October 21, 2025 • 44 mins
Steve and Tim get into the Dodgers starting rotation and how it has lined up perfectly for them in October. A certain Dodgers reliever wants to be included on the World Series roster, but his regular season numbers weren't great and can they trust him now. Dodgers cans weigh-in on Tanner Scott.
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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 3 (00:06):
It's winning it again.
Speaker 4 (00:07):
This year 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 5 (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 3 (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 3 (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 3 (00:43):
Steve Sacks, Tim Kats, Tim Kates.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The World Series is set. Dodgers Toronto Blue Jays Game
one Friday night from the Rogers Center north of the
border in Toronto, Canada. As a Blue Jays come back
and beat the Mariners last night in Game seven of
the ALCS, cheating George Springer with a three run home
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run and the seventh inning hopping his way around the
basis and he looks fine to me. As the Mariners
blew a three to one lead after cal Roley homer
in the fifth inning, blue Jays come back and win
the game four to three in their first World Series
appearance since nineteen ninety three. How about the Blue Jays
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winning back to back World Series for all you young folks
out there, nineteen ninety two nineteen ninety three, back to
back World Series championships for the Toronto Blue Jays. They
beat the Braves and they beat the Phillies. Joe Carter's
home run, all of that, John Olerude, Ricky Henderson, a
Toronto's Blue Jays team that won back to back? Was
that Jack Morris, Jack, I believe so yep, Jack. Even
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Dick Schofield was on one of those teams. How about
that for the for the Toronto Blue Jays back in
nineteen ninety two, in nineteen ninety three, and they're going
back to the Fall Classic for the first time since
nineteen ninety three, So congratulations to them. They now get
show Hey Otani and the Dodgers and let the story
lines begin. Kershaw versus Schuzer, Don Maddie Lee, one of
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the good guys in baseball who was making his first
World Series appearance. Sacxual in forty years of baseball as
a player and a coach a manager, forty years, he's
making his first trip to a World Series. How about that,
your former first baseman. Yeah, he deserves it.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I mean, they don't get better baseball men, they don't
get better human beings in the game. You put Don
matting Lee right there with Dave Roberts, Mike Soosha. You
know guys like that that These are kind of guys
like if you don't like them, there's something drastically wrong
with you. No question. They're the nicest human beings on
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the planet, and they're phenomenal baseball men, and they're maddenly
one of the greatest players as I ever saw. Yeah,
no doubt, and just amazing player. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
You also got the storyline of Taoscar Hernandez, who played
for the Toronto Blue Jays and now returning back to Toronto
to face his former team. You got show Hey Otani
taking on the Toronto Blue Jays, a team he reportedly
was on a flight to Toronto to sign with two
off seasons ago. That proved to be false. He signs
with the Dodgers, but the Blue Jays right there in
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the running to sign Showe Aotani when as a free
agent two off seasons ago. And you've got, of course,
the superstars battling it out with taoscar Hernandez Mookie Beg,
Freddie Freeman, show Heyotani against Vlad Guerrero and crew, and
the Blue Jays could be getting Boba sheetback at shortstop.
He had missed the time with a knee injury. But
he said last night after the game to MLB Networks
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John pal Morosi that he is going to play in
this World Series, so they'll be getting him back. They
of course got cheating George Springer playing for them as well,
So it's gonna be a fun It's gonna be a
fun World Series. And it begins on Friday night right
here on AFI seven e LA Sports. How about this?
The team still lose first two games at a home
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and win a best of seven series. The Blue Jays
joined the Yankees in ninety six, the Mets in eighty six,
and the Royals in eighty five to do that in
a post season.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
They come back. This team come backs more than anybody
right during the season this.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Year, most comeback wins in twenty twenty five in Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Experienced a lot of that this year. Who's a Cheating George?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
By the way, they had a comeback win against the
Dodgers in their three game series at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers
were on the verges sweeping them at the Ravine, and
the Dodgers saw the Blue Jays rally late in the
game and ended up winning the game over the Dodgers.
But the Dodgers still took two or three from Toronto
and their head to head meeting out of Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
We'll get me saw. But you did see, you know,
cheating George take that fastball on the kneecap.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh yeah, so that was bad.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
So I mean he took that like a champ, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I mean, I don't know how he ran around the
bases last time.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I don't know. But you know, sometimes you get those
contusions like that happens in football all the time, where
you get hit. It looks awful and it hurts like
crazy at the beginning and then it goes away. But
I don't know how he I don't know what it
looked like. He hit him right right on the kneecap. Yeah,
and the sound it looked like it was a foul ball.
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They actually had a exit velocity recorded because it ricocheted
off his knee so hard. They actually got a exit
velocity off the bat. Of course it wasn't off the bat,
but it did record an exit velocity off his knee.
It was fifty five miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
That's painful.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Yeah, so you got to think it hit something hard.
So it probably hit that kneecap, didn't hit the pateller
tendon below that or anything. Probably hit the kneecap, and
he's able to sustain that. But as far as him
like swinging and going down on one knee, no, I'm
not buying that at all. If you're able to sit
there and swing a bat, and a couple of times
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where he's hit a ball that was close to being
fairfelt and he's sprinting and then all of a sudden
he goes back to the to the plate. No, I
can't even stand up, but I swing. I'm not buying
any of that stuff. You see him run around the base.
Did he look hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
No, he did look at her, and he was jumping
around like Joe Carter in nineteen ninety three, celebrating.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Yeah, it was. It was not there's no uh, you know,
woe is me there? Now he's playing it that big
because he has an excuse to fall back on. Now,
he's taking the pressure off himself because he can say, well,
Denise is so bad. I can barely stand up there,
you know, and but I can't hit the ball, you know,
four hundred and thirty feet and run around pretty good.
But after that it's it's it's back to the Oh well,
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it really hurts, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I do give him credit, and I would happen to
be listening to the Blue Jays. Actually was John Smoltz.
I'm sorry it was. John Smoltzo was talking about it
during the game on Fox last night, and they may
how the Mariners were throwing inside on Springer, and you
saw it early in the game. In fact, the first
bat of his first a bat of the game in
the bomb the first the first pitch was up and
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in on him and backed him off the plate, and
they all started booing.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
He had two of them.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, And that was the thing they were trying to do,
throw him inside, back him off the plate. And I
don't like George Springer because he's a cheating George Springer,
But I do give him credit for that at bat
last night in the seventh inning, knowing that they were
probably going to try again to go in on him,
and and Bizartro's got this ball that kind of tails
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a little bit in on right handed hitters if you
watch the get bad. And John Smoltz brought this up
right afterwards. He opened up what you're not supposed to do,
you know, he opened up knowing the ball was going
to be in on him, and it was on the
inner half of the plate and he just turned on it.
So a good job by him recognizing what they were
doing the moment he had faced Bizarro the night before,
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which is another question, Why are you bringing a guy
out who pitched two innings the night they just saw
him pitch two winnings? Go to your high leverage reliever.
But anyways, a great job by Springer to recognize what
they were doing to him, and he turned on an
inside fastball and hit that three run home run, which, yep,
according to the Blue Jays analyst, is the greatest moments
in sports.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
In sports, right, yeah, you got you gotta hand it
to him, because the dude had a really good year
this year. I mean he he should have been the
All Star team as far as I'm concerned. You know,
he played out of the one sixty two. He played
one forty, so in today's kind of environment, that's pretty
much a full year. He hit three zho nine this year,
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you know, and he hit thirty two jacks and he
drove in eighty four. So you know, as far as
I look at it, I gotta be fair about it.
He had a really good year. Big year he did.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
He had a really good season in him and Vlad
there the top one two punch for the Toronto Blue
Jays is going to be something the Dodgers need to
figure out how to control, how to limit the damage.
You know, the bottom of the line up scrappy for Toronto.
They find ways to get on base. Last night, it
was the bottom of the lineup that got on base
in the bottom of the seventh. They need to set
up for George Springer, yeah, to do something with that
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three run home run. So it's a good, not a great.
It's a good Toronto Blue Jays lineup, but the top
heavy lineup with George Springer cheating George Springer chan George
and Vlad Guerrero is a good I mean really good
one two punch.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And and Guerrero as well is pretty hot. See that's
that's the other part of this, tim is you can
have all these great players, but if they're not in
a good cycle where they're they're playing at a very
up level, and it comes and goes. Uh, you know,
you could be in trouble. But as it as it
looks right now, Springer Guerrero, the two really forces in
this lineup are at a really high abb right now.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, I'm watching Mark de Rosa do a breakdown.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And Wu who was the reliever slash starter who came
out of the game and Dan Wilson elected to go
to the new reliever there in bizarre Zar He's breaking down,
like why like Wo was struck him out in the
previous at bat, had him off balance, and you bring
in Bizardo and yeah, just just disaster, disaster from the sea.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
He's gonna hear that forever. You could have done the
eliminated the elimination of Bizardo by stretching out Wu another
inning and moving up Munos and there you go. You
could have closed that gap. But you know, when you
when you can kind of feel it brewing. Right. Uh,
they're trying to they're trying to really kind of get
through this one little bridge right here before they get
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to Munos and you got the you got the high
leverage dudes coming up. That's the part I didn't understand.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And it's easy go to your closer in the seventh
doesn't matter, right, of course? Isn't that the way you
have to think if you're Dan Wilson, instead of going
to a guy who pitched two winnings the night before
to face George Springer and Vlad Guerrero with the tie
and run at second base and the winning run at
a home that's I mean, it's easy to say, I
get it, you know, because Bizarro threw a pitch and
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he got hit out of the part by George Springer.
