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Derek Van Riper, Richeroli, the King of Waffles, Enosaris here with you on this Wednesday.

Both series, the NLCS and the ALCS, got a lot more interesting on Tuesday.

We, of course, will dig into that and we'll look ahead to today's two-game slate.

Love these two games slates, as I mentioned on Tuesday's show.

Let's start with the Dodgers springing back to life in game three.

I think Dave Roberts summed up the mood perfectly prior to the Cody Bellinger three-run

homer, quote, we were dead in the water.

I think they were because everything was going Atlanta's way.

There was a pretty bad sequence in the fourth inning that allowed Atlanta to rally the way they did.

I will share frustration with Walker Bueller about that.

It didn't end up mattering in the end, but it looked like it was going to have a pretty big impact on the game at the time.

So now that the Dodgers are alive and kicking again, how excited are we about the remainder of this series?

We had a feeling things could be like this.

And this was the game they had to get with Bueller over Morton, too.

So, you know, first, your thoughts on the Dodgers figuring it out yesterday.

I was really surprised that Morton outpitched Bueller.

But if you look at some of the underlying stats,

Bueller has, his spin has been down, his max velocity has been down.

I think he's fatigued. You know know he had a big innings jump from last year this year he's not he's not you know a kid anymore but

it was a big inning's jump and i think he's a little bit gassed morton hit a higher velocity

than bueller which is weird because we've seen Bueller hit 99s and

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