Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - LA Dodgers are ONE WIN AWAY | 918

Episode Date: October 29, 2024

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. The Los Angeles Dodgers are one win away from sweeping the World Series from the New York Yankees. Let's talk about it. Let's have some real honest conversation. Let's talk some ball. Here you go. You're a judge. Any pitch.

That's mean. That's mean. That is mean. But I kind of like it. it right now. Hello and welcome to Talk in Baseball presented to you by Seatgeek. Maybe you could get tickets

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you can go to whatever Seat Geeks got, concerts, other sports. I'm thinking about taking a trip somewhere one way. Hope they got tickets there. Code Johnboy Playoffs 10, 10% off at Seek. Johnboy Playoffs 10, click the link in the description. I'm Jake Storelli.

I am a Dodger. No, I'm a Yankees fan who picked the Padres to win the World Series because I thought the Padres or the Dodgers would make it. It's starting to look like in L.A. October, Treve. Trevor Plouf, Boots on the Street in L.A. How are you doing? I am doing great. Number one, I want to apologize to Aaron Judge. I very much enjoy watching him play baseball. I think he's one of the greats. And in fact, this episode

is going to be more about me talking about the other things that are going wrong with the Yankees than just Aaron Judge. I feel like we understand that. That's good. So that was a little mean. And I don't want to be like that. You know I'm not that guy. I don't even know where that came from. So number one, apologize. Number two, I'm excited to talk about this game. There's a lot of stuff going on. Let me ask you something real quick, Jake.

Sure, Trev. If I was to say that, you know, in regulation, you were going to hold the Dodgers to, well, let's see, how many runs was that? 10 total runs in regulation through the first three games. You feel pretty good about yourself, right? 3.33 repeating. I'd assume it, you know, maybe there might be one of those games where we held it. They're 0 and 3. Jake, what's going on?

I think you know the other. I think you know the answer. But yeah, this was, dude, like you said this before we started recording, almost tough to watch. You know how my guy Jimmy gets into the numbers. I think he said this was the second most fastballs, four-seam fastballs taken for a strike in a game this year.

I think shout out to our nationals who didn't think they'd be getting a shout-out on this episode. But like, again, you know, sometimes Jimmy gets wonky with the search buttons over there. But fastball's over the plate. It's a World Series game. It's a do-or-die World Series game. So no matter where the numbers landed,

the effort is just befuddling at the plate. there's not a lot of energy going on on the Yankees side. There's some defensive miscues. We know about the base running that came into play today. Let's not start this off by being sad Yankees. Let's start this off by talking good Dodgers. I was just going to say the Dodgers that wrapped up those Padres, which I think both of those teams were wagons,

they wrapped up the Padres with the longest consecutive scoreless innings for you can play off history. And now they're, they're embarrassing the Yankees offense. I mean, there's, there's nothing there right now. Yeah, they've scored three, two, and two. A couple fortitude games here for you, Jake. I know you love that. But they weren't even, you know what I'm saying? Like Verdugo Homer with two outs in the ninth, they get. Well, you could say that about game one, two, six three, it was, it was a three two game before Freddie stepped up to the plate there, two out. So I guess you're right. Like the number is actually make it seem closer, the game's closer than they actually are.

The last two. It doesn't seem like that when you're watching, the last two for sure. So yeah, you can talk about the Yankees not doing things right. Or you can say, hey, the Dodgers have been doing pretty much everything right. They've gotten the big hits. They've hit the home runs. They've had the base running ability. I mean, Tommy Eben there in the third, that bloop single by Mookie.

I mean, that's a great read by him. I think as soon as he saw Soto Flash, like, he was off where he was supposed to be, but as soon as you saw Soto Flash, I hate when guys do that. The Flash, the Globe, like, oh, the fake. Like, everybody, it's so fake that everyone knows it's fake. He was off to the races,

just a great read by him. And then we see, you know, we see a great play by Mookie there in the bottom of the fourth, you know. Whatever. What's that? There is a burn, but that's okay. I know, but I'm just saying,

like, we're going to get to the burn. I'm saying, all these things are happening. We're seeing great plays by Mookie and then Teo throwing out Stanton, like you got to give credit where credit is due to the Dodgers because they're just doing the little things right

and I think that's been the difference in the series. I think it's because they can hit and they have deep lineups. They haven't hit that well. Jake, they have five hits tonight. Yes. They scored four runs tonight. They had five hits and they scored four runs. The previous game, they scored four runs.

