Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Blue Jays DOMINATE World Series Game 1!

Episode Date: October 25, 2025

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Hello and welcome to Talk in Baseball. The World Series has begun. And Toronto rolls the Dodgers? Do we have a series on our hands? Let's talk ball. Chris Basset. Bam Bam, Barger, baby. Quadruple B.

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With T-Mobile, head on over to T-Mobile.com slash network. I am Jake Storelli. That is Trevor Plouf. Rob Seracco's produced and Dahlts getting the sheet ready with all sorts of of information, like maybe the first pinch hit Grand Slam in World Series history. Trevor, how are you?

I'm doing great. I appreciate you asking. You said, do we have ourselves a series? No, it's over. Blue Jays in a route. That's what I said from the get-go. Everybody had that. Yes. Unbelievable. Was it a nine run inning we saw? Yes. Holy Schneeke's David Popkins. Where was he the hitting coach? Minnesota. Nobody care.

We don't care. Stephen A. Smith. I care. I know you can care, Dick. And I'm a co-host of this fucking show. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, I guess, hello, everyone, and welcome. Yeah, there's, well, it's game one. And we try not to overreact, but we have what we have to react to.

But this is what Toronto has done for, the last three months and people think it's not sustainable or Ernie Clement isn't that guy. I don't know whatever the stat page tells you. Ernie Clement is that guy. Kirk's at bat. The two lefty pinch hits off from Lucas and Barger

were just amazing at bats and it's all this team does. Bo Bichet off the aisle scrap heap. His at-bats look pretty good, although swinging 3-0 hits one off the end of the that leaks through. Hey. It's a knock.

That's a knock. Yeah, coach. Yeah. When you do your burn so we can get into it? You're that aged up. Yes. Okay. Watch out.

The championship of America's pastime will get decided in our neighbors to the north. Trey you savage. Blue J. Splitter Nasty takes the pill for Toronto as ooh that's now. Can you hit Blake's now? Bump day for his Dodgers trying to repeat. Top two, Kike, do you love me? He tries to show that he's October's very own with an RBI single. Will Smith gets jiggy with his own RBI knock.

It's 2-0 L.A. in the 4th. But it's showtime. Not Otani. Bar Show. Two run Homer to tie it. But in the 6th, in the 6th, a Clement mixer to Ernie. Luke's with the RBI walk. Jimenez with the RBI single.

And wham-bam, thank you, ma'am. Bam-Barm, barger, Grand Slam. A little six-nine has everyone feeling pleased as it's nine runs in the six. Otani Homer, it doesn't matter. The Blue Jays, roll them up 11 to 4 as they take game one. A lot of music references in that burn right there. a lot of them. The standings for this

series, Blue Jays, 1 and 0, Dodgers, oh, and 1. My goodness, did we think they were going to lose on Drake's birthday? I think a lot of sports fans would tell you, yes. No, I'm the other way now, Coach. I think he's fine. He's back. He did a world tour with millions

of people coming. And look, I rarely ever bet sports, but sometimes I do when there's like a storyline. I feel like, there's just magic with sports in that. I should have been all over the Blue Jays tonight. I wasn't, but I should have been. Yeah.

Okay. Yes, because of Drake's birthday. We all should have been in on draft kings with this. Trev, where do we start? Because game one, awesome national anthems. That's kind of where the game starts. Yes. I thought for a great.

I tweeted that out. It was classy and felt like appropriate and felt big. Someone said it seemed like an Olympic opening ceremony type performance, which I kind of, I like that. It was clean. It was good. I love it. And Farrell, he's from Virginia Beach, so no dog in the fight.

Farrell, pretty kind of all-time cool guy. Yeah. Some of his early songs, him and Snoop. Anyways. Okay. Savage is on the bump, which, Trev, we haven't talked to the people since we've done our preview episode, and we didn't know if it was going to be Gossman or the kid. They go to the kid.

He's on the bump. And I don't know, man, talk about a real moment. I know they kept doing the stat. His first start this year was in front of 384 people, and now we start in game one of the World Series against the Dodgers. Clean first, which, my God, in a game of this magnitude, how, much that matters for just how he's feeling generally. Yeah, I mean,

Cron potter, let's start in the first. I like that for us to go. Yeah, National Anthem first inning. We're locked. We're there. I did think, you know, he goes one, two, three, yes. Show Hey, he laid off a one, two heater top of the zone. And I was like, oh, man, like, if show is laying off that pitch, then he's going to be a problem for this Blue Jay's pitching staff. but then he went straight after that. He laid off the high fastball,

but he goes to the splitter next pitch and show hey, swung and missed by like a foot and a half coach. And it was on from there. So a nice clean inning. And then the bottom of the first Blue Jays kind of do what they do, 29 pitches.

