When Will the Dodgers Feel Playoff Pressure? Series Analysis

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00:00But Craig, to me, when do we start to turn the pressure up on the Dodgers?

00:06Because last night, you're right, closeout game, bullpen situation, guys that haven't

00:11pitched before, let's just see what happens.

00:12You give that away.

00:13Gary Cole steps on the mound tonight.

00:15When do you think that pressure starts to hit where Dave Roberts goes, okay, it's time

00:18to close this out?

00:19Because six and seven, if it does get back to LA, it feels like for me, game number six

00:23still would be on the Yankees to try to win that.

00:25But if it gets to a game number seven, I can't imagine what that clubhouse is feeling

00:29like with the Dodgers.

00:30Yeah, I think we're still, Donnie, far away from that happening.

00:36It's hard to envision that scenario where the Yankees win tonight and then they win

00:40game six.

00:41I think probably if the Yankees win tonight, then there would be some pressure going into

00:47that.

00:48But then again, like the differences in the series, not that home field advantage means

00:50a lot, but you're going to have that Dodger crowd going crazy again for them.

00:55And then any nervousness is sort of out, like there's not going to be that kind of energy.

00:58I mean, a lot of people have said that the energy in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium was

01:05as strong as it ever has been for any game in those first two games of the series.

01:08So I would imagine, and again, maybe I'm not the right person here, because I thought the

01:13Yankees, I thought this was going to be over.

01:15Initially, I thought the Yankees were going to win the World Series.

01:17So fading me has been the way to go in the World Series for sure.

01:22But I do think in the end, the Dodgers will win.

01:24I don't know when it'll be, five, six, seven.

01:26You know, it's funny, last night, I was at my son's baseball practice, guys, and they

01:30were all asking me, because, you know, it's like, oh, he's the expert, right?

01:33And I was like, well, you know, we did see the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, the Florida Panthers

01:37go up 3-0, Edmonton came back 3-3, and then the Panthers had to win in game seven.

01:42So in sports, it's not unreasonable to think that it can't happen.

01:47But what we saw from Edmonton in the Stanley Cup Finals in game seven is they were out

01:52of gas for pushing those three games to wins against the Panthers.

01:55And I think the same thing could happen for the Yankees, too.

01:58It's like you go so far, all in game four, all in game five, all in game six, eventually

02:04it comes to an end.