But in the moment you're kind of wondering why they
didn't go to their high leverage reliever or the seventh thing.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Do you think when he brings Bizardo in, he goes,
this is Dan Wilson. He goes back to the dugout
and he's peering through the little you know, the little
webbing in the dugout. And he's looking at this. Then
he gets up on the top step and he's above
the railing so he can really get a better view.
And he's looking now and he's thinking, maybe I should
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have gone down below where the webbing is and look
through therapy, because I don't want to really see clearly
what's gonna happen now. And I think he had some
I think he had some second thoughts before it even
was gone. And I think he saw this before it happened.
I mean you could kind of smell it brewin right right,
like like my coffee I brewed this morning. I could
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I could smell it just like that. Geez here it comes,
you know what I mean. And baboom, and he hammered
that ball, that ball when its h I as it
went far, you know, that was just a bolt. Again.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
The Blue Jays bottom of the lineup got it done
with Barjar a walk kind of filet the Falifa, a
single dissenter sets up first and second, nobody out and
then they sacrifice but the runners over second and third
again manufacturing runs bottom of the lineup, setting it up
on a tee for George Springer then to come in
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and hit that home run. And if he wouldn't hit
the home run, you had Vlad Guerrero with two outs
and still runners in scoring position, with a chance to
tie the game. So you had to like the chances
of the Blue Jays there in the seventh inning.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Tim, how much do you like the fact that we've
seen bunting really come to the forefront and be an
important part. You see Pahas do that. You saw the
bottom of the order with the Blue Jays do it
yesterday again, that made a difference in the game. Do
you think this is going to be more socially accepted
through the confines of the talking points of baseball, that
they're going to accept the fact that bunting is important,
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that it's not all well, it's leveraging against the you
know what power stroke that could mean a lot more
runs to you. I just yeah, but I'm not looking
for a power stroke, Okay, I'm looking to advance these runners.
Guy on second base, and you know, to start the
ending of the tenth inning, everybody should bun him over
or unless you can hit it to the right side
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on the ground, but you got to you gotta get
that runner over. That's still an important part of baseball.
You must move the runners.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I think it's only gonna apply like it is right
now in October. Really over the regular season. In one
sixty two, I shoo.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Saying night in Cleveland, and you know it ain't gonna matter.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
No, you know, Guardians and White Sox on a Tuesday
in June. It's it's not gonna matter to the bunt
because over the one sixty two you're still relying on
slug That's just the philosophy of baseball. I hope it changes,
but you're not gonna you hear about the seasons changing.
Regular see you talk about all the time. There's preseason,
regular season and postseason. Postseason is a different animal. The
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game change, the speed of the game changes, a lot
of the factors change every inning. Every out is so
important and magnified now. And with that being said, I
think that's why the bunt works in postseason play because
you're playing for one run, you're playing to take the
lead and hand it over the bullpen. You're you're you're
playing in a low scoring games for the most part.
But the regular season, yeah, well, I like my chances
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with my five hitter up and a runner at second
base to start off the top of the tenth inning.
I think he's gonna slug. If not, you'll hit a
ball in the gap and we'll get that run in. Anyway,
is why butt them over?
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Why?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Why wasting out? Steve?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Oh yeah, well see that's that's the bad part of this.
They they throw that out there, you're wasting and out.
I'm not wasting and out. I just move two runners.
How's that a waste? Yeah, but that batter was out
when you struck out trying to hit home run. That's
a waste to me. That is true. That is true.
That's a waste. There is no productivity when you strike out.
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There's no productiveness. Productivity when you strike out nothing. You
don't move a runner. All you do is move your
fanny back to the dugout.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This is true.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
I'm not arguing all you do.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I just I just don't think it's going to change
any philosophy. In the regular season.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
They got to listen to scat I know.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I know they have to listen. Speaking of listening, if
you were listening to Petro some money yesterday, Dave Roberts,
Dodger manager, called in before he headed to Dodger Stadium
for a team workout. They had the game on ALCS
Game seven as they were going through their workouts and
Dodger Stadium, and Dave Roberts very candid, very great in
his conversation and talked about the starting rotation, which we've
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been talking about a lot here in October, and how
it's set up perfectly for their big four to dominate,
go deep into games, and this is luck? Is it
a plan? Here's Dave Roberts on how it's all kind
of unfolded here for him.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Yeah, I wouldn't say that's luck, though. I think that's
part of being able to.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Hold.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
It's kind of like that whole brave Heart, you know,
or Russell crowch Armel Gibson saying emmel or Russell's saying hold, hold, hold,
And I think it's yes, Mel, And I think that
it's like with us, you know, whether you have Blake
or you have Tyler, you have and the guys in
the bullpen or you know, show Hey not ramping him up,
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it's like hold, hold, hold, and you want to be
able to do it. So they have bullets at the
end of the season. So I do credit obviously the
entire organization. We have depth to kind of overcome a
summer where you're not fully healthy. But that wasn't luck.
That was more kind of methodical making sure we kind
of hold our guys back to make sure they're ready
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to go when needed through October.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
All part of a master plan, as they used to
say on the AD team, And I love it when
a plan comes together, and it certainly has for the
Dodgers in this pitching staff. The plan all along was
why ramp up show hey Otani in April and May
when you need him for September and October. I get it.
I agree one hundred percent. Why stretch out a guy
and give max effort and you know, empty the tank,
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so to speaks, his innings are concerned in June and
when you need him for September and October. I loved
the philosophy of the Dodgers this year and the starting pitching.
Just work, work, work, stretch out in September, and when
you get to October, be healthy first and foremost. And
as these guys are healthy, then you get some length
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out of your starters. It worked out to perfection, Steve.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
It did. And when you know, you look at Blake Snell,
eleven games, Otani, what have fourteen games. Yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
They long played, and they waited and waited for him
to start really right before the All Star break with
one inning and then post All Star break one inning,
two innings, two innings, three innings, three's. It was all
mapped out.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
And if if you look at as far as when
he started, this is like, I don't know, late late May,
early June for Otani and Snell, I think you'd say
as far as innings pitch, maybe even later than that.
These guys are primed. These guys are like coming out
of spring training right now as far as their arms
are feeling the bullets in the arm, and they are
perfectly timed up. I mean to see, the luxury you
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have with the Dodgers is you got to get into postseason.
You got to win the division first, and hopefully you
get some home field advantage in there somewhere. It didn't
work out with Toronto this year where they missed it
by one game, but nonetheless, you got to get in
and then at the same time, if you can preserve
those arms and have them healthy and rested for postseason,
it's a perfect scenario. And that's what they did. But
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it's like it's genius.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, no doubt, And they mapped it out perfectly. And
part of that is injuries. When you've got you know,
Blake Snell on the injured list for a few months,
having kind of you know, been watching what was happening,
you felt like Blake Snell was ready to come back
earlier and was ready to go and eager to go.
But I don't know if slow playing it's the right word.
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Being cautious with Blake Snell is a better way to
describe it. But what's the sense of urgency to bring
him back in July, you know, so to speak, or
where the timeline was when you can wait a little
bit again part of the processes, as he mentioned Mel
Gibson in Brave Heart, Hold, Hey, Blake Snell, we don't
need you right now. Hold buddy, Hold, we don't need
you a hold right now. We know you're anxious, you
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know you had a little bit of the inflammation in
the shoulder. Let's just let's slow play this a little bit.
We don't need you right now. Let's pump the brakes.
We need you in October again. Part of this masterful
plan that was all put out there and it has
to course work out with injuries being part of it,
luck being part of it as well. And again you
need all these guys to kind of be clicking at
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the right time on the mound. And certainly that recipe
worked this year. Does it always work?
Speaker 9 (19:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:39):
And because you can plan this out all the time.
I looked it up. Show Hey, fourteen games, forty one innings,
forty one innings. You know, even in Wimpdom when pitchers
only go one hundred and they call it off, this
is nothing. He's forty percent of the way there in
the in the whim scale, he's still forty one percent there,
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all right, yep, I mean this is nothing. He's he's
just getting just getting a froth going right now.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I mean, you think, out of the big four, Yamamoto
is the only one who made a lot of starts.
Yamamoto is the only one who had two hundred plus strikeouts.
He was the workhorse during this season. But you go
back to a year ago he was banged up and
on the injured list with the shoulder injury.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
With Tim tim what's it, what's his first.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Name, Yoshinobu. Say it again, Yoshinobu.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Okay, you're really good at that. I mean, I know
you like to say it, so I like to kind
of feed it to you.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I mean I had to say it thirty plus times
when he made thirty plus starts this year on Morono
Casino Dodgers on Deck and all the postgame show, which,
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four pm Pacific as a Dodgers start Game one of
the World Series. Dodgers in Blue Jays, first pitch fiveh
eight from the Rogers Center on Friday, Dodgers, We'll head
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to Toronto, get ready with a couple of workouts, and
get ready for Game one into North of the Border.
Coming up, your phone calls Jerry Royce next hour, but
up next a certain Dodger reliever wants to be a
part of the World Series roster. But should he be
based on his performance? We'll get into that. Your phone
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calls as well, Steve Sax, Tim Kates and you. It's
Scam Sax and Kate's and Am on ANFI seventy eight Sports.
