Dodgers Territory - Dodgers Down But Not Out; Keys To Getting Back into NLCS; LA Benching Shohei?

Episode Date: October 13, 2026

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the guy who would take his place, even if it's left on left, Postway de Paula is putting together fantastic at bats. And welcome to a brand new episode of Dodgers Territory. This is the therapy episode of Dodgers Territory. Alana Rizzo, Clint Piscius, Katie Wu is back with us today. She's obviously back in L.A. as the team is trying to figure things out for this NLCS kitty,

I would like your opinion on how things are going. You are the one among the three of us that has to be level-headed. You have to be objective. You have to be impartial. So where does this team go from here? Well, I don't think it's a hot take necessarily to say tomorrow is a must-win game. I looking at just the brewers in general, their pitching staff, how they play the game. I would not have been at all surprised if the Dodgers left Milwaukee with a split.

And I think I would have been okay with that, actually. If I was a Dodgers fan, I think I'd been like, you know what, for as good as the Brewers are, for as intense they play, Yamamoto or Scoobel, you hope you get one out of there. You feel good about it. But I was, especially after Yamamoto left game two, really surprised by how overmatched and exhausted the Dodgers looked by the Brewers' relentless style of play. And it's not just their offense. It was the lack of a shutdown inning by the Dodgers relievers because of the offense,

because they kept chipping away, but also how the Dodgers hitters looked on fumes against this lights out Milwaukee bullpen. It was very undodgers-like. And to me, it was very telling that for as experienced and as in the moment and as accomplished as the Dodgers team is, this scrappy Brewers team might be the toughest match that they've played, and that's including the Blue Jays and last year's World Series. So I was really taken aback by just kind of how overmatched the team looked in game two. A lot of different ways we can go with that.

And guys, sound off in the comments, like we said, we are going to make this a bit of a therapy show. We want some comments. We want to answer questions and all that. We also want to pour one out for Alana who got lipstick on her brand new Blazer. So pour one out there. But Catherine, you mentioned there, I don't know, I got lost with the blazer thing. I want to circle back to how did the team feel after the game? Like, they did kind of look overmatched in that one. It felt, I've said a few times. It felt like they were dazed and confused, like they weren't expecting either the brewers to be as good or they were expecting at some point just to be able to kind of like, oh, we're the Dodgers, we're going to figure this out. It's going to be great. You know, like we could just slug our way to this win. No big, but that never happened. They just kept, the brewers just kept hitting back. I think it was jarring overall to see Yamamoto leave the game as early as he did. And I think it caught everybody off guard.

And, you know, we'll go into whether or not his outing should have been longer, if he should have had better results. But to see your ace, your October legend, Yoshno Bialamoto, leave up for two and two thirds. And this will completely, again, overmatched by the Brewers, I think put everyone on their heels. And that includes the offense. That includes the bullpen that all of a sudden had to step up and try to get as much length as possible. That includes Dave Roberts, who for the October legend that he is, I don't think had his best game of managerial-wise yesterday. That's impartial of results. I think there were a lot of things that for the Dodger would go back and say,

hey, I wish we would have done that differently. So it was a combination of being, I think, surprised overall, taken aback that Yamamoto was out of this game so early and not having an answer for this relentless group of brewers relievers. I mean, I think the Dodgers bullpen is one of the best in the fields, and I don't think it comes close to Milwaukee's. So overall, I think the vibe of the clubhouse was, hey, we're the Dodgers. And if any team deserves some grace here,

or, you know, deserves say, hey, you can't cut them out because of what they've done. It is the back-to-back champs. It is one of the most winningest organizations in the National League. But at the same time, the brewers have made it very clear that this is not anywhere near the same series as last year. That's crazy that you say that the Dodgers bullpen is inferior, not your words, my words, to the Milwaukee bullpen. Because you're thinking, like, if we can just knock out Jacob Mizorowski, Henderson, and get to the bullpen, we're okay, we're not. And it's interesting to me, Katie, because it is not as if Terrick Schuble pitch great. Yamamoto was laboring, mightily laboring, a massive, massive cap tip to Jake Bowers,

who had a 12, 14 pitch of bat or whatever it was. It completely changed the complexion of the game. It was the walk of his life. This is a guy that was a journeyman, has never had more than 12 home runs than his season, as I believe 26. I don't have Dr. Kradjuski in my ear telling me what the thing is, but he's had a hell of a career year. Jake Bowers has, and to be able to, he was, he was going to, this is a dude that was going to quit baseball. And his family and those closest to him said, keep at it, my friend, keep at it, my son, keep at it, my kid, my dog.

