October 30, 2025 • 44 mins
We talk about the ice cold Dodger bats and questionable defense that contributed to their 6-1 loss to the Bluejays last night. How confident are we that the Dodgers can win 2 games in Toronto? If there is a Game 7, should the Dodgers use Ohtani as an opener ahead of Tyler Glasnow?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, let's go Fred Rugan and Rodney Peter. It's a
two hour show today on AM five seventy LA Sports.
And quite frankly, Rodney, I did not expect to be
having the conversation we will on this date.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
No, no, I don't think most folks here in Los Angeles,
Fred had were ready for this conversation. It was a
tough night, tough night to sleep last night, and I'm
not even in uniform. Fred, I can only imagine what
the night was like for the for the players. I
know they had to get on a plane, but still
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that that plane ride had not probably was not a
very pleasant one to Toronto.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Not good anyway you look at it. Not good, not dead,
not over, still very much alive, but it hasn't good.
A couple of things to point out. First of all,
they can't hit, and it is becoming more and more
clear they are not hitting the ball. It is not acceptable.
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This is the time where somehow you've got to make
things happen. Y Savage the young player, seven innings, twelve
strikeout as a home run, he struck out twelve. He
was in a ball in April, he struck out twelve.
Granted he's pretty good, but against that lineup, they're not hitting.
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And when they don't hit, it makes this worse. Isn't fair?
It is not, but life isn't fair, and we have
to go with what is. Blake Snell gave up two
home runs to start the game, and the game was
basically done. Now that I didn't feel that, Oh yeah,
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I thought, oh no, oh my god. And here's why.
Here's why. Not that they couldn't come back. They couldn't,
but here's why. It sucked the life out of everything,
sucked it out. And you're like, now, this is going
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to be a large mountain to climb because it just
killed everything. And by the way, Blank Snell, if you
really look at it, and yeah, he got tagged with
more runs later, but two runs, you.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Should be able to make that up. Yeah, you should
be able to make two panic right, you know it
happened in the first inning. Obviously, the back to back
home runs, it's too nothing. I just I think being
at the first inning and where the Dodgers were, uh,
you know, feeling like this was a very very very
important game, I felt Blake Snell would be able to
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start to settle in and work himself out of it.
But again, like you mentioned, there was there was no
hope from from the offensive standpoint. I mean, Kiki hit
the home run, which was great, cut it to two
to one, and then it was three to one I
think for a period of time, and I still felt
that they had an opportunity because they were in striking
this But the more the game went on and seeing
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the at bats that the Dodgers were having, it just
increasingly just made me feel like they're off, and I
mean really off. I mean the Blue Jays. Blue Jays
are playing like the Dodgers used to play. They are
the ones putting the ball in play. They are the
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ones having quality at bats, making the pitchers stretch to six, seven, eight,
nine pitches per at bat. They're playing the way the
Dodgers used to frustrate other teams. And the Dodgers are
having terrible, terrible at bats. And it is you know,
you mentioned twelve strikeouts with that lineup. That is that
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is unacceptable. You can't strike out twelve times with that lineup,
and that means obviously you're not putting the ball in play.
And we've seen throughout these playoffs when you put the
ball in play, good things usually happen, and it's not
been happening for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah. And to think, by the way, anybody complained about
that payroll now, But I don't hear a lot about
that right now.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Crickets about the Dodgers. Yea, they spend so much money,
they should be here, they should do that. No, crickets, Yeah,
I don't hear about that problem. But this is a
real problem now. And can the Dodgers win?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yes? Is it possible? Absolutely? Have they been eliminated? No,
But they've left themselves very little wiggle room here, very
little wiggle room. And I think that's the frustrating part
of this. You cannot make the argument at this very
time and it's hard to imagine even saying it. But
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given the way this series has played out, which it
can change very easily and quite quickly, they do not
look like the best team in baseball. Not now. I
mean they are late ring it the plate, but we
go back to that for it. Have they looked like
the best team in baseball year? I thought, Yeah, against
the Phillies, yeah, I did. I thought there were periods
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of time where they did.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Phillies and maybe against Milwaukee, but all year long, they
haven't really looked like the best team in baseball, and
sometimes you know you are who you are and when
it really comes down to it. But on the flip
side of that, Toronto looks like the best team in baseball.
Yes they do, and they looked like the best team
in baseball. I think from the All Star break on
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they were the best team in baseball. Look, they held
off the Yankees, they kept playing, they were playing the
best and they kept it rolling through the playoffs. So yeah,
it's it's definitely flipped to the point where Toronto, and
on top of this, Toronto's playing with so much confidence.
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And I think because they went into this series and
everybody was against them, they were the underdog and nobody
believed that they could beat the big, bad, mighty Dodgers,
that they took it personally and it's showing.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It's showing.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Those guys up and down that lineup are like, I
don't fear old Tani, I don't fear Snell. I'm gonna
get up there and I'm gonna get my hacks and
we're a pretty good baseball team too, and we're gonna
show you. And they're out there doing it, doing it.
Every at bat is a for them. Every at bat
it feels like they're gonna make something happen, whereas with
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the Dodgers now it's like, God, I hope he makes
some contact. Oh God, I hope he gets a hit.
I hope he can just get going, get going. Somebody
gotta get going. And nobody's gotten going. There's not one
real hot hitter on the Dodgers right now. I mean
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guys has done it in spurts. Obviously Old Tani had
that big game before for four, but consistently there's not
been one guy that is you can point to and go,
oh yeah, watch out, he's the hot he's got the
hot hand right now, Whereas Toronto they got four or
five of those guys that are hot right now. And
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it's a that's a that's a tough recipe if you're
trying to beat a team like that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
See the concern here, and maybe it's unfair. And I'll
be the first one to say it's unfair to say,
you know, Blake Snell give up two home runs, Oh
my god, the game was over. But you got to
play with what you got. And what you got is
this a team that's not hitting so you can't give
up many runs. You can't do that, and you certainly
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can't give up two runs to the first two hitters
you face when you have a team that's not hitting
and we all know they're not hitting, and maybe it's
unfair pressure to put on the picture. You can't do that,
and then you can't get in trouble and be taken
out of the game because you don't have a bullpen.
So is it unfair one hundred percent? Is it right?
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Probably not? Is it what it is? Yes, you have
to be nearly perfect if you're a Dodger pitcher, meaning
you cannot give up runs. You certainly can't give them
up on the first inning. You cannot have wasted innings.
You have to be highly efficient, and you've got to
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probably if there's any way humanly possible, get to the
eighth inning, because that's where you're at.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That's just it. And that's a problem for pictures. And
we talked about this with David Bassey yesterday. How much better,
especially for Dodger pitchers and in really any pictures when
you when you're able to pitch with the lead, you're
so much more comfortable and it allows you the freedom
to nibble. You know, when you're in the situation with
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the Dodger pitchers right now, like you said, Fred, in
their mind, whether it's conscious or subconscious, they're thinking, I
gotta get through eight innings because our.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Bullpen is shot.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I got I gotta last, which means I gotta keep
my pitch count down, which means I don't have the
room to nibble around the plate. I gotta go after guys.
I gotta throw strikes. I gotta be in the zone.
And what happens is when you're a pitcher like Blake Snell,
who most of his strikeouts are guys chasing, but your
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mentality is I can't get behind, I can't give up runs.
I gotta keep the pitch down. I gotta last do
eight innings. You find yourself throwing pitches probably that you
wouldn't normally throw, and some of them landed over the middle,
or you miss your spots, and he did on those
first two hitters, and then there was some other hits
throughout the game where you know, I gotta stay in
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this game. I gotta stay in this game. I'm already
at seventy something pitches. I gotta stay in this game.
I can't take this batter to three to two. I
gotta get him out now. And that forces you to
throw strikes when you probably would have thrown something to
help him chase.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
All true, no argument, not debating, it doesn't really matter,
all true, every word. That's not where we're at right now.
That's not the situation. The Dodgers are in. They hitting,
and I don't know, is somebody going to get a
hit in Toronto? Maybe maybe maybe that'll be the game,
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Maybe the miraculous comeback will occur. It'll be so incredible,
everybody will start hitting. Maybe that will happen. And if
that happens, all all is well. But in the event
it doesn't, your pitching's got to be pretty damn good. Unfair,
but it has to be because that's where you're at
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right now. Yeah. And then, and you know, it's funny.
