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00:05I'm going to keep betting on Mookie hitting behind Shohei, and if they keep giving him opportunities, I know he's
00:10going to come through.
00:10We have to get to the first thing that everyone's wondering about, and that's a shake-up to the lineup.
00:15Can you walk me through some of the decisions?
00:17Yeah, I think the first part, you know, I wanted to try to create a little bit more offense,
00:24and then if you look at the nine-hole Alex calls in the lineup,
00:27and I felt that having somebody who has an on-base pedigree, I feel like he'll give those good at
00:33-bats versus Yusevich and whoever else
00:35to potentially give somebody on-base for Shohei, so I think that's one part of it.
00:40And then with Will and Mookie, I just felt that that's just, I wanted to give these guys a different
00:45look.
00:46I think Will, to be quite frank, is swinging the bat better, and so give him, you know, another look.
00:52And texted both those guys last night, and they gave me the thumbs-up and ready to go.
00:58This best of seven has become a best of three.
01:01The Dodgers and the Blue Jays, Game 5 from L.A.
01:04In Los Angeles on an 86-degree night, we're ready for Game 5, and when the series is tied 2
01:10-2,
01:11the Game 5 winner goes on to win the World Series two-thirds of the time.
01:14They've won six of the last seven after taking Game 5 in a 2-2 series.
01:18You know what I love about Game 5 of the World Series?
01:20Throw away the stats. Now you're seeing everybody for the second time.
01:24It's time to adjust, read and react, and that's what Blake Snell has an opportunity to do.
01:29He was dominant before, coming in here 3-0.
01:31He had one hiccup, and he's got a chance to make the adjustment.
01:34How about Davis Schneider leading off in a World Series game?
01:37He is going to be up first tonight with Blake Snell on the mound.
01:41Game 5 is underway with a fly ball to deep left.
01:46Gone!
01:46The first pitch of the ball game, and Davis Schneider has hit it out.
01:54A first pitch homer for Davis Schneider, and the Blue Jays take the lead in the first.
02:02Welcome to Game 5.
02:04Davis Schneider into George Springer's shoes and doing a great impression.
02:09How about that? Ready for a first pitch fastball, and an ambush to start Game 5 with a bang.
02:16First homer on of the postseason for Davis Schneider, who's just 3-for-16 in the playoffs.
02:21But he is the latest guy to step into a role for Toronto and come through.
02:26And the Blue Jays fans making a ton of noise, and now Guerrero rips one to D-Clap, and it's
02:33gone!
02:37And two batters in, they are up 2-0!
02:42Back-to-back blasts in the first, and in three pitches, the Blue Jays lead 2-0!
02:49What in the world are we watching right now?
02:52You wonder when two heavyweights are going at each other, who is going to deliver the first blow?
02:59Well, they were ready to hit the fastball.
03:02You felt like Snell was going to establish his fastball tonight, because he didn't do that in Toronto.
03:08In the 705th World Series game all-time, this is the first time that a team has gone back-to
03:13-back home runs to begin.
03:16Guerrero, front-to-back, c'est la direction de cha-gauche!
03:19Circuit, flat-to-beer, Guerrero, junior!
03:22Guerrero!
03:23Aïe, aïe, aïe, aïe, aïe, aïe, aïe!
03:26Blani!
03:27Rapson, huitième circuit des présents, C'est Rivière rejoindre!
03:31Choué Otani!
03:33Et trois lancées dans le match, deux balles frappées avec aplomb!
03:39Quel début de match pour les Jays bleus!
03:42What an incredible start here in Game 5!
03:46And here's Treja Savage.
03:48Treja Savage did not have his split finger.
03:50That pitch is as good as it gets.
03:52And for him to have that pitch is the only way he can get through this Dodgers lineup.
03:56Unless that fastball is electric and pinpointed.
03:59He runches four innings in Game 1.
04:02Gets a lot of chase when he's right.
04:04The Dodgers were very patient.
04:05Walked three times and he threw 20 pitches per inning.
04:09Two and two on Otani.
04:10In a 2-0 game already.
04:12Bounce back to the hill.
04:13Your Savage leaps, pops out of his glove.
04:15He catches it again and shovel passes it over to first.
04:17In time for the out.
04:19Even trying to get Otani when he somewhat fumbled it.
04:23Your Savage stays cool and he's chuckling as he goes back to the hill.
04:25One out.
04:26Here's Will Smith.
04:27Bumped up in the Dodger order.
