10/28 H1: Will Klein's historic performance, the brilliance of Ohtani and more as Dodgers won Game 3

We discuss Will Klein's breakout performance and Shohei Ohtani reaching base 9 times in the Dodgers 6-5 Game 4 win over Toronto.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, here we go, and hello from Dodger Stadium.
Brett Rogan, Rodney Pete seventy LA Sports Fred.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I got to give us props.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Okay, I'm just going to toot our own horn and
pat ourselves on the back because we are here as
we were yesterday getting ready for Game three, the first
game of the World Series in twenty twenty five at
Dodger Stadium, right, and we talked about the amount of
people that were already here before we got settled in.

(00:34):
I've noticed, I've noticed. Okay, So we talked a lot
about that. That Wow, there's so many people here. You
even talked about it at the end, about so many
local stations and then all of the national stations and
international stations that were here set up ready to go
as we came on the air at noon. And today

(00:56):
as we come on at noon, there's nobody here. It's
like a ghost town down there is good everybody's still sleeping.
I think you're right. I don't think people. I think
people are just getting up after what happened last night. Yeah,
I mean, I am telling you, Rodney, that is a
fair point. Yesterday this place was jam pass the media.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Right at noon before we came on the air.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right, everybody was here. Guys are on the field working
out as well. There's nobody on the field. The grounds
crew is mowing the lawn. I would say, maybe there's
what forty media people compared to four hundred yesterday that
we're here.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
At this time.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
First of all, coming up later on in the show,
next segment will open the phone lines. If you're awake
and you were here, we want to hear about your experience.
We do want to hear what it was like for
you to be here for all eighteen innings. If you
watched on TV, we want to hear how you felt
about witnessing what you did last night.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
I was here for all eighteen innings.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I was here back when they played the Red Sox
for all eighteen innings. Now Fox said last night, last
night's game tied the longest in World Series history, eighteen innings.
Truth of the matter is against the Red Sox in
twenty seventeen, that game was seven hours. Last night was
like six and a half. So it was an incredible evening.

(02:18):
If you were here, you know what it was like
the highlight for me. Well, first of all, if you
were here, then you were probably like we were, Rodney.
You didn't know what nying it was anymore. You had
no idea what anything it was. And I am telling
you the people we were sitting around kept saying what
inning is it? But you knew there was a break
in the action when we got to the fourteenth inning stretch.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yes, that was the key.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
When they reopened the concession stands, not all of them,
but they reopened a lot of the concession stands because
normally they closed them out at seventh at the seventh inning, right,
so they had to reopen them and then they closed
them out again at the fourteenth Inny shut them down again.
That's how crazy it was at the stadium last night.

(03:02):
There were so many things that happened in that game.
And Freddie Freeman, of course the walk off, another walk
off in the World Series. Remember last year when they
were playing the Yankees here at the stadium, the walk
off Grand Slam. So Freddie Freeman has etched his name
now into World Series lore. It was a game that
early on I thought the Dodgers had misplayed. To be

(03:24):
very honest with you, Tommy Edmond made a crucial mistake,
crucial mistake.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
That eventually cost them.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I have to tell you, Tyler Glass now went four
plus innings into eighty four pitches.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
You knew that was not going to be good.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
They had to yank him out eighty four pitches and
four plus innings. So early on, I didn't think it
looked very good for the Dodgers, but they battled their
way back.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Show Hey.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Otani was on base nine times, he was walked five,
four of them intentionally. He had two home runs and
two doubles. It got to a point where the manager
of the Blue Jays, Johnson Night, simply said, I don't
care what happens. He got beating us. That's it. We
are taking the bat out of your hands going forward.
When they took the bat out of his hands going forward,

(04:12):
Mookie struggled and couldn't deliver. Because the Dodgers did have
opportunities to win throughout this entire process, but they couldn't
move anybody around.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
One inning, he.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Walked both Otani and Mookie. Yeah, and then Freddy couldn't
bring him around. From a manager perspective, in this game,
I think the majority of people felt that John Snyder
of the Blue Jays did what he had to do,
but made some miscues when he took out Kirk, when

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he took out Bashet.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Of course he didn't think the game of go eighteen
innings long.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
But all of a sudden, when the Blue Jays came
up to bat, it was like they had plugs.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
These were not their best guy.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, but he had made these moves in anticipation of
winning it nine. Therefore he basically ran out of players.
And then there was the story of the great Will Climb. Oh,
the great, the great Will Climb. As we said yesterday,
who is that guy? Well, Will Kline was acquired in

(05:23):
a trade deadline deal with Seattle for another minor league. Yes,
and he's just the kind of guy the Dodgers grab
and store away. When everybody was talking though, right whether
the Dodger's gonna do not on a you know, trade
wise because at that point the bullpen was struggling, right
and okay, at the trade deadline, they got to go

(05:46):
get some bullpen help, They got to go get some pitching.
They acquired him before that, and nobody thought anything of
Will Climb.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's like, who is this guy?