There were periods of time during the regular season where
the Dodgers made mistakes defensively, and we remember those. But
then all of a sudden, as you kind of moved
toward the playoffs, they were fine, Well, it's back. You know,
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Tao made a play cost the Dodgers a run in
right field. It's sort of like and after that eighteen
inning game, the last two and in the eighteen inning
game they didn't kill the ball. They had many chances
to win before that, but the last two it and
maybe it's just a short spurt here, it's like they
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are reverting back to that dark period. They couldn't hit,
they were making defensive mistakes, and nothing was working. Now
that period went for a while two three weeks. They
don't have that luxury this time because they have to
figure this out pretty die. And again you talk about pressure,
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what do you think the pressure is on Yama Modal
tomorrow NW And I was thinking about that. I mean,
you know, complete game be damn. He's got to throw
almost a no hitter and a complete game. I mean
he's got to stay in the game for nine innings
and he's got to limit the runs. I think any
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more than two Dodgers may be in trouble. So it is,
and it's not. Look, I know everyone and I believe
we're going to take some calls, but it is not
for a lack of trying or preparation or coaching or
anything like that. Look, we're at the We're at the
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stadium six hours before before first pitch, the Dodgers are
out there working out, everybody's out there taking ground balls,
everybody's you know, guys are in the cage underneath. There's
there's special hitting practices that they have before the game.
So it's not like they're not trying to battle themselves
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out of it. It is just sometimes in sports you
go through funks and the team that is on paper
the better team doesn't always win. Because we've said this
in the past, it's the team that's the hottest, and
right now, the Dodgers look like the team that's playing
with little confidence and Toronto's got all the confidence in
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the world. And you mentioned it, Fred.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
That that eighteen inning game, everyone felt that the impact
of that game and that loss for Toronto was going
to bury him and that they would not be able
to recover from that gut punch that they took in
that eighteen inning game, and that the Dodgers, also being
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at home for that eighteen inning game, would have the
benefit of winning and the benefit of being at home
and being more comfortable and being more fresh the next
two days, and the opposite was true.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Blue Jays came out with more energy. Blue Jays came.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Out with more of a fight as their backs were
against the wall in these last two games. I mean,
I don't think anyone out there would have told you
three straight games at Dodger Stadium that the Dodgers would
go one and two.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
No, not at all. Here's the other thing. We had
a caller yesterday, Well, maybe they need to be coached better. Well,
let's expand that. Let's expand that, maybe they just all
need to try harder. That doesn't work. You can't try harder.
I'm gonna try harder this time, Rodney to hit the ball.
I'm gonna try harder. You know what I'm gonna do.
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I'm really this time gonna try. No, they are trying. No,
one's not trying. Well. What they need to do is
get it together. Okay, define what that means. What does
that mean? Get it together? How do you get it together?
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How do you try harder? You can't. They've got it together.
They're trying the hardest they can, but they've just hit
this funk and they've hit it at the wrong time.
If they'd won last night, this conversation is entirely different,
entirely different. But the problem is not only did they
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not win, they looked like they did, and Kevin, you
were there. The crowd was flat, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, I would say even before first pitch it still
wasn't as raucous as you would think it would be
for a pivotal game like that. And then understandably so
after three pitches, two home runs, the energy is going
to get sucked out of the building at that point.
So I wasn't too surprised about that. But just the
energy before first pitch still wasn't what you would say
assuming would be for a Game five in a Thai
World Series game, So that was a little surprising to me.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You cannot listen, You cannot blame the crowd for this.
You don't do that well. The crowd needs to be
worn in the game. I gotta tell you what. You're
already a bit anxious before it starts. So that's one thing.
If you're there, then your guy gives up two home
runs to the first two hitters. That was kind of
like when you Darvis got tagged in the first inning
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by the Astros in the World Series in Game seven
at Dodger Stadium. In places life sucked the life out
of the crowd. Game we were there, it was dead.
It was like no one was there. People were numb,
and I think that's what happened last night.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And the Dodgers didn't do anything to bring the crowd back,
you know, in that in that World Series against Houston,
and although Kik a you know, hit the home run,
which was big, it still didn't feel after that that
the crowd really got back into it. And I don't
know what it would have taken for them, maybe the
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Dodgers to eventually take the lead at some point then
the crowd gets back into it, but you would have
thought after the way it started, and then key k
comes and gives them a jolt with a solo shot
that okay, now, okay, here we go. But even after that,
it felt, Kevin, you can tell me this. It felt
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like the crowd was still kind of sitting on their
hands or just anxiously waiting for the Dodgers to erupt,
and they never really did.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Even after that home run.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, well, even the jolt of energy that they got
from Kik hitting that home run, the air got sucked
out again because in the very next inning, that's when
Tao tried to lay out and make that diving catch
and got by him and Varshall got the third base
and ended up scoring. So you cut a deficit from
two to nothing to two to one, and then that
very next inning it goes back up to three to
one and the air gets sucked out again. So before
you even had a chance to kind of bask in
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it and apply some pressure to the pitching, to the
picture on them out and all that stuff and get
some energy going, it was all sucked out again. So
whatever momenium you gained, you lost almost immediately after that.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah, all right, So that's where we're at. Dodgers are
flying to Toronto. You have a motive, will be on
the hill tomorrow night. Remember, look at it like this.
In baseball, every game is a new season. Now it's
a new season. You just got to win one. You
don't have to worry about winning both. You just have
to win one. And the Dodgers obviously have one one.
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It is not in one one during the season. It
is not inconceivable to think they win both. But they
have to hit. So Dodger fans, now, how do you feel?
All right? You know the situation, and really, if we're
to be honest, we were actually thinking about when this started,
when the parade was going to be. Maybe everybody put
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that a little ahead, but I mean that's what the
concern was. All Right, how's this all going to work
out logistically when they get to do it? What time
is it going to start? Well, no longer. Now there'll
be a parade Monday if they win that. I'll bet
you any money. But those talks are on were underway,
so this is shocking to everybody. They were probably planning
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a parade for the Dodgers in Toronto as well, because
going in you had to believe the Dodgers would win this.
I thought they would in no more than five Okay,
well now it's going to go to the distance. But
he'll win as all win. So Dodger fans, how are
you feeling?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Now?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You've seen the problem with the hitting. Snell gives up
two home runs in the first inning. By the way,
has not looked like he did in the previous playoff games.
There's that. What do you think? Eight six, six nine,
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Speaker 2 (20:21):
Oh yes, it is a throwback Thursday and the song
is second time around what I'm hearing. But listen, as
someone great once said, Freddie, it ain't over till it's over.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Someone else said it ain't over till I say it's over.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
You hear me.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It ain't over until I say it's over. Nothing is
over nothing, Rocky bow Boy, all right, well, let's find
out what the people think. Is it over now? We
don't think it's over, but let's just be really honest.
It's not gonna be easy now, very very accomplishable, but
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not easy. Okay. Jose in Foothill Ranch, Jose, you say
you're in disbelief.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm in disbelievable. What happened
last night? You know the last two games? We obviously
you know that's been cold. We just haven't showed up. Honestly,
you know, I feel like I still have a lot
of faith in them. The reason why is that, let's
just remember last year twenty twenty four versus the Padres,
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we were down two games Virgil of elimination. We came back,
we beat them, and then we win the World Series.
We got to have hope, you know, we can't just
we have enough weapons. We gotta believe in our guys.
You know, I went to last night's game. I stayed
all the way to the last inning, last style. I
even got to see Kershaw on the field, and then
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you know, I kind of got a little bit of
motion and I was like, you know, I cannot lose hope.
It's you know, we ride or die all the way
to the ends. Like Rodney say, we do not lose hope.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
All right, thanks, I saying really appreciate that. Yeah, let's
go to like have a suit. But now, but you
have a very specific comment you'd like to make right, Yes,
I do.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
My grandson Rodney is autistic. I watched that on your
son yesterday, and that is one impressive young man. Not
autistic young man, One impressive young man. Good job for
you and your wife.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Man, thanks for saying that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, we've gotten so much great responses from that piece,
and many thanks to to Fox and UH, major League
Baseball and and and the Dodgers that were all involved
in in putting that together and to do it at
the World Series. That have that kind of impact. So
I appreciate you saying that.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Okay, I've I've never shed a tear over baseball, but man,
he put me to the test.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I appreciate.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yeah, it was awesome. So how about the Dodgers. Let
me tell you, I'm not giving up. I'll never give
up till the ninth in ain't three outs and we're done.