04:29There's a fly ball to left field that he hooks off the end of the bat.
04:32It's option.
04:33David Schneider will put it away.
04:34All right, so Mookie Betts hitting third for the first time in years.
04:39Dave Roberts trying to take a little bit of pressure off of him with everything funneling to him.
04:43That's just 147 since the start of the championship series.
04:47His Savage home at 0-2 and he strikes him out.
04:50Finishing off a 1-2-3 first inning.
04:52And a first inning for the Blue Jays that could not have gone better.
04:55And with one out, Addison Barger steps in to go left on left with Blake Snell.
04:59Barger right side and through.
05:00Oh, Addison Barger, five hits over the first two-plus games here in L.A.
05:07John Schneider looks like an absolute genius right now.
05:11Davis Schneider's in the ballgame for Nathan Lucas.
05:13He hit a home run keeping Addison Barger in this ballgame left on left.
05:16He comes up with a knock right there.
05:19Isaiah Kiner-Falefa getting a start again at second base, hitting in the eighth spot.
05:22He is looking for his first hit of the World Series.
05:262-2 is popped up down the line to ask Hernandez.
05:30See if he's got it in.
05:31He does to it.
05:34Andre Semenes knocked in a run in the seventh inning last night.
05:38Strikes him out swinging with a high fastball at 97.
05:41So, Snell strains Barger's one-out single.
05:44Boats up a zero in the second.
05:45Still 2-0 Jays.
05:47That's what it looks a lot better.
05:48Already has the feel of the pitch that we got to see against the Yankees and really against Seattle.
05:54Swing and a miss.
05:55And that's his second strikeout of the start.
05:58One out in the bottom of the second.
05:59It is very difficult as a Major League pitcher to make Shohei Otani look bad, to make Buki Betts look
06:06bad, and to make Freddie Freeman look bad.
06:09Trey Savage has done all three of those things in this ballgame so far.
06:12That's Oscar Hernandez, 0-7 in the first two games of this World Series, but 5 out of 11 with
06:18a home run since coming here to Dodger Stadium.
06:20Swing and a miss.
06:21Strike three.
06:22There's the slider, and he punches out Hernandez.
06:25Three in a row and two down in the bottom of the second.
06:27That one right there might have been the best slider I have ever seen him throw.
06:31And Yosavage has struck out three consecutive batters.
06:34Edmund with two away, and the base is out.
06:35The Dodgers looking for their first base runner.
06:37One-two pitch.
06:38Swing and a miss.
06:39Strike three.
06:41Trey is savage.
06:42Strikes out this side.
06:43He's punched out four in a row in two six-up, six-down innings in L.A.
06:49After the two home runs over the first three pitches, how deep can he get?
06:53Purdue pitchers talk about it's not always the eight shutout innings that you love.
06:57It's those games where you got punched and you still found a way to help your team win.
07:01Absolutely.
07:02I mean, he's 3-0 before that first World Series start dominating.
07:06This would be a better start than any of those three starts that he won
07:10if he held them to two runs and his team came back and won.
07:14He strikes out Kirk.
07:16And after the two home runs to start the game, he's got four strikeouts and nothing since.
07:22Meanwhile, Trey is savage, perhaps boosted by that early offense,
07:25going out there pitching with the lead.
07:27He's retired the first six and has struck out four in a row.
07:31He strikes out Muncy with a slider to the knees, and it's five in a row.
07:36Muncy barking up the first baseline, he didn't like it, five Ks in a row, one down.
07:42Trey is savage looks like a different pitcher than the one we saw in Toronto for game one.
07:46TK Hernandez, one out, nobody on.
07:49Here's the odds, but I forget about it.
07:51TK Hernandez finds the seats.
07:54And the Dodgers are within a run.
07:58That's a quarter of the way up the pavilion for TK Hernandez,
08:02who has launched his first home run of the postseason to give Dodgers Stadium some much-needed life.
08:09And what was Dave Roberts talking about?
08:12Hitting mistakes.
08:14That's what KK does.
08:15He's been working on keeping that front shoulder in, and boy did he.
08:19Fastball location, obviously a pitcher knows right now he's just looking for a new ball.
08:24You don't have to turn around and see how far it goes.
08:26You know when you release it.
08:28Hernandez giving the Dodgers a jaw.
08:30Back to the top of the order, Shohei Ohtani.
08:33Ohtani 0 for 3 yesterday.
08:35And the losses in the postseason for the Dodgers is 1 for 12.
08:40And the 2-2.
