sometimes goes over your head and hits
the bottom of the strike zone. You just don't know
where it's going to finally stop in that strike zone,
whether it's going to hit the dirt or whether it's
going to be at the bottom of the zone. And
that's why you have guys swing at that pitch many
times is not a strike. So the ability to pitch

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on all four quaterns of the plate, work up in
the strike zone, down in the strike zone, and internet
away from getting his timing, hitting his timing. If you
upset that timing even just a little bit, they can't
put the ball on the barrel of the bat, and
thus you see contact or a strikeout. And that's what

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he does really well.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yeah, he was fantastic yesterday to hear he is postgame
with David vasse as a celebration got out of her way.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
What a start for Tyler Glass now the postseason start
of his life. How did it feel to out there
and be such a big contributor.

Speaker 6 (23:02):
Fuck?

Speaker 7 (23:02):
Great.

Speaker 10 (23:03):
It was a little shaky at first, but then just
got out there, gotting some rhythm, and my stuff felt
great the whole night.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
It felt like after the first inning you really did
get into some sort of rhythm. Were you and Will
clicking after that?

Speaker 10 (23:14):
Yeah, for sure, I think we're on the same page.
A lot of good pitch calling a lot of really
good defense. He had some pretty hard hit balls, some
great plays, and we just we got it rolling after that.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Tyler, at this time last year you were not part
of the playoffs. How does this feel in your own backyard?
To be such a big part of the Dodgers going
to the NLCS.

Speaker 10 (23:32):
It's incredible. I mean it's what every kid dreams of
and I got to live it.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
And it's just to be out.

Speaker 10 (23:36):
On the field and watch everyone participate and do such
a good job.

Speaker 5 (23:40):
Now we're here go to the next round. It's incredible.

Speaker 10 (23:42):
You're like the keik pitchers, reliever and starter. Yeah, who knows,
I don't know. I'll do whatever you want.

Speaker 7 (23:46):
Let's do it.

Speaker 5 (23:47):
Congratulations, Thank you, bro, appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
There he is Tyler Glass now at All Hard High School.

Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah, Tyler Glass now local kid. Wanted to pitch for
the Dodgers, wanted to win in October. Was a big
part of the team in the regular season last year before
elbow ten to night has shut him down right around
Labor Day weekend and was not a part of the
run in October. He was around the team he was
with on a daily basis, but he could not throw
in the postseason, and he wanted another chance at the

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doing it. He wanted another bite at the apple, so
to speak. And he's getting it here in twenty twenty five.
And yesterday was a big one for him to go
out there and just absolutely pitch phenomenally for six innings.

Speaker 6 (24:27):
Yeah, nothing was holding him back, no elements, no outside
problems with anything. And you know, we had mentioned yesterday
that he likes things to be nice, nice when he
goes out there, and it was yesterday, maybe this is
the perfect place for him to pitch. You know, it's
great weather, it's the fans are great, there's no disturbances

(24:47):
outside when he gets up there, and so this is
a good thing. You know, here's another thing that we
I wanted to mention Tim, and this is kudos to
more to the Phillies. How many die stabs did the
Phillies have yesterday? In total? It had to be seven
or eight. Where they they robbing, you know, they're diving
and there's there's a turner at you know at short

(25:10):
diving gets up and throws it. There's an outfield guy
that dives there, I mean bom at third base. Uh,
you know, all over the place Stott at second. They
were diving everywhere. These guys were never on their feet
and there, and damn they're making the play every time.
It's like, do you ever dive and miss it by
an inch instead of gaining it by an inch? I
mean it was crazy, the defense and the amount of

(25:33):
times they left their feet to dive for the ball
and they were getting it every time. I've never say
anything like that.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
Isn't it ironic? All those great defensive plays levet Field
third base, trade Turner short, you mentioned Stott's at second base,
and the game ends on a misquee on defense. All
those great plays and the final play they can't execute
a PF.