Speaker 1 (05:55):
We just got him, okay, whatever, But he became a
how sole name with the Dodger fans.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
So he's here because Alex Vesia isn't.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
And he's also here because nobody in their right mind
would trust Tanner Scott. So that's how Will Klein got
on the postseason roster. And I assure you Will Klein
didn't expect to pitch one inning. He was just happy
to be here and the next thing, you know, here
we go. He threw seventy eight pitches. I think I

(06:27):
think he threw a max of maybe thirty maybe thirty
six pitches in his major league career before last night.
And they asked him after the game, so what would
they say to you in the dugout? As you'd sit down,
go back out there? Okay, you come back in you

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have a chance to win. What they say to you?
Go back out there? They just kept telling him go back.
What he kept saying, I'm good, let's go. Yeah, I
want it. I can go, I can go, I can go.
He kept telling the Dodgers' staff, Mike, Mark Pryor and
Dave Roberts, I can go, I can I'm good, Let's go.
And you know, for a guy that hasn't been in

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that situation, hasn't been there for the Dodgers, throughout the
whole season and to be in that moment in the
World Series and to have that confidence and tell your
manager and tell your pitching coach that I'm good to
go keep I'm send me out there and and be
able to deliver like he did.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
I can't have enough respect and love for Will Klein
and the competitiveness that he had, all of the energy
that he had.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
My hat's off to Will Klein and what he did
after the game.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Freddie Freeman hits the home run, and by the way,
in extra innings, if you went along for the journey,
there were a couple of times where you thought somebody
hit it out. Will Smith had won, yeah, and backflip
because he thought it was gone, but it died.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
It died at the wall.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
There were others that were hit deep, and I think
Tasker hit one that died at the wall. So Freddie
hits it out. The place explodes, I think just out
of joy and relief that it was finally over. As
you can imagine, there was a complete dead run coming
from the dugout. Everybody mobbed him at home plate. But

(08:25):
if you watch a little closer Rodney, you realized.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
That they then went and mobbed will Climb.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh yeah, no one can remember a time where the
guy hits a game winning home run, everybody mobs him.
Then you look around and you go, let's go get
that guy too, And they went and got will Climb.
That was the performance he had last night. Let's not
lose this. Clayton Kershaw. He comes out of the bullpen,

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comes in, runners on base. You can't make a mistake,
is loaded. You can't make a mistake, Rodney, You can't know.
And he goes to three and two and then he
induces that little ground ball that Edmund ran over, made
a great play and flipped a Freddy to get out
of the inning. If you were watching on TV, you

(09:15):
saw Ellen Kershaw his wife crying out of joy in
the stands. And then he got a shot at Clayton
and he was crying. He got that out in the
World Series, the most critical lot he could have got
at that point. And can we say enough about Tommy Edmund?
Can we do that? He made the mistake early and
I thought, this is not going to be good, Rodney,

(09:37):
this is going to be a bad night. You thought
that was a moment that that's the one that caught
the Dodgers right right there, because it's a double play.
Taylor made hit hard enough to turn the double play.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
He thinks it's going to bounce up.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
And they showed it on TV a couple times, and
I saw the replays of it that normally that ball
does come up in his glove and it stayed that
and it took a tricky hot form and it went through.
And then next thing you know, Kirk hits the home
run right right. Yeah, so he makes that mistake. But
does he come back big later? Oh God, does he

(10:12):
come back with two incredible defensive plays to bullet throws,
one to third, one to the plate to keep the
Dodgers alive.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah. I mean, and.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
They were money. They were right on the money. They
could not have been any better. And by the way,
in both of those scenarios, you've got to make a
perfect throw, got to got to it's bang bang, You
got to make a perfect throw, perfect turn. And that

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comes from just that's that happens in February and March.
Fred That's when you make those throws. When you're working
on relays, you're working on throwing to bags, and you're
working on it, whether it be a or one hop
or you're throwing it all the way in the air.
It is something that you work on constantly in spring

