Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - FREDDIE FREEMAN HITS WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM IN GAME 1 | 916

Episode Date: October 26, 2024

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers walk off the Yankees in Game 1 of the World Series. Let's talk about it. I'm hyped. Nestor. P.K. Nice fun. Dead in the ball. Hello and welcome to talking baseball.

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There's a link in the description. Trevor Goof. How you doing, compadre? Is it better to have loved and lost than to never have loved before? That's how I feel like it's going. I know how you're feeling, and I understand it, but from just a straight baseball fan... Oh, you and Uncle Rob are happy?

Oh, my gosh. What a freaking game, dude. And I am the Dodger fan at the company now. The game kind of had everything you want. I was happy that both starters pitched well. We had a massive Stanton blast, which has become, you know, it happens every game, it seems like. Crazy. And then the finish. We'll get into all the details, but yes, a crazy game. I was watching with the family. I list favorite players, Freddie Freeman, because she has a bobblehead of Freddie Freeman in her room.

Throw that out. She was going. That's very cool for me to see that. It's probably a nice moment for you. Yeah. It's different than my reaction. A little bit, yeah. I said I was talking before the show. You guys were expecting something bad to happen, man.

Well, a lot of the Yankees' concerns end up getting magnified by a walk-off two-out grand slam that the sick part of baseball, they're close to getting one tonight. They could have won it and, you know, they had 10 hits. There was some good and then all the bad gets multiplied. Let's get into it because there's a lot of nitty-gritty. Your guy, Jack, our guy, Jack. Let's do it. Welcome back to the fall classic.

The Dodgers would hope to put Cole and Garrett stocking while the Yankees would try to hit Jack's off Flaherty. Like my college years were scoreless through all four, but in the fifth, getting jiggy with it. Will Smith, Sack Fly, one nothing Dodgers. Our guy, my tequila buddy, Jack Flaherty was lights out, but he forgot the DJ had one more song. Hit the music. Junkerlo, let the rhythm take you over, Junkerlo. Takeiero, majestic homers.

Two-run bomb has the Yanks leapfrog the Dodgers, two to one. automate showtime as Otani clicks Tommy Boy and Muky says bet with the sack fly tied up at twos, boonos contos, jazz was running like a Miles Davis solo. Volpe scores him on a fielder's choice. It's three to two, but unfortunately these Dodgers are too sexy for their shirts. Wright said Fred as Freeman sends a grand salami into the night sky. Dodgers take game one in a walkoff. Six-three final. Hit jacks off. Flaherty?

Hit jacks off Flaherty. That's a home run term. That's nothing else. Golly. Where do you want to start, Pop? Where do you want to start? You're a sicko. A little bit.

I'll be honest. A little bit. Let's work our way through it. Okay. Garrett Colvers, Jack Flaherty. Maybe we start there. Both of them came out and they looked really good. Cole settled in.

and had that, just that look on his face that there's something about, I know you hate starting pitchers, but when you see a starting pitcher with that look on his face, kind of the bored, angry combo of just like, why am I even doing? Why are you up there? Why am I here? Cole had that. And then Flaherty, man, credit to the guy.

I know we were in an interesting spot just because his last start was so rough. after a great first start against the Mets. But man, after the first inning, he really was sharp with his breaking balls, putting it just out of the reach, except the one to Big G. Yeah, I think both of them had command and control of their off-speed pitches.

Jack, for sure, he had a ton of swing and miss tonight, which is something you just don't see that often with him. Yeah, with one mistake to stand, which wasn't even that bad of a pitch. but I wanted to see these guys you knew Garrett was going to get to however many pitches he was going to end up with 88 you knew he was going to get into the fifth of the sixth inning

we don't really know that with any of the Dodger starters and maybe we should start thinking that because Jack threw the ball extremely well I think even the top of the first we've seen Jack get emotional in the playoffs It's kind of the type of guy he is on the mound. Like he'll sometimes let his emotions get the best of him. Tommy Ebman boots won in the first inning.

And you're like, okay, like, how is this all going to go down? He gets jazz to ground out. Like, I think there's like little things like that that kind of set him up and you knew that he was kind of in control after seeing a moment like that. Like he just took a deep breath and just went back to work. And then he just started locating the breaking balls. He's throwing a lot of them. Did he strike judge out three times?

he did? I know Judge struck out three times in the game. Was it all Jack? Let's see. Judge strikes out to Flaherty. Judge strikes out to Flaherty. Did he get him one more time? Yeah. Three for three. Yeah, I think he did a really

good job kind of pitching around Soto. He picked his spots with Judge and won that matchup. But then the Homer to Stanton, it was just he's hot right now. and swings over two of those sliders. I think it was a slider than a curveball. Then he goes up top with just a bad change your eye level fastball.

