Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Dodgers Force Game 7 of The World Series!

Episode Date: November 1, 2025

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. Crazy game in the North. We are going to Game 7. The Dodgers hold on. Yoshinobu. Let's talk ball. Give me that ball, kid. Tyler Glass now.

Miggy Roe. Monos, Poppy. Manos. Hello and welcome to Talkin Baseball. Presented by Seek. Use code J.M. Playoffs for 10% off your playoff tickets and our special playoff editions of talking baseball are all presented by T-Mobile.

Whether you stream, look at stats, maybe it was Halloween and you were mobile, watching the game for a little bit. T-Mobile, the best network. Head on over to T-Mobile.com slash network. I am Jake Storelli. That is Guy Fiatty. Rob Seracco is producing. Dalt's in the lab. Everyone is on edge.

What a wild ending to Game 6. Trevor Plouffe, former twins third baseman. How are you? I'm not on the edge. I am aged up. Triple D. Call me triple H right now. We got a game seven pop.

And you know what, man, that was, you call some other games in all-time or the 18 in all-timer. That was a great game. This series has been everything you could ask for. On both sides, man. I don't care if you're a Dodger fan. I don't care if you're a Blue Jays fan. I don't care if you're just a casual watching this with no team in it.

This has been excellent ball. And we get a game seven tomorrow in Toronto. Does anybody want to hop in my red Camaro and go try some food out? Trev, you and me, we're going to look back at this episode in a few days, a few weeks, a few years, and laugh. As you're dressed up as Guy Fieri, both of our kind of one of our religious figures in our lives. We respect what that man has done and built from top down. I am currently dressed as the Phillies Karen, which I'll probably forget existed in a couple months. But we look like a couple that if you saw at a Florida bar, you would stay away from. Stay away. And we are so happy to do it

with all of you and do it with all of you. I think we just got to get in the game. I'll be honest. I was so excited. I'm, I'm just freestyling this, this burn, because we got so much to talk about. The end was insane. It's Halloween. Jake, you have no idea what was happening tonight for me. I'm being serious. We'll talk afterwards. It was this, it's a, I'm in a, I'm living a simulation, Bob. I am. We'll end the show with that. Let's talk some ball first. It's game six in the six. In Goss, we trust. Kevin Goss. trying to bring a World Series to Toronto.

Don't say that second T, but if we're talking high T. How about Yoshinobu Yamamoto and the Dodgers trying to bring it to game seven? Top three, Will Smith gets jiggy with the RBI double. It's one-nothing Dodgers. And then Mookie places a winning bet. It's about time the Mook Man. Otani and Smith score, it is three. nothing, but Toronto answers back.

Bottom of that same third inning. Springer with his oblique hurting him. Gets the RBI single. It is three to one. It would stay that way. Gossman six innings, three earn runs. Yamamoto, six innings, one earn run, which the Dodgers kind of need more than that.

Robleski rolls the dice for an inning. Sasaki gets it done in the eighth. Tyler Glass now is in. Runners on second and third. Nobody out. He gets Ernie with the Clement mixer. And then the double play. It's obviously Kike to Miggy Roe

on this team of Dodgers superstars. They get it done. It is Yamamoto Robleski Sasaki Glassnow. Final score, Dodgers 3, Blue Jays 1. I mean, so much happened that, we're going to get into. I'm already losing my voice. I'm so fired up.

The Great Burn, as usual, Phillies Karen. Come to Flavortown where I have the standings. The Dodgers, three and three. The Toronto Blue Jays, three and three. We are getting earmuffs. A fucking game seven, Jake.

I was so close to giving away the standings. I almost did it. I almost did it. I almost did it, but I didn't. I'm proud of me. And I'm proud. Karen, you're learning. You're learning. I got this ball from that kid. Trev, I mean, one for the books, man, Halloween, Toronto, everything on the line.

And Trev, you should have listened to those angry Dodger fans in your Twitter mentions. This team's never had a chance. I can't stand. I can't the conclusion. Yeah, I'm starting there. I am starting there. Go get them. Because listen, listen, I already have to deal with.

with this with Yankee fans who haven't won anything since when 2009? That's good. A little shrap-old flying early. Listen, I have to deal with you guys all the time, talk about, oh, we stink. I'm like, you guys win the division all the time. Like, I'm a Twins fan. Me and Chris are like, he's a Guardians fan. You know, Dodgers, you telling me that this team has stunk all year, and if you haven't

watched him, you would have known that. I'm like, you're already in game six of the World Series. You won your division. You won 93 games. Now you're in game seven. I don't want to hear it. How many people are in other fan bases right now who would do a lot of nasty things, Jake, to be in this position?

So stop. Enjoy what's happening. Please, you're in game seven of the World Series and don't ever talk to me like that again on the internet. Let's get into the game. What's one nasty thing you do for a Twins World Series? Just top of your head. I take Philly Karen behind the dump.

Straight to flavor. That is, probably shouldn't have said that. That's not on brand for you and I fucking love it. Cover your ears. Cover your ears, kids. Let's talk about the baseball game per se. Top one, Kevin Gossman with a country on his shoulders faces Freddie, phrases, excuse me,

Shohei Otani, the best person ever play baseball. Will Smith, the best catcher in the National League to play baseball. And Freddie Freeman, a guy who's been the best hitter, arguably for the past six, seven years, he strikes out the side, Trev. A little, hey, how are you off the mound? The Roger Center is going nuts. And it's like, maybe this is it. Like the momentum's rolling.