Right, but this is also a playoff baseball. The first game, they scored two runs through nine, bro. This hasn't been some crazy offensive. explosion by any means. No, I think the Yankees should have won game one, I think, but they got dominated the next two games. But it hasn't been offensively, dude. A couple homers, they've gotten the big hits, but they have not, it hasn't been,

what we saw them do to the Mets, they're not doing that to the Yankees. There's been other things. No, I mean, they had three home runs in that second game, which is a good formula. And then, yeah, I mean, the Mookie one, sure, like, I kind of, like, I kind of, Like what you're saying, like the Soto fake out actually probably hurts them there. I do want to hear your burn. And Freddie also hit it to run Homer. Yeah.

But, yeah, I'm just saying this has not been the Dodgers just whipping out their big old thing and throwing it down. Hasn't been that. Yankees pitching has been solid. That ain't the problem. That ain't the problem. Yeah. The World Series heads back to the boogie down Bronx where the Yankeesie. would hope Clark wouldn't Schmidt the bet against the Dodgers with New York,

hoping Walker Ferris Bueller would have a day off. Top one, Freddie Mercury Freeman. Another one gone, and another one gone. Another one bites the dust. It's two nothing Dodgers in the first, make it three, as you can't spell MLB without Marcus Lynn Betts. RBI single, and it was the Lord of the Hill, the return of the Moxie King.

Walker Bueller, five innings pitch, two hits, 5K, zero earn run. Here's another TK in the nuts for Yankee fans. RBI single, it's four nothing Dodgers into the ninth. Alex Verdugo Redemption Tour to run Homer. It's Bueller to Brewster to Vesia to Hudson, the Banda, to Brazier to Kopeck. What fortitude by the Yankees to lose game three. I love when you put on Lord of the Rings references. It's very nice to do that for me.

I know you do. I do it all for you, dad. Where do you want to go? I think we already start, kind of start of the combo. I guess it has to start with Walker Bueller. Yes. Who says he loves pitching in the cold,

which is awesome. I love that. I love, I hate when guys complain about the weather. I can't stand it. I'm like, dude, everyone's playing it in the same exact way. Just go do it, dude. He's like, hey, he said after the game, with my guy Rod.

He said, it's like guys don't want to hit the fastball so I can throw my fastball. And he looks sharp tonight, man. He really did. He doesn't have like the explosive elite Vilo anymore. We're still humping it up there, 95, 96. The breaking stuff was looking very sharp, pinpointing where he needed to pinpoint. I think he was getting a little extra at times and he knew that.

So he was kind of staying on the peripherals. But we talked about this before the series and we talked about after the last game. It's just continued to be true that. the Dodger starting pitching has been better than the Yankees starting pitching, and that was supposed to be the Yankees upper hand in this series. So far, 16 and 2 thirds for the Dodgers starters, only three earned runs for the Yankees, 12 innings pitched and eight earned runs for their starter. So they have flipped a script, and Walker was just an extension of what they've been able to do.

and I guess that's probably I would say that's the biggest reason that they're up 3-0 in the series right now is what the starters been able to do. They haven't had to have a crazy extended bullpen game. They've been able to save it now for a possible close-out game. They have everyone available and Trinan didn't throw it tonight, although the Yankees have gotten a trine a couple of times so he needed the rest.

but it's I can't believe how good the starting pitching is looked. I think that's like my main takeaway here. I'm pleasantly surprised and I think a little bit of it has to do with the Yankees' bats not being there. Judge is not a threat right now. I think I saw that 47% strikeout percentage

in the postseason so far. That's not great. So yeah, this series has not gone the way. I thought it was going to go at all. I think it's gone the way, if you told me, Yankees' worst-case scenario, the bottom of their lineup having no threat. No threat.