And then Stan was just sitting on that next off speed pitch. And he left it a little bit too high and standing right now. There is no other word to describe that homer. You said it. I wrote it down, majestic. That's it. There's no other word to describe that homer. Right?

Yeah. I mean, you know, I think you said your favorite launch angle was 17. if I was remembering correctly. 27. Oh, okay. 27 is my favorite. I'm guessing. I was going to go look at that.

I'm going to guess the launch angle now. It's 36. 78. I'm not sure. Okay, let's go look. I'll let you go look. Man, Stanton, if you're someone who hasn't been watching all the Yankee games throughout the playoffs,

if you're Dodger fans here to drink my tears, hello, subscribe. Stan's awesome. Launch angle 35. 35. I was digging for it. I couldn't find it. That man, Stanton is in a special place, and it's been his whole postseason career. He's one dotted in the postseason now. He just passed Babe Ruth for the least the most, what would you say?

The least amount of played appearances per home run. That's pretty good. Yeah. That's pretty good. So to see that continue, I mean, that had Yankee fans, back up like, okay, we've got that and you've got a lead. Oh, my God. Yeah, I think I'm going back looking over my notes right now. There was a two-strike pitch to Judge. He tried to go up top.

Same kind of pitch he was standing there, but he kind of left it a little lower, and I thought Judge was going to freaking crush that pitch, ends up getting him on a curveball later in the abat. So a little bit of Jack just really pitching well. and again, I think we're going to talk about things that happened in this game, but I kind of like think the story right now is Judge is just, he's not in the groove right now. And he's the guy you want to face.

You don't want to face Tenton. You don't really want to face Soto. I think you'd rather face Judge than Glaber right now, which is crazy. I don't think that's me overreacting for the Yankees to get back into it and like to have the ability to win this series. I mean, Judge has to, you've got to figure it out. Yeah, the, let's do the judge convo. Sorry, Dodgers, you're going to have to wait for the delicious part in a second.

Although, like you just said, Judge right now isn't a problem for their pitchers. In fact, they're playing into it. Juan and Soto intentional walk. That's twice this postseason that's happened. That didn't happen during the radio season at all. And judge is clearly off, man. Like I, you know, again, credit to Jack. Like Jack really dealt tonight.

And his, his off speed stuff, he's really found a sweet spot with that. Between that tight, like, 87 mile per hour slider and the 80 mile per hour curveball, that with his fastball, you see why he put together a great year. That being said. His Velo was there tonight, too, which was. Yeah, his Vilo was there. And that's going to be something to check in, obviously, next star, if there is a next star. Okay.

But for Judge right now, like you said, he's so in between. He gets punched out on 93, you know, middle, middle away, which is normally a hot zone for Judge to swing through that. I mean, we just, you know, you fans don't see that during the race. regular season. So, you know, the big debate, Aaron Boone, he got asked in the presser, and he's like, you know, are you guys going to consider sliding Judge down? He immediately shot it down to the dismay of this office. And I guess I'd love to hear your thoughts on it because obviously Aaron Judge won the MVP this year, you know, this is one game. The playoffs are a smaller

sample size, but we're coming down to it. The Yankees can only lose three more baseball games, otherwise their season's over. And you can build upon the fact that Giancarlo Stanton is the most feared hitter in the world right now that I think you could do this in a way that's not offensive. And also it shouldn't be offensive because you're trying to win baseball games. Yeah, I don't think it's offensive.

