Oct 7, 2026 · 43 min · 26 segments
Richard recaps the Dodgers 3-1 win over the Braves in Game 3 of the NLDS on Tuesday. The Boys in Blue need just one more win to eliminate the Braves and advance to the NLCS. They will have two…
It was an exciting day today, October 6th, Tuesday, 2026, the year of our Lord.
The overwhelming reaction must be a sigh of relief because having split the first two games of this series in LA when we had two of our best pitchers on the mound, we have so many great pitchers, that's part of the problem.
We were going into Atlanta, and as I anticipated, their home crowd was very engaged, doing a lot of the tomahawk chop that, uh, Braves Nation does and the, the chanting that they do.
They've got a great organist there, I, I noticed today, making a lot of r- maybe rivaling our Dieter rule for quick-witted, uh, musical references throughout the game.
All day today, media keeps driving home the point that in a best of five series, the team that wins the third game w- when the first two games have been split, goes on to win that series 75% of the time.
So now we know there's a three-quarters chance probability that the Dodgers will go on to win this series in advance, and the Braves' backs are against the wall.
Braves' backs are against the wall, but couldn't have anticipated that that would be the way this thing would go down because, yes, we had Yoshinobu Yamamoto going.
Yes, he is-- He's my ace on the Dodgers staff that is stacked full of aces, and World Series MVP last year, won three of the four games in the World Series.
Might have won four had he come in, in relief on zero days rest in that 18-inning game.
But he was going up against Chris Sale, and the only reason the Braves-- Well, they play their cards right with this bullpen game and, and taking game two in LA.
It set them up perfectly because this game three was essentially a game one of a three-game series instead of a game three of a, of a five-game series.
It's now a three-game series, and we just won the first game in Atlanta's ballpark.
There was just a lot of an understandable tension before and during the game.
Yoshinobu's dominant start and sort of the comfort level that he had on the mound and the tone that he set and, you know, definitely the offensive contributions too.
But mostly for me, it was Yama, really put me at ease, uh, especially knowing that his final line was seven innings pitch, 10 strikeouts.
He was getting so much swing and miss, just mixing in all of his many pitches very expertly.
And yeah, it was just a super dominant outing, and, like, the one time that he got in a little trouble there in the fifth inning, he never let it get to him.
And, you know, one run came in, but he got the outs that he needed and got our boys back up to hit.
They flashed a stat during this game that just shows you how dominant this pitcher is.
In games in which Yamamoto gets three runs or more run support coming into today, his record is 33 and 0.
It was an exciting day today, October 6th, Tuesday, 2026, the year of our Lord.
The overwhelming reaction must be a sigh of relief because having split the first two games of this series in LA when we had two of our best pitchers on the mound, we have so many great pitchers, that's part of the problem.
We were going into Atlanta, and as I anticipated, their home crowd was very engaged, doing a lot of the tomahawk chop that, uh, Braves Nation does and the, the chanting that they do.
They've got a great organist there, I, I noticed today, making a lot of r- maybe rivaling our Dieter rule for quick-witted, uh, musical references throughout the game.
All day today, media keeps driving home the point that in a best of five series, the team that wins the third game w- when the first two games have been split, goes on to win that series 75% of the time.
So now we know there's a three-quarters chance probability that the Dodgers will go on to win this series in advance, and the Braves' backs are against the wall.
Braves' backs are against the wall, but couldn't have anticipated that that would be the way this thing would go down because, yes, we had Yoshinobu Yamamoto going.
Yes, he is-- He's my ace on the Dodgers staff that is stacked full of aces, and World Series MVP last year, won three of the four games in the World Series.
Might have won four had he come in, in relief on zero days rest in that 18-inning game.
But he was going up against Chris Sale, and the only reason the Braves-- Well, they play their cards right with this bullpen game and, and taking game two in LA.
It set them up perfectly because this game three was essentially a game one of a three-game series instead of a game three of a, of a five-game series.
It's now a three-game series, and we just won the first game in Atlanta's ballpark.
There was just a lot of an understandable tension before and during the game.
Yoshinobu's dominant start and sort of the comfort level that he had on the mound and the tone that he set and, you know, definitely the offensive contributions too.
But mostly for me, it was Yama, really put me at ease, uh, especially knowing that his final line was seven innings pitch, 10 strikeouts.
He was getting so much swing and miss, just mixing in all of his many pitches very expertly.
And yeah, it was just a super dominant outing, and, like, the one time that he got in a little trouble there in the fifth inning, he never let it get to him.
And, you know, one run came in, but he got the outs that he needed and got our boys back up to hit.
They flashed a stat during this game that just shows you how dominant this pitcher is.
In games in which Yamamoto gets three runs or more run support coming into today, his record is 33 and 0.
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