PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Diamondbacks dominate Clayton Kershaw and Dodgers in Game 1 blowout victory of NLDS

Episode Date: October 8, 2023

WHAT JUST HAPPENED? It didn’t take long for the Arizona Diamondbacks to chase Clayton Kershaw from Game 1 of the NLDS, putting up six runs against him before he exited after recording just one out in the first inning. We discuss Merrill Kelly getting his first career win against the Dodgers, the offensive explosion by the D-backs, and what making L.A.’s bullpen work this much could mean for the series.An ALLCITY Network ProductionSUBSCRIBE to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/phnx_youtubeALL THINGS PHNX: http://linktr.ee/phnxsports PHNX Events: Get your tickets to D-backs Takeovers, Knockout Nights & Suns Watch Parties at BetMGM, and MORE here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/phnx-56002330273 WATCH YOUR FAVORITE TEAMS: https://www.fubotv.com/phnx WIN MONEY THROUGH SPLASH SPORTS: https://www.splashsports.com/phnx Go to https://saturdayneon.com and use code PHNX for 10% off your order today. Free shipping for orders over $200!Gametime: Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code PHNX for $20 off your first purchase.Pins & Aces: Check out https://pinsandaces.com and use code PHNX to receive 15% off your first order and get free shipping.Circle K: Text PHNX to 31310 to join the Circle K SMS subscriber club and get BOGO 32 oz Polar Pops! Head to https://www.circlek.com/store-locator to find Circle Ks near you!OGeez!: Score 25% off a bag of your favorite OGeez! Fruits of Creams. Go to https://theflowershopusa.com, add a bag of OGeez! to your cart, enter promo code “PHNX” and pickup at a local The Flower Shop dispensary.Four Peaks: Follow them on social @fourpeaksbrew & @fourpeakspub! Must be 21+. Enjoy responsibly. When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome in. Are you doing me? It's the fucking yaw! You needed some extra space back there. Welcome in to the PHNXD-Bex post-game show right here on PHNX. My name is Derek Montia, occasionally known as your mayor of the postseason. This man next to me is in charge of all the lights and all of the stadiums. It's Mr. Electric himself.

Skie-e-e-e-Haw-N-A-Paws. We're doing that. That's our official song now. Mo, where you at? Where is Moe? We're looking for Mo. Mo is nowhere to be found. right now. Dodgers fans, where you all at?

BC, where you at? Go. What a huge game one victory. The Arizona Diamondbacks absolutely pummeled the Los Angeles Dodgers. I don't know what your wildest dream is of how well this game could have gone for the debacks, but this has to be it. This has to be beyond that because the Diamondbacks certainly were absolute beasts today. There's the snakes were snakes.

They were slithering. They were slitherent on offense, early in office. in this game. It started very early. And the Diamondbacks did something quite historic against Clayton Kirshah. Yeah. Per ESPN stats and info. Curshaw is now the first starting or relief pitcher in MLB postseason history to allow five hits and five runs before recording and out. And why is that? Because the Diamondbacks absolutely pummel Clayton Kirshah tonight. Of course, we saw things get started off right away. Kattel Martell. hit a lead off double in the first inning and the diamondbacks did not stop from that point.

Corby and Carroll looked like the absolute veteran that we know he is with his RBI single that got things started against Kurt Shaw and put the Diamondbacks up on the board early. Sam singled in the inning Walker doubled with an RBI double. Then of course, with two on, Gabriel Moreno just busted this goddamn game wide open. Three run, three run bomb with a bat flip. gave the Diamondbacks a five to nothing lead. And this was all with no outs. And it's also the reason why I don't have much of a voice left

because of all of the screaming and yelling, me and these two guys were doing here in the studio. We definitely let Jesse down with the way we were celebrating. Some of the, there was some excessive things said. But of course, it's the motherfucking yawks. But man, can you imagine this, boys?

Can you imagine this? I said they were going to lose before the game. So no, I certainly. To be fair, I was in part doing that because reverse jinks a little bit. A little bit reverse but also I I certainly did not expect to go anything like this. Yeah. Yeah. They I mean, I don't need what is there to even say?

It's playoff Clayton Kirshall. They scored 11 runs on the, I mean, Los Angeles Dodgers. Yep. Yeah. And we are fucking dangerous. In fact, Clayton Kirshah knows that for a fact now. The only out he recorded was a Lordus Gurriel ground out. After that, Alec Thomas walked.

Evan Longoria celebrated his 38th birthday, 38 years young with an RBI single that put the snakes up 6 to 0. And that would effectively end Kershaw's day. He would exit the game after pitching just one third of an innings pitched. Injected into my goddamn veins. Who just inject it directly into my veins? I mean, could you imagine being a Dodgers fan? Yeah. It's got to be a tough experience.

Can't surprisingly quiet. I'm sure they all. I'm sure they all went to bed so they can't really be off the show. Where are they? Yeah. We usually have so many. They're all over the place. There were some in here,

stirring the stir in the pot. And I don't think they'll be returning anytime soon. But let's take a look at some of our super chats because I missed out on those. Charles Woodall Pike, bless you. He says the wagon is three and oh in the yoffs. Three and oh with the playoffs stashes. Still undefeated. Undefeated.

Although you're getting dangerously close to getting back to beer. Well, look, I have to go to a reggae festival in, Las Vegas in about six hours. So I don't want to look like a cop. But Nicholas Gruders says this is starting to feel like the Sun's finals run. I was happy just taking a few games from LA and then rent all the way to the finals. Let's ride. I completely agree with that.

That was one of the that was one of the most like fun I've had because it was kind of like that. The Suns were kind of doing something that you're like, yeah, maybe this team is good enough. But I don't know. Maybe like this. I don't know. I mean, they're good. but are they that good and they made it all the way to the finals who the hell knows because after this win how can you look at this diamondbacks lineup and say that they aren't good well i what they did

to this dodgers team i mean genuinely right now in the postseason the diamondbacks in the phillies look like the two most dangerous teams yeah full stop i mean obviously the astros too but like the day the day p hl y launched we knew we were on a collision course yeah man we just didn't know how epic that battle could be and it could be in the NLCS, but we're not going to get there yet. But the Diamondbacks, we're not done yet. Even once Clayton Kershaw left the game, they continue to put it to the Dodgers. Corbyn Carroll kicks off the second inning with a 421 foot dinger that pushed the lead to 7 to nothing.

There was some war runs scored. Tommy Fam, a single Walker got hit by a pitch. This was all in the second inning at Longoria hit a sack fly. Lordis Kirby Lha had an RBI double that scored Tommy Fam. Basically, this was a nine to nothing game for the majority of this game. Patrick Lyons is talking about the empty seats, all the yellow seats. Yeah, there was Bob Costas, legendary sports announcer. Even noticed when one particular fan left.

Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah, he had his research together, but they were getting up and getting out. Brett Johnson, thank you for the super chat. He says, we are so here. the Gabby bat flip with Kershaw hanging his head is the best thing I need it frame now. It was so good. And I mean, I would retire if I was Clayton Kerr's. You know, like you were talking about the fact that there was another shot right after that of Corbyn and Gabby just next to each other.

