Yankees iffy decisions, Dodger dominance > bullpen shakiness?

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Speaker 1: Charging about what do we have in this Yankees Red Sox series? Uh, where do we start?

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean do we start? Where do we start? With the game yesterday? First of all, Freed and Crochet pitched amazing. Yeah, both of them are really good. Crochet gave up the early run to Volpi, you know Ken's X factor, and he hit the home run and you're thinking, okay, here we go, and that was it. That was it for the Yankee offense. Judge had a couple of hits, singles final, they had a couple of chances. They had first and second in the first inning. Nobody out didn't score.

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Speaker 1: Did in the game?

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Speaker 3: Huh?

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Speaker 1: Do you leave Freed in the game? I mean what to finish, not to finish the game, but just to give you more. I mean, Crochet didn't finish the game. But if he handed the ball to chev he handed the ball to the closer and.

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Speaker 2: One of the strengths of the team, though, by the way of the Yankees, was supposed to be their bullpen. So you're thinking, all right, well, he's handing it to Weaver. He's been one of their I mean he struggled a little bit in the second but he's been one of their best for a couple of years now, so you're thinking, okay, he can get through it. And then there's also something that has came up a lot too, is Aaron Judge Zelbo. Remember when so Guard hit the double, if he has a normal arm, I don't think he challenges him there. But Judge got it, backhanded it and he gave it all you have. But so Guard outran it. Not ended up being huge because then Yoshida got the hit that drove in two, right, that would have been first and third. Maybe a little different situation, but that was a big thing too. There's so much to dissect, and you got Jazz not talking to the reporters while talking to him, but like not.

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Speaker 1: Talking to him back towards him.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Chapman going from ninety five to one hundred and one after the bases got loaded. I mean it was. It was an intriguing game.

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Speaker 1: Bases loaded, Nobody outcrats, nobody scores.

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Speaker 3: And if you need to score more, you left town many home runs on the bench. Essentially, you had Jazz on the bench early. You had Ben Rice on the bench early, like I get it, like you had if you had to get to those lefties and get to the bullpen righties. Then you can't have a six pitch seventh inning. Your guys can't go out there and make three outs on six pitches just so you don't strike out. You have to build his pitch count up up up. And it fell right into it, fell right into AC's hands. Alice Korra was like, this is the perfect spot in the lineup. They already set it up, so there's a bunch of lefties, so we'll just mow through this. Crochet is gonna throw a billion and we'll never even go to our righties.

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Speaker 1: What's the computer system that the Yankees bow.

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Speaker 3: To Basse.

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Speaker 1: Bass?

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Speaker 3: It's called bass yep.

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Speaker 1: So Bass said no jazz today, even though you've played him in these spots most of the time, and then bring him in later in the game for defense, and then you still face the left. Do you think, guys, do you think Bass isn't a Yankees fan.

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Speaker 2: Base is a Red Sox fan.

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Speaker 1: I mean they do whatever Bass says. Do you think that Bass could be rooting against just like some people think AI is eventually going to turn on humans, maybe Bass has already turned on the end and the terminator.

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Speaker 2: Where's Sarah Connor. We need to find Sarah Connor right now.

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Speaker 1: I joke, but I'm also serious, Like they do bow down to that thing. It's true they do.

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Speaker 3: All teams do.

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Speaker 2: Though what Tory Lavella said, I don't make the lineup. It's a it's a decision, that's a committee based decision.

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Speaker 1: Bass would have said, removed Garrett Crochet earlier yesterday. They would have said, he doesn't the way he was like that. No, no, human says stay. Basse says, no, this is past the pitch limit, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: He was.

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Speaker 3: Base might even Base might even see the fact that Garrett Crochet is a cyborg too, and Base might be like, I appreciate machines playing the games. This is where we want to get to anyway.

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Speaker 1: But Max Frieda had given up a run out, hustled Duranda first, let me eat Vello went down. What a tick and a half over the course of a game. Okay, still looked damn effect.

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Speaker 2: That sleeper going and she had a good change up yesterday and they weren't touching him.

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Speaker 1: This could be the decision that decides their entire season. A team that's all year.

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Speaker 2: No, you can't score one run. Sorry. It's also the first time in history, I thought I saw I don't know if that's right history where the team had in the bottom of the night bases loaded no outs and didn't score run and didn't win the game.

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Speaker 1: But you're facing Crochet, who's a top three starter in the sport, and you're facing the best closer in baseball this year, and Chapman and the Red Sox said, Nope, not going to get to anything else. Crochet told that to Korra. He's like, it's me and Chappie. Nobody else gets to pitch tonight.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: That is awesome.

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Speaker 2: That's freaking awesome. I love that.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Krats, go ahead. And then I got a question for you.

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Speaker 3: No, no, I was just gonna say, we had a night last night, not just in that game of just dominating left handed pitchers, go across all the games. Four games. You saw obviously Boyd pitched well, but then you saw Trek Scoogel, you saw Max Freed, you saw Garrett Crochet, you saw Blake Snell. That was some absolute monsters throwing cheese from the left side. Maybe the game's changing. It's all for lefties now.

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Speaker 2: Why here's my question, and I saw this and people brought this up too. If you're the Yankees, I guess Bass says, you don't play Jazz and ben Rice. They've been two of your best hitters and they might run into one. I've seen Ben Rice homeruffle Lefty before. I've seen jas Chisholm homeruffle. I know it's Crochet, but as a med Rosario that big of an upgrade. Yes, he's that big of an upgrade. What do you do last night.

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Speaker 3: Going into the game, he was six for eight I think against Garrett Crochet. Okay, two dangers, two doubles. I think that's an upgrade. I just think sucks that they ran in they get they ran into Crochet early. If that was gonna happen like Jazz played, I think twenty seven of the last twenty eight games, or twenty eight of the last thirty games. I get it. I but you have to have Amed Rosario in there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but we could make this case if the Yankees are playing the Tigers, would you do that against Scooble? Then you're if you're in the best out of seven, you're just gonna sit your best some of your best hitters in half the series because.

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Speaker 2: He played he's left handed.

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Speaker 3: It's not, but it's to me. I think the amed Rosario one is they took the numbers and then they were like, that's too much to ignore. How can we ignore last time they faced him he had a dinger and Fenway and I think he had a double off the wall too. You gotta go with your best matchup there. When you're facing an elite pitcher, you're not just you're not. You're talking about two dudes Tarrek Scubel and Garrett Crochet that are not your typical lefties.

