October 28, 2025 • 41 mins
Steve Sax and Tim Cates react and take your calls on the 18 inning walk off win for the Dodgers in Game 3 of the World Series
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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 1 (00:06):
It's winning it again this Yearning is.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Not trying to win a championship, They're trying to repeat.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's October baseball for your world champion in La Dodger.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
This twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western
Division champions.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And you know what that means.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Saxon Kates and AM is back.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
This is Saxon Kates in the Morning with Tim Kates
and former world champion Dodger Steve Sacks.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Reacting, taking your phone calls, talking Dodgers playoff baseball all
postseason long.
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Now here. They are on AM five to seventy LA
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Steve Sacks, Tim Kaits, Tim.
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Kates and world champion Dodger Steve Sacks.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Oh, we're off and running on this Tuesday morning hour
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Sports Steve Sacks, Tim Katz and you on this Tuesday morning,
as the sun starts to rise here in the city
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of Los Angeles. And what a glorious night it was
last night at a Dodgers stadium, a game that took
six hours and thirty eight minutes, but it was worth
the wait, as the Dodgers prevailed in eighteen innings with
a six to five walk off win over the Toronto
Blue Jays to take a two games to one lead
in this best of seven World Series. Will climb four
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innings pitch last night for the Dodgers. They use every
single reliever out of that bullpen. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was in
the bullpen ready to go if they needed to go
to a nineteenth inning, and he was all ready to go.
Blake Snell said he was available if need be, even
though he had already thrown his side session that day. Saxy,
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it was all hands on deck and truly truly a
team win with all twenty six guys last night, no.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Doubt and put down and you know buried is the
question is a bullpen there? Okay, the bullpen's becoming a
sanctuary for this team, very much unexpected. You have to
have a surprise or two when you win a World series,
especially when you're trying to repeat like the Dodgers are,
you have to have a surprise or two. Maybe in
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a larger sense, the bullpen is a surprise because they
are dynamite right now.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Yeah, every arm that came out of the bullpen for
the Dodgers last night got it done. Even Blake trying
it to an extent, got the job done despite giving
up a run and the Dodgers able to answer back
and get that run backed and tied it at five
and send it to extra innings. You and I were
talking during the game as it was evolving, as the
game was changing with the bullpen taking over, and it
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was going to be which bullpen flinched first, which bullpen
was going to be the guys to give up that
hit or the run to give that team the lead,
and which bullpen was gonna be able to hold it
down and close out this game and get the final
out in this ballgame last night, and it was it
was back and forth. Eric Lower pitched really well for
the Toronto Blue Jays. They went toe to toe last night.
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The Blue Jays bullpen, the Dodgers bullpen. Overall, though, the
game changed style wise, and even the Toronto Blue Jays
sort of got away from what they do best. As
the extra innings continued to go on and on, Steve,
you saw their approach change a little bit. They started
slugging a little bit more. They got away from that hole,
slap the ball the right field station to the station
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we're going to pay per clip you paper cut you
to death sort of approach. They were slugging just like
the Dodgers were. It seemed like every guy up to
bat was trying to win it with one swing of
the bat.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, and how about Alejandro Kirk hitting that hanging curveball
from glass? Noow, glassnow doesn't hang a ton of curveballs,
but the one he did hang, Alejandro Kirk nailed it.
And this guy has a real knack for not only
hitting the ball the other way or hitting it where
it's pitched. And the one that he hit off of glass, now,
on a hanging curveball, you know, even the guy hits
the ball the other way, he hit that ball more central,
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and uh, that's what you do with the pitch. That's
that's a hangar, that's right there in the middle of
the zone. And again on this on this bullpen kind
of going, you know, step for step with the Dodgers.
I thought after Domingus it was Bassett, Hoffman, Fisher and Lower.
They pitched really well getting in there the guts of
the game. I thought that that bullpen part for Toronto
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was exceptionally good.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
He is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kate eight six six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy. Coming up. You're gonna
hear from Dave Roberts in his postgame press conference. Well
here from show Aotani as well in the eight o'clock hour.
Kevin Franzen from MLB Radio will join us at eight
o'clock this morning. He is at a Dodger stadium working
pre and post on Sirius XM Radio. What a night
though for the Dodgers last night, coming through in eighteen
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innings to win the game by a final of six
to five. Let's go in the clubhouse. Last night, the
Dodgers get to win after the game was over, after
all the media on the field last night, Steve Sacks,
Dave Roberts, Dodger manager, quieted his clubhouse and got all
the guys together, and before they started going their separate
ways and showering and going to see their families, he
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asked for just a minute, he said, guys, I want
your attention. Hear me out. Here's Dave Roberts post game
last night, after an almost seven hour marathon win.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I just want to say, and I know I speak
for every single person in this clubhouse, I've never been
more proud of one of you guys, from the guys
playing gone way, way, way above whatever anyone has ever
asked of you guys. Not one of you guys were phased,
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and every single one of you guys was pulling through
your guys and believed in each other. And we've talked
about all the time we're gonna meet every single body.
This is just not rhetoric, this is just not talk.
Tonight prove that we're gonna need every single person on
this roster help us win a baseball game. Those guys
games everything they had tonight to beat us, and none
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of us waivered. Quit. We continue to fight. That's who
we are. That's who we are. It's because you guys
believe in each other. And this is a special group,
this special group. And what Showhy did in the CS,
this couldn't epitomize twenty twenty five Dodgers anymore. This is
a team effort. It's a team effort. It's every single
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person in this room, front office, coaches, support staff, it's everybody.
This is a team effort. And hey, so en Shoy,
But we got a game later today. All right, Hey
we got a game later today.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Hey we got a game later tonight. That's right, Hey,
leave it all out there. Be you ready to go
to Mark. There's no letter.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
All right, there's Dave Roberts last night. I love that,
Zach effective, very effective. Why is that effective as a player?
What you got?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Because you got these guys in the moment. These guys
on that team want their manager, They want to see
him to be transparent. That's exactly what Dave Roberts was.
It wasn't scripted. It was right out of his heart
and they could feel it. I could feel it listening
to it, and it was real. And these guys, if
you ask them to tim, I'm not this. And again
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this isn't rhetoric either, but I think if you ask
those guys when they were listening to Dave Roberts right there,
they would have told you that, and believe it, they
could have gone out for another eighteen right then listening
to what he said. I have no question in my
mind they'll be ready tonight. They'll be rejuvenated. I think
this puts another step, a little bit of a lighter
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and and and and you know, better step in their
uh in their walk to uh to go on and
face this game tonight. I don't think they're gonna be tired.
I think they're going to be more than excited. I
think this is a chance that they could have buried
the Blue Jays. Don't count on it. Yeah, but this
is this is a deflating moment for the Blue Jays.
We'll see what they're made of. I won't take them
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lightly at all. But you got a chance to bury
this team if this this game starts off on the
bad note for the for the Toronto club.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Well, two things for you. One is that a Tomulu
sorta asque postgame speech. Is that something he would do
after a post in game, a big game is get
you guys together, thank you guys, talk about how important
everybody is, and then also make sure everybody's on the
same page moving forward.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, and you don't want to do these all the
time because they lose their luster. Okay, you do these
once in a great while. You do this two three
times a year. That's it. You have the private conversations
and the officer at the locker very effective that way.
Doing it collectively as a team once in a great
wild maybe twice a year. This was a time for that,
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and it was very effective the way Dave did it.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Now, my other question for you is if your second baseman,
Steve Sacks, going back out there tonight for Game four
of this World Series, after playing in a six hour
and thirty eight minute game, after going out and having
eight at bats, and you get to win, and you're tired, Okay,
you're so long tired, not tired, all right, Hypothetically you're tired,
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and you got to go back out there tonight, sixteen
hours later playing in a game. How can you how
can you look at other guys around you though, and say, man,
I'm tired, you know, I'm a little patiquing the guy
on the mound just hit a couple of home runs
and set another postseason record last night. He might be tired, right,
I mean, but if he's out there dealing and he's
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out there performing, you have to raise your level. I mean,
you can't look at the guy on the mound and say, wow,
I wonder how he's doing. Oh, I'm so tired right now?
