So the United States ultimately prevailed over the Dominican Republic last night in Miami,

two to one to reach the WBC championship game.

But there were electric moments on both sides in this one, including Aaron Judge at the plate,

top half of the fifth.

High drive, center field.

Rodriguez going back.

Did he get enough?

He did not because holio skilled the wall

Joe Davis all over at FS1 you hear the excitement in the crowd there

Julio Rodriguez robbing judge if a potential home run or extra base hit at minimum

kept it at 2-1 and the DR did have their chances multiple base runners in the fourth and fifth

then again in the seventh and the ninth couldn't push any of them across. Well, just the one base runner in the ninth, but it was the potential tying run. As Mason Miller struck out, Geraldo Pardomo looking to end the game, a three-two pitch that certainly looked to be low and well out of the strike zone, but the U.S. got the call and the win, so they await the winner of tonight's semi-final matchup between Italy and Venezuela after Italy knocked off Puerto Rico Saturday and Venezuela came from behind to defeat the defending champ in Japan. So I want to go back to the Aaron Judge post-game quote comparing the WBC to the World Series. So we played the audio in Hour 1, and I had said at the time not the best quality.

Interesting, you told me you heard it clear on FM. I thought it actually pretty good on the car. Because Evan Roberts just told me listening on the Odyssey app, he couldn't make out a damn word. Tom, because listening, driving in, he said they were looking for the audio and he kept reading the quote. right and then as right before i got to the holland tunnel he's like we got it yes and he's like it might not be

too clear i'm like that's actually pretty good all right for the audio and he kept reading the quote right and then as right before i got to the holland

tunnel he's like we got it yes and he's like it might not be too clear i'm like that's actually

pretty good all right so just a quick sampling to remind everybody of uh trying to make out the words

from judge here i was a crowd here they probably had a week playing his mexico it's bigger

and better than the world city okay so you got that got that. All right, so short clip, fine. So Cap out in the newsroom takes the full clip that I ran in hour number one, puts it through AI for background noise reduction. Wow. All right. And here's what it came back with. Now, I would say, knowing, having heard Aaron Judge, you can hear like it's a little altered. Okay. But it's pretty damn close and crystal clear. Same clip, just passing it through AI, and here's the result. I say it's been big. Orts there is always in. The crowd here that probably had will be playing as Metro. It's bigger and better than the world World Series. It's just, like I said, the passion of these fans have, representing their country, representing some of their favorite players, there's nothing like it. And that's what you dream of as a kid. I was paying my backyard playing with football. This is the moments of dream of our big spots, big situations, and just it gives me chills right now and thinking about how special

I was.

It's pretty good. Yeah, it doesn't quite sound like Judge, but knowing that that's accurate, though. That's pretty good the way you clear up. I mean, the full clip of all the background noise for it to just be able to extract the words and then put it together like that is pretty good. Pretty wild. So there you go. Now there was a similar comment from judge before the game where he was asked about the the tournament the excitement the nerves of getting

ready for this game in particular yeah it's it's been fun you know i'm sitting there doing dry

dry swings in my hotel room having my white videotape it it's just you know or just you feel like

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