I just don't know if you need to do it. I mean, why Toy with Stanton? That's kind of my thought process on it. Like, if he's doing well in his situation, keep him there. Like I know where, or kind of at the end of the postseason and it's kind of gone on all postseason long

but I mean you got to figure he's gonna figure it out at some point maybe he won't I don't know I still don't think that would change anything I guess you're the only reason you do that is to get Stanton up another time or like get him up more I guess or is it for protection with Soto

is that what the thought process? I don't think he needs to move It would be partially Soto Protection. And in theory, if you could slide Judge down, you could try to extend the lineup a little bit. You slide him down just flipping with Stanton? Or you're talking about sliding him, like, to this. Well, the two conversations would be you could flip them

or you could have Judge Bat 5th, which Stanton has hit this postseason, and then you slide up Jazz or one of the lefties to try to break them up and extend the lineup. I don't I don't think he does I know he said as much after the game but I don't that seems Who said he won't

I get it it's like This is currently Yankees fan fiction Yes That could I think could get actually real If Judge has another day where Again like it's There's not overstepping the boundary to say He looked really really tough tonight

He's quick to the draw Like he's out in front You're right he's in between pitches He's out in front of the slider and he got beat by fastballs. Can't be both. Kind of got to pick one. When you're in that position, you got to pick one.

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Stanton does it again. Cole is looking good. The Yankees have their good bullpen. Let's stay in the top of the six. Okay. Because the Yankees did get some more traffic on there. Get some more traffic in it. I thought it was, it's always interesting to me.

Like, why did Jack throw even a pitch to Chisham right there? Like, it's weird to get taken out after a 1-0 count, but whatever. It doesn't really mean anything. Banda comes in. Jazz singles, jazz stolen bass, Rizzo K's. They intentionally walk Volpe to get to Wells. And then it's a guy that's been there all postseason for the Dodgers. Tommy Edmund, you know, goes up the middle, keeps jazz at third.

This is a great play. I mean, this is 100%. I mean, that's, it's such a. great baseball right there, man. But look at the athletic play by Banda to cut that off, you know? And it's like, what if Jazz was running right there? You just cut it off, right? Get out of the way, man.

But just the Edmund taking that angle back. I mean, that's, you understand the situation there. Jazz is on second base. You're looking around the infield. You're saying, hey, guys, we're diving. We're keeping the ball in the infield. So you're going to take an exaggerated angle on something like that. That's not an angle to say, I'm going to get,

an out. You're not. You know you're not going to get an out. You're taking that angle back to make sure that you put a glove on the ball. To get up and spin and fire home like that is even more impressive. But, I mean, that saves a run. Verdugo ends up Kang and it keeps it at two to one. That's a massive play in the game. And then, oh yeah, he comes up in the bottom of the six, double down the line. Now, this is now the beginning of three straight innings where the Dodgers would have a guy in third base less than two outs. The sixth inning, uh, mookie, uh, hits the ball to jazz, uh,

5-3 and then Freddie flies out to the night, uh, to right field. But the Dodgers are starting to put traffic. They're starting to get, uh, base runners on. And then you kind of knew it was only a moment,

uh, or it was, what am I trying to say? Only a matter of time. Only a matter of time. Nice. Before the kind of broke through. I,

uh, I don't even know why I didn't know this, but graderol coming back and like, all of a sudden being in the game was crazy. If we're, if we're, If we're going to talk about Nestor being in the game in a weird situation, all of a sudden, graderall is in there to face freaking the top of the order.

Like, what is that about, dude? Again, I, you know, funny business probably isn't the right term. Man, that's something that in this box score, you know, it's just like, oh, okay, clean reliever inning. Brewster changed kind of the tone of this game. A, I mean, that barehand is. That's ridiculous. That should just end an inning. Like, okay, boys.

Like, nope. He hadn't been in the game since September 24th, a full month. He comes in bare hands of that ball, which is just insane. And then Soto flew out to Tommy Edmund, and he was like staring at him. Oh, yeah. Like, he wanted that smoke. Like, he was in there saying, like, this is me. I'm here.

I'm like, okay, I guess you're back. That was a really fun at bat, and Bruce Starr wins the three-two pitch, gets it in on Soto's hands, which is really tough to do. And then he strikes out Stanton later that inning, which he-o. And then, Trev, I forgot about this, and me, Jimbo, we recorded talking Yanks before this. And, you know, it's obviously more Yankee focused and still want to talk about Glaber and Oswaldo and some of that stuff. For this modern age of hitting and getting your A-swing off

and, you know, that's the best way to successful and put up the best numbers. Like there's no such thing as a two-strike approach. Can we send all of those people, Taye O'Skers at Bat against Cole, where he went down O-2? Because know who stopped taking his A-swing? Te-O-Sker,

he was a goddamn menace just fouling off Cole's nastiest pitches. He spit on a couple sliders, fouls off a four-seamer and then another slider, another ball, and Cole's like, all right, I got to come in the zone with something. And he hits a single up the middle,