They've won the two last games out of the 18 inning affair that you and me were at and you and me are having. That I don't know, man. it kind of felt like it felt like it was a Toronto night and I know baseball doesn't work that way but that's how it felt. I need to apologize to Phillies Karen for that comment.

I was going off a little bit right there. Twins ring. I get it. I'm a nice guy. Where are we starting? I don't know. Both these pitchers were absolutely filthy tonight. Okay, Kevin Gospin with the splitter from hell.

at times he looked like Tommy Canely, where he was just throwing the splitter. Everyone knew it was coming, and they couldn't hit it. And John Smoltz actually had some good insight, you know, early on in the game, snaps for John Smolts.

He was saying, you know, why aren't the Dodgers scooting up in the box? Why aren't you moving your feet a little bit, catching that pitch a little further out? So it's a little further up, a little less depth. And that is,

that is a play that you can do. Now, they didn't. They didn't do that. Um, but, you know, again, you knew that pitch was coming for the, for most of the night. And these guys are still because of the arm action. Um, and, you know, it just, it comes out like a heater, Jake. It was filthy tonight. I think, I think he did his job and he pitched, he pitched really, really nice. And Chris and I were talking about, uh, this morning preview in this game, uh, talking about Gossman and his free agent contract with the, Blue Jays and how freaking good it's been.

It's been one of the better free agent pitching contracts that we've seen in recent memory. Say Young 9, Saw Young 3, I believe in the first two years. Last year still made 30 starts with a sub 4 ERA. Like this guy is a guy and he pitched like it tonight. So I want to give him snaps. I know he might get lost in the sauce here a little bit as we go in and the Dodgers won this game, but I think he did a really nice job. He looked untouchable early.

That's a part of this that made it feel like, wait, maybe this is. Like all the hype around Yamamoto and the back-to-back complete games and how special that is. Like, wait, Kevin Gossman has been a dude for Toronto for a long time and the energy is rolling their way. That splitter was unhittable. Like, guys were trying to sit for it and they couldn't. And it was funny. Sometimes it fell off the table. Sometimes it went left to right.

And then on the other side, I mentioned the momentum. Yamamoto comes out. Lucas, the second hitter of the game, hits a chopper to Muncie, and he just lifts at it. It goes under his glove, and you're like, oh, boy, here comes Vladdy. He gets him to hit into a double play, which instantly erases that. And then you're like, okay, that's right. Yamamoto's here to fight. The boys are here.

And it was so funny watching these two, funny, watching these two pitch, because Gossmann Splitter is such a, he can use it as almost a backdoor change-up. He can use it in the dirt to strike you out. he could get in under your hands where Yamamoto's is almost the nastier one because it's 92 yeah and there's there's nothing you there's no defense for it like there's if that is in the zone you're going to swing at it and you're going to swing over the top but it's just that little late break that's you're defenseless 50 excuse me 53% tonight with the splitter for gossip and he had 27 swings and 15 whiffs on that

pitch so 56% whiff rate. I mean, it was generating a ton of swings and misses. But you're right, yeah, they are two different sliders. Obviously, Yamamoto throws his harder, a little less depth, you know, but, you know, tonight again, he threw six pitches, only four of them over 10%. He was mixing and matching, doing his job. Both these guys gave, I thought, I don't know if we're going to get there yet, I guess we are, because I'm going to say it. I thought that Yamamoto kind of came out a little earlier than I thought. Only 96 pitches. I thought they continued to push him. I didn't have Robleski and my pitching plans

for the Dodgers, but you know what? Maybe I should have because he looked good as well. But again, both these starters did what they needed to do, and we gave you a free win. Five plus innings, five or more K's. Yomoto goes six innings, six Ks.

Whoops, draft kings bet the cycle three for four. Dalt was mad. It didn't go four for four. I mean, that's where we're at, people. just a little different. Yeah, we can't fully jump there yet because the third inning is when the Dodgers end up scoring all their runs. Kike strikes out on kind of a questionable pitch,

which I think it just gets more interesting as the inning goes because this is when they put their big rally together. Tommy Edmund jumps a heater. McGee Roe also strikes out on a question of pitch. So it was one of those weird moments where it's like, okay, there's two outs that also, I don't know if the Ump had called it differently, maybe we'd be in a different situation, but we're not there.

They intentionally walk Shohei, which Trev, we had this conversation earlier on in the postseason between the Phillies and the Brewers that kind of every time Shohei got walked, it led to damage, which ironically up into that point, Shohei hadn't done damage, but he had also been, he's Shohei Otani, that show hay's been intentionally walked nine times this postseason. The next Dodger batter is three. three for six, 500 with three walks and four RBI.