Saxon Kates in the am here on n FI seventy
la Sports. As the World Series is set, Dodgers and
the Toronto Blue Jays for the Blue Jays their first
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appearance in the Fall Classics since nineteen ninety three, after
they went back to back World Series champions And I
was just talking to some of the folks at KFI
Saxy and they said, if if they don't want this
to happen, But they just said, if if the Toronto
Blue Jays happened to win the World Series. They said,
they're a Canadian team, do they go to the White House?
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Are they invited as a team from Canada? And I
thought to myself, you know what, I don't know, because
it's been so long since the Canadian hockey team has
won the NHL Stanley Cup. I think it's been since
ninety four in Toronto, the Maple Leaves.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Well did they go in ninety three?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Well, I looked it up. They went ninety two. They
were invited again in ninety three, but they did not
go because you go the next season, right, you go
in ninety four because they won it in ninety three,
So you would go during the ninety four season as
you make your way on the East coast or when
it was convenient at the time there was no Washington Nationals.
Then in ninety four but you would, you know, try
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to make it so you're in Philadelphia or New York
close by to go. That was the lockout year, that
was the ninety four shortened season.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
They have plenty of time to go.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Then, yeah, well they did not go as a team
in ninety four, even though they were invited as to
the ninety three championship team. So yes, even if a
team from Canada wins a championship, they still are invited
to the White House in Washington, DC. It's just I
was I had to think about it because man, it's
been so long since the Canadian hockey team has been
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to Stanley Cup. That and again the Blue Jays haven't
won since ninety three, and you know, we don't play
in the Canadian Football League, so those are the only
two major sports NBA. I guess you got the Toronto
Raptors and want a championship maybe what ten twelve years ago,
but who really cares. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting because
the roster gets reset here in the World Series, and
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we saw a little bit of changes from the Wildcard
round to the DS. We saw even a little bit
more smaller changes as far as relievers in the bullpen
was considered in the NLCS for Dave Roberts. I don't
think we're going to see a lot of changes in
the World Series roster, but one guy who is hoping
to get on the World Series.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Roster, Jerry Rice. That's why he's coming on.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I wish he was there to help out the bullpen
is another left hander, Tanner Scott, who has had himself well,
quite the interesting first year in a Dodger uniform after
signing a long term deal as one of the prize
free agent relievers last offseason. Here he is yesterday with
David Vast and the media talking about well the medical
procedure he had in the NLDS that took him off
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the roster then, and his hope, his hope to join
this Dodger's roster here in the World Series.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
I feel a lot better now throwing through a couple
of bullpens, sewer.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
It takes me sort of thing what happened?
Speaker 9 (24:31):
I mean, I think I think was it. Hayman said it,
so I don't need to go into depth on it,
but it was just an affection and a bad timing
and I mean healthy now, so keep throwing about it. Yeah,
I mean I feel I feel healthy. I mean, I
definitely feel a lot better than I did coming off
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that h Philly or the Philly series, and I wasn't
I wasn't feeling great. So yeah, he's leading up to
win you got or taking off the roster? Like was
that a Dave was saying, like it was kind of
like popped up somewhat urgently there, Like, yeah, it definitely
it popped up.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
Probably Game one I started feeling something and then the
off day I noticed something was really off. And then
by the time we got back to Villios was like, hey,
we needed we needed to take care of.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Maybe about a month since you're pitched in an MLB game,
Is there any concern there's rusts or anything?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
No, why is that not a concern for you? Why
isn't that a concern for you? I mean that's quite
a bit of time. And then to be thrust into
a playoff game, I mean.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
I mean playoff playoff energy is different. Uh, I mean
hopefully throwing a life soon and uh I want to
face Freddy. I want to face Freddy so uh no,
I don't know, just see what it takes me.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
All right, there's Tanner Scott. He was on the NLDS roster,
had a medical procedure that took him off the roster.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Tim, do we want to talk about the elephant in
the room.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, Okay, let's do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
I mean, do we want to get into exactly what
was going on with him? I mean, well, the medical
procedure was.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I thought you wanted to get in the elephant in
the room that he was really bad during the regular season. No,
it's gonna change your postseason. Let's look at kind of
tap dance around. If you want what the medical procedure,
why don't we.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Just talk about it? I mean, I think we should
get a a medical line on what the procedure was.
The exact medical procedure. I don't know what it was.
It was a.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Uh, it was something on his lower half of his body.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Is from what what is that? It's like his knee?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
No, was it his knee? Oh? At the time, John Hayman,
who he referred to from the athletic in the MLB network,
said it was an ailment, an infection that one Dodger
official called a cyst that had to be removed and
it was causing discomfort and.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Oh, so it had to be his foot right something
he's walking on.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, I think it was on his lower part of
his body, but maybe not his foot, maybe a little
bit more north of that, but south of his hip,
north of his knee, south of his hip. As we're
starting to zero in where it could have been on
the lower half of his body. But he says he
feels good. And I don't know how much I trust
though Tanner Scott pushing through the issue. He yes, he's
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pushing through it, and I know he wants to be
on this World Series roster.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
But but because yeah, but everybody's being a little cheeky
about it. But yeah, but but.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I'm not sure Tanner Scott should be on this World
Series roster. I mean, he hasn't pitched in a game
since September twenty sixth. To his credit, he did allow
only two earned runs and four hits over his last
seven appearances, which was six and two third Indians, so
he pitched better down this stretch. But but in my mind,
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I still remember Tanner Scott and know what he did
during the regular season with the amount of blown saves
that he has and the amount of bad outings that
he had, and just did not look dominant coming out
of the bullpen, whether it was in a high leverage
situation a low leverage situation. He just wasn't the Tanner
Scott that they gave four years and millions of dollars to.
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In the off season, they left Tanner that was so
good the last few years, and he was he was
really good.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
He's got nasty stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Yeah, he's he's been dominant. And the Dodgers brought him
in Kirby y Aayton to be the guys at the
back end of the rotation, to be the back end
of the bullpen, and neither one of them are on
the postseason roster right now, and Tanner Scott is itching
to get back. Yeah, the back end of that bullpen.
They're trying to, you know, they were they were asked
to come in and be big parts of that. But
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but Tanner Scott just did not deliver in the regular season.
And I look at the amount of blown saves, I
look at the outings, and I look at the situations
in a seven game series against the Toronto Blue Jays.
I don't know if I can rely on him. I
don't know if I want that bullpen gate opening Saxy
and seeing Tanner Scott run out of there. I mean,
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things can change next year, he can reset in twenty
twenty six. I got confidence that he'll be back to
the level at some point over the next couple of
years of this contract that the Dodgers gave him, that
he'll be back and he'll be back out there pitching
really well. But right now, this twenty twenty five season
hasn't been a good one for him. And with the
amount of lefties that they do have at their disposal,
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Jack Dryer, Justin Robleski, Anthony Bonda, Alex Vesia, and a
Hall of Famer to be in Clayton Gershaw, I don't
feel like there is enough room for Tanner Scott to
bust the rough into that bullpen, so to speak.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
You know, I'm just wondering. You know, the guy has
incredible stuff, and they invested a lot in him. He
was supposed to be, you know, a guy that could close,
the guy that could set up, but definitely a leverage
guy that could come in leverage situations and shut it down.
And and you wonder how much this this procedure has,
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you know, kind of thwarted his his ability to be
the best he can be or was it just not
that at all? Was it was it way before that?
And was it? Uh, you know, he's just having one
of those years. But I mean, if you go to
the essence of why they got him over here, his
stuff is great. I mean, he's he's he's a guy
that you know that can come in and just stop
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all bad, bad things happen. And these guys are getting
runners on Brider, your lefty, he can come in and
get him out. But I mean that is that all
not the case now because of this this affliction? Was
it was it something else? Was he just having a
bad year? I don't know, but I know he's got
great stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, he's got really good, good stuff when he's on
and when it's working. But there were times that his
ball was flat, he was fastball was getting teed up
on they he just did not have the dominant stuff
and getting swinging misses. He wasn't getting you know, ground
ball outs. When he did get contact, he was getting
launch angled against him and the balls hit out of
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the ballpark. In his outings this year now again the
sample size down the stretch in September and his last
six plus outings, you know, just to earned runs, and
that was against the Arizona Diamondbacks on September twenty third.
He's pitched better, he really has, but he also has
gotten himself into situation in what let's see, five of
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those six outings, he did walk about her in those
outings in a late inning game. We saw what happened
last night in the seventh inning of the Blue Jays.
Can't walk people. You can't know the leadoff batter gone
on because of a walk. If Tanner Scott's walking guys
this year, but walking that tight rope and getting out
of jams like he did the last outings, I still
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can't trust him to go out there and give up
a leadoff walk in the eighth inning and in a
three to one game, because now it's panic time with
Dodger fans and the bullpen and here we go again. Yeah,
his other bloss save.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
His walks per nine were not enormous. It was two
point eight, okay, But but when you bring him in
from the bullpen, any walk is enormous. It really is.
You cannot walk people. I mean the most that a
manager wants to see. The number one thing he wants
to see from relievers throw strikes that's the key. You've
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got to throw strikes. You can't walk any Listen, this
is the game, so hard to say, what do you
mean you can't walk any people? That's that's the that's
the hope. Is it? Is it practical? Well, no, you're
gonna walk somebody sometime. But every time you walk somebody,
it's just coming out of the bullpen. See, as a starter,
you have some runway. You have you possibly nine innings
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where you can spread that stuff out a little bit.