which ends up being Cole's last batter, which started a debate should Cole have been taken out there because now you're bringing Clay Holmes in to start versus a lefty. But the Dodgers don't really have a righty lane. They're only back-to-back righties. are Kike and Smith after Muncie, so the Yankees were trying to sneak Clay Holmes in there almost. That, in a series that we're talking about,

two teams that are both really good, a game that went 10 innings and was down to the final out and final pitch and whatever, the ripple effects of that at bat and that whole sequence, I mean, you could, Yankee fans are spinning their wheels in an awful way. I was a little shocked

that Cole came out right there I didn't expect him to get pulled like that I grade a bat by Teo there gets it the base knock up the middle when Holmes came in I mean he was just that was like a nightmare he was pitching around Muncie

he hits him he didn't pitch around he pitched into him got him yeah this is another inning where the Dodgers threatened Kike gets an incredible bun down like Rizzo's 20 feet for him. Obviously, like, you have to bunt towards a third baseline there, but it's easier said than done.

He gets a great button down right there. I love the slow-mo's on buns. Just love me, that ultra-slowmo on the bun. It was cool to see his, like, hand basically come off the bat to deaden it. That was a cool. Yeah, I mean, you're real loose. The firmer you hold it, the heart of the ball is going to go.

So you're real loose with that handling job right there. You know all about that, right? the top end of the stick. Great. I mean, that's, again, I don't know how many sack buns Kike has had during the year. I know they probably don't bunt a ton, but you got to have the ability to get one down.

So they threaten again. Will Smith, I believe first pitch, flies out to Volpe. And just another, I wrote down tough A-B. Got to get a better pitch than that. Obviously, he throws a nasty,

boring fastball. but it is what it is. And then Canley comes in. And is he ever going to throw anything but a change up? Like is there a time where he's going to try to fool somebody? I don't think so, right? Ooh. Interesting.

Jim's floating around. Do you think we get a Canley fastball this series? Says yes to a righty. Okay. Yeah, maybe. That's crazy, dude. What else do we got? Well, I think some other stuff in that section

Yeah, I mean I mean the bottom Bottom of the eighth is when the Dodgers end up tying it And that was very interesting So Show Hey's up there Obviously Show Hey, I'm going to get a change up Yeah Everyone knows you're going to change up

Show hay's too good of a hitter To know what pitch is coming and not get a hit So bam Double off the top of the wall that's that right there is very tough for Yankee fans to see you have to body that ball up and there's nobody that's supposed to be in that situation like be in that area like that's a a quote unquote like no man's land like maybe Rizzo trails the runner there and he's somewhere near but he wouldn't be near where that ball is that's just straight up glaber being lazy

like there's no play so you're not like trying to pick it and tag him you just you got a you got to block that ball. You just can't do what he did. Like, that's the only thing that you can't do in that situation. And we talk about these, you know, 90 feet means a lot in these games. And all of a sudden, show he's on third base, less than two outs, and Mookie gets it done, man. Like, Weaver comes in, throw some really good pitches, but Mookie, you know, two strikes just does what he's supposed to do. Actually, he hit that ball very hard, but all of a sudden, we're looking at a tie ball game because your middle infielder doesn't body up the ball and stop it. I mean, these are the little things, dude.

It's a completely different game. Yeah. Yeah, I know, like you're, hey, I'll take your word on it. You know, with Shoah going to second, you don't need anyone covering first, so it would have been nice if Rizzo's floating that way. But I mean, Glaber Torres, you can't, that can't happen. This is a world series game.

But he wouldn't be floating, he wouldn't be floating by the pitchers, ma'am. If he goes, he will be trailing Shohei, which you don't really do in that situation because it's just... Tough race for Rizzo there, too, by the way. It was in a very bad spot. No one was going to be on that ball. It's just Glabors got it. You got to catch the ball. It's one of, it's been Yankees' frustration with Glaber for a while.

