00:00The fact that Yamamoto had Will Ireton go up to Mark Pryor,
00:04the Dodger pitching coach, in like the 14th inning and say,
00:08I'm ready to go, that was as gutsy as anything that I've seen
00:15in a long, long time.
00:18And I already loved him.
00:20My love for Yamamoto grew exponentially when I saw him pick up a baseball
00:24on Monday night.
00:26Well, and I thought he was going to come.
00:27You knew he was going to come in and throw well.
00:28Like that guy knows his body.
00:3123 innings, he was giving you four shutty.
00:33That's why I would,
00:34I think Dave Roberts is just kind of pump faking and messing with Verdue
00:37saying, yeah, we're going to go to a position player.
00:40And the, if it goes to the 18, the fact that Yamamoto just,
00:46just volunteered, it's like, it's like the Bueller situation.
00:48We're just like, that is so bad-ass,
00:50but I think it's even more just,
00:52just shocking because it's not winner go home or,
00:56and it wasn't winner going for Bueller,
00:57but it's not close out the world series situation here.
01:01It's a one-one series.
01:02You're going to still have to go throw at some other point in the series,
01:05presumably Yamamoto.
01:06So I thought that was absolutely incredible.
01:08And the guy that I figured if they put him in,
01:12he was going to throw the ball well,
01:14but I wanted to see him try to get hot in that situation.
01:17I was just curious what his whole process was there,
01:20but they were not going to have,
01:21they should have had like a Yamamoto cam.
01:23Yeah, just an ISO cam, just as he buffed out the javelin.
01:26Yeah, just because he had javelining into a wall,
01:29whatever it may be.
01:30I figured there had to be something unique to get up there for a guy that,
01:34you know, mind you too,
01:35not only would it have been on like one or two days rest,
01:38he has been,
01:39he threw his last start on like 10 days rest because of the way that the,
01:43the playoffs kind of lined up for him.
01:44So it's not like he has been throwing, you know,
01:47in shorter rest and like kind of synced up for that at all.
01:49First guy since Kurt Schilling and oh one with back-to-back complete games in
01:53the post-season.
01:54And he does it in the NLCS and the world freaking series.
01:58And he's ready to go on one day rest.
02:00He threw a complete game on Saturday.
02:02He sits idle on Sunday and he's ready to pitch on Monday night,
02:05Tuesday morning.
02:07I guess that would line up for a side day for Yamamoto.
02:11But even then, man, I mean,
02:13that is just so,
02:15so gutsy of him to be willing to do this.
02:18And he already got paid.
02:20He's in year two of a $325 million deal, but you know what?
02:24This is what competitors do.
02:26And it speaks to the level of upkeep that this guy does for his body,
02:29that he feels okay enough after North of 110 pitches to get up and possibly
02:35pitch in the 19th inning.
02:37The other one is Freddie Freeman.
02:40Freddie is becoming this inner circle Pantheon type player.
02:45And it's almost like he's getting better with age.
02:49He is the red wine of major league baseball.
02:51Cause he's just figuring out hitting as an art form even more.
02:54And he's always been a hitting as an art form guy.
02:56And you can speak to that.
02:57Like,
02:58but he was kind of the big burly kid when he first came up in Atlanta.
03:01And there has been a progression of Freddie Freeman.
03:05And now he's like that tall,
03:07skinny guy that looks a little awkward when he runs.
03:09He almost doesn't look like he's a great athlete anymore,
03:11but he is.
03:12I don't think it hurts.
03:13Even when he dies on homers,
03:15it looks like it hurts.
03:16The hand eye for Freddie Freeman at this point in his career has to be top
03:20five in major league baseball.
03:21The hand eye for Freddie Freeman.
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