Beeman. Just laughing. And man, that felt like that felt like a future that we get to experience here in Arizona for for quite some times. So man, it's exciting to see those two guys being the ones to get. get it done. Flex. Flex got the $15 super chat. No,

we missed it. But where is, do we have the flexes? Because flex is, flex is the man. Flex is the best, uh, diamond bags,

new Diamondbacks fan that we have. Uh, he has been providing us with the super chats. I guess he was going up $5, uh, for every win. Yeah. So we're up to $15 from,

from flex. That's my guy. Uh, by the way, that really is my guy. I love working with flex. I do love it. It is one of the,

he's one of the cool. cuba beings i've ever met so thank you flex uh i don't know it went though i don't know it disappeared yeah he's well i mean maybe he's not such a good guy i'll take your word for it maybe he's just saying he did it but we're not fighting it in here so uh michaela's still waiting on her apology no i was hoping you were going to acknowledge i refused to apologize okay i explained to everybody why i refused to apologize i did nothing wrong um it's fine it's fine we'll move on okay thank you know why because we're not gonna we're not going to dive into the negativity after an 11-2 win we are going to dive to more fucking home runs.

Alec Thomas added a solo home run in the seven. You get a home run. And Tommy fan added a solo home run in the age. You get a home run. My God, man. I mean, it was just incredible. Keeping up with the offense in the first inning was a chore when you're trying to send out funny tweets about it.

But I mean, to be honest, it was just incredible, unbelievable. Just again, like you couldn't have asked for a better night from the Diamondbacks. We had our concerns about pitching. We had a concern. Fuck all of that. The offense just automatically. gave this team a lead and allowed them to not really have to worry about the rest of this potentially falling apart on it. It is kind of hilarious though with Mert like the whole talk about Mert was obviously his his trouble against the Dodgers coming in.

And then he had like not just the best performance. He's probably like a downright great performance against the Los Angeles Dodgers. But who cares? Yeah. Like of course the time that he actually pitchers well, they didn't even need him to pitch that well. But he did. because the offense went crazy. Yeah, it was outside.

And like, this was something like you haven't seen the debats do almost at all. Like even in the regular season, it's just like a head to toe dominant. I mean, not not some time a negative. Obviously, Castro wasn't good. And so they can't say that it was perfect, but it was almost perfect. And Castro was not in the game if they're not winning 10 nothing. That's very true. Like it was like a head to toe like whistle to whistle,

whistle domination. Pillard a post, which is not something you've seen from them very often this year. Yeah. Which if like that's the kind of output that they're going to have in these playoffs, it makes them a very terrifying team. What a time for Merrill Kelly to have his first win against this Dodgers team. Oh,

11 coming into this game. He does get a six run lead right out of the gate. So I'm sure that made things a lot easier on him. But man, I mean, you can only imagine that he felt like the weight of the, the weight of this game was lifted off of his shoulders by the offense, which as you said is not something that these starting pitchers get very often. They do get run support.

They do get this team playing for them. But it's not very often that they have actually had such a big offense output that allowed the, you know, allowed the starter to go out there and have a six run lead after one and a nine run lead after two. Yeah, because in the pregame show, we had listened to Merck talk about how he can't,

like he can't be thinking about his struggles with the Dodgers and stuff. like that because he'll beat himself before but like you could say that as much as you want once you get on the I have a hard time believing that's not somewhere in the back of his that you're not thinking but when you go up with a six run lead before you ever even take your hoodie off like it's like oh I don't even have to be that good like I could just go out there and do my thing and uh yeah it'll like it'll be fine yeah and obviously and I think when he's in that mindset just being like I just got to go out there like nothing matters I can just go out there and be myself yeah like that's when you get meryl the mainstay and that's exactly what we

He was the mainstay. He was absolutely the mainstay for this team. The offense just didn't let up. Six and a third innings pitch, three hits, no runs, two walks, five K's. Also, a devastating look that he gave to Tori LeBolo when Tori came out to try to pull him from the game. We have that. Look at this.

Look at this. He was hiding the biggest smile you've ever seen. Like he literally needed to do this so that he wouldn't be sitting there just grinning from ear to ear and story. approached him. Man, I mean, and he didn't want. I think, I think we tried to lip read him here. I think he said like, give me one more.

I think he just wanted to get out of this. He just wanted the seven innings pitched. But man, what a, what a night. What a night for that guy. And I mean, again, what a, what a time to get your first win against the franchise that has tortured you for a long time here as a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Maybe the devil in the chat is making it to run this point. Like as much as I kind of just said it, it almost didn't matter.

Like, this is a Dodger. team that is still the lost hand to his Dodgers and could have scored six runs in an inning at any point. That's absolutely fair. Merrill pitching the way he did through six and a third or whatever it was. Yeah. It is like was crucial. Obviously like it's hard to imagine

that Merrill is giving up six runs in an inning or that at any point in the game Tori would have even allowed him to do that much. But still like it is I mean you saw you saw at the end there like with one swing of the bat they scored two runs like they it's not like it's still the Dodgers right. And so Merrill's performance, although it's ultimately going to be a footnote in what this game was all about was super crucial. Yeah, absolutely.

And I mean, again, even if the bullpen just gave up two runs, that that like you said, that probably in a closer game would not have been the pitchers that Tori relied on. But that is the benefit here to this game to Merrill start and to the big lead. The Diamondbacks were able to rest the high leverage guys that they are going to need in order to get through this series, get this win. And even if they are able to beat the Dodgers in this division series, those guys are going to be called on, you know, the rest of the way. They've been worked a lot. Tori has gone to the bullpen a lot. I mean, the Diamondbacks literally just had four starting pitchers it felt like for the last month of the season. So the bullpen has been worked quite a bit and can use this rest, especially at this time.

However, there's something to be said about too much time. And like I said, we'll get to that in regards to the Dodgers and their bullpen here in a minute. But that look from Merrill Kelly, devilishly handsome guy. just trying his best not to smile out there as big as he can on a on a night where he was absolutely incredible is is i mean it sums it up that's that's how we're feeling right about now uh we don't have to keep our emotions to ourselves though we're allowed to go crazy a guy that we're going to go crazy for is our king snake and as much as we want to give it to gabby as as as much as they wanted to give it to corbin we had to give it to this guy n lds

Tommy fam. Four for five, baby. One home run, the one RBI from the home run, three runs scored, and just an absolute menace in this game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. You know that the Dodgers historically are sick of hearing Tommy Fams name whenever he plays them on the teams that he's been on in this division. But man, this is probably one of his biggest games against the Dodgers. Yeah, I mean, and this is a guy who went over and game one of the wild card series.

and that was two games ago. And again, like, this is a game where the offense was just clicking and damn near anybody could have been Kingsnake. But, I mean, this is not the guy you're expecting to do this, right? Like, Corbyn or Cadell does this. There's a lot of guys you would expect to see here. Tommy. Like I've said before, what makes this team dangerous is when you get the supporting cast to start performing out of their minds. And that's exactly what Tommy fam did tonight.

