Dodgers Territory - The Dodgers are Moving On to the WORLD SERIES! Shohei Ohtani Greatest Game Ever?

Episode Date: October 18, 2025

Clint Pasillas and guest co-host Blake Harris share instant reactions to NLCS Game 4 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers on October 17, 2025! With a 3 homer and 6 scoreless inning night, did Shohei Ohtani put together the greatest game ever? Our thoughts.And the Dodgers are heading to the World Series for the 5th time in 9 years. Who do we want to face between the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays? We discuss.Dodgers Territory is presented by FOX One: Start your 7-day free trial today at FOXOne.comDownload the DraftKings Pick6 app now and use code FOUL – play just $5, get $50 in Pick6 bonus picks.Go to Surfshark.com/foul or use code FOUL at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN!Check out DT merch at dodgersterritoryshop.com!Support Guidry's Guardian at guidrysguardian.orgFind Clint on YouTube at youtube.com/@alldodgers!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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The Brewers were dismantled by the Dodgers in this series. Otani takes over tonight. We said it about 45 times last night. The boys did not want to play baseball this weekend. What is going on, party people? Welcome to Dodgers Territory. Presented by Fox One, how sweep it is. The Dodgers are your 2025 National League champions.

They win the pennant. That is not Alana Rizzo on my right. We'll talk about that in a second. but the Brewers were dismantled by the Dodgers in this series. Otani takes over tonight in game four. We said it about 45 times last night. The boys did not want to play baseball this weekend, and they are not playing baseball this weekend.

Alana is out tonight. Filling in for her is my buddy. That is Blake Harris. You know him as one of your favorite Dodgers follows on the Internet. He writes about these Dodgers on his popular substack, Thinking Blue with Blake Harris. And Blake, we're talking before the show here, before we decided to go live.

This was like a, I don't know, it was like a really good series. It could have been better. It was like it. I mean, we won. The Dodgers won. This is what you want. But the Brewers could have made it more of a series at some point. What are your initial thoughts here after game four?

Yeah, I think my words were it's like the least dominant sweep I've ever seen like in any baseball series. Like obviously you love to sweep any team. It doesn't matter how you get there, four wins or four wins. but like you said as well, the Brewers, I mean, they were essentially in almost every game. A couple things go the way here and there. We're talking about game five tomorrow and possibly going back to Milwaukee. So again, very happy we got to see the sweep.

But yeah, it was just a really interesting series where both offenses never really got things clicking for various reasons. Now, somebody who got things clicking very well today with Shohay Otani. Guys, sound off in the comments. Let us know what you thought about this game, what you think about the sweep, what you think about the Dodgers advancing to the World Series once again. You know, and I got a button. I'm going to hit that applause button for that one. We'd be stupid to not call this the Shohei Otani game.

Just a special performance, outright dominant performance from Shohei Otani. Three Homer game led the stat cast numbers in basically everything with the whiffs in there, with the pitch velocity, exit velocity. on the homers, the distance on the homers, by the way. My buddy, Kevin Skinner, said Quentin Tarantino would love it because there's a lot of show hey feet tonight. There's 200, sorry, 1,342 feet in show bombs tonight between those three homers. It goes without saying a game like this has never happened where a pitcher hit three

homers and, sorry, a player hit three homers and struck out 10 batters, also to clean. lynch a game. You could throw that in there. But just the first two parts, you've never seen anything like this. And this is what we've been waiting for with Shohei Otani. I think everyone can agree that this is probably the greatest postseason performance in MLB history. But the more I think about it, Clint, maybe I can get your two cents on this. Think it back on this now. Obviously, what Show he did last year in Miami, people consider that one of the greatest single game performances ever. But after giving it some thought, can we get on board that this actually might be the single-handed greatest performance in it will be history, given the circumstances, given the

fact that Shohei sent the Dodgers to the World Series, again, three home runs at the plate, 10 strikeouts on the mound, six scoreless innings. Am I getting too cute? Am I jumping the gun a little bit to say that this needs to be a consideration for the greatest overall performance in MLB history? No, absolutely not. This is absolutely in that conversation because again, you just plainly do not see that happen. You don't see one dude hit three homers. I mean, we, We still talk about Clayton's, you know, Complete Game Shutout. I think it was a shuddy. Yeah, Complete Game Shutout.

