Dodgers Territory - Pinstripe Derek Joins! Ohtani Status, Big Game Buehler

Episode Date: October 28, 2024

The Dodgers bring a 2-0 series lead to New York and history is on their side.(1:04) DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas preview Game 3, diving into the latest on Shohei Ohtani’s shoulder injury and his game-time status in the lineup.(5:50) Can the Yankees get back into this series? Pinstripe Territory's Derek Levandowski joins to talk all things Bronx Bombers, Aaron Judge and more!(22:16) Plus, every reason to feel good about Walker Buehler getting the ball for LA.Subscribe on YouTube!  DT is LIVE on Mondays & Thursdays at 12p PT/3p ET all year long!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I tell you what, it feels like a two and oh Monday. I don't know what it feels like to you, but hello everybody. And welcome to Dodgers Territory. We are your host. That is Clint Paseous. I am Alana Rizzo. We are psyched that you were with us. Thanks for being here.

Like us, rate us five stars. Subscribe all the things, not only on YouTube, but wherever you get your podcast, do not forget that Clint and I in our Dodgers territory crew will be live post game for the rest of the way, whether that be two more games or five more games. We will be with you the rest of the way. Thanks so much for being here. And don't forget that we're also going to have Derek Lewandowski of Pinstripe territory joining us momentarily.

He's going to get the Yankee perspective, get your tissues out. But before that, how about show or no show? Let's get to that. Let's do it. And that front end is courtesy of Derek Lewandowski. So we appreciate that very much. But obviously, Clint, when you see Shohei go down in the seventh inning with a shoulder subluxation, that makes you panic.

But it looks like he's going to be okay. And I can't imagine. universe in which show hay does not play do you share that sentiment yeah i i feel pretty dang confident about show hey being in the lineup tonight i think everybody in the world does dodgers paired it back a little bit of course we saw the report yesterday espn carl ravich coming out saying he heard via text from show hey or somebody in his camp that he was going to be in the lineup he's fine of course the dodgers do that thing they do where they pull back a little bit on that uh give themselves an out if needed but i i would

I will go jump into my freezing pool before game time if Shohay is not in the lineup. I don't know if that's a thing, but he will be in there. He's going to be in there. I mean, he's going to, I would take, I was said this the other day on X. I said it just now on MLB Network with Juan Toribio, who joined me from Yankee Stadium, actually, that I would take every cortisol shot, every cordzone shot, every horse tranquilizer, every Mr. Miyagi, whatever you need to get Shohei, shove that shoulder right back in there, get two more. more wins and then you can figure out the rehab process and get some rest. So I feel very confident that Shohay will be in there. All right. Let's go from that to the big ticket. All right. We got it. All right. So let's do that game two recap. What's your takeaway from it? I like it. Dodgers won.

So I like it. Yamamoto looked incredible. I was hoping that we would do a post game after that just so I could gently shove in your face that Yamamoto was worth that 12-year 375, or sorry, 325. He looked so, so damn good in that game, too. What did I say when I texted you? I said he better be the ace, because you texted me, Ace. I said, well, for 12 years, $325 million, he should be. However, I agree with you.

He looked great. That's exactly what they needed. He's pitched unbelievably well in two of his starts against the New York Yankees, both obviously that one in June, which didn't matter as much, and it was a very different Yankee team, but he pitched really good. 86 pitches. Would you have tried to let him finish the seventh?

I would not have been opposed to watching him, you know, get through that seventh, but also given him that opportunity to walk off the mound with, you know, all the excitement, all the pomp and circumstance, getting a standing ovation, very much well-deserved standing ovation for Shohei,

I mean, for Shohei's friend, his teammate Yoshino Yuamamoto. Yeah, I'm fine with six and a third. We know that's how this Dodgers team is running. We know that's how they're going to operate this entire postseason, hopefully just two more games with all due respect to Darren Lewandowski, who is waiting to join us in the second. They're going to ride that bullpen.

That's what they need to do. That's what they want to do. Don't give these teams any opportunity to get back into the games. And Alana, Dodgers find themselves in a very, very good situation if history continues to be on our side. 84% of teams who have taken a 2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1. That's pretty fun.

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All right. What about that Homer happy offense? How about that? So you have obviously, Edmond. our boy, Tay Oscar, Extenteo, and obviously Freddie Freeman. So that's what you need. You need really good pitching. You need your sluggers to slug, but you also need good defense and base running,

which the Dodgers have had and the Yankees have had not. Yeah. You take runs anyway. You can get them, of course. Dodgers through most of this postseason have kind of relied on offense through all kinds of ways. We've seen the bunt getting down. We've seen, you know, singles keep the line moving. We've also seen some slug.

