WEBVTT 00:00:04.629 --> 00:00:09.788 Blake Snell making his first start against the Brewers since game one of the NLCS a year ago. 00:00:09.909 --> 00:00:13.630 Dave Roberts said what he's coming off of, what the team's facing right here, he called 00:00:13.630 --> 00:00:19.309 this a gut check outing for the left-handers. Fly ball right field. Tucker back, staring. 00:00:21.129 --> 00:00:27.739 One pitch, 10 Brewers. It's his 2nd home run this postseason, the 6th of his 00:00:27.739 --> 00:00:32.579 career, and that didn't take long. Shoe Otani met yesterday with Dave Roberts and the 00:00:32.579 --> 00:00:37.819 Dodgers' top executives and was adamant that he is healthy enough to play. When a 4-time MVP 00:00:37.819 --> 00:00:41.899 insists that he's good, Dave Roberts says he's got to play, so it's the first one to left 00:00:41.899 --> 00:00:47.009 field. It was the sinker. And it's caught by Chuo. He's lost that a factor, and the name on 00:00:47.009 --> 00:00:50.969 the back of his jersey doesn't mean as much to pitchers right now. And you've got to say, Jeff, 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:55.529 that this looks like the Blake Snell that the Brewers saw in Game one of last year's NLCS 00:00:55.529 --> 00:00:59.889 thus far. Well, Snell is doing what you want a pitcher to do. OK, first pitch of the ballgame, 00:00:59.969 --> 00:01:05.730 home run. OK, fine, giving his ball club a chance to win. 14 straight we're tired by Snell. 00:01:05.838 --> 00:01:10.599 Here are the Dodgers again with opportunities to score. Let's see what they can do now with 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:15.000 two dogs. The Dodgers in this series with runners in scoring position, just one hit. Got 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:19.239 to figure the deeper this gets, the more those walls close in, the more the pressure turns up. 00:01:19.430 --> 00:01:23.959 You've got a one-run ballgame. You're not scoring runs. Will Smith with the bases loaded 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:28.459 and 1 out, tying run at 3rd, go ahead run at 2nd left center field. 00:01:33.859 --> 00:01:40.829 in the score. Los Angeles. So 00:01:40.829 --> 00:01:46.359 here's Jake Bowers 0 for 2 tonight. The postseason is an entirely different era. There 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:51.370 goes the runner, 3-2 pitch and driven to right , deep, Tucker back track. 00:01:53.808 --> 00:02:00.278 Jake Bowers, a 2-run blast, and the Brewers are back on top of the 7th. And the Dodgers 00:02:00.278 --> 00:02:04.750 down 3 to 2. Now Mitchell scalds the ball. of 00:02:07.379 --> 00:02:14.179 Tucker barely moving and the SoCal boys on this Brewers roster getting it done 00:02:14.179 --> 00:02:19.008 against the Dodgers here in the 7th, 4 to 2 Milwaukee. Brewers have them cornered with one 00:02:19.008 --> 00:02:24.338 and on the verge of a 3-0 series lead, blown in the dirt, it scoots away from Smith. Here 00:02:24.338 --> 00:02:30.929 comes Turang to score and Bryce Turang scores on a wild pitch. 5 to 2 Brewers. Each of the 00:02:30.929 --> 00:02:35.050 last 4 innings, the Dodgers have scored. The Brewers. Have scored in the bottom half of that 00:02:35.050 --> 00:02:40.169 inning. They just keep on coming and looking for another tonight. Ortiz on the ground left 00:02:40.169 --> 00:02:47.129 side and it gets by Max Muncy. Here comes Perret to make it 6 to 2, and Joey Ortiz makes 00:02:47.129 --> 00:02:52.788 it 6 to 22 up and 2 down in the ninth inning. Swings and misses and the ballgame is over. 00:02:53.250 --> 00:02:59.770 Wisconsin has 3-0 in the series sound. The Brewers a win away from going to the World 00:02:59.770 --> 00:03:06.659 Series. We play for each other. It's as simple as that, man. We, we play for each other, um. 00:03:08.308 --> 00:03:14.270 Anytime there's a mistake, an error, a walk, pitchers give up runs, hitters strike out in 00:03:14.270 --> 00:03:18.429 the big spot, the only thing anybody's thinking about is how can I help pick that guy 00:03:18.429 --> 00:03:22.909 up? How can I help pick that guy up and, uh, do my part to, to win this game? And when you 00:03:22.909 --> 00:03:28.349 have 26 guys