Zero threat. The Anthony's, Volpe and Rizzo, in the CS and the DS, were able to flip the lineup over. They were able to get on base or throw in a hit here and there, that they were able to get. the lineup back to the top and give

Glabor, Soto, Judge, Stanton, an opportunity that made the Yankees offense. It felt like every other inning was a threat where now the Yankees feel like they get two chances a game when the lineup lines up in their favor. Like there's a couple, like if their leadoff man gets cut off or like, you know, there's two outs and Soto gets out, that Yankees part of the lineup is their only chance to really score right now.

So in the first inning, I thought this was, well, A, I feel bad for Clark. I guess, you know, as a Yankee fan, I shouldn't. He comes out in that first inning, and he's got Freddie 02, or excuse me, 1-2, and he tries to throw a fastball away to Freddie, and he yanks it, And it's middle in, and it's Yankee Stadium, and that's Freddie Freeman, who tied the record for most consecutive World Series games with a home run. So you just can't... George Springer, right?

You can't do that. Him and George. There's a couple other legends up there. I think Reggie was around it. There was someone else. So, okay, it happens. There's two runs after the four-pitch walk to Otani. so Walker Bueller comes out

First inning where the Yankees are You know these two teams I think they were second and third And first inning OPS and runs scored Glaver walks a nice at bat seven pitch Okay you want it Soto he has a five pitch Nice swing cutter Lines it to left field

Fenway it's a double Yankee Stadium it's an out Aaron Judge comes up You just butter knife than a bat for me right though I kind of like that Standing OVA Aaron Judge Do it for Aaron. He's our guy.

If he can't do it, nobody can. Strikeout. First pitch was a fastball down the middle. He swung right through, 95. Gets back in the count, follows off another fastball, spits on a knuckle curve. And then Bueller did throw kind of a nasty cutter,

which is a nasty cutter. Tough sports sometimes. But obviously, not what Judge and Yankee fans need to see. And then Stanton, grounds out after that. The first inning is the Yankees' best chance to score. And that's, I mean, you can say that for a lot of teams before a starter settles in,

and that's obviously where your best hitters are. I mean, after that, man, I don't know. Did you see a lot of scary fly balls? Did you see a lot of- From the Yankees? No, I didn't. I mentioned, you know, you talk about the bottom of the Yankees lineup up and, you know, against a right-hander, Edmund has been hitting ninth for the Dodgers,

and he's been a freaking menace. So he walks to lead up the third. He steals on Otani's ground out, so he's at second base. And then he has that great, great read by, you know, Soto throws the glove up, and everyone knows you're not going to catch it once you do that. So, like, great read by him.

And then 3-0, and 3-0 right now in this series feels like a, I don't want to say, It feels like an insurmountable lead, but a lot of things got to go right for the Yankees the way they're swinging the bat. They got more runners on in the top of the fourth. Lux walks. Kike, base hit to right field. Lux goes first or third. Tommy Edmund is up again to try the bun, which I get it.

But I think Tommy's been swinging the bat pretty well. It's not really a double play threat. So I don't, I didn't like that that much. You know, I love bun, Jake. love it. I kind of thought he got his hand into there. They ended up reviewing it, calling the field stands.

And then that was it. For Schmidt, Cortez comes in, does his job against Shohei. Show Hey doesn't, there's one thing. I mean, I know the Yankee fans aren't supposed to, like, you know, take solace in this.

It's not exactly what I'm trying to say, but Shohei does not look great. He looks like he's baby in the swing a little bit. Looks like he's afraid to unleash. He hasn't needed a lot. He's doing his shoulder while he runs. Yeah, it's not. Hey, I'm going to assume that the guy that is doing what baseball scouts and people said couldn't be done for years between pitching and hitting.

I'm going to assume he's freak of nature, pretty tough guy. And he's literally, he's taking his lead off first, and he has himself in a mock sling. So yes, I'm going to agree with you that I don't think show A's full tilt right now, but he's still out there. Well, I know he's not full tilt, but it's, I mean, do you play them? I don't know. Maybe you give him game four off. I don't know, man. Trev, you've been, you've been throwing your name around for the Team USA Olympic manager in 2028, right? No. If Shohei was on your team and he said, I'm ready to play, do you think you're going to put them in the lineup?