He hits a Homer. Now, Shohei Otani, that was opening day. This is an NLCS clincher, a pennant-winning clincher right here. Shoah hits three bombs. Again, I'll put the feet up back on the screen if people want it, which is a weird way to say it. Over almost 1,400 feet in homers tonight and striking out 10 brewers who, heading into the postseason were a very good hitting ball club. just either didn't have it in this series or the Dodger starting pitching a bit too much for them in this series.

But yeah, I think without question, this is the greatest baseball performance in MLB history. Yeah, I mean, it's insane. It's insane. I mean, the first home run, you're thinking, wow, great, he's officially back. Then the second home run, the second one is winning was hit out of the stadium. And everyone was just in awe like, man, this is the goat. And then literally as he was coming to the plane that lasted bad, my girlfriend literally says to me, there is no chance he hits his third. There's just no way.

And I was like, I don't know. The way he's looking tonight, you never know. Then he just goes, you know, the opposite way to left center. And like you said, what was it, Clint, 1,300 feet tonight total? 1,342 feet in Homer tonight. Wouldn't Tarantino, wouldn't Tarantino wishes he could see 13142 feet? He wishes he could see that amount. Well, I think he saw it tonight if he was watching.

Yeah. Gives the guy, he's a little bit of a creep, as the point here, is what we're saying. What I loved about that, he had that Homer, you know, obviously he clears, he gives the double bird there to Kyle Schwarber, clears the pavilion in right field there, put that plaque up on the wall. I saw somebody say that, Denny Cortez saying that put up that plaque stat. You know, FU, Kyle Schwerber, he said, I got this. We're getting myself one out there in that right field at Dodger Stadium. Just a majestic ball. They were everything he hit tonight.

Obviously, every ball he hit that was, you know, it went out. It went out as the point there. Just it was, it sounded different off the bat. It sounded like what we have heard when Shohay is on a heater. And we've been wondering, we've been waiting, hey, when is this dude going to wake up? This is not the show hey that we're kind of used to. Is he going to be the Dodgers version of Aaron Judge unable to perform in the postseason? Sorry to producer Mark listening in who is a Yankees fan.

No, no, he is. He's the real deal now all of a sudden with a three homer game, 10 strikeout performance, 6 plus, no earned runs, two hits on the night. Just absolutely special, special stuff. It's like, dude, it's insane. Like, again, it's which way do you want to go? Because had it not been for the three home runs, we'd be talking about this pitching performance and the fact that he once again looks like a top five pitcher in all baseball. And it's kind of unfortunate because this is a game I want to talk about his pitching because

he looked untouchable. Like you said, he only had two hits. He did have a little bit of command issues throughout the game. You know, he had three walks. But everyone's just going to remember the three home runs. It just brushed over the fact that, no, this guy looks like legitimately the best pitcher in all of baseball. So, again, I still can't believe it.

And this is going to be one of those games when we're old and great. Ray Clint's 50 years from now. And when the Dodgers are, you know, 50 games under 500 because Guggenheim, you know, they spent all this money. They're no more. We're going to say, hey, remember back in the day when Shelly did that? That was a good time. As, you know, we're talking about our 17 World Series championships.

They won in the prime. But an insane day. Absolutely insane day. And, you know, again, overall, just a really, really good series for the Dodgers. Like, like you said, it was not the cleanest series. It was not the best series. it took a good amount of the brewers kind of shooting themselves in the foot. You saw yesterday with Abner-Aribe deciding to, you know, go for a completely ill-advised pick-off throw,

throws that into right field, and, you know, Dodgers get another run there. You had one in the, what, third inning, I think it was. Perkins, the center fielder gets doubled up from Kike Hernandez. Like, just not a very clean brand of baseball from Milwaukee that absolutely the Dodd Dodgers will take, but there are things that coming out of this game, coming out of this series, yes, we are stoked, we are happy the Dodgers. They don't have to play baseball for a week, which is both sucky, but also really, really cool when you do sweep.

