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00:00didn't get a kick out of it he strikes out Hernandez his third consecutive K
00:07and there are some guys that are like that four out of the five days and then
00:11transform on start day nope same guy on start day they say as steady as can be
00:16and that's maybe not what you want out of your prototypical ace the glass half
00:21full way looking at it is he's been pretty darn hard to rattle as his
00:25career has gone on pretty promising career in twenty three when he was a
00:31rookie looked really good the era was good and twenty four he ends up with some
00:36elbow inflammation kind of kind of a setback here but last year really
00:41started to blossom face and Andy Paz has here with bases empty and one gone up a
00:49third-year players
00:54Cleveland's pitching has to be good and it has been last year with the worst
00:58offensive team ever to make the postseason how do you do that well by having the
01:03second best pitching staff in terms of ERA Paz with a blur of a base hit to left
01:10leading the team and hits in RBIs he's added another here yesterday hit a curveball
01:15the right field stayed back on and hit a line drive and here a fastball in and he
01:20turns on it that is a guy who is seeing the ball well getting his foot down in time and
01:25making a very good swing excellent to get a hit down the right field line on the
01:31curveball last night and turn on a fastball the next night
01:38so the Dodgers have their first hit against Williams and up comes Alex Freeland
01:42rip and a miss on a fastball Freeland 0 for 2 yesterday 2 for 6 so far
01:57the bottom of the order got it done for Cleveland Dodgers trying to return the
02:01favor right here that's another fastball for a strike five out of six games the Dodgers fall
02:07behind to nothing their batting average the first two innings of the year so far 132 they need late
02:18offense when they're starting out that way
02:24and for the most part they've gotten it to get the four and one along with the good pitching
02:29a timely hitting as well they're hitting close to 400 with runners in scoring position this year
02:38but again go back to what we were talking about last night during the regular season
02:41rarely do we give you five game splits of anything
02:44because it's not enough of a sample to mean anything
02:47it's just that's all we have at this point
02:51yeah everything now is overexposed over accentuated but it will balance out
02:59the first landmark is the first hundred at bats usually for everyday players
03:070-2 to Freeland again he fouls it into the glove strike three that's four consecutive
03:12outs via the strikeout for Williams and back to the top of Ohtani
03:17Williams can really spin a baseball
03:22sweeper in the curveball
03:29walk to Ohtani to start the ball game major league leading seventh walk for Ohtani
03:39asked Dave Roberts before the game could he get the Barry Bonds treatment and he's starting to see that
03:44he said he likes to swing too much I think he'd go crazy
03:50Barry Bonds who led the league and walks 12 times
03:59show his career high and walks last season 109
04:03really good
04:05the 2004 season for Barry Bonds
04:08intentionally walked 121 times total 232
04:16wow in one year
04:20some guys don't walk that much in a career
04:28the Bonds career number of walks
04:31688
04:33that's a intentional walks okay that's more than double the next guy Albert Pujols
04:39just over 300 he's the only other guy that has more than 300 intentional walks
04:43he's just playing a different game
04:45well the 232 you mentioned that's like yeah one of every three times you come to the plate
04:50Homer the other ones
04:52yeah exactly
05:01so he's trying to join Barry Bonds by winning the third consecutive
05:05MVP
05:08does he have the highest percentage of true outcomes
05:12Barry yeah between the home runs and the walks you would think
05:19not many strikeouts though that might hurt him
05:28Adam Dunn
05:29Adam Dunn
05:30is the all-time leaders of the strikeout in terms of percent runs and walks 50% three true outcome
05:42one and two on Shohei Williams throws
05:45and he got him
05:46that's five outs in a row with strikeouts he's got that breaking pitch working
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07:51A couple runs for the Guardians in the third.
07:53They lead two to nothing as Jose Ramirez leads off and takes a ball from Yamamoto.
07:59Ramirez grounded out his first time and now three for 26 on the year.
08:09I was thinking about a conversation I had with Stephen Vogt about Ramirez last year.