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Speaker 1: What do you tell Jazz Chisholm before the game and then after the game, Kratz if you're Aaron Boone before the game, as in, hey, I know we've been playing you in these spots basically the entire year, and you had a thirty thirty season for us, but we're sitting you. And then after the game when he turns his back to reporters as a grown adult, it's not cool, right either, Do the interviewer don't like, I think you're better off. I'm going to speak for the media side here, Like, dude, if you're not even looking at me and like you don't want to do it, like I'd rather not right, like I'll just come back or just tell me you don't want to talk to me today. To me, that is just disrespectful to a human being. Like I think we're all humans. We should treat each other that way. It's two minutes. I've done these things in the locker rooms a billion times. Most of the time, it is two minutes. We are in the clubhouse awkwardly so that we spend as little time as possible disrupting the lifestyle of a player. Right, if it was up to me, bring him to another room, let's get good time to say down. We're not doing that because we know you're busy. Two minutes at your locker asking five questions with twenty second answers. That's the whole thing. Can you turn to me and look at me like a man?

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Speaker 3: He could have handled that better. Nobody's gonna deny that. But I think Jazz, as much as some people are going to complain about maybe his immaturity, his flash, his ups and downs, all that stuff, you also got to look at how they've kind of used him this year. Hey, Jazz, we traded for you last year. You know what we need you to do play third. What did Jazz say? Anything for the team? Hey, Jazz, we made it to the playoffs again. I know you've been one of our best bats. You're sitting today, Hey, anything's best for the team even I mean, it's hard to tell what he said, but it sounded like you said, hey, you know what, it's whatever's best for the team doesn't mean he needs to agree with it. And you asked, what do you say if you're Aaron Boone before and after the game. I don't need to say anything to after the game. That's his time. All I talked to him about before the game is the fact that you're sitting against Crochet. I get it. You've played the last twenty seven to twenty eight games. You're sitting against Crochet. Am ed Rosario. Is this for this? I know this sucks. We need you in game two. We're gonna need you late too, so I need to make sure you're locked in. I'm not saying you need to like it. I need to know that you are here for the boys and give us a good ad. Bat. That's all you got to say, And you don't have to You don't have to handle anything as a manager. If you've got to be like hey, stand up straighter and look people in the eye when you're they're interviewing you, you're cooked. You got way more things to worry about, especially in New York. Yeah, listen, I'm not gonna sit here and plast jazz. It wasn't a good look. That's all I'm gonna say. It wasn't a good look. It was disrespectful to the guys that were doing their job. They didn't make the lineup. If you want to be mad at Aaron Boone, fine be married, but don't be mad when.

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Speaker 2: The people just come up and say, hey, Erin Boo told me I wasn't playing, Okay, then they got to go ask Aaron Boone why justism didn't play?

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 2: Turn around and turn around and say, hey, look, I don't know, guys. I went in when they told me to do. They asked me to do this. This is what I did. I was happy when I came in. I did the best I could in my bat didn't work out right. I don't know why I didn't play. If Aaron Boone told him why he didn't play, you can say that reason or don't say that reason. That's up to you. But as soon as you just turn around and say, hey, I don't know, I did, I was here sold, I'm not playing, and then they got to go ask Aaron Boone the question.

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Speaker 3: I'd get you off the hook.

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Speaker 1: That's it. But by doing this it goes back and then it makes people.

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Speaker 2: I don't I'm not going to say, lose respect for you, but fans are like, look at this guy, Look at this guy. Why is he doing this?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: Just answer the question, why didn't you play? I don't know, he didn't tell me.

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Speaker 1: It goes viral if you handle it this way. And I don't blame the vile community on this one.

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Speaker 2: No you can't, because I've never seen boy do an interview with their back turned.

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Speaker 1: It's a character judgment situation.

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Speaker 2: Which is not unfair all the time.

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Speaker 1: Right, but it is what it is. If you're frustrated, though, I mean, I know it sounds silly. I'd rather you just be like, hey, guys, having some issues, I'll talk to you tomorrow. Yeah, okay, anything, but back to human It's it's just not it.

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Speaker 3: Hey, jan what about sitting down to give an interview? Did that make you cringe or were you cool with that. When everyone comes around and they're all standing and you sit and you're just like like you're holding court. That didn't bother me because I did it a lot. I mean, I just played nine innings and I was tired, and I was and if they caught me and I was already sitting down.

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Speaker 2: I'd usually say all right, yeah, let's go. Yeah, I don't care. Now. It didn't bother me when a reporter came in and sat down. Yes, Oh.

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Speaker 1: It happens though, I know, But that times I tell a reporter they're sitting in your seat, they're sitting in.

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Speaker 2: Chairs interviewing somebody, or they're they're they're reading the newspaper that's there for the players. Yeah, I would say something we can do an hour on that, or or my favorite was we'd have TVs and they're I mean, I've done it. As as when I go in there, they're like this, though, I'm like, hey, ye, if you don't have anybody, get out.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I'll say, wait, I'm gonna come out. Sometimes we're waiting. I would be in there and I'm watching a playoff game because I'm waiting for so and so.

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Speaker 2: Who's calf?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I try to allowed to look at the team done it. Yeah, I know there's been times I'm in there, I'm waiting and there we're waiting for a particular player who's either just taking some time, maybe getting treatment, whatever, and we'll ask pr that be like they'll come out or maybe they won't, but you got twenty minutes left, and then I'm just literally standing there and I'm I need to keep up with the playoff game. I get what you're saying. It's not it's not a lounge, it's not a hangout spot. I don't want to be in there.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, either it's still awkward.

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Speaker 1: It's awkward. Yeah, you want to go right up to the dude, say what up? And then get out, Like.