Speaker 6 (25:56):
Yes, the irony of that, right. How many phenomenal plays
did they make throughout this just this one game? Yeah,
everybody was doing it and then it ends on a
clunker back to back to the picture. It's just, you know,
baseball will break your heart, man, and it's uh, it's crazy,

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but that's the way it is. We'll to the next one.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
We're gonna hear from rookie Sosaki coming up in just
a couple of minutes, because he was absolutely filthy yesterday
in his three innings relief and his comeback story from
where he was at the beginning of the season is
truly remarkable. Dave Roberts, we'll talk about that coming up
later on. It's go out to the phones eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy. Jeff joins us from
Kansas listening on the iHeartRadio app. Jeff, good morning to you.

(26:41):
How you doing?

Speaker 4 (26:43):
Hey, good morning, guys.

Speaker 11 (26:44):
I love the show.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Awesome doggars when last night I'm just a fan trying
to understand a few of the decisions a little better.
I got three quick questions, if that's okay, go ahead,
all right? First off, I was curious, what do you
think about following last after six innings when he looked
like you said some pretty good stuff. And if I'm
not mistaken, only around eighty pitches? Was that more of
a matchup for a work the workload type of movies?

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Well? What else did you want to ask? Because I
could tell Glassdow came out he had some cramps in
the fourth and fifth inning in his lower body, and
he gave eighty three pitches over six innings, and Dave
Roberts said, all right, that's enough, and Tyler obliged and said,
you're right, let's go to the bullpen after that, but
it was a little bit of cramp and he was facing.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Okay, and then I'll just ask the last two for
you and then I'll get out of the way. In
the bottom of the seventh until they brought in to Ryan,
I niced Paul Hez was doing and he's obviously been
struggling lately. I wondered if maybe that would have been
a spot for Monthsy to come in a little earlier
for the lefty righty matchup. What kind of things would
it manage to be weighing that are a regular fan
like me might not be considering. And then, lastly, in

(27:50):
the top of the seventh, when she had made that
err in the ball and end of the dugout, whyired
dugouts even set up that way to where that happened
so often? Wouldn't make sense to have some kind of
gate or door like a hockey bench to keep the
ball and play more often? I would think the MLB
would want to see more live balls instead of just
calling it dead. I appreciate you guys, I've heard you
take all right.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
Thanks for the phone call, Jeff. That's interesting. I mean,
now they're more gated than they ever were, Zaxy. If
anybody watches the eighty eight World Series, which of course
we all do, and it's we played on sports in
La all the time. Uh, you guys didn't have gates.
That dugout was wide open there along the third baseline.
So an overthrow I mean, head on a swivel down
there for the ball coming in the dugout.

Speaker 6 (28:30):
Yeah. True, And you got to see it in spring
training at Vero Beach there was there. It was just
a little hole in the ground. There was no sides
at all. It was just a bit a hole in
a bench. That's all you had. You had no protection whatsoever.
So yeah, I get that. On the thing with Pajez, well,
at the time call had was playing left field and

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Dean came in, uh you know, a little bit later
as a pinch runner, and he went to centerfield. So
you know, you're kind of you don't have three hundred
guys on the team. You got to kind of parse
him out as best you can. But I just think
in in scope that that Pie has is just he's
trying hard. I mean, he's obviously a very talented young man.
I think he's just trying to hit everything out of

(29:13):
the ballpark, and you know, maybe he cuts down a
little bit. You know, I'm only looking at it from
the TV, so I'm not there. I'm not as hitting coach.
But sometimes when you just get back to basics and
just try to make it as simple as you can,
you have a lot of success. But he's got a
ton of talent, no doubt.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
Pi has for a good majority of the season struggled
on things on the outside half of the plate, and
it was swinging and missing and chasing on a lot
of things off the plate. Now he wasn't even able
to get to things on the last of the other
side of the you know, the far side of the plate,
the other third of the plate. He was missing on those.
Rick Mundy talked about a lot that he's just trying

(29:50):
to pull, trying to pull, trying to pull, and when
he finally started trying to go right center feel with it,
it opened up the feel for him. He got more
bay since and sure he's got the power to go
opposite field with home runs to right center field, and
it did allow him to then go hit the ball
to left center field with power. He's back to that