But when you talk about the fans, I'm watching this
game yesterday and it's three balls, two strikes, two outs.
I'm not to get this pigeon. And they panned through
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the stands and nobody is standing and screaming. Nobody. Then
two seconds later they go over to the Rogers Center
and there's fifty thousand screaming fans and they're not even
playing there.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
That was horrible.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I just I was so befuddled because anytime I've ever
been to a game, it's crazy. There two thousand and
seven the film.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But we got you. Thanks thanks so much. By the way,
the piece on URJ was terrific. Rudney, thank you. It
really was good. Yeah yeah. And what kind of response
did he get? Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, he's been bombarded by by people calling and texting
him and people hadn't heard up.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You know, for years. They they they all saw it.
So it was it was a It was a great piece.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
He mentioned an interesting point about the fans in the
Rogerson and we see this all the time where they'll
pan back to the home city of the team that's playing.
And obviously we all know LA is a different animal.
It is a city of champions, and maybe we're spoiled
in that route that we've got so many champions, whether
it be the Lakers, whether it be you know, the
Dodgers over the years.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And so we've we've been we've been spoiled. Do you
think that.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Have you ever seen like a watch party like in
LA when they're playing on the road, No, phill a
stadium like, No, we've seen No.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I was thinking the same thing. Yeah, no, no, people
here have something to do. Yeah, you know, you don't
need to go to the crypt to watch a game.
We don't do that here. I mean there might be
a group of people, you know, like a hundred or
so somewhere and it's exciting. No, I've never seen it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Go to each other's houses and you know, you have
a you know, let's watch the game and the World
series that have a party and all that kind of stuff.
But never would you see a stadium or Dodger Stadium full,
you know, for instance, like tomorrow night. No, you know,
if they said, okay, we're opening up Dodger Stadium to
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do to watch the game, how many people you think
would show up?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Ten thousand? I don't know. Yeah, you wouldn't just get
in there. Traffic could be awful. You wouldn't do that. No,
But I do want to say just about what but
I had to say about the fans and two outs
and yeah, honestly, in that situation, get up, Get up right.
I mean, I can't draw the comparison between Toronto and
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the fans at the Rogers Center and here, but good lord,
I mean, if that's truly the case, you know you
need to be up now. The argument is, you know
it's not my job to get them ready. They get
paid millions of dollars they ought to entertainment. I got it.
We all know psychologically, things feed off each other and
it helps if everybody's sort of on the same page.
But to be fair, Bud, you know, you're kicked in
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the teeth seven minutes into the game twice, and it
takes a little more to get everybody back into it.
And that's on the players. All right, Angel and your Belinda, Angel,
you think this is not a problem. They're gonna win it, right,
I do.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Good afternoon, Fred Rodney. I still willieve in the Dodgers,
especially with Yamamoto going tomorrow. You know, the hitting struggles
really shouldn't be that surprising. They really didn't do that
much in the Philly Series or the Milwaukee Series. I mean,
the pitching was so dominant that I think the hitting,
you know, kind of got over and it's now coming
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to the forefront in the World Series. But hey, it
just takes one game, and I think the day off,
you know, mentally more than physically. I think they need
a reset and we win tomorrow and bring on Game seven.
I'm still very confident, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I love that. Thanks Angel, good call. Go to line six.
Chris in La. Chris is going to check in today, Chris,
you think anything could happen, right.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
Anything can happen. Hey, good morning, I mean good afternoon.
Fellas you know, I call yes. And now I was
telling me how I was telling my daughter to I
was trying to get her off that ledge and told
her that baseball is baseball that is too unpredictable to
get emotionally involved like that. And last night was a
perfect example. There's no way in the world anyone would
have predicted this. Nails and give up two home runs
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on only three pitches, and then the Dodgers don't get
a hit. I'll only get three hits until like the
ninth anthy got their fourth hit. Oh and add to
that the fact that a pitcher who has only been
in the major leagues for like forty something days, coming
from single A not triple A, has a record setting
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night for himself, you know, against this incredible lineup that
the Dodgers have. It's crazy. But having said all that,
every game is a new game. It's like they told
me about Roulette.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Every role is a new role. So every game is
a new game.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
We can go out and win tonight and then I
mean tomorrow, and then We'll see what happens the next day.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So all right, Chris, got it, got it, Thanks Chris,
Chris appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, it is a new game.
That's the beauty of baseball, and it could change.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Look, Dodgers go out and win tomorrow night, then obviously
all the pressures on the Dodgers Toronto will come out.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Relax.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
But I gotta believe that inside Toronto's feeling, we got
to close it out tomorrow night. We do not want
to go to a game seven because of Game seven.
Everybody knows anything can happen, and then also in a
game seven and they know that everything is on the table,
but they also know that all hands will be on
deck for the Dodgers that they throw at them. So
(29:09):
it's not saving anybody for the next game, you know,
whether it's you know how long Toddler glass now goes
if it went in Game seven hits, but Otani's ready.
I believe Blake Snell will be ready to go again
in Game seven if it should should.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Go that far.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So all the pressure's on Toronto if the Dodgers win
tomorrow night, and that's how quickly it can flip.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
All right, Rain salt and ELMANI right, you don't have
a good feeling about this.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
No, how's going guys?
Speaker 10 (29:40):
No?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
I think we will take Game six.
Speaker 11 (29:42):
But I mean unless these bats come alive and not
just from one or two players, we need it from
about four or five.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Of these got it?
Speaker 11 (29:49):
We're done, man, We're done. But I mean i'd feel
a lot better if you would. We'd get a high
coup from Fred Rogan. That'd be That'd be pretty good.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
That's what we need. We need a big haiku Kevin, Yeah,
we do. We need a big haikup if we can
make that happen. See, we can make that happen. Yeah,
I'm gonna call it back in the break. How do
you like that? Maybe Vick will come on and do
a haigh coup?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
JOHNA. Montabello or right? You have one question? One question?
What is that question?
Speaker 7 (30:19):
One question? How you guys doing. I kind of feel
like everybody's getting down on Blake Snow. I think he
did a great job considering the attack that they did,
you know, that first standing or whatever, and he held
him off, you know, and that was what he professional
pitcher does, right, He did a good job. I think
(30:40):
another thing was is that. Why didn't they bring in
the best pictures that we got to win an important
game like that yesterday? Why didn't they have Khushaw or
Rosaki would ever come in and start run up. It
would have been a good lifter up for all the
bat Ors too, you know, to see him putting in
an effort in the pitching. Now, that didn't happen. So
it happen and was Another thing was I want to
(31:01):
call man on is the fan base. You know about
the cheerleading, you know, I remember the days when I
would go to Dodger Stadium and stuff my uh and
and the lady with the organ man would be going, well,
blast man, and everybody would be getting all into it.
I'm sorry about this guy that's running it now, but
I'm not I don't think he knows how to get
the Dodger fans going, and not only.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
To stop. You can tell me you cannot talk about
beta rule like that.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Deeter is the best in the business, and if you
take time to listen to him, he's got a message
to everything he plays. He has been unbelievable for the Dodgers,
and he's one of the few that's left that actually
play organ at at at the at baseball game. So
(31:50):
I'm sorry, man, I can't. I can't let you stop
on Dieter like that. Kevin, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I've I've never heard anybody blame the organist on a
baseball game fans. Nancy be was great too.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Does she do anything special to fire up the Dodgers
for them to win? No, of course, not for the call.
I appreciate it. Yeah, you can't get to the point, Listen.
Everybody is trying to figure this out, nor most so
than the players and the coaching staff. But you can't
get to the point of going I got the issue, Listen.
I've thought about this and I know what's wrong, and
(32:21):
if this gets corrected, it's all going to be great.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
What is it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
We need the organist to be more on his game.
