Dodgers Territory - Freddie Walks it Off Over the Mets! Kershaw Concerns?

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

The Dodgers walk it off over the Mets in extras with Freddie Freeman playing the hero for LA!DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas break down game 2 of the 4 game set vs the Amazin's, diving in to Max Muncy's good and bad involvement in the game, and Clayton Kershaw's continued road back from offseason surgery.Hot takes, reactions, players of the game and more!Get 20% off your first Slab Pack or card purchase by going to https://ArenaClub.com/FOUL and use code FOUL.Head to https://chatbcc.com/foulterritory to start chatting with FT hosts and the FT Fam today!Subscribe to Dodgers Territory on YouTube!Rate and Review our podcast on Apple and Spotify!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I did not have a walkoff in my bingo card today. That game just had a lot of bad in it. Hello, everybody. Good morning to some of you. Good evening to some of you as well. Welcome to Dodgers Territory on the Fowt Territory Network.

I am Alana Rizzo. That is Clint Paseas. It was the Muncie. game, Clint Paseas, and a very bad route by Brandon Nimmo. And good job, Freddie Freeman. What is up, C.P? I'm, you know what, I'm feeling good. I did not have a walkoff in my in my bingo card today. That game just had a lot of bad in it. I mean, the game opened so good. Dodgers put up four runs in the first inning and then they forget to, you know, do more baseball against Tyler McGill. but all things considered, if you're getting free baseball, it went the way you want.

You got a clean inning from Tanner Scott in the bottom of the tent or top of the 10th. And then walk show, hey, we know that never really works for other baseball teams. It wasn't Mokey this time. This time it was Freddie giving the Dodgers the walkoff at home. Yeah, I got to tell you, I don't know that my heart can take these games anymore. And that's what Cole is saying in our chat. Cole says my heart cannot take these games. Welcome to the chat, everybody.

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Game 61 back-to-back games, Clint, that go to the 10th inning. Didn't work out for the Dodgers yesterday. It works out for them tonight. Clayton Kershaw, a little bumpy today in the start. Again, not necessarily helped by Max Muncie's errors. but what do you take away from it? Yeah, I mean, if we're looking at the Kershaw side of things, you know, I don't want to immediately dive into the negative.

I guess he gave the team everything he could with his outing today. I would prefer to be happy for a little bit, just thinking about Muncie having a hell of a game, two homer game, three RBI game, five homers in his last three games. Dude is on an absolute tear. OPS over nine, I think it's probably closer to 930. now since being a season low 167 on April 27th. Dude is on a fire.

He's absolutely on fire. Defense also a little bit suspect. So we get into the negative. And that's kind of the interweave of this game. Like it shouldn't have gone extras. It probably shouldn't have gone extras. It shouldn't have been this type of game. But you know, whatever.

We'll take the win. That's where we're at. Yeah. What's your media take? I mean, talk about the atonement for Max Muncie. I mean, he had that error, the ninth of the season for him. That's not good. You don't want those types of numbers next to your name when it comes to

the big E. But, I mean, he did have two home runs in the game. And if it weren't for the second home run, you know, the game wouldn't have been tied. We wouldn't have had the opportunity to win this game. So Max Muncie taketh and Max Muncie giveth away. But he made up for the errors literally and figuratively. Again, you know, it's the, it's the costly error that led to those two runs that, you know, when Kirst was still on the hill, force and Kirst to throw some more pitches, forced and Kirst to, you know, have to leave the game with at the time was a loss. But you know what? That's okay. And they came back and here we are. So I'll take it. It was ugly, but I will take it. And thank you again, Freddie Freeman, you are the man. You are the man.

We also got a super chat from our friend, Richie Flores, who is on vacation right now in Alaska. He says, Dodger wins are better at 43 degrees in Alaska. Appreciate the comment. Appreciate you hanging out with us, Richie Fritz. Also with the 49. Super chat. Thank you very much. just Clayton Kirshah is not done 73.91% of the Metskot strike one on the first pitch they saw. And you see that going as much as they can, you know, have Dodgers starters going deeper into the game go Dodgers. I gave up on reading it halfway through. I apologize for that.

But listen, let's let's talk Kirsch for a second because, yeah, like you said, Muncie giveth for the Dodgers, but he also taketh away for Clayton Kirschaw there. Kirsch goes four and two thirds, six hits, five runs, three of those earned, three walks, only two Ks on the season. Could throw that up for us as well. Not his best outing, his fourth outing, a tough outing for 22. Still missing that put-away pitch, and I think it's becoming more and more evident. That first inning, a wild pitch ends up costing him.