08:14He said his biggest superpower is his conviction in who he is and how good he is.
08:20And so he doesn't let a bad day or two or even a week ever phase him.
08:26Putting that superpower to use here first week of the year.
08:30So that's the first thing, the conviction.
08:32The second thing, when he's hitting, he can hit any pitch in any location.
08:36And then he talked about his smarts.
08:37He said he's the smartest player he's ever been around.
08:40Got a full pitch walk here to open the inning against Yamamoto.
08:49Yoshi is normally pinpoint.
08:52And so he is a command master.
08:55Right now he's struggling to find control, which is a step below command.
09:01It's his first walk this year.
09:04Lead-off man on and Manzardo's up.
09:18At third base stolen on him.
09:21Didn't pay attention to the runner.
09:22Pays attention right away to Jose.
09:25He's got a good lead here.
09:28So 44 bases last year.
09:31Two of them so far this season.
09:3511 shy of 300 for his career.
09:47And Momoto's 0-1.
09:48Manzardo watches it miss away.
09:50Count evens 1-1.
09:55Fly out to center for Manzardo.
09:57His first time up.
09:58Just 2 for 21.
09:59So they're counting on to make a big step this year.
10:01In his second full year.
10:08Found the bat there.
10:10And strike two.
10:11Almost found his knuckles too.
10:16They don't need a couple of their young players out with injuries.
10:33Remember you were worried last night when the water stumbled out of the box the way he did that his
10:36foot was broken?
10:38Yeah.
10:38He's broken that foot twice.
10:41And so that was his thought too.
10:43It's an odd foul ball for him because he slides his back foot forward near his front foot.
10:49And that back foot gets hit.
10:51Grounded a second.
10:53Should be 2-4-6-3.
10:56Double play.
10:58Alex Freeland a little trouble getting the ball out of his glove.
11:01But the ball was hit hard enough to make up for that slight bobble.
11:07Hard ground ball.
11:09Two hopper.
11:09You can see him kind of double clutch just a little bit.
11:12Maybe it was more just getting the ball to the underhand side than I thought it was a bobble.
11:16I thought he got it out clean there on the replay.
11:18It was just that he was underhanding it and not backhand flipping it.
11:25Bases wide clean for Reese Hoskins who takes the ball from Yamamoto.
11:33The lone strikeout victim of Yamamoto so far.
11:38On a 1-0 pitch.
11:39Pops it up.
11:40Pops it up.
11:41That'll fade.
11:44To the seats.
11:46To the net.
11:49Reese Hoskins in his younger days was a guy you didn't want to have extend his arms.
11:54But the Dodgers have kind of worn him out away or tried to almost to the point where we say
12:00we don't think you have the opposite field power that you used to have.
12:04So we're not going to give you anything to pull.
12:10They're coming in but I'll bet you it's in off the plate.
12:13They'll have to go ahead of them for a three.
12:18Fastball that will this time stay in play and Freddie Freeman makes the catch slot of the plate right there.
12:24but got away with it.
