Chris Taylor's Three-Homer Game Extends NLCS & Boston's Path to Winning Twice in Houston
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🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Eno, Britt & DVR discuss Chris Taylor's three-homer Game 5 as the NLCS heads back to Atlanta, and the Red Sox's paths to two road wins in Houston to rally back in the ALCS.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Topps Checkout Topps Project, 70, celebrating 70 years, Topps baseball cards. Derek Van Riper, Bridgeroli. You know Sarah's here with you on this Friday. It is Friday, October 22nd. I always say it just in case, you know, my voice is the voice that tells you what day it is. Some people don't look at their phones. Good morning, Vietnam. |
| 0:40.6 | Maybe I could do a role like that. |
| 0:41.6 | I mean, I don't know. |
| 0:42.8 | I don't know what the future holds. |
| 0:45.4 | But lots to talk about on this show. |
| 0:48.7 | We have game six coming up in the ALCS tonight. |
| 0:52.8 | We had a very exciting game five if you're a Dodgers fan or if you're a fan of Chris Taylor or if maybe you played draft kings and had Chris Taylor in your captain's spot in a single game. That was not me, |
| 0:59.3 | but you certainly are happy today if you pulled that off. And we begin on the NLCS side where |
| 1:05.3 | the Dodgers got to Max Freed and with their bullpen game, even though Joe Kelly was not good and failed to get through the first inning, even though Atlanta took a 2-0 lead in the first inning, it was not enough. |
| 1:19.0 | Huge win for the Dodgers, obviously facing elimination, but now the overall feel for the series, despite Atlanta being up a game, has completely changed because of the way the pitching matchups line up for the weekend. |
| 1:34.2 | Britt, did you feel like this was a, it wasn't must win for Atlanta, but it just sort of opens the door for things to get dicey again, right? |
| 1:43.3 | To follow the script of last year, unfortunately, just because of the way the schedule |
| 1:48.2 | actually lines up. |
| 1:49.2 | Yeah, I want to go on record real quickly and say that I know nothing. |
| 1:55.0 | I mean, you watched that first inning of the game yesterday, and you're like, here it is. |
| 1:59.0 | The series over. |
| 2:00.0 | Right. They get the home run from Freeman. Joe Kelly comes out of the game that and you're like here it is the series over right uh they get the |
| 2:01.5 | home run from freeman joe kelly comes out of the game that i mean you knew he wasn't pitching deep |
| 2:06.0 | but still like um you really felt like braves are just going to steamroll them like they've |
| 2:11.3 | steamroll them the entire series and it it just didn't happen and watching that you kind of get the sinking feeling, you're right, DVR, that, oh, my God, |
| 2:23.0 | are the Dodgers going to win this series? |
| 2:24.7 | Are they going to do this again? |
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