08:41Swing and a miss, strike three.
08:43Ohtani loses his helmet on this splitter.
08:45And Yusavage bounces back after giving up the solo shot to KK Hernandez.
08:50Marshall hit a two-run homer off Snell in game one.
08:53It was a fastball fat right over the middle of the plate.
08:56Swing and a fly ball hooked down the right field line.
08:58On the run to Oscar Hernandez.
08:59Slides and it's down.
09:00Rolling on to the side warning track.
09:02Varsho hits the bag at second.
09:03He wants third.
09:04Hernandez picking it up now.
09:06And Varsho takes a look and stops at third with a leadoff triple.
09:10That's a bad play by Teaster Hernandez.
09:13You know you're not going to catch it.
09:15And you have to play it on a hop and keep it to a single.
09:18It's going to be scored a triple.
09:20And this is another gap in this series.
09:22We mentioned the Blue Jays have not made an error in their last nine games.
09:25That's not going to show up as an error.
09:27But Dodgers not tight on defense.
09:31Infield plays back.
09:32Ernie Clemente's up.
09:33A ground ball could score a run with Varsho on third.
09:36Clemente lines a ball to center field.
09:38Kicking Hernandez makes the catch.
09:40Here comes Varsho.
09:41Hernandez is still flat-footed.
09:43Has no chance.
09:44And the Blue Jays take advantage of the defensive misplay to make it three to one.
09:48And that's no small item.
09:50And the Dodgers had rallied to cut it to half with that home run.
09:55Man, you could not have a better contrast right there.
09:58A mistake defensively for the Dodgers.
10:00And then the Blue Jays immediately make him pay for it.
10:03Savage is allowed one hit on a solo homer to Kike Hernandez.
10:07And punched out six in three innings.
10:09And he got him.
10:10Struck him out on a slider.
10:12One out.
10:13I mean, it's getting ridiculous at this point.
10:15He's made one mistake to Kike Hernandez.
10:17But other than that, he's been on for the majority of this game.
10:22That is eight strikeouts for Treyas Savage.
10:25They might have seen him in game one.
10:27But they did not see this guy.
10:28This is almost like they're facing a completely different guy with a completely different repertoire.
10:34Two-strike pitch.
10:35Bounced to home plate and it hit Freeman.
10:38Slider was spiked.
10:38Got Freddie Freeman on the outside of his right leg.
10:41And a lifeline to Freeman there as he's on first after being behind 0-2.
10:45So he's now on first.
10:47The tying run comes to the plate.
10:48Roll off the middle.
10:50Jimenez gets there.
10:51Has no play.
10:52Infield hit task of Amanda.
10:55And they're at first and second with two away.
10:58So the Dodgers trying to rally with two outs in his fourth inning.
11:01They've been searching for an inning to build.
11:04Now the Dodgers had traffic in yesterday's game but went 0-5 with runners in scoring position.
11:08And that has been the single biggest issue in this World Series.
11:12These situations.
11:13Pop fly back at the diamond.
11:16And Treyas Savage, first time there's a little pressure against him, does not break.
11:19They strand two.
11:21Following the back-to-back homers to begin the game, both starters have been really impressive.
11:24And now we'll see the rookie, Treyas Savage, again, who's allowed a run on two hits.
11:29Three base runners total in four innings.
11:31And he has struck out eight in his four innings of work.
11:34Starts the bottom of the fifth.
11:352-2.
11:36Hit on the ground right side.
11:38Picked up at second by IKF.
11:40Throws to the covering.
11:41Yosavage for the out.
11:43Really heads up from the 22-year-old.
11:45Vladdy went after it.
11:46Ended up lifting his glove because he didn't have as good of a chance as IKF.
11:50IKF delivered a nice throw to Yosavage on the run.
11:53One out.
11:53Here's Quique Hernandez.
11:54The reason the Dodgers are on the board.
11:56He hit a solo homer in the third.
11:57Swing and a miss.
11:58Strike three.
11:59Got him on a splitter in the dirt.
12:01Nine Ks in four and two thirds for Treyas Savage.
12:05Two down.
12:05Look at Treyas Savage.
12:07Tons of confidence out there.
12:08Tons of swag.
12:10Wow.
12:10To center field the first time for call.
12:12First start since the last game of the division series.
12:14Check swing.
12:15Pitch in the dirt.
12:16Appeal to first.
12:17He went.
12:1810 Ks in five innings for Treyas Savage.
12:21On to the sixth inning we go.
12:23Blue Jays three.