(30:10):
just pole pull pull, try to hit everything out of
the ballpark. Every swing, you know, is one thousand percent.
And it's not about putting the ball in play or
finding a hole to the right side. It's just about
a pole pole poll for Randy pay Has. I hope
he figures it out. I mean he's batting ninth now
in this lineup. At one point he's batting fifth and

(30:30):
six and a part of the power part of the lineup,
and now he's batting ninth. Hopefully get some better pitches
because they got Otani right behind him in the lineup.
You know when they flow it back over the top.

Speaker 6 (30:41):
Oh, he'll figure this out, there's no question. I think
he's going to figure it out. Twenty seven home runs
this year. He's definitely a guy that you know, is
the middle of the order guy. He drove in eighty
six runs and you know, two seventy two average not bad.
So production's there. Capability is there. Twenty four years old.
He'll figure it out. I have no doubt.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Let's go back out to the phones, Eric and Reino Valley,
thanks for being patient. Welcome to Saxon katon Am on
this Friday morning. As the Dodgers move on to the NLCS.

Speaker 11 (31:11):
Yeah, good morning, guys. Yeah, I got three things. First
of all, thank you for hosting this show. I'm an
overnight trip cover and you guys are keeping me awake
here at the end of my rite. And shout out
to the Phillies. They're a class the organization. I was
really burned out, you know, with the whole drama playing
the Padres, So I'm glad you know we didn't go
through that. And apology to last Now. I told him yesterday.

Speaker 12 (31:36):
And said that I had no confidence in him, and man,
he showed up and went toe to toe and I
think this was a big confidence boost for him and
for us fans to believe in him.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
Thanks guys, all right, appreciate thank you for keeping the
line moving there.

Speaker 8 (31:51):
Eric.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
As a truck driver, we certainly appreciate that. I'm with
you on Glass Now. I had my doubts, and I
said it here yesterday morning on SCAM. I had my
doubts about what Glass Now we would get. I was
talking to David Vasse about it on the pregame show
right before first pitch, and we were both talking about
which one are we goin to see and Dodger fans

(32:12):
were all wanted the same thing, and he came out
and he was the dominant Tyler Glass now for six innings,
the fastball was electric. You can tell he had a
little juice going. Yes, Sha, you can tell the feelings
were there because he had a little extra giddy up
you know on that fastball.

Speaker 6 (32:28):
Sacually, Yeah, fastball at last ten feet had a little
jump on it. And when you can pitch up in
the zone like that, especially left handers. Remember now, left
handers are notoriously low ball hitters. Does that mean some
can't hit the high ball. No, but a lot of
times they liked that low ball. Schwarber is more of
a left handed high ball hitter. He can hit that
ball out of the park. But you can also pitch

(32:49):
him if you can work on different spots of the plate.
But Glass, now the ability to pitch up in the
zone with some severe giddy up. And that wicked curveball, well,
the six curveballs, straight up, straight down, plowing down towards
the ground. Tough to pick out, especially after you've pitched
up in the zone. This guy's filthy lefties, Alrighty's the

(33:11):
big curveball is the great equalizer. It will neutralize that
righty lefty matchup when there's a left handed hitter against him.
That curveball is a phenomenal pitch for Tyler.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
Eric and Hollywood. Next up on Saxon, Kates and Am
on this Friday morning, is the Dodgers advance to the
NLCS yet again. Eric, how you doing, Buddy.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
God, jer.

Speaker 13 (33:33):
Boys, gentlemen, what a what a game? What a game?

Speaker 8 (33:37):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (33:37):
I hit my cap off to the Phillies.