Obviously, the home run wasn't all that important. Like, it came. But still, it was. still a home run. Home run, he didn't think he was going to hit. They asked him after the thing in classic Tommy fan fashion. Do you know it's going to be your own run? Not really.

Let's go to some of the super chats real fast. Chris has a super chat right there. Chris is super chat. Thank you so much for your super chat. Chris. He says, how about Alec Thomas's 14 pitch a bat ending with a dinger? I have a note on this. According to Sarah Lang's,

that is the most pitches in a in an at bat ending in a home run in a postseason since pinch counts were tracked in 1988. The most pitches in a plate appearance ending in a home run in the postseason since pitch counts were tracked. That's wild. Going back to 1988.

Alec Thomas, stud. Fucking studs. Also a home run that I called. I just want to point out, I said he was going to hit home run. I don't know if people remember or not. I do remember that. I did say that was going to happen.

I also remember us having a discussion about the younger guys and mostly Alec Thomas because of his struggles needing to be more patient at the plate. Look at what they. the results. How about the longest that bad? How about that? A piece of Yoshi. Thank you for your super chase. Prudoma sold his soul for the S offense today. That's fine. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made. We know that around here. Brandon Buckingham, I mean, my hair. Brandon Buckingham says,

thank you for the super chat. Regular season numbers mean nothing in the playoffs. Way to go, Kelly. That's absolutely a truth. None of that matters. No matter could have fucking 300 wins, which isn't really possible or you could have 80. It doesn't matter. If you're here playing in the playoffs right now, it's it's it's it's all awash at this point uh tanner thank you for the super chase as i was scared and stayed home but not anymore because we are fucking dangerous let's go uh al you card says if gallon can pitch lights out for game two and our offense stays hot there's a strong chance we close this out on wednesday here at chase field with brandon fought on the man thank you alie card for your super chat you guys are amazing but holy shit what an unexpected night what an unexpected win uh

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Visit at MGM.com for terms and conditions, U.S. promotional offers not available in D.C., New York, or Ontario. Ski-i! Well, we usually reserve taking a look at the numbers until after the series, but we decided after 11-2-2-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-1. on either side. Yeah, that starting pitching ERA. Skiy. Quite one side. We probably shouldn't have done this, but we did it anyway.

The regular season? There's 162 games in the regular season. Oh, I mean, maybe for the audio listeners. For the audio listeners. Yeah. What's the starting pitching error there? The starting pitching ERA for the Dodgers tonight was 160. And that was 0.00 on the Dback side.

So advantage D-backs. Relief pitching ERA, 5.19 on the Dodgers, 6.74 on the Diamondback side. H- fucking K. Bullpen didn't get a lot of work tonight. And they did give up two runs. Thanks Miguel Castro. But the runners in scoring position batting average, pretty pretty good here for the Diamondbacks.

Of course, the four home runs to the zero home runs. So why not? Ski-y-y. Yeah. That's- I can, dude. I mean, we just show that to troll basically because it was, it was as we said, post-to-post, just ass kicking. It was an ass kidding. But there is one serious thing here. I mean, obviously we're riding high and I know this is still a very dangerous Dodgers team. So the Diamondbacks are not going to take them lightly going forward. I can. We're going to enjoy this while we can. We can get our jokes in while we can. Especially while none of the Dodgers fans are in the chat to bring it up against us later on. This shit might turn it on us fast. So we don't want that to happen. But we will also say that this game, does have actual impacts on this series.

It really does. The Diamondbacks were able to not only not utilize their high leverage guys, but they were able to not utilize their bullpen very much. Meanwhile, the Dodgers bullpen had to basically throw a bullpen game. That's what they had to go out there and do. Making them go eight and a third innings pitch in game one is so big for the rest of the series. It's so massive. And I mean, the Dodgers bullpen is very good.

They have the third best ERA in baseball at 3.42 and they were well rested coming into this. But I mean, there is something to be said. about perhaps being too well rested. And I'm not just, I'm not saying on the relief end, but for the Dodgers in general, the Diamondbacks came in hot. They came in playing. They got a game,

you know, a day off. They got a couple, you know, like they didn't have too much time off, but they did get some time to rest, something that they haven't really received up to this point. And I do think that this is like this is a good thing for the series going forward,

obviously. And the impacts could be, you know, it could be detrimental to the Dodgers as far as their chances in the series. I mean, 100%. They obviously tried to keep themselves active with an inter squad game, but intersquod games are not real games. Those aren't real games.

No, I mean, there's nothing you can do. Like when you're, when you go into game one thinking you're, you're one of the best pictures in the history of your franchise is taking the bump. You're not expecting to have to bring in your bullpen two thirds of the way through the first inning. And that obviously, like, at some point I made as soon as it happened, basically like this puts the downbacks in a great position because the one thing, like their weakness was their starting pitching

and now they're in a position where they need their starting pitching to really, I'm not going to say to have a chance because it's still anybody's series, but like if they want a chance, like if they, it's going to be very hard for them to win games unless they get great outings

from their starting pitching, which they have not really been able to expect for a lot of this year. So I, like it really, yeah, it does set them up to, obviously when you get into a team's bullpen this early and to this extent, in a series, like it's going to be good no matter what, but especially considering the type of team the Dodgers are,

it is, it attacks their biggest weakness. Yeah. Oh, damn, shout out Fernandez. Let's go for the chat. Good Dodgers fan of the chat. Love it. He says, who wants a blowout game anyway?

Oh, they're boring. This was part of our plan. Hey, man. Hey, whatever, whatever. If y'all come back and win the series, you're going to look real smart afterwards, but we appreciate the super chat on a lot. Yeah, no, appreciate it.

And Albert, with his super chat, says, just got in from the rising game. What I miss. A lot of offense. Oh, my. A lot of offense. But we appreciate you being here, pal. I mean, honestly, though, going back to the layoffs, right? Braves and Dodgers both lost today.

Different kind of yoffs. The offs. They're yoffs. They're, they're, I mean, you can't. Right? I mean, that's one thing about baseball. I've said it countless number of times before. I've said it in so many different instances, too.

Like, when a pitcher comes back from time off or when a player, comes back from time off. There's just baseball is just such a weird game where it takes so long sometimes for guys to ramp up. Some guys are special. Some guys are aliens. They don't, those rules don't apply to them. But for the majority of baseball players, it feels like the consistent thing is that it takes

you a while to kind of get in a groove and just having sometimes like nearly a week off like the Dodgers did. That might be enough to kind of throw you off and have a game like that. I don't even know if it's so much about the rest. but the problem with these with the way the playoffs are not the problem but the problem I guess for a team with Dodgers and the teams with rest with the way the playoffs are set up is like it's not like you're playing another team that's had you're playing a team that's just one at the very worst two out of their last three games and those being the biggest games of the season like the wild card teams are always going to be hot teams more or less especially in these playoffs where all of them basically just kicked the ass of the other team in the wild card so every team that these. teams that had off are playing are teams that just won two straight games. And it just so happens that three of the four won their games. Yeah.