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Speaker 2: I walk up to the people I know, and even the ones I don't know how to introduce myself, and or like guys we've had on the show, Hey, thank you for coming on the show, or guys we want to get on the show, Hey can we get you on? And then the guys even then I'm like, hey, how are you nice to meet you? If I haven't met I'm more guys I know you know I've met, Hey, what's up? How you doing, have a great game, whatever, and just get the heck out, because it's always like that fifteen to twenty minutes where I'm standing in there.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, it's weird. It's weird. It's like being in someone's bedroom or something like you ask what you need and then you're like, this is your space. See you later, ft FAM, Pinstriped Territory has you covered. With the Yankees postgame show, whether they win or lose, Derek Lewandowski will be there for you. He hustles. He does postgame shows all year on the Yanks. This is his big moment, and same thing with Robbie Hyde, who's the counterpart on the Boston side. Also fantastic. These two are great. Give them a little look on the postgame show tonight. Maybe you do a little bit of Robbie, a little bit of Derek for insight. Hey back for two minutes and the TV crowd will swing back in. Yoshida is eleven for eighteen in his first played appearance of a game this month. He's also been on fire the last couple months. He missed the first ninety three games coming back from his shoulder issue. Do you know who signed him, and he was looked at as a disaster signing. Yeah, that was like the stain on him, like how could you? And it's just funny that Yoshidas one of the biggest thing, I know, the whole deal. We get knocked for that, like, oh, you guys are giving too much, Like I'm sorry, that's how the team is built.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he's supposed to do. Him Bloom was supposed to build up a infrastructure. Oh and draft players and have coaches that teach them like stop stop, he built that team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's just funny. I mean, Yoshida as a whole has not worked out for the team. But then if you're a Red Sox fan and you see what he did, I mean, the dude can hit. When he's healthy, he can hit. That has not been a question. Have not the power, terrible fielder or bad fielder at least right.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's why they tried to hie them and left. Yeah, like Manny Ramira said yesterday, Oh, it's very small in leftfield. I don't want to play right field.

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Speaker 1: I think they thought, no, it's right, but I think they thought he would have been like Okay, I know he was bad, bad, but he can hit one of the biggest hits they've had in a long time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean he's part of a team that's in the playoffs and they're up one on one the Yankees. If they win this, everyone every If they go on and make a deep run, everyone forgets everything else.

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Speaker 1: No, they're going to look at it and be like, oh, who signed him?

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Speaker 2: Nice Boston and New York Man all the matters is the postseason? LA is getting to that point too.

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Speaker 1: No, let's say better than box scores, the Los Angeles Dodgers are still good at ball. Do the Cincinnati Reds have a chance in this series?

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Speaker 2: No? Now.

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Speaker 1: Jim Bowden was so firm about it when Yeah, I got that record's going to be good next year, it was like, I'm good, they have no chance.

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Speaker 2: They did score a run. It's the first run they've scored in the postseason since twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Five runs.

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Speaker 2: They scored a run.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Do the Dodgers have a bullpen problem?

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Speaker 2: We've been talking about this forever. Where was Roki.

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Speaker 1: Saving him?

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Speaker 2: I guess for today? Yeah, for the Yamamoto Roki. This was supposed to listen harmy matchup for Roki because Roki can come in to strike all the dude job because they swing and everything.

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Speaker 1: Right, but you need to throw strike scrats. And they had an historically crazy inning, right, fifty nine pitches in the eighth inning, most in a single playoff inning since at least nineteen eighty eight.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of pitches.

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Speaker 1: I was.

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Speaker 3: I was confused while they brought Vessia in, but as the inning unfolded, maybe this is where he sees Vessia Enriquez like guys that He's like, you know what, I'm probably not going to go to you in big games. Which I was confused by Vessia. I really was, because I thought, I know, he had some blips at the end of the season, but I thought he would be a guy you'd go to in the normal one or two run game in the seventh like, bang, that's our guy.

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Speaker 2: But hey, I was wrong.

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Speaker 1: And for Dodger fans, you watched the team that put up ten runs in a game that included Hunter Green starting, and I actually didn't think his stuff was bad. He was a little over ampton at the beginning.

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Speaker 2: Listen, it was kind of like what happened to Dylan Cees last year. Once so tany hit that home run. It kind of was like, oh wow, what a wake up call. Yeah, and then after that, I mean it was he he didn't His stuff was good, but his location wasn't very good. If you make mistakes of this Dodger team man, especially in the postseason when they're awake and they're like, we have to win and they've turned it on, it's it's it's a tough lineup to navigate.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: I mean, have Monsie back if the Oscar hits. I mean, you can't throw Showy right there. I mean, that's just that's a nothing ball down down, and in Ti Oscar a little nothing ball. Every Tommy Edmunds playoff. Tommy edmund Snell pitched well, Snow pitched great. Yeah, seven innings, right, you give up two.

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Speaker 1: But that's what you want.

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Speaker 2: It's perfect. You were up ten to two and Snow came out handed off. You're like an eight run leagues close, you know, and then all of a sudden it gets a little bit dicey. Not really, but it got a little dicey.

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Speaker 1: If you're playing from playoff team, that could get really dicey. You're suddenly down five bases loaded, one out. I mean the Tyler Stevenson at bat, for example, ended up costing the Reds a lot in my mind, because he swung at maybe three or four pitches that were outside of the zone, including strike three. And I know it's easier said than done. We're just talking here, but just given what was going on in that inning, Crats, there were some ball fours there that could have been walked in another run and really made things interesting. They were not throwing enough strikes to get guys out.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy to me. It was like, I forget who said it on the broadcast. It was almost like it was contagious. Came in and it was like, Okay, this guy's consistently throwing strikes, ball two, ball three, and I thought, I mean, I thought it was close. When you're at ten to five and the bases are loaded and they and they're not throwing you strikes, that's the biggest thing. Like watch the whole game, not just watch like, oh, he struck out there. So it really wasn't that big of a d like you're not. You have to you have to pump the middle of the strike zone. When you have a for six run lead, five run lead, you gotta pump the middle of strike zone, because even a home run doesn't tie the ballgame. But it'll be interesting to see how it goes forward because Blake Snell has already done what we said we thought we would see from Doc Roberts, and it was a no brainer. He was pitching well. But Blake Snell broke his own personal record, which I've been crying for since he was with the Rays. I don't think he's a guy you take out third time through the order. He's consistently in his career, especially the last three years, been better the third time through the order. So good for Doc not just pulling the hook and being like, hey, we'll save you. We're going in the next round. We got to get our bullpen some work. Stuck with them. Longest outing ever in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: That's cool. He's got three great secondary pitches and as long as he's throwing strikes.

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Speaker 2: About the mc McLain had a nice game, so good for him after he's kind of been through a crappy season, So good for him. A couple of hits and all that, But yeah, the Dodgers just didn't those strikes last night. That was the biggest problem. They just weren't throwing strikes. I mean they were walking these guys in the red swing, right, So listen, Stevenson, it happens. I've struck out of the basis loaded. And then they asked me after the game and I'm like, yeah, what happens. Have you ever hit with the basil loaded? Yeah? Strike out? Sometimes everyone does, even you know, Luisa Rise, I guarantee you struck out of the basil loaded. So guy strikes out, he swings at the bat. It's baseball's hard man especially, it gets ramped up and everyone's like, oh, how do you not? How do you swing at that? Because the guy's trying to get you to swing at that. Yeah, he's not just gonna throw it down the middle and say hit it.