Speaker 13 (33:39):
They really gave us a game, man, They utralize our
big guns, Freddy and Otani. I mean, that's some amazing pitching.
It's just some great baseball play Manny God, Timmy Man Sax,
I mean this is it feels so good to see
him advance. Man, what a nail ighter yesterday. And much
love to you guys. Thank you so much. I'm up
early at five am work and I can't wait to

(34:01):
hear you guys talk baseball. Man, So I'm looking forward
to Monday. You guys have a great Friday.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
And let's go.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
All right, Eric, that's good. Yeah, I love the energy.
At six forty five in the morning, as the Dodgers
move on to the NLCS, the celebration last night in
the Dodger Batting Cages because they moved it there from
the Dodger Clubhouse, because they renovated the Dodger Clubhouse though
over the offseason, spent millions of dollars and the last
thing you want to do is flood that thing with

(34:31):
beer and champagne.

Speaker 6 (34:33):
And that's a two story clubhouse now, too right, this
thing is unreal, unreal.

Speaker 5 (34:37):
H So they celebrated the batting cages was all tarped
up and everything. But you know, I mentioned Freddie Freeman's
cygh of relief about getting past this series and not
having to deal with those left handers anymore. To a man,
you could see the celebration and it really was of man,
we won this. This is awesome. Let's celebrate. And it
was a victorious celebration, unlike the wild Card, where yeah,

(34:59):
we beat the Red you know too well, we celebrate
that like we're supposed to. It's not like when they
won the division. This was a sincere My gosh, we
just got past one of our biggest you know, nemesis
in the Phillies to move on. I mean it not
that this was the world Series, and certainly there's still
two more series to go, and the Brewers or Cubs
are gonna be tough, and whoever they face, if they

(35:19):
can get to the World Series are gonna be tough
as well. Not say anything anything and not they're not
gonna be tough. But man, they just kind of felt
like this was a hurdle they wanted to get over
and try to get past.

Speaker 6 (35:29):
Yeah, it was. And like I said, this may be
the most talented team they face. Does it mean that
if they're the most talented team that the other team
can't beat them? Oh? No, doesn't mean that. It matters.
You know, again, how the team's playing, which guys are hot,
which guys are injured, you know, which pitchers are in
a good groove. Those things all matter. It's not just,

(35:51):
you know, the most talented team wins or loses. But
it means a lot. But it doesn't mean everything. We've
seen that across the board. You know, you talk about
all the money that teams spend. Does money mean that
you're gonna win?

Speaker 1 (36:03):
No?

Speaker 6 (36:04):
Does it give you a better chance, probably, but doesn't
mean everything. Ask the Mets, Ask the Padres. You know,
it doesn't always happen that way. But the Dodgers got
a good. You know, across the spectrum. The Dodgers got
a great mix of young guys on the team, veterans leadership,
their experience of being in the postseason so much really

(36:24):
does help them. The Dodgers are finding ways to win
other than what's normal for them, and that's to match.
They find ways to scratch out victories. They have the
ability to come back when they lose eight to two,
they come back the next night and put a whooping
on somebody. So this is a This is a very
very talented team in many different ways. So I wouldn't

(36:46):
want to be playing against the Dodgers. You talk about
the Dodgers' opponents, and they are formidable when you talk
about the Cubs and the Brewers. But if I'm one
of those teams, the Dodgers of the team, I don't
want to play.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
No doubt, no doubt the way they're playing right now,
and the offense is not even getting going yet.

Speaker 6 (37:03):
In the wait till Tonic starts revving it up, I mean,
wait till Freddy starts revving it up. This is this team,
you know, five to six hits a game, this is
so so sparse. I mean, this team can can put
a twelve hit attack on yet with four homers. We
haven't seen anything like this yet.

Speaker 5 (37:21):
Not yet at all. Doug and Torrens is next up
on Saxon, Kates and The Am on this Friday morning.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
How you doing, Doug, Hey, Good morning, gentlemen. Hey, I
think you guys hit it right on the head. You know,
you know the mentality of La with the Mamba mentality.
Job's not finished. We exerted a lot of energy and
we felt like a lot of stress came off our shoulders.
But you said it earlier. We still got two more

(37:46):
series for the ultimate goal of what we want, and
I just don't want our boys to think that we're
we're coasting free towards the end of the season. I
know Daves are going to get our guys in shape
and ready to go for the next season. And I'm excited,
I mean for the next series and I'm excited for Monday.