And hey, man, it's bad. And I honestly, during the ALCS celebration, because Glaber Torres, I believe, of spot has been incredible. And like his second half this year to kind of save his contract year, man, when they won the ALCS, I had kind of one of those teacher, like, I had the same feeling as a teacher that had like a student that was kind of struggling a little bit and then like turned it around

at the end of the year. And then the teacher's like, damn, like, good for you, man. Like I had that feeling for Glaver Torres, who's going to be a lot more rich. than me is a lot more rich than me. Successful. But yeah, man, I mean, this is the World Series, Trev. The fact that we can second guess on that

and their second, the tying run being on a sack fly that goes into extra innings, I mean, to put the coal start out the window, to put the Stanton home run out the window, I mean, that's, it's currently the thing that's hurting me the most. Yeah, it's stuff. I mean, it's also going to come back. I think that second base position,

we'll talk about it in a little bit, so it'll come back to Haunt. Top of the ninth, Copac comes in. We get the Glaber all of a sudden makes up for that. Is it a homer? Is it a double? The fan reaches over. It was going to be a double.

I don't think they're, I don't think if you're a Yankees fan, I know it seems weird, but you can't really say that was going to be a home run. Man, I think there was a perfect fan base to do that, too. We were in the live stream and like, nope, seen that before. That's not a home run.

There wasn't a second that we were like, ah, no. Yeah, I saw you guys reaction to that one too. You guys knew it right away. Well, we're ready to pop. We're like, dude, Glaver's about to hit the redemption Homer. And then it's like, okay, that's, we know that one. That was with two outs. And we get the Soto intentional walk.

Like you talked about, Trinon comes in to face judge. Trinin is absolutely filthy. gets in the flout to shortstop. And if you're deep in this, trying it opens up with four sweepers to Judgey. That fourth one, Trinan doesn't leave a lot of meat on the bone. It was there.

He left some meat on the bone there, man. And Judge swang out of his shoes. He doesn't do that. He's always under such control. And both of his feet came sliding out because he tried to try to hit that ball a mile. Why did you just do it?

Why did you just do a weird head tilt there? What was that? Because I'm reading my notes and there's a note that doesn't make any sense. Great play by Mooki looking like Oh, okay. It says looking like ass out there.

I don't know what that means. Mookie? Top of the 10. Jazz hits the single. Mostly. Okay. You got this. I got it, dude.

Great play by Mookie getting over to the ball. Jazz hits one in the gap. Mookiee runs, cuts it off, gets in, holds jazz to a single. I have great play by Mookie looking like a shortstop out there. Ah, yes. And A and S.S. We're next to each other. I said, looking like ass out there.

No, a short stop out there. Because mind you, people, he was a shortstop. Yeah. That play by Jets or that play by Mookiee was really. really good. And it was just a reminder that it's like, damn, Blake, like, feel like the moogie infield stuff is sick and maybe he has a great second half of his career at second base or wherever. But like, this guy wasn't all world right fielder. To see someone do that, you don't see outfielders do that. So 90 feet, man. 90 feet means a lot in these games.

Anyway, it doesn't matter because Blake trying to can't hold a freaking runner on. And this is something that's going to come back in the series and we're going to see this three stolen bases is in this inning, not only the second base, Jazz is stealing third base as well. It's, they have to figure that out. You can't just let people just run wild on you. You can't do that. I don't understand it.

I don't, it's just not acceptable. You have to be able to hold runners and you can't like people just run wild on you, which they did. I couldn't, I honestly couldn't believe it. Don't know what Rizzo was really doing on the ball that Volpe hits. the ground ball. Infield's in, which is weird to me. We've talked about this. Like teams really like to play the infield in very aggressively now.

Like typically first and third right there with one out, you would be like, you'd be kind of a hybrid of double play depth, infield in, you know, trying to cut down the run. I get it. But I mean, that's a double play ball for the first. You know Volpe can run too. So that adds to it. Don't know why Rizzo stopped right there, though. Yeah, he was trying to.

In the way. He was trying to make a wall if they flipped that and just... To throw it? He was as big as possible, yeah. Like if they were to throw it to first? Yeah. I mean, he's got to know at that time, there's no chance to get anybody at first base.

I honestly don't know what he was doing right there. I think Rizzo made up... He bobbled it. I think Rizzo had made up his mind pre-bobble, which... Like, I think there's an argument either way. Like, I think I know what he was trying to do there. If Rizzo kept going and went for a hard slide into something, second. I think that could be equally as effective and he could have maybe been safe that

what does that do for the inning? But yeah, it was definitely funky to just watch live. They showed a judge and, uh, Stanton reacting to it and they were like, like, yeah, we scored, but what was that a little bit? Yeah, it was, so Yankees take the lead. Yes, they do. Top 10. Let's go. Let's go. Jazz manufactures a run with his, with his legs. And Volpe, guess what? He does. He steals too because. Why not? Why wouldn't you? They have to figure something out. That was honestly, I can't stand that.