You don't have the runway out of the coming out
of the bullpen, you have no runway, and you have
to throw strikes. So I would much rather see a
guy barrel up to baseball and hit it somewhere and
get on as a single than to walk somebody. At
least make him earn it, you know, at least if
they hit it hard, you might hit it at somebody.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah, but you can't walk him. No. I just I
like Tanner Scott. I applaud him for wanting to come
back and be vocal about how he wants to come back,
and he's feeling healthy now and he feels a lot
better than he did a few weeks ago. But I
just I don't trust him. I got muscle memory, I
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got PTSD here with him coming out of the bullpen
this year in twenty twenty five next snapping, Yeah, I
just I don't trust him again. He can reset in
twenty twenty six and we'll look ahead to spring training
then for him. But let's just shut it down for
the rest of the year. I don't I don't need
for the next potential seven games to have Tanner Scott
in the back of my mind as the potential guy
that Dave Roberts can go to. There's four other lefties
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Speaker 6 (34:21):
How much do you.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Even really care about luxury taxes and spending and how
much this guy's getting, how much that guy is getting,
and on the Dodgers ruining baseball, and the Blue Jays
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and Kate's and am here on a FI seventy el
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toh eight coming up. Jerry Royce will join us in
about thirty minutes. I didn't think this would blow up
as big as it did sexy with Dodger fans. I've
gotten no less than six texts during the commercial break
from people saying no, no, no, no, Tanners Scott's hy
Dare you even bring up his name? I mean, I
didn't think it was that sensitive a subject. But when
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you you have twenty three saves in the season, as
Tanner Scott did, but you blow ten games, ten blown
saves for the Dodgers this year, you think about that
and where the Dodgers are sitting right now not having
home field advantage in the World Series one game back.
As far as wins concerned, behind Toronto is the difference
between them hosting Games one and two and potential Game
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six and seven and the Blue Jays, who are hosting
games one and two and potentially Game six and seven.
Could have been a factor in one of those ten
blown saves. While Tanner Scott during the season, you look
at what he did in September, shirt out to September
really good in his last six outings, one of which
was a blown save. But he had an ERA six
forty eight in the month of September. The month before
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in August he had an ERA of nine and just
three outings in the month of August. I look at
the options they have down there. It's not like they
need him. It's not like they're desperate for a left
handed pitcher. They've got other options. And with that being said,
let's go out to the phone, Saxe, because a lot
of Dodger fans want to weigh in on this. Go
to Zach in Long Beach. Zach, welcome to Sax and
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Kates and am Tanner Scott on the World Series roster.
Speaker 10 (36:35):
What do you say, oh, good morning and real quick
on a very very sad Tuesday morning for the Seattle
Mariners fans, still absolutely terrible for him. Shout out JP
Crawford from the LA Area Long Beast, California. As for
the Dodgers, though, is it not a perfect scripture for
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them to just absolutely sweep the series? Like goodness, gracious,
they're probably gonna beat the breaks off of the Blue Jays.
And it doesn't matter if they bring Tanner Scott on
or on, uh on or off, because they're absolutely stacked,
like you know what, brick house and God bless you
Dodgers fans and everybody, have a good rest of your.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Day, all right, thank you, Zach. I don't think they're
gonna beat the pants off of the Toronto Blue Jays.
This is this is gonna be a little tougher than
the previous.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Listen that we can't we can't get beside ourselves. If
the Dodgers drop a game, you know what I mean?
Oh no, we're gonna panic Steve. We're gonna he can't
because even if they drop two, no, I mean that's
still you got to win four here, all right, it's over.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
If they drop two, were.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
The Dodgers lost in in postseason this year. One game game.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
That's sick.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Nobody does that.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
You don't just sweep a rama everybody, but they're doing it.
I mean, this this team is is so good. This
is one of the best teams I've ever seen. I mean,
if I'm on Toronto and i'm you know, position player,
I'm looking over at that team, I'm thinking, Okay, get
past the way. You have four five guys that are
number ones on any team in MLB. Five of them
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put Sasaki in there.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Scary Chris and La Garry. Welcome to Saxon Kates to
the am Tanner Scott World Series roster. What say you
absolutely not?
Speaker 6 (38:19):
You are so right, Tim.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
What has he done since the last time we've seen
him that would change our mind? No, he absolutely doesn't
need to be on the roster. And you you stole
my thunder, because that's what I was gonna say, is
that we were behind one game. So those last two
or three weeks when he dropped his games and trying
and dropped his games, you know, those almost complete games,
those almost no hitters, those games matter. People always say, oh,
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it's one hundred and sixty game series season, No, those
games matter. Those sweet when we got swept by the Angels,
those games matter. One more game, so we need it
one more game and we would be hosting. So no,
I'm cool with him not be on there. Like you said,
let him reset in the spring, you know, spring training
and bringing back out next year and hopefully he has
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a great year. But I think we're good for now
and let's let's let's go and do what we need
to do, all.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Right, appreciated. Chris was just looking up the Dodger Blue
Jays series from earlier this year, in which the Dodgers
took two or three from Toronto. They lost a Sunday
Day game five to four after the Dodgers had had
the lead. I'm looking at the box score again, and
it went off like a light bulb. Steve, and I remember,
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I remember what happened in that series. That to me
was the first series in twenty twenty five that we
really saw an opposing manager and an opposing team go
with the philosophy of just walk show hey, just walk him,
don't don't let him get anything going, don't let him
do any damage to you. He did hit a home
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run of the Sunday game, but if you look at
what they did and their philosophy in that series was
at least in the second and third game, was to
go after Otan. He did image in the first game
win three for five with a strikeout, but the next
two games there was a clear message of let's not
let this guy beat him, and that that I started
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to remember now as I'm watching these these these recaps
here that yeah, that was Schneider. That was Toronto not
pitching to show Aotani.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Yeah the first time. Well that's been around forever. I mean,
didn't didn't we see a team maybe Arizona walk Berry
Bonds intentionally with the bases loaded. Yeah, that's true. I
think that happened. I mean that's a bit of gregious.
I think I would take my chances because you know,
you might hit it at somebody, but show hey, yeah,
I mean he's getting that kind of that same effect,
you see. I don't know, man, I you don't like
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to walk people to start a game. Maybe I wouldn't then,
but any other time I would. I would pitch to
him if I could, if I left he was pitching,
and I would only tell the guy, don't you know,
if you can unintentionally intentionally walk him or if he
can strike out, you get him to fish at something.
But sooner or later you're gonna have to show him
something or he'll he'll he'll catch on to it. Yeah,
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he'll just take everything right. You got to come in
the strike zone sometime, and unless you're you got three
lefties like Philly did and can dot dot dot that
lower outside corner with a wicked slider, there is all
the chance they had to get that dude out right,
and that's what they did.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Pedro on Anaheim, thanks for being patient. Tanner Scott World
Series Roster. Yes or no, I'm a yes, guys.
Speaker 7 (41:26):
I'm a yes only only because I trust the Dodgers
organization from top to bottom. If they deem him one
hundred percent healthy, ready to go, I'm gonna trust organization
that they're gonna put him out there and he's gonna do.
Speaker 8 (41:41):
His thing, all right.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
I love the optimism, uh, Pedro so the share.
Speaker 6 (41:47):
Crack of daylight here says he might be able to
get out there.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Yeah. To me, I don't know what changes from what
you saw over one hundred and sixty two game season
here in October.
Speaker 6 (41:58):
And maybe it's a reset. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
I mean, I'd rather see the reset next year, when
everybody's got a clean slate in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (42:06):
Let us see it next.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
I don't need to see a possible reset here in
game one or two of the World Series. Uh, Louis
and Covina, thanks for being patient.