Speaker 5 (38:01):
Thanks guys, all right, appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (38:03):
Hey.

Speaker 6 (38:03):
Tim went to ask you, if I may, who do
you think that who would you if you had your druthers,
who would you rather have the Dodgers play? Would be
the Cubs or Milwaukee?

Speaker 5 (38:13):
I do want the Cubs and it's for this reason
you get home field advantage.

Speaker 6 (38:18):
Well that's but you also get the elements.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
Yes, that's true, and it's starting to get cool in
Chicago being outdoors at Wriglely probably going to be those
four five o'clock Pacific which would be six or seven
o'clock nighttime games in Chicago, not the traditional daytime games
there at Wrigley. But the way the Cubs are playing
right now, certainly the last two games at a home
taking care of business, I still want to face them.

(38:41):
I know they took care of Milwaukee last night, and
you know they've got home run happy the last couple
of games in these wins to get back in the
best of five series. But still that Brewers pitchers, the
starting pitching scares me a little bit. The back end
of that bullpen scares me. In Milwaukee. I just think
you can temper that. The Chicago offense, you know you can.
You can you can stem me those bats and win

(39:03):
ball games easier than against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Speaker 6 (39:06):
Yeah, I think the biggest point, as you mentioned, the
home field advantage of Dodgers, you know and do play
better at home about a five hundred team on the road.
You know, so I think that would be the better thing.
I don't see it to be a a you know,
we really haven't hit the part of the season yet
where it's that gold. It was even low sixties, mid fifties,
low sixties in Chicago last night, so you know that

(39:29):
wasn't horrible.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
No, it's to me on paper, Milwaukee's a tougher matchup
based on you know McGill at the end, uh Misowski.
You got Ashby who pitched last night. I mean that
that's a good rotation you got even without Brandon Woodruff,
Rady Peralta is an ace. It's a good lineup, a
young lineup. They do a lot of things right. They're
not going to hit the whole ton of home runs,

(39:52):
but they just find ways to anyone. Ninety seven games,
they had the most wins in the National League this year.
So it's yes, it's it's a tougher Paul in Milwaukee.

Speaker 6 (40:01):
And they can string hits together. You know, I don't
know how many they're going to string together against the Dodgers,
but they can do it. That's that's the recipe.

Speaker 5 (40:08):
Yeah, And I think Doug brop a great point and
he used the right words there. The Dodgers released a
lot a lot of tension in this series, I think,
and a lot of energy was also spent in this
five game series. With that what they said, I think
the next two days are huge to be off, to
be off their feet today, a light workout, get treatment

(40:30):
back at it tomorrow afternoon with the light workout, probably
at Dodger Stadium, and have the game on the jumpbo
tron there in late afternoon to see who they're playing,
the Brewers and the Cubs, and then either head out
to Milwaukee or get ready for the Cubs on Monday mentally,
mentally and emotionally, Steve, this is a huge forty eight
hour window for them to just decompress.

Speaker 6 (40:50):
Yeah, so they're gonna play Monday, Yeah, right, Yes, they're
playing Monday, either against the Cubs at Dodgers Stadium or
against Milwaukee at their place. Yeah. And uh yeah, so yes,
these these two days off, having having Friday and Saturday
off are huge. Uh you know for them, no question
about it. Friday, Saturday, well, you have Sunday off. You

(41:10):
have three days off, right, am I doing that right?

Speaker 8 (41:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (41:14):
But if you have to travel, Sunday would be the
travel day.