I'd have, we sit down and have a serious discussion. And I would say, Shohei, I go like this to a shoulder. How's that feel? You know, like, let me, what do you got, bro? Just grabs you by the throat. Yeah, no. Anyways, bottom fourth comes up. Another great chance for the, oh, not another great chance,

a great chance for the Yankees. But jazz lines out, Mookie, like, makes the play out in the right field. Not a great play, but he makes the play. Yeah, for Mookie. It was a funky route, but... Yeah, but he... I think that's kind of where I'm going with the Dodgers-Yank series. He makes the play, right?

Instead of that ball falling in front, does Soto make that play? I don't know. No. Probably not, right? And then Volpe base hit to Teo. I don't love the send in that situation. Well, I mean, maybe I do,

because they haven't been able to score that many runs, but John Carle's kind of not the right guy there. And Teo just, I mean, it's a perfect throw. I think it was like 94-95, not the quickest throw, but it was a very accurate throw and Stanton's out at home. And at that point, it's like, man, it really feels like two different types of baseball being played right here. It feels like clean baseball versus kind of like still trying to get into it baseball. And I mean, that's what it seemed like almost this entire series. Besides, I would say game one didn't really feel like that, obviously.

but the following two games have felt that way. You could even go to like top five, bottom five jazz makes the air coming in on the ball. It doesn't mean anything because Muncie hits into a double play. Then immediately after Trevino hits a chopper to Muncie, he comes in and makes the play. So it's like, you know, the juxtaposition of what's going on on the field is apparent. And then another nice play by Mookiee on Verdugo line drive. So, like, it was just, the Dodgers played fundamentally sound baseball. They got a great start by Walker Bueller.

They got the timely hits when they needed them. And that was it. I mean, that's the game, Jake. The Yankees are not doing that right now. They're not getting the timely hits. They're not getting the big hits. They're not getting, you know, Redigo, the home run. And the ninth, you almost wish, if you're a Yankee fan,

that came in the second or the third. I mean, that makes such a huge difference of one when it is two outs in the ninth or two sure you get glaber up there with a chance to get soda up but at that point it felt like man you're still kind of like you're grasping right there so there there i don't know there wasn't too much more to this game dude there really really wasn't i want to i want to talk about the max jazz thing for a second because okay you know those are two very similar plays um you know max muncie has has a little bit more of that

StoryElli body type, jazz with a little more of the ploof body type. I do think it was interesting. Like, a talking baseball staple, as you guys know your team better than us. That's how baseball works. You watch your team day and day out. You see the other teams when they come through.

You check in on a little more baseball. However, you enjoy it. I'm glad you enjoy it with us. Make sure you guys subscribe and all that good stuff. A couple of the Dodger games. games I tuned into this year. I thought it was interesting. Muncie has another year on his contract and he has an option. And they were talking about openly on the broadcast how the Dodgers were having conversations

with Max Muncie saying, hey, dude, you got to pick it up at third base because we have Freddie Freeman at first and we have Shohei Otani as the DH. So if you need to stay a Dodger, you need to pick it up at third. And he did this year. He graded out really well by some of the... the defensive metrics compared to the previous year. Jazz Chisholm came over, and this is just a little bit of organizational approaches. Jazz Chisholm is one of the most talented baseball players I've watched.

It is really cool. When his good is on, it's impressive. He has as strong of an arm as anyone I've seen. He can run the bases as fast as anyone's seen. He has quick reaction in hands that when they first had him play third base, I was kind of like, yo, third base for me, and it's why I love you, Treve. It's a little bit of a sacred position. I love third base, man.

That's like you're playing goalie. You need to be on top of it. Like, you need it all over there. Shortstop's have more range. But third base, I don't know. I've just always loved it from the first moment I played baseball. That when they said they were putting jazz over there, I was like, uh-uh. Then I watched jazz, and I was like, oh, yeah.

