Dodgers vs. Padres: Yamamoto's Key Role in Upcoming Series

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00:00and uh your dodgers are starting uh it's the late game at chavez ravine tomorrow night 838 west 538

00:06sun will still be out yamamoto has replaced flarity against cease in that game versus the

00:13padres how do you think she's gonna go this series i think it's gonna be great a little bit of

00:20concern about yamamoto listen the guy's awesome uh but san diego have seen his stuff not once but

00:27twice if we recall yeah it's a kind of you know a little bit of full comes full circle here

00:32yamamoto made his dodger debut against san diego in korea uh this year when they opened up uh the

00:41major league baseball season in korea and san diego lit him up so that was his major league

00:47baseball debut he got hit hard and then they came to uh to america and he settled down before he got

00:53hurt and then he pitched against san diego again and he did give up three runs so san diego have

00:59hit him they've seen him twice you know there's a little bit i'm just saying it's a little bit of a

01:03concern that san diego have seen this dude twice and they hit him both times they saw him so

01:08there's not an element of surprise there's not an element of intimidation that oh man we've never

01:13seen this guy he's really good but you got him in the first game uh of his career uh with the

01:20dodgers and he didn't get lit up in the last game he gave up three runs so i'm a little bit curious

01:26to see how yamamoto does i'm it's you know they paid him a lot of money i don't think they

01:30anticipated that he would have to be you know the guy in game one here but here he is and he got

01:35flarity the thought process is the yamamoto coming off the injury needs a longer rest like they've

01:42been he hasn't been pitching on four days rest got like down the stretch in the regular season

01:47he's been pitching on five days rest so he's only pitching once in the series like maybe they can

01:53use him for relief i don't know what their plan is but their thought was that flarity could actually

01:58go in game two and game five if needed right because the game five will be friday night if

02:03if it happens so he would pitch on sunday and then he would pitch on friday if it go just if it goes

02:08five but hell of a series scott i'm not dismissing san diego i've been telling people they're the

02:14dark horse to bet on when they were 18 to 1 like two months ago so i'm not dismissing them but the

02:20dodgers scott lost to san diego the last time they played in the playoffs there's a little bit of an

02:25extra edge right now the dodgers aren't going to get caught uh this time and the fact is they did

02:32play last week guys right first place was on the line right the sandy was a three game series they

02:37were up by three san diego won the first game cut it to two and the dodgers won the next two games

02:42so it's not like you know i hear a lot of people talking about oh san diego is so hot right now

02:47well they played last weekend and the dodgers beat them two or three so i don't think the

02:51dodgers are intimidated here both teams that's what i love about this cup players on both teams

02:57are saying they wanted this to oscar hernandez said i wanted to play san diego because the

03:02energy is amazing and you know it's there are rivals let's do this machado said we all wanted

03:08this we all knew it was going to happen let's go it's going to be an epic series scott