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training that probably never comes to play, and I don't
think it did throughout one hundred and sixty two games
for the Dodgers. Just much like the wheel play became
the fruition against the Phillies.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
You don't know when it's going to happen, but.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
You practice it before the relay, the turn, the throw,
and it'd be on the money. Twice from Tommy Edmonds
to redeem himself from that error. It was incredible and
it preserved the opportunity for the Dodgers to win that game.
All right, So now let's talk about Emma Sheehan. Emmit
Sheehan came in a clean inning. Who was a beneficiary

(11:44):
of that Tommy Edmunds relay at the end, he came
in with a clean inning. Now, to be fair, he
has been hit during the postseason and we thought it'd
be great to have him in relief.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Well until last night that wasn't the case.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
But when he came in with the clean inning, all
of a sudden, we saw the image shin we saw
earlier in the year.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
He did a magnificent job.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Kenny didn go three I think he went three innings, right,
two or three innings.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
He was great, he was fantastic.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
And then you know the emotion on his face when
ti Oscar hit Tommy and the relay got the guy
at home.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
The reaction on him was absolutely you loved it.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
You loved it because he was all in and he
had pitched his asshole for those two or three innings
that he came in to do because he was asked
to do multiple innings. All right, Now, let's talk about Robleski. Yes,
he looked terrific. And this was a moment in the game.
The Dodgers won, and it's easy to second guests or

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bench jockey.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I thought this might have been an error.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
You have Guerrero coming up, so you're thinking you want
to go right on right, So Dave comes out and
get Robleski and he put.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
In trying the oh no, and guess what it was.
Oh no. I mean maybe in hindsight and god, it
was just a base hit.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah right, yeah, but maybe in hindsight, you leave Robleski in,
you let him face Guerrero.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
You don't go to Trenta. He was dealing reb Leski
was on. He was on.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
He came in and did his job as well. And
you're thinking, is this going to be the trining that
we've seen, not this year but years previous.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
No, it's not. Or it's going to be the trying
that we saw this year all season long. That's what
it is.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, yeah, And I think Dave Roberts has to know
that now. I think I think he dodged a bullard
on that one. And then at the end when everybody's
basically out of players, now the Dodgers still had two.
They had Dean and Kim. Mickey Rojas went in the game,
laid down a bunt. Makey Rojas can't run. No, he

(13:58):
had a great bunty, He had a great bunt. It
was a perfect bunt. Migi Rojas can't run. That's a problem.
It had been a bigger problem because if Yamamoto had
not said, put me in. If this continues, the pitcher
was gonna be Miggi Rojas.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Right, they're out. They're out of picture. I mean they
were out of pitcher. You think that they because Dave
Roberts said it the inning before, he said, we're gonna
let Klein go one more after that, it's probably gonna
be a position.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Player, and that meant Migi Rojas or.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Ki Ki he took but he took Key out of
the game, so it meant Rojas was going to be
the guy that comes in. And then we saw Yamamoto
start warming up, and we were told that he told
them I'm ready to go and put me in if
I if you need me. But do you think that
there was ever going to be a scenario where in

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that game a position player was gonna pitch?

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Look, do I think so?

Speaker 3 (15:01):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
And here's why. Here's why.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
You go, Well, it's a seven game series. So what
we have to do is manage this to go seven games.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
No, this is the world series. Every game matters.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Now, you don't have I don't think you have the
luxury of punting one. Go well, we'll fight again tomorrow.
You've got to win when you've got to win when
you have that chance. And Yamamoto, who could have gone
longer the other night, goes up to him and says,
I'm in.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Put me in.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
I mean, I don't know why Blake Snell didn't walk
up and go put me in. But Yamamoto said, give
me the ball and they would go go start loosening up,
and he did, yeah, which is different than what Toronto
did because they put Bieber out there, who's today's starter,
but they didn't have him warm up because they knew
if he started to warm up, then that would cut

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into whether or not he could start today because he
would be in a pitch situation, which is weird with
pitchers that if they start throwing pitches and start warming up,
that counts towards them getting ready to pitch.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
That particular day.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Right, Yamamoto is not scheduled to pitch today, so he
could go and throw and call it a bullpen session
or whatever you want to call it. But for Bieber,
it was if we get him started, he's got a pitch.
Otherwise we lose him for today. But I thought it
was incredible that Yamamoto said that, look, I'm ready to go.
Send me down to the pen. If I need to go,

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I'm ready to go. Because that was a game that
neither one of these teams after the twelfth inning. It
was so important for one of those teams to win
that game that even though Dave Roberts said that I
doubt that he would ever put a position player in

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that moment because it was.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Let's let's face it.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Now, the Blue Jays are up against it because whoever
lost that game last night, it is a body blow,
a body blow. And they said that on the on
the on the post game that I think it was
Big Poppy or it was Alex Rodriguez, one of those
guys said that it was a tremendous body blow as