So the Dodgers have made them pay in that situation, and that's what Will Smith does with the RBI double. Frederick, Freddie Freeman walks. And then Mookie Betts, man, in a pressure packed at bat, because that dude has been in a bad place. And you, you, you know, we talked about a little bit on the show when we were at the 18-inning affair, which you and me are having, like, you, we talk deep that,

Mookie's in a place he's never been before and that can do weird stuff to any human for him to get a hit in that spot I mean Mass, won the game. I want to go back one play. So, yeah, Edmond double,

Otani Walk, Will Smith, go ahead, double. I never, we never, they never gave us an overhead of the base runners. Like typically show a scores on that ball. Right. And I never got, I wanted a replay of it so badly to see why he didn't. Because I don't think, at first I was like, hey, Lucas got that ball in pretty quick,

but it wasn't like some perfect play. It hit off the other wall. You know, like, that's good. He did a good job. But that was two outs right there. And I thought they would have sent Shohei. They end up not doing that. And then, Mookie, you're right.

And that sequence was interesting to Muki because, um, Gossman throws a split. He throws a fastball up and kind of like jumps Mookie. and Mookiee wasn't ready for that. Then he goes a split down. You could tell Mookie at that point with the fastball

was sitting on a splitter. Then he throws a spacer down and Muki takes it. I'm like, okay, obviously Mookie's on the splitter. It throws another fastball and then another fastball and then another heater.

Three in a row to Mookie. And like, I don't care who you are, but especially if you're Mookie bets. Like you get three heaters in a row. You're going to hit it, dude. Like, and I, I thought if Gospin just went one more splitter there, instead of that third heater, just down, like he was going to get a swing and miss. But Mookie's all over that pitch, man. He ends up driving in the runs.

I tweeted out. I said, hey, man, Mookie, like, all you need is a knock like that and your confidence comes right back. And that could be a scary thing for the Blue Jays going into game sevens. You just let that guy, you know, you let him. He did it himself. but a big knock and a big situation. If he gets going, that's kind of what the doctor ordered for the Dodgers.

Yeah, I'm interested to see Gossmann's quotes after. I was shocked he threw another fastball. Like he gets him swinging on the first one, which when I first saw the pitch, I was like, oh, nice pitch. And then they showed the replay, and I was like, I don't know if Mookie's on. That's a pitch I'm not surprised if he turns on in deposits.

I think the pitch of the at bat, the pitch before that, the second fastball, Mookie fouls off and it's a flail. Like he's surviving. You're right. He's sitting splitter. And then I was shocked that Gossman went back to it. And Mookie turns on and you see him show a little more emotion than he normally does. Because, man, some of those stats, he had left 24 runners on base before the two-run single.

Dodgers were 0 for 13 and 13 at bats with the base. is loaded before the two-run single. So that was the symbolic monkey off the bat in a couple ways. And then something that you're in my front office when we take over the Rockies, Diamondbacks, whoever offers us the right opportunity, and we have demands. A punchback inning. That means more than another inning where you score.

I know for some of you maybe that doesn't make sense. It just does. The Blue Jays come up in the bottom of the. the third Bam Bam Barger. Bleed off double. Ernie Clement somehow strikes out, glitch in the Matrix. Jimenez grounds out, and here's George Springer.

Yeah, and Bam Bam Barger got beat on that pitch, but he kept it fair, and that's all that matters. George Springer comes up, and his first at Batman, he's swinging, he grabbed his side a couple times, he didn't look super comfortable, and then 3-0. Cutter away on the outside corner. he drives to right center and I don't know I guess for anyone that's ever in the if you're still

question why people swing three oh this turns out to be the only run this turns out to be the only run that the blue jay score in this game if you don't swing three oh on my team at a at a fastball that's a strike you're I release you you're going down in triple a wow yeah that's our that's one of our rules on our team like we're hacking coach and you know what not a bad pitch by Yamamoto and understanding that he he understands that there's a chance that Springer's going to swing there, three, oh. So he throws a little wrinkling, it throws the cutter. But Springer just does a really nice job staying with that, driving it to right center. Ballsy performance by him. You could tell he's hurt an intercostal strain. It's like, it's a little tendon, I believe, between your ribs.

I've strained it before. Not fun. No. It's not as bad as an oblique, but it's very similar. Like, you're always moving your core and your ribs are there. So, you know, happy, for him, he's able to play and contribute tonight. But then things kind of got locked down after that coach. George Springer, third highest swing rate on 3-0 pitches in the regular season. League average is 9.9. He's 33.3 repeating, I'd assume. Basic math there.

I don't know. Could be wrong. Fourth, Gossman, nine pitches, sure. Blue J. Strand-Bichette, Gossman 15 pitches, two-out single from Ernie. Sixth inning, and it's at this point of the game where we're tracking pitches. Yeah. And guys, you need to start tracking what events you're going to go to this offseason, and you're going to go to them with Seekek.

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in inning early. Gossman's pitch count was getting up there. I think he sneaks out an extra inning that, I don't know if we expect it or not. Louis Varland gets into some deep counts. So Yamamoto in this Dodgers bullpen, which is their most glaring weakness, one of the most glaring weaknesses I can picture on a baseball team ever. Okay, the pitchcouts starting to get up there, and the Blue Jays get some action on in the sixth.

All with two outs, flatty, two out double. Boba Chet with a grinder of a walk And then Galton Varsho comes up And that pitch counts in the low 90s And you're like, you know, A, if he hits a home run, the Blue Jays might win the fucking World Series. They might knock Yamamoto out of this game.