There are things they could work on. There are things that they can improve on, probably, but right now we are happy that they are going back to the World Series. That's what you pay for, that's what you play for. you know, after watching this team struggle for a few months, honestly, in the middle parts of the season, and we're kind of wondering, did they not do enough at the trade deadline? Do they need more? Is there just, when are they going to get rid of Michael Conforto or whatever?

Conforto was just a placeholder for Kike Hernandez the entirety of the season. You know, it was all just, they were resting up. They're resting up for this to do just enough. In this game and this series, I'm saying they did just. enough to win. Maybe they're saving more for the World Series against either the Mariners or the Toronto Blue Jays. More to talk about in this game. We do have to get a word in for myself and Alana who will be here for this as we tell you about Draft Kings. Football is back and so is your shot at big wins with Draft Kings pick six, the official daily fantasy partner of the NFL. Your game day

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Check out the link in the description below for more information. let's take a step back in this game. Obviously, a lot of the damage was done in the first inning. Shohei Otani strikes out the side. He walks the lead off batter, strikes out the side, comes up, hits his first homer. Dodgers put up three in that first inning. And I was sitting there on my couch at that point, finishing an egg salad sandwich to let everybody really understand the scenario I was in.

Happy birthday to me. I was like, this is ball game, bro. This is it. There's no way the Brewers are coming back from three runs with how Shohei Otani looked in, you know, in that first inning. What was, what was your feeling after that, that first inning for the Dodgers? Oh, yeah. After the first inning, I'm thinking, man, we're going to be getting in the mop-up guys,

you know, later in this game because it's going to be like a 10-run game. It was so weird. Like, the entire game, especially after the Show-Hey home run, it just felt like the Dodgers were up six, seven, eight runs, but they never actually really pulled away. And I'm maybe later in the game, too, I think right before Show-Hay's second home run, I'm like, the Brewers are a couple swings that way. from getting back in this game and then especially you know in the eighth inning when the brovers were making things a little bit interesting i'm like we're up by four runs but it's like again

a couple more base winners and this is a game so it never felt like the dodgers really didn't have control in this one i never really felt like the lead was in jeopardy but on another note it was like they should be up by a whole lot more it just doesn't feel that again i don't know if you felt the same way but i mean it felt like the score was double what it was at all times after that show you we're in the first inning. Yeah, I mean, that's another thing. We'll have that conversation in a second because I do feel like this was a game and a series of missed opportunities for this team. I do want to shout out before we move on the bullpen dogs again. Alex Vescia, electric to get out of that Otani inning when he gets a pop-up and then a double play

and exit and loses his crap as he usually does. Of course, Dave goes to Blake Trinan. I don't like, I love Blake Trinan. I don't like Blake Trinan. I don't like Blake Trinan. I don't like Blake Trin' coming into a clean inning. It's not worked. It has not worked for him. He needs to be the fireman for other people's damage. Thankfully, Anthony Bonda, able to be a dog again, limit the damage for, or potential damage for Blake Trine,

and the Brewer's score their only run there. And then Roki Sasaki, you and I haven't talked much about this team in this postseason. What are your kind of Sasaki thoughts? I mean, obviously, everybody's going to be like, no, you didn't expect him being the closer. for this team heading into October and now picking up, I guess it wouldn't be his fourth save, but still closing another game finished for this team and another game where there was no, you didn't get the heart palpitations in the ninth inning, you know, it's not a Kenley

Janssen save. It is a Roki Sasaki ninth inning. What are your Roki thoughts? Yeah. I mean, I tweeted this a couple of times. I genuinely thought we'd seen the last of Roki, you know, whenever he saw him last in May, whenever that was. I thought, Shut him down for the rest of the year. 2025. It's just a loss cause. It is what it is. Focus on 2026. And that's that. Because at that point, the Dodgers didn't need Rokey Sasagi. There was no need to have another starter.

In his minor league rehab games, he's throwing like 93, 94. I'm like, this guy, he's done. And they just magically reappears. Just throwing 100 looks great. I'm like, okay, I'm in. And then after seeing those first couple of postseason audience, I was bought in. I tweeted this out. I have reserved it for years, Clint.