That's one of my biggest pet peeves with pitchers. I'm not going to hold them on. Who cares? I'm like, no, we care. Everybody else cares. Every single other person on team cares. All squad, man. Yeah.

Okay. So, three, two, Wells ends up Kang against trying in. Bottom of the 10th, man. Bottom of the 10th. We get... Did Nestor start that inning? No, Jake Cousins did. Jake Cousins did, that's right.

Who's still, Jay Cousins got hurt to end the season. I think he's had two appearances coming into today. So he's still figuring out he was electric for the Yankees for a little bit, but they also have shooed him in as a Ritey guy. He has a devastating slider and a really good two-seamer with it, that righties are really in a tough spot. And when the Yankees have someone like this,

they did it with Adamadovino when he was on the team. They really, especially come playoff time, they pigeonhole. You get righties, don't even think about lefties. Yeah, this was an interesting inning for me for a couple of different reasons. I know we're going to talk about the Nestor Cortez decision, but Will Smith flies out, Gavin Lux works a walk. Tom Yedman puts together a really nice at bat. Two strikes, you know, puts,

puts the ball in play. All of a sudden, Labor's not out there. It's as Waldo Cabrera at second base. And the ball just kind of like scoots under his glove. It's not an easy play, but I think a play that gets made kind of a lot, at least get one out right there. And as soon as that happened,

I was like, this is bad for the Yankees because you get an out there, then you have two outs. And you just, if you give those three guys, Shohei, Muki, and Freddie. Now all of a sudden they have two chances to get you. It completely changes everything, man. I think it just...

And Torres was out because he got pinch ran for by Jason Dominguez, and all of a sudden, Oswaldo Cabrari, he's been sitting on the bench, the whole game, comes in, doesn't make the play, like all these little things, you know, they make a big difference. Nester comes in. All of a sudden, it's first and second for Otani. Nestor's in.

Your thoughts? I knew what they were thinking. And I, you know, they had both of them up. Tim Hill has been great for the Yankees. Fantastic. He doesn't strike guys out. So the Yankees with Shohei coming out, and this is the ripple effect that you're talking

with that infield single, with, you know, a five-pitch walk to Gavin Lux, who's a guy, no offense to, Gavin Lux, but with these other Dodgers, that's someone you have to challenge. It's, I don't want to say it's splitting hairs. Tim Hill probably deserved the opportunity. I think the Yankees in the situation, and after seeing Vesia and Bruce Starr, were almost willing to try their button.

And, hey, with this whole ripple effect you talk about, now, if they had gotten it out there, they might walk. show hey and then have j cousins pitch to mookie if there was two outs and keep the right on right and then you figure out the lefty with freddie on deck if you have to get there uh so again that's part of that ripple effect um and yeah man it's it's the sick part of baseball because nester throws one pitch to show hey he fouls it out to left and alix verdugo makes an all world great play he made a couple really nice plays tonight and that's why he's in the lineup instead of jason Dominquez, who the Yankees didn't call up until late September,

and they apparently don't think he can play left field. Otherwise, that could be the missing thump at the bottom of their lineup, which is a massive problem. But an amazing play by Verdugo, into the stands. And then, yeah, that's going to get forgotten for a long time because Nestor comes out, first pitch to Freddie. Not crazy different than what he threw to Shohei, but the result was 423 feet different.

Oh, right away too. What a freaking swing. And going back to the Verdugo play, he flips over into the railing, it advances the runner, so now it's an easy decision to walk Mookie Betts, so you get the lefty, lefty matchup. I know there was some Tim Hill versus Freddie numbers.

I think Freddie has some good numbers against him, but we're just, looking at this in hindsight, obviously. But I just think having a guy that, he hasn't pitched in a game in a while. It's just different, man. Whether you think you're ready for it or not, obviously it's just...

Tim Hill was the easier button to press. Yeah, he's kind of been that guy for them. Yeah. So you don't give it to him. Now, if he's faced with the same exact situation, moving forward. Like he can't choose Nestor, right? You can for Otani, not Freddie?

I don't know. But that, I mean, you just have to get credit to Freddie. I mean, are you kidding me? Yeah. To even, honestly, to even be looking for his pitcher, though, he said after the game, was just trying to be on time of the fastball, trying to be on time of the fastball.