Vladdy works the walk. Bo, you mentioned the three-o, swing on a change piece, just finds a way to get it done. But Snell works around trouble ends up getting Varsha to pop out. No blood. 29 pitches, though,

I think was a precursor to what was to come later on in the game because they were putting up good at bat. Snell was just able to wiggle out of it. But that first inning was very telling, I think, in this game. Yeah, and it was the most pitches, Snell's thrown in an inning this postseason. And, yeah, I mean, what I think a lot of times in baseball, we kind of skip the middle innings.

Like, oh, okay, you know, your best time to get the starter is early. If you come back and win a game late, we remember that. That sometimes the middle innings get lost in translation. But with the current status of the Dodgers bullpen, those are the important innings. And we'll get to that in a second. But also, it was, I don't know, you savages out there, you see Shohey swing off.

That was a splitter, right? Yeah, splitter and miss that by a lot that you're like, okay, the kids here. let's see what he's got the rest of the day. And then Snell, if there's anyone that's ever navigated, bases loaded with a couple of walks inning, it's Snell that it's like, okay, both of these guys are here,

almost like let's actually start the game now with all the extra pressure of the World Series and Ferell and everything else we're talking about. Drizies B-Day. Top second, lead off walk, coach Trev. Don't like that. Yep. To Will Smith, one of the best catchers in the game.

and sometimes we just forget that. And then Kike Hernandez comes up in October, RBI single. And then you're starting to Tommy Edmund. Yeah, swinging bunt to load the basis. But then again, we've seen this from Trey quite frequently through this postseason. Besides the game where he just ran up your Yankees, 11Ks, like the other games, he's worked through trouble, lots of double plays. He's had to navigate some tough innings as well and did it again.

And so in this and he gets pious with a K. And then show he's up with bases loaded in what could be a very consequential at bat for the game at least, if not the series. And he gets in the ground down to Vlad. I mean, he's shown some cahones, if you will, coach.

And I did point out, which I thought was really funny. He's wearing the showhays while facing show hay and dominating him. Wow. That always, so you got to love that. You see that more, and it blows my mind in the NBA. Some guys wear other guys shoe.

And I'm like, dude, you're like playing against them right now. I guess you don't see that a ton in baseball. Not really in baseball. It's really only the trouts in the Otanis. I think Lindor has a U shoe, but I don't think it's a pro shoe. Well, and for you Savage, who started the year in high A, whatever cleats you got. They said the guys still living out of the hotel, checking out when they go on the road.

It's just such an up and down, you know, a guy type thing to be doing, and he's starting game one of the world. Travis, we've accepted it, or at least us in the baseball world, but he had three starts in the regular season, and now he's just been a postseason horse

that they gave him the ball in game one. And there's also some mental side to that if they had lost game one, having Gossmann ready to go, instead of putting the pressure on the kids. So that was a little bit of the thought process. Like, hey, it's going to be a crazy environment anyway. But with all that, you're right,

and I think there needs to be an Andy Pahas conversation. Yeah. Probably after the game when we're talking about game two a little bit. But then it's also, oh, the second inning, the Blue Jays put together a little bit of Blue Jays put together a little bit of Blue J action. And when I say that, it means Ernie Clement gets a lead off single because that's all he does.

And then George Springer, infield single, where Freddie, a really interesting angle. He's like an extra step off the base, so he looks to go to second. Mookie wasn't covering, which I guess I'll ask you if I'm missing anything on that, flips it back to Snell and the play feels disorganized. Snell doesn't have his foot on the base,

but Ernie tries to go for the extra bag and Snell puts it on him out of the inning. Yeah, I mean, an interesting play. I think Clement was kind of confused as to what was going on. Snell with a great throw right there. I think that Mookie thought Freddie was just going to go to the bag to Snell maybe. I can't really see where he's at. They didn't really show a replay of where he was at.

But yeah, running into an out there, no good. But actually, if we go to the next inning, it's much worse. And I think this one, I truly do think really set the Dodgers up for some failure. Because he had two walks, so more lead-off walks to start the inning. Will Smith hits the ball through the three hole. That's a run. For some reason, Freddie just gets halfway to third base and gets thrown out, right? Like instead of it being first and second, nobody out with a 2-0 lead.

Now all of a sudden, they get a guy to second base with one out. Then Boba-Shed makes that great play up the middle to save a run. Like, this was a very consequential inning for the Dodgers. Freddie has no reason to be going to third base right there. Just no reason whatsoever. So a base running gap at the time, you're like, oh, it's 2-0 Dodgers, like whatever, the run scored. You don't think of it at all.