Speaker 6 (42:14):
Louis.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
Tanner Scott wants back on the roster in the World Series.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
What do you think, morning, guys, No, absolutely not, because
what happens in the World Series is now you're playing
the absolute best team left. Everybody's talking about how great
the Dodgers are, and they are. The Dodgers will win
the World Series, but they will not skate through this
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because Toronto's the last team standing. So the margin of
error is smaller. Tanner Scott has not done anything to
remove doubt. So when the manager looks to the bullpen
or the bench for a pinch hitter, you're gonna pick
the guy who has the least amount of doubt in
your mind that he's gonna struggle. And Channer Scott is
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not the guy that removes any doubt. So the margin
of as you only have three games at home. If so,
at this stage of the World Series. Absolutely not. There's
no room for anyone that has any kind of doubt
of having a complete success, not a little bit of success.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
I get you, Lloid. The the margin of error, as
you so greatly pointed out, is so small here in
the postseason, and with the three batter minimum, it's not
like if he makes a mistake with a walk you
can go out and get him. You got to live
with him for three batters. Yeah, and that's not something
I necessarily feel comfortable with.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
And the issue here, Tim is Toronto does not have
to win on the road. The Dodgers do.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
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The World Series is set. Dodgers Toronto Blue Jays Game
one Friday night from the Rogers Center north of the
border in Toronto, Canada. As a Blue Jays come back
and beat the Mariners last night in Game seven of
the ALCS, cheating George Springer with a three run home
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run and the seventh inning hopping his way around the
basis and he looks fine to me. As the Mariners
blew a three to one lead after cal Roley homer
in the fifth inning, blue Jays come back and win
the game four to three in their first World Series
appearance since nineteen ninety three. How about the Blue Jays
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winning back to back World Series for all you young folks
out there, nineteen ninety two nineteen ninety three, back to
back World Series championships for the Toronto Blue Jays. They
beat the Braves and they beat the Phillies. Joe Carter's
home run, all of that, John Olerude, Ricky Henderson, a
Toronto's Blue Jays team that won back to back? Was
that Jack Morris, Jack, I believe so yep, Jack. Even
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Dick Schofield was on one of those teams. How about
that for the for the Toronto Blue Jays back in
nineteen ninety two, in nineteen ninety three, and they're going
back to the Fall Classic for the first time since
nineteen ninety three, So congratulations to them. They now get
show Hey Otani and the Dodgers and let the story
lines begin. Kershaw versus Schuzer, Don Maddie Lee, one of
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the good guys in baseball who was making his first
World Series appearance. Sacxual in forty years of baseball as
a player and a coach a manager, forty years, he's
making his first trip to a World Series. How about that,
your former first baseman. Yeah, he deserves it.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I mean, they don't get better baseball men, they don't
get better human beings in the game. You put Don
matting Lee right there with Dave Roberts, Mike Soosha. You
know guys like that that These are kind of guys
like if you don't like them, there's something drastically wrong
with you. No question. They're the nicest human beings on
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the planet, and they're phenomenal baseball men, and they're maddenly
one of the greatest players as I ever saw. Yeah,
no doubt, and just amazing player. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
You also got the storyline of Taoscar Hernandez, who played
for the Toronto Blue Jays and now returning back to Toronto
to face his former team. You got show Hey Otani
taking on the Toronto Blue Jays, a team he reportedly
was on a flight to Toronto to sign with two
off seasons ago. That proved to be false. He signs
with the Dodgers, but the Blue Jays right there in
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the running to sign Showe Aotani when as a free
agent two off seasons ago. And you've got, of course,
the superstars battling it out with taoscar Hernandez Mookie Beg,
Freddie Freeman, show Heyotani against Vlad Guerrero and crew, and
the Blue Jays could be getting Boba sheetback at shortstop.
He had missed the time with a knee injury. But
he said last night after the game to MLB Networks
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John pal Morosi that he is going to play in
this World Series, so they'll be getting him back. They
of course got cheating George Springer playing for them as well,
So it's gonna be a fun It's gonna be a
fun World Series. And it begins on Friday night right
here on AFI seven e LA Sports. How about this?
The team still lose first two games at a home
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and win a best of seven series. The Blue Jays
joined the Yankees in ninety six, the Mets in eighty six,
and the Royals in eighty five to do that in
a post season.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
They come back. This team come backs more than anybody
right during the season this.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Year, most comeback wins in twenty twenty five in Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Experienced a lot of that this year. Who's a Cheating George?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
By the way, they had a comeback win against the
Dodgers in their three game series at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers
were on the verges sweeping them at the Ravine, and
the Dodgers saw the Blue Jays rally late in the
game and ended up winning the game over the Dodgers.
But the Dodgers still took two or three from Toronto
and their head to head meeting out of Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
We'll get me saw. But you did see, you know,
cheating George take that fastball on the kneecap.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh yeah, so that was bad.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
So I mean he took that like a champ, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I mean, I don't know how he ran around the
bases last time.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I don't know. But you know, sometimes you get those
contusions like that happens in football all the time, where
you get hit. It looks awful and it hurts like
crazy at the beginning and then it goes away. But
I don't know how he I don't know what it
looked like. He hit him right right on the kneecap. Yeah,
and the sound it looked like it was a foul ball.
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They actually had a exit velocity recorded because it ricocheted
off his knee so hard. They actually got a exit
velocity off the bat. Of course it wasn't off the bat,
but it did record an exit velocity off his knee.
It was fifty five miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
That's painful.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Yeah, so you got to think it hit something hard.
So it probably hit that kneecap, didn't hit the pateller
tendon below that or anything. Probably hit the kneecap, and
he's able to sustain that. But as far as him
like swinging and going down on one knee, no, I'm
not buying that at all. If you're able to sit
there and swing a bat, and a couple of times
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where he's hit a ball that was close to being
fairfelt and he's sprinting and then all of a sudden
he goes back to the to the plate. No, I
can't even stand up, but I swing. I'm not buying
any of that stuff. You see him run around the base.
Did he look hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
No, he did look at her, and he was jumping
around like Joe Carter in nineteen ninety three, celebrating.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Yeah, it was. It was not there's no uh, you know,
woe is me there? Now he's playing it that big
because he has an excuse to fall back on. Now,
he's taking the pressure off himself because he can say, well,
Denise is so bad. I can barely stand up there,
you know, and but I can't hit the ball, you know,
four hundred and thirty feet and run around pretty good.
But after that it's it's it's back to the Oh well,
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it really hurts, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I do give him credit, and I would happen to
be listening to the Blue Jays. Actually was John Smoltz.
I'm sorry it was. John Smoltzo was talking about it
during the game on Fox last night, and they may
how the Mariners were throwing inside on Springer, and you
saw it early in the game. In fact, the first
bat of his first a bat of the game in
the bomb the first the first pitch was up and
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in on him and backed him off the plate, and
they all started booing.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
He had two of them.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, And that was the thing they were trying to do,
throw him inside, back him off the plate. And I
don't like George Springer because he's a cheating George Springer,
But I do give him credit for that at bat
last night in the seventh inning, knowing that they were
probably going to try again to go in on him,
and and Bizartro's got this ball that kind of tails
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a little bit in on right handed hitters if you
watch the get bad. And John Smoltz brought this up
right afterwards. He opened up what you're not supposed to do,
you know, he opened up knowing the ball was going
to be in on him, and it was on the
inner half of the plate and he just turned on it.
So a good job by him recognizing what they were
doing the moment he had faced Bizarro the night before,
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which is another question, Why are you bringing a guy
out who pitched two innings the night they just saw
him pitch two winnings? Go to your high leverage reliever.
But anyways, a great job by Springer to recognize what
they were doing to him, and he turned on an
inside fastball and hit that three run home run, which, yep,
according to the Blue Jays analyst, is the greatest moments
in sports.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
In sports, right, yeah, you got you gotta hand it
to him, because the dude had a really good year
this year. I mean he he should have been the
All Star team as far as I'm concerned. You know,
he played out of the one sixty two. He played
one forty, so in today's kind of environment, that's pretty
much a full year. He hit three zho nine this year,
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you know, and he hit thirty two jacks and he
drove in eighty four. So you know, as far as
I look at it, I gotta be fair about it.
He had a really good year. Big year he did.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
He had a really good season in him and Vlad
there the top one two punch for the Toronto Blue
Jays is going to be something the Dodgers need to
figure out how to control, how to limit the damage.
You know, the bottom of the line up scrappy for Toronto.
They find ways to get on base. Last night, it
was the bottom of the lineup that got on base
in the bottom of the seventh. They need to set
up for George Springer, yeah, to do something with that
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three run home run. So it's a good, not a great.
It's a good Toronto Blue Jays lineup, but the top
heavy lineup with George Springer cheating George Springer chan George
and Vlad Guerrero is a good I mean really good
one two punch.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And and Guerrero as well is pretty hot. See that's
that's the other part of this, tim is you can
have all these great players, but if they're not in
a good cycle where they're they're playing at a very
up level, and it comes and goes. Uh, you know,
you could be in trouble. But as it as it
looks right now, Springer Guerrero, the two really forces in
this lineup are at a really high abb right now.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, I'm watching Mark de Rosa do a breakdown.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And Wu who was the reliever slash starter who came
out of the game and Dan Wilson elected to go
to the new reliever there in bizarre Zar He's breaking down,
like why like Wo was struck him out in the
previous at bat, had him off balance, and you bring
in Bizardo and yeah, just just disaster, disaster from the sea.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
He's gonna hear that forever. You could have done the
eliminated the elimination of Bizardo by stretching out Wu another
inning and moving up Munos and there you go. You
could have closed that gap. But you know, when you
when you can kind of feel it brewing. Right. Uh,
they're trying to they're trying to really kind of get
through this one little bridge right here before they get
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to Munos and you got the you got the high
leverage dudes coming up. That's the part I didn't understand.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And it's easy go to your closer in the seventh
doesn't matter, right, of course? Isn't that the way you
have to think if you're Dan Wilson, instead of going
to a guy who pitched two winnings the night before
to face George Springer and Vlad Guerrero with the tie
and run at second base and the winning run at
a home that's I mean, it's easy to say, I
get it, you know, because Bizarro threw a pitch and
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he got hit out of the part by George Springer.
But in the moment you're kind of wondering why they
didn't go to their high leverage reliever or the seventh thing.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Do you think when he brings Bizardo in, he goes,
this is Dan Wilson. He goes back to the dugout
and he's peering through the little you know, the little
webbing in the dugout. And he's looking at this. Then
he gets up on the top step and he's above
the railing so he can really get a better view.
And he's looking now and he's thinking, maybe I should
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have gone down below where the webbing is and look
through therapy, because I don't want to really see clearly
what's gonna happen now. And I think he had some
I think he had some second thoughts before it even
was gone. And I think he saw this before it happened.