Well, I don't think it just so happens. I think it is in large part because they're playing teams. Like the Diamondbacks and the Phillies specifically are two teams that are just kind of on fire. Yeah. There are two teams that I wouldn't really want to play right now. Yeah. Especially in that Philly series, whether it's the division rival, I mean, I guess it is too here too. There's a lot of just really good playoffs

It's so good But it's so good Yeah like it's a team that has to now Like they have to go through Not a learning curve I guess But like I feel like it takes a second To get settled into the post season But that's not doesn't really matter

In the wildcard when both teams are going through that here It's a team that's hot A team that's gotten settled into the postseason Going up against a team that hasn't been there And it also has again the pressure that we talked about a lot With the Dodgers consistently choking in the postseason Well now that pressure ramps up because now you're a game down to a team that you're supposed to own, right? And it's like,

oh, man, this is, are we doing the thing again? Well, I know we're doing this thing again. Damon, do we have a special request there from Jacob in the chat? Do we, do we have the Tory video ready? Is that available? Give me a half second. Okay. All right. We'll get that for you, Jacob, because we all want to be fired up. But the Diamondbacks, this is a reminder by, by the way, in speaking to Damon, and I know he's going to be furious that I introduce him. or this while he's looking at stuff. But Damon does own James Outman, by the way. And tonight was just further proof of that.

Is that right, Dan? Yeah, I mean, I just starting off the game like that, he's, I would argue he's the reason they lost. I wouldn't argue. I would say it's an objective fact. And if you disagree, you were wrong. It was, it really was just a wild like, like, oh, yeah. Wow.

We haven't talked about this yet. I mean, we really haven't. The game started on the guy. who for most of the year, at least beginning of the year, was competing, quote unquote, competing with our rookie for rookie of the year. The real Roy. The first batter of the game got hit straight to him and he dropped it. And it was a hard hit ball.

But he dropped a ball that was in his glove to start game one of the NLDS. And they didn't even call it an error, which is crazy. They didn't. I mean, I tweeted it. The moment was just too big for James Allen. He didn't want it. He's not a big game player. No, he's not.

He's no Corvin Carroll. He's no outman either. Oh, you mean the guy who is a big game player who hits moon shots, 440 feet. Biggie bombs. All right. Doesn't ever shrink. Yeah, I needed to give Dave been his moment there. But I appreciate getting that out.

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And 50,000 people. And now I'm ready. These guys got me fired up. Petey got me fired up. Emma absolutely got me fired up. Leah got me fired up. Can we get Tori to get me fired up? Are you fucking kidding me?

This is part of the journey. We're not there yet. Let's enjoy it. Let's embrace it. Let's fucking party. And the connected team is a fucking dangerous team. We are fucking dangerous. Let's fucking party.

We are. fucking dangerous. Oh my God. A connected team is a dangerous team. Oh, man. I mean, obviously, this is just one win. Dodgers are a very good team. I know there's people,

I know there's people in the chat that are going to be telling us to pump our breaks. I'm sure once Jesse arrives, he's going to tell us to pump our brakes. We were never supposed to be here. I'm going to enjoy. We can lose the next three games. I'm not going to give a shit. Because all I'm going to remember is that the Diamondbacks beat the Dodgers 11 to 2.

And we were never supposed to be here in the first place. So who came? Yeah, I mean, I'm going to enjoy it. And you know what's going to happen? The Dodgers could win the next three games by a combined score of 40 to zero, and you're still not going to be able to tell me shit. Because we walked in to Dodger Stadium and we kicked your ass in game one. We might have retired Clayton Kirshaw.

And I'm going to be able to take that to my grave. There's nothing you're going to be able to do about it. Caesar was asking, are we popping bottles again? No, we are not after a game one victory. We don't do that. We were just doing that. One, it was requested. And two, can you really get enough of that clip?

because I honestly can't. So anyway, that's one thing to say about tonight's win is tonight's win was definitely a statement victory. Yeah. Of course, aggregate scoring does not count in baseball. So none of these runs carry over to the next game. There was talk during the game from the broadcast crew.

I think about like saving runs for tomorrow night. Fuck that. No, man. Stay in the groove. I do have to say 20 home runs. I love Bob Costas, but he should not be calling playoff baseball games. he does not meet the moment he's great for the olympics he's great when things are all luxurious and big but he didn't meet the moment that the energy of a playoff basically well no

yeah definitely he was he was he was he was out of it early on which which definitely made i know he's a professional i'm not going to attack him in that way but it gave off very dodgers fan vibes i want one thing i will say maybe to his defense i'm just kind of i'm just curious about how broadcasters. Like I wonder how difficult it is to bring that energy and stuff like that when you're in a ghost town of that is Dodger Steel. No, it's true. We were talking about

everyone's quiet. The seats were empty. It's got to be hard to provide that energy. This is no joke, but we were talking about how excited we were in the first and second inning. And then this game kind of. Yeah. Just kind of, I mean, and we still had, we still had the couple of scoring runs. Z Diamondback still went on

you know, to make this an 11, you know, run game. But still, yeah, it was hard to, it's hard to keep that energy when the diamond backs just put it on the Dodgers like this was a route this was a very one-sided blowout victory is what it was and i mean like i think an important thing to point out right is they did score they scored six runs on kershaw they scored another five on people not named clayton kershaw so like i know fernandez is in the chat talking about how like this was all just because kershaw sucked first off the day scored two runs and they didn't do it until we

sent in one of our worst relievers by not to say catch was bad, but I mean by the standards of this roster of this bullpen. Like so like, like we were saying, this was a whole hearted ass kicking. Like,

yeah, Diamondbacks outpitched, they out hit, they outfielded in every way. Like Pershaw had nothing to do with the fact that, uh, the fact that James Outman failed to make two different plays in the first

inning in the center field had nothing to do with James Outman. Again, the bullpen, the home runs that came after, or just the runs that came after Kirshaw was out of the game, had nothing to do with Kirshah. So, like, the fact that that Mert pitched shutout six in a third or whatever it was had nothing to do with Clayton Kirshaw. So, sure, this game doesn't look nearly as bad if they have probably anybody, any other starting pitcher in.

But still, it's not just because of Kirshah. I mean, Clayton Kirshaw, though, is notoriously bad in the playoffs. Yes. Right? and now what you have tonight is his worst start in his notoriously bad playoff career. I mean, genuinely one of the worst starts in the history of. It's factually. Baseball.

Per ESPN stats and info, it is in fact. I mean, like, yeah, you could say other things. But Kershaw is the first starting or relief pitcher in MLB postseason history to allow five hits and five runs before recording it out. That is by far one of the worst. I mean, it's bad enough for reliever. but I think that would be less shocking if it was a relief pitcher. Yeah, if if Miguel Castro did that, I would, I mean, if Miguel Castro did that, I would be sitting here being like, Tori, what the fuck are you doing? Why is he still in the game? But the fact that a relief pitcher has never even done that.