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Speaker 1: He's tunneling and then trying to make you think that it's going to be in the zone.

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Speaker 2: And then it's hard. Let's always remember. I think that's the biggest thing people don't understay. Baseball is really hard, and you get into these hypened moments and it gets even harder.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, we've got Jack Harris back on foul Territory, Dodgers beat writer for The l Times. Jack. Great to have you on. We're gonna look a little bit at Game one and then spin it forward to Game two. First off, I just want to start with show Hey Otani and how much he set the tone for an offense that has its ups and downs. From the twenty twenty five season, they weren't perfect.

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Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I mean, you know, the up until the last couple of weeks of the regular season here, the offense was a real question for the Dodgers. They had guys that were out injured, they weren't executing in situational spots, and they weren't getting the kind of performances from some of their stars. Show Hey and Otani included that they needed to, and over the last couple of weeks, all of those things got better. Otani specifically came into the postseason in a really good spot, and there's just something about when he has those kinds of moments, it's a lift for the team. It puts a jolt in the stadium. It was similar to Game one of the postseason last year for the Dodgers when they were down three to nothing early and he had a three run homer in the second. And yeah, I mean for a lineup that you know, in some ways, it was almost not happy that they didn't have a buy this year, but was happy to not have five days off after the way they finished the year. To have him step in there and start the game that way, I think yes kind of set the tone for what you saw the rest of the night Jack.

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Speaker 2: Was this just a matter of the Dodgers offense having to flip a switch because they were on cruise control the whole year. I know we're going to make the playoffs, we're going to win the division where oh we got to play now, and all of a sudden booth ten spot against Hunter Green. I mean, had good stuff, missed some location, but still this looked like the Dodgers' offense just flipped the switch into full we're going to be the Dodgers mode.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this flip the switch question has been one that's kind of been hovering around the team for the last couple months. I think, you know, Frankly and guys have said it, it's tough to bring, especially when you're coming off a World Series and you start the year in Japan early like they did, and you have all these expectations and you know that you're a really good team. It's tough to bring that highest level of intensity on a daily basis over the course of the year. And I think something that happened as the team was struggling during the second half, as their division lead was getting a lot tighter, was that they got a little bit more intentional about talking to each other, having the hitting coaches tell them, hey, you know, when we get guys in scoring position, we got to take advantage. When we're facing good starters, we have to stick to our game plan, and we have to be disciplined. You know, a lot of guys were working through swing problems this year, and there are times where, you know, it almost looked like swing camp, as one of their hitting coaches put it, where guys were more focused on their mechanics than just competing. And I think over the last couple of weeks of the season, they've done a much better job of getting back to the identity of offense that has really defined this team for so long, which is stressing opposing pitchers. You know, you look at the Taoscar Hernandez home run that's set up by a couple really good at bats from Freddie Freeman and Max Months the leading up to it to be able to draw some Walks put him under pressure and then ta Oscar Hernandez gets the chance to do damage. So I think, yes, a flip has been switched. I think it's something they were able to do late in the regular season. They were hoped he wouldrry into the playoffs and last night was a pretty good first sign.

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Speaker 3: You can just say all their offenses based around Max Muntcy, and nobody gives him enough credit because his numbers and his trophy case aren't as big. But if this team is going to continue this offensive run, where are the areas that teams are going to attack? Because to me, all the way up through tay Oskar and obviously Tommy Edmond just does what he does in the playoffs, you just have a relentless lineup that is going to wear pitching down. Where is the area that a team can attack say, okay, we can do this if I do this to the Dodgers.

00:24:41
Speaker 5: Lineup, Yeah, this is still a lineup that can sometimes be prone to getting over aggressive, swinging out of the zone. I think you know, when you look at Shoheo Tani last October that was kind of the story of it for him is for all the big moments he did have. He also got a little swing happy at times and started chasing pitches should and starting to feel like he needed to do too much. That it's something where you have to you have to make like every guy kind of feel like they need to pick up more of the slack right than they probably need to. But that's difficult to do when you have so many guys in the lineup clicking like you've seen lately. You know, if Max Munsey is being productive and getting on base, and Tommy Edmonds being productive and having big hits, and they Oscar Hernandez is looking like the guy who helped carry this team to a World Series last October, it allows everybody else to be a lot more disciplined in their individual approaches, and something these guys have talked about, you know, at the end of the season. So that's the challenge because they are so talented. I mean, this was the really confounding part of when they struggled and were like the fourth lowest scoring offense from from July to the end of August, which is there was so much talent in the room, but guys just were not sticking to their approach. So the way they've looked at it. It's always an eternal thing. Like Max Mounsey always says, we're playing against our self first and foremost, and if we can go out there and execute we need to do, stick to our plan, have good at bats, and they take advantage of the mistakes that we do generate from opposing pitchers. We feel like, you know, we we can score as much as we need to, and that's gonna make it an interesting test, you know, for opposing pitching staff to try to figure out how to put them under a little bit more stress as the playoffs go on.

00:26:18
Speaker 2: Okay, enough about the offense. We know the Dodgers can hit. Let's let's get to the real Let's get to the real meat of this Dodgers problem. What the heck are they going to do in the bullpen? It was a better problem down the stretch. It was a problem last night. And I know they still won ten to five, but they were on cruise control and then all of a sudden, Oh my gosh, we it's all hands on deck. Is Tanner Scott gonna close? Is Rokie gonna close? Where do they you know they use VESI in an eight run game? It works, Emma san What are they gonna do here for the Dodgers. If you're Dave Roberts, are you like, man, we got this great team, but there's all these problems at the back end. Yeah.