I didn't expect them to turn to the slug, you know, at Dodger Stadium when we're getting this late into October because, you know, the ball does not fly as far as often at this time of year. But, you know, again, you take what you can get. It's been a very, very good series. Yankees very, you know, easily, it could be 1-1. It could be 0-2 for the Dodgers. But thankfully, you know, again, getting just enough offense. Tommy Edmund doing Tommy Edmund things. Freddie Freeman taking advantage of that time off and the ankle feeling good.

But I think it's about time we welcome in our, I don't want to call him our sad Yankees friend. No, he's our counterpart. He's our counterpart on the other side. Derek Lewandowski, welcome to the show, friend. He is the head and the owner and the engine full of steam behind Pinstrype territory. He also, of course, is a big part of what we do here on Dodgers territory on the Fowl Territory Network. So Derek, okay, I promise you I wouldn't be mean. And I want a good series.

I do. I want a good series. So your take, first of all, is the Bronx burning. And what is, how are you feeling right now, my friend? I know you're not as a journalist supposed to say, how are you feeling? But how are you feeling? Well, I mean, you were probably right in your initial analysis, sad Yankees fan. You know, I've been thinking about that 20% chance that the Yankees have.

I saw 20. I guess Clint saw 16%. but you know, I've been thinking about 20% to see my cat go by there. Look, that is obviously not great odds if you're a Yankee. If you had a headache and I gave you five pills and I said,

one of these will cure your headache and four of them will kill you, you'd probably just say, I'll deal with the headache. On the other hand, if the power ball was $200 million and, you know, you had a 20% chance to win, I'm sure you'd buy a ticket. So it's all on how you look at it in perspective.

Bottom line, Yankees got to play. better. They got to manage the bullpen better. I didn't love the Cortez move in game one. I actually, I posted in our slack about two seconds before Freeman went deep. I said, Kurt Gibson moment incoming. And you told me to shut up, Alana, you told me to stuff it. And, you know, no straderek right there. But look, we got no chance unless Aaron Judge starts hitting. You guys know that. I mean, Aaron Judge is one of the best hitters in the game. If he doesn't hit, we got no shot. Usually on this podcast will kill you, we talk. Talk about the diseases, infections, and biological threats that can make us really sick.

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Give me one of these. Alana also told me to shut up. He's no Kurt Gibson. bye-bye goes ball um listen there's a lot of things we could dive into uh with all this derrick because i do agree um erin uh erin boone not managing the series extremely well it's to me it's giving early dave roberts postseason davy we a lot and i have gone on a whole bunch this this october about how dave is kind of he's grown he's in he's in the pocket right now he's every move he's making is working out in the past a lot of the moves did not work out and

It's not Dave's fault. Sometimes players need to perform, but Aaron Boone, not getting a lot of help. Not getting a lot of help out of his number three guy. I watched your postgame show, some of the beginning, the vitriol, not the vitriol, but the scathing rebuke of Aaron Judge. You guys need Aaron Judge going. This is a Yankees lineup that needs the captain to do something. What's going on with Aaron Judge? And I hear there might be a standing ovation, Trey Turner situation in the works there at Yankee Stadium tonight.

Yeah, apparently a lot of fans want to show him some love tonight, and I hope they do, but just know if you're watching the game and you're not used to watching Yankees fans. If the overwhelming show of love at the beginning of the game doesn't work, you're going to see some tough love in about the third at bat. And, you know, it's going to be raining booze if he goes 0 for two with a couple of strikeouts. Look, we just had Verducci on foul territory, and he was talking about how judge, is late on the fastball. He's early on the breaking ball. And I think that that's a perfect way to describe it. He's just in between. He's clearly pressing. I mean, to say he can't hit in the

clutch is not entirely accurate because he's done it before. You look at 2018 against the Red Sox. He absolutely murdered the Red Sox in that series. He hit a big two run home run off of Emmanuel Claisse, one of the most incredible home runs I've ever seen in my life in game three of the ALCS, but it became a footnote, and it kept this storyline alive because the Yankees blew that game. He needs a big moment in a game that the Yankees win. I said to the guys on foul territory this morning, the Yankees need a three-run, home run out of judge in the first inning as bad as anyone has ever needed it because you got to get that monkey off your back. You got to get the life into the stadium. You can't have this game one, one in the eighth inning

because you just feel like the pressure is continuing to grow. You don't want to fall down behind three nothing. We've been through that before. And, you know, on both ends of that, unfortunately. But, yeah, I just think Judge needs a big hit in his first at bat. Do you move him down in the lineup, or is that too disrespectful to your captain? Well, so I don't think the Yankees are going to do that. Status quo is kind of the way they do things there.