That's what we need. If that happens, everything is good. No, No,
that's not the issue. It's not and by the way,
it wouldn't be the issue whoever the organist was. But
you got one of the best in professional sports, indeed,
a rule's incredible. Dieter does the Kings, he's filled in
(32:48):
at the Lakers, he's done the Clippers, and he does
the Dodgers. No one truly in professional sports does a
better job of that than Deeter, So I don't think
he's the issue. Okay, let's go to Mission v Adeen.
Oh you think things are just fine, don't you.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
Hey, hey, guys, longtime listener. I just want all the
Dodger fans. As a longtime Dodger fan, I was paying
seventy five says to sit in the Civilion fifty five
years ago. I think we have the best picture on
the planet going tomorrow. We're the defending world champions. For
crying out loud, we know how to win. And Game seven,
(33:26):
we throw the kitchen sink at them, we throw everybody
at them. Otawni rokie. You know, I think we're we
got them right where we want them. That's what I think,
all right.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I love it. Appreciate the positivity. Yes, hey, they are
right where you want them. If you hit, if the
Dodgers hit, they're gonna win. That's what it comes down to,
because you got to believe that.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
And even you gotta believe that Yamamoto is going to
keep them at bay. He's not, you know, and God forbid,
because it's not been as mos especially lately, that he's
going to give up, you know, eight runs or anything
like that. Dodgers can hit a little bit and give
him some run support. He will hold them off. And
like he just said, you know, Saturday, game seven, the
(34:14):
whole kitchen sink is coming at you. You know, Rokie
may go three innings. You know, Otani may go too,
and he may close it. Who knows, but they're all
gonna be ready to go, and you just got to.
You got to ride your horse.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
The one.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Consistent positive thing you got going for you is Yamamoto
has been consistent and been dominant, and.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
You need him to do it again. You need him
to do it again.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
But they it still doesn't matter because he can pitch
a a one hitter and possibly lose a game one
to nothing if the Dodger bats don't come alive, right,
So they gotta come alive.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
That have to hit. And by the way, I will
just push the tiniest bit back on one thing you said,
Game seven, all hands on deck, We're throwing in the
kitchen sink. The only thing I'll push back on is
Game six, All hands on deck, We're tossing in the
kitchen sink. You gotta win six and then we'll worry
(35:16):
about seven. But tomorrow is Game seven for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Tomorrow is I'm going off the assumption that Yamamoto is
gonna have another gym though, that's what I'm saying. He
he's knock on one, he's going he's going eight at
least and maybe a complete to get us to the
game seven. Then you do have all hands on deck.
But you're right, no, there is tomorrow. There is no
tomorrow if they don't win Game six, and so yeah,
(35:42):
if there happens to be trouble, everybody's ready. I think
Suzaki is gonna have to be ready to go multiple
innings if need be. Oh yeah, no question, There's no question,
and let him ride it out and close it out
if he has to. But there is no I don't
think you can even mess around Banda or trying in
(36:03):
or anybody like that in between, even if it's the
seventh inning, you gotta I think Suzaki's got to go
complete it and finish it out.
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right after the top of the hour. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
You gotta win game six. You gotta hope Yamamoto looks great.
You gotta hope he keeps the Dodgers in the game
and is right. You would say, somehow, some way the
ball runs into one of their bats and they get
a couple of runs. That's a jast to hope. That's
the bottom line. Okay, let's say that happens. Let's say
they win, and I think everybody in Los Angeles believes
they will. If you don't believe they'll win, then there's
(38:38):
something wrong because are you really a Dodger fan? And
if you're listening to the show, you probably are. Okay,
So for the sake of the argument, they win tomorrow,
all of a sudden, the momentum changes. I think Toronto
feels more pressure because the Dodgers have asserted their will.
So let's go to game seven. If they win tomorrow
(39:00):
and it's all hands on deck. If they win tomorrow,
who starts Game seven? Because that is a realistic concern. Now,
who starts Game seven? Does Tyler Glass now start Game
seven with Otani coming in relief? Do you trust Tyler
Glass now to start game seven? Now? Remember, if you
(39:22):
bring Otani in relief, you do? Okay, if you bring
Otani in relief, you understand when you take him out,
you've lost the DH. Right, we know that, And it's
also safe to assume Tyler Glass now is not going
eight innings, not giving his recent outing of eighty four
pitches and four plus innings. So go back.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah, so if you bring Otani in, yeah, in relief, Yeah,
you basically got to bring him in, and he's got
to finish the game.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Right. Whenever you bring him in, he comes out, you
lose him as the DAH right right. Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Theoretically you probably wouldn't bring him in in the sixth inning,
knowing that he probably could have two more at bats
if you have to take him out, it would probably
be more like the eighth that you would bring him
in if you want to use him and allow him
to go close it out if he could, because again,
like he said, you can't. You can't bring him in
for the seventh take him out and somebody else comes
(40:20):
in and you lose him when he could possibly have
two more at bats.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
And that's why, in my mind, he's got to start.
He's got to start game seven. He's got to go
as long as he can. Then they have to bring
glass Now in and hope he can go as long
as he can, and then Rokie finishes. I think that's
the way you have to approach it. I think Otani
would have to start game seven, even though he'll have
(40:47):
one day a fewer rests in glass Now. I think
that's what you have to do because you can't bring
him in a RELI let me put it like this,
if you go to him in relief, you better know
that he's gonna close it out and you're gonna win.
He's good. That's the only reason he's there to finish it.
(41:12):
Because if you go to him at the wrong time
and he can't go the rest of the way for
whatever reason, now you're screwed. Now the DH is the
pitcher who's in the game, and you can't do that.
You cannot let that happen. So in my mind, the
(41:33):
answer is he starts. When you get to seven, he starts,
and he goes, and then it's class now. He goes
as long as he can, and then you just hope
Sizzaki can get in there and finish it out. And
what about this? What about this? You know there was
a slight tweak to the lineup last night the batting order.
(41:54):
Did it make a big difference. They still got beat,
they still couldn't hit. And for it to be really
honest with each other, maybe you just need a massive
shake up with a batting order. Remember during the during
the regular season, you guys yelled at me. I said, dud,
don't do this, But well Lasorda did. He just pulled
it out of a hat. You know that means?
Speaker 5 (42:15):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (42:15):
You know, Alex Paul, you're hitting lead off tonight. Who
knows however the numbers came out. Just shake it up,
that's what you're saying. That's what you're s I'm not
saying pull it out of a hat now, but I'm saying,
shake it up, shake it up, shake it up. Out.
I don't know, move Mooky down further, I don't know,
move somebody else up, shake it up, rattle it around
(42:39):
a little bit. And what do you do with Freddy?
He's struggling too. You know, Freddy's gonna have Yeah, well
I'm gonna have Freddy pitch. I'm gonna change it. Freddy's
gonna pitch.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
You can't do that. We gotta do something crazy. No,
you can't do something crazy. And moving Mooky down is
not It will hurt things rather than help. And and
you know, you know Otani other than you know, the
one big night, he's struggling, and so you don't you
are you good? Really gonna take a chance of moving
him to out of the leadoff spot. And you come
(43:11):
up in the ninth inning, game tied and the leadoff
comes up. Oh yeah, but you you moved Otani to fit,
so he may not he may not even get there.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Bat you can't how about will Smith leeds off hits second?
How about that? Now?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No, you you know you can't go that drastic right
now moving one guy here and there. Yeah, but you
can't go that drastic here in game six. You got
to kind of go with where you've had success in
the past and hope that that the guy's bats come around.
I don't think you can change it up that much.
You got too too. There's too much history with guys
(43:57):
and and performance and things like that that you got
to believe in the big moment. At some point, Mookie's
gonna come through, Freddy's gonna come through, Tony's gonna come through,
and certainly Will Smith. You know, gotta get Max Muncie.
He's struggling, he's got he's got to get going. And
you know, and obviously you know the you know the
impact that Tails had over the last couple of years
(44:19):
in big moments. We haven't seen that yet from him.
So we got to get him really going. And there's
the only two games left to do it, fred. But
I don't think shaking it all the way up like that,
picking out a hat or moving guys two three slots
down or up in the lineup is the answer.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
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(44:54):
The man of the big chair, net Coletti joins us
Live
Okay, let's go Fred Rugan and Rodney Peter. It's a
two hour show today on AM five seventy LA Sports.
