Eastern welcome to World Series game day 8 p.m.

Eastern that is welcome to World Series game day with Sean Casey Matt Vasquez and back for game four man we have a lot to react to after last night we're going to look forward to tonight a lot on Louise Hill Yankees lineup has to come alive we're going to visit with Gary Sheffield who's played for both of these brands and has been watching the World Series I got to ask you before we get into the highlight the analysis if you're a Yankee fan right now knowing that only one team has ever come back in a best of seven postseason series from being down 0 3 what's your mindset today you're holding on to hope I mean you're you don't feel super confident but you're holding on to hope that you know what a team has done it before and they did it against the Yankees you know maybe we can do it tonight yeah and if you're a Dodger fan you are on the precipice of complete elation thinking about the unthinkable which is potentially a sweep this doggone thing might go over tonight case I can't believe that I would never have thought when these teams lined up two juggernauts like we had it all lined up the two best teams in baseball that we talk and we were talking about a sweep right now yeah so what are the the morning papers saying about what happened last night the Bronx as you can imagine the daily news is not pulling any punches in fact none of the New York Dailies are temple of room talking about the potential for a four game Dodger sweep New York Newsday Brinks bombers Yanks frustrated by Dodgers pitching down 3 0 in a serious hole and then how about this the post used the same photo of Juan Soto.

So it's my favorite.

We waited for this.

I mean you were there last night was and according to everybody I've spoken to including yourself the Freeman homer just kind of sucked the life out of the job.

It felt like Yankee Stadium was ready to go.

They were ready to go.

Everyone's cheering then Freeman homers.

It was and from there on it was just like Wawa.

You know to me it was like oh man.

Yeah well let's get to the highlights then.

For those that didn't watch how it unfolded last night and it started with a four pitch walk to show the Ohtani.

These are all heaters that Clark Schmidt couldn't find the handle on case.

I looked a little nervous right there trying to find that zone maybe a little anxious.

So with a man on Ohtani grab on his collar to keep that shoulder secure.

Freddie Freeman did it again to nothing.

Dodgers got that pitch middle and it just did a great job of turn on that fifth consecutive World Series game with a home run.

Families cleared off shelf space for the MVP award which is feeling inevitable at this point.

Bottom of the first Yankees with the runner on Aaron Judge strikes out swinging seven strikeout in three games in the series for Judge who continues to struggle.

Stanton's next ground ball ends the inning and Walker Buehler whose Velo was big and good late life on everything was scoreless through one to the third now showing Ohtani with a runner at first Browns to the right side.

Tommy Edmund advances productive out for Shohei still kind of nursing that shoulder Mookie Betts now after an epic at bat where he just kept fouling off pitches to stay alive.

Get off me.

Jam shot into right.

We're going to break this down in a moment.

Tommy Edmund scores.

It's three nothing L.A. and a quiet Yankee stadium draws even more pensive.

I mean you talk about making an adjustment.

Great job pulling his hands in and getting that ball right to the fourth now Stanton at second after doubling Anthony Volpe with two out base hit.

Here come the Yankees right.

Not so says to Oscar Hernandez they send Gio having a hard time getting around and a perfect throw nails him at home plate with that right on the money.

But you know G round in third base thought he was going to make it.

But Oscar made a great throw home.

I mean this was talked about a lot last night.

Do you send him or not.

We'll have our thoughts on it here in a bit.

It's still three nothing L.A. top of the sixth inning now Walker Buehler getting the congrats from the dugout.

He was great.

Jake Cousins now for New York facing Kiki Hernandez runner at second and it's for nothing Los Angeles.

How good has Kiki been to a lot of the role players the guys that aren't the superstars in that lineup.

They have been great for the Dodgers especially Kiki Hernandez to the ninth bottom of the ninth inning.

Michael Kopech to try to end it.

Alex Verdugo given the home side a little chance here with a two run shot brought a little bit of life back to Yankee Stadium there with two outs in the ninth.

It was going to be too little too late.

Next up is Gleyber Torres and a ground ball to shortstop would end the game and the potential comeback for the home side.

The Dodgers win it for two.

They take a commanding three oh series lead and they look to wrap things up in the Bronx tonight.

Walker Buehler was great.

It all started there.

Clark Schmidt had trouble locating.

Ironically it was his cutter that kind of failed him.

We talked about his cutter yesterday being his best weapon.

He threw that cutter only twenty nine percent strike rate yesterday.

Struggled was pulled early.

Really the culprit was the lineup for the New York Yankees which failed to produce anything interesting again.

I mean people are waiting for this lineup.

At what point case do you credit Dodger pitching and you stop ripping on the Yankees for being unproductive.

Listen I think that's it.

The reason the teams are here at this level is because they got great pitching.

So when you get to that when you get to the World Series especially on the National League side when you had to go through the Padres you had to go through the Mets all of a sudden you do that with great pitching.

And I think you have to give us some credit to that Dodger pitching the guys of Flaherty Yamamoto and Buehler have been great and that bullpen Matty is it's absolutely been lights out.

It's the little things too.

I mean if we were to micro focus on the two strike count Aaron Judge has been in a two strike count in three to two thirds of his plate appearances in this World Series like it feels like every time he's in there one and two oh and two and he's in trouble.

The two strike count on the other side has been something where the Dodgers have been able to produce.