But, you know, what a different situation. You're giving them an outright there, you know, instead of putting more pressure on, you're taking pressure off. And then again, you know, Beau makes, you know, what, and I kind of question Bose or Schneider's decision to put Bow in at second base. I didn't think that was the right move. I would have, if I wanted him to play the field, I would have put him, at shortstop and just sacrificed the defense there.

But he made a great play to save a run later that inning. But that probably would have been a base hit because they would have been playing double-play depth. So it's like it's all these things happen. And you can go back to Freddie making that base running error. And things could have been different, but they weren't. And look, credits of the Blue Jays for finding me out on the base pass. I want to circle back on Bichette later as well because that's a whole conversation that we didn't get to have because we didn't really think second base was going to be in play.

Only because he'd never played there at the Major League level. Hey, here's game one or one series. After he recorded, they said he had been taking some ground balls there. So there was. Sure, but he never started a game there in the big leagues. Like 2019 and the minor leagues was the last time that he had done it. Crazy. Trev, all that was a great point because we were live streaming and we've been

live streaming and a lot of people have been joining us and we thank you. But we're also lost in the moment that, like, I don't know, I kind of thought that was the generic. And we've talked about this during the regular season that, I don't know, would Straw have had a throw at Mookie at home if he doesn't go to second to get Freddie? I don't think so. I'm with you, but I'm just trying to think out loud. But yeah, and then like Freddie lets the runner get to second that it's like, okay, they want to make sure the run scored and Freddie got out there.

but Yassavage was looking not like himself. So this person who we've gotten to learn about in the postseason, he walked the first two hitters and then he gave up a single that he's completely on the ropes. You give him his first out that, I don't know, depending what happens next, he might be out of this game. And who knows what we're talking about Toronto's pitching path or trying to get through this game or the next game or game six, like trying to expose their bullpen.

So yeah, that's, that's a big play. That's atrocious. I guess in live time watching, it didn't feel that way for me. Well, because they just scored a run again. They're up to nothing. It felt like the Dodgers were going to be in control of the game. But, you know, as we know later on, that did not happen. I think we could fast forward.

Like the next bow hits into a 363-3-0 play. Nice job by the Dodgers. That was a pretty play. Freddie to Mookie back to Freddie. Top four, well, it's probably Savage's best inning. He was one, two, three there. I think he had a couple of K's. Or maybe he didn't have K's.

That was his best inning. And then the bottom of the fourth is where a thing started to go the Blue Jays way. Kirk, I believe the first of a bat was a nine pitch of bat. Second abat was an eight pitch of bat. So he is just dominating Snell in that regard. You know, when you're a pitcher and some guy just won't get out, It makes you mad. It frustrates you. And I tweeted that out as well.

Like you could tell that Snell was visibly frustrated because he thought he was making the pitches to get guys out. And they just were fouling them off or they were taking close pitches. And he has that hasn't been happening to him this postseason. He's been getting outs on those pitches. And that is the, I mean, that's what the Blue Jays have been doing. That's their MO is tough, tough professional A-Bs. So Kirk does that twice. and then Varsha was like,

hey man, last time I got a head in the count, you started throwing me off-speed pitches. How about I just go swing first pitch and sends one out to make it two-to-two. Lefty, lefty, hadn't been done. What was it? I have it on my notes.

Soto in the middle of 24. First home were by a left-hander all year. Yes. Last one was Soto. And he puts it up two-two. And I was like, okay. Here we go. Because Snell's pitch count,

He actually regained control of his pitch count after that 29 pitch inning. He was kind of like looking good. But Varsho comes up with a massive swing for the Blue Jays. Well, Trev, it's what we've talked about with Toronto, especially this postseason. And going back to summer, like when they took over the ALE East, like you're talking about a pitcher being frustrated

when there's one guy in a lineup that they really, can't get out. They have 11 of them. Just said 11 pretty weird. And I want to tell you, Dalton said you had a really good night on Twitter. I haven't looked yet because I was streaming, but he said you had some good tweets tonight. So I'm excited to get in there

afterwards. You know what? I love you, Dalt. But I do want to go back to, thanks. Taylor Jackson coached me up today. Nice. But so for a pitcher, Kirk does that again to you. Long at bat hits the should probably should have been a double

but it was a single off the wall because Alejandro Kirk love that but Snell's like dude I need to quick out like I want to get back and get ahead in the count so he grews a fastball misses a spot obviously but like that's what happens

when you start having these long ABs pitchers get frustrated they want to quick out throw them a heater probably wouldn't have done that if Kirk had gotten out in two or three pitches like you just start to think differently and Varsho understands that.