But Shohei gets out first pitch, intentional walk to Muki, like, I'm not saying you go up there and take, but he gets the pitch he wants and doesn't forget miss it, man. No. And he's got a legendary Los Angeles Dodger moment. It's going to live for a long time.

That place was nuts. No one was leaving the stadium. This is, he knew it right away. And people forget, he's a Southern California kid. Okay. Just saying, dude, doing it to a team that you know he watched growing up or doing it with a team he watched growing up is pretty awesome, man. You probably watched the Yanks too.

Probably. And Cubs and Braves. That's what we all did back in the day. Everyone watched the Cubs and the Braves because they were on TV. Look at that. Simple thought process. Trev, let's wrap this up. And we'll get some thoughts going into game too.

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wherever refreshing beverages are sold. And do the do. There's a link in the description. Jimbo, did you say you had a stat? Kike Hernandez attempted three sackbine. months over the year only got one successfully down. Well, one he bunted. They got the out of third.

The other he popped out. And the third he got down. That's a hell of a bump, man. And Canley has thrown one slider this postseason and the 11 fastballs. Is that something like 50 changeups in a row though right now? Yeah. It's because he's facing lefties. Yeah.

He like against the royals, he got Salvi, Yulee, like he used it against the right. He's the fastball. He's got a nice fastball. Yeah, he does. The change is just nicer. Tommy, Tommy Edmund switch hitting from the right side tonight. Does it get better than that? What, uh, is there like another pitcher in recent memory that's done something like this?

Like Lance McCullors with the curveball. I'm not talking about Mariano. I understand that. but a guy that just finds a pitch and just runs with it like this, it's kind of crazy. It's interesting. College was 17 curballs in a row to start off a game. We thought that was so cool,

but Tommy Canley's like, no, watch this. It's a good question. Yeah, I'm sure like maybe Kenley has had like a cutter streak, but I know that pitch. That pitch is different than kind of what you're depicting. Have we had a change-up only guy? I don't think so. God, he's, uh, he's fun.

And yeah, it was Matt Carac City, 90% sinker in 2023. Okay. Never heard of him. I don't know who that is either. Shout out, man. Not my book. Zach Britton was as close as you'll get to that. Throwing his thing.

Sinker? Yeah. Yeah, it was like a, it moved like a curveball. Do you guys like my hat? Jimmy, do you like my hat? I'm, I'm our Dodger fan for our company. Yeah, I like it. It looks like it fits your head.

All the hats today didn't fit the player's heads. Yeah, Razel twice. What happened to that? What was going on there? That was weird. His hat was just falling off. Yeah.

Edmonds looked like he was wearing his dad's hat. Canely looked like he was wearing his son's hat. Very small. I noticed, I notice it's Canely. Notice Canley's hat. Yeah. Jack had like the air bubble pockets in his hat.

I think they got World Series hats and they're just like not broken in or not fixed. Sometimes that happens, man. It's bad hats. I think it's with the logo. Oh, do I have one? That, yeah, something on the side's different. It's different. I have something.

That's a nice. That's a nice. What do you got for game two, Trev? I don't want to call it a must-win for the Yankees, but I think I'm calling it the must-win for the Yankees. I don't know, man. We're kind of there. I'm sure any Yankee fan is feeling that kind of way.

I mean, like, having Carlos Rodon ready to go, I think that you have to feel pretty good about that. Yamamoto, to me, is still kind of, it's a wild card. Every starter for the Dodgers is going to be a wild card for me. I don't think you can necessarily trust them to do what Jack did tonight. I think if I'm banking on who's going to go longer in the game, between Rodon and Yamamoto, I say Rodon, I would say that, you know, I feel pretty good about saying that.

So, I don't know. To me, it's Judge. Judge has to get going. that's the series man Yamamoto is a pretty bad matchup for judge Splitters are bugaboo for judge You gotta fly teacher man out there And like big pitch mixes

You know like Waka and Lugo Were Nightmares for Judge I thought Flaherty would be better But he looked awful He looked really bad He was really out in front He's looked worse and worse The last three games

That's I mean yeah But, you know, Mookie and O'Tani were one for eight tonight. So, I mean, Cole pitched O'Tani really cool. Like, really cool. It was good, like, it was a three-eating, three-at-bat plan, which was nuts. There's going to be a lot of eyeballs on Judge. Yeah. And then I think the other thing is, can the Yankees get the early lead?