And he absolutely changed the complexion of that game. Let me ask you this, because Katie, you're in the mix. everybody is asking, and you and Ken Rosenthal have an article in the athletic about it. Is Shohay Otani going to be benched? Is that the right move? I guess I ask you, my friend, if you're willing to win with him, are you willing to lose with him on the bench or willing to just write it? What is the biggest take that you receive from Dave Roberts about this question that everybody is asking? It's the fair question to ask at this time of the postseason.

Yes, the vests didn't look good, but it was such a short sample size. And, you know, we hadn't really, sorry, I don't know why the batting practice music decided to go up another like four levels as soon as they started talking. So bear with me. But it comes down to hell. When you're looking at if Otani is healthier or not, we knew he was coming in compromise to the postseason. It was a matter of can he play and produce on top of not being 100%? You look at the advance that he had from game one of the DS to game two last night, and they were dramatically different.

Game two, I think, was his worst game of the postseason, over four, two strikeouts. And it wasn't the results. It was the swings. He's showing bunting in the sixth inning against Jojo Romero. He's missing on hitable fastballs. He's not pulling the ball. He's mechanically compromised. He may feel physically fine to go out and take an ad bat.

But you look at all the underlying characteristics, the fact that he's not even taking swings in the on-deck circle. This is a player who is doing everything he can to produce. He obviously feels a major responsibility to be with this team and to produce for them and to hit, especially because he can't pitch. You see the numbers, though, this is not Shohei Otani. And if the Dodgers and Otani decide that he is hurt or compromised enough for it is hurting the team, then they have a different decision to make.

So this to me is not necessarily based on performance. So these numbers certainly would suggest poor performance. It's a matter of health. And they knew coming into this, he was going to be compromised. he wasn't going to be 100%. The question was just how much. Now they're figuring it out because if you're looking at those swings and you're going to tell me that showing O'Tonni looks healthy,

I'm pushing back fully 100% on that. It's clear he's battling through things. It's reached a point now where it's become hard to watch. The number one thing that the Dodgers have to ask, and it's not just a Dave Roberts conversation. It's not just an Andrew Friedman conversation. The entire organization has to be on the same page with this. Is O'Tani fine to play?

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My question is perhaps it's Shohanee. Shohei Otani. I haven't even started drinking. Shohei Otani is a gamer. He's a competitive, competitive player. He obviously wants to be out there. He is the face of not only the franchise, the face of the sport.

You saw Yoshinobu Yamamoto's tears in the dugout after he had a poor performance. My word, this matters to these guys, right? It's a cultural thing. It matters. He's a guy that wants to be out there all the time. And perhaps Shohei wasn't necessarily as honest as he should have been

throughout the regular season about his injuries. Did they mismanage this, Clint? And because of that, hasn't gotten to this point. Now we're thinking of benching the greatest player in the game for game three of the NLCS. Yeah, I'll open with, I think they need to bench him. I think you're just not seeing good at bats, not seeing good at bat quality. And on the flip side, the guy who would take his place, even if it's left on left, Hoseway DePaula, is putting together fantastic at bats. So that's where I will leave that part. But to the mismanagement part of it, you can't, with the benefit of hindsight that we now have, it's pretty easy to say, yes, they mismanage it. But also, it wasn't just the Dodgers. It was not just Sho Hay,

who mismanagement, I think a lot of it was fluid, not just the fluid on the knee, but, you know, fluid in figuring out, you know, how do you maintain this? How, or how can you find a, a kind of slot in your swing that does not affect you physically, that does not affect the knee. And I think that's really what it comes down to now. Obviously, we've heard a lot about the bicep. We've heard, we've known about the knee now for going on three, three and a half months. There's a neck thing in there. I think this really comes down to the base.