14:17This one that delivers brought
14:19to you by Van Gogh the big rig
14:21as they call him Gavin Williams
14:23five consecutive strikeouts
14:29and now phase two three and four
14:31in the Dodger lineup Kyle Tucker
14:33Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman
14:34coming up down two to nothing
14:37Tucker who flied the left his
14:38first time takes strike one
14:40strikeouts not normally something
14:42you talk about with Kyle Tucker
14:44but two of them yesterday four
14:46consecutive two strikeout games
14:48for the first time in his career
15:12for his career
15:14he struck down 15 percent of his
15:16plate appearances pretty darn close to a lead
15:19so far this year it's almost 40 percent
15:21again tiny sample but not what you normally see with him
15:27even in a stretch this short
15:32swings and misses down on trikes again
15:36another one for Gavin Williams right in that breaking pitch
15:41Williams walks Ohtani to start the game off for him
15:45and that has been very stingy and very accurate with all his pitches
15:52very good movement on the fastball and the sweeper
15:56and the curveball had been very sharp
16:00got bats to bounce into a double play his first time
16:03misses with the first pitch here
16:04Mookie had that home run on Saturday
16:07but it's just one for 14 since
16:10talked about him being bigger and stronger
16:12and ball jumping off his bat this spring
16:16talking to him today though he said he's still
16:19not feeling right
16:20and it's been a bit since he has
16:23even when it was looking good during spring training
16:25he said he still didn't quite have that feel
16:28and the most frustrating part about it right now
16:30is that normally even when he's not feeling like himself
16:33he still squares it up as well as anybody
16:35always 99th under the percentile squaring the ball up
16:39but says he feels like he's
16:41mishitting everything right now
16:42and that double play his first time was another example of that
16:49finished the conversation though by saying
16:51and I ain't gonna stop working at it
16:55four pitch walk
16:59Mookie heads on down to first soon we get a word from jack in the box
17:03hotness is back with spicy jalapenos onion rings and gooey pepper jack cheese
17:07welcome to jack in the box
17:09number five
17:11ready
17:12here's freeman
17:28robbed of a hit his first time
17:29great play by buying rocchio at second base
17:35Dodgers
17:35Dodgers one hit
17:36it was a right-hander
17:37Williams last year against lefties
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17:41tough on lefties
17:49when I see his sweeper
17:51and his two-seamer
17:52it reminds me of Blake Treinen
17:54that kind of gear
17:56on both those pitches with the movement
17:58going in opposite directions
18:06little cut piece right there
18:08he's thrown the four-seamer also
18:09the two-seamer's got the
18:12left to right movement
18:13and then that sweeper is really sharp
18:22that's the first with one out
18:23two under the plate
18:25freeman bounces one to first
18:27Hoskins to second one back to the bag
18:29that's a double play
18:31second one turned by the guardians
18:33over the first four
18:39hero
18:41so
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20:33Guardians two Dodgers nothing to the top of the fifth inning already.
20:37Joe Olden Kirsten.
20:40Yamamoto goes back to work.
20:42Boat Naylor leads off.
20:44And a curve misses low.
20:46Double homer from Schneemann and Arias back in the third accounting for the scoring for Cleveland.
20:54Other than that Yamamoto's face the minimum.
20:57This is 1-0.
20:59Splitter for a strike.
21:02Three consecutive games started by a Japanese-born pitcher for the first time in Major League history.
21:09And it is fitting that it is Sideo Nomo's organization that does that.
21:23He plays the trail for his Japanese influence of the current Dodgers.
21:28There have not been a player from Japan in 30 years when Nomo came.
21:32You weren't allowed to come when Nomo came.
21:36A flare in the right center field.
21:38Pajes back at first.
21:39Now comes on.
21:40Won't get there.
21:40Dunk shot of a base hit for Naylor to start the fifth.
21:49Full swing.
21:51Broken bat pop-up.
21:52One of the hardest balls for the outfielders to read.
22:00Go leadoff hit for Naylor.
22:02And now Schneemann.
22:12Nomo found a loophole to come over here in the 1990s.
22:17Yes, you were not allowed to go from a Japanese team to the major leagues or to an affiliated team
22:23in the major leagues.
22:25But it didn't say anything about if you were retired.
22:28And so he retired from Japan.
22:31And that made him technically eligible to sign with the major league team.
22:38It's amazing a retired player could throw a no-hitter in Colorado.
22:42Right.
22:43Out of retirement to be rookie of the year.
22:46Start the All-Star game.
22:59Fly ball center field off of the bat of Schneemann.
23:03Fahez settles under.
23:04It makes the catch.
23:05More than we celebrate finding the loophole, though.
23:07The courage to do it is what should be celebrated for Nomo in the culture and in the baseball culture
23:12in particular,
23:13where there was a way to do things and a way not to do things.
23:17His dream was to come over here and play against the best.
23:19And so he had the courage to go against the grain, find a way to make it happen.
23:24And in a kind of class in a lot of ways, right?
23:27You don't have a delivery like that coming from Japan if you're not willing to be different.
