K100 Sports: Dodgers on the Brink, Ohtani vs. Judge Debate, and Weekend Football Picks

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Disco Inferno (2:12)

All right. So welcome back to K100 Sports.

Well, the biggest thing going on right now, of course, is the baseball. And I love it. Okay, the Dodgers are on the ropes, and Cleveland beat Tampa today. So they got a two to one lead in that. But the Dodgers are down three nothing, and they're looking to get swept here, which could easily happen because they can't. But they've had like seven, three and five hits in the past three games. And they weren't really hitting against the Braves either.

Paz (2:37)

No, not at all. They really just been pitching well.

Disco Inferno (2:40)

Boring, nobody gets any hits. The pitchings are all over these guys, you know.

Paz (2:45)

And crazy, David Roberts asked Ohtani if he should bench him because he thought he was hurt. And Ohtani said, no, I'm good. Imagine that, the quote unquote best player in the world, they're asking if he should bench him because you think he's hurt. So obviously he's not showing anything. And if you look, which is crazy, I looked it up from 2023 till now, his batting average in the playoffs is 230 And everyone says he's the best, he's clutch, he's awesome. He hits 230 for the last three or four postseason. It was terrible. Judge, everybody says isn't clutch is terrible. His batting average since 2023 in the playoffs is 294 So I was like, wow, they get on Judge, but you're not getting on Ohtani. Ohtani is carried by Freeman.

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Well, you can just tell too.

Disco Inferno (3:22)

Well, the thing is with all these guys is that since baseball doesn't have a lot of hits anymore, just like a bunch of homeruns, you see Judge's spots have been more prominent because he's hit more homeruns than Ohtani. But Ohtani has hit homeruns.

Paz (3:36)

Oh yeah.

Disco Inferno (3:36)

And then that's all that sticks out. Like a couple homeruns, like a three-run bomb and a fight. I mean, like seriously, I think if you looked at Ohtani's playoff career, not great. I think it's just a couple of flashes of a few homeruns here and there.

Paz (3:49)

Yeah. One big game against the Blue Jays in the World Series. That was it. And everything else has been pretty flat. Yeah.

Judge has had a bunch of really good series the last couple of years, especially last year.

Disco Inferno (3:58)

I remember that one where Judge hit that homerun down and hit the foul pole.

Paz (4:02)

That was awesome.

Disco Inferno (4:06)

If you had Judge and Ohtani up in a clutch situation, and you could bet $100 on either guy, I don't think anybody would bet on Ohtani instead of Judge. Do you know what I'm saying? Would you agree with that?

Paz (4:16)

Oh, 100 percent. And even when you look at regular season two, Judge was the best hitter two years in a row, seventh inning or later, which is the most clutch situation. He was the best hitter. Nobody mentions that. All they go, oh, Judge Choker. I was like, because he hasn't won the title. But Ohtani, because he won the title thanks to Yamamoto, thanks to Freeman, thanks to Betts. Oh, he's clutch. No, he's not. Not really.