Because we saw last series, Dave Roberts openly talked about knowing what he has in his covered, although he traded one for two. I mean, how good Bruce Star and Vessia look tonight? You know, Evan Phillips is off the roster, yo. But we know if they go down two, three runs, they're not going to press the Kopeck, trying in and maybe throw one or two other guys in there. I think BVD said before, like, Bruce Starr,

it's his first game back, so they probably don't double up on him. So if you can get an early lead, you know, they don't want to press their buttons. because they know they have limited ammo coming from their bullpen. But on the other side, that offense is just relentless. You know, the whole lineup where the Yankees' second half, and this is part of the, you know, we were having Yankees talk around our office, is how can you stretch out this lineup?

And is it, you know, moving a big guy down? Is there anything you can really do? And it's, you know, that lefty lane that they're creating. And Aaron Boone talked about it on our Tagging Yanks interview with them. He, you know, to Tim Harron, the lefty on the Guardians, he was like, yeah, we knew we were going to have to eat that inning. And it's like, damn, that's a crazy thought when you're playing seven games to decide your season, and they've got two lefties.

So for two innings, you're just kind of let your lineup get eaten. It's tough. And I'd imagine that Dave Roberts is going to take your advice, Jimmy, and not pitch to stand. Like, let's just not, let's, you can't let that guy beat you right now. If Jazz Chisholm beats you, okay. Like, you just cannot give him anything to hit. Judge being bad, they've lost all three batters. Boone needs to move Judge.

Otherwise, he's just letting, he's just like sitting on his hands. I just don't know where you move him. You put him up, just swap him and Stan? Or do you put him down further? I'd go, I would go for the next game against the righty pitcher. I would go Stan 3, Jazz 4, Judge 5. and then judges the beast surrounded by the other guys that with no slug ability,

so he'll get pitches. He won't just get walked. But right now, they're pitching around Soto, getting Judge out with ease. He was 02, four out of five at bats tonight, and then pitching around Stanton

and getting the next down. So you've lost all three. Unless, you know, Stan's swinging at pitches out of the zone and he did in the guards because he knows who's behind him. And he knows like, hey, I got to hit a fastball out of the zone or a curveball below the zone because I'm the last hope.

Yeah. So if Judge doesn't look better, Boone's got to make a move. Honestly, like, I know he already came out and said no. It would shock me if he did it. He said no to switching, Stan and Judge, which is the easier route. But they've just built a bullpen dream for Roberts. you're you're totally right with the fact that look this is it this is the lot no one's ego is needs to be thought about right now it's about winning baseball

game so you have to do what's right for the lineup i mean i would love to see it i just don't think it's going to happen i don't know you got maybe glaber Soto judge stand okay that's three out of four Ritees you pitch around Soto so there's your righty lane there's your Bruce Star Lane. And then you've got Jazz, Rizzo, Volpe, Wells,

Verdugo. That's four out of five lefties. Banda comes in. They intentionally walk Volpe and now you got four lefties. So it's a, it's a dream for Roberts. Like his decisions are so easy. So I don't think they could do that lineup again. Yeah, that's,

they're going to have to mix and match a little bit better down to the bottom line up as well for sure what do you got what do you got on this like trying and just giving up stolen bases at will thing can they can they even fix that i don't think at this point you can fix that i think it's just the yankees better take advantage of that because that is crazy that he's allowing that to occur yeah yankees have their problems with stroman uh this year with that yeah and boom talked to us about that like we need everyone to buy in he was like some guys won't he was frustrated it is frustrating and it's i mean it's funny it's the the two guys on the yankees that can do it to you are it's jazz and volpy so yeah i mean i think you've known enough relievers and you've seen

what trinan's doing that i don't i don't see him getting too dialed on that um i think he did pick off once didn't he yeah he just threw over one of Yeah. You got to like hold. Yeah, do all the things. Just do the things. You got a back pick. Do the head.

Everything. I want to throw that freaking disgusting slur of the throws. Where the hell that's called? Gross. Gross. Anything else, fellas? All right. I was a big one, dude.

Tomorrow's a huge one. I, uh, no, like, congrats Dodgers fans. I guess congrats baseball fans that, that did. get to enjoy that from a third party view. We will be streaming on Talking Yanks again. If you haven't checked that out, it's quite the interesting thing. I think it's a one-of-one in the streaming world. Live chat's a lot of fun.

We're hanging out. And we'll see. Game two of the World Series. My God. Say that again. Two of the World Series. Step up. up, you know.

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