October 29, 2024 • 9 mins
The Los Angeles Dodgers have a 3-0 lead over the New York Yankees in the 2024 World Series.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, Los Angeles. Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream, a
documentary about the baseball season, made in real time as
the season unfolds. I'm Richard Parks, the third and it
is Tuesday, October twenty ninth, twenty twenty four. The Dodgers
beat the Yankees last night in Game three of the
(00:22):
World Series in New York City, and they now lead
the best of seven series three games to none. It
is a beautiful fall day in Los Angeles, crisp and cool,
warm sunlight spilling down out of a clear Dodger blue sky.
And it also happens to be my mother's birthday. If
(00:45):
you take a look at your phone and the logo
for this show, my mother painted that logo and she
also played catch with me when I was a little kid.
I love you, mom. Game four of the World Series,
a possible deciding game should the Dodgers sweep, will be
played tonight at five oh eight, very specifically Pacific time
(01:07):
in the Bronx. Thank you for being here today on
the show. First, I'll recap what happened last night, and
then we'll look forward to tonight's game. That's what's in.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
A fastball, it's ricked down the line.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It is gone.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
A fifth consecutive World Series game with the Freddie Freeman
homer run, and the Dodgers are on the board first.
In Game three, Freddie Freeman continued his dominance, silencing a
sellout crowded Yankee Stadium by blasting his third home run
in three consecutive World Series games against the Bronx Bombers.
(01:50):
Breaking pitch to finish off Rizzo and Dodgers' starter Walker
Bueller was dealing up and six down for Walker Bueller,
his fastball had more life than it's had since before
his second Tommy John surgery, which he underwent in twenty
twenty two. I just know for you all that you've
been through, you know, multiple surgeries.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
How much are you enjoying this offer me?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I think the playoffs are big games.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Has kind of always been the only thing I really
cared about.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
And I've also never been on a team that's up
three on the World Series.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The bullpen was nails, high fly ball to deep right field,
pets goes back at the truck at the wall and
gone Alex Verdugo And if it weren't for one swing
by the Yankees nine hole hitter Alex Verdugo in the
bottom of the ninth. This game would have been a
shutout instead. The final score was four to two, but
(02:41):
the Yankees showed no fortitude. They played pretty flat and
now we've got them on the ropes. Like seriously, the
vibes at the stadium were bad. The crowd was mostly silent.
The New York rapper Fat Joe gave a performance that
was much maligned online and paled in comparison to ice
(03:02):
Cube's energizing set before the game on Saturday at Dodger Stadium,
and in the broadcast close ups of the Yankees players
and the dugout in the later innings, they look lost.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
There you w Yugi Holme when you talk about the
batty lambs.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
This is David Ortiz aka Big Poppy, a former Major
League player for the Red Sox who, like Dodgers manager
Dave Roberts, was a part of the two thousand and
four Red Sox team, the only team in Major League
history to return from a three zero deficit in a
best of seven series and win. They did it in
(03:38):
the ALCS. It's never been done in the World Series.
With former Yankee stars Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter. Big
Poppy is now an analyst for Fox. This is him
on the postgame show last night.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Ugi Holme. When you talk about the batty Lambs, even
when Fight Joe came out, their body language from the
fan was like, now, I'm like, what's going on? Here?
Are we in the funeral already? You know what I'm saying,
what's going on? I'll tell you what, man, your body
language had to be there all the way into the
last out, even when, uh, even when the home wrong
(04:15):
way was hit, it wasn't even celebrating. You know what
I'm saying, Like, no, you got to come back with
the body language.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And for Yankees fans, things are getting dark.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
But what have you seen to give you any sense
of hope in these three games?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
John Boy, Yankees fan from our World series preview episode.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
If this is taken and putting on documentary ones, that'd be.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Awesome, But the baseball gods are fickle and you never
know what's going to happen. Next Pride Goes Before the Fall.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I Dave, you're one of the few people on earth
who know what it's like to come back from a
three to zero deficit.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Don't talk about wrong guy way too early.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
This is the Ros manager Dave Roberts in his postgame interview.
Not only was Doc a part of the two thousand
and four Red Sox team that made that comeback from
three zero to beat the Yankees in the ALCS, his
pinch run stolen base in the turnaround game was the
moment things changed, the spark that started the fire that
(05:21):
burned it all down. And we still talk about that
series every postseason to this day, two decades later. It
comes up on the Fox coverage every single day.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Literally, what do you remember about your mindset going into
that and what maybe did you learn from that that
you can take into it now that you're on the
other side.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
From the other side, I don't want to divulge any secrets,
but from the other side, I just think that we
have got to stay focused, stay urgent. I think offensively,
to be quite honest, we left a lot of runs
out there tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Perhaps the most oft invoked quotation throughout the entire twenty
twenty four Dodgers postseason run has been one from Los
Angeles sports icon Kobe Bryant, who in two thousand and
nine when the Lakers were up two to zero in
a championship series, was asked this question, you're up to old.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
What's the story?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Are you not happy or you're only half happy?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Here instead to be happy about you're up too old.