Yeah. He's the first pitcher in postseason history to do it. It's crazy. I mean, I think that really stresses how bad this outing was for him, you know? And I mean, again, the big thing was we came. limping into the playoffs, the Diamondbacks, definitely needed help from other teams winning. They did not secure that final win that they needed in order to, like,

win their way into the playoffs themselves. But with the way that they came into this, the offense was by far our biggest question. We knew that when it came down to it, we had two absolute studs in Merrill and Zach. And I mean, this start by Merrill, again, just like this entire outing is more, it's better than we could have asked for,

better than you could have imagined, right? But for the offense to be doing what it's doing right now when it did kind of limp into the into the postseason is is remarkable. You know, I mean, the, the Phillies are are a very good team. They seem very hot right now, like you said. But the diamond backs are absolutely in a position right now where, you know, they're just the Dodgers really seemed to be on their heels. You know, you just need to kind of get those couple of couple of knockout punches in. But it really does feel like this was like, you know, that first. big uppercut in a heavyweight fight that just almost knocked the dude out like it that's how

significant this win fills can't get too ahead of ourselves obviously because there's two more wins that are needed but but like it really put them on the it clearly puts them on the back foot like this is this is now the diamond back series to lose they stole home field advantage they have done the one thing that they could do so far um and win a game so like yeah there's still obviously a series to be played. But as it sits right now, the Diamondbacks need to win two games and the Dodgers need to win three. And I would much rather be in that position than the position the Dodgers are.

I don't care if they have a stronger lineup because it didn't show up today. I don't care if they have a better bullpen because that didn't matter today. Like, I don't care if they have better fielding because they didn't today. Like, they did the one thing they could do. So, like, I mean, you can, Dodgers fans can sit here all they want talking hypothetically about how the rest of the series is going to go. But the fact of the matter is, the Dodgers lost game one to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

And so now this is very much their series. And even if they lose tomorrow, they're going back with two games at Chase Field. So it's a great, like, it's a great position to be in. And Merrill Kelly is going to pitch again. Yeah, and Dodgers fans can say all they want, but you're lying to yourself if this,

if you're not a little afraid now. Yeah, because the Diamondbacks just put up 11 runs. You should be. They scored five the game before and six the game before that against another team that I'd won a division. Like, this is clearly a good baseball team, at least right now, clearly a very dangerous baseball team right now. So this is by no means like, I mean, prior to the series, I was saying like, I thought

the Dodgers were going to win tonight. I thought the Dodge was probably win this series. I always thought there was a chance to die match one, but I thought that they probably would if you were asking me. And I don't feel that way anymore. I genuinely at the very least don't know. but I feel like this is a good spot for the Diamondbacks to be in and that they very well could win the series.

Pedro Martinez said it when we talked to him in the TBS Zoom meeting yesterday, but he said that basically the Diamondbacks really have nothing to lose here. The Dodgers are the ones that have all the question marks about them. They're the ones that have something to prove. And the pressure is really on the Dodgers because the Diamondbacks have nothing to lose. That was evident to say. And I think that that was apparent with the way Kurtz, I love Fernandez so much.

People are just kind of coming at him and he's like, I don't care what I want to say. I just want to hear bad things about Clayton Kirchow. He's here to talk shit about Clayton Kirchard. Hernandez, Clayton Kurtzaw, he sucked tonight. He really did. He was really bad. And he might never, I would never pitch again if I was Clayton Krishaw personally.

Yeah. Fernandez gave us a super chat. I very much. Listen, we appreciate our supporters, but we appreciate you too. You guys are awesome. Going back to the Alec Thomas home run, by the way. Not only was it the most pitches in a plate appearance ending in a home run in the postseason since pitch accounts were tracked in 1988. It is the most pitches in a played appearance ending in a home run in Arizona Diamondbacks franchise history, regular season or postseason.

Yeah. And I mean the point that you made earlier, like coming from like that's obviously impressive from literally anybody. Corbyn Carroll does that and he hits a home run. We are still freaking out about how crazy oven at bat that is. but we expect that based on the way Corbyn Carroll's been performing. And it's not so much that just that Alec is not the most prolific hitter on this team. But when we can you consider what he was doing in the wildcard, especially game one where he looked lost.

Like some of the worst swings I've seen a professional baseball player take in the postseason. It was awful. And for him to turn it around to what we saw today is crazy because he's a young guy too. Everyone always talks about Alex or like Corby being the rookie But like Alec is really young Yeah So like this is his first time of the postseason two So for him to be able to deal with this

Especially at a place like Dodger Stadium Because I know they took the energy out of that same even quick But at the beginning it was Rocking. It's Dodger Stadium in the postseason And for them For him to kind of Be able to overcome that is huge Rudy in the chats has got to take advantage of a rookie

Starting on the Dodgers side on Monday And that's another thing. The Dodgers don't have This the starting pitching rotation that they once had. I mean, but we were talking about it tonight. I mean, two of their starting pitchers that probably if history was different would be probably pitching in the series or not even on the team any longer

due to domestic violence situations, right? So it's like the Dodgers aren't the same team that they were. And hats off to them for handling those situations in the best possible way an organization can. But it's not to say that they did not lose some of the pitching that they thought they were going to be able to rely on, especially here in the postseason,

due to, you know, these personal matters that are embarrassing for both the person involved and the organization, right? But I will say that in regards to the Arizona Diamondbacks things, things are sunny over here. It's always sunny here in Phoenix. But Corby and Gabrielle Moreno's remarkable starts to the postseason. You couldn't ask for anything more.

And I mean, again, I mean, these guys are handling it where, I know that maybe opposing fans are unfamiliar with them, so they don't maybe have that same feeling when they're at the plate. But I know that we, we very much are here for all of the Gabby and, and Corby at Bats because we feel like they are instantaneously some of the most important of bats in a game.

Again, we gave you Moreno stats before the game, but he was vital down the stretch. The Diamondbacks with, with Gabby Moreno in the lineup, we're just a better team. Yeah. And I know we have some clips from the locker room. So do we have what could tell's feedback on tonight's win?

It's not easy to play here, man. I told you that. It's a lot of fans here. We might got a little pressure. I don't know. Compete with it all years. You got to play. Naim.

And then nothing. We're good. We're good. We've got to continue with hard. Continue with hard and we're going to be all right. Like that's such a, you know, like, again, we think that stuff doesn't matter. We really do. And for him to say it's not easy to play here.

It's not. I mean, I mean, I think there are certain places that the Diamondbacks have played well lately. Yeah. That are kind of like imposing. I mean, Wrigley Field. Riggily Field, Yankee Stadium, you know, Dodgers Stadium. Yeah, I know the Yankee Stadium isn't what it was. Well, I mean, they also didn't have a great series.

No, they didn't. But no, I mean, you're right. No, it's like it is. I mean, especially the nine innings shut out from from gallon against the Cubs was like that thing where I was like, oh man. But yeah, I mean, clearly like, first off, it's awesome to hear a Catell talk. You don't hear that very often, I feel like. And for that clip almost seemed like it was coming off of a loss because he's like, we're going to be all right. But still, like, yeah, you can't ignore the atmosphere that is.

