Rays Stay Alive in Game 4 as Jeter, Big Papi and A-Rod Break Down Thrilling Win Over Brewers

Rays Stay Alive in Game 4 as Jeter, Big Papi and A-Rod Break Down Thrilling Win Over Brewers

The Tampa Bay Rays avoided a sweep with a dramatic Game 4 win over the Milwaukee Brewers, keeping their World Series hopes alive. Derek Jeter, David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez joined Kevin Burkart to break down the nail-biting finish, and manager Kevin Cash reflected on the pressure and what his team is playing for.

Rays Avoid Sweep! Jeter, Big Papi & A-Rod Break Down NAIL-BITING Game 4 vs Brewers. | Transcript:

What a wild win. What a wild game. Had everything and the Rays stay alive and we have got their manager now. That's what they're playing for. The Commissioner Trophy. We got some more World Series games to play. Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez. I'm Kevin Burkart. And this man not only managed a heck of a game tonight, but you played with and against these guys, Kevin Cash. And Kev, um, first of all, just how's your heartbeat right about now, man? That starting to slow. Starting to slow a little bit. I'm happy to see some former teammates, brief teammates, but I'll take it. You guys do a heck of a job up here. I'm glad we get to see another ball game tomorrow.

Yeah, no doubt. Kev, before the game, we were saying this is all about Ray's pride and not having a team celebrate on your field. Finally, in the ninth inning, you take get a break. Ortiz makes that error and it opens up the window. At that point, are you thinking just let me get one across or you thinking if I have an opportunity, I'm going to go for the big one? Well, definitely with pinch running and Cammy right there with Mullins right there and then uh tag up contact play whatever it is get one buy us another inning whatever we can do but the guys came through and swung the bat really well.

Cash congratulation on the win tonight. You have been an incredible manager for the ball club for a while. What was the mentality coming into tonight's game being down zero and three? I said it after the game yesterday. It's kind of a chip in the chair mentality. You know, you're sitting there, you we just want to do everything we can to get the play to the next day. I'm really impressed with the way the guys hung in there. That was a grind. You know, you're going through three innings of Ashby. Nothing's going offensively. They kept their heads up and we just kind of bought ourselves some time.

Now, Kev, you've had the best team in the American League all year. And what you guys have been able to do is you playing clean baseball for the most part the entire year. You get to this point and you make some mistakes early on. I mean, we've left Milwaukee. You're down two games. You very easily could have been up two games if it wasn't for some mistakes. Do you have to remind your team before every game or after every game, listen, we got to clean it up if we're going to win this championship? We're definitely saying that our staff reminds our group of little things that you're alluding to and also reminding them we're really good, too. That Brewer team is that's an elite ball

club and we know we got to play elite baseball to get back into this thing. Uh, but the support that the guys have shown each other all season long is not going to waver just because we're in October. You know, Kevin, I think you guys and the Brewers are similar in a lot of ways that everyone on your roster at some point during the year in the postseason contributes, right? So, that spot for Ben Williamson, he's one for 15 to the playoffs. Just take me what that feel what that felt like for him, what you're watching. Take us through it. Here it is. High contact guy hoping for contact. He wasn't waiting around. Chopped it right into that turf or whatever it was. And it gave us a great bounce. We'll take

any hit we can get right there. Absolutely, man. Absolutely. Kevin, your bullpen was unbelievable tonight. I believe one run in six innings. Baker with two first time in the series. How'd you feel about that? Did you have the confidence? And do you feel they come back strong tomorrow? Yeah, it'll be interesting how we navigate through tomorrow's game with our pitching. Uh I was just in the moment saying we got to get Baker in this game. He's not going to pitch not pitch in the World Series. So I was happy he came in, did his thing for two innings. Uh Tyler Wells was outstanding for us. And look, I thought Ian Seymour, I know he's been chewed up a little bit here right now. Pratt home run. He

settled in, kept it a one-run ball game and allowed for one miscue to open the floodgates. Catch, how do you win tomorrow? What how does he stay alive, Tommy? Yeah, we're going to need to hit that ultimately we're going to need to hit and that's going to be a tall order. I'm assuming it's Miseroski tomorrow. Like some of our bats early on, we got to score some points. And do you think when you're going into these games, especially with how great their bullpen's been, not only the whole year, but especially this postseason, do you