Speaker 6 (41:17):
For that but you're still not playing right. So they're
gonna get They're gonna get the three days and cherish
those days, two days of no travel, and that's that's huge. Yeah,
you get a chance to uh to reset the battery,
get some treatment done, and you kind of hone in
on these other guys now and uh, this is great
for the pitching staff. Boy, you talk about a way
to really reset and get the pitching staff set uh

(41:38):
to go, Uh, you know, with either with either club
on Monday. This is perfect.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. He
is Steve Sacks. I am Tim Kates. We got one
line open if you want to jump on board. As
the Dodgers advance to the NLCS, they wait the winner
of the Cubs and Brewers series, which will wrap up
tomorrow night in Milwaukee. Coming up, you'll hear from Rookie Suzaki.
You'll hear from Key k Hernandez was some great thoughts
postgame with David Vass about this Dodgers team collectively, how

(42:04):
they did it in this series, and how they've really
relied upon their starting pitching and veterans in that clubhouse.
We'll hear from David vass In. About an hour from now,
John Hartung will join us from sports in LA, and
your phone calls eight six six nine eighty seven two
five seventy Dodgers moving on to the NLCS yet again.
Right here on Anti seventy. I sports a dramatic eleven

(42:33):
inn win over the Phillies last night, says the Dodgers
win two to one to punch their ticket to the
NLCS after winning the NLDS against Philadelphia in four games.
Alex Vessia the win last night as the Dodgers walk
off Philadelphia in dramatic fashion. I Sum Kim scores on

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an air from Ryan kirkeran who misplayed the ground ball
back to him off the bat of Andy Pie has
throw it to home, missed fire to J t Rulmuto.
Kim scores and the Dodgers celebrate yet another trip to
the NLCS. I just keep watching the highlight over and
over and over again. And it's one of those things.

(43:15):
Actually in baseball, you put the ball in play, you
never know what's gonna happen. That's why you always say
stop striking out. Strikeouts do nothing. Put the ball in play.

Speaker 6 (43:26):
There, there's a good example uh, you know, oh, you know,
he didn't hit the cover off the ball like Kik
the other day, didn't hit the cover off the ball
got jammed, so did Pahz. And you know what, both
of those instances created a victory for the Dodgers.

Speaker 5 (43:44):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (43:44):
And and what's what's uh the antithesis to that, well,
the strikeout. What happens if they strike out, they don't
win either game, at least on those on those happenings
right there. So it just goes to show you if
you make contact, you've got a chance. If you strikeout,
it's it's worthless. Obviously.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
Coming up, we're gonna hear from David Vassa In a
little less than an hour, John Hartong will join us
from Sports in at LA. Got a lot of postgame reaction.
We're gonna hear from Keik here Nandez coming up after
the top of the hours and really candid comment postgame
with David vass about this Dodgers team in the run
they're making yet again with this group in particular, we're
gonna get into rookie Sasaki in the job he did
yesterday three masterful innings of relief for Dave Roberts coming

(44:27):
out of the bull. Fans go back out to the phones,
thanks for being patient. We go to Maxwell and Austin. Maxwell, welcome, how.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
You doing morning, Dim, morning sex, How you guys do?

Speaker 5 (44:37):
Max good, doing good? What's on your mind?

Speaker 7 (44:40):
One night last night, still buzzing from that walk of
Kik and Andy delivered big time. Dodgers are headed to
the NLCS and it feels like the twenty twenty magic
all over again. The thing this team has that same

(45:02):
chemistry or even more.

Speaker 5 (45:05):
Yeah, I think the chemistry is fantastic. Thanks to the
phone call, Maxwell, appreciate that. You're gonna hear from Keiki
Hernandez coming up over the top of the hour, and
he's gonna get into that. The group that they have
this year. We've heard Clayton Kershaw a few times, Saxy
talk about it. He got emotional when he announced his
retirement about you know, teammates he's had over his eighteen years.
But he really emphasized this group, and that put my

(45:27):
antenna up. And I keep hearing players talk about this group,
this group, these guys in this clubhouse. I get the
feeling from what they're all saying. They get along. It's
a venturing group. They got guys who are hungry to
win their first title. They got guys who are hungry
to win again. And they got guys like Clayton Kershaw
who are looking to win at the end of their career,
like Miguel Rojas as well, who's thirty six years old

(45:49):
and may not be back. They got that mix of
hungriness from different aspects of players who are in different
parts of their career, which is kind of kind of cool.