Dodgers fans are you could talk as much shit is what you want about Dodgers fans and all all that stuff. And I mean for some they're kind of proving the point why right now. But like they show up and they're loud. So like I. You can't you can't ignore it like it obviously is as a factor in how these games go. And so especially for them to acknowledge that it's a factor and then for them still to turn out of performance like this. Yeah.

It's impressive. We also have Christian Walker who was saying that basically he had he had feedback on how this, this is proof to this team that they can trust themselves in this moment and be confident in themselves to win. Today is funny, especially in games like this, you know, with off days in between and stuff. But, but yeah, I think that was enough proof to ourselves that we can, trust ourselves in the moment and be confident and we have a reason to be confident we're a really good team you know anybody can execute on any given day but you know if we're locked in and we're relying on each other i think you know the the proof is there that we can we can trust that

man i mean he's not wrong though right if they're locked in and they're relying on each other they don't have to you know like again the idea there that you're not the guy right you're not the only one that's going to do it and when you see your teammates doing it that's that that's that confidence building i mean yeah Tommy fam was the guy tonight Tommy fam i mean four for five when you look at other guys night in july he was not on this team in july katel marty went one for five corbin two for five christian walker one for three you know gabby again another guy that uh we had a good night two for five with three rbi so it's like there there were contributions all around guerreel went one for five with a double

in RBI, Alec Thomas at the home run. That was his only hit of the night. But I mean, again, it came from everybody. It came from everybody. That's why Tommy Fam definitely stuck out as, as the guy tonight because he went four for five, but you could have easily given it to a number of other players on this team. And that is really what it comes down to, that ability to know that the guys are going to

pick you up and that you are going to have them there, that you're not the only one that has to do it. We also, do we have Alex Thomas as well? you know we're we're here i mean this is uh you know a different timebacks team than in the past and uh you know we're going to do whatever we can to say you know uh get a w at the end of the day so um yeah definitely definitely different from from the pack time back teams and we're just going to keep on playing you know our brand and uh you know try to get this thing like making a statement we're here we're fucking here we're here and we are a wagon let's

Go. Also, they're talking to the chat. What do you think MadBum's doing right now? Hmm. That's a good question. You think he's watching baseball? No. No.

No. I don't, I don't know because like, okay, so my, sometimes I just scroll, uh, doom scroll like on Twitter or something, but that's not, that's not a good place for him to be right now. That is absolutely not a good place for him to be. That is not, that is not a safe space for, uh, for a crush shop. but I mean, who cares, right? Honestly, right now, I'm just so excited that the Diamondbacks have been doing this,

doing it the way they've been doing it, out homering their opponents, not only in the series against the Brewers, but now tonight, four home runs to nothing for the Dodgers. And yeah, it's just, it's, it's an incredible thing to further the narrative that Clayton Kershaw is not a good playoff pitcher. I'm all on board with that. Yeah, and I like, I was by no means hoping for it, but I was always fully aware of the fact that like,

there's always like there's always a chance that changes i brought up david price the other day like he was notoriously a bad postseason pitcher until the one postseason where he was a great postseason pitcher and then the the narrative was gone like it just takes one postseason and i was worried it was going to be this one but it wasn't he was it was the opposite it was the worst thing i have ever seen from a starting pitcher in the postseason it's crazy it's like can you believe it i really can't who like did you ever think that we would be in this situation Not in this situation. No, I mean, I don't get me wrong.

I don't want to make it out like I doubted the Diamondbacks to the point where I didn't believe they could have a good game against the Dodgers. But this particular game and this particular win, the way they did it, it's just, no, there's no. There's no realistic reason to believe that this was going to go on like this. And so it just makes it so much more fun. Yeah, it's crazy. I was not talking shit before. Like, I was very purpose. Like I was giving the Dodgers a lot of respect.

They're a very good baseball team. And that cannot get lost. Despite how bad Clayton Kershaw was tonight, we cannot lose sight of the fact that they did this to a very, very good baseball. This isn't the Brewers. This is one of the best teams of baseball. They won over 100 games. This is one of the best teams.

And I don't give a shit about their track record. I mean, I do. But their track record of losing in the playoffs of Kershaw not being in the playoffs, all of that. They have, there was four first ballot hall of famers on the field. for the Dodgers tonight? Probably. At like, right?

Kurt Shaw, Freeman, Moodybats, J.D. Martinez, probably. I don't know about JD. Probably. I have to have to look at least. But like at least three, bare minimum. First ballot hall of famers. And another guy who's going to finish in the top three for voting for rookie a year. Yep. That's a very good baseball team.

And the dog in the double X, they didn't just beat them. They took it to him. They took it to him. Well, we got the one guy that was there of this crew. The chat demands Friedman. The chat demands Friedman says Elizabeth. Well, when the chat asks for Friedman, they get Friedman. Here he is. Jesse Friedman, Thunderstick, my vice mayor.

What a night for the Diamondbacks in L.A., Jesse. What a night. I mean, this is what everyone saw coming. I assume. We absolutely knew this was the way. Six runs against Clayton Kirschah in the very first inning of the game. I don't know who's bingo card. That wasn't on.

But yeah, it was an. absolutely wild game here at Dodgers Stadium for the Diamondbacks, just the ability to come out the way that the Diamondbacks did. Clayton Kershaw becomes the first pitcher in MLB postseason history to give up five runs, to give up five hits and five runs before recording his first out of the game. And ultimately, of course, he only recorded one of those before he, before he departed this game. Clayton Kershaw was not. I mean, we talked about this a lot leading up to this, right that Clayton Kirshah is maybe not the guy that he once was. He's always had a bit of a shaky, you know, reputation as a starting pitcher,

or a shaky reputation in the playoffs as a starting pitcher, I should say. But this was, I mean, this wasn't like playoff Kershaw. This was just Kershaw being kind of a shell of himself, I think. The velocity wasn't necessarily, you know, horrible compared to where it was in the regular season or anything. I think it was right around average. But yeah, I mean, you could tell from the, from the jump, Clayton Kershaw just didn't really have it in this game. And it was interesting. A lot of people asked Diamondbacks hitters after this game about the approach that they had against Kershaw and being pretty aggressive and, you know,

what were you looking for? What was the game plan? And they would not say much. The D-back suspect, and I believe Dave Roberts said after the game that Clayton Kershaw would pitch in game four, if necessary, if we get to that point. And so you can tell the Diamondbacks, they've found something here and they don't want anyone to know about it. Hell yeah. Could you imagine being a Dodgers fan right now and thinking best case scenario, we win the next two games and then we got to throw Clayton Kirshall back out there in game four on the road.

Not ideal if you're a Dodgers fan. I mean, and even the games between then, between now and then, right? I mean, you've got Bobby Miller going in game two. He's a young pitcher. He's a rookie. The debacks, you know, he pitched very well against the debacks in his first. outing against them this season but did not pitch particularly well in his last outing against the diamond backs in their regular season.