23:34One away for Arias.
23:36Chase is strike one.
23:38It's very much in Dodger history of breaking barriers.
23:41You think about Jackie Robinson, the O'Malley family, Walter O'Malley,
23:45and then his son Peter O'Malley, when he owned the team, wanted to expand that legacy of breaking barriers.
23:52And Peter was very focused on bringing somebody from Japan, somebody from Korea, somebody from Australia.
23:59He wanted the game to be international here in the States and in Canada, Major League Baseball.
24:05So I wouldn't be surprised if the O'Malley family, working with the commissioner's office, helped NOMO find that loophole.
24:14Mr. O'Malley had a very close friend that was very powerful in Japan.
24:20Yamamoto comes back in after giving up the home run to Arias the first time, sits him down with a
24:24strikeout.
24:25You sound like somebody who knows a little something.
24:27Number four, Brian Rokio.
24:29Peter's recovering from some surgery right now.
24:32He's doing well.
24:33I'll have dinner with him probably sometime in this month.
24:37But yes, the O'Malley family worked behind the scenes very hard to expand this game across the world.
24:45Of course, Chanho Park, you mentioned Korea, wanted to have an impact there.
24:49Exactly.
24:49For a strike on Rokio.
24:51Craig Shipley, shortstop for the Dodgers from Australia.
24:55Chanho, I was assigned to him when he came here in spring training from Tommy Lasorda and the O'Malley family
25:01to be one of his mentors slash culture breakers,
25:06to hung out with he and his interpreter a lot before spring training.
25:11Tried to do some of his exercises, like probably somebody like Mookie's doing with Yamamoto, and I could barely walk
25:19the next day.
25:22It's amazing when you start doing exercises from another culture of moving things that you haven't moved.
25:27Find some muscles you didn't know you had, right?
25:29Exactly.
25:30My internal rotators on my legs were like, oh my God, what did I do yesterday with him?
25:35What did you do?
25:36We were doing a whole bunch of squats and twists and different lunges, and I'm like, you know, I can
25:41do it.
25:41This is great.
25:41I went through it, but I'm like, the next day, I was like, my legs were on fire.
25:45Did you guys throw any javelins?
25:47No, we didn't do javelins.
25:50Top of the zone with a curve 2-2.
25:54But it was fun.
25:56You know, his mom would cook for us.
25:58I learned how to like kimchi.
26:02And how the culture works as far as putting the food in the center of the table on a Lazy
26:07Susan, and you kind of spin it around to each other, depending on which one you want.
26:11It was all family style.
26:13No individual servings.
26:15It was family style in the middle of this huge, I mean, the biggest Lazy Susan I've ever seen.
26:19You've probably seen them in corner cabinets where you put things in and you can turn it to get the
26:24things in the back.
26:24Or you've seen it maybe in the center of a table where it's got salt and pepper and a couple
26:29sauces, maybe the ketchup.
26:30But this thing, this Lazy Susan at their house was, it was probably three feet wide.
26:36It was almost like as big as a yardstick.
26:38And it just, it would go around and have all the food on it.
26:42And it's really awkward because, you know, Chan Ho spoke a little bit of English.
26:47The interpreter helped me.
26:48And then everybody else at the table was speaking Korean.
26:50And it's just awkward to know when is it my turn to eat because the thing just kept moving.
26:57Rokio to second and over Freeland.
27:02So all four guys at the bottom of the lineup for Cleveland have a hit in this game.
27:06And they're at first and third for Stephen Kwan.
27:18And this makes it two outs and first and third and a tough hitter coming up that's going to make
27:23contact.
27:24This is where baseball probabilities are become a little bit more in the hitter's favor just because
27:29not going to strike out, put the ball in play, need a hit with two outs.
27:32But this guy will have been swinging the bat really well this series.
27:37Yamamoto seldom dole for two so far today.
27:40Sneaks one in there at 91.
27:42Strike one.
27:45Cleveland scored two in the third.
27:47Dodgers again scored us through four innings.