And quite frankly, Rodney, I did not expect to be
having the conversation we will on this date.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
No, no, I don't think most folks here in Los Angeles,
Fred had were ready for this conversation. It was a
tough night, tough night to sleep last night, and I'm
not even in uniform. Fred, I can only imagine what
the night was like for the for the players. I
know they had to get on a plane, but still
(00:35):
that that plane ride had not probably was not a
very pleasant one to Toronto.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Not good anyway you look at it. Not good, not dead,
not over, still very much alive, but it hasn't good.
A couple of things to point out. First of all,
they can't hit, and it is becoming more and more
clear they are not hitting the ball. It is not acceptable.
(01:01):
This is the time where somehow you've got to make
things happen. Y Savage the young player, seven innings, twelve
strikeout as a home run, he struck out twelve. He
was in a ball in April, he struck out twelve.
Granted he's pretty good, but against that lineup, they're not hitting.
(01:24):
And when they don't hit, it makes this worse. Isn't fair?
It is not, but life isn't fair, and we have
to go with what is. Blake Snell gave up two
home runs to start the game, and the game was
basically done. Now that I didn't feel that, Oh yeah,
(01:44):
I thought, oh no, oh my god. And here's why.
Here's why. Not that they couldn't come back. They couldn't,
but here's why. It sucked the life out of everything,
sucked it out. And you're like, now, this is going
(02:05):
to be a large mountain to climb because it just
killed everything. And by the way, Blank Snell, if you
really look at it, and yeah, he got tagged with
more runs later, but two runs, you.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Should be able to make that up. Yeah, you should
be able to make two panic right, you know it
happened in the first inning. Obviously, the back to back
home runs, it's too nothing. I just I think being
at the first inning and where the Dodgers were, uh,
you know, feeling like this was a very very very
important game, I felt Blake Snell would be able to
(02:41):
start to settle in and work himself out of it.
But again, like you mentioned, there was there was no
hope from from the offensive standpoint. I mean, Kiki hit
the home run, which was great, cut it to two
to one, and then it was three to one I
think for a period of time, and I still felt
that they had an opportunity because they were in striking
this But the more the game went on and seeing
(03:04):
the at bats that the Dodgers were having, it just
increasingly just made me feel like they're off, and I
mean really off. I mean the Blue Jays. Blue Jays
are playing like the Dodgers used to play. They are
the ones putting the ball in play. They are the
(03:25):
ones having quality at bats, making the pitchers stretch to six, seven, eight,
nine pitches per at bat. They're playing the way the
Dodgers used to frustrate other teams. And the Dodgers are
having terrible, terrible at bats. And it is you know,
you mentioned twelve strikeouts with that lineup. That is that
(03:48):
is unacceptable. You can't strike out twelve times with that lineup,
and that means obviously you're not putting the ball in play.
And we've seen throughout these playoffs when you put the
ball in play, good things usually happen, and it's not
been happening for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah. And to think, by the way, anybody complained about
that payroll now, But I don't hear a lot about
that right now.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Crickets about the Dodgers. Yea, they spend so much money,
they should be here, they should do that. No, crickets, Yeah,
I don't hear about that problem. But this is a
real problem now. And can the Dodgers win?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yes? Is it possible? Absolutely? Have they been eliminated? No,
But they've left themselves very little wiggle room here, very
little wiggle room. And I think that's the frustrating part
of this. You cannot make the argument at this very
time and it's hard to imagine even saying it. But
(04:49):
given the way this series has played out, which it
can change very easily and quite quickly, they do not
look like the best team in baseball. Not now. I
mean they are late ring it the plate, but we
go back to that for it. Have they looked like
the best team in baseball year? I thought, Yeah, against
the Phillies, yeah, I did. I thought there were periods
(05:10):
of time where they did.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Phillies and maybe against Milwaukee, but all year long, they
haven't really looked like the best team in baseball, and
sometimes you know you are who you are and when
it really comes down to it. But on the flip
side of that, Toronto looks like the best team in baseball.
Yes they do, and they looked like the best team
in baseball. I think from the All Star break on
(05:34):
they were the best team in baseball. Look, they held
off the Yankees, they kept playing, they were playing the
best and they kept it rolling through the playoffs. So yeah,
it's it's definitely flipped to the point where Toronto, and
on top of this, Toronto's playing with so much confidence.
(05:55):
And I think because they went into this series and
everybody was against them, they were the underdog and nobody
believed that they could beat the big, bad, mighty Dodgers,
that they took it personally and it's showing.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It's showing.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Those guys up and down that lineup are like, I
don't fear old Tani, I don't fear Snell. I'm gonna
get up there and I'm gonna get my hacks and
we're a pretty good baseball team too, and we're gonna
show you. And they're out there doing it, doing it.
Every at bat is a for them. Every at bat
it feels like they're gonna make something happen, whereas with
(06:33):
the Dodgers now it's like, God, I hope he makes
some contact. Oh God, I hope he gets a hit.
I hope he can just get going, get going. Somebody
gotta get going. And nobody's gotten going. There's not one
real hot hitter on the Dodgers right now. I mean
(06:54):
guys has done it in spurts. Obviously Old Tani had
that big game before for four, but consistently there's not
been one guy that is you can point to and go,
oh yeah, watch out, he's the hot he's got the
hot hand right now, Whereas Toronto they got four or
five of those guys that are hot right now. And
(07:16):
it's a that's a that's a tough recipe if you're
trying to beat a team like that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
See the concern here, and maybe it's unfair. And I'll
be the first one to say it's unfair to say,
you know, Blake Snell give up two home runs, Oh
my god, the game was over. But you got to
play with what you got. And what you got is
this a team that's not hitting so you can't give
up many runs. You can't do that, and you certainly
(07:42):
can't give up two runs to the first two hitters
you face when you have a team that's not hitting
and we all know they're not hitting, and maybe it's
unfair pressure to put on the picture. You can't do that,
and then you can't get in trouble and be taken
out of the game because you don't have a bullpen.
So is it unfair one hundred percent? Is it right?
(08:05):
Probably not? Is it what it is? Yes, you have
to be nearly perfect if you're a Dodger pitcher, meaning
you cannot give up runs. You certainly can't give them
up on the first inning. You cannot have wasted innings.
You have to be highly efficient, and you've got to
(08:28):
probably if there's any way humanly possible, get to the
eighth inning, because that's where you're at.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That's just it. And that's a problem for pictures. And
we talked about this with David Bassey yesterday. How much better,
especially for Dodger pitchers and in really any pictures when
you when you're able to pitch with the lead, you're
so much more comfortable and it allows you the freedom
to nibble. You know, when you're in the situation with
(08:59):
the Dodger pitchers right now, like you said, Fred, in
their mind, whether it's conscious or subconscious, they're thinking, I
gotta get through eight innings because our.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Bullpen is shot.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I got I gotta last, which means I gotta keep
my pitch count down, which means I don't have the
room to nibble around the plate. I gotta go after guys.
I gotta throw strikes. I gotta be in the zone.
And what happens is when you're a pitcher like Blake Snell,
who most of his strikeouts are guys chasing, but your
(09:34):
mentality is I can't get behind, I can't give up runs.
I gotta keep the pitch down. I gotta last do
eight innings. You find yourself throwing pitches probably that you
wouldn't normally throw, and some of them landed over the middle,
or you miss your spots, and he did on those
first two hitters, and then there was some other hits
throughout the game where you know, I gotta stay in
(09:56):
this game. I gotta stay in this game. I'm already
at seventy something pitches. I gotta stay in this game.
I can't take this batter to three to two. I
gotta get him out now. And that forces you to
throw strikes when you probably would have thrown something to
help him chase.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
All true, no argument, not debating, it doesn't really matter,
all true, every word. That's not where we're at right now.
That's not the situation. The Dodgers are in. They hitting,
and I don't know, is somebody going to get a
hit in Toronto? Maybe maybe maybe that'll be the game,
(10:34):
Maybe the miraculous comeback will occur. It'll be so incredible,
everybody will start hitting. Maybe that will happen. And if
that happens, all all is well. But in the event
it doesn't, your pitching's got to be pretty damn good. Unfair,
but it has to be because that's where you're at
(10:56):
right now. Yeah. And then, and you know, it's funny.