(17:20):
good as that game was to watch and all that,
the loser of that game will take a significant hit.
And I think the Blue Jays took a significant hit
last night. Yeah, I mean, of course, every day is
a new day, every game is a new game. But
after you go through that, yeah, you're a human being.
If they come out, If the Dodgers come out tonight

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and jump on them quick, it's over, that's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Bad for Toronto. Really if they get ahead.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
If Dodgers get ahead tonight with Otani on the hill,
it could be a route.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
It really could. It could be like thanks for playing.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Hey, we came here, we got to the World Series,
but we're not We're not even la without calling it
a day. And that's that's what can happen on a
game like that. Whoever won that game. It's got tremendous
You slept better, right, even if it was three hours,
four hours, you slept better. Let me say this, you slept,

(18:19):
you slept at.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
All, Yeah, you slept. Yeah, Toronto didn't sleep.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
No, none of those guys really slept.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
No. No, you played, yes, would you sleep no? No.
It would haunt me. It would haunt me all night long.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
That we had so many opportunities and we didn't get
it done because there were opportunities on both sides and
neither one of those teams got to the point where
they capitalized on those opportunities. And eventually Freddy Freeman ended it.
But both sides had opportunities to go ahead and they

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didn't take advantage of it. And when you see that
at the end and you go lay your head down,
you can't sleep.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
You really can't.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
I want to address something else that happened. You watched
on TV and again I was here, Are you coming tonight?

Speaker 2 (19:13):
I am here tonight.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Of course, you're right, you're not gonna go to the
one that's going to.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Be eighteen innings.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Of course, Well you can't predict that, fred If I
would have predicted it was going to be eighteen innings.
I certainly thank god I was Yes, I'm predicting a
nine inning game tonight. I'm here, but watching on TV.
I didn't get this in the stadium. I didn't see it,
but I was told. Even Joe Davis commented on this,
and a number of people sitting around us who were

(19:40):
monitoring what was being said on TV mentioned this as well,
that when George Springer went out of the game, yeah,
people started cheering. Now, let me tell you what it
was like here. Then you told me what it was
like on TV. Okay, all right, here, he's up at
the plate. All of a sudden, he walks off Schneider
and the trainer come out and he leaves. I didn't

(20:03):
hear anybody react except what the hell happened?

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Now? What was it? On TV?

Speaker 1 (20:08):
It was confusion because it was a swing and then
he grabbed his side as if he got a you know,
something tweaked on his side or his rib or his muscle,
and they came and got him, and he was out
of the game. And it was kind of like a weird,
eerie like what happened to him? Yeah, he was right

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up the game. Yeah, he was right out of the game.
And then they showed and they panned him going down
into the clubhouse, and that's when the commentators were like, oh,
that's this is not a good thing.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
He's not coming back.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
And that was a humongous blow for them because I
don't I mean, I forget what in in it was
that it happened, but not to have him in the lineup,
and I'm surprised. So there was no booze or tears
or anything like that. I didn't hear it, but I
was told on TV people were cheering.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
You hear Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
I heard a smattering of cheers as how I would
describe it, and even Joe Davis said on the broadcast,
think of think about what you want to think about
certain guys, but you shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Be cheering when guys get hurt.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, yeah, there was there was a little like yeah,
but it didn't feel like it was like overwhelming, Oh
my god, he's he's out.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Good good good good cheer cheer cheer. No, it was.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, there was a few fans that you could feel
like good for him that he's out, But it wasn't crazy.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
When you were here.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I don't know if you could hear this on
TV anytime he walked near the batter's box.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh yeah, this place irrupted.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah you felt that on TV as Yeah, Oh it
was a lot. They booed the hell out of him. Absolutely,
it felt it, and they were yelling cheater. Yeah, I
mean it was really loud. I don't think I've ever
heard one player attacked in that manner in the stadium. Yeah,
it was big. It was Yeah, it was big that
you felt that, and they knew it, and they talked

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about it beforehand that he was going to get booed
and the Dodger fan did not disappoint.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
It was great.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Do you even remember that Matt Shuzer started that game
for Toronto?