Like, he can do it at a high level. but he was struggling with some of the tricky third base plays, some of the choppers coming in and stuff like that. We interview Aaron Boone. We interview Aaron Boone, he said, every week on talking Yanks. You do. You do it. And we were like, the fundamental plays at third,

the three hops, get your feet set. Like, those plays aren't routine for him because the Marlins moved him from shortstop to second to the outfield. And now the Yankees were having him play third base. and the Yankees in that situation, they go into a form of denial. They say, look how good this kid is.

Look how talented this kid is. He's going to figure it out. No. It's about reps in putting in the work in telling them what they need to work on. They famously, well, famous in our books, ICF was struggling at shortstop. ICF went to the Yankees coaching staff and said,

hey, I'm kind of looking for help out here. Like I'm not feeling right. The coaching staff pushed him away and said, no, we like what you're doing. I know things are getting magnified because, you know, if we had a conversation a week ago, the Yanks are great. They just won the American League for the first time in 14 years. Obviously things are getting magnified now, but when you're going up against the cream of the crop,

that's what Yankees fans are supposed to measure themselves against. Yeah, and look, there's only one way to get better defensively. That's just to take reps. And it's one of the only things you can do in baseball that you know you're going to improve if you just work at it. Like you can't just like as a pitcher just get on the mound and throw a million pitches and all of a sudden to be a better pitcher. It's not how it works. Same thing, getting in the cage. You can't just get in there and take a million swings and be a better hitter.

I mean, that's just not how it works. But defensively, you go out there and take a million ground balls. You're going to be a better defender. That is the truth. I don't know what his pregame routine is. I don't know. You're telling me they shoot him away, IKF away when he wanted to get extra work in. That's crazy to me.

Especially nowadays, I feel like everyone's doing the Ron Washington stuff on the side, which I do like that, but that's not in my opinion, not a substitute for ground balls. You still have to go out there and take him, whether it's off the bat, whether it's just a fungo, whatever it is. You just need to go get reps. Your eyes need to be trained to see every, single hop, every single spin, all the angles. Once that happens, once you feel, you should feel

like everything is routine. Everyone has, you know, your glove hand side's better, your backhand side is better. But you should get to a point. And I remember I got there, you know, a couple years where everything felt like it was my strong side. I remember the feeling because, you know, my backhand side, I think most guys, backhand side is probably their, their worst side. And I took so many freaking ground balls to the backhand side that it eventually started the feel like my routine side and it was it was a great feeling to have so i mean this is a long way of saying yeah like monty made the play and jazz didn't they were two different balls like jazes was like a caper top like a side spinner monseys was a chopper but and i i do i do believe that has been a couple different instances

here have just shown why the dodgers wrote three nothing and i mean maybe that's part of it you know the defensive plays, the base running, all those things come into account. Like you said, we're magnifying everything right now. And the Dodgers have just been, they've just been a little bit better, dude. I don't think they've been that much better than the Yankees. I really don't. The games haven't felt that way. Like we said, the last two games have felt really lopsided Dodgers,

even though the scores were only four to two. But it's because the Dodgers have done those things and the Yankees have it. it seems like the Yankees have to do something much different, and things have to happen more drastically for them to score runs right now. And they are continuing, you know, even with the walks, like continuing to give the Dodgers an extra 90 feet or a free 90 feet. You can't do that. Or an extra out.

You just can't give the Dodgers that, I mean, you can say that about any team, but specifically this team, like they are capitalizing when you give them, the extra 90 feet or the free base. And on the flip side, the Dodgers really haven't done that. They have not given up a lot of free passes. They haven't given up, you know, a lot of free bases to these Yankees. And it showed, man. And you go back to game one, that ball Edmund stops from going into the outfield.