And then game three, Dave Roberts has yet to say exactly what the Dodgers would do in that game. It seems like Lance Lynn could be a possibility there. I know Emmett Sheean threw a number of pitches in this game. So it seems like he might not be an option. Ryan Pepio is still out there as an option for that game. So, yeah, I mean, this is the state of the Dodgers right now. It's Clayton Kershaw, just not being the pitcher that he wants.

was and it's some young guys who certainly have some potential. I mean, I think Bobby Miller is a great pitcher. I think Ryan Pepio, you know, now that he's throwing strikes, you know, has a chance to be a pretty good pitcher in this league. But, you know, come playoff time, the Dodgers don't have what the Diamondbacks have in Zach Gallen and Merrill Kelly. And Merrill, I mean, you know, there's been this narrative and we've talked about it a lot of Merrill Kelly just not being able to win against the Dodgers. He picked a pretty good game to get his first career win against the Dodgers on on the biggest stage that he's pitched in, you know, up to this point in his career. Jesse, that's absolutely the truth.

And I know that obviously we're very excited about what the offense did, right? But I feel like it's just as significant about what Merrill did and what the, you know, obviously what the bullpen did, holding the Dodgers to just two runs and just really limiting them tonight as far as what they were able to do offensively. You know, I mean, I feel like there could have been maybe an option late. where the Diamondbacks, you know, maybe didn't, you know, go to some of their best relievers

or whatever and maybe it allowed the Dodgers to kind of get a little bit of rhythm. Samal is not on the roster. Yeah, like I was a little bit worried, you know, like a position player might get out there and start throwing or something like that. But I'm no, I mean, I was a little bit worried, especially when they started to get things going against Miguel Castro because

like again, this is. They were loading 11 to nothing and we started getting worried. We did. We're so hurt. We're so hurt by this team. But it's also the fact that like they're rusty right so you don't want to see them even catch fire just late in this game even if they don't win it we don't want to see them start getting things back on track for game two and game three yeah you know momentum is is uh you know it's a word that in this sport i don't know if anyone knows if it's real or what exactly it is but it's magic it's magic

jesse yeah i mean you you have some sense that that does exist and uh yeah i mean if you're the debats, maybe you didn't want the Dodgers, you know, scoring six runs or something in the last couple of innings and, you know, at least kind of salvaging some respect for themselves. I believe I heard this was the biggest loss by margin at Dodgers Stadium that this Dodgers team has ever had. Maybe that was specifically in the postseason. Regardless, the Dodgers don't lose by nine runs very often. That just doesn't really happen.

You know, the debacks have been on the other side of a number of games like this. I remember the very first series that the Diamondbacks played this. year was a four-game set at Dodgers Stadium, a series at the D-BACS split while also being outscored by like 15 runs or something. The Dodgers won two blowout games and the D-VACs won two games, I think, by one run each. But they were, I mean, they were very much on the other side of that in this game, just, you know, silencing this crowd, like this Dodgers crowd, you know, I mean, I guess good on them. There were still moments where they got pretty loud and pretty into it, you know, Will Smith's two-run triple when the Dodgers finally got on the

board really late in this game. The crowd was in. into it, but I mean, it still was not, it didn't even remotely compare to the environment that were used to a Dodger Stadium. The reality is that within 12 minutes of this game, the debacks had already scored way more runs, more than twice as many runs as the Dodgers would score in the entire game. And it was, I mean, his game was over in 12 minutes is basically how is basically how things worked out. Which is hilarious for a fan base that notoriously does not get to the game on time. You know how sick I would be if I had paid a bunch of money for Dodgers? Like, you know, Dodgers Stadium and LDS tickets.

I show up 15 minutes late and the Dodgers are winning are losing six nothing already. Sick to my stomach. I would, I would demand a refund. He's also. Kershaw personally. He's also, I think said the phrase like,

could you imagine being a Dodgers fan? I think 15 times on this episode. Could you imagine? I don't know out what the counter is out. If this happened to the debats, we'd like, ah, man. D.

The run was fun. It's the Dodgers, of course. It's Jover. Oh, that sucks. I would have been upset, obviously, but it would have been like, okay. Yeah. But if you're the Dodgers?

Oh, boy. That's got to suck. And it's, and it's, yeah, and he's right doing this thing. Yeah, get out of here with all of that. But they were, they were like rehearsing that before the game started. Yeah. So they were just like, we're going to get to do. You just blew David's mind.

Oh, no. I think my casket blew off my head right there. That's infuriating. That's a great. I have to say losers. Diamondbacks fans, I mean, it'd be, yeah, it'd be rough. They've really taken the freight train thing to heart. They've got like stuff.

They've got all sorts of animations and stuff on the screen. No, train down nine is insane. Insane. Well, I'm talking about this was this was before the game started. This was before the game started. What are you doing? Practicing double celebrations before the game. That's it.

We didn't practice. We didn't practice that. We just did. We just listened to the song one time in the background of the video. Jesse, before we let you go, what was more impressive to you on the offensive side of things? The fact that Corbyn-Carroll and Gabriel Moreno continue to kind of lead the way for this team

as seasoned, grizzled young veterans, I guess you could say, or, you know, Tommy Pham being the guy that goes four for five in the NLDS unexpectedly for a team that he wasn't even a part of, you know,

what, three months ago? Yeah, I mean, I wrote about five X factors for the Diamondbacks going into this. series before the game started. And Tommy Fan was one of them. He finished the season four for 31 in his last five, ten games. He didn't have an extra base hit in that span.

All four of those hits were singles. There were some walks in there, but he just wasn't really impacting the baseball. And then in the postseason, I mean, those first couple games in Milwaukee, Tommy fan went one for eight. And he's your number three hitter, right? Like you can't really afford for your number three hitter to have a, you know, a 400 OPS or whatever for very long. So him turning it around, you know, getting four hits in a game,

hitting that home run at the end. Obviously, that home run wasn't particularly meaningful at the time. But I think it's, I think it's a, you know, a really positive development for the Diamondbacks just seeing Tommy fan, you know, be able to turn things around. And he's obviously a really big part of this offense just by virtue of the fact that he hits third. And so, you know, you can't, you can't afford for that guy in your lineup to have too much downtime.

But, yeah, I mean, Corbyn, Carol. Gabby Moreno. I mean, what an introduction to the postseason, right? I mean, just being able to do this on that stage, Gabby, I asked him after the game, you know, about just his ability to kind of come through and come into the spotlight like this and have the success that he's had. And, you know, he basically just said, this is what I've been dreaming for. This is what I've been working toward up through the minors. Like, this is the big moment that I've been preparing for. And, you know, it's not just him, it's Alec Thomas, it's Corbyn Carroll. As we mentioned earlier, guys who are really young,

who have just stepped right in on the biggest stage that they've ever faced and not at all been phased by it. Jesse, before we let you go, Patrick Lyons wants to know if we can get you to do one ski in the Dodgers in the Dodgers press box. I'm guessing that's a note, but I figured I wouldn't be doing my due diligence. What is that even mean? It's from a song. I need to understand.

It's a from a song. It's literally just a sound. that this woman makes in her song. She literally just says, ski. It's like, doesn't really mean anything. I don't think.