think, look, we got to do everything we can do to scrap and claw for some early runs, whether it's the first inning, second inning, third inning. Well, that Yeah, I we all feel that way. And you know, the old adage is get the starter, you know, get him out of the game. I don't know if that's the best thing to do with this Brewer line uh Brewer bullpen. So, get some early runs and hope and claw to get some late runs. Hey Kevin, just with Camo, I know he's been gutting through it, but think he's going to be okay. It looked obviously he came out of the game pinched runner, but he looked like he was limping around.

He'll play tomorrow on one leg. I'll make sure of it. That's what I figured. Had to ask you though, my man. Poppy, got something for your guy. I got a good luck shirt right here for you, my homeboy, my former teammate, my brother. I love playing with this guy. This guy is a true. This guy is the best right here. Good luck, man. The rest of the way. Wear that tomorrow. You win if you wear that on the league. You told Pat Murphy that a couple days ago. Now Kevin's the best.

THIS IS MY GUY, MAN. COME ON, MAN. THIS IS MY FORMER TEAMMATE. What are you talking about? Thank you. We got a World Series. Kevin Cash, congratul for you tomorrow. Let's go. Say you got three good guys to choose from. Kev, congrats, man. We'll see you tomorrow night. What a gutty win for the Rays who uh who have come to life and say we're not going home just yet. That's right. They get on the board. 3-1 this World Series. Now it took 12 innings and drama as Kevin Cass, great to see him. Poppy, your guy played play with him in Boston. He is the longest tenure manager in the American League. A guy that doesn't get talked about enough. What a 12th inning. I

think I'm out of breath. So am I, Kevin. I mean, the Brewers were poised to win the World Series and the Rays said, "Not so fast." How exciting is this, boy? Hey, how exciting is this? How happy are we? That's you. Are you playing FOR THE RAYS? THIS IS MORE BASEBALL, BOYS. We love this. Um, Derek Jeter is here. David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez, I'm Kevin Burkard. All right, Al. 12th inning. Cooper Pratt, who had four hits, by the way, for the Brewers. Hits a home run. The Brewers fans losing their mind. And you're thinking, "Oh my goodness, they're about to wrap this up and get a sweep." And then they get a little life.

Camaro reaches on an error by usually very good defensive player, Joey Ortiz, and that opened the door for the Rays to do the rest. You're right, Kevin, if you're paying attention. And I always tell young players, watch the game. Ortiz came in the game. He had a ground ball and he kind of threw a little bit of a dead fish the first. He got picked up. There it is. And then in the 12, there's a tougher play than it looks. It's right down the line. He has a little bit more time. You preferably in smoke setting. You might as well throw a long bounce pass than an in between one. That's impossible right there. In the turf, especially, when in doubt, bounce it long and give your

first baseman a good look. But fellas, you're saying for the first time, Tampa plays a cleaner game than the Brewers. And when that door opens, you go, "Uhoh, maybe there's their opportunity." Hey, that is the reason why both of this team have won over 100 games. They take advantage of your mistake. They take advantage of the situation. That's exactly what happened in this game tonight. Ortiz, he got time to make a good throw to first base, make a bad throw. what they did, take advantage of it. They know how to execute. Look at how they put the ball in play. They are great at putting the ball in play. Boom.

End of winning the game. Yeah, it was a mistake. We talked about in the pregame, we talked about the mistakes that Tampa made, giving the Brewers extra outs and, you know, they were able to capitalize on it. And today or tonight, today and tonight, what time is it? I don't even know what time it is. I'm not sure what day it is. It's morning already. Breakfast time. Here we go in the 12th inning. A mistake. Can you give it to Tampa? Because they didn't give up. It'd be very easy for them to just say, "Oh, it's not our year. We're down again. We're facing this strong bullpen." The one mistake turned the tides. And I thought Kevin Cash brought up an interesting point, right? And here is the Ben Williamson hit. He's right.