Like right, you better right rise to the occasion as well.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Tim, Tim, I gotta tell you, and I'm not I'm
not just saying this. In all my career, you know,
I I I never felt like I was tired, and
never and I don't care if it was a doubleheader
in Atlanta in August. I remember one time after a game,
I was really spent, but overall, you rejuvenate, you're ready
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for that next day and you're not tired. But I
remember after games there's times where you're you're really tired,
you know, in the middle of a dug after two
games in Atlanta, I remember Tommy walked by my locker
and I was, you know, taking off my shirt was
soaking wet. I was tired. Tommy said, what's wrong with you?
I some a little spet skipped. You're tired. Oh my god,
he went into this tirade in front of the whole
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team that I was tired. So after a game, you
better be tired. You want to be tired, because that
means you left it all out there. But the next
day you're not tired. Man. You're in your twenties, You're
you're ready to go.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And after that game, you're in the World Series. You
just heard that from your manager. How could you possibly
think that something would get in their way called fatigue
when when you're in you're in the throes of something
that's earth shattering right now, you're in the biggest stage
in the world. How in the world could you be tired.
You mean, it's more, it's more than just the physical thing.
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It really is.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
You've told us before here and we've done this for
nine years in the postseason, and you've talked about it.
In eighty eight, you guys went through the Mets, you
guys had battles with them, and then you get of
the World Series and you, you know, overcome the Bash
Brothers and you beat them in five games. And you've
talked about it after that win in Oakland. Yes, you
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were mentally, physically and emotionally just completely drained. It was
it at that point once it all concluded, where you
got to that emotional just ex sale. But during those
five games, you're you're juiced, right, You're like you'reu you
are not really but right, you know, but you're you're
ready to go. But it's that exhale after you win, Yes,
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when when you come down off this high that is
playing in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Tim, It's such a great point that you bring up,
because it's true. I literally, with all the you know,
screaming and yelling going on, and there's champagne everywhere, I
found this little room adjacent to the locker room, and
it was so weird. It's like somebody put it in there.
It was a chair and one faint light bulb that
was on. It was a very small room. I don't
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know what it was for, but I went in and
I took my uniform off for I wanted to keep
it for posterity. I put it in a bag and
I literally, with all that going on, maybe ten feet away,
I literally could have gone to sleep in that room.
I was so drained mentally, physically, absolutely done. And what
happens is you let your defenses down finally, you let
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your defensive defenses down, and that's when you get tired
and and and believe me, after the season was over,
I went up to my mom's up here in Sacramento,
and my mom cooked and I slept and slept and
she cooked and cooked and I didn't even get on
the phone hardly at all. And it was the best
rejuvenation period because after it's all over, you talk about
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you're tired. Then, Yeah, many guys were sick with the flu.
It spread throughout our team. It was all over on
the on the parade, and it was it was pretty thick.
But that Yeah, when the season's over, there's a time
to recuperate. And after that last game, when it was
Game five and it was over, we're world champions, man,
I was, which just absolutely drained. But not during the season.
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It's amazing how you're able to fend off, Yeah, that fatigue,
and you know, you got to be strong mentally, and
I you know, I don't know if that's what it
was with me or not, but when the season was over,
I was really drained.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
What about being on the winning side of last night's
eighteen INNY Marathon game and being on the losing side
of that game. Take us into the mind Steve Sacks
here on Saxon Kate's and am here on a FI seventy.
Take us into the mind of a player last night
on the winning side and the losing side, and having
to wake up this morning. You're probably still sleeping, but
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wake up and go having to go back to the
ballpark this afternoon, sixteen hours later, a first pitch and
you have to get ready for a game four one side,
I imagine you're probably feeling a little bit better than
the other side going to the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Well, I can equate these guys both on the same
path because throughout most of the game, I can tell
you on either side, both of these two players, whoever
they may be, you want to pick one out on
each side, both of them are believing in their hearts,
in their spirit, in everything about their every fiber of
their being. They believe they're going to win that game.
So they're going along the same path until the very end.
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And at the very end, when one walks over to
the Dodger dug out, the other one walks over to
the Toronto dugout, it's a completely complete divergence of the paths.
That's when they go, they're complete separate ways. It's the
one ad if you will, however you want to describe it.
The Dodgers are complete jubilation. They're related. You heard it
from Dave Roberts talking. The guys were cheering every word.
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On the other side in Toronto, these guys are deflated.
They're trying to pick each other up. But this is
a real heavy, heavy point in a big testing ground
for that Toronto team. These guys are going to be tested.
I mentioned it already, Tim when they come into this
game tonight, there's going to be a huge test. If
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a showteble Tony goes out there and shoving for the
first couple of three innings, this team might be buried.
And every every man has a breaking point. You know
the thing that does it is when you break their spirit.
When you break their spirit. You see it in boxers
when they get to a certain point of the fight.
When they get their spirit broken, the fight's over. And
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we're gonna see if the spirit is broken with Toronto tonight.
I'm not sure that it is. But if shohe goes
out there and shoves for a while and the Dodgers
get off to a big start, you could see a
spirit come out of these guys, and if that happens,
it's over.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
I hope so, and I kind of feel like it's
building towards that.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Now.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
It just takes shoey Otani to go out there and
that maybe one more push, yeah, absolutely, one more push
to knock him over and end this thing. Was still
two wins to go for the Dodgers in this best
of seven series. He is Steve Saxon. I am Tim
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We'll hear from show Hey Otani coming up in an
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Speaker 5 (18:43):
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Speaker 2 (18:44):
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to the Baseballism shirt.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
It's a guy going up against the wall making a CATCHU.
It looks like it could be Tommy Edmund or or
any Yeah, so it's that's it. And then of course
I brought back the hat I wore yesterday, which is
ready the Freddie Freeman walk off silhouette there from the
Grand Slam against the New York Yankee. Sorry Yankee fans,
but this is from Game one last year. And I'm
sure our friends that they make these hats at a
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Crowns are working diligently to make another Freddie Freeman silhouette.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I like them last night. Yeah, we still haven't seen
the shirts for scam.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
They're being worked on. They're being worked on. Yeah, you know,
I like hats too. I like the flatter hats. I know,
maybe we can get one of those two. Yeah, I
mean I'm working on the shirts, but it's it takes
a little while to print. And they said, hey, we
don't make the medium, we have to order that, so
it's gonna take a little while for the s medium
shirts to come.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Are you are you gonna wear mediums?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Are you sure? Well? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
It would have fit over my arm for you.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I know you're busting out.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
You'd be like whole Colgan like taking them, ripping it off, and.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
You got like nineteens, don't you, tim No, No, really
don't know. You're pretty stacked.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Let me look at let's see, let's see your guns there.
Let's put on a gun shirt.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Okay, you're no, I appreciate it, but thank you. Let's
go out to the phones. We're gonna hear from Dave Roberts,
Dodger manager, coming up in just a couple of minutes.
At the top of the hour, we'll check in with
Kevin franzten from MLB Network Radio. We'll hear from Shoe
Aotani postgame last night. Yeah, he's got a pitching a
game today for the Dodgers after last night. A couple
of doubles, a couple of home runs, walked a bunch
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of times. Sets at MLB record on base nine times
last night. Unbelievable. How about being a hitter last night,
Steve real Quick and having eight at bats. How about
being a Dodger hitter last night and going up to
the plate eight times and you look at the bosco
where it's all said and done, and you're one for eight. Yeah,
I don't like that, right, I mean, you get to win,
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but you're looking at the box score, at your locker,
your lige. I was one for eight, I was, I
was one for six and struck out four times.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's a move? Did that?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I was? Will Smith?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Oh okay, But you know what he's he's been dynamite.
You know, he caught like seventeen pitchers last night, and it's.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
True, he taught eighteen.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He got two games on one night. Yeah, and he
hit a big bomb the other day. I mean, he's
been very integral.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
On this and he almost hit it out last night.
If it was not for the marine layer out of
Dodgers Stadium, which it's gonna be different tonight. It's supposed
to be a little warmer here in southern California. It's
a couple of degrees warmer during the day in the afternoon,
that means it'll be a little warmer at night. The
hot air will stick around for a little longer with
a five o'clock start, so we could see the baseball
fly a little bit more tonight like it did early
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on in the game last night, with Alejandro Kirk hitting
that home run, showing Otani going deep as well. So
I expect the ball to fly out of the ballpark
again tonight, hopefully it's the Dodgers hitting the home runs.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Who do you want to see kind of jump to
the forefront. I mean we kind of Otani's just been
We want to see him pitch well. But on the
offensive side, who you got well?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
So that's a great question because you cannot expect Otani
to do what he did last time.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
What I'm saying, give give a he could have a
night off, but just pitch well.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Absolutely, I just want him to deal on the mound.