that are bought into that and believe that and show up every day completely 00:03:28.349 --> 00:03:33.588 selfless, playing for each other, um, it's, it's a special thing to be a part of. Job's not 00:03:33.588 --> 00:03:40.028 finished yet. Just gotta take it a day at a time, not really worried about. What's happened 00:03:40.028 --> 00:03:43.110 today, what happened yesterday, or what's coming tomorrow, we just got to show up and 00:03:43.110 --> 00:03:47.419 continue to play our brand of baseball and keep doing it for one another. We haven't done 00:03:47.419 --> 00:03:51.899 anything, still haven't done anything yet, you know, like you. Still have to win another game 00:03:51.899 --> 00:03:57.699 and they're a great team with uh a lot of great players, a great pitching staff, and, uh, 00:03:58.020 --> 00:04:01.179 you know, you're gonna have to continue to play well through, you know, through the whole 00:04:01.179 --> 00:04:05.618 series, uh, if you want to beat those guys like they're back to back champs for a reason 00:04:05.618 --> 00:04:11.219 and, uh, you just gotta keep your head down, keep running, keep, um, you know, just having 00:04:11.219 --> 00:04:16.369 quality at bats, making big pitches, and, um, don't look up. You have to have that faith and 00:04:16.369 --> 00:04:23.129 you have to have like the belief that, you know, this group can get it done and, uh, you 00:04:23.129 --> 00:04:26.369 know, like it's, it's hard, like I said, throughout this series, like it's hard to draw 00:04:26.369 --> 00:04:31.178 comparisons from like year to year, like this team's different than last year's team and uh 00:04:31.649 --> 00:04:37.850 we've had opportunities in the past and, uh, like I said, until we accomplish what we want 00:04:37.850 --> 00:04:41.608 to accomplish, like we haven't done anything, and you have to keep that mindset and you have 00:04:41.608 --> 00:04:47.720 to keep, um, Your head down and just focus on like the task at hand and, and not get caught 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:52.319 up in anything else other than that. You can't have divided attention. And um I think our guys 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:59.170 have done a really good job of that. Hats off to him and wasn't it bad and um I mean I 00:04:59.170 --> 00:05:04.559 threw everything I had and then fastball down middle if I could locate that better you know 00:05:04.738 --> 00:05:09.540 who knows what would have happened I mean he's this is you know the best I've ever seen him 00:05:09.540 --> 00:05:16.358 play um so. It's so good at bat, um, you know, hats off to him. The walks what really, you 00:05:16.358 --> 00:05:22.079 know, frustrated me with Vaughn, um, and then Mitchell, another home run, I mean 3 home runs 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:27.509 in a game is, um, I didn't give up on him the whole year, so. Top 3 in the game is pretty 00:05:27.509 --> 00:05:31.149 frustrating, but you know it's something I gotta learn from. It's part of their journey 00:05:31.149 --> 00:05:36.389 too, and, um, it's only gonna make me better in my line. How do we bounce back? How do we 00:05:36.389 --> 00:05:41.389 fight? I think that's the most important thing , and, um, it's, you know, us coming together 00:05:41.389 --> 00:05:47.439 and finding a way to win. I feel good. I feel like it was kind of a normal, normal workload 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:54.000 for me except throwing in the game for my pen session, but um, nothing really. Uh, Body feels 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:58.358 good, arm feels good, and I'm gonna go out there tomorrow. Probably just go back to not 00:05:58.358 --> 00:06:04.108 letting the moment get too big, a bunch of deep breaths, working on the breaths. And, and 00:06:04.108 --> 00:06:08.428 just going from there, um, and that's, I feel like that's what I, I've done good at this year 00:06:08.428 --> 00:06:12.420 is not letting the moment get too big. since spring training or the first series of the year, 00:06:12.509 --> 00:06:17.028 I knew we were special, uh. We've been together all year. We've done some special 00:06:17.028 --> 00:06:21.309 things