He didn't waste any time. So, I'm going to put the bat on the ball and see if something good happens. And it did. But go ahead. And I tell you what, we talked about before the series started here about the home field advantage with Tampa. And here you go. Ground ball. chopped it off the turf or the hard infield over the head game. No exit below, no launch angle. And you know, Ortiz makes that play, you know, nine out of 10 times, if not 10 out of 10 times. But when you put the ball in play in October, especially with the nerves up, three outs away from winning a world title. That throw seems a little bit different and he showed it. But you do that by, you know, running hard, putting the ball in play, and continue

to put pressure. And in October, don't take anything for granted. I thought Kevin Cash, interesting comment, right? I mean, he was obviously hyped up and as he should be, but Ian Symor had a tough go here the last couple weeks. He's just gassed. You could tell. And he gives up the home run to Cooper Pratt and then a double to Jackson Cheurio. And we were all kind of saying, "Oh, that's a big run out there." And he hunkered down and he got out of that. He kept it a one-run game. It's kind of an underrated footnote in this game tonight. Very much so. But like Poppy said, both these teams won a 100 games. It's cuz they have the heart of Lions. They're not going to give in. And you know what?

when you're getting your butts kicked the way they got their butts kicked yesterday. It's so easy to let go that rope, but give Kevin Cash and this race team a lot of credit for competing to the very end. And not only that, I mean, everybody was a spiked home. Look at Nick Martinez coming in the game. Yeah. Pitching at one inning. I mean, it's like I say, when you are zero and three, you are against the wall. There's no room. Everything you got to do is moving forward. And that's what they did. They hold on tonight really well. Even if that bull pen from the Brewer was successful against them tonight, they hang on tight. Even the

bull pen from Tampa keep the keep those runner up back of the base. They try to have not to have traffic on the base so they can score later on because that's what you got to do. I mean this team, they know how to execute at any time. It was a battle of the bullpens. I mean you got to give it to Tampa's bullpen. I mean they did an unbelievable job as well. Um, man, tomorrow night is going to be You talk about taking all these notes. Write down everybody that's going to be pitching in that game tomorrow. I'm so fired up, G. Let me tell you this, Kevin. If you're Tampa, you're saying, "Is this a win or is this a win and a half?" Because the big boy, Aaron Ashby, pitched another two innings. Is he going

to be available? I'm sure he is, but he's not going to be available, I don't think, for two innings. So, that's a little bit of an advantage raise. I think the pitching is interesting because the Rays at the very least they got Mizarowski tomorrow. There's a tweak there which we'll talk about in a second and the Rays I mean they'll figure it out but I don't know who's starting for them and we're going to figure that out and we'll talk about it. But let's hear Pat Murphy though his reaction after this tough loss as the Brewers were this close. You know it's going to be hard. You're playing the best team in the American League. They proved it all year long and they came up big today. It's going to be hard. you know, um

it's not it's when you're achieving something like this, it's uh going to have its adversity. You know, we had some things go our way yesterday. They had some things go their way this today. So, that's that's the way it is. You just live with it. And if you're a competitor, you wake up tomorrow morning, come ready to play. Will the plan tomorrow be Miseroski? Yeah. and to have that as, you know, your guy for this type of situation. Um, yeah, I mean, it's all hands on deck, you know, you just you can write it up and hope that they perform like the

best back of their baseball cart, but that doesn't always happen, you know. So, you just you go with what you believe is the deal. And um, you know, I trust our guys. I trust them. You know, they put themselves in position to win. And credit to Tampa for what they did. Just credit them. Like look what they did. Um they put in play when they needed to and um we drained a lot of pitching as they did and um that's part of playing a tight ball game. That's part of it. Yeah. And you know it was a great ball game. And Derek, you know, I like what Pat said there, you know, and you think about what we did in the pregame show, right? about the 82