And also in that game, Mookie cuts one off in the gap that, you know, the Yankees truly lost game one on bad relay throw coverage. a World Series game. And now they're down 3-0. Instead of going up 1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0. And I do want to clarify before. I wasn't targeting Jazz's work ethic. I was targeting the fact that the Dodgers kind of met it head-on with Max

and we're like, hey, this is what we need to do. And Jazz, it's a completely new position. He never played third base in the minor leagues. He's played 45 regular season games at third base. base that, you know, we talked to the Yankees. We were like, hey, would you guys sub-jazz out late just for, or move him to second? So he's more comfortable and labor struggling. And they pooh-poohed that.

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Do you want to look back or look forward at this point? I'm just trying to make sure we didn't really miss anything. and I don't think we did. I do want, I mean, I hate doing this. I want to praise the Dodgers more than I want to kind of talk about the Yankees. But I do think it's, I didn't like the attitude at the end of the game that the Yankees had with Mark Carlson, who, like, look, yes, did he miss some pitches? 100%. But like, earmuffs, bitching about Miss calls is not going to do anything about it.

Like you can't like just lock into the abat. He almost freaking rung jazz up on a pitch clock violation, but he like waved it off and called timeout. I don't know what happened. But like it went from Glaber to jazz to Wells, like to Volpey. Like everybody was just like mad about it. But like that's for Aaron Boone to do, man.

And have I been mad at a freaking umpire? Of course I've been mad at an empire. But I'm telling you for my experience, it never helps. It never once helped me ever. I'm mad and I say something to the umpire, which I really tried not to do. But obviously there are times where you get so frustrated, the emotions are running high. It's the World Series.

I get that. It never helps. You know what helps? Hey, man, where'd you have that? Okay, that's fine. No, nobody deal. Like, if you're just be like pleasant as possible, that's what helps. The other way will never, ever, ever help you as a hitter.

You have to learn that. I just, I saw that. And I was like, man, like, number one, it's also taking you away from your abat. Like, what's the important part is the abat? And I, again, I'll reiterate this. I've been frustrated as hell at umpires because I know what the difference between a 1-0 and an 0-1 count. I get that.

Like, I know the swing counts. I've been there, but it doesn't help. So I saw all that. And I was like, man, guys, like you can't, let's lock in on the task at hand, not what what Mark's doing back there. If a guy's got a zone, he's got a zone. You got to deal with it, dude. There's nothing you can do.

Yeah, the only one that truly stung, because he did miss calls, kind of both sides, up and down a little bit, and that is what it is. Find people on both sides? There's, there's part of the beauty in baseball that is umpires making those calls. The one that hurt was the,

was the Glaber one. That ball was up. I think it was the only strike three that was called out of the zone. And like I said, the bigger issue is that the Yankees don't have enough of a lineup depth of firepower, especially with the big man, MIA, that, you know, that's backbreaking. That's one of the Yankees' two real attempts in this game that to have the Ump take that away. stinks, but it's because you only have so many opportunities that that's baseball a little bit.

And yeah, the only other thing I would say, and I think you're saying it because, you know, myself and Jim have probably thrown it out there. The Yankees have had a problem with that. I don't know if it's, I don't know if it's Yankees' attitude or it's something they teach on the farm, but a lot of the guys that have called up, they don't have that rookie attitude of head down.

I'm not going to talk to the hump. It's like, wait, you really called that? And it's, I'll tell you what, Trev, I didn't play in the show yet. Just turned 35. Blitzball Battle 5 is coming out November 4th, and that might be my skiket. Yankees are looking for some lineup depth. It's one thing if a ball is off the plate

and you're a competitor and the juices are flowing and you turn it to the ump and you're like that's not a strike um that's one thing when it's a strike and you turn to the blue that's embarrassing it is embarrassing that's embarrassing um and yeah that the the whole team has had some of that this year it happens but let me be let me be coach trev don't do it. It doesn't help at all. I'm telling you that. Three things before we move on to the next game. Just three quick shoutouts for my Dodgers. The guys that I think have obviously changed this year's law. Obviously, Freddie Freeman, we mentioned him a little bit. I don't know if we've given him enough shine. He mentioned the time off has allowed his ankle to feel much better. And that's why he's been able to swing the bat the way he's been able to swing the bat. So we always want everyone at full health. I want to see guys at their full potential going up head to head. That's what I've always said that on this show. So it's nice to see Freddie feeling good. He's been an absolute beast. Kike Hernandez continues to kind of

like get it done at the bottom of the lineup, whether it's, you know, getting the timely hit, moving a runner, whatever he needs to do. He's had great at bats. I think he's kind of been a very under the radar like unsung hero of this postseason. And then my guy who I think has changed changed the postseason for the Dodgers more than almost anybody. Tommy Ed. Okay. Like just like he's put up great at bats. You know, he's doing what he needs to do.