To be honest, Yamamoto gets gross on him. The split comes back out of Varsho, who's a, you know, kind of a three true outcomes guy and I'm not knocking him for that. I mean, the rate numbers he put up this year, and that's a disgusting pitch. And look at Yamamoto, Peacock, a little bit after a tough inning. But Trev, I was with you.

I assumed Yamamoto was going to come out for one more inning. And then, you know, we got the notification in the room. He was at 96 pitches, which we saw Snell go to 116 the last game. 96 pitches. Out comes Roble. which not one of our more discussed names in the pen. To face two righties too, you get barger sandwiched in there between Kirk and Clement,

but he's got this stuff. And we've seen that now. Three guys hiding at the end of the Dodgers pen. We've seen Klein, we've seen Enriquez, and we've seen Robleski. These guys have the stuff to do it, but not, you know,

at least at the beginning of the postseason or even the beginning of the series, you know, part of the A plan. But this, if you're pitching in today's game, you're part of the A plan. There's no, there's no way around it. So again, I had five guys going the rest of the series. I had Yamamoto. I had Otani. I had Sasaki. I had Glass Now and maybe Snell. Those are like the five guys that said everybody else don't even put your cleats on. Robleski like kind of looks like a dude. Does he have a run in game seven? I'm not sure, but he does his job there and bridges the gap to, which was, you know, phenomenal for them. We ended up getting in this game. And I guess I don't know if you want to jump to like the end of the game.

I think that I mean, we're about there. I think Robleski's performance can't go overlooked, especially what ends up happening with Roki and his pitch count and trying to get out of it. There's one thing we have to talk about before that, Trev. and I, okay, I'm Philly's Karen. I'm going to pat myself on the back. Trev, you know, this is kind of a, during our regular season episodes, we're all over the place, even though we kind of go over the same stuff.

But I always tell you when there's a guy who's contact doesn't pass, the way they hit the ball and how far the ball goes, it just doesn't make sense to me. The top two for me have always been. Shohay and Corby and Carroll. When those guys hit the ball and where you think the ball is going to land is shocking. And Shohay's double in the eighth inning of this game

is the prime example. People weren't blowing smoke. They thought when this ball got hit, you're going to see if it's going to drop between the shortstop and the left fielder. It went to the wall, Trev. I was watching this game with my guy, Matthew Stafford, and he was.

saying, yeah, he was saying, man, Shohay, like, when he's right, when he's been having these monumental games, he's been going the opposite way. Like, he doesn't look like he's trying to do that at all lately. I agreed with them. And then we see this. And again, same, like you just said.

He's like, dude, I thought the shortstop was going to get called off by the left fielder right there. And instead, it's in the gap left center. Look at this, like, I don't, I've said it before. I don't really understand the physics of his swing. Like, clear. he's got it because the power is incredible. And he does not use Japanese maple,

which I go to all the time, which is the hardest wood you can find. That's a Chandler bat. Those are made in Arizona. I don't get it, dude. Like the transfer of power from his body to the bat is just different. If you had to guess,

because we played this game for a little bit, because something has to be different. And it's not like pure swing speed. We have stats on that. My guess is shoulders. Like I think he has snails. more powerful shoulders than you'd guess. But I don't know, it could be hips, it could be obliques, it could be, it could be anything.

But nobody else has it. A couple things, first of all, he's very strong. Oh. Second of all, I think he has such precise hand-eye where I think he hits those balls very squarely. Okay. I like that. Again, physics, not my, like, I didn't, I went to high school, guys. You don't think people came to this show tonight for physics?

But also, coach, there are just some people that know how to use their body to manipulate their strength. We talk about all the time, the guys that all they can do is do this, and they have big muscles, but you put them out anywhere in a life or death situation, they can't get it done. Because they can't move their bodies the right way. They're not athletes. Shohei's strong, but in the right way. Like he's able to function, has the functional movements. Maybe he, maybe because he gets so much sleep.

I don't know, Coach. He does something different. I like it. Yeah, I think that was the only thing I really had to mention that really before the ninth inning. I guess this is slightly decision-based. Well, no, Roki comes in for the eighth, which, okay, you know, we've talked about this before. Yamamoto to Sasaki is kind of the plan. So he comes in for the eighth.

It's literally the top of the lineup. So again, Robleski doing his job and ending up on Jimenez, lines this up almost perfectly for Dave Roberts. But George Springer with a leadoff single, which, like, put this into our bucket of making contact matters, squeaks it down the line past Freddie. Oh, my gosh. I mean, dude, and that pitch is insane.

Like, the fact he was able to get anything on that is nuts. And now you have the leadoff runner on in the 8th. inning with a chance to go to the World Series. He gets Lucas to fly out. Vladdy comes up. Walks could have been punched. Yeah. Could have been punched.

He doesn't. Vladdy fights. And the ump was good, but some of the borderlines could go either way tonight. It just was what it was. Um, that you've got two on. Now a potential,

okay, please, sorry. No, key on, keep on, I'm, I'm aged up.

I mean, I'm, I'm Karen. I'm John Swelter. I thought I was, we're not there yet to what I want to say. Okay. Boba Chet comes up, which, man, Joe Davis and Smolts are building up the scene because if Boba Chet goes Yabo, he just hit the game-winning homer of the World Series.