Brewers and how close they came the seventh, you know, seventh inning and he said it's got it's going to be a little adversity and they had runners the Rays had runners on third in the ninth inning. Both games won and two and the Brewers held on. It was the same thing tonight, but this time the Rays got the runs home obviously. Yeah, you're right. He said it's going to be hard. He understands this. You know, it's as good as Tampa feels right now coming into tomorrow because I tell you what, they're going to sleep well. If you're the Brewers, you can't allow this to deflate you. Because if someone told you in spring training, you'd be up three games to one in the World Series with your ace on the mount, has been the

best pitcher in all of baseball on the mount, they would all take it. You know what I mean? So, you got two clubouses that are feeling pretty good coming in tomorrow night. Let me ask you a question to the two of you right here. You are zero and three, man. What do you think the pressure goes to? Because when you are zero and three, you will feel like, okay, we got this, but you got to continue keeping that foot on the opposition throw so they don't do what Tampa did tonight. Tomorrow, they can come back with a different mojo. I'm talking about the race and it's because number one, they playing at home. Number two, they bounce back and

play a hell of a game. That was a hell of a game tonight. Unbelievable game. They give everything they have tonight. I mean, what we talk about in the pregame tonight, it was exactly what they did. Everybody spikes on, be ready. Nick Martinez coming in. That caught my attention a lot. I wasn't expecting him, but it's Kevin, when you are against the road, that's what you got to do. You got to go with everything you got. So, tomorrow is going to be a lot of pressure. I mean, you heard Pat Murphy what he say, but he's going to be feeling the heat tomorrow again because he don't want these guys to wake up.

Is there a question in there? Well, and I asked you guys, you were I'll ask question. You did it awkward. You were zero AND THREE. YOU TELL ME. WELL, first of all, if that's your own audition as a host, you failed. But let me So, let me ask you, you bring up a really interesting point. So, let's let's ask you when you're down 03 and then all of a sudden it's 3-1, what did you feel like? It was no pressure right here. You got nothing to lose. You got to play the game. You already against the road. You got to just move forward. You got to do whatever it takes. That's what they did tonight. Now, when you are 3

and 0, you want to finish the mission. And they didn't finish the mission tonight. Let's see tomorrow. What's happening? Yeah. I mean, look, I've been on the other side. You obviously you guys were down 03 and came back. We were up three 0. You're right. You can't take the foot off the gas. We didn't take the foot off the gas when we were playing them, right? We were up 3 0. Game four, we were up one run in the ninth inning with Mo on the mound. Game five, we were up two runs in the eighth inning and you guys battled back and you beat us. You know, it's that's just how the game goes

sometimes. So, if you the Milwaukee Brewers, they did exactly what they wanted to do. They had a lead in the 12th inning and you got to give a little credit to Tampa. So, that's what makes baseball fun. You never know what's going to happen. Yeah, but don't don't get me wrong. What I was trying to say is when you are 3 and 0, there's more pressure, I would say, than when you are 0 and three. And it's because you are one step away from winning at all. And then all of a sudden, the team comes back and beat you. That will put more pressure on you, Papa. You're right. And you know what October is about is a mental warfare. I mean, these seven games are a marathon and every game has a residual effect to

the next game. If you're Tampa, I'm sure those guys are going through their minds and going, "These guys are made AI. They're not real. You can't beat them." Almost like when Rocky went up against the Russian, but all of a sudden, we'll be back to Ricky, but all of a sudden, they make a mistake and they seem to be human and you guys gained a little bit of confidence, but we're not taking you too seriously. Then you win another one. Now you got Shilling and Pedro Low and So, you got to be careful in this thing. Listen, to be a world champion, you have to play free errors error-free baseball and you got to play clean baseball. And Ortiz, those last three outs, we've

always said the hardest outs to get in baseball are the last three. And Ortiz proved that by just a little bit of a, you know, soft throw to first base. Absolutely. Yeah. In all it took to open the door and we got a series now. The Rays are not done at 1:00 a.m. a Tampa took. Who's hungry, Alex? I'm hungry. Yeah, let's go. You going to dive in? I got it, Kevin. You're just going to dive in? I tell you, they look great. But it is 1 in the morning. I'll get in there. All right, now we're talking.

Wow. Now we're talking. That's aggressive. What an animal. It looks good. And by the way, the concession stands closed at the seventh inning. That's really good. Sitting there for a while. It smells really good. No. They just made it. About 10 of these. This is really good. It smells really, really good. They just made it. Can we place an order for tomorrow? That's right. I would love to do that if we could. If we can do Yeah.