And I know you mentioned Kenley Jansen, and I'm biting my tongue a little. Nobody defends Kenley Jansen more than me. I will go to war for this man. I will die for that man. He got a bad rap. The Dodgers could have used Kenley Janssen this year. But if you guys have followed me on Twitter, you would know that I said, Kenley Janssen was my GD closer after every outing.

And ever since he left the Dodgers, I reserved that for him. No one would ever take that mantle from him. But after a couple of these Rokie Sasaki outings in the postseason, I tweeted it out. I forget after which game it was. I can't remember. It was probably sometime in the Philly series, but I tweeted saying,

Roki Sasaki is my GD closer. And I stand by that. He's my closer now. Kind of want him to be the closer maybe moving forward in 2026, but that's a discussion for next off season. But I mean, he, to say he's proved everyone wrong is an understatement because I don't think anybody was expecting this.

Nobody was expecting him to contribute in October and let alone be the close. I mean, this is not just the guy you can throw in the bullpen like a Ben Consperius, bring him in and mop-up duty. This is the guy you're trusting to be your lockdown guy in the ninth inning, a guy that had no experience prior to, what, a couple weeks ago when they tried this experiment down. So, Roki Sasaki, I mean, I tip my hat to you. This is better than I think what anyone could have envisioned. I mean, it's insane. Asking him to do this is insane, and he's delivered.

And Clint, I will say, I think he's a completely different guy on the mound than he was when we saw him at the beginning of the year. he has that killer look when he comes into the game. Roki, I know he got some flak for maybe sobbing in the dugout, maybe looking a little scared on the mound before. He looks like a killer now in the mound, which you need to have from your closer. So again, I tip my cap to Roki for what he's done. Yeah, you know, they put in the work with him.

He put in the work while he was, as Alana likes to say, you know, he was on sabbatical. He was this kind of MIA. Nobody knew where the hell Roki Sasaki was. Well, you know, he was in the lab with a pen and a pad trying to figure out how to get that damn splitter off with that fastball. And he figured out how to put something pretty special together here. It doesn't look like smoking mirrors.

That's the thing I love most about what we're seeing from Roki this postseason. And it's nice to have like a, to not have to like worry about a dude entering a ball game in the ninth inning. Breaking-ish news, as you would expect, Shohei Otani, named the NLCS MVP. It's like, I just got here. but wins the MVP mostly because there were no standouts in this series. And, well, yes, Blake Snell, hell of an outing in game one. And that is an understatement. Yoshinovo Yamamoto, hell of an outing in game two.

That is an understatement. Tyler Glasnett was there as well. But it wasn't going to be those two. It wasn't going to be one start. It was going to have to be somebody that stepped up and had a big performance. And when Shohay is able to do it on both sides, sides of the baseball, chances are pretty high that Shohei could win it with one performance like we saw today, an all-time performance, a historic performance, arguably, not even arguably,

the unquestioned best performance in baseball history. No shockers for you that he wins the MVP. Yeah, I mean, I said this to you before we hopped on, where after today's performance, we were kind of expecting to go to Show Hey, I didn't want to publicly say this and jinx anything and become public enemy number one if they were to sum up below the series. But I was hoping Shohei would shove on the mound and they would have an MLB first where it would be a co-MvP of

four players. Because if Shoah would have gone out there, like let's just say the Dodgers win 2-0-0-0-4-day at the plate. They only win because they get a sack fly and like an RBI double. I don't know who you give the MVP to with that situation. And I thought it would have been so cool to see four. I mean, you have the graphic right there on the screen. Four

starters all shoved, obviously, Blake Snell, Yoshinobi, Yamamoto, they were each fantastic. Tyler Glassnell only throwing five and two thirds with eight K's. Shewai Otani only throwing six innings with 10Ks. And those guys really need to pick it up. DFA. I thought it would have been cool to see those. Yeah, DFA, though, man, DFA all four.

But I thought it would have been cool to see those four guys all share. Just give it to the starting rotation as a whole. But when you have, again, the greatest performance in it will be postseason history to send your team to the World Series, I got no problem with show he taking it, which is crazy, Clint. Can you imagine if, you know, 10 hours ago you would have said the guy with like a 200 OPS in the series, he's going to be your MVP? You probably think he did what he did tonight. Yeah, if there's any way.