Speaker 3 (22:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Right, do you even remember that? No? And there was
a point where he was he was dealing and.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Glass Now was struggling, and they took glass Now out
and they left shres Are in saying that you know,
shures Are is giving them everything that they want to
give and giving him some length, and they kept trotting
them back out there, and when they went ahead, they
talked about him pitching from you know, with the lead,

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which was going to be great. But yeah, I I
you know, it's a distant memory that even pitch in
that game. All right, World Series Dodger Baseball. Tonight they
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to talk about today, and what we want to do
is open the phone lines next. Normally we don't do
that when we're doing live or most but on this.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Day, I think we have to.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Rodney eight six six nine seven two five seventy if
you were here, so when you call, you tell us, yeah,
I was here and this is what I felt, and
this is what it was like. If you weren't here,
but watch it on TV. Tell us what you thought,
tell us what you felt. Eight six six nine eighty
seven two five seventy. Fred Rogan Rodney Pete live from

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Dodgers Stadium before Game four of the World Series on
AM five to seventy LA Sports.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I got it.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Oh, come on now, we're not tired. We're out here
back at Dodger Stadium live.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
We are live.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
I've ad Dodger Stadium as they get ready for game four.
Game four, that's right after a Game three marathon. We
are back at Dodger Stadium for Game four and as
they start to get ready, Freddie, it's a little bit
different scene than it was yesterday, just a tad bit mark.

(24:20):
People are starting to arrive now because they finally woke up.
Yes they did. I mean I got out of here
I think at about twelve fifteen last night, and when
we were pulling out and we didn't park in the
traditional lot F, I was in a different lot.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
You know how, the guards, how do you get out?

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Because you got the secret formula of getting out of
Dodger Stadium and getting to Dodger Stadium. We've always told
us that, right, it's Lot F, that's your best shot
out of here. But I wasn't in Lot F. I
had different.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Parking, so I got stuck a little bit.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
And you know how the guards stopped traffic and let
people cross, and then they start traffic again.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yep, yeah, yeah. Coming where I was from, it was
every man for themselves. The cards were just.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Waving the cars and waving the same time at the
same time, and we aren't you gonna stop people. We
rolled down the window and the person told us just
try to zig zag.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Out of here. I told you that. Yeah, I thought,
oh my god, I's got a way through traffic. That's
what he said. We threw the people. Wow, it was nuts.
They kept showing that on TV on.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
The Fox broadcast afterwards, showing you know, these guys doing
the post game, and then showing the parking lot and
getting out of Dodger Stadium, how packed it was at
that particular time of night when you think that it's
gonna be easy to get out of here. They kept
showing all of the cars and the red lights trying

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to get out of Dodger Stadium going, and Big Poppy
kept saying, Dave Roberts, I'm gonna sleep in your office.
I'm gonna sleep in your office. Give me, give me
in the bed, give me the key. I'm gonna sleep
in your office. Because they knew it was going to
take forever to get out of here, because everybody's stayed. See,
that was the thing. Yeah, did some people leap, Yeah,
some people left. Did the majority of people stay.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yes, fifty thousand, yes, yes they did.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
So it was no different than getting out of here
any other night there were people in the parking lot
at one o'clock in the morning. I bet just trying
to get out of here. Okay, were you here? And
if you were, what you think if you weren't tell
us about the game? Here we go, let's go. Let
me see NICKI and Irvine NICKI, thanks for holding Were

(26:36):
you here?

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Nick?

Speaker 2 (26:42):
I'm sorry? Nick and Irvine? Nick? Were you here?

Speaker 4 (26:48):
No?

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Hold on, we got to get we gotta get organized
here because we're on remote. That's okay, Giselle, Giselle and Whittier,
are you there?

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Gizelle?

Speaker 5 (26:59):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (27:00):
You all right?

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (27:03):
Hey Rodney?

Speaker 6 (27:03):
He said, this is just awesome with hear? Oh mg,
I am poopied out.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Were you here or you watched on TV?

Speaker 7 (27:13):
No, My boyfriend Juni and I were there since two
o'clock yesterday afternoon, and we stood there until midnight. We
got out of the parking lot at midnight and we
were home and with here by one am. He jumped
in bed and.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
That'd el because he used to work at two o'clock
in the morning. So the two o'clock in the morning,
so yeah, basically morning.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Wait, so the gates open. I saw this because we
were here doing the show. The gates opened here at
Dodger Stadium for fans at two eight, at two pm, and.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
They were they were lined up.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
People were lined up ready to get in because everybody
not only wanted to come and see batting practice like
they normally do before a big game, but also all
of the all of the shops were open, so there
were lines to get into the shops to get the paraphernalia,
get the World Series geared, all of that kind of stuff.
And then you're telling me exactly that afterwards, your husband

(28:08):
or your is it your boyfriend or husband, he's.

Speaker 6 (28:12):
My boyfriend of thirty six and a half years.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Okay, your boyfriend for thirty six years had to get
up and go to work at two am.