Speaker 6 (45:58):
Yeah, you it's great to have the mix. You got
the useful exuberance of guys on this team that are
just getting started out, guys like you know call and
Paez is a new guy on the team as well.
And so they got the young guys, that got the
old guys that can lead the way, and that chemistry
that the team has bought into. The culture, if you will,

(46:20):
is all set forth by Dave Roberts and his coaches.
They followed Dave and that's what brings in all of
that good nature into the clubhouse. And it is I
will say it again, it is very, very difficult, sometimes
more difficult to manage a team such as this than
it is a team with no expectations Dave Roberts is handed.

(46:41):
You know, a team that spends a lot of money
on its players, the expectations are through the roof, and hey,
you know what, if you don't deliver, you know, the
pressure's on you. It's a very very tough environment. May
not seem like it, you know, the weather's great, beautiful stadium,
three million, over three million people a year. People get
a lot of money, but that's not all it's about.
It's it's about the pressure that's put on, you know,

(47:03):
the team to win, and they do. This team is
in it every single year and they've they've got the uh,
they've got a chance to win it every year. That's
but baseball's hard to win that that way, you know.
But this team's in the mix every single year.

Speaker 5 (47:18):
Corey and Lombie's before the top of the hour, Corey,
how you doing, Thanks for being patient, welcome, thank you.

Speaker 8 (47:24):
For taking my call. Hey guys, just a couple of points.
I believe if that Phillies pitcher hits Real Mudo in
the chest, I think Hay Song Kim is out. Yeah,
and my question is why didn't he slide? If he slides,
he's safe, no matter what I think. And Real Mudo

(47:49):
had the whole plate completely blocked. But that that being said,
where was Otawni? The on deck batter has got to
be there to tell that runner, you know, to stand
up or get down.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
Yeah, that that's such a bank being play though, Corey.
It's you're asking Otani to sprint over there in you know,
two seconds. It's a comeback or to a to a
Ryan to Kirkering there and he fumbles it and throws away.
I don't I don't put anything on Otani not being
that down there to tell him to stand up or slide.
But for Kim, he's going a hard night. He just

(48:24):
trying to get there. I don't think he thought either
that there would be a throw to the home plate.
He's probably thinking it's going to first. But credit to
him though, right, he could have very just easily, Oh,
comebacker to you know the pitcher, Saxy, I'm just gonna
coast it back down to home. That's a routine ground ball.
They're gonna get Pajez at first. But him running hard,
him maybe being that blurred white figure with the Dodger

(48:47):
uniform on there, just going down the line the periphery
of Kirkering. Maybe that played into effect that. You know
he had to rush the throw and threw it home
instead of first.

Speaker 8 (48:55):
Who know?

Speaker 6 (48:56):
Okay, I gotta get something off my chest if you
don't mind, Tim, Sure. Okay, First of all, I understand
Corey in his sentiment wanting know Tonny to be there
and tell him to slide or not. No, can't happen
on a play like that. It's too bang bang, he
can't get over there. It's irrelevant. The reason is because
Kim is supposed to slide. Get your keyster on the ground.

(49:18):
Would you what is it with players today were they're
not sliding? What is it with it? And you don't
have to slide head first on everything? I mean, if
you want to get injured, keep sliding head first, especially
in the home plate. That catcher is going to give
you a laying as soon as you leave your feet
to slide. He can block you off if the ball's there,
and he's going to crush you, especially your shoulder, your head, whatever.

(49:42):
Why are you sliding head first in the home plate.
Don't ever do that. It's wrong and guys are going
to continue to get hurt like they always do. And
you know, if a play is even remotely close slide.
They've been doing it for one hundred and something years,
and all of a sudden, people don't want to slide.
I don't get it. I don't get it. Tim.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
I think everybody was caught up in the moment. I
think Kim was just trying to get home as fast
as possible. Obviously Kurane got caught up in the moment.
And the Dodgers take it. The Dodgers are the benefactors
of this botch play in the eleventh inning. Doesn't matter
how you do it, as long as you win. And
the Dodgers get the victory in eleven innings, and now

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