You know, he's given up runs in each of the first, or each first inning in each of his first four starts coming back, gives up the two-run Homer to Soto, and then, of course, gets chased early in the fifth because of that, or at least thanks in part to that Max Muncie error, which again, it's another sub-conversation about the Muncie defense. We should talk about that, but with Kershaw, I don't know. What are you seeing with Clayton? You're somebody who has watched this dude, you know, for the entirety of his career. You covered him very, very closely for a long time. Where are you at in summarizing Clayton over his first four starts back from from injury and surgery.

Yeah, I mean, it's tough when you're coming off of two surgeries in the off season, but you're also talking about Clayton, I think is 37 years old. And he's definitely towards the end, if not the end of his career in terms of maybe this is the last year for Clayton, Kershaw. I still think that he knows how to compete. I still think that he knows how to pitch. He's not as effective as he used to be. And he's not automatic as he used to be.

This is something that, you know, you see Dave Roberts probably could have taken him out maybe a batter earlier, but it's also, it also speaks to the resume that Clayton Kirsha has and the faith and the respect that Dave Roberts has for Clayton Kirsha. I think that this is an issue with, you know, he doesn't have that unbelievable devastating curve anymore. I mean, Clayton Kirsha has always been a guy that, you know, if he pitches to contact, he has a lot of ground ball outs and he doesn't have that curve ball as effective as it used to be. And he doesn't have that swing and miss as much as he used to be. But I still, you know, again, this is not an ace anymore. And it's, you know, it's hard for me to say that about Kirsch. But I still think he gives

you a chance to win every single time he takes the ball. Again, you know, the errors didn't help, but he's just not the same. He's not the same, Kersh, but I still feel better with him in our rotation than I do without. Yeah, like we talked to Mark prior about a couple weeks ago. I think having the adult in the room helps a team in some way, shape, or form. For me, as somebody who, you know, watches his team both as a fan and somebody who's covered it now for the last, you know, decade-ish or whatever. It really does suck to see Kersh out this point. I don't think he's done yet.

I think we're, I wouldn't say far from done from seeing Clayton Kersha, but I, you know, he's still ramping up. But at the same time, again, it's just kind of, it's kind of sad to see, you know, time catch up to the greatest pitcher, at least of my generation, some dude that I watched, you know, throw that very first curveball to strike out. Sean Casey in a spring training game all the way back at Vero Beach when the Dodgers used to have spring training there up to including, you know, winning a couple of World Series, getting robbed of a couple of World Series, watching him have every kid in the world that you could, I think,

legally have with his wife, Ellen Kershaw. Like, you've grown up with this dude, you're seeing the gray in the beard, you're seeing him still fight and struggle and compete and want it. He's not going to be happy with himself. And that's the thing that makes me the most excited about Clayton Kirshah is that he's not going to be happy and he's going to want to do better and he's going to keep trying to challenge himself. And we had a conversation last season with Fabian Ardaya where I said kind of erroneously, Clayton finds a way to reinvent himself. No, he stays exactly the same. He just needs to get back to being that guy. He needs to get that curveball. He needs to get that slider going again and needs to get maybe just a little bit more separation

between that fastball and the slider along with the fastball command. And he can go back to being somebody that is perfectly good for this Dodger starting rotation for the next few months. And if things go really sour, maybe even into the postseason, but I'm not selling my Kirshaw stock just yet. No, I never will. I'll never sell my Kirschaw stock. Again, he's not the same guy he was a couple of years ago. And I get that.

He's not an ace anymore. He's not your number one, but I still think this guy can give you a chance to win every single time he takes the ball. And the Dodgers need him, honestly. I mean, again, if every single person was healthy in this Dodger's starting rotation, maybe that's a different conversation. But they're not. And Clayton Kirshah is going to do whatever he can to give you as much length as possible. And it tells you as much because he's undergone the knife all these times, you know, this late into his career to have never had any sort of major surgeries.

And now, you know, back to back years or I think it's three of the last four years or whatever it is, he's had, you know, significant surgeries, the shoulder. and then the knee and the foot last year. Like he realized at a certain point, I'm not done. He wants to go out on his own accord. At the same time, he's also told us a number of times he doesn't want to feel like an impediment for this team. And I don't think he's there yet. He's going to figure it out. It's only four starts.

But still, he needs some help behind him as well. So we should talk more Muncie. We could talk more positives when we come back. But first, we are going to hear from our friends at foul territory. T-Fam by now, you know if you're buying, selling, trading, collecting cards, arena club is the spot we've been talking about them all season long but I do want to focus on the slab pack experience crats since you've been ripping some slab packs digitally and what happens I mean as a kid you wanted to rip open the packs how can they do this digitally

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Unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan. He became the first bachelor to ever have his final rose rejected. The internet turned on him. If I could press a button and rewind it all, I would. But what happened to Clayton after the show made even bigger headlines. It began as a one-night stand and ended in a courtroom with Clayton at the center of a very strange paternity scandal. The media is here. This case has gone viral.