You want to freaking hit a home run of the Dodgers team? Sure. You want to bunt with, uh, with horns on first and third? Sure. Uh, two plays today. Gratterol with the comebacker from judge. You know, he's a wild man, but you don't know what that guy's going to do with the ball once he gets it in his hands.

Chucks at 110 at Tommy and he's able to stay on the bag I thought in real time I thought he came off the bag Yankees say no and then they show the replay kept this roll on the base Great play by Tommy

It's huge dude And then Two outs 4 to 2 Glaber hits one up the middle That's not an easy play If he gets on who's up It's Juan Soto

You're probably gonna see I think Trinin was up You're probably gonna see Trinin in to face won so, though. And the Yankees now all of a sudden have life again. Instead, he goes up the middle. He takes a good angle. He takes a back angle to get the longer hop, spin, move, throw, game over. Doesn't look like much. But dude, we're talking to end the World Series game. Cool as ice, man, doing it. So shout out Tommy Ebman, because I think he's been, you ask his teammates,

and they'll tell you he's been one of, if not the most important people on the field for the Dodgers. I already pre-regret saying this Because, you know, Jakey Yankees Screw screw me I picked the Padres to win the playoffs When we randomly filled out a bracket Before the episode

That last play Tommy hit If it was a video game Like his His special button was filled up And he was like, yeah, I'll do the spin move I think he could have got the body around that And I don't know that's He made a choice

and he made a nice play. It was pretty. It was pretty. You didn't like that? I thought he could have got around it. I don't blame him. He got it. He fired.

He made it. He's a show bone kid. I asked my players to make the play. All Tommy Edmund has done is make the plays. And I actually thought the guy that you were about to shout out was Bruce Star Gratterol because what? I don't know what to say about that guy. I didn't think he was in play this series.

And here he is facing. the heart of the lineup again. And dude, him and Vesia combined for the sixth inning today. And both of those guys were maybes coming into the series. And now they are part of this Dodgers winning formula. That we will probably see them tomorrow as we get ready for a bullpen day in the Bronx. Louise Heel from the Yankees side should get the pill. Fans clamoring for Garrett Cole.

Don't think you're going to see that. I think it'll be heel and spikes on for everyone else. Even Cole? Might as well. Screw it. Put them on. Might be your last game of the year. And yeah, for the Yankees,

and again, I say all of this with compliments to the chef. The Dodgers pitching. has been as high level as it gets. They set a postseason record, and they've come close to resetting it against these Yankees. The bottom of the lineup has nothing, nothing to offer. And the Yankees don't really have buttons to press on the bench.

I mean, Verdugo hits the home or late. That El Marciano could be one of the only things you do, and there's no need. because they don't know if he can catch a fly ball. So I don't know, man. They need judge to either snap out of it. They need Rizzo to find the porch because right now it's Stanton and Soto,

literally trying to hit home runs, doing an okay job at it. Yeah. Labor basically getting on base and then everyone else. The Dodgers lineup, if Shohei, Mookie, Freddie, Teosker, Muncie, Will.

Maybe not Gavin right now. Kike and Edmund are up. So eight out of the nine in the lineup today, I think if there's a bad pitch, they will hit a home run. Currently for the Yankees, it's Soto and Stanton. Yeah, no. I mean, we talk lineup,

Depp, man, like the Dodgers have had it. They made some moves. They've had it already in the organization. Your team needs Depp. It needs Depp. that you can't have free outs at the bottom of the lineup and we're seeing that right now.