That means, as you said, somebody else or somebody's else
needs to step up tonight. I'm gonna give that to
I'm gonna say Mookie Betts one for eight last night
with a walk. I'm also gonna I'm gonna ask Tommy
Edmand to raise his game a little bit. Yeah, you know,
he had hit the ball hard a couple of times
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last night, played some good defense. He had the air,
I get it. That led to a couple runs scoring.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It happens.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
But he he also made then two other great defensive plays.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Great play throwing the guy out at third hustle coming
off with the deflection of Freddy's glove from from Kirk.
That hit that line drive again to right Like he
hits every ball to right field. Maybe they should put
somebody over there. Every freaking ball he hits is to
right side all the time.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
It's it's amazing that that's the one thing that guy
does and he's made an insistently a living out of it,
and he's an All Star because of it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, and and so, and that was a great play
by by Tommy Edmond. That's where we were going. He
gets over there, he slides on the hip in the
same motion throws a dart over to months he at
third base for the out, And that was all fluid.
It was so one motion. Did I say, the third
out at third base? Nice going kinder Fleffa.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
As we mentioned earlier, six. Six runners thrown out last
night on the base pass six.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, and Otani pops off the base. I mean, I
guess it. Can you know he's still you know, it's
it's a tough one. He had the base stolen, he
was safe.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Okay, let's quickly quickly dive into that, because we were
talking last night after it happened. And that happened in
the bottom half of the ninth inning. Shoho Tani intentionally walked.
Mookie betches up to bat and Sho Hay takes off
and he steals second base and it slides in safely,
but his momentum carries him to the right of second
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base and the tag is held on him like you're
supposed to do nowadays. And he was called out because
he came off the bag briefly. Right, Why was that
a bad slide.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Because he lost his momentum. I mean, that's you know,
it happens. But if you do a pop up slide,
it's all part of the slide. The rise at the
end is part of the slide. You see Trey Turner
do that so eloquently. Remember you see Trey Turner in
the slide. That's an exaggerated version of the pop up slide.
So when you pop up like that, you can see
the ball. You don't have dirt in your eyes. You
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can pop up and see it where it's going. You
can go to the next base way faster. You're not
gonna jam a finger or a shoulder. Injuries are far less.
I like the pop up slide. It's been around a while,
and you know, I think it plays pretty well and
you don't have a chance to fall over like that
like Otani did. But but you know what it's I'm
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sure I've done it too.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seven. It's
go out to the phones. Thank you for being patient
on this Tuesday morning. As you wake up and you
look and if you fell asleep last night, you're wondering,
what in the heck happened last night? How did this
game end? Well? It ended on a walk off home
run from Freddie Freeman in the bottom half of the
e eighteenth. And go out to the phones. Eric on
(25:02):
the ninety one Freeway joins us here on a FI
seventy l A sports.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
It's on your mind, Eric, oh man, uh, mister Sacks,
did I not call a week and a half ago?
When mister Kates was all panicked out after we lost
to the Phillies in that game. And uh, and I said,
when we're healthy, the Dodgers have too much for everyone.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You remember this, Eric, I remember it very distinctly. I
remember you calling in and telling him that Tim. You remember,
Eric did that.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I don't remember panicking at all. Guys, I do not
know what you're talking about. That doesn't sound like me.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You were talking about. You were you were talking, you
were saying, you were saying, you were taking that that
Yamamoto was gonna you know, he had better have a
that game the long Yeah, because you know the Phi
and so on and so forth. And I said, look, man,
when the Dodgers are healthy, they got too much for
And I got to tell you something. The only people
who were not surprised about the bullpen's performance yesterday was
(25:57):
all those guys in the bullpen and the Dodger Coke staff.
They were not at all surprised that those guys came
up the way he did. I'm gonna tell you what,
no trying and Tryna made pictures last night. I was,
I was. I was happy with his performance. I had
no doubts about him. But these other guys, oh my goodness,
they surprised all of us. And then again again, Mookie's
(26:18):
one for eight. Uh like you said, uh, Smith has
four strike up, but Tail shows up and Joe showtime
shows up, and Edmund shows up, and you know, Mickey
roll with the with the with the perfect bunt even
though we didn't score on that, and his play at
second base off somebody hit a hot smash in that
seventeenth inning and he you know, scooped it up like
(26:40):
it was not like like it was just another day
at the office. That's what I'm talking about. They have
too much for everybody, now, that's z. When too much
doesn't show up, then it it's not enough. So they
got to stay focused. But again I think they're dialed in,
and when they are, everybody needs help. So that's just
(27:02):
my thoughts.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
All right, Eric, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yet, I remember I remember Eric said that. I do remember.
He said, I don't.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Remember panicking at all. It's not like me.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I don't seem to You haven't panicked like before. Like
I remember, sometimes you would come on and you would
be almost screeching, you know, you would be like out
of your mind. But you've been more composed this this year.
I don't know if it's because they're in the World
Series now, but you've been a lot more composed.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
It's a newer, older me, Saxey, That's what it is.
I'm overture now in my old age. By the way,
real quick, last night, when they walked off the Toronto
Blue Jays on the Freddie Freeman home run, it didn't
get shown on Fox, but if you were at Dodger
Stadium and now videos are out there of people on
their cell phones, it's kind of a cool moment because, yeah,
I'm a mooto. Remember is warming up in the Dodgers'
(27:47):
bullpen and his translators out there with them, and everybody
starts celebrating at you know, home plate with Freddie Freeman.
Well so did show Hey Otani and Roki Sasaki celebrate.
But they jumped around for a few seconds, and then
the two of them, along with Will Ironson, the translator,
all three of them made a bline down the third
(28:08):
base line and they met Yamamoto and his translator in
shallow left field, and all of them started hugging and
jumping up and down, all five of them. The three
players and the two translators, all Japanese guys together celebrating
this walk off win again another example of a team win.
So Saki went out there and pitched, Otani did his thing,
(28:30):
and then Yamamoto. They didn't want to forget about him.
They didn't want to forget about Shamamoto, who was warming
up in the bullpen down there.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's great. I love it. Yeah, that's some togetherness, and
you know that's what it like. They said, it's gonna
take every single person in that in that bullpen. Do
you remember us saying that whenmber I told you about
trying to Hey, there's gonna be a time when you're
gonna need trying where you're gonna need dryer, where you're
gonna need Sihan to come up and do some shoving.
It's gonna come to that sometime. You remember I was
(28:58):
saying that too, Tim I do? I do?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
I remember that?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
True?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Anastasia in La joins us yere on a f I
seventy la sports, Good morning, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (29:07):
Good morning? First time caller. So excited I stayed for
the full eighteen innings. It was amazing. It was a
sheer will determination when I am so excited. I couldn't
even believe it. I literally went there. I kept getting
phone calls from people you're watching, You're still watching. Loved it.
(29:28):
And you know what, Dee sec, I actually had a
child in eighty eight. I remember you, and I am
so grateful. My son called me from Oakland. He couldn't
believe it. A little concerned a little bit about moviie bets,
but I'm not completely worried. I feel like he's gonna
come through because they are not going to pitch to
show a period and just, oh my goodness, amazing first
(29:54):
time called her. I loved your show.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I really appreciate you joining us this morning. I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
That's cool.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Love hearing from it. If you need an excuse from
your boss, sound like you're maybe heading to work or somewhere,
let them know and let us know because we'll write
you an excuse.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We can email the excuse the pass if you will,
absolutely to the boss, right tim.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Absolutely real cool. My daughter who's in high school, one
of her teachers, I'm gonna shout him out, doctor Dan.
They have a test today that they sort of like
a midterm test because it's the middle of semester and
it was today. And I say was today because last
night the students in my daughter's class, we're on a
(30:36):
group text with the teacher and he's a big Dodger fan,
doctor Dan. And they said to doctor Dan, hey, if
the Dodgers end up pulling out this game, because it
was like ten thirty eleven o'clock, sixteenth inning, seventeenth inning,
get into the eighteenth inning. If the Dodgers winning this game,
how about no test tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Nice? Good?
Speaker 5 (30:58):
And he said deal nice, And what happened last night?