There were periods of time during the regular season where
the Dodgers made mistakes defensively, and we remember those. But
then all of a sudden, as you kind of moved
toward the playoffs, they were fine, Well, it's back. You know,
(11:18):
Tao made a play cost the Dodgers a run in
right field. It's sort of like and after that eighteen
inning game, the last two and in the eighteen inning
game they didn't kill the ball. They had many chances
to win before that, but the last two it and
maybe it's just a short spurt here, it's like they
(11:41):
are reverting back to that dark period. They couldn't hit,
they were making defensive mistakes, and nothing was working. Now
that period went for a while two three weeks. They
don't have that luxury this time because they have to
figure this out pretty die. And again you talk about pressure,
(12:03):
what do you think the pressure is on Yama Modal
tomorrow NW And I was thinking about that. I mean,
you know, complete game be damn. He's got to throw
almost a no hitter and a complete game. I mean
he's got to stay in the game for nine innings
and he's got to limit the runs. I think any
(12:25):
more than two Dodgers may be in trouble. So it is,
and it's not. Look, I know everyone and I believe
we're going to take some calls, but it is not
for a lack of trying or preparation or coaching or
anything like that. Look, we're at the We're at the
(12:46):
stadium six hours before before first pitch, the Dodgers are
out there working out, everybody's out there taking ground balls,
everybody's you know, guys are in the cage underneath. There's
there's special hitting practices that they have before the game.
So it's not like they're not trying to battle themselves
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out of it. It is just sometimes in sports you
go through funks and the team that is on paper
the better team doesn't always win. Because we've said this
in the past, it's the team that's the hottest, and
right now, the Dodgers look like the team that's playing
with little confidence and Toronto's got all the confidence in
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the world. And you mentioned it, Fred.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
That that eighteen inning game, everyone felt that the impact
of that game and that loss for Toronto was going
to bury him and that they would not be able
to recover from that gut punch that they took in
that eighteen inning game, and that the Dodgers, also being
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at home for that eighteen inning game, would have the
benefit of winning and the benefit of being at home
and being more comfortable and being more fresh the next
two days, and the opposite was true.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Blue Jays came out with more energy. Blue Jays came.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Out with more of a fight as their backs were
against the wall in these last two games. I mean,
I don't think anyone out there would have told you
three straight games at Dodger Stadium that the Dodgers would
go one and two.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
No, not at all. Here's the other thing. We had
a caller yesterday, Well, maybe they need to be coached better. Well,
let's expand that. Let's expand that, maybe they just all
need to try harder. That doesn't work. You can't try harder.
I'm gonna try harder this time, Rodney to hit the ball.
I'm gonna try harder. You know what I'm gonna do.
(14:55):
I'm really this time gonna try. No, they are trying. No,
one's not trying. Well. What they need to do is
get it together. Okay, define what that means. What does
that mean? Get it together? How do you get it together?
(15:16):
How do you try harder? You can't. They've got it together.
They're trying the hardest they can, but they've just hit
this funk and they've hit it at the wrong time.
If they'd won last night, this conversation is entirely different,
entirely different. But the problem is not only did they
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not win, they looked like they did, and Kevin, you
were there. The crowd was flat, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, I would say even before first pitch it still
wasn't as raucous as you would think it would be
for a pivotal game like that. And then understandably so
after three pitches, two home runs, the energy is going
to get sucked out of the building at that point.
So I wasn't too surprised about that. But just the
energy before first pitch still wasn't what you would say
assuming would be for a Game five in a Thai
World Series game, So that was a little surprising to me.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You cannot listen, You cannot blame the crowd for this.
You don't do that well. The crowd needs to be
worn in the game. I gotta tell you what. You're
already a bit anxious before it starts. So that's one thing.
If you're there, then your guy gives up two home
runs to the first two hitters. That was kind of
like when you Darvis got tagged in the first inning
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by the Astros in the World Series in Game seven
at Dodger Stadium. In places life sucked the life out
of the crowd. Game we were there, it was dead.
It was like no one was there. People were numb,
and I think that's what happened last night.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And the Dodgers didn't do anything to bring the crowd back,
you know, in that in that World Series against Houston,
and although Kik a you know, hit the home run,
which was big, it still didn't feel after that that
the crowd really got back into it. And I don't
know what it would have taken for them, maybe the
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Dodgers to eventually take the lead at some point then
the crowd gets back into it, but you would have
thought after the way it started, and then key k
comes and gives them a jolt with a solo shot
that okay, now, okay, here we go. But even after that,
it felt, Kevin, you can tell me this. It felt
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like the crowd was still kind of sitting on their
hands or just anxiously waiting for the Dodgers to erupt,
and they never really did.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Even after that home run.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, well, even the jolt of energy that they got
from Kik hitting that home run, the air got sucked
out again because in the very next inning, that's when
Tao tried to lay out and make that diving catch
and got by him and Varshall got the third base
and ended up scoring. So you cut a deficit from
two to nothing to two to one, and then that
very next inning it goes back up to three to
one and the air gets sucked out again. So before
you even had a chance to kind of bask in
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it and apply some pressure to the pitching, to the
picture on them out and all that stuff and get
some energy going, it was all sucked out again. So
whatever momenium you gained, you lost almost immediately after that.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah, all right, So that's where we're at. Dodgers are
flying to Toronto. You have a motive, will be on
the hill tomorrow night. Remember, look at it like this.
In baseball, every game is a new season. Now it's
a new season. You just got to win one. You
don't have to worry about winning both. You just have
to win one. And the Dodgers obviously have one one.
(18:28):
It is not in one one during the season. It
is not inconceivable to think they win both. But they
have to hit. So Dodger fans, now, how do you feel?
All right? You know the situation, and really, if we're
to be honest, we were actually thinking about when this started,
when the parade was going to be. Maybe everybody put
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that a little ahead, but I mean that's what the
concern was. All Right, how's this all going to work
out logistically when they get to do it? What time
is it going to start? Well, no longer. Now there'll
be a parade Monday if they win that. I'll bet
you any money. But those talks are on were underway,
so this is shocking to everybody. They were probably planning
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a parade for the Dodgers in Toronto as well, because
going in you had to believe the Dodgers would win this.
I thought they would in no more than five Okay,
well now it's going to go to the distance. But
he'll win as all win. So Dodger fans, how are
you feeling?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Now?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You've seen the problem with the hitting. Snell gives up
two home runs in the first inning. By the way,
has not looked like he did in the previous playoff games.
There's that. What do you think? Eight six, six nine,
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Speaker 2 (20:21):
Oh yes, it is a throwback Thursday and the song
is second time around what I'm hearing. But listen, as
someone great once said, Freddie, it ain't over till it's over.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Someone else said it ain't over till I say it's over.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
You hear me.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It ain't over until I say it's over. Nothing is
over nothing, Rocky bow Boy, all right, well, let's find
out what the people think. Is it over now? We
don't think it's over, but let's just be really honest.
It's not gonna be easy now, very very accomplishable, but
(21:03):
not easy. Okay. Jose in Foothill Ranch, Jose, you say
you're in disbelief.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm in disbelievable. What happened
last night? You know the last two games? We obviously
you know that's been cold. We just haven't showed up. Honestly,
you know, I feel like I still have a lot
of faith in them. The reason why is that, let's
just remember last year twenty twenty four versus the Padres,
(21:32):
we were down two games Virgil of elimination. We came back,
we beat them, and then we win the World Series.
We got to have hope, you know, we can't just
we have enough weapons. We gotta believe in our guys.
You know, I went to last night's game. I stayed
all the way to the last inning, last style. I
even got to see Kershaw on the field, and then
(21:53):
you know, I kind of got a little bit of
motion and I was like, you know, I cannot lose hope.
It's you know, we ride or die all the way
to the ends. Like Rodney say, we do not lose hope.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
All right, thanks, I saying really appreciate that. Yeah, let's
go to like have a suit. But now, but you
have a very specific comment you'd like to make right, Yes,
I do.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
My grandson Rodney is autistic. I watched that on your
son yesterday, and that is one impressive young man. Not
autistic young man, One impressive young man. Good job for
you and your wife.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Man, thanks for saying that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, we've gotten so much great responses from that piece,
and many thanks to to Fox and UH, major League
Baseball and and and the Dodgers that were all involved
in in putting that together and to do it at
the World Series. That have that kind of impact. So
I appreciate you saying that.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Okay, I've I've never shed a tear over baseball, but man,
he put me to the test.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I appreciate.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yeah, it was awesome. So how about the Dodgers. Let
me tell you, I'm not giving up. I'll never give
up till the ninth in ain't three outs and we're done.