00:26:52
Speaker 5: The butt in that sentence kind of became the story last night, which is they have all the pieces, but how do you make sure the bullpen and doesn't blow it. What was really discourting or disconcerting about last night is Alex Vesia is one of their highest trusted relievers, especially of like the traditional relief group. He's been the one guy who was mostly healthy all year, who is mostly good all year, and who was more than anybody else, probably like the fireman guy that they wanted to be able to turn to when situations got hot and there was traffic on base. And to see him come in in an eight run game, I mean when he came in. The joke in the press box last night is man, even with an eight run lead, Dave Roberts isn't taking chances by putting in one of his most trusted guys. And to see him come in, give up a hit and then walk a batter like the walk and a batter with that big of a lead, it hits on this problem the Dodgers have had that Dave Roberts has talked about, which is sometimes it just looks like guys are not being aggressive enough, are almost pitching scared, are letting the mental toll and the frustrations and the lack of confidence from the whole season kind of way on them, pitch by pitch by pitch, And that's at the tone for the rest of the inning. You know, seeing Edgardo Nriquez come in and struggle with his command, that that's something he's prone to. Jack Dryer, like I heard you guys mentioned it earlier, Tyler Stevenson helped him out by swinging it a couple pitches outside of the strike zone. That one more walk I think could have really made that situation uncomfortable for the Dodgers. So look moving forward that they're going to have to start doing different things. And I think you would have seen a different game plan last night if it was less than an eight run lead. But Roki Sasaki is going to pitch beginnings. Emmit Shean, who was warming at the end of that eighth inning, is somebody that they're kind of hoping can be one of their best relievers now that he's been moved to the bullpen for this series. Tyler Glass now is going to be available down there. Blake trying intos someone they're hoping can figure it out a little bit. They're going to probably keep him in some softer landing spots like you saw last night with a five run lead, to try to let him build some confidence. Tanner Scott is in the same boat. But if those kinds of performances continue, I think then you have to start thinking about getting really outside the box, using your starters on their bullpen days in relief, you know, a lot more aggressively. You know, Clayton Kershaw is kind of being saved right now to see if he needs to start a division series game or early, depending on how this series goes. But that's at least somebody that if you put out there in relief, you know he's going to be not rattled by the moment and get the ball over the plate. So this is this was the big question coming into the playoffs. Could they trust the traditional relievers. There were some encouraging signs at the end of the season, but last night was a real warning sign that they're going to have to get creative with that unit because the guys that make up the traditional pen are just not in a good place right now.

00:29:37
Speaker 2: Okay, so then tonight, let's use we'll go right to tonight. Then let's say, you know, Yalamoto has a nice start, right he goes, he gives them six innings and the scores two to two. Does he go right to san right to Roki and leave Tanner Scott and trying to these other guys out of it and go with these new toys basically that he has in the bullpen, Dave Roberts or does he still try to go trying in and close it with Scott if they take lead late on a Red's bullpen that's been really good.

00:30:04
Speaker 5: I think Roki and Shean right now are going to be the guys that he would turn to, especially in a closer game.

00:30:09
Speaker 1: You know.

00:30:09
Speaker 5: To me, an interesting question is if there's a situation where there's around of lefties coming up, who do you trust in that spot? The Dodgers kind of look at em at Chians as a neutral guy that I think they would trusted to face some left handed hitters. Obviously, you know, you brought Tanner Scott here for a reason. He's going to have to contribute at some point alex Vezia. You know, I think it'll be interesting to see how last night how much that changed their trust level in him, at least in the short term. But yeah, I think right now you're going to see Shean Roki and then maybe Tyler Glass now, though with them being up in the series, I'd imagine they probably try to stay away from him just in case things go to tomorrow. But that's the place that they're at. And the blessing for this team is that they have so much starting pitching depth that they can put three or four starters in the bullpen and have them step into big roles and trust that they're going to pitch well. But it's still putting them in situations that we haven't seen very much.

00:31:05
Speaker 2: You know.

00:31:06
Speaker 5: Immachian has a couple of relief appearances this year in bulk innings. Rookie Sasaki, for as good as those two outings at the end of the regular season looked, still had never pitched in relief in his life up until the last month. So it is an uncomfortable place. The Dodgers are hoping that they still have like just the overall talent, but it's trying to figure out who can you trust them with spots, who's going to go out there and throw competitive pitches? And when you don't know those answers, it makes planning out how the end of a game looks, or figuring out who to turn to in a certain situation if you're Dave Roberts, just not a very fun task.

00:31:44
Speaker 3: Yes, you know about Yamamoto is starting his thirty first game. That is five more starts and he's ever had in his entire life in one season. Is there a fear they never got some days off? I know he threw in six days rotation, but is there a fear that he's going to tire down the end here? I get it, he hasn't in his last starts, but this is uncharted territory by a lot of starts.

00:32:13
Speaker 5: There's not a fear. The Dodgers answer to this question has been yes, it's more starts, but it's not a huge difference in the overall innings. When he was in Japan, he would throw a lot more pitches in each of his outings than he does over here. And they've also just seen him week after week go through his training program every week, throw his javelins in the outfield and continue to look like he's in a good spot physically every time he takes the mound. Yeah, tonight, this is the kind of game I'd expect that you see some ninety sevens, ninety eights on the board with him with his fastball, which is something he does typically in bigger moments that he wants to try to rise up to. So it's been a really impressive year from him because, yeah, the durability, the injuries, the question of could he handle, you know, pitching on a regular schedule or semi regular schedule coming from Japan over to the big leagues like that was the whole question about him last season, and for him to embrace that get better as the season's gone on, look really comfortable and confident in a way that we didn't really see last year, really like right up until the end of the postseason, when he seemed to finally kind of trust himself in that kind of environment to go and attack big league hitters and get get outs, and the way that we've seen this year. So it's been a really impressive overall year, and the fact that he's been as durable as he has been speaks to just the way that he takes care of his body, that he goes about his preparation between starts, and yeah, has allowed him to take on a career high workload this year without many concerns about you know, oh, is he running out of gas or anything like that.

00:33:52
Speaker 2: Jack you mentioned earlier, they might be glad they're playing in the Wildcard Series. Can I add to that and ask you their feelings on this. I mean, not only do they get to play the Wildcard Series. I know their pitching won't be perfectly lined up for when they get to if they win and get to play Philly, But not only do they get these extra games to try to figure something out. But and I mean this is with all due respect, but they got to play the Reds, a team that most people think on paper is overmatched by them. So is that also a blessing for them? Yes, they have to play two more or possibly three more games, and yes the Reds could still win this series. But if you're the outsider and you're a Dodger fan, you're like, Okay, we get extra bats for show. We don't get the time off. We get to look at guys from our bullpen, whether it's Rokie she and Glass now whoever, we need to put in places and we're playing a team that quite honestly, we should beat in two games. Yeah.