Dodgers walk off, the Blue Jays phone starts buzzing. Daughter
runs in, No test tomorrow, Doctor Dan a man of
his word.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
The kids at my daughter school, in that class do
not have to take a test today, No midterm because
he's a man of his word. And no test because
the Dodgers won last night. So love it. Very cool.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Shout out to doctor Dan. Amazing, that's good. We like
that very cool.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
So again, if you also need a note to get
out of work you're in late today, Steve Saxson is
the one who will write that note.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I'll write the note.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
I have no qualms that, dearest boss, please excuse Bill
from being late today. Sincerely, he's unavoidably detained watching the
game and doing some very very good character building of
things during the game.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Please let him off. Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
We'll come back. We'll get to more of your phone calls.
Coming up the top of the hour. Kevin Franzen from
MLB Network Radio. Our coverage here on saxon Kate's and
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It's SAX and Kate's in the AM right here on
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in the Am continuing on the stream here on X
and on Facebook. Thanks for being with us. Looks like
Saxy has departed us during the commercial breaks. Cities right Yeah,
and then you got Yamamoto warming up last night. I
mean you you cannot be a Dodger player in going
to that clubhouse today and have any other mindset. But no,
what do you need me to do?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I'll bet you. I'll bet you will. Kane comes in
there tonight and says, Hey, I know I pitched seventy
two pitches in four eighties, but I can throw. I
can give you one tonight.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
He should be ready to go all hands on deck.
What are you saving yourself for? Yeah, you got all
of November, December and January to rest and to not
throw or to heal up. I mean this time is now.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Time is now speaking a time out? I mean I'm
talking about I'm talking about if it's starting pitching like show,
Hey goes out there tonight, push him. If he's going up,
he's got a round one hundred pitches, he has one
morning to go finish it.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
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United States.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And what are they listening to? Scam?
Speaker 5 (34:22):
It's all right, Sacks, you don't have to do that
next time. Man, my throat, My throat's killing me. So okay,
I can do that, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
So, but I think we have to let people know
the real name of the show, Scam.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
With an exclamation point at the end. Yeah, that's what
we need. And can't just say scam. It's gotta be
exclamation point scam.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
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pointing to Strauss.
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Speaker 2 (34:56):
Now Cashmir shocks. You're not gonna get Kashmir socks, but
you will get some seal toed boots.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Absolutely. It's for the real workmen out there, those who
put it in and grind every single day, like the
Dodgers grinded last night for a win in eighteen innings.
We gave you the six am code word, last hour again.
Seven code words all day to day, scammed down, magic
of money. Oh, you can't give it out. You can't
give it out, zacked. We already give it out in
the six o'clock hour. If they were with us, they
(35:24):
were with us, So you.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Can't give it out again.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Yeah, I mean it's gonna be on the podcast, right, Okay,
what's what's the next word?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
What do we get?
Speaker 5 (35:30):
The next word is seven? I do it right now.
The seven o'clock hour word is okay, single, single. I
feel like I'm in w W two, like you know,
like the the radio, like you know, you're trying to
talk to the people behind the lines that are like
in you know, Germany and Japan, it's you like, uh, wacko,
(35:53):
where's a mustache? On Mondays? Like like different code words
you know that they used to give to people to
tell people was half in.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
So there's so the.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Code word this hour is single. So single.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I wonder in Canada if they have like mustache Monday,
like you you grow it all week and then on
Monday you shave it off.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
You don't know, you know what's funny real quick and
we'll go back out to the phones.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Last night, David Schnyder, the guy for the Toronto Blue Jays,
does he not look like a motor officer like for
the CHP with that mustache? I mean he's got that
cop stash going.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yeah, he's got definitely a CHP mustache going. And then
he does and then on the Post's Gonna Pull Me over?
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Then on the postgame show last night, before I fell
asleep and got my three and a half hours of sleep,
I was watching the Fox crew and my wife said
to me, she goes ay, Rod looks different than he
did in the pregame show, And I said, wow, that
was a long time ago. She was, I think he's
got some like five o'clock shadow going. I think he's
got a little stubble on his face.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Go ahead, Tim, what is it.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Facial hair?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Maybe maybe could be.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
I thought he he just looked different. And it was
such a long game last night. You know, maybe he
grew a little beard out last week, some.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Beard during the broadcast. That's a lot of man because.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
The game was so long, almost seven hours long, all
of a sudden, freshly shaven, you know, Alex Rodriguez. Next
thing you know, he's got a little stubble growing there.
Seven hours later. So okay, let's go back out to
the phones. Thank you for being patient, Mike and Coasta
Mason down in the nine four nine.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
How you doing, Mike, Hey, good morning guys, long time
love you guys. Shout out to the Dodgers. Thanks for
taking my call. Two quick ones for you. Way to
go with Kershaw. I know it was just one out
that was awesome. And secondly, why isn't call starting, guys,
I'd like to hear your take on that. I mean,
we all know Payez is pretty much allergic to walking
(37:53):
swinging everything in the dirt.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I know you get the defense, but I think call
is just the better option at this point. Guy comes
in gets a hit, you know, on and on he
makes contact, he can bund plays defense. So I just thought,
ask your take on that and just love getting through
to you guys. Listen, you guys all the time.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Man, awesome, Mike, appreciate it. Thanks for checking in.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
It's a good point.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
Yeah, yeah, I mean Andy can.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Play center field, right, he can go get it.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Yeah, he can play all three spots in the outfield
for you. More of a corner left or right field guy,
but he can go get it. He's got the speed
in center field to go play there.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
It's the bat though, right, I mean, it's the threat,
It's the what if. It's the he could go deep
that you always think about with Andy Pyes, and I
get it. He's like two for the October right now.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
He had a line drive caught yesterday, he smoked one ball.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
It's that threat though, right. It's that guy who's batting
ninth that could hit a home run for you. I
mean last night it could have been Andy Pies who
hits a home run and we're all celebrating Piez And
what a great job he did walking off the Toronto
Blue Jays. At as as it is, he is struggling,
and it's a real struggle right now.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
For Yeah, it's yeah, he's he's uh, he's swinging awfully
hard up there. You know, I don't know if that's
his you know, I don't know if that's what he
does all the time. But I've only known one guy
really watching him that swings out of his you know
what and in his really good hitter, and that was
Dustin PETROYA Hm. He's swung as hard as he could
every single time and hit lasers all the time. Usually
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don't see guys that swing really hard that make good contact,
but he did.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
I mean, I think you think Alex call on offense
and what he provides in the ninth spot. He's not
a threat to launch, he's not a threat to hit
all home run. He's certainly a threat with his speed.
He's kind of Toronto like absolutely, you know what, one
hundred percent. If he were on the Blue Jays, he'd
fit into a t with what they do in their
(39:49):
style of baseball. On this Dodgers team, he's the bunt guy.
He's the move the guy over hit to the right side.
Last night, he came up in a situation where all
they needed him to do was dry the ball and
hit it out of the infield and he flew out
into the you know, popped it up. So again I
go back to Paz his defense. Sometimes you get really
(40:11):
good defense, sometimes you get really bad defense. And a
lot of times you know, he makes a play and
you're like, Wow, that's the arm we all know he has,
and that's the defense we know he can he can provide.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
So at this point in his career, you'd say he's
he's more of a tools guy.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
I guess, so not refined, but a lot of tools,
one hundred percent, not refined at all. And still young.
I think he's what twenty four years old, still before
so he's got so much room to grow as a
baseball player. And I keep hearing the same comment from people, Well,
you know, there's not another series for him to get right.
This isn't July where he's got time to figure it out.
(40:48):
The time is now, and if he can't figure it
out by now, then it's time to move on to
something else.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, we did twenty seven Jackson in the year right next.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
What I mean, there's that threat, there's always that he
can hit it out. He could do it if he's
you know, if he connects, if he squares one up, man,
he's gonna hit it a long way.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
M h yeah. But I mean it's just uh and
you see every time he swings, he's you know, he's
got that momentum going into the other box. He's got
a little off balance. He swings hard, he swings really hard.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
He swings out of his shoes, yes said right, shoes
right as Tony on the message board, rights Alex call,
is that quote work the picture? End quote? Type of
guy that kind of fits into that Toronto Blue Jay
style of offense. Eighty six six nine, eighty seven two
five seventy. Coming up, Kevin Franzen, former Big leaguer, will
join us from MLB Radio. We'll get your eight o'clock
(41:39):
code word. Thanks for listening, thanks for watching, Thanks for
being a part of the show as we are streaming
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They say, the hardest thing in sports isn't winning a title.