If there's a time to ambush, it's after a nine-pitched bat. Let me go get this one. He's trying to get ahead of me. He's trying to save his pitch count. Boom. 2-2 tie game. One of the two lefties that were in the lineup for Toronto, one of the big combos coming into this game,

Varsho clipping him that, I don't know, just taking the whole edge out of the game because, hey, like we talked about in those early innings, Shoah was up with the basis load. They had a lot of action that this game could have went in a very different direction. Flew Hardy comes out, which that's part of the something to watch this series.

And he gets Otani and Freddie. Muki does get him with a single in between. Interesting pitcher. It's a lot of high cutters. And yeah, something to track this series because he's going to see that lane a lot. I will say this. I don't want to, I'm not trying to make excuses for

show hey because you know he really hasn't hit in this post season there's that one game that we're all remembering but those were nasty pitches like they they made great pitches on him all night long except for the homer um just like on the peripherals of the strike zone mixing up down away in like they've they've done a really really good job with him yeah um let's let's get into the game uh and it it comes in the sixth inning although quick inning Sir Anthony Dominguez, happy for you. And this, the inning of the game is brought to you by our friends at Draft Kings. People, it's time to be in on the action, whether you're a baseball fan or if you're a fan of any sport,

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Minimum odds required. Four additional terms and responsible gaming resources, see DKNG.com slash audio. Limited time offer. Trev, the sixth inning. So we did a little bit of this conversation pre-show. Snell's pitch count.

What do we land at? 85, 88, 84. 84 going into the bottom of the 6th, yes. So, I don't know. I guess I'll let you talk through it. I thought Snell should start the inning, especially with the Dodgers options out there. He hadn't looked like his A-plus version of himself,

but if you do look at the box score, at this point in the game, he's given up two runs and it was on essentially one pitch that Varsho jumped. So especially with what the Dodgers have working with and who Snell has been his last five postseason games he won, I do think he should have started this in. Yeah, I think I agree with you because of the bullpen. Like any, if they had guys that they could trust in that Dodger bullpen,

I don't think he starts that inning. You know, I just think there was, it just wasn't as sharp as we've seen Blake Snell. And so to me, in a normal situation, I don't think he goes back out. But you're right, they don't really have much out there. So they can get,

I mean, Dave Roberts is probably saying, hey, can you give us two more? Right. Like, I truly believe he'd say, okay,

you know, 84 pitches. Can you get through this one at 95? Maybe he has a quick inning right here. And then we can try to see what we can get out of him in the seventh. I think Dave Roberts is, truly thinking that because again, they just don't really have the horses back there.

And I don't, I don't know what's going on with Vessie and his family. I know it's something very serious. I just want to send, you know, our condolences or good thoughts, prayers, everything his way.

But obviously, that's a big, that's a big loss for the Dodgers. I don't mean to, I don't know. No, we're bringing that up. No,

I know. Sometimes we're not good about serious stuff, but people, we don't really know what's going on. and then as we're supposed to... Not faulting him at all. I'm just... No, but as we talk about the baseball side of it,

he's the only guy with Rogi that had been pitching well out of their bullpen. So their team weakness that we were like, we haven't seen it be a weakness because they haven't had to use it just became even weaker. Yes, so I mean, I don't...

Sheen has nasty stuff. He throws really hard. It's a pretty good slatherer. It hasn't really worked out for him in the postseason hasn't been as sharp so like do you go to shrine in there I don't I don't really know I think I think with what we're

dealing with I think sheehan was fine but you know so you start Blake Snell he walks Boba shit lead off walks they stink Kirk another base hit to right first and two first and second no outs um

Varsho gets up in the count 2O snow gets nasty back to back breaking pitches but he works the count full he's having a great at bat like when he got to the to the full count he was all over the curbel he was all over the fastball there was really nothing that he wasn't on and you could tell snell felt that and he was trying to make some miraculous pitch ends up hitting him in the shoulder with a fastball um almost i thought almost got him in the head but uh luckily it didn't so all the sudden here comes emits she and he's in

and clement because this is what he does just puts the freaking barrel on the ball and then coach all hell breaks loose it was a blood bath Lucas pinch hits for straw oh two to three two another walk Jimenez gets a base hit barger freaking pinch hits for Schneider and he he fucking goes up top for the grand slam to make it nine to two lefty lefty match it because bandit comes in it was a master class of hitting in a and moves by Schneider, everything was, it was incredible. And if you're a Blue Jays fan, you're like, see, we told you, we told you. Insane.