But when you talk about the fans, I'm watching this
game yesterday and it's three balls, two strikes, two outs.
I'm not to get this pigeon. And they panned through
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the stands and nobody is standing and screaming. Nobody. Then
two seconds later they go over to the Rogers Center
and there's fifty thousand screaming fans and they're not even
playing there.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
That was horrible.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I just I was so befuddled because anytime I've ever
been to a game, it's crazy. There two thousand and
seven the film.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But we got you. Thanks thanks so much. By the way,
the piece on URJ was terrific. Rudney, thank you. It
really was good. Yeah yeah. And what kind of response
did he get? Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, he's been bombarded by by people calling and texting
him and people hadn't heard up.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You know, for years. They they they all saw it.
So it was it was a It was a great piece.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
He mentioned an interesting point about the fans in the
Rogerson and we see this all the time where they'll
pan back to the home city of the team that's playing.
And obviously we all know LA is a different animal.
It is a city of champions, and maybe we're spoiled
in that route that we've got so many champions, whether
it be the Lakers, whether it be you know, the
Dodgers over the years.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And so we've we've been we've been spoiled. Do you
think that.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Have you ever seen like a watch party like in
LA when they're playing on the road, No, phill a
stadium like, No, we've seen No.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I was thinking the same thing. Yeah, no, no, people
here have something to do. Yeah, you know, you don't
need to go to the crypt to watch a game.
We don't do that here. I mean there might be
a group of people, you know, like a hundred or
so somewhere and it's exciting. No, I've never seen it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Go to each other's houses and you know, you have
a you know, let's watch the game and the World
series that have a party and all that kind of stuff.
But never would you see a stadium or Dodger Stadium full,
you know, for instance, like tomorrow night. No, you know,
if they said, okay, we're opening up Dodger Stadium to
(25:35):
do to watch the game, how many people you think
would show up?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Ten thousand? I don't know. Yeah, you wouldn't just get
in there. Traffic could be awful. You wouldn't do that. No,
But I do want to say just about what but
I had to say about the fans and two outs
and yeah, honestly, in that situation, get up, Get up right.
I mean, I can't draw the comparison between Toronto and
(26:03):
the fans at the Rogers Center and here, but good lord,
I mean, if that's truly the case, you know you
need to be up now. The argument is, you know
it's not my job to get them ready. They get
paid millions of dollars they ought to entertainment. I got it.
We all know psychologically, things feed off each other and
it helps if everybody's sort of on the same page.
But to be fair, Bud, you know, you're kicked in
(26:25):
the teeth seven minutes into the game twice, and it
takes a little more to get everybody back into it.
And that's on the players. All right, Angel and your Belinda, Angel,
you think this is not a problem. They're gonna win it, right,
I do.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Good afternoon, Fred Rodney. I still willieve in the Dodgers,
especially with Yamamoto going tomorrow. You know, the hitting struggles
really shouldn't be that surprising. They really didn't do that
much in the Philly Series or the Milwaukee Series. I mean,
the pitching was so dominant that I think the hitting,
you know, kind of got over and it's now coming
(27:01):
to the forefront in the World Series. But hey, it
just takes one game, and I think the day off,
you know, mentally more than physically. I think they need
a reset and we win tomorrow and bring on Game seven.
I'm still very confident, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I love that. Thanks Angel, good call. Go to line six.
Chris in La. Chris is going to check in today, Chris,
you think anything could happen, right.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
Anything can happen. Hey, good morning, I mean good afternoon.
Fellas you know, I call yes. And now I was
telling me how I was telling my daughter to I
was trying to get her off that ledge and told
her that baseball is baseball that is too unpredictable to
get emotionally involved like that. And last night was a
perfect example. There's no way in the world anyone would
have predicted this. Nails and give up two home runs
(27:47):
on only three pitches, and then the Dodgers don't get
a hit. I'll only get three hits until like the
ninth anthy got their fourth hit. Oh and add to
that the fact that a pitcher who has only been
in the major leagues for like forty something days, coming
from single A not triple A, has a record setting
(28:07):
night for himself, you know, against this incredible lineup that
the Dodgers have. It's crazy. But having said all that,
every game is a new game. It's like they told
me about Roulette.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Every role is a new role. So every game is
a new game.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
We can go out and win tonight and then I
mean tomorrow, and then We'll see what happens the next day.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So all right, Chris, got it, got it, Thanks Chris,
Chris appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, it is a new game.
That's the beauty of baseball, and it could change.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Look, Dodgers go out and win tomorrow night, then obviously
all the pressures on the Dodgers Toronto will come out.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Relax.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
But I gotta believe that inside Toronto's feeling, we got
to close it out tomorrow night. We do not want
to go to a game seven because of Game seven.
Everybody knows anything can happen, and then also in a
game seven and they know that everything is on the table,
but they also know that all hands will be on
deck for the Dodgers that they throw at them. So
(29:09):
it's not saving anybody for the next game, you know,
whether it's you know how long Toddler glass now goes
if it went in Game seven hits, but Otani's ready.
I believe Blake Snell will be ready to go again
in Game seven if it should should.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Go that far.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So all the pressure's on Toronto if the Dodgers win
tomorrow night, and that's how quickly it can flip.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
All right, Rain salt and ELMANI right, you don't have
a good feeling about this.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
No, how's going guys?
Speaker 10 (29:40):
No?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
I think we will take Game six.
Speaker 11 (29:42):
But I mean unless these bats come alive and not
just from one or two players, we need it from
about four or five.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Of these got it?
Speaker 11 (29:49):
We're done, man, We're done. But I mean i'd feel
a lot better if you would. We'd get a high
coup from Fred Rogan. That'd be That'd be pretty good.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
That's what we need. We need a big haiku Kevin, Yeah,
we do. We need a big haikup if we can
make that happen. See, we can make that happen. Yeah,
I'm gonna call it back in the break. How do
you like that? Maybe Vick will come on and do
a haigh coup?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
JOHNA. Montabello or right? You have one question? One question?
What is that question?
Speaker 7 (30:19):
One question? How you guys doing. I kind of feel
like everybody's getting down on Blake Snow. I think he
did a great job considering the attack that they did,
you know, that first standing or whatever, and he held
him off, you know, and that was what he professional
pitcher does, right, He did a good job. I think
(30:40):
another thing was is that. Why didn't they bring in
the best pictures that we got to win an important
game like that yesterday? Why didn't they have Khushaw or
Rosaki would ever come in and start run up. It
would have been a good lifter up for all the
bat Ors too, you know, to see him putting in
an effort in the pitching. Now, that didn't happen. So
it happen and was Another thing was I want to
(31:01):
call man on is the fan base. You know about
the cheerleading, you know, I remember the days when I
would go to Dodger Stadium and stuff my uh and
and the lady with the organ man would be going, well,
blast man, and everybody would be getting all into it.
I'm sorry about this guy that's running it now, but
I'm not I don't think he knows how to get
the Dodger fans going, and not only.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
To stop. You can tell me you cannot talk about
beta rule like that.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Deeter is the best in the business, and if you
take time to listen to him, he's got a message
to everything he plays. He has been unbelievable for the Dodgers,
and he's one of the few that's left that actually
play organ at at at the at baseball game. So
(31:50):
I'm sorry, man, I can't. I can't let you stop
on Dieter like that. Kevin, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I've I've never heard anybody blame the organist on a
baseball game fans. Nancy be was great too.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Does she do anything special to fire up the Dodgers
for them to win? No, of course, not for the call.
I appreciate it. Yeah, you can't get to the point, Listen.
Everybody is trying to figure this out, nor most so
than the players and the coaching staff. But you can't
get to the point of going I got the issue, Listen.
I've thought about this and I know what's wrong, and
(32:21):
if this gets corrected, it's all going to be great.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
What is it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
We need the organist to be more on his game.