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It's hard to repeat seasons.
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It's winning it again this Yearning is.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Not trying to win a championship, They're trying to repeat.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's October baseball for your world champion in La Dodger.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
This twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western
Division champions.
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And you know what that means.
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This is Saxon Kates in the Morning with Tim Kates
and former world champion Dodger Steve Sacks.
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Reacting, taking your phone calls, talking Dodgers playoff baseball all
postseason long.
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Now here. They are on AM five to seventy LA
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Kates and world champion Dodger Steve Sacks.
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Sports Steve Sacks, Tim Katz and you on this Tuesday morning,
as the sun starts to rise here in the city
(01:33):
of Los Angeles. And what a glorious night it was
last night at a Dodgers stadium, a game that took
six hours and thirty eight minutes, but it was worth
the wait, as the Dodgers prevailed in eighteen innings with
a six to five walk off win over the Toronto
Blue Jays to take a two games to one lead
in this best of seven World Series. Will climb four
(01:55):
innings pitch last night for the Dodgers. They use every
single reliever out of that bullpen. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was in
the bullpen ready to go if they needed to go
to a nineteenth inning, and he was all ready to go.
Blake Snell said he was available if need be, even
though he had already thrown his side session that day. Saxy,
(02:16):
it was all hands on deck and truly truly a
team win with all twenty six guys last night, no.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Doubt and put down and you know buried is the
question is a bullpen there? Okay, the bullpen's becoming a
sanctuary for this team, very much unexpected. You have to
have a surprise or two when you win a World series,
especially when you're trying to repeat like the Dodgers are,
you have to have a surprise or two. Maybe in
(02:44):
a larger sense, the bullpen is a surprise because they
are dynamite right now.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Yeah, every arm that came out of the bullpen for
the Dodgers last night got it done. Even Blake trying
it to an extent, got the job done despite giving
up a run and the Dodgers able to answer back
and get that run backed and tied it at five
and send it to extra innings. You and I were
talking during the game as it was evolving, as the
game was changing with the bullpen taking over, and it
(03:11):
was going to be which bullpen flinched first, which bullpen
was going to be the guys to give up that
hit or the run to give that team the lead,
and which bullpen was gonna be able to hold it
down and close out this game and get the final
out in this ballgame last night, and it was it
was back and forth. Eric Lower pitched really well for
the Toronto Blue Jays. They went toe to toe last night.
(03:33):
The Blue Jays bullpen, the Dodgers bullpen. Overall, though, the
game changed style wise, and even the Toronto Blue Jays
sort of got away from what they do best. As
the extra innings continued to go on and on, Steve,
you saw their approach change a little bit. They started
slugging a little bit more. They got away from that hole,
slap the ball the right field station to the station
(03:55):
we're going to pay per clip you paper cut you
to death sort of approach. They were slugging just like
the Dodgers were. It seemed like every guy up to
bat was trying to win it with one swing of
the bat.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, and how about Alejandro Kirk hitting that hanging curveball
from glass? Noow, glassnow doesn't hang a ton of curveballs,
but the one he did hang, Alejandro Kirk nailed it.
And this guy has a real knack for not only
hitting the ball the other way or hitting it where
it's pitched. And the one that he hit off of glass, now,
on a hanging curveball, you know, even the guy hits
the ball the other way, he hit that ball more central,
(04:29):
and uh, that's what you do with the pitch. That's
that's a hangar, that's right there in the middle of
the zone. And again on this on this bullpen kind
of going, you know, step for step with the Dodgers.
I thought after Domingus it was Bassett, Hoffman, Fisher and Lower.
They pitched really well getting in there the guts of
the game. I thought that that bullpen part for Toronto
(04:50):
was exceptionally good.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
He is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kate eight six six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy. Coming up. You're gonna
hear from Dave Roberts in his postgame press conference. Well
here from show Aotani as well in the eight o'clock hour.
Kevin Franzen from MLB Radio will join us at eight
o'clock this morning. He is at a Dodger stadium working
pre and post on Sirius XM Radio. What a night
though for the Dodgers last night, coming through in eighteen
(05:15):
innings to win the game by a final of six
to five. Let's go in the clubhouse. Last night, the
Dodgers get to win after the game was over, after
all the media on the field last night, Steve Sacks,
Dave Roberts, Dodger manager, quieted his clubhouse and got all
the guys together, and before they started going their separate
ways and showering and going to see their families, he
(05:38):
asked for just a minute, he said, guys, I want
your attention. Hear me out. Here's Dave Roberts post game
last night, after an almost seven hour marathon win.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I just want to say, and I know I speak
for every single person in this clubhouse, I've never been
more proud of one of you guys, from the guys
playing gone way, way, way above whatever anyone has ever
asked of you guys. Not one of you guys were phased,
(06:09):
and every single one of you guys was pulling through
your guys and believed in each other. And we've talked
about all the time we're gonna meet every single body.
This is just not rhetoric, this is just not talk.
Tonight prove that we're gonna need every single person on
this roster help us win a baseball game. Those guys
games everything they had tonight to beat us, and none
(06:32):
of us waivered. Quit. We continue to fight. That's who
we are. That's who we are. It's because you guys
believe in each other. And this is a special group,
this special group. And what Showhy did in the CS,
this couldn't epitomize twenty twenty five Dodgers anymore. This is
a team effort. It's a team effort. It's every single
(06:54):
person in this room, front office, coaches, support staff, it's everybody.
This is a team effort. And hey, so en Shoy,
But we got a game later today. All right, Hey
we got a game later today.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Hey we got a game later tonight. That's right, Hey,
leave it all out there. Be you ready to go
to Mark. There's no letter.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
All right, there's Dave Roberts last night. I love that,
Zach effective, very effective. Why is that effective as a player?
What you got?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Because you got these guys in the moment. These guys
on that team want their manager, They want to see
him to be transparent. That's exactly what Dave Roberts was.
It wasn't scripted. It was right out of his heart
and they could feel it. I could feel it listening
to it, and it was real. And these guys, if
you ask them to tim, I'm not this. And again
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this isn't rhetoric either, but I think if you ask
those guys when they were listening to Dave Roberts right there,
they would have told you that, and believe it, they
could have gone out for another eighteen right then listening
to what he said. I have no question in my
mind they'll be ready tonight. They'll be rejuvenated. I think
this puts another step, a little bit of a lighter
(08:23):
and and and and you know, better step in their
uh in their walk to uh to go on and
face this game tonight. I don't think they're gonna be tired.
I think they're going to be more than excited. I
think this is a chance that they could have buried
the Blue Jays. Don't count on it. Yeah, but this
is this is a deflating moment for the Blue Jays.
We'll see what they're made of. I won't take them
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lightly at all. But you got a chance to bury
this team if this this game starts off on the
bad note for the for the Toronto club.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Well, two things for you. One is that a Tomulu
sorta asque postgame speech. Is that something he would do
after a post in game, a big game is get
you guys together, thank you guys, talk about how important
everybody is, and then also make sure everybody's on the
same page moving forward.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, and you don't want to do these all the
time because they lose their luster. Okay, you do these
once in a great while. You do this two three
times a year. That's it. You have the private conversations
and the officer at the locker very effective that way.
Doing it collectively as a team once in a great
wild maybe twice a year. This was a time for that,
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and it was very effective the way Dave did it.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Now, my other question for you is if your second baseman,
Steve Sacks, going back out there tonight for Game four
of this World Series, after playing in a six hour
and thirty eight minute game, after going out and having
eight at bats, and you get to win, and you're tired, Okay,
you're so long tired, not tired, all right, Hypothetically you're tired,
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and you got to go back out there tonight, sixteen
hours later playing in a game. How can you how
can you look at other guys around you though, and say, man,
I'm tired, you know, I'm a little patiquing the guy
on the mound just hit a couple of home runs
and set another postseason record last night. He might be tired, right,
I mean, but if he's out there dealing and he's
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out there performing, you have to raise your level. I mean,
you can't look at the guy on the mound and say, wow,
I wonder how he's doing. Oh, I'm so tired right now?
