Dodgers Face Must-Win NLCS Game 3 Led By Blake Snell

Dodgers in that all-important down two games to none. That's game number three here. Blake Snell to the rescue, maybe. But, yeah, I would say Ohtani in the lineup after hearing how they might not have him in the lineup. Yeah, very weird situation with Ohtani, who it seemed like had to make excuses for him playing in that press conference that he did. very strange uh you know impromptu discussion with reporters almost seemingly like maybe a decision was made and then changed look i can only uh you know sort of look at this intuitively but you know since Ohtani has doesn't speak and uh you know often and doesn't really have to for him to do this sort of tells me that he's putting a lot of it on him and maybe it's his decision because it certainly feels like the Dodgers probably need to go in another direction based on how he's playing but you know their options are thin you know waking up this morning looking at what we have in store I think tomorrow in particular for those of you who watch the show I think tomorrow is going to be great because we're going to have the AL wrapping up we're going to have the NL in progress while we're doing the show and then we have of course Thursday Night Football so tonight a lot of uh you know just talk with you and I only really one big game I think in store and that of course will be the National League Championship Series where it's uh you know win or go home for LA I mean there's no doubt about that they don't win this one they're not going to win the NLCS and Blake Snell will pitch of course and and look i i think that it's been pretty obvious to me what has really happened in a lot of these postseason games we've had one big comeback from uh the Brewers in the postseason but looking at some of the stats and the data today it really tells the story that these games uh are pretty much over with whoever's scoring first that's what's been going on in this in all of the postseason so far 19 and 10 on whoever scores first and so it really shocked me to see that because usually scoring first can give you a percentage of well above 500 but almost 70 percent of the teams uh right now are winning that way so that's just something to look for tonight if la scores first on gasser maybe that's a good indicator in terms of of them winning but uh yeah for us uh you know i think probably you and i will be uh talking a lot just about different issues and injuries and spreads and things going on and then tomorrow we've got like some incredible action i mean for for it feels like 1978 all over again joe you got the alcs playing at one you got the nlcs played at six and of course that game's really at three so uh sunshine for both the alcs and nlcs i'm gonna guess two games have not been played under sunshine in 20 years in the american league and National League in the same day at this point. The weather caused it, obviously, if we didn't indicate that earlier. But, Joe, it reminds me of, like, 80s baseball. You know, these games were played during the day. The ALCS and the NLCS, and we're back to that again. Yeah, tomorrow will be fun. They made the announcements early enough, so they are banking on Mother Nature playing a role. I mean, what was that, 6 o'clock that game was supposed to be in Cleveland, and they moved that thing all the way up. to one o'clock so keep an eye uh on the forecast and the uh weather a little cooler obviously uh in Cleveland that it will be in LA and you know 80s here tonight at the first pitch five o'clock uh well five o'clock Pacific time eight o'clock Eastern time when this game goes off so uh it'll be a warmer night there in LA for this uh for this game three and and listen there is a lot of different ways this can go i and Dave Roberts feels like at this point he's open to mixing and matching and shuffling and doing whatever he can to try and jump start this offense which has not been good and it's been terrible against left-handers i mean i i did uh i went and checked all of it you mentioned it last night i mean they are in their last 29 at bats against left-handed pitching they've walked twice and are 0 for 27 yeah i i that's just mind-numbing to me that they are that bad against the left and this goes back to the Braves series as well there in that final game but lefties have not been their strong point not that they were crushing them during the regular season but 0 for 27 in their last 29 appearances with just two walks there's a problem there is there not well look some of it not all of it but some of it i don't know what percentage if it's five five percent or ten percent i wouldn't go higher than that but joe you don't have to worry about Ohtani in the lineup at all like that's a game changer for these other teams who's batting in front of him who's batting behind him you always were scared when Ohtani was come was coming up and it didn't matter if Ohtani was facing a lefty or righty but the guy is not hitting at all i mean those look at those numbers 150 hasn't driven in a run in the playoffs and and i still believe that every year he plays he's the MVP including this one i'm wrong and Pete Armstrong's gonna win i still think Otani to me growing up as a kid thinking that somebody could do what he's doing even in limited fashion i would have given him MVP every year i still stick by that uh but that being said it's probably boom or bust tonight as you called the last couple of games if the Dodgers hit three home runs tonight they win and if they hit one home run tonight i think they're gonna lose and i think that i think that's the way it's going because they are just boom or bust with the home runs they got fortunate with Henderson throwing the ball away from Milwaukee and a couple of errors but beyond that i literally don't know what anybody is seeing with the Dodgers right now joe like like what why should they be such a big favorite tonight even for that matter like they may win tonight like and i get it and and this is their best opportunity, but I am stunned that the Dodgers are this big a favorite against what I deem is the best team in baseball.