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with the stubbed toe. Mark Weiner, our producer and our boss, and all the things was like, how many flashlights do you think have been put in Mookie Betts locker because of the subtoe incident getting up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom? Bro, you make a gazillion dollars.

Get some nightlights. I would think you could hire somebody to pee for you in the middle of the night. The amount of money this kid is making these days. But not a bad game coming back off the IL. Didn't see any sort of thing that bugged him with that toe when it came to running, when it came to offense,

when it came to defense as well. I loved in the first inning. You know, he leads off his, at least his game with a single to right and scores on the Freddie Freeman double scores from first. And my friend Gail Johnson threw this one up there, Freddie to third on 1.5 ankles. Mookie scores from first on nine toes. These guys are incredible when we were all happy in the first inning. But yeah, I love seeing, you know, as much as I would be like, hey, like I said on our last

show on Monday, like maybe giving him a little bit more time. It's clear there wasn't going to be much more healing to come from one or two or three more days. Like Dave said, like he said, it's pain tolerance thing. And like he told Kirsten Watson before the game today, listen, that the pain that just kind of stopped after 48 hours. So he's feeling good. And he's good to go. Yeah, I mean, that was the thing that Oral and Joe were talking about in the Sop Bron is up. What are you doing? Oral and Joe were talking about it in the broadcast. It's not so much, you know, while he's running. It's the starting and the stopping. And it didn't seem like he was having much of an issue with that. Obviously, he was running yesterday to test it in the game today after being out of the lineup for four games. He looked great.

And I thought maybe he was going to be the hero in the 10th inning for the Dodgers, turns out. Scott says, I'm lit Alana. This series is heat. Sounds like a Mets fan. It's been a good series right now. I mean, this is this type of series so far that what the we are watching that you would love to see, uh, happen again in the NLCS or something like that. Like if it's not Dodgers, Padres in the NLCS,

you'd love to see something like this. Um, you'd like to see both teams be maybe a little bit more healthy, maybe a little bit more clean, uh, you know, playing a little more cleanly. Again,

that play embarrassing attempt by, uh, Brandon Nimmo to end that game. Oh my God. What was that route? Uh, you know, I see,

let's say also, uh, Scotty had put this in the chat as well. What about sending Andy Pahez to the moon? I'd said, I said to you and Mark just before we went live, I said that route was shades of April, Andy Pahas right there. It was pretty rough.

He's really improved though defensively and obviously Andy Pahas has been pretty dang good at the plate. You know who else I was excited for is Tanner Scott. This is exactly what Tanner Scott needed, Clint. This is not only what Tanner Scott needed. This is exactly what the Dodgers needed. I mean, this is something that when you are down as many arms as they are in the bullpen, And this guy has given up, had some blown saves recently, and obviously has been talked to a lot after the game about what's going wrong.

This is exactly what he needed to do and everything went right for him. And you think about the fact that Evan Phillips is now on the IL, Michael Kopeck is still on the IL, Kirby Yates is on the IL, Blake Trinan is on the IL. I mean, who am I missing? All these people are down. So Tanner Scott is our closer. Dave Roberts doesn't have anybody else. and he did exactly what he needed to do today.

That's the key thing right there is that he had very few others ready to go, of course, having to go to Ben Kusperius. There's no options, right? There's no options. And Tanner Scott needed to get back to why they signed him to that one year, $22 million dealer, two years or whatever the heck it was. The point is he pitched really well tonight. The funny thing is I was expecting it

because this has been his pattern in recent weeks. Over his last now eight appearances, he's giving up runs, gone clean, giving up runs gone clean given up runs so last night he gave up runs you know the the process of of deduction there tells you that this would be a clean outing and it was and he sets stage for a win and for a dodger walkoff which is what we did let's go hit that thumbs up button for a dodger win so what uh what does that mean for him tomorrow then and another save opportunity i mean he's probably down tomorrow i don't think they're going to

have him go three games in a row but okay okay semantics the next time he comes out then is what I'm, well, I'm really hoping he breaks the cycle and decides to, you know, pitch another clean outing and let's start a run of clean outings like he had earlier in the season. I think he had a stretch where he gave up one run. I can look it up right here. He gave up one run over 17 outings or something like that. Yeah, over 17 appearances, just one run. He needs to get back on that kind of a path.