00:34:41
Speaker 5: I think the latter part about the pitching and the bullpen specifically is the thing I was thinking about coming into this series. You know, the lineup did not having to take five days off. You know, again, I think that's a net plus, but it's not something that you know, you saw the Dodgers last year. They were able to kind of overcome that pretty quickly. To me, the benefit of having things work out this way is that you potentially gave yourself an opportunity exactly like last night, where you could build a big lead where you could throw your relievers and what should have been lower leverage spots and see if they can build some momentum so that by the time you do get to the DS, if you advance and you're facing a much better Phillies lineup, at least you've had a couple games where the bullpen had success. And that's what made last night really frustrating. I think now at least as the eighth inning, as it pertains to the eighth inning. You know, you look at the night trying came out and looked, Okay, yeah, he gave up the one hit on the ball that Justin Dean couldn't catch in center. But you know, that's a confidence building moment. And if you go into tonight's game and Rokie Sasaki can have a good outing if he's called upon, and Immachian can be good if he's called upon, then that's going to give those guys confidence as you move forward. So that is where I think, in this specific circumstance and playing a team like the Reds as opposed to the Mets, who would have obviously provided a much bigger challenge with what they bring offensively, this should be an opportunity for the Dodgers to, especially with the one area of their team that needs some confidence build it. But you still have to execute. And as you saw in the eighth inning last night, if you're not throwing strikes, if you're not being aggressive, if you're not even giving yourself a chance to get outs as efficiently as you need to, then you know, this Red line up still pretty good enough to make things interesting and string a rally together. So that's what's going to be key to me the next couple nights. Can the Dodgers not only win this series, but build some momentum in the bullpen along the way and learn a little bit about who they trust the most in leverage spots as they move forward in October.

00:36:42
Speaker 3: Very few people are one hundred percent healthy going into the playoffs, but the Dodgers have two kind of limited players on their bench, Will Smith and Tommy Edmond. Tommy Edmund, will he get back to center field or is the ankle not going to allow him to do that in this entire in this entire postseason, and Will Smith being the third catcher pinch hitter off the bench, is that hand on the path to healing to be able to get behind the dish as early as the NLDS against the Phillies.

00:37:15
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:37:16
Speaker 5: With Tommy Edmund, I think in the short term they're going to probably try to keep him on the infield. We saw this earlier this season with this ankle injury, where when he's in the outfield and he's having to make these kind of bigger turns and then go into a sprint like those are the things that bottle the ankle a little bit more than when he just has to shuffle laterally at second base. So that could change you know, depending on how the ankle feels moving forward, but I think for right now they would prefer to just keep him at second base. Will Smith, Andrew Frieman said yesterday the fracture in his hand is healed, which is a really big development because that means that's what's kind of allowed him to start ramping up his activity and intensity and taking swings in live at bats on the workout and throwing the ball again and things like that. So Dave Roberts has left the door open for him potentially starting this week. I think that would probably only happen, especially now if they lose tonight and are facing elimination tomorrow. But the hope is that, yes, maybe as soon as the DS the throwing strength will be back to where he needs it to be. The swings, he'll have taken enough of them to feel confident that, Okay, if I go and take five at bats one night, I'm not going to wake up with my hands swollen and in pain and unable to play the next Those are kind of the last boxes that he needs to check. But yeah, for where this situation was a week ago, I think that the fact that Will Smith is on the roster available to pinch it now and could potentially be back to starting games in the next week or so. Is a really positive development.

00:38:48
Speaker 1: Jack, great insight. We always love having you on, so we appreciate the ten twelve minutes here with us. I enjoy the game tonight and thanks for joining us. All right, Thanks guys. That's Jack Harris. Make sure you check out his work in the LA Times and you can follow him at b y Jack Harris on Twitter. Also, Dodgers postgame show is lit. Last night about a thousand people live watching Alana and Clint talk about the Dodgers good and bad, and they'll do it again this evening, so check it out live on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. They'll post it afterward. Oh Kratz, we've got a battle here. One of their Friar Territory hosts, Mike Cameron, disagrees with you. You got to go with your everyday guys, if you're the Yankees, especially a guy who faced the lead pitching all year, so he's primed. If anything, he said, he's putting Bellinger and center in Rosario in left field. Your thoughts.

00:39:38
Speaker 3: I'm still reading this, I'm not defends the Yankees decisions a start on my Rosario last night. I mean, I'm not saying you gotta I'm not saying you gotta play him for Jazz. I'm saying, I'm in Rosario has to be in there. So you're saying so he was saying you have to play your elite hitters. So who is Who's Cameron saying shouldn't be in there?

00:40:03
Speaker 1: He's saying, if anything, you reconfigure the outfield. Yes, and you take Grisham out, you put Belly in center, Rosario and left, and you put obviously Judges and right.

00:40:13
Speaker 3: But then the argument is, then why is Grisham not in there? Grisham had thirty what home runs? So did Jess right? So so the argument, the argument is both ways. To me, if you have six Rice, why had Ben Rice not play over Austin Wells. I think catching positions a little different. You know that Aja, maybe Max Freed and Austin Wells, you know, worked well together. I'm not sure you know if there's a framing metric in there, because you know, I don't know about that part of it. But either way, you're kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't. You have to get on ad Rosario in there. I think. I don't think Mikey Cameron's disagreeing with me on that. The guy was six for nine, not six for eight, six for nine, and you got to get him in the lineup somewhere. So one of the two thirty home run guys, I guess has to sit.

00:41:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's saying Freedom right should have been in there.

00:41:12
Speaker 1: Had two hits yesterday, Goldie had two hits, And I agree on the.

00:41:16
Speaker 2: Well goldies Rake LIFTI that's.

00:41:18
Speaker 1: His thing, only playing against left well as a catcher, I'm okay with Yeah, I'm.

00:41:23
Speaker 2: Okay with that. But Jazz I think should have been in there.

00:41:26
Speaker 1: Somehow somewhat okay, didn't happen.

00:41:30
Speaker 2: It didn't happen, and we got to Now we can talk about it, and.

00:41:33
Speaker 1: It's a good problem for them. They have options, but that leaves you to field more scrutiny because you have good options to choose from. That's what happens, and if you don't win a game, those options get scrutinized. That's how sports works. We get to sit here and talk and not have the pressure of the job. That's how it works. But good answer there from Camp he's back on the show with us. You can listen to him every night on wf A N. But because of the Yanks.

00:42:00
Speaker 4: Well, I get paid to talk.

00:42:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought you'd be. I thought you'd be all clogged up from all the tears you were crying last night with Jazz didn't play.

00:42:09
Speaker 4: No, I'm not crying any tears. That wasn't a one game elimination. I was on the radio for four hours last night after the game. I've said everything, I've gone over everything. I'm ready to drive right back to the Bronx today. What's up, guys, What's up?