I do want to ask you one thing before we end this show. Pre-game concert, if you call it that. Give me your thoughts on Fat Joe. Ice Cube Part 2. If we're going bars for bars, Ice Cube versus Fat Joe,

that was like a landslide for L.A. Like, that can't, like... And I was... I like Fat Joe songs. I do. But, like, that's not the best that New York has to offer. I'm not saying that Ice Cube is the best LA has to offer, but he's one of the OGs.

Like, very, very different feel in those pregame shows right there. In my opinion, I thought Wu-Tang Clan might come out. Would I like that? What's the question? I don't know. I thought it was bad. I mean, you're the king of L.A. So I don't know where your heartstrings are at.

I mean, for me, I'm not as locked in on the music scene in the 50-plus-year-old former rappers as I'd like to be. I had them similar, man. Oh, yeah, okay. Well, you're wrong. You lost that one. Were you in the building for Cube? That was.

I think if you were in the building for my guy at Joe. Joe said no. Joe says it wasn't, didn't get anybody pumped up. I saw his Twitter. You follow Joe's? I do. Joe's was in the pregame montage on Fox, dude. Big old head was on there.

Know what else Joe's did? Joe's did something with Corona. I saw that. Which, by the way. That's sidebar Joe's or is that part of John Boy? Yanks fans, Dodgers fans, they're both sipping coronas tonight. A little different attitude behind it.

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Yeah. Yanke fans are down pretty bad. Yeah. There's not a ton of hope. I mean, the original... I don't want to say the original dream. The original dream was for the Yankees to sweep. Garrett Cole's on the bump tomorrow.

The optimistic thought process should be win a game tomorrow. It's a bullpen day, however it looks. Two to one, one nothing. 8 nothing, put land and knack out there, whatever. You need to win a baseball game or your season's over. Garrett Cole the next day. Is there anything... I think there's a chance?

Is there anything else you should be daydreaming of as Yankee fans? Is there anything? I mean, it's over. It's not over, but it feels over. Yeah, I mean, can you just flip the script and start doing all the little things right all a sudden? Because that's what has to be done. like you got it you got a the the base running has to be better the you can't walk anybody i think i think

you know everyone knows that you just stop stop i don't know how many walks there were tonight i know there are less on the dodgers side and there was on the yankee side as far as pitching so all the little things have to be done better can they win tomorrow yes they can win tomorrow can they win when cole's pitching yes they can win one won coles pitching are they going to win four in a row. I don't know, man. I don't think so. It doesn't feel like it. It really doesn't, man. And I'm a, I'm a, I'm a true baseball optimist believer in my core. Although, you know, I kind of doubted my snakes last year when they were down three one to Philly, but three. I don't think anybody wants a sweep, Jake. I don't even know if Dodgers fans want to sweep, do they?

I guess I am one and I don't want one. I, uh, unless it's a really good game tomorrow. For some reason, I feel like losing in five would feel worse than four. So if you're going to win tomorrow, you might as well send this thing back to L.A. Otherwise, um, I don't know. They're, uh,

they're getting beat in every facet of the game. Every facet. You know, it's not dramatic. and some of the pitching, but they're getting beat in every facet of the game. Well, Penn's both been pretty dang good. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, and I guess that's the other part

where Yankee fans are feeling a little different. There was a couple bend to break moments in this game and yesterday's, or game two, that could have made those games. Those games, from a Yankees fan perspective, did not feel like four-run games. They felt like seven-run games. Yeah.

And they were a swing away in this one. Hey, hey, honestly, my biggest hope is right now that the Apple documentary people get involved and let's send it back to L.A. But, God, if I were a betting man... I forgot that's happening. If I were a betting, man,

it's looking like L.A. and four. So we will be live streaming on Talking Yanks tomorrow. Hey, we set the record tonight. A lot of friendly Dodger fans in there sharing their feelings. Come tomorrow. Let's do it all again. Here's a,

from my group chat from all my L.A. friends. Tom Brady. Feeling sad for your buddies, Jake and Jimmy after watching that post-game stream chat. L.O.L., I love seeing them suffer. I mean, it is entertaining. Pretty much kind of sums it up. Nameless.