That's what we need. If that happens, everything is good. No, No,
that's not the issue. It's not and by the way,
it wouldn't be the issue whoever the organist was. But
you got one of the best in professional sports, indeed,
a rule's incredible. Dieter does the Kings, he's filled in
(32:48):
at the Lakers, he's done the Clippers, and he does
the Dodgers. No one truly in professional sports does a
better job of that than Deeter, So I don't think
he's the issue. Okay, let's go to Mission v Adeen.
Oh you think things are just fine, don't you.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
Hey, hey, guys, longtime listener. I just want all the
Dodger fans. As a longtime Dodger fan, I was paying
seventy five says to sit in the Civilion fifty five
years ago. I think we have the best picture on
the planet going tomorrow. We're the defending world champions. For
crying out loud, we know how to win. And Game seven,
(33:26):
we throw the kitchen sink at them, we throw everybody
at them. Otawni rokie. You know, I think we're we
got them right where we want them. That's what I think,
all right.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I love it. Appreciate the positivity. Yes, hey, they are
right where you want them. If you hit, if the
Dodgers hit, they're gonna win. That's what it comes down to,
because you got to believe that.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
And even you gotta believe that Yamamoto is going to
keep them at bay. He's not, you know, and God forbid,
because it's not been as mos especially lately, that he's
going to give up, you know, eight runs or anything
like that. Dodgers can hit a little bit and give
him some run support. He will hold them off. And
like he just said, you know, Saturday, game seven, the
(34:14):
whole kitchen sink is coming at you. You know, Rokie
may go three innings. You know, Otani may go too,
and he may close it. Who knows, but they're all
gonna be ready to go, and you just got to.
You got to ride your horse.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
The one.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Consistent positive thing you got going for you is Yamamoto
has been consistent and been dominant, and.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
You need him to do it again. You need him
to do it again.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
But they it still doesn't matter because he can pitch
a a one hitter and possibly lose a game one
to nothing if the Dodger bats don't come alive, right,
So they gotta come alive.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
That have to hit. And by the way, I will
just push the tiniest bit back on one thing you said,
Game seven, all hands on deck, We're throwing in the
kitchen sink. The only thing I'll push back on is
Game six, All hands on deck, We're tossing in the
kitchen sink. You gotta win six and then we'll worry
(35:16):
about seven. But tomorrow is Game seven for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Tomorrow is I'm going off the assumption that Yamamoto is
gonna have another gym though, that's what I'm saying. He
he's knock on one, he's going he's going eight at
least and maybe a complete to get us to the
game seven. Then you do have all hands on deck.
But you're right, no, there is tomorrow. There is no
tomorrow if they don't win Game six, and so yeah,
(35:42):
if there happens to be trouble, everybody's ready. I think
Suzaki is gonna have to be ready to go multiple
innings if need be. Oh yeah, no question, There's no question,
and let him ride it out and close it out
if he has to. But there is no I don't
think you can even mess around Banda or trying in
(36:03):
or anybody like that in between, even if it's the
seventh inning, you gotta I think Suzaki's got to go
complete it and finish it out.
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Speaker 1 (38:16):
You gotta win game six. You gotta hope Yamamoto looks great.
You gotta hope he keeps the Dodgers in the game
and is right. You would say, somehow, some way the
ball runs into one of their bats and they get
a couple of runs. That's a jast to hope. That's
the bottom line. Okay, let's say that happens. Let's say
they win, and I think everybody in Los Angeles believes
they will. If you don't believe they'll win, then there's
(38:38):
something wrong because are you really a Dodger fan? And
if you're listening to the show, you probably are. Okay,
So for the sake of the argument, they win tomorrow,
all of a sudden, the momentum changes. I think Toronto
feels more pressure because the Dodgers have asserted their will.
So let's go to game seven. If they win tomorrow
(39:00):
and it's all hands on deck. If they win tomorrow,
who starts Game seven? Because that is a realistic concern. Now,
who starts Game seven? Does Tyler Glass now start Game
seven with Otani coming in relief? Do you trust Tyler
Glass now to start game seven? Now? Remember, if you
(39:22):
bring Otani in relief, you do? Okay, if you bring
Otani in relief, you understand when you take him out,
you've lost the DH. Right, we know that, And it's
also safe to assume Tyler Glass now is not going
eight innings, not giving his recent outing of eighty four
pitches and four plus innings. So go back.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah, so if you bring Otani in, yeah, in relief, Yeah,
you basically got to bring him in, and he's got
to finish the game.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Right. Whenever you bring him in, he comes out, you
lose him as the DAH right right. Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Theoretically you probably wouldn't bring him in in the sixth inning,
knowing that he probably could have two more at bats
if you have to take him out, it would probably
be more like the eighth that you would bring him
in if you want to use him and allow him
to go close it out if he could, because again,
like he said, you can't. You can't bring him in
for the seventh take him out and somebody else comes
(40:20):
in and you lose him when he could possibly have
two more at bats.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
And that's why, in my mind, he's got to start.
He's got to start game seven. He's got to go
as long as he can. Then they have to bring
glass Now in and hope he can go as long
as he can, and then Rokie finishes. I think that's
the way you have to approach it. I think Otani
would have to start game seven, even though he'll have
(40:47):
one day a fewer rests in glass Now. I think
that's what you have to do because you can't bring
him in a RELI let me put it like this,
if you go to him in relief, you better know
that he's gonna close it out and you're gonna win.
He's good. That's the only reason he's there to finish it.
(41:12):
Because if you go to him at the wrong time
and he can't go the rest of the way for
whatever reason, now you're screwed. Now the DH is the
pitcher who's in the game, and you can't do that.
You cannot let that happen. So in my mind, the
(41:33):
answer is he starts. When you get to seven, he starts,
and he goes, and then it's class now. He goes
as long as he can, and then you just hope
Sizzaki can get in there and finish it out. And
what about this? What about this? You know there was
a slight tweak to the lineup last night the batting order.
(41:54):
Did it make a big difference. They still got beat,
they still couldn't hit. And for it to be really
honest with each other, maybe you just need a massive
shake up with a batting order. Remember during the during
the regular season, you guys yelled at me. I said, dud,
don't do this, But well Lasorda did. He just pulled
it out of a hat. You know that means?
Speaker 5 (42:15):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (42:15):
You know, Alex Paul, you're hitting lead off tonight. Who
knows however the numbers came out. Just shake it up,
that's what you're saying. That's what you're s I'm not
saying pull it out of a hat now, but I'm saying,
shake it up, shake it up, shake it up. Out.
I don't know, move Mooky down further, I don't know,
move somebody else up, shake it up, rattle it around
(42:39):
a little bit. And what do you do with Freddy?
He's struggling too. You know, Freddy's gonna have Yeah, well
I'm gonna have Freddy pitch. I'm gonna change it. Freddy's
gonna pitch.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
You can't do that. We gotta do something crazy. No,
you can't do something crazy. And moving Mooky down is
not It will hurt things rather than help. And and
you know, you know Otani other than you know, the
one big night, he's struggling, and so you don't you
are you good? Really gonna take a chance of moving
him to out of the leadoff spot. And you come
(43:11):
up in the ninth inning, game tied and the leadoff
comes up. Oh yeah, but you you moved Otani to fit,
so he may not he may not even get there.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Bat you can't how about will Smith leeds off hits second?
How about that? Now?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No, you you know you can't go that drastic right
now moving one guy here and there. Yeah, but you
can't go that drastic here in game six. You got
to kind of go with where you've had success in
the past and hope that that the guy's bats come around.
I don't think you can change it up that much.
You got too too. There's too much history with guys
(43:57):
and and performance and things like that that you got
to believe in the big moment. At some point, Mookie's
gonna come through, Freddy's gonna come through, Tony's gonna come through,
and certainly Will Smith. You know, gotta get Max Muncie.
He's struggling, he's got he's got to get going. And
you know, and obviously you know the you know the
impact that Tails had over the last couple of years
(44:19):
in big moments. We haven't seen that yet from him.
So we got to get him really going. And there's
the only two games left to do it, fred. But
I don't think shaking it all the way up like that,
picking out a hat or moving guys two three slots
down or up in the lineup is the answer.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Right now, all right, time for Dodger Baseball, Dodgers Blue
Jays Game six tomorrow. Listen to all games on A
five seventy LA Sports and the iHeart Radio from the
ballfield to the job site. Strauss Powers World Series coverage
on A M five seventy LA Sports When we come back.
(44:54):
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