You need, Shohay needs his legs. He is a tall mopho. He needs those legs to be able to get into, get down into and turn and drive a baseball swing that baseball bat with the malice and authority that we know he has. And he's doing it in batting practice. We've seen the video of him, you know, hitting homers at Miller Park. That's what I will always call it. We've seen it as well at Dodger Stadium, so on and so forth. That's also what I will always call it. But you're just, you're not seeing it in game because obviously in BP, you're trying to throw him some meatballs to make him feel a little bit better, some things that are maybe more in his wheelhouse.

but I think he's protecting down in the zone maybe a little bit, but they're getting him out up in the zone right now. You saw a few of those pitches from Logan Henderson that Shohei Otani gets to. I don't know who this guy is. He's trying his best to imitate Shohei Otani, but he's hurt, and it's obvious that he's hurt. That's unfortunate, but maybe the one day does something. I don't know, but I do feel like JDP needs to be in this lineup.

Okay, let me ask you this. So Shohei Otani, I think, could benefit from some rest, perhaps a start off the bench, okay? Maybe a start off of the starting lineup. However, I don't know that Will Smith is a benching candidate. You know what I mean? Like, you want to move him down in the lineup, but who's going to catch? Like, who's going to give you the same type of stuff behind the plate and managing a pitching staff than Will Smith? I think you move him down.

You hope that he figures it out. It only has been five games in which he's not. not played well, is it as big of a problem as people are making it to be, his lack of offense. It is because it's compounded with Otani. You can't have two glaring holes in hitting cleanup and then hitting fifth or hitting third, no matter where Will Smith is right now. He's clearly also not 100%. I mean, across the board yesterday, I thought we saw one of the worst performing games from

Will Smith, and that's with all respect that he's done in his Dodgers career. I mean, you have a guy that went from hitting the eventual game-winning World Series Homer, and now he has, what, one hit this entire postseason and looks completely lost at the plate. Baseball is what he told us yesterday. He goes, it's baseball. We're going to go through hides and lows. But I'm with you, Alana. Yes, they have Hunter Produce on the bench as an emergency catcher.

They're not going to take Will Smith out from behind the plate. And you look at what Dave Roberts has. He doesn't have a lot of options anyway to make changes. They've said it all season. These are their guys. They're going to win with them and they're going to lose with them. Do I think that there can maybe be more lineup changes? I mean, we've seen him drop Otani down.

You've seen Dave Robert Strop Will Smith down. A crazy concept. Some of the best at bats we've seen throughout the postseason have been from Kyle Tucker. Has he a candidate to move up in the order? Drop Will Smith down? I don't think that's out of the question. I know the Dodge Sheriff, they still left you tomorrow.

So that's kind of going to throw a wrinkle in some things. Robert Gasser is legit. But when you are looking at how to maybe shake things up, it's not about taking people out of the lineup with the exception of Otani's health. It's can they shake up this lineup because the guys that are in here right now or the guys that Dave Roberts is going to win with? Maybe you take Will Smith down in the order.

Kyle Tucker up. Andy Paa has taken much better at bats since game three of the NLDS. Teoska Hernandez is producing. But all in all, there is nowhere really to go in terms of restructuring this order when both Shoah Otani and Will Smith are producing so little. Yeah, I really need to see Kyle Tucker moved up in the lineup tomorrow again. even against the lefty, I do believe we will. More on this, and I want to go back.

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Let's go back to, I hate the whole phrase of circle back, but let's circle back. Will Smith, Katie, a lot of folks can appreciate that you only will allow your catcher or a pitcher to actually, not even a pitcher, a catcher or a position player to challenge on the ABS challenge because, of course, the pitchers are always going to think they're right, right? But he has not been great in terms of what he did yesterday. I think he was a little bit timid, maybe because it was early in the game, maybe because he's not trusting his own played appearances. So maybe he's thinking, well, if I can't see the ball well, maybe I can't call balls and strikes well. And who knows what's going on in that head of him, of his. But do you continue to give him

challenge privileges? Yeah, you do. And you helped me learn from it. I thought one of the most moments that stood out before, you know, everything kind of spiraled and the brewers took the lead was Yoshnoi Yamamoto is not demonstrative. He does not show people up. He always operates under a level of respect. He has a lot of respect for the home plate empire, a lot of respect for his catcher.