The way they do it, you know, I think in recent years that that Texas team really mashed on their run to the World Series. Texas fans got mad for a while, and they were like, the pitching was really good, too. And it's like, yes, but what was their signature was how they hit. But theirs was much more fearsome with power. Like Adoles Garcia just was the bad man trying to hit a home run every time. They clip you in every way, man. There's two nine-pitch at-bats that they won both of them with a hit-by-pitch in a walk. They have two at-bats where they just jumped you.

and it's there's no safety net. There's no like, hey, if you throw your good, if you get ahead and throw your wipeout blank pitch, you're going to be good. Like you're going to get these guys out. There's none of that. It's not a safe place when Toronto's hitting. And they felt it in that inning.

And yeah, man, I mean, I don't think the Snell fastball that hit Varshow was anything towards intentional, but I think it was frustration. fatigue and trying to make a perfect pitch that it was almost like, hey, I need to dot this up and in with zero chance of it running over the plate that the alternate option is this catches them in the shoulder

and it did. And yeah, they are just an absolute torture chamber right now. And I don't know. It's easy to double guess, double guess. Nice, Jake. Second guess. Yeah, way to go. Nailed it.

It's easy to double guess too. going to Emmett Sheehan, but like, look at his regular season stats and who he was. This is, this was supposed to be kind of the first guy they tapped into. I think after seeing this result, like if you told us, hey, Sheehan or Trinan, if I knew it was bases loaded, I might lean Trinan just because that dude's been in a lot of situations. And he's got a sinker. Yeah.

That, you know, how that situation plays out. But it's a little bit of the conversation that. that we thought we might have once in the Milwaukee series, but it never happened because all their starters were disgusting, and we didn't have to use any of these guys, really. Now I'm going back to it thinking, bases loaded Clement up, he's swinging.

By the way, people don't remember, 4-3 war for Ernie Clement this year. He's not just some guy. Yes. By the way, welcome to the four-of-war season club, Ernie and ultimately gatekeeper for that.

No big deal. I have one. um bass is loaded with a guy that swings a ton that's probably that if you throw some sinkers he's probably gonna hit one in the ground like trying probably was the right answer there right I think so I again I think

like she and had strikeout stuff there's a couple things in play here because I don't think they thought Snell was going to leave bases loaded nobody out but you kind of have to be prepared for those situations that yeah I think there's something something to be said, if you're going to get out of that moment, you would probably rather lean on your veteran in game one of the postseason.

But also, like, the Dodgers need anyone to step up. And no. This is what we kept saying, and Dodger fans have been, I mentioned, oh, wait till you get into the pen, huh? Wait to you get into the pen, huh? I'm like, yeah, wait until you get into the pen. And I called that out, too.

So, Dalton was right. I was cooking on X tonight. I said, Snell 29 pitches, and the first inning almost guarantees that we're going to get the Dodgers bullpen for four innings pitched. And we did. And we did. And look what happened. Nine run inning. Alejandro Kirk, we're not going to shortchange you.

You also hit a homer in that inning. And I mean, he almost hit too. Like that other ball he hit, I think that was a home run five out of 30. And that, I mean, I'm not saying this because I'm tall and I've had my thick moments. his little waddle run back to first was hilarious. The Blue Jays scored nine runs in the six. Just a reminder, the Brewers put across four in the four games in the NLCS. 50 extra base hits for the Blue Jays are the most in MLB history

through the first 12 games of a postseason. The Blue Jays struck out four times while the Dodgers struck out 13 times. Yeah, and there's, Hey, coach, you know, this team also leads the postseason homers. I know. They're grinding, they're grinding at bats, but they're also leaving the yard. You just talked about how they have the most extra base hits in the postseason. Like, they're just doing everything right now.

Everything is going right offensively for them. And, you know, they got, they have lefties for the Dodgers lefties. And they, you know, they got enough back there that, It's, it's, they're damn good, Jake. They're damn good. I was trying to tell people this isn't David versus Goliath. No. And I, even though I picked Dodgers in five.

Right. And still a chance. Still a chance. Tight, tight rope. Um, I don't know. This is a little bit of a Jakeism that I don't have the phrasing down yet. So if anyone wants to help in the comments or if you've got me, but like, I know people have been saying that.

They're like, you know, Toronto's not this contact team. Hey, I mean, watch there are bets. Their approach is clearly different than a lot of teams that UC play baseball. And, okay, so they're hitting for power. Well, the first part of hitting the ball is still contact. So, like, you still have to get a swing off and put part of the bat on the ball. So, again, there should be a tighter way to phrase that. They're, like, contact can lead to power.

We somehow got away from that as a sport. Not smoltsing tonight. I'm not smoltsing tonight. Blue Jay's record 53 comeback wins. the most this year. Partger, first ever first ever player to pinch hit Grand Slam in the World Series.