12:24Dodgers one.
12:25Ten strikeouts for Treyas Savage over the first five innings.
12:28The only time that's ever been accomplished.
12:31Game one of the 1963 World Series at Yankee Stadium.
12:34That man right there.
12:36Sandy Koufax.
12:38Ohtani asks for time.
12:39He's 0 for 2 in this game.
12:40Comebacker to the mound and a strikeout swinging.
12:42And it's ripped on a line to right.
12:44Charging.
12:44Barger dives.
12:46Did he get it?
12:47He did.
12:48Addison Barger.
12:51Racing to right center.
12:53To rob a hit from Ohtani.
12:55Ohtani hit it a mere 117 miles an hour.
12:59And Barger had the wherewithal to make the play one out.
13:02Making him do that.
13:04Treyas Savage can do no wrong.
13:06They're either missing or they're hitting it.
13:08And his defense making plays for him.
13:10Swing and a miss.
13:10Strike three.
13:1111 Ks for Treyas Savage.
13:14Two down in the bottom of the sixth.
13:15He's shredding right now in game five.
13:18Well, he's shredding and he is stomping around that mound out there.
13:21He is now tied Smokey Joe Wood for the most strikeouts in a World Series game for a pitcher 22
13:27or younger.
13:28Smokey in 19-12.
13:31Savage in 20-25.
13:33On the ground at Chopper to third.
13:35Charging Clement.
13:35Takes it on the high hop.
13:36Slings to first.
13:37And that's a 1-2-3 bottom of the sixth for Treyas Savage.
13:42And Snell on 92 pitches will remain in this game.
13:45There is a right-hander up in the pen.
13:47But probably part of the reasoning.
13:49Bottom third of the Blue Jay order.
13:50Two left-handed hitters.
13:51Two up for the Blue Jays.
13:52Starting with Addison Barger in this top of the seventh.
13:552-2.
13:56Bounce left side.
13:57And it sneaks through down the left field line.
14:00Barger tearing around first.
14:01Big turn.
14:02He'll go back to the bag.
14:03They were shifting him away from third.
14:05So he had a big gap in between Muncie and the bag.
14:07And he shot it.
14:08Call with a good play and left to get it back in.
14:10Leadoff single.
14:11He has reached base all three times in this game five.
14:14IKF takes in the dirt.
14:16And Barger off on the dirt ball.
14:17Smith can't find it.
14:18It's right in front of home.
14:19Barger in his second on a wild pitch.
14:21He took off early.
14:23Reading that the curveball was going to be spiked.
14:25And Smith was spinning around as the ball was right in front of him.
14:28And now if Keiner Fulefik can even just hit a ground ball to the right side.
14:33It'll move Barger to third.
14:34The playoff pitch.
14:37Bouncing ball left side.
14:38Bex is there.
14:39Running good.
14:40One time.
14:41Hunter stays at second.
14:42And we'll see if Andres Cementes can come up clutch again.
14:45Runner on second.
14:46One out top of the seventh inning.
14:48Down of his hand in his fourth walk of the game.
14:51Will set it up for the top of the order and likely end his night.
14:55No.
14:55Mark Pryor instead.
14:57Yeah.
14:57That's the viable time.
14:58I don't I don't know if if they would rather face Lucas here.
15:03Yeah.
15:03So I guess the question is Snell against Schneider or Henriquez against Lucas.
15:07Right.
15:07Blake Snell has looked good even though he's deep into this start.
15:10110 pitches.
15:12This is the last start of his season.
15:13Just let it eat.
15:14The Davis Schneider and then if Davis Schneider gets on base you bring in the righty to face
15:18Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
15:20The one two.
15:21Did it hit him?
15:21No.
15:22It just bounced off Smith and rolled away and Barger with another great dirt ball.
15:26He takes off for third.
15:27Making a second wild pitch in the inning.
15:30Addison Barger has found his way from first to third on two spiked curveballs by Blake Snell.
15:36I mean this kid just does it all.
15:37Everything he is showing off everything in this ballgame a diving catch a couple of dirtball reads
15:44and now that very very important fourth run of the ballgame is standing at third base.
15:48A 3-2 to Davis Schneider.
15:51Down with a change.
15:53And that will be the end of the line for Blake Snell.
15:56Dave Roberts will go down to his young flamethrower righty Henriquez as Snell finishes off his night with his 7K.
16:02The hard throwing righty faces Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
16:06With runners on first and third in two outs.
16:09Vladdy trying to cash in Barger.