And, you know, if you move him down in the lineup, that's just basically saying you have no confidence in them. You further damage that confidence. Look at 2006. Arod was struggling in the playoffs from game four of 2004 through 2005 and through the first, I believe, two or three games of 2006. And Joe Tori moved him to eighth in the lineup. And Arod still won't shut up about it.

He still is pissed off about that. And it was a lot of stuff Arod won't shut up about. But I think it was a bad move. I think it hurt Arod's confidence. I don't think you want to mess around with Judge, right? you know, the pressure is just on judge. He's getting paid $40 million. So what? It's pressure. Deal with it. Hit. You know. So, yeah, you have, you have to perform, no doubt. So, so we got, uh, we got a pitching matchup tonight of two very, very different levels of

postseason experience with Walker Bueller, of course, pitched in all of the biggest games, has a ring to his name. And Clark Schmidt, when we, we spoke last week, the end of last week, you know, you were high on Clark Schmidt. But he, but he was, he's somebody who hasn't been on this stage, not a whole lot of postseason experience. What does this kid Clark Schmidt need to do to, I mean, the season's not over tonight for the Yankees, but it's effectively over tonight if they lose. What does he got to do against this Dodgers lineup, whether it has show hay or no show hey? Well, Clark Schmidt's problem is that he doesn't get deep into games.

He'll give you two times through the order really well. He doesn't get bombed. You'll never see him give up like seven, eight runs. It just doesn't happen. The most he gave up in a game this year was four. He did that twice. I believe he's got second most starts of three runs or less in baseball over the last couple of years. He can be really, really incredible when he's cruising because he just pounds that knuckle curve ball.

He throws a good cutter. The problem is that third time through the order. So what he's got to do is get through five innings. I don't care how many pitches it takes. Don't give up the long ball. Don't give up the crooked number. And then you hand it off to the bullpen and you hope that the offense has helped you out. I want to supplement this with a story about El Duque, Orlando Hernandez. Back in 1998,

the Yankees were in a two one hole to the Cleveland, then Indians in the ALCS. And Orlando Hernandez had never made a postseason start before. And that morning, he was serving breakfast to the people in the hotel. He was nice and relaxed. And one of the reporters asked him, hey, why are you so relaxed? You're starting tonight, you know, for the first time in the playoffs, it's a big game. And he said, well, if I wasn't nervous, you know, coming to America with the shark circling around my raft, I'm not going to be nervous to pitch in a baseball game. Clark Schmidt has that same type of attitude. That's the one thing that I feel benefits the Yankees tonight.

Clark Schmidt is a guy who has supreme confidence. He is incredibly confident and nothing is going to bother him. He's just one of those shake it off kind of guys. You know, Billy Bean once said that, you know, he would go 0 for four in a game in the minor leagues. and, you know, Lenny Dykstra was his teammate, and he would also go O for four. And Bean would be kicking himself in the dugout, and Dikeser would be like, oh, where we're going for dinner. Like, that's the type of guy that Clark Schmidt is. He's the where we're going for dinner guy.

Aaron Judge is the, you know, I was O for five guy. Yeah, well, Clark Schmidt might be going to a lot of vacation dinners early. I have to ask you this, though. I have to ask you this, Derek. Who is the Yankees Tommy Edmund? Who needs to step up in the middle of the bar? bottom part of the order like Edmund has for the daughters. If your stars aren't going to star, who has to step up for you guys? Well, he's been creeping back up in the order, but

jazz chisholm. You've seen him get a couple of hits in this series. He's done some damage on the basis. He's also got power, but I don't want to see him swinging for the fences. You know, when he is struggling, it's because he's trying to lift the ball into the seats. If he focuses on having tough at bats like you saw in the ninth inning of game two and doing damage on the bases like you saw late in game one. He can be an X factor. He can change an inning and make a run by himself. And also Anthony Volpe, you know, he was having a very good postseason coming into this series has not had a great series yet. But maybe, you know, playing in front of the home crowd. He's a local kid, 23 years old, grew up a Yankee fan, was wearing a Yankees hat and jersey

the day he came home from the hospital, much like I did. If he can come through in front of the big crowd, it might set him off for, you know, the next three games. But again, he can't be chasing pitches a foot and a half outside. How important is that Yankee Stadium crowd to this team? Can that be something that kind of gets them back on track? They're going to be nervous, for sure. The anxiety will be palpable. The air will be thick. But I think it's more, I think it's more a product of how the Yankees perform early on in the game. If they get an early lead, that crowd is going to be nuts all night and possibly all series. If they win a big game tonight, you know, that crowd is going to be a problem tomorrow. I feel like it's incumbent on the Yankees to score early to set the tone