Speaker 6 (28:21):
He goes to work at two am. Yes, he normally
gets up like at one am to be I work
at two am.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
So he didn't go to and.

Speaker 6 (28:29):
He just didn't go to work.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
I'm glad, you're honest. Yes, good, hey, set it down right.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
No, no, but he was. He was hurting by the fourteenth,
fifteenth inning. Was he was taking a little nap in
his seat. And when every time the Dodgers came up,
I had to wake them up and you know, speak
and watch all right, When were.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Your emotions and what was it like sitting here, Giselle,
What were you feeling as this whole thing was unfolding.

Speaker 6 (28:58):
Well, you know what, I carry my dad's deal with
me to all of the Dodger games, so I can
listen to A five seventy as we watched the game,
and it's like, you know, I'm listening and watching at
the same time, and I'm kind of, you know, we're
in the no act to what's happening as to you know,
why they took Springer out and stuff like that. But
my emotion it was just very very exciting and then

(29:21):
very nerve racking. And then people, you know in front
of us, you know, what are they saying? What are
they saying? You know about how many how many pictures
are left in the Badge of Bulls and how many
pictures does the Blue Jays have left in their bullpens?
You know, just asking questions. They were just a rollercuatter
of emotions, but just very very nerve wracking but exciting
at the same time. When Freddy Freeman got that home run, all.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Right, Jesselle, thanks for calling. Really appreciate it. Thank you, Joselle. Absolutely,
let's go to all line three?

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Is it Jamie? Jamie and La Jamie? Is that you Ladin? Wait? Wait,
it's Ladin in Redlands? Laddin? Are you Aladdin? Aladdin? Are
you there from Redlands? Are you there? Aladdin?

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Hello? Hello?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah, hello, Aladdin? Is that you Hey?

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yes? Sir, yes, sir? How's it going?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Good? Good? So you were here last night?

Speaker 8 (30:17):
I was not.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
I was. I was actually watching the game with some friends.
He had it on in the backyard, big TV and
having a great time. And by the time it got
closer to the end, we were trying to say, okay,
what are we what are we gonna do for the ending?
And I said, if the Dodgers walking off, I'm jumping
in your pool.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
It was freezing outside night ten o'clock kids. My son
got to go to work at four in the morning
because he was with me. You remember the twelfth inning
when Tommy Tanks was on second base, Mickey rope on
it him over, his shoes were.

Speaker 9 (30:54):
Off, Keith.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Everything was out of my.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
And they failed. They failed me. So I went and
ended up going home, uh, finishing watching the game with
my family and yeah, I had to use the resume.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
I jump up go real quick, and.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Then I hear my son's screaming. I come outside screaming
what happened? And Freddie Freeman hit the home run. So
it was it was awesome, It was amazing. A lot
of stress, A lot of stress, will say.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, yeah, so you had multiple interns, you were, you were,
you had your shoes off, ready to jump in the pool,
and then it didn't happen, and.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
You actually put your shoes back on and went home
and that's when it happened. After you got home.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, I wanted to imitate the Dodgers in Arizona.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Right, yes, yes, and I was.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Willing to do it, but they let me down in
the twelve.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
All right, Aladin, thanks man, thanks for calling.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
We really appreciate it. Let's go to all La puente. Jesse, Jesse,
thanks for holding. Were you here last night?

Speaker 8 (32:01):
You're afraid of Rodney?

Speaker 4 (32:02):
How's everything?

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Well, it's fine, thanks for absolutely fine. We're here at
Dodgers stay.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yeah I did. I did watch the game from from
the luxury at home, uh with the wife. Everything was
good out of probably one of the best games I've
ever seen, especially with the relievers that came in and
and did their job. But I just want to make
the one point out of all the app bats the

(32:29):
Dodgers had, the one single app bat was the most
horrible one was Alex Call. You have a two and
ozer pitch and a runner on third with the infielders in,
and you swing at a at a little curveball and
pop that up in the infield. That yeah, oh, that
was just horrible.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
That's what you're calling in about up everything that happened
last night. You're calling in uh and talking about a
bat at bat by Alex Call who got put in
the game and extra innings. You can't talk about anything
else other than.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
He made everybody stay late at the game. Runney a
lot earlier, a lot earlier. He that was That was
that was one bad at fact everything like I said,
the air, the air that Tommy made earlier with two
great defensive plays, you're not going to see that just

(33:32):
to get up and turn and fire that. Like you said, Ronnie,
you practice that maybe once or twice during the season,
and it's all during the spring training. And you know
you you mentioned that, you mentioned the wheel route play
on the funt. It's you know, these guys are professionals,
and to think that you may never use them during