I don't know, Tray. I mean, I want to talk about a lot of stuff that's outside of this game between what Toronto did with their lineup, without the lefties, with Bichette at second base, which we didn't know. That I don't know, I guess,

I guess what else do we need to cover from this game before talking. about some of the bigger topics that are left. I guess if you're Schneider, you just run this back against Snell. I think looking at the lineup that he put out there against Snell and seeing David Schneider and Miles Straw out there,

like I'd rather just start my guys. I'd rather just have Lucas and Barger out there. But it worked tonight, so why would I do anything different? I'm curious what the lineup is like for them tomorrow. I'm assuming... I don't know what I'm assuming, actually. Right. I guess Boat Second solves everything.

Boat Second solves everything. Because Springer D.Hs, yeah, it solves everything. IKF gives up his gig and yeah, and now you just have Bo Bichet. Let's talk about that and more, our friends at Cicke people, you're going to go to something, so why don't you save 10% with Code J.M playoffs?

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Okay if he's available and ready to play You have to play Boba Boucher He led the ALE and hits He does that Okay we kind of assumed he would D.H Before we were getting some of the second base updates Which I had Springer playing the outfield Which then that would have had Miles Straw

Out of tonight's lineup which I don't know You're losing some defense but that that feels like the move there. The second base thing, I don't know. I'd love to get, I'd love to get your thoughts, the whole fucking show. I've said this before,

and I actually, I watched a lot of MLB Network today, which I don't normally do. Good job, Jake, using my time off to watch MLB Network. Get away from the game. DeRosa said something that I've said a lot that I feel weird saying,

but he was like, dude, if you only play shortstop, sometimes playing second base feels like you're on the other side of the world. Because the game happens backwards. I felt that in my short playing career. I have a reminder for our new fans, I only made it to AAA, that I don't know, man, putting a guy that's never played second base in Game one of the World Series when there was this thought about the matchup being lopsided,

potentially, that's, I don't know if it's ballsy, dumb, or just like, this is the smart move because he's Boba Shet. You want my thoughts? Yeah. Hell yeah. Okay. A lot of stuff. I like Mark DeRosa.

Shout out Mark DeRosa. Okay. Team USA coach. Tap me in, bro. Hot. Tap me in. So yes, it does feel completely different.

But we always, what do we always say about short stops? They can play anywhere, right? Yes. And Boba Shet's a shortstop. His comp is a shortstop. He did play a little bit in the minor leagues. Schneider.

Having two Schneider, right now is really messing with now. John Schneider managed Bobauchet and he saw him play second base in a minor league. So he had that in his mind already. Okay. Obviously he likes Andres of men as it short. Who wouldn't? The guy's a platinum glove winner.

It does feel like you're playing a different sport essentially when you move over because yes, everything is going against you. But I will say this. It used to be much harder and now I'm John Smolds. When guys could come

take you out at second base. Right. That is when it was like, whole shit. You have to really know how to manipulate your body on a turn. Like you got to fall into the runner, let them take your legs out, or you got to hop, go across the bag, whatever it is. Now, you just

use the bag as protection. It's a lot easier. Still, still the turn is weird. The shovel pass turning your body for a double play throw. Like if you're going to your left a little bit where you have to actually make a throw, it's a very difficult one. Something you have to practice a lot. But, dude, again, you're a short stuff. You can do it. So, I don't know.

Again, my thought process before the game was put Bo back at short, put Andre Semez at second base. And like, yeah, you're going to give up a little bit of defense at short. But like, I think you'll be better off in the overall. But again, Bo makes a great play. I mean, that play was huge. It saved the run. Savage was on the ropes that, who knows where the game outcome. comes out there. And yeah, this was since 2000. Good note here by Dahl. Position

players to play in the World Series after not appearing in a game for 30 days. Alan Craig mentioned. Wow. Your Rebae, Coke, Ken. Kyle Schwarber and Garrett Stubbs, 2021, to round off that list. And Bichette looked good

tonight. I guess to be fair, he was basically at shortstop when he made that throw. But... Well, and it's... That just goes back to what you're saying about short stops compared to other positions that in that moment, Bobeshad had a shortstop arm. That if this was inverted and it was a second baseman trying to play shortstop for a team panicking in the World Series, they might not have the arm to make that play.

Because God, if you, those throws from shortstop are so disgustingly hard. Do you miss it, Trev? Do you miss those shortstop throws in the? the hole? Because you had the arm, just the range was a little pool. I mean, what do we talk to that? Okay. What else do we need?