Tomorrow dinner. Um, let's get the highlights. If you missed the game, why don't we go back? Let's see the highlight. Let's do it. David, see there. Now the hosting's coming along. I like it. Well done. Show your food. There we go. All right. Brewers one win away. Come in tonight. Fifth inning down 2-1. David Hamilton going yard. Second home run of the postseason. He had only four in the regular season. Deer district going nuts in Milwaukee. So we move to the 12th inning. 22-year-old Cooper Pratt who had three hits already. None bigger than that.

Deep and gone. Four hits in a home run in the World Series. What a night for Cooper Pratt. Brewers lead it in the 12th. He's admiring that one. And why not? The Brewers can smell it now. But we go to the bottom of the 12th. Junior Cabanero ground ball. Hard hit to third. Scooped up by Joey Ortiz who's normally very good, but he short hopped Jake Bowers. And Caban arrow is safe and that would be pretty darn big. No assumptions in October KB cuz then Liam Hicks delivers other way. Base hit there. Cameron Arrow goes first to third on a bad wheel. You see he's limping but he gets there and that was huge. He would then be lifted for a pinch runner.

Johnny Duca comes up, sends that pinch runner home with the infield in base hit. We're tied. Chandler Simpson had a hit to load him up. Then it's Ben Williamson. Five infielders in. Doesn't matter. He still finds a way to get it through. Rays win 4-3. Walk-off in the 12th. Bedum in St. Pete. Teams to force game five went down 3 0. Hard to believe there's only been five of them. And there's never been a team that has forced a game six down 3 in a World Series. So, the Rays trying to buck history tomorrow and send this thing back to Milwaukee. Race fans are in the house, and I'll give them credit. It's 1:00 a.m. They've been here the whole time. It was a fun crowd. Tons of Brewers fans with the race fans loud,

too. And now the pitching, right? Go ahead. What do you got? And I got something to react to that film, too. Go ahead. You're eating a tomahawk steak. Yeah. And you're washing it down with an energy drink, man. And it's one What are you doing after this? He's going for a workout. We should do production meeting for tomorrow. I am so excited, guys. Actually, this is gonna be awesome. I'm not mad at that. You got a life. I have no life. I love baseball. We can come in later. We get a cocktail.

We'll do a production meeting. We'll come in later tomorrow. Walk right in first. He's drinking energy drink by this time. KB before our host Poppy gets into pitching tomorrow. Can I just say Keano going from first to third on a base hit to left field is not a given and he's got a bad leg. But by him going to third, it brings the infield in and all those outs could have been double plays or outs. Instead, their base hits. All the little things count. We talked about base running and how well the Brewers have been running. Well, tonight it was a raise that ran with a lot of heart and legs.

That's why you got to keep your mind on the game. You can get your mind off the game for the minute. He know that Cheerio doesn't have that great of an arm. The ball got hit in between and he read the ball really well. That's how he got to third base. You got to stay focused so you can take advantage of situations. Yeah. I mean, look, we're four games in, three of those games really could have gone either way. Sure. And two of them went the Brewers way because they played cleaner baseball. Tonight it was Tampa. Absolutely. That's it. Bottom line. Um, so now we go to a game five tomorrow night or tonight. Yep. It's tonight.

Yeah. I had to see what time it was. Uh let's talk pitching. Derek, the Brewers, you heard Pat Murphy say they're going to go with Jacob Mizowski. He's going to go on standard rest, which he only did a few times during the year. He'll be fine, but it's not something he did. They usually gave him a 5 days rest. Miserowski, your ace on the mound. It's what you want if you're the Brewers. Now you got the race. Drew Rasmus and his ace. He's never pitched on three days rest in his career. Guy that's had three should three arm surgeries. That might be a tough ask for I don't I mean anything's possible. The guy's a gamer.