(33:53):
the game. You've got to watch this World series and
just see what the Dodgers have done and what they practice.
This is just the first organization up and down and
and hey, let's let's put it. Let's put him out
of their misery today, knock them when they're down and
just and just continue to fight, and let's bring this
championship and celebrate tomorrow night with everybody.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
All Right, Jesse, thanks, thanks, appreciate it. You know, talking
about Alex Call. So you're watching the game, this is
something Rodney, we chopped up a little bit yesterday.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Uh, you could not send Paes back to the plate.
You could not.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
He had to be pinch it for. He had to
be pinched for. There was no multiple opportunities he had. Yeah,
you could deliver and he didn't. And granted that was
not a great advat for Alex Call, I'll give you that, no,
But did you did you see so it was the
seventeenth I think Call got a base hit. He did
first of all, if you don't know, Alex Call is

(34:50):
very fast.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
This guy rounded first.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Oh, like he was ready to go, like he was
ready to go, and everybody in this stadium was screaming stop.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
He would have been out by ten feet. He was flying, yes, lying.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
And they said it on the broadcast. You do not
want to make that out at second base. You cannot
make that out at second base.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
No, not at all. But and I gets with Tani
coming up, you cannot do that.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
I get that he didn't have a great at bat there,
and that's true, and Magie Rojas laid down a great bun,
and okay, you're in position to win the game. But
here's the thing, whether you thought he had a good
at bat or not, you could not send Andy Piez
back to the plate. You know what, And maybe he
plays tonight. We haven't seen the lineup. That's what I'm saying.
Do you do you put Pies back in the lineup?

Speaker 2 (35:46):
No? Or you put call in? Let him play? I
let him play. And what if it gets deep.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
In the game, you and Alex call is not delivering?
You replace him with Paz. You reverse it, Yeah, you
reverse it. But I mean I could not send him
back up there. I mean here at the stadium, if
he hit the ball, people were happy. That's that doesn't work.
He's just had some bad not you know, you want
to have quality at bats in certain situations and you can't.

(36:16):
You can't chase and swing at bad pitches in situations
in the World Series late in games, when you got
runners in scoring position, you've got to play baseball. And
Andy Paie has has just kind of he's he's struggled
in that regard that he doesn't take or doesn't have

(36:38):
really good at bats. It's one thing to get, you know,
to strike out, but when you're striking out with pitches
that are way out of the zone and you're not
having quality at bats, when there are runners in scoring
positions and you're hitting right before show Hay, that is
a problem because your job, if you're hitting before show hate,

(36:58):
your job is to get on Bay anyway possible.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Right, And he wasn't doing it.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
So I mean, i'd play call tonight, but what do
I know, though, probably play The people literally want to
go back to pias Le's we go run into one
all right, So we see a lot of people holding here,
Jason's holding Christians holding Roman Chris. Let's see, yeah, a
lot of people on hold, and we want to get
you all on yes, Dodger Baseball. Tonight Dodgers Blue Jays

(37:25):
Game four World Series first pitch at five. Listen to
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app from the ballfield to the job site. Straus Powers
World Series coverage on AM five to seventy LA Sports.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Shall we give our first code word? Right now? Rotten?
Are you runny?

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah, let's do it. So here's the way this works.
Every hour, we're gonna give you a code word. Sax
and Cats gave you code words this morning. Petrosen money,
he'll give them to you this afternoon. Tomorrow morning, Tim
and Steve are going to ask you to call. You've
got to have every single code word. If you have

(38:03):
every code word, you're coming to the game tomorrow night.
Oh that's that's our code word. Okay, I was going
to make up my own code word.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
No, that's not how this works.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
No, Fred, we don't want you to make a code word.
I thought we could make our own code now.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Oh no, no, no, no, I'm glad we didn't. What's
wrong with that? Yeah? Yeah, no, all right, No, No.

Speaker 9 (38:26):
Humor is for a second, Fred, If you were to
have a code word, what were your co.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Word being Oh god, my code word for this hour, yeah,
exactly would be Will KLEINB.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
That's two words. That's the problem style.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
All right, So our code word for this hour is
home run, home run, home run.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Write it down. Our code word for this hour is
home run.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Next hour, we will give you our next code word
that I will not make up. All right, We're live
at Doctor Stadium, Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on a five
to seventy l E Sports. Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're
not tired. I hope you're not tired from last night's

(39:10):
eighteen inning game. It was phenomenal, fantastic. All the adjectives
you want to throw at last night's World Series Game
three you can throw at it because it had all
of the elements. What an amazing, amazing night, not just
for the Dodgers but also the Blue Jays as well.

