Dave Roberts' thought behind having Ohtani walk Vladdy to face Bo Bichette instead

0:00 You have the choice there.

0:01 Do I let Shohei face Flaherty again?

0:04 And And you alluded to this earlier.

0:06 What went into the idea of walking him there?

0:09 Once there was an open base, I I just felt that in the postseason,

0:13 certainly in an elimination game, you're counting outs.

0:15 Every run, every out is important.

0:17 And I just felt that with Bo not running well, he was a double play candidate.

0:23 And so for me, it's like you have the guy

0:26 that's swinging better than anybody in the postseason at bat,

0:29 and I have a guy that Yeah, hasn't played a whole lot.

0:31 If we could put him on the ground, then we have a chance.

0:34 And he's a middle-speed hitter in my opinion,

0:37 and we left a middle-speed pitch in the hitting zone, and he made us pay.

0:41 I would do the same thing again and hope for a different result.

0:44 Just listening to Doc kind of talk through that, I would have

0:47 done the exact same thing he did for the exact same reasons,

0:50 and we knew we were playing a hobbled Bo.

0:54 That to me was best possible outcome for us because he

0:59 generated three runs and Bo didn't have to run the bases.

1:01 That bought me another couple innings of him on defense.

1:03 You know what I mean?

1:04 Because we had a lead.