Job's not finish, job finish, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, that is the attitude of a champion. So we
stay humble. Now let's look forward to tonight's Game four
because our starting pitching rotation is so badly depleted. We've
already run through the best case scenario, three solid starts
in a row in the first three games from Jack Flaherty,
(06:58):
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Walker Buehler, and tonight we pitch a bullpen game,
no starting pitcher. We're just throwing the kitchen sink at it.
Bullpen games are always dicey. It only takes one week
link to break the chain. But our bullpen did pitch
a shutout against the red hot Padres lineup in the NLDS.
(07:20):
But this Yankees lineup is due for a big game,
especially Aaron Judge, the presumptive American League MVP, who has
not hit at all in this series, but who hit
fifty eight home runs during the regular season and they're
playing at home with the short porch and right field.
(07:41):
Three of our dogs, Michael Kopek, Anthony Bonda, and Alex
Vesia have all pitched in all three games of the
World Series already, and Blake Trinan went long in both
Games one and two. Nothing has been announced by the
Dodgers organization, but in all lifelihood to get through this
(08:01):
Game four, we will probably see a lot of either
Ben Casparius Land and Knack, both rookie call ups this season,
or mister Turtleneck Brent Honeywell junior. All of these guys
are essential. None of them is what we call high leverage.
One last thing. During the pregame ceremonies last night, Shohei
(08:25):
Otani had his left arm in a sling. He dislocated
his shoulder during a stolen base attempt in Game two,
and while he was cleared to play and was in
the lineup last night, his swings looked a little different,
and when he got on via a walk he was
holding his jersey almost to use it as a sling
or a support for that arm. Probably about everybody is
(08:47):
playing with some kind of injury. I know for me,
I've had a lot of late nights working on this show,
and there've been a lot of tears shed Let's stay
together now as a team and stay focused one more win.
(09:08):
Dodger Blue Dream is written and produced by Me Richard Parks,
the third production assistants on this episode from Tyler Hill.
Original music by Jonathan Snipes, William Ryan Fritch, the Blasting Company,
and by me. Special thanks to Caitlin Esh and Elizabeth
Parks Kibbi. If you want to support this completely independent production,
(09:32):
visit patreon dot com slash Dodger Blue Dream. Thank you
for listening. Happy birthday, Mama, Itch Time for Dodger Base
Good morning, Los Angeles. Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream, a
documentary about the baseball season, made in real time as
the season unfolds. I'm Richard Parks, the third and it
is Tuesday, October twenty ninth, twenty twenty four. The Dodgers
beat the Yankees last night in Game three of the
(00:22):
World Series in New York City, and they now lead
the best of seven series three games to none. It
is a beautiful fall day in Los Angeles, crisp and cool,
warm sunlight spilling down out of a clear Dodger blue sky.
And it also happens to be my mother's birthday. If
(00:45):
you take a look at your phone and the logo
for this show, my mother painted that logo and she
also played catch with me when I was a little kid.
I love you, mom. Game four of the World Series,
a possible deciding game should the Dodgers sweep, will be
played tonight at five oh eight, very specifically Pacific time
(01:07):
in the Bronx. Thank you for being here today on
the show. First, I'll recap what happened last night, and
then we'll look forward to tonight's game. That's what's in.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
A fastball, it's ricked down the line.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It is gone.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
A fifth consecutive World Series game with the Freddie Freeman
homer run, and the Dodgers are on the board first.
In Game three, Freddie Freeman continued his dominance, silencing a
sellout crowded Yankee Stadium by blasting his third home run
in three consecutive World Series games against the Bronx Bombers.
(01:50):
Breaking pitch to finish off Rizzo and Dodgers' starter Walker
Bueller was dealing up and six down for Walker Bueller,
his fastball had more life than it's had since before
his second Tommy John surgery, which he underwent in twenty
twenty two. I just know for you all that you've
been through, you know, multiple surgeries.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
How much are you enjoying this offer me?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I think the playoffs are big games.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Has kind of always been the only thing I really
cared about.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
And I've also never been on a team that's up
three on the World Series.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The bullpen was nails, high fly ball to deep right field,
pets goes back at the truck at the wall and
gone Alex Verdugo And if it weren't for one swing
by the Yankees nine hole hitter Alex Verdugo in the
bottom of the ninth. This game would have been a
shutout instead. The final score was four to two, but
(02:41):
the Yankees showed no fortitude. They played pretty flat and
now we've got them on the ropes. Like seriously, the
vibes at the stadium were bad. The crowd was mostly silent.