And hopefully this was it because one of the things I did like about Tanner today was that he didn't seem to be as in the strike zone, which has been something. that people have harped on a lot about him he's always been kind of a nibbler try to get people to chase and he was he was low he was away he was high and it worked it worked for him yeah it did he looked good i was i was very pleased i when alex vestia was coming out i was like okay let's let's see what's going to happen here because he has been a little shaky too again but they don't have a plethora of arms to choose from and it's not a situation in a bullpen where they can you know think about you know a ton of different

matchups and left-handed versus right-handed I mean they they just need arms they need arms and that's why Luis you know Rania is here that didn't work out real well you know that type of situation he was fun he made his debut it didn't allow a run

Dave decided to pull the the Banda card pull that arm or whatever to bail him out and it worked in the ninth inning or whatever another arm another arm these Dodgers are just going through dudes right now.

That's the thing. They're just, they're looking for bodies or looking for heartbeats right now. I think, I think what is happening is Brandon Gomes and Andrew Friedman both have like Facebook marketplace

open, but they're looking for pictures. That's, that's kind of what I'm feeling right now. And it's like, I don't know, Facebook marketplace is a dangerous, is a dangerous place.

Oh, yeah. I mean, you can get murdered for a $5 dollar toaster. Like, it's just not really worth it. It's just not really worth it. Don't go buying $5. Alana, if you need a toaster,

let me know. got you fam i will i appreciate that very much i appreciate that very much let's let's take one more break then i do want to come back and talk more max muncie because i did see our our friend scotty brawn pointing out as well in the chat not to make this to all brawn chat but pointing out like hey remember when everybody wanted us in uh max munsey to the moon it's it's the feelings are a little it's because he can see now that he's doing well but defensively he's got he's got to shore some things up yes much more much more to talk about that when we come back again from our friends of FALT Territory.

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Tells me to lie down on the ground. He identified Tremaine Hudson as the perpetrator. Germain was sentenced to 99 years. I'm like, Lord, this can't be real. I thought it was a mistaken identity. The best lie is partial truth. For 22 years, only two people knew the truth, until a confession changed everything.

I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Why hasn't a woman formally participated in a Formula One race weekend in over a decade? Think about how many skills they have to develop at such a young age. What can we learn from all of the new F1 romance novels suddenly popping up every year? He still smelled of podium champagne and expensive friction. And how did a 2023 event called Wagageddon change the paddock forever?

That day? is just seared into my memory. I'm culture writer and F1 expert Lily Herman, and these are just a few of the questions I'm tackling on No Grip, a Formula One culture podcast that dives into the under-explored pockets of the sport. In each episode, a different guest and I

will go deeper into the wacky mishap, scandals, and sagas, both on the track and far away from it that have made F1 a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to No Grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. Unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan. He became the first Bachelor to ever have his final Rose rejected. The internet turned on him. If I could press a button and rewind it all I would. But what happened to Clayton after the show made even bigger headlines. It began as a one-night stand and ended in a courtroom, with Clayton. Clayton at the center of a very strange paternity scandal.

The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. Please search for it. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped.

This season, an epic battle of He Said She Said, and the search for accountability in a sea of lies. Listen to Love Trapped on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you. You get your podcasts. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime. He pulls the gun. Tells me to lie down on the ground.

He identified Tremaine Hudson as the perpetrator. Termaine was sentenced to 99 years. I'm like, Lord, this can't be real. I thought it was a mistaken identity. The best lie is partial truth. For 22 years, only two people knew the truth, until a confession changed everything. I was a monster.

Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Why hasn't a woman formally participated? in a Formula One race weekend in over a decade. Think about how many skills they have to develop at such a young age. What can we learn from all of the new F1 romance novels suddenly popping up every year? He still smelled of podium champagne and expensive friction.

And how did a 2023 event called Wagageddon change the paddock forever? That day is just seared into my memory. I'm culture writer and F1 expert Lily Herman, and these are, are just a few of the questions I'm tackling on No Grip, a Formula One culture podcast that dives into the under-explored pockets of the sport. In each episode, a different guests and I will go deeper into the wacky mishap, scandals, and sagas, both on the track and far away from it, that have made F1 a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to No Grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Of course, we signed up as well for

the chat, BCC. Do check that out. And all the other ads and promotions that you hear when you're watching the show or listening to the show. Thank you for supporting the people that support us and the Fowel Territory Network. And also thanks for supporting us again, getting us 10,000 subscribers. Max Muncie. We've got to talk Max Muncie because, again, since the glasses, since he could munsee things again, he's been on fire with the bat. We already talked about that.