It's wild. We talked on my all Dodgers show last night, my buddy Jeff Snyder had brought up. Like, we asked the question, who can step up and win the MVP? And he was like, well, if Show Hey goes out there and puts up, you know, puts up a complete game shut out and hits four homers, he's probably going to win the MVP. He got pretty close to it. with six shuddy and three homers in there. Before we flip the script and talk more about what's coming up for this team, a weak layoff, maybe the Mariners, maybe the Blue Jays.

One guy, I know you are of the group of people that are Tommy Edmund stands and rightfully so. Tommy Edmund had a really, really nice series. Maybe could have been, you know, if Shoah didn't do what he did today, could have been in a conversation for some sort of weird MVP if there's like a kind of most valuable player award to be handed out. But Tommy Edmund, stepping up, playing much better defense at second base after almost throwing that one ball away in the game one of the, is it the DS? Anyways.

It was a million years ago for that one. Just some thoughts on Tommy Edmund before we spin forward and look at the World Series. I mean, it's remarkable because 2025 was essentially a lost season for him in some way. I mean, he missed a good chunk of the season with multiple injuries, battling that ankle. When he was playing, he was pretty terrible. Obviously, he got off to that hot start. I think through like May, he had like 10 home runs already in the first month. He was like OPS in a 900.

Then he really cooled off in the second half. And I had no expectations for Tommy had been entering the postseason whatsoever. I was like, he'll be your number eight. He'll be your number nine hitter. Yeah. a play second base great and that's that and he just showed again that he's like a kke hernandez kind of guy once you get to october he flips it and he just shoves i don't have his numbers in front of me but i think last time i checked his ops was like either just beneath 900 somewhere in

like the mid 800s and it just seemed like consistently he was delivering a big hit when the dodgers needed so tommy edmund uh you and your bad ankle that i still think is not 100 percent. So I know Clint, he doesn't have the yips, but every time he throws it to first, I still hold my breath just a little, just because I'm like, I don't know, is it still in there? But Tommy Eben, I mean, again, he didn't win MVP this series. I don't know if he would have without the showy performance.

But if you were to say who was the top three players so far in the postseason for the Dodgers, I think it's tough to leave Tommy Eben out of that top three. Yeah, I mean, he's had an exceptional, he has played exceptionally one. being a facilitator for this team. Same with Kike Hernandez being more of kind of behind the scenes in a way. Like he gets on base, he's scoring runs. He's not necessarily driving in a bunch of runs. Tommy Edmund has had a couple of big clutch hits in the series.

And, you know, in a series where runs were coming at a bit of a premium. I want to talk more about that in a second. But first, we're going to go and hear from our friends over at Fowl Territory. Then we will be back. Can I interest you in Surf Shark VPN, which allows you to mess. ask certain parts of you're surfing around the web or let's say you're somewhere and you're like, I don't need this app to know where I am 24-7 that pops up on your phone all the time. Surf Shark can help you out with that.

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getting drunk tomorrow. Runs at a premium, as I said, just before heading into the break there. Is what you've seen, what you've seen out of this offense a little bit concerning or maybe Milwaukee pitching was a little bit better than we think or then we thought or then it appeared? or they're just really the team missing some opportunities? Yeah, it's tough when you just sweep in the NLCS and you have to critique anything. But it's like if the Dodgers started rotation didn't absolutely shove in the series.

I mean, this, again, this series is probably still going. I think even Pat Murphy said it in his pregame scrum today or maybe it was his postgame or yesterday saying, if you would have told us that through three games, we've held the Dodgers to only 10 runs, either we'd be up to one or they'd be up to, 2-1, but this would be a series. So the fact that the Dodgers finished the series, where they scored, I think, five runs total tonight. It was the final tally, all because of

show-A. So they score 15 runs in the four games. My ASEMath has that just below four runs a game. If you're, I mean, it's, again, it depends what happens in the World Series. Maybe this was a bad series. I don't think you're going to win the World Series by averaging four runs a game. Now, you very well can. The pitching can carry over and they can shove again. But the offense was a little bit concerning. And even Clinton, if you go back to the Philly series in the NLDS, they had a couple of really beginnings, especially in Philadelphia where we had that to Oscar Hernandez's home run, and, you know, they scored a majority of their runs in those situations. But ever since the Red Series, the offense, hidden by all these