The New York rapper Fat Joe gave a performance that
was much maligned online and paled in comparison to ice
(03:02):
Cube's energizing set before the game on Saturday at Dodger Stadium,
and in the broadcast close ups of the Yankees players
and the dugout in the later innings, they look lost.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
There you w Yugi Holme when you talk about the
batty lambs.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
This is David Ortiz aka Big Poppy, a former Major
League player for the Red Sox who, like Dodgers manager
Dave Roberts, was a part of the two thousand and
four Red Sox team, the only team in Major League
history to return from a three zero deficit in a
best of seven series and win. They did it in
(03:38):
the ALCS. It's never been done in the World Series.
With former Yankee stars Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter. Big
Poppy is now an analyst for Fox. This is him
on the postgame show last night.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Ugi Holme. When you talk about the batty Lambs, even
when Fight Joe came out, their body language from the
fan was like, now, I'm like, what's going on? Here?
Are we in the funeral already? You know what I'm saying,
what's going on? I'll tell you what, man, your body
language had to be there all the way into the
last out, even when, uh, even when the home wrong
(04:15):
way was hit, it wasn't even celebrating. You know what
I'm saying, Like, no, you got to come back with
the body language.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And for Yankees fans, things are getting dark.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
But what have you seen to give you any sense
of hope in these three games?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
John Boy, Yankees fan from our World series preview episode.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
If this is taken and putting on documentary ones, that'd be.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Awesome, But the baseball gods are fickle and you never
know what's going to happen. Next Pride Goes Before the Fall.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I Dave, you're one of the few people on earth
who know what it's like to come back from a
three to zero deficit.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Don't talk about wrong guy way too early.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
This is the Ros manager Dave Roberts in his postgame interview.
Not only was Doc a part of the two thousand
and four Red Sox team that made that comeback from
three zero to beat the Yankees in the ALCS, his
pinch run stolen base in the turnaround game was the
moment things changed, the spark that started the fire that
(05:21):
burned it all down. And we still talk about that
series every postseason to this day, two decades later. It
comes up on the Fox coverage every single day.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Literally, what do you remember about your mindset going into
that and what maybe did you learn from that that
you can take into it now that you're on the
other side.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
From the other side, I don't want to divulge any secrets,
but from the other side, I just think that we
have got to stay focused, stay urgent. I think offensively,
to be quite honest, we left a lot of runs
out there tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Perhaps the most oft invoked quotation throughout the entire twenty
twenty four Dodgers postseason run has been one from Los
Angeles sports icon Kobe Bryant, who in two thousand and
nine when the Lakers were up two to zero in
a championship series, was asked this question, you're up to old.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
What's the story?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Are you not happy or you're only half happy?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Here instead to be happy about you're up too old.
Job's not finish, job finish, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, that is the attitude of a champion. So we
stay humble. Now let's look forward to tonight's Game four
because our starting pitching rotation is so badly depleted. We've
already run through the best case scenario, three solid starts
in a row in the first three games from Jack Flaherty,
(06:58):
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Walker Buehler, and tonight we pitch a bullpen game,
no starting pitcher. We're just throwing the kitchen sink at it.
Bullpen games are always dicey. It only takes one week
link to break the chain. But our bullpen did pitch
a shutout against the red hot Padres lineup in the NLDS.
(07:20):
But this Yankees lineup is due for a big game,
especially Aaron Judge, the presumptive American League MVP, who has
not hit at all in this series, but who hit
fifty eight home runs during the regular season and they're
playing at home with the short porch and right field.
(07:41):
Three of our dogs, Michael Kopek, Anthony Bonda, and Alex
Vesia have all pitched in all three games of the
World Series already, and Blake Trinan went long in both
Games one and two. Nothing has been announced by the
Dodgers organization, but in all lifelihood to get through this
(08:01):
Game four, we will probably see a lot of either
Ben Casparius Land and Knack, both rookie call ups this season,
or mister Turtleneck Brent Honeywell junior. All of these guys
are essential. None of them is what we call high leverage.
One last thing. During the pregame ceremonies last night, Shohei
(08:25):
Otani had his left arm in a sling. He dislocated
his shoulder during a stolen base attempt in Game two,
and while he was cleared to play and was in
the lineup last night, his swings looked a little different,
and when he got on via a walk he was
holding his jersey almost to use it as a sling
or a support for that arm. Probably about everybody is
(08:47):
playing with some kind of injury. I know for me,
I've had a lot of late nights working on this show,
and there've been a lot of tears shed Let's stay
together now as a team and stay focused one more win.
(09:08):
Dodger Blue Dream is written and produced by Me Richard Parks,
the third production assistants on this episode from Tyler Hill.
Original music by Jonathan Snipes, William Ryan Fritch, the Blasting Company,
and by me. Special thanks to Caitlin Esh and Elizabeth
Parks Kibbi. If you want to support this completely independent production,
(09:32):
visit patreon dot com slash Dodger Blue Dream. Thank you
for listening. Happy birthday, Mama, Itch Time for Dodger Base
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