In fact they had two big plays yesterday and two strike counts.

We talked about that Betts hit.

How about Freddie's Homer.

This came in a two strike count yesterday.

Yeah I think one thing about this about this lineup is that with two strikes they battle they put the ball in play.

I think that's what makes them so dangerous.

And then the Betts hit.

I mean this is just a little thing and it's the perfect play that tells you everything you want to know about where these two sides are.

Tommy Edmund got a great jump on that little flair ended up scoring easily.

Juan Soto didn't get a great jump defensively and it cost a run.

Dodgers are a good base running team.

The Yankees have had some defensive trouble and it all crystallized in that one moment.

Yeah the Dodgers have been so good.

You're right Matty in every facet of the game their base running has been great.

Defensively they've been great.

They're hitting with two strikes they're putting the ball play they're hitting for power.

They're doing everything right now that a championship team does.

Freddie Freeman's been the guy leading the power charge and it's time for in the making presented by Adobe.

Let's break down Freddie and what he's been doing.

Oh man I tell you what when I look at Freddie he said something the other night after game one when he hit that grand slam.

And I think it sets up what he's been doing.

I want to show you what that is right now.

I wanted to see how he was going to attack Shohei.

So I was just watching his at bats and it was cutters and sliders away with heaters up.

And I was like you know what I'm going to look a little closer which is not what I normally do.

I try to look out over and hit line drives a shortstop.

But I was like you know what I'm going to be on time for this heater I can be on top of the heater and I'm going to look a little closer so I don't.

And I will be the hero.

I wasn't thinking that I was trying to get a base hit to score those two runs.

But I was just looking closer because I wanted I wanted to just be able to check off the cutter and slider away.

And you know he threw it right in the lane I was looking in thankfully.

But I was just trying to be on top of the heater and on time because I was getting a lot of heaters from like Weaver and I was just missing them.

And I just wanted to be on time and give myself the best chance.

And you know I had to plan an approach.

And usually when you have those good things happen usually.

So good right there.

Matt he's so good approach a plan on top of the plate.

Listen this is his approach.

Look Middleway reacted this one right here on Nestor Cortez.

He had such a good approach and a plan on him.

He was looking for that ball middle and got it.

This one right here.

If you set up and watch Freddie Freeman this is why he's so good.

He's looking out over the plate.

Anything that's in is going to react.

You see right there he's looking for that heater way.

Ninety seven and up.

But the takes are so good.

This is when you have this approach.

Look Middleway react in the takes are so good.

And then bam that's a reaction.

He's not looking in there off Carlos Rodon.

I promise you that that's a reaction pitch up and in.

And then we saw last night takes that first pitch sweeper right there.

Balls middle way.

But you can tell his body language that front shoulders in he's looking out over the plate gets the one two and then bam he gets that ball middle in ninety three.

Just a reaction approach and a plan.

And when you look at Freddie Freeman why he's so good why he's so tough to pitch to is that he can go line to line and he's so good.

But you see what does the fast balls in since twenty twenty one this guy absolutely hammers the ball.

But I love what he said before Matt he says I'm looking to go to line drives over the short stops head.

Anything that's middle in is really just a reaction.

That's why you hit three hundred.

That's why you drive in one hundred.

That's why you hit 30 home runs and that's why you're a line to line guy.

You saw his first hit in game one of the World Series was a bullet down the left field line for that triple.

So when you look at Freddie Freeman right now this is a tough guy to pitch to because he's covering both sides of the plate which is tough to do.

It's one of my favorite quotes from a World Series in the last I don't know five ten years.

I just want to stay on time for the heater.

Yeah.

As though he's some punch in the face Judy you know two dollar hitter who just came up from Tree Player that has no chance.

So he's going to be in the Hall of Fame this guy and he stays humble and he's so transparent with his approach.

I love listening to him talk about hitting to love it.

All right.

So and we're going to talk about how he matches up against Luis Hill a little bit later on in this show because he homers again and the World Series record belongs to him.

And there is a chance that Freddie Freeman goes deep.

We'll lay that out for you later.

Let's listen to Dave Roberts first of all on his postgame comments on where the Dodgers are being up three games to none.

You're one of the few people on Earth who know what it's like to come back from a three deficit.

Don't talk about the wrong guy way too early.

There's just got to be urgency.

I just don't want to let these guys up for air like that.

And of course referencing the Red Sox team that he came back with the only team that's come back in the best of seven from an 0 3 deficit.

I believe it too.

I think the Dodgers are going to manage this thing tonight.

Game four up three oh as though it's game seven all locked up.

I agree.

I love what Dave Roberts said there.

Urgency we're not this isn't over until it's over and he knows better than anybody that it's not.

So I agree with you Matty.

I think they're going to they're going to come out.

They're going to it's going to be a bullpen game but they're going to match up as best they can.

If they get the lead they're going to try and squash this thing tonight.

New York.

What's one of the keys to winning a bullpen game score in a ton of runs.

Yeah.

And they have right.

They've won two of their three bullpen games and they've outscored opponents twenty one to twelve in those games.

So when you when you bombard the other staff your your bullpen can breathe a little bit.

And if you have one of the seven or eight guys that has a clunker or a hiccup it's not going to matter because you've already posted seven or eight runs.

That's been their formula.

The formula is try to get up early and then just lock it down with that pen.