great victories, has been kind of quiet. You know, they're not hitting for average. They're not really, whenever they're scoring the runs, it is via the home run. But with runners in scoring position, I know I think tonight they were like one for eight once again, they just didn't necessarily have those at bats. For the entire postseason, at least going back to the DS, They have not hit with the runners in scoring positions. So again, you can't really critique them for just sweeping and having only one loss up until this point entering the World Series. But the offense has been disappointing the last eight games. They've gotten very lucky with this incredible starting pitching run.

The bullpen, I called them puppies entering the postseason. They have turned into dogs. They're coming through as well. So I am concerned. I'm not going to put my panic meter in a 10, but the fact that we've seen it for eight games now where they haven't had that one game, where they've truly erupted. I'm putting in like at a six or seven. And again, if they play the Blue Jays in the World Series,

you're going to have to score runs to keep up with the Blue Jays. So, and I replied to someone with this yesterday because they said, are you concerned that they're probably going to have a week off by, you know, if they were to sweep. And I said, the office has been terrible for the last two weeks. They could use it. Having a week off, having a week off, what's the worst going to happen? They're just going to look like the way they do.

Maybe they'll use it. Maybe they can use it. Maybe a week off is going to, you know, set something off of them. They're going to be able to turn things around. So I have faith in them. I have confidence. It's not like they're striking out 15 times a game and looking terrible. They're actually putting together good at bats.

They are getting guys on base. It's just when they get guys on base. They looked like that Dodger team from like, what, 2012, 2013 where they had that like two-month run where they couldn't score more than two runs of the game. So all will be well, but there's a little reason to be concerned. Yeah, I mean, missed opportunities for me is the, or is the story for me. I think they got some guys on base, obviously, didn't take as much. many walks in this series as we've seen them do in the past. But that's where you credit the

Brewers pitching staff. You know, Brewers are pretty good baseball team. They did win the most games in baseball this year. It is worth pointing that much out. You saw Jacob Misraowski absolutely shove. I think the biggest issue for the Brewers is how they deployed, how Pat Murphy deployed their pitching in that series. But that's a whole other question for Milwaukee media to, you know, just bombard the Brewers with for the next couple of weeks. and have those conversations moving forward. The conversation we can have, starting now, Dodgers advance again to the World Series,

trying to become the first team to go back to back since the 99-2000 New York Yankees. The opponent, still TBD, as I've said, a couple of times, will be the Seattle Mariners who the Dodgers swept at the end of the regular season, not that Seattle was playing for very much at that point, or the Toronto Blue Jays, as you said, have a lot of slug don't necessarily have the best pitching. If Kevin Gosman is their ace, I'm a little suss on what they've got going on there. But then again, and what, old man Max Scherzer?

I mean, he had a bark to stay in the game and to get to five and two thirds innings, which, by the way, having the five and two thirds in that whole, that whole show with Max Scherzer versus what like Tyler Glasnow did. And we're just like, oh, ho-hum, what a bad, what a, yeah, I guess you could throw that in the pile or whatever. but Dodgers fans have seen Max Scherzer in the postseason. He's going to be like, yeah, no, I'm done. I'm going to wrap it up now. We're good.

Yeah, we assume Blake Snell starts game one for the Dodgers, because if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Which team would you prefer to see in the World Series? It's so tough. I mean, I remember when the Dodgers were weight in the face, their NLCS opponent, you know, people were asking, who would you rather see? And I'm like, I don't want to say,

because whoever I say, I'm going to regret saying it. personally, I was kind of glad that they saw the Brewers because I know the Cubs were kind of struggling. That lineup still scared the bejeeves out of me. I thought that lineup can go in a second. And it's like there are two separate teams like you kind of said, Clint. You have the Mariners where for some reason their offense this postseason just hasn't gotten it going.