I mean you could kind of smell it brewin right right,
like like my coffee I brewed this morning. I could
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I could smell it just like that. Geez here it comes,
you know what I mean. And baboom, and he hammered
that ball, that ball when its h I as it
went far, you know, that was just a bolt. Again.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
The Blue Jays bottom of the lineup got it done
with Barjar a walk kind of filet the Falifa, a
single dissenter sets up first and second, nobody out and
then they sacrifice but the runners over second and third
again manufacturing runs bottom of the lineup, setting it up
on a tee for George Springer then to come in
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and hit that home run. And if he wouldn't hit
the home run, you had Vlad Guerrero with two outs
and still runners in scoring position, with a chance to
tie the game. So you had to like the chances
of the Blue Jays there in the seventh inning.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Tim, how much do you like the fact that we've
seen bunting really come to the forefront and be an
important part. You see Pahas do that. You saw the
bottom of the order with the Blue Jays do it
yesterday again, that made a difference in the game. Do
you think this is going to be more socially accepted
through the confines of the talking points of baseball, that
they're going to accept the fact that bunting is important,
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that it's not all well, it's leveraging against the you
know what power stroke that could mean a lot more
runs to you. I just yeah, but I'm not looking
for a power stroke, Okay, I'm looking to advance these runners.
Guy on second base, and you know, to start the
ending of the tenth inning, everybody should bun him over
or unless you can hit it to the right side
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on the ground, but you got to you gotta get
that runner over. That's still an important part of baseball.
You must move the runners.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I think it's only gonna apply like it is right
now in October. Really over the regular season. In one
sixty two, I shoo.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Saying night in Cleveland, and you know it ain't gonna matter.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
No, you know, Guardians and White Sox on a Tuesday
in June. It's it's not gonna matter to the bunt
because over the one sixty two you're still relying on
slug That's just the philosophy of baseball. I hope it changes,
but you're not gonna you hear about the seasons changing.
Regular see you talk about all the time. There's preseason,
regular season and postseason. Postseason is a different animal. The
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game change, the speed of the game changes, a lot
of the factors change every inning. Every out is so
important and magnified now. And with that being said, I
think that's why the bunt works in postseason play because
you're playing for one run, you're playing to take the
lead and hand it over the bullpen. You're you're you're
playing in a low scoring games for the most part.
But the regular season, yeah, well, I like my chances
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with my five hitter up and a runner at second
base to start off the top of the tenth inning.
I think he's gonna slug. If not, you'll hit a
ball in the gap and we'll get that run in. Anyway,
is why butt them over?
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Why?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Why wasting out? Steve?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Oh yeah, well see that's that's the bad part of this.
They they throw that out there, you're wasting and out.
I'm not wasting and out. I just move two runners.
How's that a waste? Yeah, but that batter was out
when you struck out trying to hit home run. That's
a waste to me. That is true. That is true.
That's a waste. There is no productivity when you strike out.
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There's no productiveness. Productivity when you strike out nothing. You
don't move a runner. All you do is move your
fanny back to the dugout.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This is true.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
I'm not arguing all you do.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I just I just don't think it's going to change
any philosophy. In the regular season.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
They got to listen to scat I know.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I know they have to listen. Speaking of listening, if
you were listening to Petro some money yesterday, Dave Roberts,
Dodger manager, called in before he headed to Dodger Stadium
for a team workout. They had the game on ALCS
Game seven as they were going through their workouts and
Dodger Stadium, and Dave Roberts very candid, very great in
his conversation and talked about the starting rotation, which we've
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been talking about a lot here in October, and how
it's set up perfectly for their big four to dominate,
go deep into games, and this is luck? Is it
a plan? Here's Dave Roberts on how it's all kind
of unfolded here for him.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Yeah, I wouldn't say that's luck, though. I think that's
part of being able to.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Hold.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
It's kind of like that whole brave Heart, you know,
or Russell crowch Armel Gibson saying emmel or Russell's saying hold, hold, hold,
And I think it's yes, Mel, And I think that
it's like with us, you know, whether you have Blake
or you have Tyler, you have and the guys in
the bullpen or you know, show Hey not ramping him up,
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it's like hold, hold, hold, and you want to be
able to do it. So they have bullets at the
end of the season. So I do credit obviously the
entire organization. We have depth to kind of overcome a
summer where you're not fully healthy. But that wasn't luck.
That was more kind of methodical making sure we kind
of hold our guys back to make sure they're ready
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to go when needed through October.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
All part of a master plan, as they used to
say on the AD team, And I love it when
a plan comes together, and it certainly has for the
Dodgers in this pitching staff. The plan all along was
why ramp up show hey Otani in April and May
when you need him for September and October. I get it.
I agree one hundred percent. Why stretch out a guy
and give max effort and you know, empty the tank,
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so to speaks, his innings are concerned in June and
when you need him for September and October. I loved
the philosophy of the Dodgers this year and the starting pitching.
Just work, work, work, stretch out in September, and when
you get to October, be healthy first and foremost. And
as these guys are healthy, then you get some length
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out of your starters. It worked out to perfection, Steve.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
It did. And when you know, you look at Blake Snell,
eleven games, Otani, what have fourteen games. Yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
They long played, and they waited and waited for him
to start really right before the All Star break with
one inning and then post All Star break one inning,
two innings, two innings, three innings, three's. It was all
mapped out.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
And if if you look at as far as when
he started, this is like, I don't know, late late May,
early June for Otani and Snell, I think you'd say
as far as innings pitch, maybe even later than that.
These guys are primed. These guys are like coming out
of spring training right now as far as their arms
are feeling the bullets in the arm, and they are
perfectly timed up. I mean to see, the luxury you
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have with the Dodgers is you got to get into postseason.
You got to win the division first, and hopefully you
get some home field advantage in there somewhere. It didn't
work out with Toronto this year where they missed it
by one game, but nonetheless, you got to get in
and then at the same time, if you can preserve
those arms and have them healthy and rested for postseason,
it's a perfect scenario. And that's what they did. But
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it's like it's genius.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, no doubt, And they mapped it out perfectly. And
part of that is injuries. When you've got you know,
Blake Snell on the injured list for a few months,
having kind of you know, been watching what was happening,
you felt like Blake Snell was ready to come back
earlier and was ready to go and eager to go.
But I don't know if slow playing it's the right word.
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Being cautious with Blake Snell is a better way to
describe it. But what's the sense of urgency to bring
him back in July, you know, so to speak, or
where the timeline was when you can wait a little
bit again part of the processes, as he mentioned Mel
Gibson in Brave Heart, Hold, Hey, Blake Snell, we don't
need you right now. Hold buddy, Hold, we don't need
you a hold right now. We know you're anxious, you
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know you had a little bit of the inflammation in
the shoulder. Let's just let's slow play this a little bit.
We don't need you right now. Let's pump the brakes.
We need you in October again. Part of this masterful
plan that was all put out there and it has
to course work out with injuries being part of it,
luck being part of it as well. And again you
need all these guys to kind of be clicking at
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the right time on the mound. And certainly that recipe
worked this year. Does it always work?
Speaker 9 (19:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:39):
And because you can plan this out all the time.
I looked it up. Show Hey, fourteen games, forty one innings,
forty one innings. You know, even in Wimpdom when pitchers
only go one hundred and they call it off, this
is nothing. He's forty percent of the way there in
the in the whim scale, he's still forty one percent there,
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all right, yep, I mean this is nothing. He's he's
just getting just getting a froth going right now.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I mean, you think, out of the big four, Yamamoto
is the only one who made a lot of starts.
Yamamoto is the only one who had two hundred plus strikeouts.
He was the workhorse during this season. But you go
back to a year ago he was banged up and
on the injured list with the shoulder injury.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
With Tim tim what's it, what's his first.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Name, Yoshinobu. Say it again, Yoshinobu.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Okay, you're really good at that. I mean, I know
you like to say it, so I like to kind
of feed it to you.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I mean I had to say it thirty plus times
when he made thirty plus starts this year on Morono
Casino Dodgers on Deck and all the postgame show, which,
by the way, we'll have Moranggo Casino Dodgers on Deck Friday,
four pm Pacific as a Dodgers start Game one of
the World Series. Dodgers in Blue Jays, first pitch fiveh
eight from the Rogers Center on Friday, Dodgers, We'll head
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to Toronto, get ready with a couple of workouts, and
get ready for Game one into North of the Border.
Coming up, your phone calls Jerry Royce next hour, but
up next a certain Dodger reliever wants to be a
part of the World Series roster. But should he be
based on his performance? We'll get into that. Your phone
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calls as well, Steve Sax, Tim Kates and you. It's
Scam Sax and Kate's and Am on ANFI seventy eight Sports.
Saxon Kates in the am here on n FI seventy
la Sports. As the World Series is set, Dodgers and
the Toronto Blue Jays for the Blue Jays their first
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appearance in the Fall Classics since nineteen ninety three, after
they went back to back World Series champions And I
was just talking to some of the folks at KFI
Saxy and they said, if if they don't want this
to happen, But they just said, if if the Toronto
Blue Jays happened to win the World Series. They said,
they're a Canadian team, do they go to the White House?
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Are they invited as a team from Canada? And I
thought to myself, you know what, I don't know, because
it's been so long since the Canadian hockey team has
won the NHL Stanley Cup. I think it's been since
ninety four in Toronto, the Maple Leaves.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Well did they go in ninety three?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Well, I looked it up. They went ninety two. They
were invited again in ninety three, but they did not
go because you go the next season, right, you go
in ninety four because they won it in ninety three,
So you would go during the ninety four season as
you make your way on the East coast or when
it was convenient at the time there was no Washington Nationals.