And I've never seen him motion or ask for a challenge before. So the fact that it happened, you know, Will Smith didn't challenge in the first inning. And that I can understand. It was a pivotal part in the game, but it's also the first inning. and you want to be cautious with your pitches. If you're not sure, you trust Yamamoto to get out of it, I can understand the first challenge. The second one, again, to terrain was where things, ultimately in hindsight,

you know, you can argue the game was lost there. So I don't really know what the alternative is, though, because if you don't trust your catcher to call pitches, that's a complete, you know, disservice to one of the guys that should have the best vantage point coming in there. And your pitchers are, with the exception of Yamamoto, who was right to want to challenge that second time. emotional and they want the strike out and they're coming they're moving all over the place

they're you know they don't have a set sight on where that ball is hitting in theory your catcher should so i don't know if it's a matter of you know take it to those challenges or just trusting your gut a little more it's an interesting point you made a lot of that i didn't think about where maybe will smith is like hey if i'm not seeing the ball great in the box right now how could i be sure that this ball in the strike uh you again you trust i'm a little get out of those situations but to say that getting that strikeout instead of a ball for walk the terrain the second time would have been a pivotal change in the game and an understatement. You could argue actually that Yamamoto could have still been in the game if that challenge is called.

I'm sorry, I'm lost. What's your name? Alana message us something. I'm confused. I'm confused. I thought it had something to do with what we're talking about next. What I'm going to do because, Katie, we know you've got to get out of here real soon. You got to go do your capital J journalism there.

and I'll see you at the ballpark tomorrow. You're a baseball fan. You're also a professional that covers baseball. You've seen teams be down in it. What do you think? And you know these dudes. You know these boys in that clubhouse. Like, what do they need?

What's the spark? It's not a very performative team. They don't need something. They don't need a raw, raw guy. I mean, Alana would know you probably have like a naked Kiki running around the clubhouse right now, trying to get the vibes gone. going and all that kind of stuff. Maybe by now,

Wu, you've seen too much of Enrique Hernandez. But like, what's the thing that you think helps get this, wake this team up early and often tomorrow in game three with Blake's now on the mountain? Scoring first with a crooked number, I think would do wonders in the momentum change. And I think it has to be,

it can't just be a big hit that drives in the run. And then the Dodgers strand two on the basis to end inning. It has to be a legitimate crooked number where you really feel like a, punch was thrown and landed with Milwaukee. You know they're like little, I just have this conversation with some of my pals with security guards coming in. They're like, they're very pesky.

They're like little gnats. They just come up for you over and over and over again. So being able to come out with your home field behind you and go and hang a crooked number and deliver a decisive blow, can swing the momentum back to you. Look, they've been down two games in a series before, but it's, they've shown they can come back. I mean, baseball, they're best of seven for a reason here on the NLCS. being able to score first and do it definitively

and not leave more opportunities on base, we'll give this team the impression that, hey, this is now a new series, whatever just happened to last two games, we can put behind us and we can move forward. I think being able to strike first, especially because we don't know what Blake's cell is going to look like tomorrow,

we'll be pivotal for this team. Put points on the board. I see my friend Philip in the chat, and he's upset that I won't say American Family Field, and I won't say unique low field, but I will call them points instead of runs. Listen, I'm my own man. But Katie, we know you got to go do your job. So hopefully we, next time we are together, we're talking about the series continuing and not doing a post-mortem.

But any final words to the chat before you take off? Perfect, I mean. Okay. Bye. That's what we'll do. I don't think she can hear us anymore. But that's the thing. You can't you can't trust DJ severe up there. He's too good at his job. He's going to be too loud. It is so good.

