Shohei Ohtani's Late Homer Leads Dodgers to Epic Win on Friday

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00:00George, I think we should touch on last night's game real quick,

00:02which ended at like 2 o'clock in the morning on the East Coast,

00:05and Shohei Otani hits a home run in the extra innings

00:09to send the Dodgers to a wild win.

00:11In fact, I believe they were up 5 and then trailing,

00:14and then up 3 and then trailing, and then up 2 and then trailing,

00:16but they just kept fighting back and coming back against the Diamondbacks.

00:20And then Otani delivers his 12th home run of the season,

00:24flips the bat in a way, by the way, we've never seen Otani do.

00:28I don't know if you saw this as well.

00:30So right now, very rare, George, at this stage of the season.

00:34I know it's still early, okay?

00:35It's May, let me see here, May the 10th.

00:37But I don't recall like being in May

00:40and having four or five guys tied exactly for the home run lead.

00:44That's where we're at here with 12 home runs.

00:46Like everyone thought Judge was just going to run away with this thing

00:48like three weeks ago.

00:49Not so fast.

00:52Yeah, because Judge got up to the hot start.

00:53Although, listen, Judge took all of April off last year,

00:57and living here in New York, by the way,

00:59most of the games the Yankees have played in awful weather here, it seems like.

01:02So we'll see what happens with Judge and heating up.

01:04They put one off the ball wall last night in Sacramento.

01:07But that was a great – it was a fun game.

01:09Let's say if you started Sasaki this week, probably not so much fun.

01:13All right?

01:14Because you blew that.

01:15It goes both ways, right?

01:17Because if you started Sasaki, you're not.

01:19Maybe because we're still waiting for Sasaki to turn it around, right,

01:22and be that guy that he was supposed to be, and he's not.

01:25And I got him in a league or two, Craig, and I'm not starting –

01:28I didn't start him this week, and I'm not starting him next week.

01:30You know, and I kind of like – I forget who he's pitching against.

01:32I like the matchup, but I can't do it.

01:34You know, he just hasn't been that guy.

01:35I'll go with other guys here.

01:37He had an 8-3 lead last night and blew it when Lawrence Gurriel hit the Grand Slam here.

01:42You mentioned all the runs the Dodgers.

01:43The Dodgers scored six runs in the ninth inning to win that game.

01:46They were down 11-8 going into the ninth.

01:49Now, Max Muncy had tied it with the pitch at Sanko,

01:51another guy who's done nothing this season that we're sort of waiting for from the Dodgers.

01:55So he tied it at 11, then he'll throw a couple of batters later.

01:57You knew it, by the way.

01:58I'm watching the game.

01:59It's the last game one of the night.

02:00And when Ohtani came up there, I'm like, oh, just walk him.

02:04Load the bases with Betts.

02:05Let Betts beat you.

02:06Don't let Ohtani do it.

02:07I understand no one's going to do that, but I would have loaded him there.

02:10I'm a big believer in that.

02:11And I know Betts is great, by the way.

02:13I do.

02:13And maybe he would have beat you too.

02:15You know, but I'm not letting Ohtani beat me in that situation.

02:17Betts has not had the year that Ohtani's had,

02:20even though he did have a couple of hits last night.

02:21But it was a fun, fun game here.

02:23And maybe we'll get more of that tonight as well.

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