because if you fall behind early, if you're down four or five nothing early in the game, the crowd doesn't matter. Go look at the 2004 ALCS game seven after the Red Sox clawed back from a three nothing deficit. They jumped out to an early lead in the first and second inning. Johnny Damon hit a grand slam. He had a big home run from David Ortiz. And then they just dragged the Yankees across the field for three hours. It was a mugging. And the crowd was completely not a part of it. In fact, most of them were gone by the seventh eighth inning. I tell you, that's the reputation Dodgers fans get that they arrive late and leave early. It's because of the flipping traffic folks. It has nothing to do with the game.

All right. All right. So if you're the Yankees lineup, how are you jumping on Bueller? Because as much confidence as you have in Clark Schmidt, deservedly so, they've got to get on Bueller early and rattle, you know, him mentally. What do you do in that situation? How do you get on him? I think you got to just see a ball hit ball tonight, just attack.

You got to get the pressure off, you know. If you start having these deep counts, you start bringing the strike out. into play in a big spot. I think it's one of those nights where you got to be aggressive. You got to hit your way out of it. Right. Honestly, it's on Bueller to throw strikes. Like if he's not pounding the strike zone, the Yankees are going to make him get the ball in the zone. And if he is getting the ball in the zone, the Yankees are going to have to be aggressive with it. You can't be taking two-o fastballs down the middle like Judge did the other night. You've got to be aggressive. You've got to get this crowd going. I want to see Juan Soto be aggressive

tonight. I know he's a guy who likes to pass the baton. With Judge not hitting, I think Soto needs to jump on anything in the zone that he can and try and, you know, put one in the seats or put it in the gap and get this offense jump started. Usually on this podcast will kill you, we talk about the diseases, infections, and biological threats that can make us really sick. But right now, we're doing something a little different. We're stepping back and looking at what the human body needs to keep going. When you consider what we know about sleep in humans, there's a lot of one rule that comes out. We are predictably unpredictable

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game here either way I'm looking forward to Dodgers going up three nothing in this series but I'm not opposed I said Dodgers in five I saw you said, I say your name here in e-cam, the Yankees in six. You know, let's just say that made the best team win. Hopefully the Yankees can do a little bit of something, but not too, too much. Of course, we'll be post-gaming. Guys followed Derek on the social medias as well. He's post-gaming afterwards.

And, you know, he's in the zone right now as well. I'm enjoying the post-game stuff. I'm enjoying the voicemails. You know, not the pain of Yankees fans, but it's been fun to just see. see both sides of it. You do a great job, man. By the way, I saw, I was on your show the other day, and I was in the green room, and I saw your, your voicemail template, and I just, I just fucking stole it. I just took it, and I copied it, and I put it in Yankees colors, and now I have the same layout.

So I saw that. I appreciate it. I told the missus is like, you know, because I was watching this, I'm pretty sure Derek stole my idea, and I love it. But it's okay. I stole your thumbnail template, so we're even. Oh, see, we're all family here across the platforms on foul territory. Derek, seriously, thanks for everything. You do such a great job. Nobody's a bigger Yankee fan than you are. Appreciate you coming on. And honestly, let's have a good game.

Let's make it a fun series. Appreciate it. We'll see you guys after game seven. All right. You wish. Derek Lewandowski on Pennstripe Territory. All right, guys, time now for Leslix. All right, let's introduce you to Jack.

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all of that, all of that moment, walk off Grand Slam, you know, you don't want to do that. You don't want to get into that hubris of saying the Dodgers are going to sweep and it's hard enough as a baseball fan as a sports fan but you know i felt that down deep down on my core i was like i just can't see this game the series going six or seven i can't see it coming back to l a i might not even see it going to a game five dodgers got bueller tonight you got a bullpen tomorrow bullpen has been really good might be a brent honeywell starting for the dogs that then bullpen dogs tomorrow very very very good spot and

And again, don't be surprised if this goes for. I'm not going to, I don't think they're going to sweep. I do think they get the win tonight, but I do think, and I do agree with you. I think Brent Honeywell is the opener, if you will, because he is scheduled to appear on the podium. And that just kind of context clues makes me think that he's actually going to start today or start tomorrow for that bullpen game. But a bullpen game is tough. They'll probably start Louise Heel tomorrow. I doubt they bring Garrett Cole back on short rest.