16:10Payoff pitch to Vlad Jr.
16:13Overthrows it to the backstop and here comes Barger.
16:164-1 Toronto.
16:18A single and three wild pitches to allow Barger to go first to home.
16:24And that is not your typical Dodgers inning.
16:27But the fear of making a great pitch to a great hitter.
16:33The feeling that a manager has when he watches a runner go first, second, third, home without a hit.
16:41And the Blue Jays have the insurance with a pitcher on the mound who looks unhittable.
16:46Jimenez on second and Guerrero on first.
16:48They want to add more.
16:49Bichette to the plate.
16:49And the pitch is lined.
16:51Slicing down and right.
16:52Base hit!
16:53Coming around third.
16:55Jimenez.
16:55Vladdy going first to third.
16:57Jimenez in to score.
16:58Vladdy slides into third.
17:00RBI single.
17:01Bobachette.
17:02It's the Blue Jays five.
17:04The Dodgers one in the top of the seventh.
17:07And the Blue Jays have another multi-run inning.
17:10And for the second night in a row, a Dodger win-eever comes in.
17:14And the two inherited runners both come in.
17:16Freya Savage back out for a seventh inning.
17:18Has not allowed a base runner since the fourth.
17:20That was an infield hit.
17:21Only hit to the outfield he's allowed all game was the Kike homer in the third.
17:26Freddie Freeman leads off.
17:27One-two pitch.
17:28Swing and a miss.
17:30Strike three.
17:31A dozen Ks for Yosavage.
17:33And in the process, he sets a major league record.
17:37Most strikeouts in a World Series game ever by a rookie with 12.
17:42I mean, it just keeps getting better and better.
17:45What a performance so far from Trey Yosavage.
17:48And this is going to be an infield hit for Teaster Hernandez.
17:52It's only the third hit tonight.
17:54The Dodgers have been able to muster.
17:56Just a fourth base runner.
17:58This is the bottom of the seventh inning.
18:00And that's why those two runs in the top of the seventh inning are so important for the Blue Jays.
18:04That changes the way Trey Yosavage is going to attack Tommy Edmond and potentially Max Muncy behind him.
18:11He knows that these guys aren't the tying run.
18:14So you want to throw strikes.
18:15You want to pound that strike zone.
18:28And it's 5-1 Blue Jays in game five of the World Series.
18:32About a month and a half ago, nobody outside of the most diehard Blue Jays fans or prospect fans would
18:38have known the name Trey Yosavage.
18:40Everybody going to know him now.
18:4212 strikeouts in game five of the World Series and he holds the defending champions to just a run over
18:47seven innings.
18:49You don't see this kind of thing.
18:51A guy this young and this inexperienced doing this on this stage.
18:56This doesn't happen.
18:57This humble young man has set some records that are going to be tough to match.
19:04He's never going to forget that game.
19:06And neither are the fans of the Toronto Blue Jays.
19:09Extra base for Toronto.
19:10The biggest game of the Dodgers year and they have come out like it is the middle of summer with
19:15how sloppy they have played.
19:16Yep.
19:17It's been a group effort.
19:18Instead of a double play, runner on third one out.
19:22Again, giving extra teams bases in 90 feet to any team, but especially the best team in the American League
19:29and the best offense in baseball, is bold strategy.
19:32Kind of for left to pass the drawn in infield to make it six to one.
19:37Single wild pitch, productive out.
19:41And then kind of for left his first hit of the World Series.
19:44Nice five runs.
19:45The Jays now lead by the way the Dodger offense is going.
19:48Feels like 50.
19:49And the Blue Jays are an out of way.
19:52Two down in the bottom of the nine.
19:53Teoscar Hernandez, the former Blue Jays, the last hope for the Dodgers.
19:58Damn!
20:00Jeff Hoffman finishes it off.
20:02And the Blue Jays come into L.A.
20:05Take two out of three here.
20:07Beating them tonight six to one.
20:09And they're up three games to two in the World Series.
20:14What a ball game.
20:15Back-to-back home runs for the Blue Jays to start the game.
20:18Davis Schneider getting a stud.
20:21Hit the first pitch against Blake Snell out of the ballpark.
20:24Vlade went back-to-back.
20:25And what about Trey Yusavich?
20:27A historic start for the rookie.
20:29Seven innings.
20:30One run on three hits.
20:32No walks.
20:33And a record 12 strikeouts.
20:35And the Blue Jays indeed have a 3-2 lead in this World Series.
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