Then in ninety four but you would, you know, try
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to make it so you're in Philadelphia or New York
close by to go. That was the lockout year, that
was the ninety four shortened season.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
They have plenty of time to go.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Then, yeah, well they did not go as a team
in ninety four, even though they were invited as to
the ninety three championship team. So yes, even if a
team from Canada wins a championship, they still are invited
to the White House in Washington, DC. It's just I
was I had to think about it because man, it's
been so long since the Canadian hockey team has been
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to Stanley Cup. That and again the Blue Jays haven't
won since ninety three, and you know, we don't play
in the Canadian Football League, so those are the only
two major sports NBA. I guess you got the Toronto
Raptors and want a championship maybe what ten twelve years ago,
but who really cares. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting because
the roster gets reset here in the World Series, and
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we saw a little bit of changes from the Wildcard
round to the DS. We saw even a little bit
more smaller changes as far as relievers in the bullpen
was considered in the NLCS for Dave Roberts. I don't
think we're going to see a lot of changes in
the World Series roster, but one guy who is hoping
to get on the World Series.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Roster, Jerry Rice. That's why he's coming on.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I wish he was there to help out the bullpen
is another left hander, Tanner Scott, who has had himself well,
quite the interesting first year in a Dodger uniform after
signing a long term deal as one of the prize
free agent relievers last offseason. Here he is yesterday with
David Vast and the media talking about well the medical
procedure he had in the NLDS that took him off
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the roster then, and his hope, his hope to join
this Dodger's roster here in the World Series.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
I feel a lot better now throwing through a couple
of bullpens, sewer.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
It takes me sort of thing what happened?
Speaker 9 (24:31):
I mean, I think I think was it. Hayman said it,
so I don't need to go into depth on it,
but it was just an affection and a bad timing
and I mean healthy now, so keep throwing about it. Yeah,
I mean I feel I feel healthy. I mean, I
definitely feel a lot better than I did coming off
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that h Philly or the Philly series, and I wasn't
I wasn't feeling great. So yeah, he's leading up to
win you got or taking off the roster? Like was
that a Dave was saying, like it was kind of
like popped up somewhat urgently there, Like, yeah, it definitely
it popped up.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
Probably Game one I started feeling something and then the
off day I noticed something was really off. And then
by the time we got back to Villios was like, hey,
we needed we needed to take care of.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Maybe about a month since you're pitched in an MLB game,
Is there any concern there's rusts or anything?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
No, why is that not a concern for you? Why
isn't that a concern for you? I mean that's quite
a bit of time. And then to be thrust into
a playoff game, I mean.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
I mean playoff playoff energy is different. Uh, I mean
hopefully throwing a life soon and uh I want to
face Freddy. I want to face Freddy so uh no,
I don't know, just see what it takes me.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
All right, there's Tanner Scott. He was on the NLDS roster,
had a medical procedure that took him off the roster.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Tim, do we want to talk about the elephant in
the room.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, Okay, let's do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
I mean, do we want to get into exactly what
was going on with him? I mean, well, the medical
procedure was.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I thought you wanted to get in the elephant in
the room that he was really bad during the regular season. No,
it's gonna change your postseason. Let's look at kind of
tap dance around. If you want what the medical procedure,
why don't we.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Just talk about it? I mean, I think we should
get a a medical line on what the procedure was.
The exact medical procedure. I don't know what it was.
It was a.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Uh, it was something on his lower half of his body.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Is from what what is that? It's like his knee?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
No, was it his knee? Oh? At the time, John Hayman,
who he referred to from the athletic in the MLB network,
said it was an ailment, an infection that one Dodger
official called a cyst that had to be removed and
it was causing discomfort and.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Oh, so it had to be his foot right something
he's walking on.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, I think it was on his lower part of
his body, but maybe not his foot, maybe a little
bit more north of that, but south of his hip,
north of his knee, south of his hip. As we're
starting to zero in where it could have been on
the lower half of his body. But he says he
feels good. And I don't know how much I trust
though Tanner Scott pushing through the issue. He yes, he's
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pushing through it, and I know he wants to be
on this World Series roster.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
But but because yeah, but everybody's being a little cheeky
about it. But yeah, but but.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I'm not sure Tanner Scott should be on this World
Series roster. I mean, he hasn't pitched in a game
since September twenty sixth. To his credit, he did allow
only two earned runs and four hits over his last
seven appearances, which was six and two third Indians, so
he pitched better down this stretch. But but in my mind,
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I still remember Tanner Scott and know what he did
during the regular season with the amount of blown saves
that he has and the amount of bad outings that
he had, and just did not look dominant coming out
of the bullpen, whether it was in a high leverage
situation a low leverage situation. He just wasn't the Tanner
Scott that they gave four years and millions of dollars to.
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In the off season, they left Tanner that was so
good the last few years, and he was he was
really good.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
He's got nasty stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Yeah, he's he's been dominant. And the Dodgers brought him
in Kirby y Aayton to be the guys at the
back end of the rotation, to be the back end
of the bullpen, and neither one of them are on
the postseason roster right now, and Tanner Scott is itching
to get back. Yeah, the back end of that bullpen.
They're trying to, you know, they were they were asked
to come in and be big parts of that. But
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but Tanner Scott just did not deliver in the regular season.
And I look at the amount of blown saves, I
look at the outings, and I look at the situations
in a seven game series against the Toronto Blue Jays.
I don't know if I can rely on him. I
don't know if I want that bullpen gate opening Saxy
and seeing Tanner Scott run out of there. I mean,
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things can change next year, he can reset in twenty
twenty six. I got confidence that he'll be back to
the level at some point over the next couple of
years of this contract that the Dodgers gave him, that
he'll be back and he'll be back out there pitching
really well. But right now, this twenty twenty five season
hasn't been a good one for him. And with the
amount of lefties that they do have at their disposal,
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Jack Dryer, Justin Robleski, Anthony Bonda, Alex Vesia, and a
Hall of Famer to be in Clayton Gershaw, I don't
feel like there is enough room for Tanner Scott to
bust the rough into that bullpen, so to speak.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
You know, I'm just wondering. You know, the guy has
incredible stuff, and they invested a lot in him. He
was supposed to be, you know, a guy that could close,
the guy that could set up, but definitely a leverage
guy that could come in leverage situations and shut it down.
And and you wonder how much this this procedure has,
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you know, kind of thwarted his his ability to be
the best he can be or was it just not
that at all? Was it was it way before that?
And was it? Uh, you know, he's just having one
of those years. But I mean, if you go to
the essence of why they got him over here, his
stuff is great. I mean, he's he's he's a guy
that you know that can come in and just stop
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all bad, bad things happen. And these guys are getting
runners on Brider, your lefty, he can come in and
get him out. But I mean that is that all
not the case now because of this this affliction? Was
it was it something else? Was he just having a
bad year? I don't know, but I know he's got
great stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, he's got really good, good stuff when he's on
and when it's working. But there were times that his
ball was flat, he was fastball was getting teed up
on they he just did not have the dominant stuff
and getting swinging misses. He wasn't getting you know, ground
ball outs. When he did get contact, he was getting
launch angled against him and the balls hit out of
(31:19):
the ballpark. In his outings this year now again the
sample size down the stretch in September and his last
six plus outings, you know, just to earned runs, and
that was against the Arizona Diamondbacks on September twenty third.
He's pitched better, he really has, but he also has
gotten himself into situation in what let's see, five of
(31:40):
those six outings, he did walk about her in those
outings in a late inning game. We saw what happened
last night in the seventh inning of the Blue Jays.
Can't walk people. You can't know the leadoff batter gone
on because of a walk. If Tanner Scott's walking guys
this year, but walking that tight rope and getting out
of jams like he did the last outings, I still
(32:01):
can't trust him to go out there and give up
a leadoff walk in the eighth inning and in a
three to one game, because now it's panic time with
Dodger fans and the bullpen and here we go again. Yeah,
his other bloss save.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
His walks per nine were not enormous. It was two
point eight, okay, But but when you bring him in
from the bullpen, any walk is enormous. It really is.
You cannot walk people. I mean the most that a
manager wants to see. The number one thing he wants
to see from relievers throw strikes that's the key. You've
(32:33):
got to throw strikes. You can't walk any Listen, this
is the game, so hard to say, what do you
mean you can't walk any people? That's that's the that's
the hope. Is it? Is it practical? Well, no, you're
gonna walk somebody sometime. But every time you walk somebody,
it's just coming out of the bullpen. See, as a starter,
you have some runway. You have you possibly nine innings
(32:56):
where you can spread that stuff out a little bit.