I mean, they may because it's do or die, obviously. but I do think they win tonight. And I, you know, I don't think I, they win in five if they win tonight. But I don't think they sweet. Let's talk, hold on. Let's talk Bueller a little bit because we didn't do that, you know, in the big ticket. But Walker Bueller, we've said it. We've kind of tried to believe in it all postseason long.

Granted, this is only somehow his third start, which it feels like when you play this deep in October, which Dodgers haven't done for a while, you forget how long the postseason is. But this is his spot. This is his moment. He's going into hostile territory. He's been on these massive stages before. What do you like about Bueller in a game three in New York? Because he thrives.

He's the Kike Hernandez of the pitching staff. I mean, he thrives in October moments, right? I mean, this is a guy that lives for this moment. It doesn't matter what you. It's like I said the other day, I don't care if Kike Hernandez gets all hit in the regular season. But I want him on every postseason roster. I want him in every postseason lineup. And this is what I like about Walker Bueller in these moments.

Walker has some tenacity. And Walker has, for whatever reason, a chip on his shoulder, or at least that attitude, that confidence that you need in these big moments. You know, I see a lot of Oral Hersheyzer in Walker. Obviously, not the exact type of stuff, but very different pictures, obviously. But I see, I see just that fire that you need. He exemplifies what an ace should have in this type of situation, you know. And he loves to be doubted.

And he's really struggled, I think, mentally trying to just get back to that form. And I think the last couple of outings, you're starting to see that that's coming back. And he doesn't care where he pitches. I mean, he doesn't care. Walker almost like, like craves it. Like bring it. Let's go type of situation. And he's going to get that tonight, you know, in the Bronx with the Yankee fans.

And they're going to be tight, like Derek said. They're going to be, you know, very nervous and stress. and tensed and tense and it's going to be palpable, but that's okay. I think if Walker can attack them early, and if you can get, you know, get through the first, you know, the order the first time through and you hold them to zeros, I think that's going to, that's going to speak volumes. Yeah. Let me last time we saw Walker pitching, you know, it was in New York.

The stuff looked nasty. He talked about really liking pitching at City Field. Hopefully it's something similar at Yankee Stadium. Of course, Yankee Stadium, you know, a little bit like Astros Ballpark, Minute Made Ballpark, east ball can fly out you got to watch that stuff that can go over that short porch in in right field uh you know won sodo's a guy i'm very very much watching versus walker bueller because bueller did struggle a lot during left the versus lefties this year um but still it's it's it's walker eff and bueller this is the biggest moment we're going to have this season for him uh he's he's

pitching for a contract he's pitching for a world series he talks about how how important these starts are to him and I expect to see more of something special just like we have you know most of this postseason out of him ideally the defense helps out behind him but we're we're in a good spot we got one more $10 super chip by the way thank you Christopher navar we appreciate that nostridumass predictions for tonight final score who goes yard go ahead no's noster dumbass let's see you know what I got I've got five three Dodgers And, you know, give me some Tommy Edmund Bamba tonight because why not? You think so?

Okay. I'm going to go. Short porch, Will Smith. I need to see Will do something. Yeah, but he's not. All right. I would say I'm going to go, Freddie goes yard again. Ooh.

And Taye Oskar goes yard again. I like that. Okay. But I say, I'll go with your score. I like 5.3. But I'm going to say Edmund and, or Freddie and Tayon. and to ask her. The good guys win.

That's the important thing, guys. Do not forget. We will be back here right after the game. Another Dodger Territory postgame show, all World Series long, hopefully just two more games, but two been here. Jump into the comments. There's a parade inside my city, as they say. I think if we lose tonight, I might also do a post-post game show on my channel,

but to hype me a little bit, I just had a former Dodgers reliever Javi Gera on the channel. We talked about the series. And Javier won the 2019 World Series with the Washington Nationals who were in a very similar spot. He's yeah, he's great. He's really good dude. I appreciate my podcast network for linking us up.

But the Washington Nationals were up to nothing over the Houston Astros in that 2019 World Series before they lost the next three. So I talked to him about that and how the Dodgers can avoid that. and maybe the idea of some complacency or whatever it is. But we feel good. We feel good, gang. Dodgers in four. Let's do it.

Okay. I'm still going to say Dodgers and I guess at this point. I still say six. If they win tonight, it's Dodgers in five. Thanks for being with us. Don't forget to catch our postgame show tonight. And after every single game, the remainder of the way, thank you to Derek Lewandowski for joining us.

Thanks all of you for joining us. And don't forget, we'll see you tonight right after the game. Bye. Bye. Peace of the planet. Shalameen the God here. And listen, We are back.

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