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00:03Craig, let's go back to Game 3.
00:05The Dodgers win 4-2.
00:06Freddie Freeman, yet again, the hero.
00:08A two-run home run in the top of the first.
00:11Walker Buehler has been absolute nails
00:14since the second inning of Game 3 of the NLDS
00:17against San Diego.
00:19He has pitched 12 innings of shutout baseball.
00:23But, Craig, with what you saw in Game 3,
00:25was it indicative?
00:27Did it represent what you thought
00:29would be the key differences here in this World Series
00:32between L.A. and New York?
00:34Yeah, I give the Yankees a lot of credit.
00:36All season long, I thought they were pretty fraudulent.
00:40A couple of really good pitchers,
00:42a couple of really good hitters,
00:44made the jazz trade to sort of ignite the clubhouse,
00:48which it did for a while.
00:50But if you watch the Yankees this season,
00:53what you're seeing right now
00:55is indicative of what we saw
00:57at least twice, probably three times.
00:59And by the way, last year, too,
01:01where there were these pockets of times
01:03where they just really struggled to score runs.
01:06I guess the only difference is
01:08is that when that happened,
01:10Judge was hitting at that time,
01:12and I think it's exacerbated now
01:14because he's not hitting and it's happening, too.
01:16Judge hit all season long.
01:18So what's happened now is you're seeing what happened
01:20in early April and then in June and then in July,
01:22and then now it's happening again
01:24where they've just been an all-or-nothing team offensively.
01:26There were some signs of this against Cleveland.
01:29Remember, Cleveland was probably
01:31the least opportunistic team
01:33to play against them in the postseason.
01:35They had the bases loaded several times,
01:37one out, Yankees kept getting out.
01:39If you play those games over and over,
01:41I think Cleveland has a better result.
01:43But I give the Yankees credit for getting this far.
01:45I think it's a flawed team, Ben.
01:47And in order to change things up,
01:49they're going to have to add some offensive pieces
01:52this offseason to avoid this all-or-nothing result.
01:56♪