And the Dodger Stadium entertainment and the Dodger Stadium speakers are, unless you're a Dodger fan, holy moly, it's super loud. It's so, so, so loud. All right, I appreciate this. So let's talk about the fact that I think, you think, daughters are going to come out and win tomorrow. So what does that mean for those that are interested in taking this game to a little bit of a different level?

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I agree with, with Catherine there. You got to come out, put some runs on the board first. You saw that. You got to shove it down their throat. You got to shove it down their throat early. You can't give them any sort of hope. You're back at home. I know the fans will be rowdy.

The team, obviously, this is not a lack of effort, you guys. Okay? It's a lack of execution. It's not a lack of effort. Nobody is harder on themselves on both sides than the daughters and the brewers are. The players care, okay? Like, they have, this is not just another choice. to the World Series. This is a historic trip to the World Series. It's another opportunity

to make history as three-peating hasn't happened in a really long time. Okay. So I know that they have the talent. It's just everybody is falling short of what they're capable of doing all at the same time, which makes it that much more magnified. But I will say this. I originally said Dodgers in six. I don't think the Dodgers are going to rattle off for straight wins. So now I will bump it up a game, Dodgers in seven. The Brewers are no joke, though, right? So jump on them early, like Katie said, put up a crooked number. We need a lot of crooked numbers. Bring the momentum back to this team. Show them who's boss. I still have faith in this team. I love this team, but I'm not overlooking Milwaukee. So just do what you do. Do what you did to get you here.

And don't do this. Okay. So the Dodgers were the worst team in baseball with runners in scoring position of the regular season. Flip that switch. Flip that. Stop leading the postseason and grounded into double plays. All of that kind of stuff. All of that. That's your formula for success. Two things before we do sign off, we appreciate.

I mean, the chat is obviously, it's one of those things. We're probably not getting into the chat because there are some trolls in there and people just generally aren't happy, which I understand. Angry elves. And this is why we have therapy. But two teams, you were around. You were a part of. 2018 Dodgers, again, they did make it to the World Series by virtue of beating a very good

Milwaukee Brewers team in 2018. They did, but the Red Sox were better that year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't care about that. I'm talking about the NLCS. Sure, sure, sure. For sure. That World Series doesn't bother me nearly as much as 2017.

But yes, Milwaukee is a good team. You guys, this is not a team that just came out of nowhere. They were just this good last year. They won 103 regular season games. They've won 108 games so far. This is not a novelty. This is their philosophy. This is how this club plays.

But it does not mean the Dodgers can't come back. You got to chip away. Like you make it now it's obviously the best of five. And you figure it out. You win tomorrow becomes the best of three, best of four rather. You chip away. I know it's ridiculous, but one game at a time. And that series, mind you, as we get a comment here from Oscars says,

believe from Ted Lassow there. But I want you to believe in the first three seasons of Ted Lassow, not believing in the new season of Ted Lassow. Okay? I didn't watch any of them. Didn't watch any of them. I don't watch TV. The new season is not nearly as good as the first three. Well, from what I've picked up, from what I've picked up, they're kind of forcing it. But back to my point, that series went seven games. You also saw this team down three one in the NLCS against the Braves. We talked about this in that 2020 postseason.

You know what they did then? Went out and put up that fucking 11 run inning. I want to see some of that shit again. Be angry. Just be. That was me last night. That was me last night. I was so angry.

And I said some curse words. And then just went all over the place. Yeah. Be angry. I would fucking never say fuck. Guys, we'll be live tomorrow after the game. After the Dodgers win. I'll be coming at you live from Dodgers.

stadium. We'll figure out how to make that look and sound good. They let you in the building? That's amazing. I don't know. Maybe they won't after some of the things we've said the last couple of days. But subscribe to the channel. Hit the thumbs up on this if you wouldn't mind. Share it with your friends. We'll be here all postseason long and hopefully

that means another series and hopefully that means a third ring in a row. Shout out Katie Wu for rocking from the field level just below the press box. And yeah, we'll see you tomorrow night. Bye. All right, guys. Bye.

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