Like right, you better right rise to the occasion as well.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Tim, Tim, I gotta tell you, and I'm not I'm
not just saying this. In all my career, you know,
I I I never felt like I was tired, and
never and I don't care if it was a doubleheader
in Atlanta in August. I remember one time after a game,
I was really spent, but overall, you rejuvenate, you're ready
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for that next day and you're not tired. But I
remember after games there's times where you're you're really tired,
you know, in the middle of a dug after two
games in Atlanta, I remember Tommy walked by my locker
and I was, you know, taking off my shirt was
soaking wet. I was tired. Tommy said, what's wrong with you?
I some a little spet skipped. You're tired. Oh my god,
he went into this tirade in front of the whole
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team that I was tired. So after a game, you
better be tired. You want to be tired, because that
means you left it all out there. But the next
day you're not tired. Man. You're in your twenties, You're
you're ready to go.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And after that game, you're in the World Series. You
just heard that from your manager. How could you possibly
think that something would get in their way called fatigue
when when you're in you're in the throes of something
that's earth shattering right now, you're in the biggest stage
in the world. How in the world could you be tired.
You mean, it's more, it's more than just the physical thing.
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It really is.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
You've told us before here and we've done this for
nine years in the postseason, and you've talked about it.
In eighty eight, you guys went through the Mets, you
guys had battles with them, and then you get of
the World Series and you, you know, overcome the Bash
Brothers and you beat them in five games. And you've
talked about it after that win in Oakland. Yes, you
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were mentally, physically and emotionally just completely drained. It was
it at that point once it all concluded, where you
got to that emotional just ex sale. But during those
five games, you're you're juiced, right, You're like you'reu you
are not really but right, you know, but you're you're
ready to go. But it's that exhale after you win, Yes,
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when when you come down off this high that is
playing in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Tim, It's such a great point that you bring up,
because it's true. I literally, with all the you know,
screaming and yelling going on, and there's champagne everywhere, I
found this little room adjacent to the locker room, and
it was so weird. It's like somebody put it in there.
It was a chair and one faint light bulb that
was on. It was a very small room. I don't
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know what it was for, but I went in and
I took my uniform off for I wanted to keep
it for posterity. I put it in a bag and
I literally, with all that going on, maybe ten feet away,
I literally could have gone to sleep in that room.
I was so drained mentally, physically, absolutely done. And what
happens is you let your defenses down finally, you let
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your defensive defenses down, and that's when you get tired
and and and believe me, after the season was over,
I went up to my mom's up here in Sacramento,
and my mom cooked and I slept and slept and
she cooked and cooked and I didn't even get on
the phone hardly at all. And it was the best
rejuvenation period because after it's all over, you talk about
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you're tired. Then, Yeah, many guys were sick with the flu.
It spread throughout our team. It was all over on
the on the parade, and it was it was pretty thick.
But that Yeah, when the season's over, there's a time
to recuperate. And after that last game, when it was
Game five and it was over, we're world champions, man,
I was, which just absolutely drained. But not during the season.
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It's amazing how you're able to fend off, Yeah, that fatigue,
and you know, you got to be strong mentally, and
I you know, I don't know if that's what it
was with me or not, but when the season was over,
I was really drained.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
What about being on the winning side of last night's
eighteen INNY Marathon game and being on the losing side
of that game. Take us into the mind Steve Sacks
here on Saxon Kate's and am here on a FI seventy.
Take us into the mind of a player last night
on the winning side and the losing side, and having
to wake up this morning. You're probably still sleeping, but
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wake up and go having to go back to the
ballpark this afternoon, sixteen hours later, a first pitch and
you have to get ready for a game four one side,
I imagine you're probably feeling a little bit better than
the other side going to the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Well, I can equate these guys both on the same
path because throughout most of the game, I can tell
you on either side, both of these two players, whoever
they may be, you want to pick one out on
each side, both of them are believing in their hearts,
in their spirit, in everything about their every fiber of
their being. They believe they're going to win that game.
So they're going along the same path until the very end.
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And at the very end, when one walks over to
the Dodger dug out, the other one walks over to
the Toronto dugout, it's a completely complete divergence of the paths.
That's when they go, they're complete separate ways. It's the
one ad if you will, however you want to describe it.
The Dodgers are complete jubilation. They're related. You heard it
from Dave Roberts talking. The guys were cheering every word.
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On the other side in Toronto, these guys are deflated.
They're trying to pick each other up. But this is
a real heavy, heavy point in a big testing ground
for that Toronto team. These guys are going to be tested.
I mentioned it already, Tim when they come into this
game tonight, there's going to be a huge test. If
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a showteble Tony goes out there and shoving for the
first couple of three innings, this team might be buried.
And every every man has a breaking point. You know
the thing that does it is when you break their spirit.
When you break their spirit. You see it in boxers
when they get to a certain point of the fight.
When they get their spirit broken, the fight's over. And
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we're gonna see if the spirit is broken with Toronto tonight.
I'm not sure that it is. But if shohe goes
out there and shoves for a while and the Dodgers
get off to a big start, you could see a
spirit come out of these guys, and if that happens,
it's over.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
I hope so, and I kind of feel like it's
building towards that.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Now.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
It just takes shoey Otani to go out there and
that maybe one more push, yeah, absolutely, one more push
to knock him over and end this thing. Was still
two wins to go for the Dodgers in this best
of seven series. He is Steve Saxon. I am Tim
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Speaker 2 (18:21):
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Speaker 5 (18:23):
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Oh baseball Ism, you got that one hunt from there?
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Speaker 4 (18:30):
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Been to that one. Yeah, I've been to the one
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Speaker 5 (18:43):
Yeah, those are great guys.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Former stick on that one right there. I just see
lots ange w what's the stick. There's always a stick
to the Baseballism shirt.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
It's a guy going up against the wall making a CATCHU.
It looks like it could be Tommy Edmund or or
any Yeah, so it's that's it. And then of course
I brought back the hat I wore yesterday, which is
ready the Freddie Freeman walk off silhouette there from the
Grand Slam against the New York Yankee. Sorry Yankee fans,
but this is from Game one last year. And I'm
sure our friends that they make these hats at a
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Crowns are working diligently to make another Freddie Freeman silhouette.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I like them last night. Yeah, we still haven't seen
the shirts for scam.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
They're being worked on. They're being worked on. Yeah, you know,
I like hats too. I like the flatter hats. I know,
maybe we can get one of those two. Yeah, I
mean I'm working on the shirts, but it's it takes
a little while to print. And they said, hey, we
don't make the medium, we have to order that, so
it's gonna take a little while for the s medium
shirts to come.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Are you are you gonna wear mediums?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Are you sure? Well? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
It would have fit over my arm for you.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I know you're busting out.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
You'd be like whole Colgan like taking them, ripping it off, and.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
You got like nineteens, don't you, tim No, No, really
don't know. You're pretty stacked.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Let me look at let's see, let's see your guns there.
Let's put on a gun shirt.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Okay, you're no, I appreciate it, but thank you. Let's
go out to the phones. We're gonna hear from Dave Roberts,
Dodger manager, coming up in just a couple of minutes.
At the top of the hour, we'll check in with
Kevin franzten from MLB Network Radio. We'll hear from Shoe
Aotani postgame last night. Yeah, he's got a pitching a
game today for the Dodgers after last night. A couple
of doubles, a couple of home runs, walked a bunch
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of times. Sets at MLB record on base nine times
last night. Unbelievable. How about being a hitter last night,
Steve real Quick and having eight at bats. How about
being a Dodger hitter last night and going up to
the plate eight times and you look at the bosco
where it's all said and done, and you're one for eight. Yeah,
I don't like that, right, I mean, you get to win,
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but you're looking at the box score, at your locker,
your lige. I was one for eight, I was, I
was one for six and struck out four times.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's a move? Did that?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I was? Will Smith?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Oh okay, But you know what he's he's been dynamite.
You know, he caught like seventeen pitchers last night, and it's.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
True, he taught eighteen.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He got two games on one night. Yeah, and he
hit a big bomb the other day. I mean, he's
been very integral.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
On this and he almost hit it out last night.
If it was not for the marine layer out of
Dodgers Stadium, which it's gonna be different tonight. It's supposed
to be a little warmer here in southern California. It's
a couple of degrees warmer during the day in the afternoon,
that means it'll be a little warmer at night. The
hot air will stick around for a little longer with
a five o'clock start, so we could see the baseball
fly a little bit more tonight like it did early
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on in the game last night, with Alejandro Kirk hitting
that home run, showing Otani going deep as well. So
I expect the ball to fly out of the ballpark
again tonight, hopefully it's the Dodgers hitting the home runs.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Who do you want to see kind of jump to
the forefront. I mean we kind of Otani's just been
We want to see him pitch well. But on the
offensive side, who you got well?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
So that's a great question because you cannot expect Otani
to do what he did last time.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
What I'm saying, give give a he could have a
night off, but just pitch well.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Absolutely, I just want him to deal on the mound.