God, I'm sorry, I'm getting lost. For a second, I was Karen again thinking about John Smoltz. I think that's kind of her kind of guy. Yeah, oh my God. She. Philly's Karen. and John Small. I mean, Philly's Karen would, yes.

Philly's Karen has paddled the pink canoe to John Smoltz, if you know what I'm saying. She's got pineapples on her door for John Smoltz. Bobeshet pops out. Gets got there. And then it's Dalton Varshow again in a big spot. And he grounds out to the end of the inning. Is that, okay, because a lot of a lot happening.

Is that the Miggy Row bear ham play? Ooh. The barger chop. When is that? Yeah, when was that? Because I think we need to give snaps for that. That was the seventh. So, no, I'm with you on giving snaps for that.

We missed that. Okay, that was, that was a non-easy play that Miggie Roe made. Okay, yeah, that was bottom seven for the second out. Okay. That, by the way, Trev, we've been, you know, we've been yucking a lot of ball. I've been pushing the Micky Row button and I know we haven't fully gotten there, but Miggie Roe tonight. Did what he was supposed to do.

Play your game, Miggie. He played his game. He played his game. And a couple of the other guys that were in, didn't it? There's the chopper. Barger running. He made that look easy. So the side story here that's going on.

So even though Sasaki gets out of it, you know, the pitch count is getting up there that you're like, what are they going to do? Because you need to, you're trying to play for, you want to play for tomorrow, but you have no tomorrow if you don't play for today. So, A, Bassett snaps looks disgusting again. Bassett's been the best pitcher in the postseason. I guess I was a little surprised when he first came out just because I was like, do you want to show them Bassett if you're down and there's a good chance you're playing tomorrow?

But tomorrow it doesn't matter. Like you're just doing it. You want to keep it a two-run game, strikes out Muncie, Kiki, and gets Edmund out. Roki comes back out. Pitch count starting to climb. O2 to Kirkie. hits him with a pitch.

And man, if you've watched enough baseball, you're just starting to, everything's starting to spin. Like, we talked about it on our live stream. Shelfy laid it out. He's like, you know, this is one of those, you start looking around to remember where you are because one swing of the bat

could be baseball history forever. This is what I wanted to get to. Yeah, they started talking about that. Joe Carter, one swing. At this point, it was still 3-1. all right it was 3-1 so not one swing in the bat that's tie game but another guy gets on right and then it becomes you know real talk one swing in the bat and you're popping champagne you're you're you're the king of the world uh but we're not there yet so kirk gets on straw replaces them

as a pinch runner and here comes barger what does barger do hammers and bench heater away and it gets stuck in the wall. Huge play for the Dodgers. I wasn't sure how they were going to call that because typically, like, you go around and you, you know the fields where, like, a situation that can arise. This is not one of those fields. You don't go around saying, hey, the bottom of this wall gets stuck. Like, there's nothing there for it to get stuck.

And this was a one in a million play. Like, this is not supposed to happen. There's nothing. there's no crevice there. It just hit at the perfect angle. That's what she said. That's what Karen said. Right there.

And when he threw the hands up, I was like, don't do that. What are you doing? They're going to keep running the bases. I actually didn't think they were going to call Lodge Ball, runners go second and third. Oh, okay. Marger went all the way around.

I thought they were going to call tie game. I did. I'm in the opposite boat. I, A, I think the rule is kind of soft and we might be able to get rid of it. Like, I think that rule was originally invented when we had some fences that shouldn't be involved in major league baseball games. Like, because everyone watching that is like, you can grab that ball. Easily grab the ball. But from every baseball game I've, like, ever watched in my life, if a ball is lodged like that, they call it stuck.

And as long as you put your hands up, like. Yes. In every game I've ever seen, if you're the outfielder and you go get that ball instead of putting your hands up, that's the mistake. Well, how about Dean?

He just got put in the game. And to throw the hands up like that, that's, I know it seems like kind of minuscule and doesn't, like, in the grand scheme of things, that's a huge play because if he does go in there,

all the sudden, you know, runs already scored, we got bar, I don't know, it just changes everything. Dude, if they called that inside the park homer i thought they were because jake again like this isn't a field where like that's supposed to happen right um so that was that was insane out goes sasaki yeah incomes game seven starter

who had been in the pen tyler glasnell second and third ernie clement greatest hitter we've ever scene. Ever. Is up. And of course he swings at the first pitch because that's what he does. Not a good pitch to swing at. And we get the pop up to Freddie Freeman. One out. iconic shot of Ernie Clement before he came up to the plate. He's on one knee, like looking like a young Aaron Boone and you're just like, is he about to do it? Is he about to win the World Series? Ernie Clement Walkoff would have fed families in Toronto for years to come.

I get first pitch swinging. You're trying to find something. They might make him a snake. Glass now doesn't pitch out of the bullpen a lot. Like, what if he just leaves a heater middle? That could be the best pitch you get. But, man, that ends up in a tough spot. And it's a Dodgers dream from that moment on.

It was a Dodgers dream that they turn. It's still not, Jake. It's second and third one out. So you're right. But for the first out. Great, yes. As good as it can get right there. nightmare to dream.