It'll be really interesting to see how Kevin Cash sits down and decides how he's going to figure out getting through this game tomorrow night. I think talking to Kevin, I don't think he knows what they're going to do yet. I you know, Drew Rasmusen is has been quietly one of the best pitchers in the game for the last few years since he's come here to Tampa. I think it would be unfair to ask him to do that. Like you mentioned, he had the three arm surgeries. I don't think you're going to see Drew Rasmusen just tomorrow, but they're going to put piece it together as best they can. And once again, I

think everyone's going to be available maybe with an exception of Rasmus. Guess what? You against the rope. It's not like you had a whole lot of choice. Remember, we had a guy named Kurt Sheilling that just got surgery and went out there and pitched because we need it. That's all we got at the moment. I know it's different time right now, but you got to go with everything you got. I'm pretty sure you're going to have that conversation with him just to see he can give him one or two innings. Everybody need to be a spice on tomorrow. There's not tomorrow. There we go. You ready, Kevin? There's not tomorrow. There is not tomorrow. It's today. But if you don't execute today, it's not going to be tomorrow.

Factually, by the way, factually accurate. He's like Shakespeare. He's been writing po. So hold on. So you think if Drew says, "Hey, just take me into the mind of a player." If and like Drew is you're right. He's he's one of the best pitchers in the game and he's been but with three arm surges it's a lot to ask. If you go to him he says, "Hey, I could give you I don't know couple innings. Is that good enough for you? You'll take it? I'll take it. I'll take it." And I'll tell you why. I like to see a change of scenery and see him pitch at home a little bit more comfortable. His home drive, he gets to the locker room, his routine. And sometimes you need a little bit of change of scenery.

There'll be a lot of adrenaline and you're disciplined. And if it's going to give you 50 or 60, take it. But here's one subtle move that Mr. Pat Murphy did today. And if you didn't pay attention, you missed it. He went out there and got Aaron Ashby out of the game with about 27 tone tones, about 27 pitches. And he was in the cusp that if he went to 35 or 40, maybe he's not available tomorrow. 31 pitches. So that could have easily gone to 40. If it goes to 40, maybe he's not available tomorrow. So by doing that they still got it wasn't the reason why they lost but he might be he's still available tomorrow and that was a key move.

Yeah, good point. Uh we'll see what happens. I think the only other thing to add for the Rays pitching wise is the one guy who didn't pitch tonight is Steven Matson. He's pitched in the World Series obviously earlier this series, but he pitched for the Mets in 2015 in the series against the Royals. So he has World Series experience. Maybe some kind of combination there. We'll see what they do, but it'll be fascinating to find out. Close four hit game for him. the unbelievable home run in the 12th inning to put him up, but didn't work out. Tipped the loss. And here's Cooper after the game.

I don't really think it matters. I think a loss is a loss. Um, yeah. I mean, losing 10 by 10 runs is the same as losing by one run in the 12th. So, I mean, yeah, it's over. It's uh it's done with and uh looking forward to tomorrow. So Poppy, you brought up the really good point about how Tampa's off the mat now and now really no pressure and Brewers trying to finish it. So what are the Brewers feeling, David? What are they feeling now? Cuz they were so close and they're still up commanding 3-1 in this series. Wait. Uh um well KB, you know that the Brewers, they've been waiting for so long to win a World Series and they have got to the moment when they get to be 3 and 0, they want to finish it up. I don't know if you guys remember before

walking into this series right here how Pat Murphy, their manager, say, "We just going to continue attacking." They did that tonight. I mean, thing didn't came down their way, but they did play the game the way it was supposed to be beside that mistake from Ortiz at third base. But let me tell you, he it put pressure on you. I mean, you be waiting this long to win a World Series and then when you think you got everything under control, he walk away from you. You put thing on perspective following day. You come a little concerned. I mean, you're not going to change anything. You're not going to you're going to continue playing the game the way you have been. I mean, the Brewers, it's not a secret for anyone that they have been

amazing the whole season. Yeah, they lost a game, but he it just the clock continue ticking on your mind. It's a typical game for Milwaukee. They're used to playing one-run games. That's just what they do. So, I think I like what Cooper Pratt said. Look, a loss is a loss. But, if you're going to be honest, you were that close and you started to feel it. So, it is disappointing. It's a lot more disappointing losing this game when you had a chance to win the World Series than it would be if you lost game one or game two. Having said that, listening to what Pat Murphy has said, all the players have said, they understand that

this is going to be difficult. Beating the best team in the American League four times is difficult to do. So, they're happy. They're going to go home. They're going to sleep well. They got Miseroski on the mound. This is the guy they would handpick to have out there with an opportunity to win a World Series. So, I actually think they feel pretty good. How many innings you expect from Mr. Ask tomorrow? Six. So, Cap, you think they feel pretty good? I think that I know they feel pretty good. I'd want to be up 3-1 in the World Series.