That means, as you said, somebody else or somebody's else
needs to step up tonight. I'm gonna give that to
I'm gonna say Mookie Betts one for eight last night
with a walk. I'm also gonna I'm gonna ask Tommy
Edmand to raise his game a little bit. Yeah, you know,
he had hit the ball hard a couple of times
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last night, played some good defense. He had the air,
I get it. That led to a couple runs scoring.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It happens.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
But he he also made then two other great defensive plays.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Great play throwing the guy out at third hustle coming
off with the deflection of Freddy's glove from from Kirk.
That hit that line drive again to right Like he
hits every ball to right field. Maybe they should put
somebody over there. Every freaking ball he hits is to
right side all the time.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
It's it's amazing that that's the one thing that guy
does and he's made an insistently a living out of it,
and he's an All Star because of it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, and and so, and that was a great play
by by Tommy Edmond. That's where we were going. He
gets over there, he slides on the hip in the
same motion throws a dart over to months he at
third base for the out, And that was all fluid.
It was so one motion. Did I say, the third
out at third base? Nice going kinder Fleffa.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
As we mentioned earlier, six. Six runners thrown out last
night on the base pass six.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, and Otani pops off the base. I mean, I
guess it. Can you know he's still you know, it's
it's a tough one. He had the base stolen, he
was safe.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Okay, let's quickly quickly dive into that, because we were
talking last night after it happened. And that happened in
the bottom half of the ninth inning. Shoho Tani intentionally walked.
Mookie betches up to bat and Sho Hay takes off
and he steals second base and it slides in safely,
but his momentum carries him to the right of second
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base and the tag is held on him like you're
supposed to do nowadays. And he was called out because
he came off the bag briefly. Right, Why was that
a bad slide.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Because he lost his momentum. I mean, that's you know,
it happens. But if you do a pop up slide,
it's all part of the slide. The rise at the
end is part of the slide. You see Trey Turner
do that so eloquently. Remember you see Trey Turner in
the slide. That's an exaggerated version of the pop up slide.
So when you pop up like that, you can see
the ball. You don't have dirt in your eyes. You
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can pop up and see it where it's going. You
can go to the next base way faster. You're not
gonna jam a finger or a shoulder. Injuries are far less.
I like the pop up slide. It's been around a while,
and you know, I think it plays pretty well and
you don't have a chance to fall over like that
like Otani did. But but you know what it's I'm
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sure I've done it too.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seven. It's
go out to the phones. Thank you for being patient
on this Tuesday morning. As you wake up and you
look and if you fell asleep last night, you're wondering,
what in the heck happened last night? How did this
game end? Well? It ended on a walk off home
run from Freddie Freeman in the bottom half of the
e eighteenth. And go out to the phones. Eric on
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the ninety one Freeway joins us here on a FI
seventy l A sports.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
It's on your mind, Eric, oh man, uh, mister Sacks,
did I not call a week and a half ago?
When mister Kates was all panicked out after we lost
to the Phillies in that game. And uh, and I said,
when we're healthy, the Dodgers have too much for everyone.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You remember this, Eric, I remember it very distinctly. I
remember you calling in and telling him that Tim. You remember,
Eric did that.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I don't remember panicking at all. Guys, I do not
know what you're talking about. That doesn't sound like me.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You were talking about. You were you were talking, you
were saying, you were saying, you were taking that that
Yamamoto was gonna you know, he had better have a
that game the long Yeah, because you know the Phi
and so on and so forth. And I said, look, man,
when the Dodgers are healthy, they got too much for
And I got to tell you something. The only people
who were not surprised about the bullpen's performance yesterday was
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all those guys in the bullpen and the Dodger Coke staff.
They were not at all surprised that those guys came
up the way he did. I'm gonna tell you what,
no trying and Tryna made pictures last night. I was,
I was. I was happy with his performance. I had
no doubts about him. But these other guys, oh my goodness,
they surprised all of us. And then again again, Mookie's
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one for eight. Uh like you said, uh, Smith has
four strike up, but Tail shows up and Joe showtime
shows up, and Edmund shows up, and you know, Mickey
roll with the with the with the perfect bunt even
though we didn't score on that, and his play at
second base off somebody hit a hot smash in that
seventeenth inning and he you know, scooped it up like
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it was not like like it was just another day
at the office. That's what I'm talking about. They have
too much for everybody, now, that's z. When too much
doesn't show up, then it it's not enough. So they
got to stay focused. But again I think they're dialed in,
and when they are, everybody needs help. So that's just
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my thoughts.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
All right, Eric, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yet, I remember I remember Eric said that. I do remember.
He said, I don't.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Remember panicking at all. It's not like me.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I don't seem to You haven't panicked like before. Like
I remember, sometimes you would come on and you would
be almost screeching, you know, you would be like out
of your mind. But you've been more composed this this year.
I don't know if it's because they're in the World
Series now, but you've been a lot more composed.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
It's a newer, older me, Saxey, That's what it is.
I'm overture now in my old age. By the way,
real quick, last night, when they walked off the Toronto
Blue Jays on the Freddie Freeman home run, it didn't
get shown on Fox, but if you were at Dodger
Stadium and now videos are out there of people on
their cell phones, it's kind of a cool moment because, yeah,
I'm a mooto. Remember is warming up in the Dodgers'
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bullpen and his translators out there with them, and everybody
starts celebrating at you know, home plate with Freddie Freeman.
Well so did show Hey Otani and Roki Sasaki celebrate.
But they jumped around for a few seconds, and then
the two of them, along with Will Ironson, the translator,
all three of them made a bline down the third
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base line and they met Yamamoto and his translator in
shallow left field, and all of them started hugging and
jumping up and down, all five of them. The three
players and the two translators, all Japanese guys together celebrating
this walk off win again another example of a team win.
So Saki went out there and pitched, Otani did his thing,
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and then Yamamoto. They didn't want to forget about him.
They didn't want to forget about Shamamoto, who was warming
up in the bullpen down there.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's great. I love it. Yeah, that's some togetherness, and
you know that's what it like. They said, it's gonna
take every single person in that in that bullpen. Do
you remember us saying that whenmber I told you about
trying to Hey, there's gonna be a time when you're
gonna need trying where you're gonna need dryer, where you're
gonna need Sihan to come up and do some shoving.
It's gonna come to that sometime. You remember I was
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saying that too, Tim I do? I do?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
I remember that?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
True?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Anastasia in La joins us yere on a f I
seventy la sports, Good morning, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (29:07):
Good morning? First time caller. So excited I stayed for
the full eighteen innings. It was amazing. It was a
sheer will determination when I am so excited. I couldn't
even believe it. I literally went there. I kept getting
phone calls from people you're watching, You're still watching. Loved it.
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And you know what, Dee sec, I actually had a
child in eighty eight. I remember you, and I am
so grateful. My son called me from Oakland. He couldn't
believe it. A little concerned a little bit about moviie bets,
but I'm not completely worried. I feel like he's gonna
come through because they are not going to pitch to
show a period and just, oh my goodness, amazing first
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time called her. I loved your show.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I really appreciate you joining us this morning. I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
That's cool.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Love hearing from it. If you need an excuse from
your boss, sound like you're maybe heading to work or somewhere,
let them know and let us know because we'll write
you an excuse.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We can email the excuse the pass if you will,
absolutely to the boss, right tim.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Absolutely real cool. My daughter who's in high school, one
of her teachers, I'm gonna shout him out, doctor Dan.
They have a test today that they sort of like
a midterm test because it's the middle of semester and
it was today. And I say was today because last
night the students in my daughter's class, we're on a
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group text with the teacher and he's a big Dodger fan,
doctor Dan. And they said to doctor Dan, hey, if
the Dodgers end up pulling out this game, because it
was like ten thirty eleven o'clock, sixteenth inning, seventeenth inning,
get into the eighteenth inning. If the Dodgers winning this game,
how about no test tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Nice? Good?
Speaker 5 (30:58):
And he said deal nice, And what happened last night?