Yeah. Like Glass, because everything you just said, Glassnow could still start tomorrow because he ends up throwing three pitches. Andres Jimenez swings at a 1-0 sinker away, breaks his bat, I believe. Kiki comes running in like a bat out of hell,

throws it. Miggie Row with the pick of all picks, keeps his foot on the base, and we are going to game. Seven. Miggy Roe does his job. Defensive play. If he doesn't pick that,

that's, again, game still goes on, obviously. It runs scores. I'll give great play by Kiki, great play by McGee Roe, bass running, Owie by Bam Bam. So yeah. I guess let's get the bad out of the way

for our friends from the Great North. Will Smith. I mean, wow. Yeah, they had, it was funny, they had all the camera angles on all the players just in case like a walkoff got hit and instead it was the reactions to this play, which was awesome.

Let's do the bad. Barger is on second and let's get in his head, people. Barger thinks, I need to score the game tying one run in a World Series game. He sees Jimenez flick one out there and it looks like it's got a chance. And so we looked at the high home replay of it, and he's halfway.

Like, he gets his secondary, but where Kike ends up catching that ball is so shallow that he's a dead duck. And I guess he might have been a step past halfway, which, again, we're starting, you're starting to get tough in a big moment like this that you have to fault him, but my soul doesn't fully fault him.

A couple things. I'm thinking, does Schneider ever think about pinch running after the double anyway? 56 percentile in sprint speed. So he's not like a burner, but also not like someone that's a super clogger of the basis.

So they use straw for Kirk. Yeah. So it would have been like ICF maybe. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, there is. There is. Yeah. there is a world where that does happen,

but not in this one. It's a different world, Jake. Simulation. And for him, I mean, listen, it's one out. If that ball falls in front of Kike, he's already running in. Like, the chances of you scoring on it, like, aren't great. So hold up.

You're still on second base. Or if you're out there and you can advance the third and be, you know, first and third with one out down a run that's pretty good it was not a good base running play Jake I know I know the situation Emotion's got the best of him He wants to score the tying run

Sees the bat break He thinks it might fall in He probably he probably didn't know exactly Where KK was if we're being honest Which is you got you gotta know right away That's like rule number one To get on second base I gotta go like this

I gotta point my guys out I gotta know where they're at That's just what you gotta do and it ends up costing them game six it doesn't cost them game six but it ends game six of the World Series and now we are headed for I mean

it's what we all wanted a seven game set in Toronto two teams doing it I love it I love it Jake I am fired up so I want to I want to do some more Dodger snaps on that last play and it's the two guys the

you and me, the catcher and the thrower. Kike is playing left field, which again, I've done this on a lot of episodes. This Dodgers team that we're talking about, a super team, and, you know, are they going to break baseball? And they're talking about it.

They're laughing about it in their... Kike Hernandez is their starting left fielder, a guy that's played all over the field, a guy that's been... teams have been happy to let him go. Like the baseball reference has a lot of years that don't jump off the page, but he's this postseason hero

who also can play any position at a high level. We've seen a move to center. The Red Sox had him as their shortstop for a while. And now the Dodger shortstop is the next Red Sox, by the way. Kike, if they need him at any position to make the right play, he's there. Miguel Rojas, who makes one of the best picks I've ever seen. And maybe we get a little too big about moments and in the moment. Bob, pull that up.

When Jake's talked about it, I want to see that again. I want to see his footwork hanging on to the base. His glove is facing down, and he basically picks it behind himself. And how many of your guys' favorite teams, when Migi Rojas came over? Manos. Born with those, coach. You either have those or you do not. So, like, I'm thinking, like, can he switch the,

feet, go right foot on, take a more back angle long hop. I think it's just too fast for that to happen. So he sticks with a left leg there, barely gives himself clearance to catch that thing and literally relies on the millions of balls he's fielded in his life. That's what he relies on right there. I'm going to do it. Hand-eye, got it. Trev, I'll tell the people.

This shocked me. I think I put this together the year Brandon Crawford went nuts for the Giants in 2021. there aren't a lot of old short stops. No. Your body starts to give out, and it is one of the hardest. Playing shortstop and playing quarterback are probably the two hardest things

to do in sports at a high level. And Miggie Rowe still does it at age 36. And hey, if Miggie Rowe signed with your team in 2023 as a 34-year-old, where short stops don't stick at the position, and he hit 236, $2.36, $2.90, a 322 slug. Would your team have kept him around?

I don't know. But the Dodgers have for two more years. And they bring Kike back. And there's something to be said about that organizationally that Miggi Rojas will do whatever you need, man. You need him to play any infield spot. You need him to come in and take a pinch hit bunt and basically get out of the way from it,

hitting his body and get it down. You need him to start in game six of the World Series. He did that. Kiki D.K. did that. And that is part of the Dodgers organization that, yes, they have a ton of money and they signed a bunch of guys. They also have something else in their recipe that other teams are missing that those two guys embody. Am I young Chris Rose? I mean, you crushed it right there. I mean, I think both teams have guys like that. That's why I like these rosters, man. You heard Schneider talk

about the Blue Jays going out and getting IKF because they wanted the grinder type guy. I mean, that is their Miggie Roe. It's this is why the postseason is awesome. We see guys kind of show up in big moments, guys with slow heartbeat, guys that we're born with hands like that. This is when those times where we put

everything under a microscope, this is when they get their time to shine. And I don't know if we're going to be talking about that Miggy Row pick after game seven, but I promise you this, we should be. That was phenomenal, man. That is such, I mean,