27:49Fourth time in six games this year.
27:51They haven't scored over the first four.
27:54Comebacks have been the name of the game and they'll need another tonight.
27:58Here's Yoshi's 0-1.
28:02Kwan lofts it to left.
28:04Hernandez coming on.
28:06He's there.
28:07That's the inning.
28:08Halfway home in a 2-0 game.
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33:54And again for the number two.
33:56Fastball in there strike three
33:58and you don't blame Hernandez
33:59if he was waiting for a breaking
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34:01And with two strikes Williams
34:02pitches backwards and gets his
34:04Ninth K.
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35:24Ninth K.
35:35Ninth K.
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36:09Yamamoto's pitched well, but like a lot of last year, not getting much run support.
36:13He was in the bottom five in the majors last year in run support, which is shocking when you play
36:18for a juggernaut of an offense.
36:22Angel Martinez, two, three, and four for the Guardians.
36:25Two balls, no strikes.
36:29First game, he got six runs of support.
36:34Here so far, nada.
36:40You know, between Glass now, Yamamoto, Snell when he comes back, anybody really a starter, Itani.
36:49The award season at the end might come down to who got the most run support.
36:55Which then allowed them to throw the most innings possibly and the least of these tough pitches to throw.
37:04Martinez gets hit.
37:05Remember, he was hitting that same knee last night.
37:16It's even more painful is that that was going to be ball four anyways.
37:19He was going to be on base anyways.
37:22Man.
37:26If that's right on the bruise that he surely suffered from Ohtani's fastball there.
37:37So this is the one that just happened.
37:39Take a look at.
37:46Oh my gosh, I think that's exactly where it was last night.
37:49It is.
37:49And the knee that's moving forward.
37:52And right on it.
37:53Exactly.
38:00Same exact sequence too.
38:03The ball inside, the knee is starting to flex for the swing.
38:07And then it gets it.
38:13Angel Martinez has to be cursing the baseball gods right now.
38:33Stayed in the game last night.
38:34It looks like he's going to stay in the game here.
38:42They're helping him walk, but he's walking towards first.
38:50It just has a testament to Yamamoto not quite being his normal commanding self.
38:56He, in his first two years in the major leagues, had eight four-pitch walks total.
39:02He had a four-pitch walk earlier tonight, and that would have been a four-pitch walk if it hadn't
39:06hit him.
39:16Cleveland has now had their leadoff hitter reach in four straight innings.
39:21They didn't do that at all last night until the ninth.
39:31And the baseball run scoring probability matrix that we shared last night, you get the leadoff guy on.
39:37Was it in 44%?
39:39Major League teams score in 44% of those innings.
39:43We'll be able to get the leadoff guy on.
39:4517%, was it?
39:47It was like 14, 15, yeah.
39:50Third-base with Jose Ramirez.
39:52Just not as sharp as I used to be.
39:54You were in the neighborhood, though.
39:58Holy cow, that's got to hurt.
40:00You can see tears in his eyes.
40:08So he's aboard, and Ramirez is up.
40:12There's Ramirez that took the four-pitch walk.
40:16There's one for ten in this series, though.
40:33The Yankees and the Dodgers have won more games than the Guardians since his debut.
40:40He's got a street named after him in Cleveland.
40:42There's a Little League field named after him.
40:47There's fans with tattoos of him.
40:49And one day there's going to be a statue of him.
40:52By the time he's finished, so many doesn't sign another contract beyond the one that he just did.
40:58It'll be 20 years as a guardian.
41:00And he's going to be first in just about every category.
41:04Foul ball.
41:06Hits somebody on the bench.
41:10And the Pets' heads are falling off.
41:24Cleveland kind of guy.
41:25Guardians kind of guy, right?
41:27Where it's always been doubted, undersized, underestimated.
41:34Blue-collar city.
41:36Low-budget organization.
41:39Got to have overachievers.
41:49Two and two.
41:51I know you got to experience that first hand.
41:54And it's a very passionate city.
41:56Very passionate city about its baseball team, basketball team, football team.