Yamamoto Gossman tomorrow. Yeah. Let's talk about for the Dodgers standpoint. Yeah. And then we'll wrap this show up. Dodgers standpoint, you got your butt kicked. Okay, so what? You can do the same thing to this team tomorrow. You know

your offense can do they really haven't done it though they haven't really had a great off offensive postseason so far they just haven't uh especially the top three guys we're talking mookie freddie and show hey like the overall numbers are not great like those guys need to show up and do it i know show had another homer tonight but like overall it just hasn't been there um the bottom of lineup is kind of going andy pa has is a discreet is a discussion. Do you, I mean, I don't know what you do. Do you put Mookie back out in the outfield and put Miguel Rojas at short? Is that going to clear up anything? I don't think it does. So I think they're just going to stick with this guy out there. But he's got to get it going.

Maybe lay down a bunt or something, big fella. So, but you got to flush it. Understanding you got, you know, you're another ace coming pitching for you tomorrow. And that's got to make you feel pretty good. And you just say, hey, it's one game. If we go back to Dodgers Stadium 1-1 will feel pretty good. Yeah, I, maybe this is an overreaction. In Dodgers, you guys know how you feel about your players better than I do. Pahez is in the bad place right now that, like, he's having a really bad time up there, that I would strongly consider Heysong Kim or Rojas and whatever.

I don't know if that would necessarily. So Tommy Edmund, maybe to center. Field and admin to center or you know Kim can play both those positions so I don't know it's just something like because it's also the player that Kim is supposed to be and I know we've seen limited sample of him but he can run and he's supposed to play defense they're like okay that's a guy that can impact the game in different ways that I don't know if he hits a chopper right on that turf does that turn into an infield single I don't know I know Pah has has gotten you to the dance that it's a it's a tricky one that Dodger

fans, I would ask you guys. I don't know the answer, but just from what I've seen, Pahas at bats. Okay, Trev, think about those couple early innings that the Dodgers could have flipped this game ugly towards them. Like, in both of those innings, I think Paez is like the easy out that inning. And the reason Seattle isn't playing in this game instead of Toronto is because the depth in their lineup is thin. So like, if you have a spot that can be exposed, it's going to get over exposed. I agree, coach. We'll see tomorrow, man.

This is a gut check time for the Dodgers. Truly is. And Toronto is playing with all the confidence in the world right now. I love it, man. I love it. The reason I keep saying this wasn't David and Goliath. I know David one. Everybody knows the fucking story, people. David and Goliath implies that there's

one little guy going up against this beast. And that is not what these two teams are. The reason we're in Toronto for game one is because the Blue Jays had a better record than the Dodgers. They have a guy making $500 million on their team. They have a very, very good team. I think these are just two big guys going at it.

I don't think this is a small guy and a big guy. That's why I keep saying that, okay? I hate David and Goliath. I hate that whole story. Yeah. I'm over it. I'm over it. Because they don't tell all the times Goliath was dominant.

Goliath was a badass, wasn't he? Probably. then he was dead yeah I don't know Toronto's got a lot of like what Ernie Clement and Davis Schneider and

Alejandro Kirk I think that's probably just why Alejandro Kirk is not he's little in stature but not in baseball the baseball world the guys are freaking two-time All-Star he's short but

comma everything else Oh you think he's packing Oh that where you were going I wasn't but I don't know it's not always an exact height to length

anyways Gossmann Yamamoto okay one random thought that came to my head and this could be nothing should Glass now have been like available this game to do the Patrick Corbyn like throw day you know what I'm saying like if your pens that

I think going forward Dave Roberts has to seriously consider saying, hey, bullpen, take your spikes off and run it that way. I'm serious, dude. Like, you have to manage it. Like, it's the world serious because, Jake, guess what? It is the world serious. It's the world serious.

That's a little analytics at the end. No, I guess that just went through my head. They're like, you know, Patrick Corbyn did that because if you treat that as your throw day. But also, there was kind of this, I don't know, we also could just be overreacting to one game, but the weakness that we thought was there against a team... It's there, coach. Against a team whose strength is going to be getting to there.

I don't know. Like, for all the cocksureness about how the Dodgers should win this and super team and all of that, I don't know. I guess there's a couple things on playing Trinan in that situation with the base is loaded. I think you'd tap into his experience. Or, you know, knowing that. that you're your only guy. They only trust one guy in their bullpen right now.

That's insane. And he's not even a reliever. Not a reliever. So that's the thing. Dave Roberts has to go, the no reliever relievers. Man, I wonder, is there anything he can do creatively?

Can Show Hey, throw an inning tomorrow? Joe Hey, wouldn't throw until Tuesday? Yeah, Tuesday. Tuesday? Tuesday? I don't know why I said it like that. Long post season. It's a long postseason.