I think it's just a sound. It's just a sound. Yeah, I don't know. That's like an enigmatic. You see, he doesn't, and he doesn't believe you anyway.

But I, we asked, we try. You can't get mad at us, Patrick. Jesse, big game, obviously tomorrow

with Zach Gallant, or not tomorrow, because there is no game tomorrow, but on Monday, Zach Gallon will be on the mound for the diamondbacks. Again, against the aforementioned Miller. And yeah, this matchup, obviously just due to Zach Gallen's, I guess, slight advantage there with experience is kind of favoring the Diamondbacks.

But who knows? Who knows? I mean, we said that about this game. And I mean, we went over all the factors. We went over all the loss, all the, all the bad luck that Merrill Kelly has had against the Dodgers. And then he did what he did tonight and the Diamondbacks win in this fashion. So analytics be damned. Numbers in the past be damn.

I'm just ready to watch a good baseball game against two very good young starting pitchers here that the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers both have in this game. Yeah, I mean, the Dodgers said at this point, you know, it's not a three game series, the five game series. But the Dodgers still, like they really can't afford to lose game two, frankly. I mean, that's a really, really tough spot if you're down 02 in a five game series and you're and you're heading on the road. That would be a really, really tough spot for them to come back from. So, you know, you kind of figure they're going to come out with a vengeance in game two against Zach Gallen and, you know, try to do to the Diamondbacks ace what the Diamondbacks just did to theirs, right? Absolutely. So, yeah, Bobby Miller is a young pitcher, but he's, I mean, he's really good.

Like Bobby Miller, like, if the Diamondbacks had Bobby Miller, he would be like a primary topic of conversation. Like, he would be right up there with Zach Allen and Merrill Kelly as one of the best pitchers on this team. So, you know, he doesn't necessarily have that level of experience, but it's hard to imagine, you know, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman and some of the hitters in this Dodgers lineup just being quiet for multiple games in a row. So, yeah, we'll see. We'll see what kind of, you know, momentum if that's a real thing. We'll see if the Diamondbacks are able to carry any of that in the game two.

It is a little weird, like you mentioned with the off day tomorrow. So there's, there's a, you know, a decent time gap between game one and game two. But, yeah, it's a game the Dodgers front. frankly cannot afford to lose. And the Diamondbacks at this point can use, I think, any off days that they can get. So happy to have it. And Jesse, we are happy to have you always

joining us from wherever you're at, but especially there in L.A. for this big win. We appreciate it. Make sure to check out Jesse's piece on go, phnx.com about those five X factors for the Arizona Diamondbacks, as well as follow him on Twitter at Jesse and Friedman. Jesse, thank you again.

Thanks, guys. See you tomorrow or see you my day. Not tomorrow. I'm off tomorrow. I won't be here. I'll be in Las Vegas, which I'm leaving for right now, by the way. And Jesse still thinks I'm a maniac for doing that. But of course, on my way out of town, I will be stopping at Circle K. It is the place to stop to get not only fill up my car for cheaper than anywhere else because I'm a member of the Inner Circle membership program. It's free. You can get it too just by downloading the Circle K app. You don't have to know Chris Jericho.

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Actually, my gaslight came on the way here. I need gas, yeah, me too. I would be drinking a Four Peaks right now in celebration, but I have to drive for four hours in the middle of the night through the desert. But you should celebrate with the Four Peaks. Of course, it's the official craft beer of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Get yourself that rattle on red ale. It is perfect for tailgates.

It is perfect for all the time. win or lose, you're good with booze with Four Peaks. So make sure to check out, of course, pumpkin porter season is here now. You can get in the fall state of mine. It's back on the shelves and in draft lines throughout the valley. Do not miss that. It will be gone before you know it. Of course, make sure to visit FourPeaks.com slash locator to find all your favorite brewery tours and events.

Steinholding, October Fest and haunted brewery tours are all right around the corner. Of course, they don't want me to tell you this, but the ghosts do make the beer at the 8th Street pub. So if you're into that kind of thing, I don't know why they don't public publicize that. I mean, I think it's the free ghost labor. I think that's probably the problem. But check out at Four Peaks, at Four Peaks Pub to keep up with the latest Arizona's hometown brewery. Must be 21 or older to drink Four Peaks.

And please drink responsibly. Can I just, before you get into your, like you're wrapping up the show, I want to say, I saw a couple people because Marcus said it, and there was someone earlier in the chat that talked about, like,

not getting the national respect. Yeah. You guys not getting respect. Yeah. Fuck that. I like it like this. You don't need it. Like,

I like being the underdog. I think the team does too. Like I, they don't need to give us respect until we force them to give the respect with a ring. Yeah. Like until then, let them keep sleeping because that's how we got this far. I enjoy it. Damien, can we see the super chats one more time? I'm going to get all of those before we get out because you guys are fucking awesome.

Mitch Fleet said stadium got so quiet. Loved every second of it. Yes, this, this. Joey Hill said one day, Wednesday here at Chase Field, it's going to be electric and we will be there. So make sure to follow us and then we'll have some hijinks and I'll be back here. uh our our our buddy bm i'm this is the best i can do i'm sorry comrade comrade uh the first playoff game in any sport that i've watched where i was not nervous in the slightest well we did like you didn't have time to be nervous literally by the time before you even realize what's going

on they were kicking ass already out you card you're beautiful human being you said debacks with a two hundred IQ play getting swept by the astros to avoid the philly's braves just to give kers shot the worst outing with career that's not checkers baby that's not checkers four d chess He also said, Matt Baum probably sleeping, knowing he's get, he has a way better postseason record than Kirchow. Don't let Madbom's Arizona Diamondbacks tenure distract you from the fact that he's arguably the greatest

World Series pitcher in the history of the game. He'll remind you of that quite often. And last but not least, Victor said, this is me dreaming. How sweet would it be if we ended the series and Kirshaw's career in game four? Maybe we do it. Maybe we just end this in game three and wrap it up in three.

What if? What if? Like what if Cleaning Kershaw's last ever game? was tonight. Like, could you imagine that? Could be. It would feel pretty good. Oh, I feel so sweet, David.

It would feel delectable. We will be back here. We will be back here 35 minutes before the game on Monday with our pregame show and then back afterwards for our post game. Do not miss joining us. I get one day off and I'm going to spend that again at a reggae festival pretending not to be a cop. Good lucked on that.

But anyway, you can follow us on Twitter. I like reggae too. Yeah. Hey, fellow students. I'm at Kapp underscore Keman with a K. Matt Bum back right now. Shut up.

Don't start with me. Don't turn off his. Playoffs. Damon, turn off your own mic. For the y'all. Yes. You got you sick bastard. I'm in.

You son of a bitch. I'm in. I'm at Kapp underscore Kaveman on on Twitter. This guy over here is at Sean Dupon underscore DePos. It's making me forget everything. Damon's still people's producer. He is a Damon dog.

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And remember, kids, baseball is fun, but it is so much more fun when you hang six runs on Kershaw and end his night in the first inning.