It's Over....

It's officially over for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The quest for the three-peat is cut short in pretty embarrassing fashion as they blow the lead to the Milwaukee Brewers. They get swept by the Brewers in the NLCS, a team they swept just a year ago, and now regroup, redraw, and wait for when baseball will return because we don't know when exactly that will occur. We're going to look at some positives. We're going to look at the game. We're going to look at some negatives, but overall, very tough night and really unfortunate the way the season ended, But come back next year, come back with more fire. I mean, you got back-to-back championships, something that was done only eight times, and it'll be history. And now you have a chance to start a new set, I guess, in a lot of ways. But they have the lead. I mean, that's what the overarching theme of this game was. You go up 4-0. Shohei has the homer. You have really the most emotion I think I've ever seen out of Shohei Otani and maybe the most emotion he's ever shown in literally any form or fashion. you all score all your four runs in the second inning you feel confident Glassnow can only go four and a third ultimately then you give up two runs in the fourth you have two runs in the fifth Tanner Scott needs to be sent somewhere else and then David Hamilton of all people hits a homer in the ninth to really just drive the nail in the coffin but this is a tough game um Shohei you know i'm glad Dave Roberts batted him first i guess all said and done but man did he make some stupid decisions why was Miguel Rojas literally burned within two innings we pinch hit it's really stupid the way this game was managed the way the series was managed but you know a big moment for Shohei Ohtani and it was a cool moment but ultimately it's not going to be ever remembered at this point we can still be in a cool kind of mindset of that homer but ultimately the superstars in this game and in this series just came up short like We know what was hot, what was cold. Mookie, for as bad as a season it looked like he was going to have, he ended up turning it around, and you would have thought that you could have seen more out of him in the postseason. Credit to Kyle Tucker. He was the most consistent bat for the Dodgers all postseason. Pujols today had a really good game, and the Dodgers finished, what, 2 for 28 with runners in scoring position in the postseason, and like 2 for 20-something in this series. Like, it's pretty, pretty bad when you think about it. But in terms of some reactions we got after the game, I always trust Shohei, says Dave Roberts. I think he's the best player on the planet and he's not completely healthy, but I just give him a lot of respect for not running from it. It's great and all. And, you know, it's it's it's hard to to see your season end and we can see all the reactions from the players. Mookie Betts saying, you know, I don't know that it's super imperative for us to run up pitch counts. The back end of their bullpen is really better scoring runs when you can is what we need. And that's what they did. And then they scored four runs immediately. Dustin May blew it there in the second inning. You got Shane Drohan out of the game, and you got to their bullpen. But your pitching staff couldn't do what was necessary there, and I think that's a big thing there. So you had to win the day to worry about tomorrow. It doesn't happen, and you've got to figure out where to move on from here. And where do you move on from here? Because I think there's a lot of questions, and specifically about Dave Roberts. I mean, this is a series that he mismanaged in a multitude of different ways. We can talk about yesterday, we can talk about the decisions he made and all of that, but today was not much better. You started Miguel Rojas over Max Muncy just to then burn him in, what, the second inning? Third inning, whatever it ended up being, when they pulled Miguel Rojas, and of course Muncy came on, and then you wasted a bench spot. You couldn't have Miguel Rojas against Ashby in the ninth. You had to put Tommy Edman out there, which, like, I don't want to bash Tommy Edman, but, dude, it's been terrible. And the pitching was horrible. Evan Phillips couldn't do anything. Alex Vesia got one out, walked in the go-ahead at the time tying run. And Tanner Scott should not be wearing a Dodgers uniform next year. Simple as that. Credit to Edwin Diaz. He had 37 pitches. He had to pitch three innings in relief. got two strikeouts ultimately to give up the homer when it was all said and done but you didn't use him this entire series until now you should have used him earlier and again it all goes back to Dave Roberts and kind of the the problems that he possesses and i think there's going to be a lot of questions moving forward about Dave Roberts and i'm not saying they're going to fire him but certainly does begin to put on the minds of everybody like how important an amazing manager is and i don't want to say the Dodgers have that unfortunately simple as that Dave Roberts talking about where he kind of felt with everything talked about Blake Snell yesterday saying he felt good where his step was at um i don't think that one player cost the Dodgers this series, I don't think that one manager cost the Dodgers this series, it was a team effort when you get swept everybody is accountable and what's, what's horrible about this is that I don't think there's anything the Dodgers could have done to change the outcome in some ways yes, you got up for nothing and you gotta face the accountability factor from the pitching staff to hold that lead, but you also should look at the offense and say, well, why didn't you just score more? You couldn't score against the bullpen this entire series. At the end of the day, I think the Brewers were just the better team. It's simple as that. I don't think there's much that we can sit here and discuss with what went on. I think that the Brewers were the better team, and you were outclassed, outmatched, outpunched, and it's horrible. So, Dave Roberts did stand on his decision-making, both from last night and tonight said no apologies no sorries, sure I'm not gonna sit here and say that that's uh um I, I if you're gonna stand on business I respect it, at least you know at least make your decisions there um and I talked about yesterday and the Dodgers needing a lot of a lot of innings from their starters I don't think a single pitcher went past six innings, I mean I guess Blake Snell did it yesterday but we saw how that went and uh it's gonna be an interesting offseason for sure, a lot of major questions for 2027 you've got some guys in your core that are aging um we know that Ohtani is going to be going in his age 33 season Mookie's going to be going into what he's 34 so his age 35 season Freddie's going to be going on his age 38 38 season into his you know age 38 season and uh it's going to be a lot of moving pieces that you're gonna have to um here's what Dave Roberts said at the end of it saying it It never feels good to lose and not accomplish a goal to win the World Series. I love this team and what we had to go through. Injuries continued to pile up. It was a three-year process of injuries being a problem But overall, I think that we can truthfully look at what must change But ultimately, I think at this point, the offense is usually better They got cold at the wrong time The bullpen decisions have to be better, but also that means that you can't use Tanner Scott anymore. I think he has to go. Healthier is always going to be a priority. But I think there's accountability across this team I don't want to say there's one person to blame, but I'm actually going to ask you that and let me know who is the most to blame. Do you think it's Dave Roberts? Do you think it's the Dodgers and not, you know, Mookie, Freddie, Shohei, whatever it might be, not being the superstar hitters? Or do you think it's the front office? Like, do you think that Friedman has something to do with what the Dodgers ended up doing in this series? Want to know what you think down in the comment section and let us know what you think about this series, what is to come. We're not stopping the coverage. There's going to be a lot of things changing this offseason and we'll see what happens throughout this, but it was a big weakness for the Dodgers And hitting, there's been a lot of problems throughout the year Situationally, they could not do it. And guess what? Showed in this series. Really, really, really showed in this series We appreciate everybody watching. We hope you have a great day, and we'll be back tomorrow with some offseason content, and we'll have it throughout the offseason. So don't go anywhere. we have a lot of content coming and we appreciate you watching see you next time peace out