I don't know, but we're there. Like, they need to be talking about this stuff because kind of crazy, man. Although, dude, did you see that guy hucking at the end? My God. Oh, yeah. He had a hunch in him. Will Klein.

Klein, yeah. Shout out to you, friend. Yeah. I don't. All red. I don't know. Yeah. I guess anything else.

Good for Toronto, bad for L.A. It's game one. It's game one. It's game one. Gossman Yamamoto should be really fun tomorrow. That stadium, like everything we hyped up about. Roger Center brought it. And they're going to be there tomorrow. And man, like their approach,

dude, it just leaves the Dodgers in a dangerous position, man. because if you have, if their starter has that 30 pitch inning, like, that almost gets in the back of their head that you're like, well, shoot. So we need a six and seventh tonight? Because I don't know who's going to throw it. Like Emmett Sheehan's out. He shouldn't be in, but it feels like they're going to try him at another time.

Are they going to go, like, the guys at the end. You're talking about Klein, Rebleski, like, are they like, hey, try them now? Yes, I mean, other guys ain't working. He had a nice, nice in- Banda ain't working. Sheen ain't working. And again, I'm gonna re-emphasize what time of the year this is. Right.

It's time, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's time to make those ballsy ass calls. No one, you don't need to pamper anybody anymore. If you ain't getting the job done, you're not, you're not, you're not, you're not, you're not playing. Eduardo Enriquez. Oh, yeah. He's got a hunch in there. I don't know. Oh, I guess the other thing that was an interesting talk on the live stream was

who had a better bottom of the lineup. You know, I mean, October Kike throws a wrinkle in everything. But, man, and I don't know. There was good conversations on both sides. The Blue Jays out did them tonight, and it seems like they're out doing the other team on every night. Do you know what John Schneider has that we were just talking about? Cajones?

You got Chris Bassett. Yeah. Ready to do whatever he needs, whatever needs to be done. Yeah. Yes. You got all these starters. Maybe they need to start throwing more. It's time.

Dodgers are just out of bodies, man. Insane. The winner of Game 1 of the World Series has won, 64% of the time, Trev. Okay. I'll Chris Rose you on the way out. Has tonight's game changed your perspective on this series? Um,

yes. It made us realize what we thought was a problem is a problem. For the Dodgers. We didn't really know. But the bullpen getting exposed is a bad, bad sign for them. and they do need to figure that out

if they want to win this World Series. We knew the Blue Jays, we kept saying it, the Blue Jays are going to put up a fight. Like, their offense is going to do good things. Not like a nine-run inning, but damn.

So, yeah, it's changed right. It's definitely changed the way I feel about it. Yeah, I think that's fair. I think I'm in the same boat, just because you wanted to make sure, well, this Blue Jays style of play that we should believe in was going to continue.

And then, yeah, what everyone would guess that was the Dodgers weakness, but we've only seen it for like one and a half innings. I've also, I also just thought the Dodgers, those top three were going to start raking and they just haven't, too. Yeah. That's true. That's true.

Also, some of those rest versus rust stats, we've skipped over them pretty quickly this year because the top seeds have done well. But man, all those, the teams that have gone to game seven against the teams that they face that swept like 5 and 0 now 4 and 0 in the series excuse me 4 in the series but jays at 1-0 so like i don't i don't know it's a sport that that does matter a little bit seeing live pitching um i don't know it could all be out the window tomorrow yamamoto complete game shutout and otani three run three homers three run homers ernie clement is hitting

435 this postseason i don't know what they're helping His name is Ernie. His name's Ernie. And he puts the barrel on the ball every time. He tied your guy Devin White for the most multi-hit postseason games in Blue Jays history. Devin White? Yeah. A recent Blue Jays, right?

93. I was thinking Devin Travis. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Is that an underused name? Devin? Yes.

I had a Devin O. I coached a kid named Devin. Not with a O, I don't think. Bernie banks I think there was I think there was a girl growing up who had the name Devin too I think it can

If it's an O I think girl Devons are hot I got a little cousin named Devin That's not what I'm talking You know how they say that about like girl names Like oh that girl you know Right I don't even know if I know a girl Devin

No I think there was a girl Devin in college That was like kind of hot And when that When that crosses over you're kind of like, oh, that works. All right. Take that. Let's go to bed.

Thank you, everyone. We'll be live after game two tomorrow. Let's see where we're at. Are we in the building for game three? What? Huh? The Joe's win the raffle? I don't think he won the raffle.

He won the night. Did you see they got on the broadcast right at the end? end. I did not. In the ninth inning, they were going around doing the Blue Jays, like, excited fan shots, and him, Jolly, and Kyle were in the back of one. What a world. What's up, Lee Afro? Neutrefall.