But again, the defense, nine errors now on the season that's second most in baseball. Funny enough, you know who the leader is, Mani Machado. So there's a little bit of something there. We're talking about a former platinum glove award winning third baseman having 11 errors versus Max Muncie at nine. I mean, that's why they call it the hot corner, right? That's why they call it the hot corner. It's a tough, it's a tough place to play. And, you know, again, I'm not making excuses.

I don't, I don't, he's got to get better defensively. It is what it is. But I mean, you're going to, right now you're going to keep him in the lineup no matter what because of the bat. It's not like you're going to take him out defensively. We have a DH. So Max Muncie is going to have to figure out. how to play a better third base defensively. Again, he atoned for himself tonight with the bat,

but the glove isn't good right now. I mean, I don't know how you fix that. I don't know if you take a billion ground balls over there. I don't know if you, you know, I don't know how you fix it, but he definitely has to get better because, you know, it's one thing to have it in the regular season, but if that type of shit crap, you know, creeps up in the postseason, then you're in trouble.

And I mean, obviously, this is a team that's going to get to the postseason. And those are the types of things in the postseason. They're typically very close games, that that's going to come back to bite you. So he'll figure, I mean, nobody feels worse about it than Max. Oh, yeah. I just don't know what the solution is. They've had that conversation as well.

And he's frustrated, of course, Dave Roberts' front office is frustrated. But at some point, you know, like, there's not another option knocking down the door to play third base for this team. And no, they're not going to go trade for old man Nolan Aronado, who's not having a great season by his own right. Yeah, the defense is always stellar when you're talking about Nolan Aronado. But the bat is much below. what Muncie is at, what he's providing right now. It seems to be a throwing issue more than more often than not for Muncie. So I know he's working with Chris Woodward on kind of getting the arm slot going there.

But hopefully time kind of heals all wounds for him because this team absolutely needs him. Like you're saying, you have those kind of errors in a big game of the postseason. It's an absolute gut punch. And we saw that with Kershow. I mean, this is a dude who needs every amount of help he can get at this stage in his career. So hopefully he figures it out, man. Yeah, I think the footwork is there. I think, you know, his range has always been a little bit suspect.

I just don't know, you know, again, if it is the arm slot, if it is throwing, you know, Gavin Lux had that issue too. I mean, that's why a big reason Gavin Lux isn't here is because he couldn't throw. And he, you know, he couldn't hit the target. So, you know, yeah, that's what I mean. I know it's different angles. I know all the things. But again, you're going to keep Max in there, obviously, with that bat. I still think Max Munson is going to hit 25, 30 home runs.

He does it every single year, whether he has a slow start or not. You know, we're 60 games in. I certainly think that Max is going to have, you know, probably 25 to 30 home runs again. But hopefully the defense improves because it will certainly need to because, again, in a postseason game, that's tough. All right. One last thing before we get out of here, do you have an anointed player? of this game?

I'm going to give it to Tanner Scott. I think he needed that. I think he really, I mean, the obvious is Muncie, but then again, you're talking about the errors too. So I think Tanner Scott needed that. And this Dodger team needed that. I mean, he had a very clean inning. He shut down what he needed to do.

I'm going to give it to him. Yeah, I mean, not a bad answer right there at all. I'm going the other way, or I'm going the first arm that came out of the bullpen, as I usually love to do. Let's talk about Benny Caps going, what do you pick up? Eight outs for this team. I mean, absolutely love this kid. Bailed out Kershaw there in that fifth inning.

Pitches the next two innings, just perfectly clean. I do not know where this team would be without Ben Kasparius this year. And they need to find a way to clone him because they could use two or three more of him. That's the thing. We're just so banged up. That's the thing. Yeah, he's done a great job. No, no takeaway from him.

I just think for mentally and moving forward, what Tanner Scott was able to do tonight is key. I think it'll obviously help him. He needed that big time. Bigly, as the kids say. But I think that's about good. I mean, we feel good. Might as well celebrate. You can celebrate by hitting the hay because it is quite early in the morning for you.

It's almost 2 a.m. But don't forget, guys, we are going to be back on Thursday. But since it's a 110 Pacific start in Los Angeles, a 410 start. a 4-10 start here. Clint and I are going to be back with another post-game show on Dodgers territory on Thursday. It doesn't make sense for us to go on at noon when the game starts at 1.

So thanks for being with us again. Thanks so much for helping us get to 10,000 subscribers. We appreciate you guys very much. Always love the chat. Dodgers have evened up the series. Two more games against the Metropolitan's, still an opportunity to win the series. And Clint and I will see you on Thursday.

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