I'll give you this. He probably only picks that half the time, five out of ten. The other five times he's just, he knocks it down. But to hold on to that with his foot on the base, that's a low, low percentage play that he made to force a game seven in the World Series. Right. That's one of those, you know, A, these AI videos are getting wild. One of my buddies, one of my buddies is getting good at them. And, like, he's really messing with our cats in the group chat. but like there's going to be a day when you can simulate every MLB second baseman like doing that play

and a lot of them that ball might be rolling into right field or down the first base line and a run scores and who knows what else happens well George Springer comes up at least oh the guy with the third most postseason home runs um that yeah uh an amazing way to end the game um god Do we jump to the next? I have some stats from this game. Get the stats out. Let's jump to game seven because I just read it because I've been on the sticks this whole time that Max Scherzer is starting game seven. Oh, the H levels are rising.

Flavor Town. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the sixth pitcher to have a three-start stretch in a postseason with 24 innings pitched and no more than three runs allowed in the wild card. John Smoltz. Hello, friend. Kurt Schilling, Randy Johnson, same goddamn postseason. Who'd they play against? Cliff Lee, Justin Verlander. That's from the Jay Hey Kid.

Shout out for him. Shout out of Jay Kid. Yeah, he's good. He's good with the stats. I like him a lot. Blue Jays, one for nine with runners in scoring position and eight left on base. Yep. Let's see, what else do I got?

Louis Varland's 14th appearance in the postseason. That's tied for the most in a single postseason with Brandon Morrow and Treves Paul Assonmacher. Don't say that's my guy. It's a family name. Tonight is the first game ending double play in a World Series game six or game seven since Kurt Flood in game six of the 64 World Series. We're not or not at MLPA versus MLB yet. Okay, just relax. That's another Jay Hay.

So I want to give him credit. And Trev, I think the last person I want to shout out before we get to tomorrow, because he's a big part of tomorrow, our Best Western Road Warrior, brought to you by Best Western Hotel and Resorts. Life's a trip. Make the most of it at bestwestern.com. Tyler Glassnow. Trev, think about all the excuses we give starting pitchers sometimes.

He came in the bullpen, zero outs, the tying run of the World Series on second base, when he's supposed to pitch tomorrow, three pitches, three out. First time pitching in relief since 2018. We didn't know each other. Were you happier? July 26, 2018,

that was the summer I took off, Coach. Your first summer. I didn't do anything. I'm going to do a players documentary one day that's called their first summer. That's not true, actually. I think I was still playing ball. I think you were still playing, dude.

I think that's, okay, I was still playing. 2018, I think is, the summer of 2019 I took off. July 26, 2018, I might have been in the big leagues. I think I was with the Phillies

and I was about to get sent down at the trade deadline. When you homered off of Kike? I mean, this is a full circle. I was living. Dalt's on it. Dalt's tapping him.

He needs it. He needs it. I feel like I did something big that day. July 26, 2018 was Trevor Pluble. last game in the big leagues. I struck out against Cincinnati, didn't I?

Yeah, you darned tooting you did. I knew I was done at that point. This guy was throwing fucking meatballs, and I just struck out. I am such a weird mix of sad and age, and it's just confusing right now. Yeah. Glass now is the first pitcher in postseason history

to record a save in at least an inning pitch on three or fewer pitches. That's from J. Q to, just insane. His first career safe. Game 6 of the World Series. Thank you to Best Western. Thank you for Tyler Glass now.

And just a nice guy. Just a nice guy. Trev, there's going to be a game seven tomorrow. One team will win the World Series. One team is going to be horribly sad and regret every moment we've talked about for the last week or so. Max Scherzer is going to start on the bump for Toronto. The Dodgers have not announced yet. You know who's starting for the Dodgers.

You think it's the bad man. It's Otani. He has to. You have to start Otani. If he's part of the pitching mix, which Dave Roberts said he will be part of the pitching plan tomorrow, you have to start him. You either have to start him or you have to end with them.

That would be my counter. I saw what he did in the WBC, man. I think it's too risky, Jake. It's too risky. I think you go, Shohei, to Glassnow, to Roki, everybody else, get your pom-poms,

get a few gummy bears in the pocket, and watch a ball game. Those are your three pitchers tomorrow. Blake Snell, break glass in case of emergency for that guy. But I think it's those three guys. Show Hey, Glass, Now, Roke. in that order.

Shillway, Glass, now, Rokey. I think Snell's very in play. It's the last game of the season. Like, they don't really have a lefty lane, though. I guess it doesn't really matter he's Blake Snell, but he hasn't looked great against this team either, Jake. Yes, but if you're trying to piece together 27 outs

any way you possibly can, I guess it's that tricky conversation of everyone's in time and everyone's not in play. If you're a starter, with the Dodgers, raise your hand, you go to the bullpen. If you're a bullpen guy, raise your hand. You sit in the dugout, except for Roki,

you stay there. Because you're kind of a starter. I mean, I don't want to get you too aged up, but you know who's going to be in the Dodgers bullpen tomorrow? Clayton Kershaw. Yeah, probably. That wasn't where I was going. Yamamoto?

Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Yes. Hart. He only threw 96 tonight, He feels great. I'm in. Like what if that is like Dave Roberts not giving him another inning? I don't think it was.

I don't think it was. Alejandro Kirk, Alejandro Kirk got x-rays because he got hit in the hand late in the game. Clear. He's going to be out there. So Max Scherzer, Yassavage is 100% in play. Yes.

Confirmed. Sir Anthony, Varlene, of course. Hoffman didn't pitch tonight. That's Manfred's orders. Do they have another starter that I'm not thinking about that could pitch? Bieber is cleats on. So Blue Jays are like you're all hands on deck. Basset again.

Scherzer's whatever you can get. But again, like this is a game seven that if he gets in trouble in the first, you start thinking about things. Hoffman can go multiple innings. He hasn't pitched in three days. Did I say that weird? Is that Canadian? What was that?

You like Hock-2 with that a little bit. Offman. Don't say her name. That was my backup costume. Bassett's invincible. Like he's pitching. Flew Hardy in the right lane is in. Everyone's in.

Everyone's in. Everyone's in. Do you do anything lineup-wise? Like the Dodgers have shaken it up that, I mean, you have to start. Miggi Roe tomorrow. Dodgers are running the back. They only have four hits tonight.

Four hits. Three hits. They're running their back. Three hits in that one inning. And then the Shoah bloop double off the wall. Dodgers are running. I think both these teams running back. And that's it.

Blue Jets had their best lineup in tonight. They get another righty tomorrow no matter what. So they're running it back. Dodgers running this lineup back. and we just have nine innings for the trophy. Nine freaking innings, possibly eight and a half if you're the Blue Jays. I realize a lineup's a lineup, and I've had weird conversations with you and the people that listen to this show

about different ways you could slice up a lineup. I feel like there should be a conversation between Varger and Varsho. I have very different feelings when those two are at the plate right now. But again, there's some value to in the second half of your lineup, having barger there but i saw i think i saw two rally innings end with varshot today that his at-bats haven't felt like bargers like barger comes up and i'm scared varsho i feel like if you execute your pitches you're going to get them so barger five versus and just varsho seven kind of flip them that's what i would be debating um but i don't know yeah i mean there you're you're right i mean

there's, there's, there's, there's rhyme to your reason. Reason to your rhyme. Nice. It's late. I'm tired. Sorry, guys, it's late. He's tired. I'm not tired at all.

You're not at all. I have like 50 people at my house. I was gonna say, I heard a couple squawks. I didn't want to, I didn't want you to, I don't want you to be so unconscious about it. I don't even know who they are. Any of them. I mean, I know like some of them. Like there's a devil.

Give us the best costume you got at your house right now. I told the people, I actually told Robbie earlier, and Zach was on the screen, by the way. He came dressed as a guy with a huge weener. I had Travis Barker at my house that they dressed as Jack from A Nightmare Before Christmas. Time out. Yeah.

Yeah. Just strolled into my house. Your life is ridiculous. It's a weird. Today was weird, coach. No, it's funny. I think you and me live the same lives. Just yours is at a 10 and mine's at a 4.

I flaunt it more. I'm like, oh, dude, I saw Vinny Pasquintino at the bar. And you're like, okay. And Travis Barker came to my house. I don't know. We played music together as a decent day. No, I don't think he was feeling like my vibe. Ooh, guy feeling.

I don't know. He's also dressed like to like, like had makeup, the whole thing. thing. Could it really get a good read on him? Yeah, that's a tough. Maybe that's his win. Like, people are... I was also dressed like this. Oh! Okay. Hey, I know we touch upon

a little bit and you and me both kind of just got too excited about it. Dude, sure's her tomorrow. Oldest pitcher to start in a game seven. Historic inner circle... Insane, he's pitching game seven. Inner Circle Hall of Fame. When he signed

with Toronto, we kind of raised an eyebrow. He wasn't great this year. Extra rest. Someone just said Yamamoto has a strained elbow. That's why he got taken out. Hold. It's going to search the internet. Is that chat or is that anything?

It's chat. This is from Red Sector 7. Well, okay. So we know it's kind of legit. Like they wouldn't just make their name that and send rumors. I mean, it is interesting. He came out. I didn't think he was going to come out, but.

It was a strange. struggle in it. If it was any other team, it would have been very normal that he came out. But with the current state of this team, it was surprising. Yes. Dahl gave a thumbs down to that early rumor for Red Sector. Okay, please. I'm happy. Let's see. Let's see. I don't want to fault them. Anything else, coach, before we come back here for game seven tomorrow? I got nothing.

Yeah. For everyone that's with us, on the, East Coast, gobble, gobble, happy November 1st. For everyone else, happy Halloween. Thank you guys so much for letting us dress like GD fools and make weird jokes throughout and talk baseball with you guys. You're the absolute best. Subscribe and share. Jake sucks.

I still really regret what I said about Philly's kindergarten. I was running hot. That was Guy Fieri. wasn't you. I don't really ever talk like that either. I know. Yeah. That wasn't Trevor Plouf. Who? Who? Boof. There he goes. I've been writing this rap that I might do for content during the Aussies.