I strongly disagree with both of you. And I'll tell you why. We've all been in that situation, KB, and we say what's right. I mean, Pratt's 22 years old, four hits. He acts like he's 32. But trust me when I tell you, you start this season in February, we're almost in November, you're three outs away. If you go in the locker room right there, they have all the plastic. Everything's blocked off. Champagne's in. All of a sudden, Ortiz makes that ball, throws it away, and you start saying, "Okay, not so fast." And all of a sudden, you lose the game. And for a team that started 13 and 13, they have 113 wins. You're three outs away.

You're going home, driving home, and you tell your wife, "We blew one." "Yeah, you'll get them tomorrow. Yeah, we'll get him tomorrow." But it's just not that easy. There's a human game, human element, and just need a little bit of doubt to sneak in. Now, can they win? Of course. But trust me, that doubt is there. Well, for them to feel good about themsel even losing the game tonight, they had Jacob tomorrow on the mount. Yeah, that's that's that's something that like I captain say it just put you in a good mood because you had your ace, you got your Sai award winner going for you tomorrow. And I guarantee you that kid tomorrow, he going to live his life out

there tomorrow for his team. He going to do it for them once again. I mean, having him on the set before and talking to him so humble, uh, a great kid and fighting for Wisconsin tomorrow. I'm expecting him to go six innings. How many innings? I'm expecting him to go six. So, I'll ask this. Go ahead. So, would you tomorrow rather be playing for the Milwaukee Brewers with Miseroski on the mound trying to bounce back from what happened tonight or be on Tampa side down 3-1 facing him? Tune in to the pregame show tomorrow. That's called the Hollywood teas and we'll be back. KB BACK TO YOU.

WOW, that's a teaser, baby. That is a good teaser. Maybe we'll start the pregame tomorrow with that. I think that's a good way to start the pregame show and I think that means we should end this show. What a game. Rays and Brewers game five of the World Series tomorrow night. Our pregame coverage from Tampa begin at 7 Eastern over on Fox. Yeah. Welcome back to the trap, guys. What's going on? Who you? I'm Big Poppy, your host. Ara, KB, and G. What's going on?

What up, Poppy? My dog. Hey, what's happening? What is YOUR THOUGHT ABOUT THE games tonight? We should talk about the game. What should we talk about? You I just asked you. Biggest takeaway of the game. You first. Biggest takeaway in the game. It is 1:20 in the morning. We'll be back here in a couple hours. Great game and we'll see you tomorrow night. You're next, Kevin. Biggest takeaway. For all my years playing little league, I one thing I noticed about these types of games is it's very important to come out and score first. Alex, do you agree?

I agree. And that you should tack on runs. And I love you to my left. I've never seen you here. Very strange. It feels very weird. Like a Yeah. utility player or something. That was very generic, guys. Papy, you look very good in that seat. You got to be a little better. Yeah. Get better tomorrow. Yeah. Well, I mean, David, it is 1:25 in the morning. It is. I like All right, guys. I Guy, listen. Listen to me. My turn.

Yeah. It's not time for the ball. Okay. For the ball. Let's do it. Oh, the vault. Hey. I know. I know you guys are junk junkie fans, man. I know that. But can I get a hug, man? I need one, man. Just a hug, man. Come on, man. What? Can I give you a hug, man? Come on, man. Oh, man. That's what I'm talking about. I know. I promise you to let us win next year. See my people right here. Wow, man. What's up, man? That's what I'm talking about.

Just for a hug, man. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking I fooled all of you in New York. All of you. Hog. AND THEN Oh my god. Poppy, I love you, man. Hey, I love you, too, man. Hey, what we got now, guys? See you when I see him. HEY, that was a good one. And that was a good

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