00:00Coming off of a marathon, 18-inning, record-breaking classic, the Dodgers and Blue Jays play again
00:06mere hours after one of the craziest baseball games you will see. So, key number one, who's
00:14awake. Key number two, let's talk about it in our game four preview.
00:30Game four goes tonight. It feels like the series has already been four games because it has.
00:34Just game two was two of them. Luckily for the Blue Jays, though, it doesn't count as two wins
00:39and they are back at it tonight. Toxic in the chat asked earlier, I asked if yesterday if the
00:48game was a must-win. I think that turned into a must-win. That is fair. I do think that around
00:53the 12th or 13th inning, that became a must-win game for the Blue Jays and they didn't and we
00:58talked about all the reasons why they didn't. I think it goes without saying, tonight is a must-win
01:04for Toronto. Which is tough because you're going against Shohei Otani. And I do think the way the
01:10playoffs have played out, I do think that the Blue Jays' platoon setup is better against lefties than
01:16it is against righties. Or sorry, better against righties than it is against lefties, I should say.
01:22It's better when Lucas is in the lineup. So, it's better against the righties than it is against
01:25the lefties. But I don't think this is a game where, oh, it's an X-factor this and an X-factor
01:30that. And it could play out that way. For the Blue Jays, this needs to be a game where the big
01:35guys step up. Shane Bieber needs to be more Game 3 Shane Bieber than Game 7 Shane Bieber from the
01:41American League Championship Series. He needs to go out and dust off that Cy Young and be that guy
01:47again. He's going to be required to pitch deep into this ballgame. If he's given up 10 runs,
01:55he's going to be required to pitch deep into this ballgame based on the usage of everybody
01:59last night for Toronto. I think he has to get off to a good start. That has been an issue for him
02:08this season. This is not an easy team to get off to a good start against. But he needs to be that guy
02:13that can come out and just mow them down quickly, set that tone. It cannot be, guys, I know I have my
02:20good stuff. I know we're down to nothing. But I know I have my good stuff. Trust me. It has to be
02:24right from the word go. We see he has his good stuff. And the Blue Jays are able to roll from there.
02:29Also, the other one, this feels kind of obvious, Vlad needs to have his moment in this World Series.
02:34He had it in the American League Championship Series with the home run, with the sun setting
02:39on T-Mobile Park and that just absolutely movie-esque shot that he had. He had it several times over in
02:48the divisional round against the New York Yankees with the bat tosses and Yankees lose and stuff like
02:54that. He has had those. He hasn't had a lot in this World Series offensively. Defensively,
03:00obviously, last night with the great throw to third base. And I guess he does have the run home
03:05and hammering down on home plate and getting the team fired up after that. But he needs to take
03:12control of this baseball game offensively. This needs to be a big Vlad Guerrero Jr. game. We don't know
03:18what is happening around him in the lineup at the moment that I am recording this.
03:24But he needs to have a big day today for Toronto to get into this series. So I think you need
03:32your best guy to be your best guy. And I don't want to say he needs to earn his $500 million
03:37contract because A, how could you? It's a lot of money. But B, if you can, he has already. He has
03:43been spectacular in this postseason and nothing that happens in this World Series is going to change
03:46it. But he needs to have his World Series moment now. Shohei, I'm not saying get on base nine times
03:52like Shohei did, but he needs to have his Shohei game. He needs to be the one who's the best player
03:57in this game. And we're all talking about him going in to game number four. Admittedly, I know I said
04:04yesterday that it doesn't feel, yesterday didn't feel like a must win right up until it did. But it does
04:10feel over this morning. Like walking around, it's like, man, like beating this team now three out
04:16of four feels daunting. And it feels really down. But this team felt really down after losing two in
04:25a row in Toronto and going into Seattle. I will say the Dodgers are a different animal, but the Blue
04:29Jays have been those comeback kids all season long. This is going to have to be their biggest one.
04:34And I think getting off to a quick start tonight is going to be massive. So I, I don't know. I think
04:45you need to get off to that quick, quick start here today. I'm just trying to look real quick.
04:52Do we have lineups just yet? I don't think we do. Toxic is asking, who do you lead off with
05:00if, um, if Springer can't go? And I think that's an excellent question. And I, I don't really know
05:10the answer to that one. Um, I think Lucas is a pretty good bet. If you can get him back into that
05:15focus of just get an on base, man, please. Could you? That would be great. There is the smallest part
05:22of me that thinks Kirk, not like obviously not a traditional leadoff hitter, but someone you trust
05:27someone getting on base and all of that. But if we're worried that Bo's not going to be in the
05:31lineup, I think you have to hit Kirsch or, um, Kirk, sorry, behind Vlad so that they can't just walk
05:36him all night long. Um, Bo, I think would be, I've always thought Bo would be a good leadoff hitter
05:45because of his eye at the plate, um, and just his ability to, to get on base. But again, having him
05:52be able to stretch the lineup out would really help this team that much more. So I think that he is,
05:58probably not the option. So it probably comes down to like Lucas, maybe Ernie Clement. Um,
06:03I mean, none of them had great games last night. So none of these feel like awesome suggestions today,
06:08but Lucas would probably be me, be the one that I would suggest at this particular moment in time,
06:15um, to, to be the leadoff guy for Toronto. But yeah, like it, it does, it feels done,
06:21but Toronto has come back from it before. And I will say if the Blue Jays can get this one,
06:26I still think they're a bad matchup for Snell. And I think they proved yesterday that they are a bad
06:33matchup for Glass now as well. The Yamamoto part of it is really, really scary, which is why like
06:39three, one, whatever, like that, that really feels done because Yamamoto, you know, he is lurking one
06:46more time in this series, but because of how Toronto did against Snell and against Glass now,
06:52now Dodgers fans would say, there's no way they're going to have that bad of an outing again,
06:55but the Jays did this to Kirby in the champion. Yeah. In the championship series,
06:59they, they can really wear those types of guys down. And when the concern is, well, if he's on,
07:06he's really on, this is a really hard Blue Jays team to be on against when you do have some of
07:10those command issues and everything like that. So I still think they stack up really well in two
07:16of the three matchups that would be remaining after game four. You have to give yourself some
07:21wiggle room knowing that Yamamoto is still lurking and just not being able to assume that he's going
07:26to have a bit of a banana peel game, but you still have, yeah, you have Bieber, Gosman, you savage
07:30with a chance to win the world series. That's, that's how you're set up. It feels like a decent spot,
07:37but you have to, have to, have to get this one tonight if you are the Toronto Blue Jays. So that's
07:42the world series talk for this one today. If I missed anything or you disagree with me, if you're
07:48watching live, throw it in the chat. If you're watching after the fact, let me know down in the
07:51comments below, is this a must win? It does. I think it's obviously a must win for the Blue Jays.
07:57What's the key to success for both sides in this game today? Let me know in the chat or in the
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