00:42:21
Speaker 1: So summarize it for me? What was the biggest talking point last night for you and how you were fielding calls and how you were answering them and mixing in what you would do if you were the Yankees.

00:42:32
Speaker 4: The turning point of the game, The topic that was coming up on the call screen was taking out Max Free to go to Luke Weaver. And honestly, you can talk a bunch of ways around it. It's compounded because you see Garret Crochet standing there and throw one hundred and seventeen pitches, retire seventeen batters in a row, and then afterwards, Alex Corus says, yeah, you know, we build up our starter in the regular season to get to this postseason where we push him. You know, like Max Freed at one hundred and two pitches was pitching a way different game than Garrett Crochet was. He had runners on. I won't say he was laboring, but he did have a twenty four pitch inning, a twenty pitch inning, and on that last play that he fielded his position and he raced Duran to first base. When I'm in the stadium and not watching on TV, I'm asking the guys around me, did he look tired, Does he look exhausted, Does he look like he's done, and maybe, you know, exerting extra energy to get that play right there. That's where it was like, Okay, you're over the magic number, which I don't know for some reason, if you hit triple digits, now it's the witching hour where everybody's like, this guy's gonna turn into a pumpkin. Boone went and took the ball out of his hands to go to Luke Weaver. And I've been saying, hindsight is twenty twenty. Luke Weaver is fifty to fifty Luke Weaver has not been the same Luke Weaver this year. He faces the eight to nine hitter. He already has it out in the game. He should be able to get that done. He goes up two on Saddan Rafaela and it's like bro An eleven pitch at bat. He wins it, so Guard doubles. It's like all the little things start to come out. Judge's arm is exposed. And then Alex Korra is playing chess while Boone is playing checkers. He puts in Masataka Yoshida. First pitch, Boom, the lead is gone. And just that little sequence right there is what everybody wanted to talk about. There were some other things, obviously with the lineup, definitely with Jazz getting into the game late as a defensive replacement, and then Jazz going through his wardrobe, going through his clothes and not you know, facing the media, and you know, I just think Yankee fans were down because no one was surprised. They struck out thirteen times, they didn't work one walk, They scored one run on a home run. Remember Buck Martinez saying they're not a good team if they don't hit home runs, they can't score, like so many of these little things that we've seen all year, so many these little things that we've seen in the Aaron Boone era. They happened last night and people are sick of it, but they're not out of it. They got to come back tonight with Carlos Rodin and force the game three, and I think the advantage can shift into the Yankees favor.

00:45:10
Speaker 2: Agreed. Here's my thing about Max Reid. They even said it on the broadcast. You know, I'm sure you watched the broadcast last night where they said after he came in and got the first out, it was the lefty, it was Duran. He got Duran out in the seventh. They even said before that this is his last hitter. Boone is keeping him out there. They have Weaver ready to go, right, which makes total sense because I guarantee you that's the way they've done it all year. Right, Yep. The biggest key to that whole inning was you watched to Don Rafaela, who swings at everything. Okay, he's really arguab walk and in this situation was a great at bat. I give him a ton of credit. But then it just it was like things come. It was one of those innings. But they only gave up two Let's not forget they only gave up two runs. It onen't like they gave up ten runs. They gave up two runs. Okay, but so guard getting a hit, taking advantage of Judge's arm, your set of getting the hit, and then they shut it down. So I really don't have a problem as big of a problem as all the other people do with him taking Freed out, because I guarantee you that's what they had done all year. And listen, Max Freed six and a third, no runs. That's a hell of an outing in the postseason, like he's beginner, Like, great job, it's not his he did and I guarantee right, So anyways, I don't know, maybe I look at it differently.

00:46:22
Speaker 4: No, but don't you think Max Reed could have got those last two outs the eight to nine hitter.

00:46:26
Speaker 1: Don't you think.

00:46:30
Speaker 2: They're both writings? And what if he doesn't And then you're like, God, you should have you should have taken him out.

00:46:35
Speaker 4: It's a plan, it's a script. It's predetermined. They talk about this stuff during the games, that that was a clean inning for Luke Weaver to come in with one out. You can't get us two outs. Luke Weaver has not been great, he won't be back next year. It's it's a tough spot. I feel like a lot of people were saying too, and I agree. They manage this game like it was a regular season game. There is no tomorrow. Max Reed might not get another start. Push him, there is no tomorrow. You don't go to one of your average relievers who you know it's not twenty twenty four anymore. When he turned into your closer after the guy that you told us was your closer, Klay Holmes couldn't get it done and you had to break glass in case of an emergency and go to Louke Weaver as the closer. We haven't seen the ferocious jungle cat that we saw last year, so I don't know. Those things get compounded, but I think you stop right here. They did not hit with that lineup they put out. They took out Ben Rice, they took out Jazz Chisholm. Those are two guys that had great years, twenty six home runs, thirty one home runs. You left a bunch of RBI on the bench. That lineup did not work, and then later in the game you can't get Ben Rice in a bat and you put Jazz Chishlm in the game as a defensive replacement, And Alex Coor is over there grinning because he's like, Okay, you get a med Rosario three abs and you put Jazz in as a defensive replacement. I'm going from Crochet to Chapman. You're still facing two dominant lets, and when Jazz comes up and flies out weekly to right field, It's like, what are we doing here? You should have the righty to come off the bench. You know you could have configured that differently. What I'll say before I pass it back to you is I feel like Jazz should have been in at second base. If you wanted to play a med Rosario, who you barely played since you got him at the trade deadline, play him at third Ryan McMahon. We would have made no issues, no qualms about Ryan McMahon. We understand what his bat is and isn't put him there. And then also you have Kybyiro to be a pinch runner at any point late in the game. Kybyiro is the guy that can play six different positions.

00:48:33
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's tough.

00:48:35
Speaker 4: I just want to flush this game and get the game too as quick as possible.

00:48:39
Speaker 3: Okay, well, let's look at game two. Is there a chance that the Yankees, if things go off the rails early to nothing lead by the Red Sox, they panic by day? I mean Boone panics and takes Rodon out because in a playoff game, when it's back against the wall, life on the line, you go right to the bullpen. The bullpen hasn't shown they can get you nine outs, let alone fifteen outs.