Obviously, they had the big moment tonight with Eugenio Suarez hitting that grand slam. But from looking at the Dodgers pitching side of things, you would rather face the Mariners lineup as opposed to the Blue Jays lineup. But then if you flip things over, that Mariner started in rotation, they got a one through five of guys that could be one or twos on a lot of teams in baseball. I mean, that's a nasty rotation, whereas the Blue Jays, like you said, Kevin Gossman is the race. You then turn to Max Scherzer, Shane Bieber. I know you savage has looked pretty darn good, but he is still a rookie with like minimal inning. So it's pick your poison.

And also pick your poison as well, Clint. Do you want home field advantage? Do you want games one and two in games six and seven? Or are you fine going on the road and having games three, four, and five at Dodgers Stadium? So if you, you know, say, when you ask you, you asked me to pick, I will pick. I would rather play the Mariners. I'm taking my chances with the rotation, shutting them down. The Dodgers, you just probably got to get a couple runs.

But either way, the Dodgers, they have a test in front of them because either team is going to be a gauntlet. Hopefully this series goes seven games. Hopefully they battle it out. It's kind of a drive that they don't play until Friday because they don't play until Friday because it's not like, hopefully game 7, the 025 innings, and then they just got to play him two days later. Whoever they play, they're going to be rested. But again, it's pick your poison.

What do you prefer? But the way the Dodgers are looking, Clint, bring in the late 20s New York Yankees, and I think the Dodgers might be taking it to them because they're looking unstoppable right now. Yeah, again, even not firing on all cylinders. They're still playing some extent. It's still, you know, V12 firing on 10 cylinders instead of firing on all 12 there.

It is a very good Dodgers team, starting pitching usually gets the better of good hitting. I think the Dodgers hitters can do just enough against the Seattle Mariners. Of course, they could probably do a lot. I worry about the Dodgers getting into a slug fest. But we'll have more conversations about the opponents here on the channel coming up. Alana and I will be back talking about this team on Monday. I want to make sure to get to a couple of super chats.

Appreciate everybody hanging out with us in the chat. I know it's been Blake and I talking a lot. But hey, that's what we're here for, right? we're here to talk. That's the whole point of it. Yes. Gabriel with the $5. Super Chat, thank you very much. Gabriel says, and that's all. She wrote game over.

Dodgers win the pennant and complete the sweep. Nine down, four to go. And don't forget, yeah, this is a team that had to play two extra games, had to do that wild card. You saw them last year. They did it with the time off, having the best record in baseball, or at least having that by week. We know they can handle that challenge again,

if it's five days off. offer in this case seven days off before the start of the world series. I feel pretty confident about it. Kenyatta with $20 Super Chat. Thank you very much. Kenyatta Savage says that was amazing, having a lot of confidence there in the bullpen. Me too, everybody with Blake Trinan in that particular role.

And finally, my buddy Steve, Speeder Built with the $20 Super Chat. Let's push that button. There it is. Happy birthday, Clint Otani was throwing smoke and launching bombs to celebrate. Yeah, I appreciate Showing Otani going hard for me. on my birthday. Big fan. He's a big fan of Dodgers territory. I guess that's the way it seems to be.

Guys, if you're in the chat now, we're going to continue the conversation. I'm going to continue the conversation over my All Dodgers YouTube channel. So join me over there. And then Blake, tell the people where to find you, all the things you're doing and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, if you guys are on Twitter, which I'm sure most of you are. You guys can find me. It's right there at Blake H. Harris. and you guys can follow my substack

where I'm writing about the Dodgers weekly over there Thinking Blue with Blake Harris-Kent I just want to say, happy birthday man I'm glad you got to celebrate it is great though the show hey had this game because now for the rest of history whenever anyone's talking about that game

you can go October 17th and they're going to be like wow man you remember the date of that game you're a true diehard and you'd be like yeah of course I remember it's the greatest game I've ever seen October 17 what do you mean

anything else happened that day it's like incidentally I also happened to turn 40 that day, but that's not a big part of the story there. The story of the night, Shohei Otani, the other story of the night, the Dodgers Advance of the World Series. We appreciate you guys hanging out with us. If you want to support Dodgers Territory more than just a click of the like button or the subscribe, check out the store. Dodgers Territory Shop.com, scan that QR code, click the link in the description, get yourself some swag. We appreciate people that have supported us through

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