Dodgers walk off, the Blue Jays phone starts buzzing. Daughter
runs in, No test tomorrow, Doctor Dan a man of
his word.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
The kids at my daughter school, in that class do
not have to take a test today, No midterm because
he's a man of his word. And no test because
the Dodgers won last night. So love it. Very cool.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Shout out to doctor Dan. Amazing, that's good. We like
that very cool.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
So again, if you also need a note to get
out of work you're in late today, Steve Saxson is
the one who will write that note.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I'll write the note.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
I have no qualms that, dearest boss, please excuse Bill
from being late today. Sincerely, he's unavoidably detained watching the
game and doing some very very good character building of
things during the game.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Please let him off. Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
We'll come back. We'll get to more of your phone calls.
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in the Am continuing on the stream here on X
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Saxy has departed us during the commercial breaks. Cities right Yeah,
and then you got Yamamoto warming up last night. I
mean you you cannot be a Dodger player in going
to that clubhouse today and have any other mindset. But no,
what do you need me to do?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I'll bet you. I'll bet you will. Kane comes in
there tonight and says, Hey, I know I pitched seventy
two pitches in four eighties, but I can throw. I
can give you one tonight.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
He should be ready to go all hands on deck.
What are you saving yourself for? Yeah, you got all
of November, December and January to rest and to not
throw or to heal up. I mean this time is now.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Time is now speaking a time out? I mean I'm
talking about I'm talking about if it's starting pitching like show,
Hey goes out there tonight, push him. If he's going up,
he's got a round one hundred pitches, he has one
morning to go finish it.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
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people listening not only in southern California but around the
United States.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And what are they listening to? Scam?
Speaker 5 (34:22):
It's all right, Sacks, you don't have to do that
next time. Man, my throat, My throat's killing me. So okay,
I can do that, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
So, but I think we have to let people know
the real name of the show, Scam.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
With an exclamation point at the end. Yeah, that's what
we need. And can't just say scam. It's gotta be
exclamation point scam.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I'm not seeing you see what I'm doing here, I'm
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Yeah, oh yeah, brought to you by our friends at
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Speaker 2 (34:56):
Now Cashmir shocks. You're not gonna get Kashmir socks, but
you will get some seal toed boots.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Absolutely. It's for the real workmen out there, those who
put it in and grind every single day, like the
Dodgers grinded last night for a win in eighteen innings.
We gave you the six am code word, last hour again.
Seven code words all day to day, scammed down, magic
of money. Oh, you can't give it out. You can't
give it out, zacked. We already give it out in
the six o'clock hour. If they were with us, they
(35:24):
were with us, So you.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Can't give it out again.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Yeah, I mean it's gonna be on the podcast, right, Okay,
what's what's the next word?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
What do we get?
Speaker 5 (35:30):
The next word is seven? I do it right now.
The seven o'clock hour word is okay, single, single. I
feel like I'm in w W two, like you know,
like the the radio, like you know, you're trying to
talk to the people behind the lines that are like
in you know, Germany and Japan, it's you like, uh, wacko,
(35:53):
where's a mustache? On Mondays? Like like different code words
you know that they used to give to people to
tell people was half in.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
So there's so the.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Code word this hour is single. So single.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I wonder in Canada if they have like mustache Monday,
like you you grow it all week and then on
Monday you shave it off.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
You don't know, you know what's funny real quick and
we'll go back out to the phones.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Last night, David Schnyder, the guy for the Toronto Blue Jays,
does he not look like a motor officer like for
the CHP with that mustache? I mean he's got that
cop stash going.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yeah, he's got definitely a CHP mustache going. And then
he does and then on the Post's Gonna Pull Me over?
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Then on the postgame show last night, before I fell
asleep and got my three and a half hours of sleep,
I was watching the Fox crew and my wife said
to me, she goes ay, Rod looks different than he
did in the pregame show, And I said, wow, that
was a long time ago. She was, I think he's
got some like five o'clock shadow going. I think he's
got a little stubble on his face.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Go ahead, Tim, what is it.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Facial hair?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Maybe maybe could be.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
I thought he he just looked different. And it was
such a long game last night. You know, maybe he
grew a little beard out last week, some.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Beard during the broadcast. That's a lot of man because.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
The game was so long, almost seven hours long, all
of a sudden, freshly shaven, you know, Alex Rodriguez. Next
thing you know, he's got a little stubble growing there.
Seven hours later. So okay, let's go back out to
the phones. Thank you for being patient, Mike and Coasta
Mason down in the nine four nine.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
How you doing, Mike, Hey, good morning guys, long time
love you guys. Shout out to the Dodgers. Thanks for
taking my call. Two quick ones for you. Way to
go with Kershaw. I know it was just one out
that was awesome. And secondly, why isn't call starting, guys,
I'd like to hear your take on that. I mean,
we all know Payez is pretty much allergic to walking
(37:53):
swinging everything in the dirt.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I know you get the defense, but I think call
is just the better option at this point. Guy comes
in gets a hit, you know, on and on he
makes contact, he can bund plays defense. So I just thought,
ask your take on that and just love getting through
to you guys. Listen, you guys all the time.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Man, awesome, Mike, appreciate it. Thanks for checking in.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
It's a good point.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
Yeah, yeah, I mean Andy can.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Play center field, right, he can go get it.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Yeah, he can play all three spots in the outfield
for you. More of a corner left or right field guy,
but he can go get it. He's got the speed
in center field to go play there.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
It's the bat though, right, I mean, it's the threat,
It's the what if. It's the he could go deep
that you always think about with Andy Pyes, and I
get it. He's like two for the October right now.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
He had a line drive caught yesterday, he smoked one ball.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
It's that threat though, right. It's that guy who's batting
ninth that could hit a home run for you. I
mean last night it could have been Andy Pies who
hits a home run and we're all celebrating Piez And
what a great job he did walking off the Toronto
Blue Jays. At as as it is, he is struggling,
and it's a real struggle right now.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
For Yeah, it's yeah, he's he's uh, he's swinging awfully
hard up there. You know, I don't know if that's
his you know, I don't know if that's what he
does all the time. But I've only known one guy
really watching him that swings out of his you know
what and in his really good hitter, and that was
Dustin PETROYA Hm. He's swung as hard as he could
every single time and hit lasers all the time. Usually
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don't see guys that swing really hard that make good contact,
but he did.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
I mean, I think you think Alex call on offense
and what he provides in the ninth spot. He's not
a threat to launch, he's not a threat to hit
all home run. He's certainly a threat with his speed.
He's kind of Toronto like absolutely, you know what, one
hundred percent. If he were on the Blue Jays, he'd
fit into a t with what they do in their
(39:49):
style of baseball. On this Dodgers team, he's the bunt guy.
He's the move the guy over hit to the right side.
Last night, he came up in a situation where all
they needed him to do was dry the ball and
hit it out of the infield and he flew out
into the you know, popped it up. So again I
go back to Paz his defense. Sometimes you get really
(40:11):
good defense, sometimes you get really bad defense. And a
lot of times you know, he makes a play and
you're like, Wow, that's the arm we all know he has,
and that's the defense we know he can he can provide.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
So at this point in his career, you'd say he's
he's more of a tools guy.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
I guess, so not refined, but a lot of tools,
one hundred percent, not refined at all. And still young.
I think he's what twenty four years old, still before
so he's got so much room to grow as a
baseball player. And I keep hearing the same comment from people, Well,
you know, there's not another series for him to get right.
This isn't July where he's got time to figure it out.
(40:48):
The time is now, and if he can't figure it
out by now, then it's time to move on to
something else.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, we did twenty seven Jackson in the year right next.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
What I mean, there's that threat, there's always that he
can hit it out. He could do it if he's
you know, if he connects, if he squares one up, man,
he's gonna hit it a long way.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
M h yeah. But I mean it's just uh and
you see every time he swings, he's you know, he's
got that momentum going into the other box. He's got
a little off balance. He swings hard, he swings really hard.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
He swings out of his shoes, yes said right, shoes
right as Tony on the message board, rights Alex call,
is that quote work the picture? End quote? Type of
guy that kind of fits into that Toronto Blue Jay
style of offense. Eighty six six nine, eighty seven two
five seventy. Coming up, Kevin Franzen, former Big leaguer, will
join us from MLB Radio. We'll get your eight o'clock
(41:39):
code word. Thanks for listening, thanks for watching, Thanks for
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