throughout the year, and, um, yeah, I, I would say since, since retraining, it was 00:06:21.309 --> 00:06:25.790 going to be special no matter what. It means a lot that they trust me to go, uh, Game 3, 1st 00:06:25.790 --> 00:06:30.709 game in Cleveland, up against, I think, you know, um, one of their best guys. So, uh, it's 00:06:30.709 --> 00:06:33.350 going to be a good game. I'm really excited for the challenge and the opportunity, like I 00:06:33.350 --> 00:06:38.149 said. Physically, I feel, I feel really good, um, you know, we get almost like a second 00:06:38.149 --> 00:06:42.069 energy boost from, uh, pitching in the playoffs. It's almost like, uh. You know, 00:06:42.149 --> 00:06:44.588 joking around with the guys thinking that, you know, it's like the first day of spring 00:06:44.588 --> 00:06:49.269 training again. It's a, it's a new season, but , um, I think like going into the, the 00:06:49.269 --> 00:06:52.629 transition of becoming a starter, I didn't know where I was going to be at the end of the 00:06:52.629 --> 00:06:56.670 season with, um, uh, a new increase in workload and a place where I haven't, you know, 00:06:56.869 --> 00:07:01.649 been in a while. So, um, taking that and to where I feel like I am today, I'm really happy 00:07:01.649 --> 00:07:07.778 with his, his. Pitches are darting every which way. I mean, he can run it in away, 00:07:08.129 --> 00:07:15.059 uh, you know, he creates that effect a lot. And the, the changeup is a pitch that I feel 00:07:15.059 --> 00:07:19.980 like has really stood out and he's, it's a power change where he throws it in the low 90s 00:07:19.980 --> 00:07:23.879 that, you know, he can throw any of those pitches at any count, the confidence to do it. 00:07:25.088 --> 00:07:29.399 Donnie Baseball, 2 year deal. Phillies' full-time manager. Uh, it's his son that's, uh, 00:07:29.449 --> 00:07:33.329 the general manager, you know, it doesn't hurt . You can't tell Dad to take a walk. Donnie 00:07:33.329 --> 00:07:38.189 Mattingly, he's an all-time great. Joe Espada, uh, walks away from the Astros now. His deal 00:07:38.189 --> 00:07:43.009 was done, but these are two managerial news items to go out there. Uh, I think if you're 00:07:43.009 --> 00:07:46.689 the Phillies, uh, I think this is absolutely the right move. Where are you on Mattingly? 00:07:46.850 --> 00:07:50.369 Well, you can't fire your dad. There was no way. I'm glad you just said sit down, we gotta 00:07:50.369 --> 00:07:54.721 talk. Like how do those conversations go? Did Preston really. Talk to Dave Dombrowski and go, 00:07:55.041 --> 00:07:59.523 no, I think this is our guy. I mean, that's no , if he, now if he gets, if, uh, he gets called 00:07:59.523 --> 00:08:02.362 up to Dave Dombrowski's office and he looks around and his son's not there, he's like, oh 00:08:02.362 --> 00:08:06.202 no, what where, where's Preston? Where's Preston? But I imagine Preston and Dave, 00:08:06.281 --> 00:08:10.762 they've had to have this talk. They had to sit there and go, Is your dad the right guy? And 00:08:10.762 --> 00:08:16.281 that's a hard situation to be, Preston, to, to honestly answer that question. I think it is, 00:08:16.442 --> 00:08:21.403 yes, we saw the turnaround is real. Superstar player, that's what Mattingly was. You even saw. 00:08:21.514 --> 00:08:25.704 A little bit of rub between him and Bryce, what we thought was a rub. There was no rub. I, 00:08:25.755 --> 00:08:30.954 I think this is an old school organization and , uh, from top to bottom with the way Dave runs 00:08:30.954 --> 00:08:35.275 it. I think Don Mattingly is the right guy, uh , for that. I, I like Mattingly. Anytime you 00:08:35.275 --> 00:08:39.115 talk baseball with him again, whether you, you , you side with old school analytics and 00:08:39.115 --> 00:08:43.426 everything, he's a smart baseball. Put him in the Hall of Fame. that, that as well. He stands 00:08:43.426 --> 00:08:46.835 for something. He's a stand maybe, maybe if he goes and wins a World Series right here, 00:08:47.035 --> 00:08:52.340 that'll be enough to get him over. It's nonsense. Don't root for that. For more on 00:08:52.340 --> 00:08:56.940 these and other stories, keep it locked at MLB.com. It's baseball everywhere.