00:49:11
Speaker 4: No, you're riding with Carlos Rodin tonight. There is no panic. Even if he does give up a long ball, which we've seen him do. It's his game tonight, and he's got that bulldog in him a little more so than Max Freed. Max Freed is, you know, soft spoken. It's his first year in New York. He's been great, but like he should have pushed back a little bit against Boom. But I guess they had already agreed in the dugout go get me one more batter. Rodin tonight is not gonna come off that mound if it's to nothing. He's gonna say, let me fight, let me continue. And they use the bullpen last night. I think the only guy they'll stay away from tonight is Luke Weaver. I don't think you're in a rush to get to Fernando Cruz. I don't think you're in a rush to get to any of these guys. Tonight it's Carlos Rodan for six seven innings, six to seven.

00:49:56
Speaker 2: Okay, we can debate pitching all we want. The Yankees score how many runs last night?

00:50:01
Speaker 4: One? That's what I'm saying. Take all of this out, that lineup that you put together with your analytics, and you thought you were gonna throw at Alex Corr and Garrett Crochet, the least likely of candidates, the guy that was the whipping boy all year. Fans didn't want him to start. They wanted Caybalierro to start at shortstop. Anthony Volpi, Right, Anthony Volpi's the one that gets two hits off Crochet, that hits the solo shot to wake the stadium up and really get it going. The rest of those guys, Stanton, we expect Stanton to be a postseason performer. I expect him to show up tonight. Grisham, as we're talking about how many home runs they left off the field with Jazz and ben Rice, Grisham hit thirty four homers this year, he went zero for four with four strikeouts. Tonight they have to mash. Can they score four runs, five runs and hold the Red Sox to another three? I think they can.

00:50:50
Speaker 2: Okay, that's all I want to know. What was the feeling like when Ed bases loaded, no outs and here comes John Carlow against Chapman and all of a sudden it goes from ninety five to one hundred and one. What was the feeling like? Were you thinking, this is our chance, We're gonna turn it around right here and then strikeout week pop up punchy.

00:51:08
Speaker 4: I thought we had a better chance when we had Goldie on Judge on in the first inning against Crochet and Stanton didn't ground it into a double play late in that game with Chapman former teammates, he's faced them before. I'm like, Chapman knows what to throw? Was a four pitch at bat. I knew that Chapman had Stanton, and so did Cora. Corus said, you know, he had no doubts that Chapman would win that matchup against John Carlos Stanton, So yeah, I was. I knew they were setting us up for failure. I knew that we were getting excited there, and yeah, it's a different game if David Bednar doesn't give up that one run. It's a different game if you're just trying to tie a two to one game down one. But you know ultimately that they got got they got caught, like Jazz shouldn't have been in that position. And Stanton didn't have his best night and he's facing a guy that knew what to throw at him to put him way.

00:52:01
Speaker 3: This you have to you have to give us the pulse of Yankees fans on this one. Aaron Judge two hits last night. Is he back? Is he postseason Aaron Judge now? Or is this not good? Because he's the MVP.

00:52:15
Speaker 4: And you know, I was laughing because I was getting some some tweets about Judge should have hit the ball out of the park in the ninth inning instead of driving a single, And I'm like, this is the batting champion. This is a guy that hit three p thirty one. He did his job, Like if he struck out all night, it'd be different. He did get a hit like Crochet is a monster, and Judge gave him that cauc He said he's the best pitcher in the game. He has struck Judge out I don't know, eleven twelve times this year. I will say this about Judge. Judge did have a look and he was on some of Crochet's pitches that that last inning where I think, you know, Cabby got a hold of one, it got caught in the outfield, Goldie got a hold of one, it got caught in the outfield. We were all sure this was the time, right this, this last matchup between Judge and Crochet, Judge is going to win. He fouled a couple off ultimately strikes out. But yeah, I don't think anybody is talking about Aaron Judge folding or being you know, not himself in the postseason. I don't think anyone's saying he's back either. Let's see him hit a homer tonight. Let's see him hit a double tonight. Let's see him continue in Game two and literally saved the season.

00:53:20
Speaker 2: The only thing I'll say before we let you go is you're wrong calra is the MVP. But other than that, you have great takes and I love some of the things you say.

00:53:26
Speaker 4: I'll take Ben Rice at catcher over cal Raley. We don't do that you just lost doing that over here, Judge, did he hit did he hit sixty two?

00:53:41
Speaker 2: Ben Rice?

00:53:43
Speaker 4: Did he break? Did he break the American League home run record? That's the only way I was gonna give it to cal Raley. He didn't hit sixty two.

00:53:49
Speaker 2: It's Judge, most switch. He broke Mickey Mantles old record, broke Catcher record, He broke all the records.

00:53:56
Speaker 4: Great stack up all of the other categories.

00:54:00
Speaker 2: By the way, you know you just said Ben Rice or a Platinum Glove, Platinum Glove winner at Catcher, You just said Ben Rice.

00:54:07
Speaker 4: I just want to make sure we're Yankee homers. We ride with the pin stripes. Yeah, give me Benaunning.

00:54:13
Speaker 3: Wow.

00:54:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guarantee cal Rawly's facing Garret Crochet.

00:54:18
Speaker 3: You are right, Hey, Keith, you're your self real quick. Sorry, you're a self proclaimed leader of the fans out there. What do the fans need to do tonight? What do Yankee fans need to do tonight for their team to be pushed? Because we talk about home field advantage all the time, get them? What do they need to do?

00:54:37
Speaker 4: I mean, and I definitely don't proclaim myself. I'm blessed like I've been out there before I was in the media, So I think there's a lot of people that have seen me go to the stadium for the last ten years and then become a radio host, become a content creator. So like I do lead, but I don't say that I'm the leader. Like you know, there there are other people out there. But I'll say this, it is hard to get that stadium up and rocking and going when they're they're not hitting. When seventeen batters in a row get retired, when you give Crochet a six pitch inning, it's like you get up and there's nothing to get up for. So tonight the Yankees got a hit. And I'm telling you, with all those different sound effects and lights and things that the Yankees put on in the stadium, the main thing that will get the real Yankee fans excited and rowdy and loud and rocking that place is them stringing together hits, hitting the ball out of the ballpark, putting some runs on the board. We need offense. That is what makes people excited. That's what makes people loud and happy in there. So they got to score.

00:55:35
Speaker 1: Keith enjoy it or stay nervous through it. But thanks man, you're the best. We appreciate you.

00:55:40
Speaker 4: Thanks, guys, appreciate you best in the business. Love the show.

00:55:43
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, the same to you, dude, love lesson n A Keith McPherson in New York on WFA, and you should do the same. We'll go right to kratsats here.

00:56:02
Speaker 3: Tina's definitely closing it out. You said we're not gonna have all game three as well, here's one Yoshinobu.

00:56:10
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