42:04Very loyal fans.
42:08Scorched to right center field.
42:10Tucker's over there to make a sliding catch.
42:14And Martinez hobbles back to the bag.
42:17One going in the sixth.
42:18I was there through the new stadium times.
42:21The Jake.
42:2295, 96, 97.
42:24All the sellouts in a row.
42:26Over 500 of them.
42:27That's right.
42:32It's a great ballpark.
42:34Yeah.
42:36Good angles.
42:37Yeah, right size.
42:38It's not too big.
42:44And our first one away.
42:45Manzardo is the hitter.
42:49Manzardo out of Idaho.
42:52One of 34 big leaguers to come out of the gym state.
42:57That includes the Hall of Famer.
42:59Harmon Killebrew from Idaho.
43:05It was 34.
43:08That ranks Idaho 46th out of the 50 states.
43:12Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, and then Alaska.
43:16Bottom of the standings.
43:1712 from Alaska.
43:20Over 2,500 from California.
43:24Which still is not that large a number, even though it's the largest.
43:28Shows you how hard it is to even get here.
43:41We saw Mark Pryor on the phone.
43:43The pitch count for Yamamoto at 84 now.
43:52Six innings that have not been the easiest if he gets two more outs.
44:00And you know when your pitcher, as we see Tanner Scott loosen,
44:04you know when your pitcher has struggled with his command that he normally is immaculate,
44:08that the pitches are a little harder to throw.
44:14Slightly out of rhythm, not as accurate, so more stress.
44:19County booms two and two.
44:23More stressful pitches with not the same mechanics that you're used to.
44:28A lot of times that's a lot more wear and tear,
44:30so it's a little harder to get loose every inning.
44:33You go back out there.
44:34Then you got guys in scoring position or men on right away.
44:38The last four leadoff guys have reached,
44:40so intensity is ratcheted up.
44:46Manzardo slaps it to short for Mookie Betts.
44:48Takes it to the bag.
44:49Running throw.
44:49Now a double play, and he gets Yamamoto out of the sixth inning.
45:20All night or two.
45:23Once again, here's the sixth inning.
45:30William.
45:31By the way.
46:46One coming up for the Dodgers here in the sixth inning Andy Paz leads off.
46:50He's one for one in this game.
46:52He's hitting 368 this year leading the club with those seven hits and those five RBI's.
46:59And that hit is the only one in this game for L.A. against Gavin Williams who has struck out
47:04nine of the last 12.
47:08Strike one on Pajas.
47:12Looks like Yamamoto may be finished after six innings and a day where he didn't have his best command.
47:18Two runs on four hits one walk.
47:24You could push your logic to the point where he hasn't had his good stuff yet the whole season.
47:30But two outings with two earned runs both with six innings.
47:34One he got support.
47:35Tonight he hasn't.
47:37So I'm sure he's feeling pretty good about it prior to giving him a hug and some encouragement.
47:46Hoping for a repeat of that first game in a couple ways.
47:49Here's the line in the late offense.
47:56Pajas lays off and it's one and two.
47:59Dodgers got four runs in the fifth inning on opening day.
48:01They got four more on the seventh.
48:03At the end of it is eight to two.
48:10The one two to Pajas just outside.
48:16When Walcott must be calling a whale of a game because we haven't had a single challenge.
48:22Also both teams.
48:24Cleveland ran out of challenges last night.
48:27Dodgers have not done it but been successful.
48:30Will Smith.
48:31Tweaking a successful.
48:33Andy Pajas a third consecutive two hit game.
48:37Curve ball last night to right field.
48:39Earlier a fastball into left field and now it looks like a sweeper that's on the outside corner up the
48:46middle.
48:47What a sign to get three hits in a row to three different parts of the park on three different
48:53pitches.
48:56If Will Klein is my pick to click subtly out of the bullpen to be one of the top relievers.
49:01Andy Pajas might be the possible best offensive player that you didn't expect to be.
49:10Only Ohtani hit more home runs than Pajas last year.