You don't have the runway out of the coming out
of the bullpen, you have no runway, and you have
to throw strikes. So I would much rather see a
guy barrel up to baseball and hit it somewhere and
get on as a single than to walk somebody. At
least make him earn it, you know, at least if
they hit it hard, you might hit it at somebody.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah, but you can't walk him. No. I just I
like Tanner Scott. I applaud him for wanting to come
back and be vocal about how he wants to come back,
and he's feeling healthy now and he feels a lot
better than he did a few weeks ago. But I
just I don't trust him. I got muscle memory, I
(33:39):
got PTSD here with him coming out of the bullpen
this year in twenty twenty five next snapping, Yeah, I
just I don't trust him again. He can reset in
twenty twenty six and we'll look ahead to spring training
then for him. But let's just shut it down for
the rest of the year. I don't I don't need
for the next potential seven games to have Tanner Scott
in the back of my mind as the potential guy
that Dave Roberts can go to. There's four other lefties
(34:02):
I would rather go to than Tanner Scott eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy agree, disagree. Tanner
Scott wants back in, he wants to be part of
the bullpen in the World Series. How much trust do
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seven two five seventy. Jerry Royce will join us next
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Speaker 6 (34:21):
How much do you.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Even really care about luxury taxes and spending and how
much this guy's getting, how much that guy is getting,
and on the Dodgers ruining baseball, and the Blue Jays
are a high pay royal team. How much do you
even care when the games actually happen. We'll get into that.
Jerry Royce to your phone, calls Tanner Scott, oh boy
eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy sax
(34:43):
and Kate's and am here on a FI seventy el
a sports SAX and Kate's in the am with you
on this Tuesday morning, October twenty first is the World
Series is set Game one Friday night in Toronto. It's
the Dodgers in the Blue Jays. First pitch at five
(35:04):
toh eight coming up. Jerry Royce will join us in
about thirty minutes. I didn't think this would blow up
as big as it did sexy with Dodger fans. I've
gotten no less than six texts during the commercial break
from people saying no, no, no, no, Tanners Scott's hy
Dare you even bring up his name? I mean, I
didn't think it was that sensitive a subject. But when
(35:26):
you you have twenty three saves in the season, as
Tanner Scott did, but you blow ten games, ten blown
saves for the Dodgers this year, you think about that
and where the Dodgers are sitting right now not having
home field advantage in the World Series one game back.
As far as wins concerned, behind Toronto is the difference
between them hosting Games one and two and potential Game
(35:47):
six and seven and the Blue Jays, who are hosting
games one and two and potentially Game six and seven.
Could have been a factor in one of those ten
blown saves. While Tanner Scott during the season, you look
at what he did in September, shirt out to September
really good in his last six outings, one of which
was a blown save. But he had an ERA six
forty eight in the month of September. The month before
(36:10):
in August he had an ERA of nine and just
three outings in the month of August. I look at
the options they have down there. It's not like they
need him. It's not like they're desperate for a left
handed pitcher. They've got other options. And with that being said,
let's go out to the phone, Saxe, because a lot
of Dodger fans want to weigh in on this. Go
to Zach in Long Beach. Zach, welcome to Sax and
(36:31):
Kates and am Tanner Scott on the World Series roster.
Speaker 10 (36:35):
What do you say, oh, good morning and real quick
on a very very sad Tuesday morning for the Seattle
Mariners fans, still absolutely terrible for him. Shout out JP
Crawford from the LA Area Long Beast, California. As for
the Dodgers, though, is it not a perfect scripture for
(36:55):
them to just absolutely sweep the series? Like goodness, gracious,
they're probably gonna beat the breaks off of the Blue Jays.
And it doesn't matter if they bring Tanner Scott on
or on, uh on or off, because they're absolutely stacked,
like you know what, brick house and God bless you
Dodgers fans and everybody, have a good rest of your.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Day, all right, thank you, Zach. I don't think they're
gonna beat the pants off of the Toronto Blue Jays.
This is this is gonna be a little tougher than
the previous.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Listen that we can't we can't get beside ourselves. If
the Dodgers drop a game, you know what I mean?
Oh no, we're gonna panic Steve. We're gonna he can't
because even if they drop two, no, I mean that's
still you got to win four here, all right, it's over.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
If they drop two, were.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
The Dodgers lost in in postseason this year. One game game.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
That's sick.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Nobody does that.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
You don't just sweep a rama everybody, but they're doing it.
I mean, this this team is is so good. This
is one of the best teams I've ever seen. I mean,
if I'm on Toronto and i'm you know, position player,
I'm looking over at that team, I'm thinking, Okay, get
past the way. You have four five guys that are
number ones on any team in MLB. Five of them
(38:09):
put Sasaki in there.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Scary Chris and La Garry. Welcome to Saxon Kates to
the am Tanner Scott World Series roster. What say you
absolutely not?
Speaker 6 (38:19):
You are so right, Tim.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
What has he done since the last time we've seen
him that would change our mind? No, he absolutely doesn't
need to be on the roster. And you you stole
my thunder, because that's what I was gonna say, is
that we were behind one game. So those last two
or three weeks when he dropped his games and trying
and dropped his games, you know, those almost complete games,
those almost no hitters, those games matter. People always say, oh,
(38:43):
it's one hundred and sixty game series season, No, those
games matter. Those sweet when we got swept by the Angels,
those games matter. One more game, so we need it
one more game and we would be hosting. So no,
I'm cool with him not be on there. Like you said,
let him reset in the spring, you know, spring training
and bringing back out next year and hopefully he has
(39:04):
a great year. But I think we're good for now
and let's let's let's go and do what we need
to do, all.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Right, appreciated. Chris was just looking up the Dodger Blue
Jays series from earlier this year, in which the Dodgers
took two or three from Toronto. They lost a Sunday
Day game five to four after the Dodgers had had
the lead. I'm looking at the box score again, and
it went off like a light bulb. Steve, and I remember,
(39:28):
I remember what happened in that series. That to me
was the first series in twenty twenty five that we
really saw an opposing manager and an opposing team go
with the philosophy of just walk show hey, just walk him,
don't don't let him get anything going, don't let him
do any damage to you. He did hit a home
(39:50):
run of the Sunday game, but if you look at
what they did and their philosophy in that series was
at least in the second and third game, was to
go after Otan. He did image in the first game
win three for five with a strikeout, but the next
two games there was a clear message of let's not
let this guy beat him, and that that I started
(40:10):
to remember now as I'm watching these these these recaps
here that yeah, that was Schneider. That was Toronto not
pitching to show Aotani.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Yeah the first time. Well that's been around forever. I mean,
didn't didn't we see a team maybe Arizona walk Berry
Bonds intentionally with the bases loaded. Yeah, that's true. I
think that happened. I mean that's a bit of gregious.
I think I would take my chances because you know,
you might hit it at somebody, but show hey, yeah,
I mean he's getting that kind of that same effect,
you see. I don't know, man, I you don't like
(40:41):
to walk people to start a game. Maybe I wouldn't then,
but any other time I would. I would pitch to
him if I could, if I left he was pitching,
and I would only tell the guy, don't you know,
if you can unintentionally intentionally walk him or if he
can strike out, you get him to fish at something.
But sooner or later you're gonna have to show him
something or he'll he'll he'll catch on to it. Yeah,
(41:02):
he'll just take everything right. You got to come in
the strike zone sometime, and unless you're you got three
lefties like Philly did and can dot dot dot that
lower outside corner with a wicked slider, there is all
the chance they had to get that dude out right,
and that's what they did.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Pedro on Anaheim, thanks for being patient. Tanner Scott World
Series Roster. Yes or no, I'm a yes, guys.
Speaker 7 (41:26):
I'm a yes only only because I trust the Dodgers
organization from top to bottom. If they deem him one
hundred percent healthy, ready to go, I'm gonna trust organization
that they're gonna put him out there and he's gonna do.
Speaker 8 (41:41):
His thing, all right.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
I love the optimism, uh, Pedro so the share.
Speaker 6 (41:47):
Crack of daylight here says he might be able to
get out there.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Yeah. To me, I don't know what changes from what
you saw over one hundred and sixty two game season
here in October.
Speaker 6 (41:58):
And maybe it's a reset. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
I mean, I'd rather see the reset next year, when
everybody's got a clean slate in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (42:06):
Let us see it next.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
I don't need to see a possible reset here in
game one or two of the World Series. Uh, Louis
and Covina, thanks for being patient.
Speaker 6 (42:14):
Louis.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
Tanner Scott wants back on the roster in the World Series.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
What do you think, morning, guys, No, absolutely not, because
what happens in the World Series is now you're playing
the absolute best team left. Everybody's talking about how great
the Dodgers are, and they are. The Dodgers will win
the World Series, but they will not skate through this
(42:38):
because Toronto's the last team standing. So the margin of
error is smaller. Tanner Scott has not done anything to
remove doubt. So when the manager looks to the bullpen
or the bench for a pinch hitter, you're gonna pick
the guy who has the least amount of doubt in
your mind that he's gonna struggle. And Channer Scott is
(43:03):
not the guy that removes any doubt. So the margin
of as you only have three games at home. If so,
at this stage of the World Series. Absolutely not. There's
no room for anyone that has any kind of doubt
of having a complete success, not a little bit of success.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
I get you, Lloid. The the margin of error, as
you so greatly pointed out, is so small here in
the postseason, and with the three batter minimum, it's not
like if he makes a mistake with a walk you
can go out and get him. You got to live
with him for three batters. Yeah, and that's not something
I necessarily feel comfortable with.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
And the issue here, Tim is Toronto does not have
to win on the road. The Dodgers do.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Absolutely Bingo. He is Steve Zackson, I'm Tim, Kat's two
hours down, one to go, Zax and Kate's and the
am Jerry Royce will join us about twenty five minutes.
Your phone calls as well. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
two five seventy. It's the Dodgers in Blue Jays and
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