(39:33):
I just got to give them props for being in
it and Major League baseball.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
This was great Fred for Major League Baseball.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
In a time where NBA starting, NFL is in the
middle of, you know, of its season, and it's kind
of getting heated up.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
College football is getting heated up.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
All those things Major League Baseball, this World series is
delivering what Major League Baseball wanted it to be. All right,
let's go down to Canyon Lake, Christian. We appreciate you holding.
Were you here last night?

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (40:08):
Yes, absolutely, I was single handedly the best sporting event
I've ever been to in my entire list.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Oh do you stay all the way? Wow? You stay
all eighteen?

Speaker 8 (40:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (40:19):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (40:20):
Absolutely absolutely.

Speaker 10 (40:23):
Well, we didn't have a choice.

Speaker 8 (40:24):
We Hubert there and then we knew we were going
to take the bus back to Union Station, so we
wanted to stay the entire time.

Speaker 9 (40:33):
Anyway, I'm wondering, thank you, go ahead? No, go ahead,
I'm gonna say I've only been to Oh. My moment
was probably, well, it's got to be very Freeman hitting
that home run. But I was going to give a
lot of love to will.

Speaker 10 (40:50):
Line when he came out. I thought the Dodgers were capitulating.
But that's my fault for not knowing. You know who
this guy was, But I don't think think a lot
of people knew who he was.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
To be honest, nobody knew Christian. Nobody knew who he was.

Speaker 8 (41:06):
Yeah. I had only been to one other postseason game,
and that was justin Turner's walk off in twenty seventeen,
and to see another one last night. Man, that was
that was something else. I lost my voice if you
can't tell.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
But Roman, we appreciate your calling. Thanks for being part
of the show. Thanks for being all right, so I'm sorry, Christian,
Thanks for being a part of the show.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yeah, absolutely all right.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Now let's go Roman Roman and Corona Roman. Were you
here last night?

Speaker 4 (41:38):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (41:39):
I was there. I uh, spictacular game. I live in
Corona b and at Dodger Fan since the GUARDI era
and flew my daughter in to watch the game with me.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
That's awesome, that's awesome. Ready was he ready for a
game like that?

Speaker 5 (41:56):
Well, you know what, it's kind of funny because my daughter,
my my adult daughters in twenty seven lived in Kansas.
That did you want to go to tour? Do you
want to go to games three or four? He goes that,
it doesn't matter, you pick, and I flew her in
for the game and we got there early. Nice and uh,
it just it'll be hard to mimic something like that
with with your daughter. Uh there, and it just you know,
made your shout out to Tommy Edmund. I was trying

(42:18):
to explain to my daughter that like, hey, I've only
played you know, like amateur sports. And to make that
throw that Tommy Edmund did off the off off the
glove and you know, and to get it and spin
around and make that pivot throw at a third I mean,
I don't even know if I'd have time to pick
up third base and uh, just that that deflection off
Freddie Freeman and those two throws. And this is after

(42:40):
coming back from an air so, you know, big shout
out to that guy to be able to come back
like that and do that. And and I think I
agree with fred with as far as Paez goes, I
just don't think he's ready for this moment. He's an
amazing player and and and definitely part of the part
the part of the reason they got here, but he's
just not ready for the moment. And I would probably
flip flow up and get called a chance and see

(43:02):
what he can do, and then super amazed to see
Kershaw go in there for a better everybody. So when
you're up there in the crowd and everybody around me
was holding their breath, look at each other going, I
don't know if this is the right moment for Kershaw,
but to see him produce like that. Everybody around me
was holding their breath, look at each other and and
we're thinking, I don't know if this is the right

(43:23):
time for him to get through. That was just amazing
to see. It'd be hard to mimic go to a
better game than just by luck, I go to that one,
and then before I hang up the phone, here, give
me your thoughts and I'll get off the line here.
But with training, I'm not sure if one of what
your guys thoughts are to do with training? Did you

(43:44):
even ever want him in there with anybody on to you?

Speaker 4 (43:47):
You only pitch him and clean innings.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
So what is your guys thoughts on that?

Speaker 2 (43:51):
All right? Thanks? Hang out, Thanks Roman, hang up, don't
answer it. Don't answer no, no, not not not that.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
We don't want to answer Roman. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll
talk about that. We do want answer Roman. And we've
got another call, Chris, if you want to hang tight
top of the hour break, we'll get back. Fred Rogan
Rodney Pete live from Dodgers Stadium at a five seventy
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