49:13I think that they you know as it often happens what happens in October is what lasts in your memory.
49:19And he was so bad in October that it's easy to forget how good he was for a lot of
49:22the year.
49:232-0 on Freeland.
49:25He had some long streaks didn't he?
49:27Super hot.
49:29Super cold.
49:30If he can shorten the cold ones and lengthen the hot ones what a player he would be.
49:36His numbers right there had him benched in game six.
49:39Off of the bench to save the day in game seven.
49:43Tie and run at the plate in the sixth.
49:44Freeland sends a fly ball foul and it's two and one.
49:50Freeland had a poor finish the last year as well.
49:52Had him finish the year in AAA and as soon as that AAA season finished booked an Airbnb in Phoenix
49:58and spent the entire offseason there going to the facility almost every day.
50:08Said he needed every day right up until the end.
50:11To get that feeling we've been talking about him having which is I'm so excited to get to the park.
50:17I cannot wait to step into the box.
50:19And he said you got to go back to a long time ago to find the last time he was
50:23feeling like that about baseball.
50:312-2 facing a pitcher on a mission tonight.
50:34Gavin Williams looking for a 10th strikeout.
50:39The count goes full with Ohtani on deck.
50:43Nobody warming yet for Cleveland.
50:4789 pitches for Williams in a season debut on Friday.
50:57Pahez takes his lead.
50:59Williams throws.
51:01Ball four.
51:02Back-to-back base runners.
51:04Bottom of the order.
51:05Making some noise.
51:07Putting some pressure on Williams.
51:10Here comes Ohtani.
51:15Now Yamamoto is the pitcher of record and it would be an L.
51:19One swing from this guy and he could be a possible pitcher of record for the W.
51:37He's saying her.
51:39Lamoto's saying, Will, who's your favorite?
51:40Be honest.
51:42Who do you like more?
51:43Will saying, you know what?
51:45They might just get you some runs for him right here, big guy.
51:49How do you know?
51:51Well, if anybody does.
51:53It's not where you love.
51:55Meet your noise.
51:59Game six.
52:02Looking for his first extra base hit.
52:04Looking for his first run batted in still.
52:19Tying on a board.
52:20Ohtani at the plate.
52:24Williams throws.
52:25Shohei bounces one right side.
52:27Rokio will go to second for one.
52:29Arias defers.
52:30Not in time.
52:31He beats it out.
52:33And a chance at a big inning here still alive.
52:35With a fielder's choice, one away.
52:39Unselfish hustle by Shohei.
52:42There could be some disappointment when you are frustrated that your offense is not at the point.
52:50We'll see if he ends up.
52:52But he did hustle enough to try and stay out of this double play.
52:55And if the toe doesn't come down in the bag in time, which it might not, he's going to be
53:01out.
53:02But boy, did he hustle trying to stay out of the double play.
53:07This is going to be a third double play in six innings.
53:10Put that together with nine strikeouts.
53:12And this is what you get.
53:13You know, the frustration is, if he's called out, he had a really good pitch to hit.
53:18And he just came over top of it.
53:22It was a ball about thigh high, inner half.
53:29Take a look at the pitch right here.
53:32It's down the middle, belt high.
53:35And boy, he would like to have that one back.
53:37But he didn't take the frustration at the ground ball and not hustle.
53:50Only grounded in the nine double plays all of last year.
53:53That's going to be his second.
53:54After the field is overturned, the runner is out.
53:56Cleveland will retain their challenge.
54:00And so anytime they've had any kind of a whisper of a threat against Williams, he has rung up a
54:05double play.
54:07Two out, runner with third, and it's up to Kyle Tucker.
54:15Right field, Kyle Tucker.
54:18Right field, Kyle Tucker.
54:20Right field, Kyle Tucker.
54:43Lazy fly right center.
54:44Outfitters back at first.
54:46Now on, and Martinez with that sore knee makes the catch in a promising inning fizzles.
54:57All right, let's get you guys on the big side.
55:22All right, let's get you guys on the big side.
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