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Speaker 2: Another great night as the Dodgers defeat the Diamondbacks five
Speaker 2: to four to open up the season, winning on opening
Speaker 2: night and and then winning tonight on ring ceremony night
Speaker 2: before first pitch.
Speaker 3: Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vase with you until eleven thirty tonight here on
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Speaker 2: seventy Coming up In our next segment, you'll hear part
Speaker 2: of my conversation with new special assistant for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw, and also coming up later in the show,
Speaker 2: Jose Moto will check in. But there's a few things
Speaker 2: about this game that we want to get into first
Speaker 2: and foremost. Okay, number one, we all know in the
Speaker 2: press box there's no cheering.
Speaker 3: But I can.
Speaker 2: Understand if you work for a team and you want
Speaker 2: to cheer, it's still a little unprofessional. I mean, we're
Speaker 2: not cheering here in the radio booth. Some might be
Speaker 2: cheering in different ways, but we're not clapping in this
Speaker 2: radio booth at all. Nobody in the oral Joe Davis
Speaker 2: broadcast booth is clapping. I don't believe anybody in the
Speaker 2: Spanish radio booth. I know for a fact nobody's clapping
Speaker 2: over there. So at the far end of the Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium press box, here is where sometimes baseball operations of
Speaker 2: visiting teams sit happens. They always have a booth reserve.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they choose to sit in there, sometimes they don't. Well,
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks chose to sit in there, and just to
Speaker 2: prove the point that the Dodgers are everybody else's World
Speaker 2: Series and mountain to climb. We're only two games in
Speaker 2: and down the hall after every play made by the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 2: virtually every walk, every hit, every anything that went well
Speaker 2: for the Diamondbacks, you hear a lot of applause coming
Speaker 2: from the far end of the hallway here in the
Speaker 2: press box, which was probably the Diamondbacks baseball operations department,
Speaker 2: no doubt it was their baseball operations department. So, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's fine, they're very invested in their team, but it
Speaker 2: just goes to prove the point that the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: and obviously are the team that everybody wants to take down.
Speaker 2: It's only two games into the season and you got
Speaker 2: the opposing team's baseball operations department applauding for every walk,
Speaker 2: every take on a pitch. I mean, come on, really, anyway,
Speaker 2: that's the type of things that are going to go
Speaker 2: on this season between the Dodgers and teams in the NLST,
Speaker 2: teams in the National League, and more importantly, across Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball. The Dodgers are everybody else's World Series, and
Speaker 2: tonight the Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks on a night that
Speaker 2: the Dodgers could have lost and were vulnerable to lose,
Speaker 2: especially after Emig Shehen only lasted three and a third innings,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers had to go to their bullpen tonight
Speaker 2: and use a few different relievers like Jack Dryer, Ben Casparius,
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott, Alex Vesia and Gardo Enriquez and Edwin Diaz,
Speaker 2: so they had to cover a lot of innings tonight
Speaker 2: because she threw eighty three pitches with only one out
Speaker 2: in the fourth inning. Jack Dryer did a great job
Speaker 2: like he did last year. He went multiple innings tonight,
Speaker 2: did not give up a run. Ben Casparius, who was
Speaker 2: huge for the Dodgers the second half of or the
Speaker 2: first half of last year, was able to keep the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks offense down.
Speaker 3: But I really thought there were a couple.
Speaker 2: Of key moments reliever wise in this game, specifically Tanner Scott,
Speaker 2: who came in after Casparius got into some trouble runners
Speaker 2: at first and second. Two outs and he's facing Alec
Speaker 2: Thomas in a tie game. And Alex Thomas, you might say,
Speaker 2: what's the big deal about that guy, Well, he's a
Speaker 2: lefty and he had a very good game tonight. So
Speaker 2: he was swinging the bat really well, and Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: was able to strike him out to end the inning.
Speaker 3: That was huge. That looked like the old Tanner Scott.
Speaker 2: And then it was special because Alex Vesia got to
Speaker 2: take the mound tonight at Dodger Stadium and it was
Speaker 2: emotionally charged and he was able to do Alex Vesia
Speaker 2: thanks and pitch a scoreless seventh inning. So all of
Speaker 2: those things were really good for the Dodgers tonight. And
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz made his Dodger debut and recorded his first
Speaker 2: save as a Dodger, and we got to experience the
Speaker 2: theatrical experience of Edwin Diaz and Timmy Trumpet coming through
Speaker 2: the bullpen gates, and the Dodgers had a live trumpet
Speaker 2: player in the outfield on standby. I got word that
Speaker 2: she's Long Beach Tatiana Tait. She's the trumpet player from
Speaker 2: Long Beach who is out there on standby in case
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz came into the game. So what did you
Speaker 2: think about the first Edwin Diaz Timmy Trumpet entrance? Was
Speaker 2: it as electric? Did they give you chills like it
Speaker 2: did in City Field? If you are a Mets fan
Speaker 2: your thoughts on Edwin Diaz and his entrance tonight and
Speaker 2: if you liked it, if you feel like there could
Speaker 2: be more, let me know. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Alex Freeland,
Speaker 2: he got the start tonight at second base, and he
Speaker 2: delivered in his first start of the year Game two.
Speaker 2: He homered to start a four run rally in the
Speaker 2: Dodgers a third inning there, and also he was able
Speaker 2: to double and score the go ahead run in the
Speaker 2: bottom of the eighth inning. Let's head downstairs right now
Speaker 2: to hear from Young Freeland on sports at LA.
Speaker 5: I'm just happy that we're starting off on a good
Speaker 5: note and everybody feels like ward one and like it's
Speaker 5: just exciting to play for this team and in front
Speaker 5: of all these fans. So I'm just enjoying it.
Speaker 3: When you like.
Speaker 4: Win an opposition battle of the spring training does make
Speaker 4: a difference to kind of make an impact mesa bat.
Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, I wasn't thinking about any of the
Speaker 5: outside noise. I just tried to have a quality at bat,
Speaker 5: like like I've been doing all spring, So nothing really changed,
Speaker 5: just trying to have a quality at that.
Speaker 6: And So is that kind of what you felt when
Speaker 6: you like to go down onto an account and say
Speaker 6: line and get a pitch you can do something with.
Speaker 6: Is that where like the quality at bat stuff kind
Speaker 6: of pays on?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5: I mean Andy flew out on the first pitch, so
Speaker 5: auto take. So I mean I just tried to have
Speaker 5: a long at bat, you know, get some more pitches
Speaker 5: for that inning. And then it led to that, Well, what.
Speaker 6: Is kind of the mentality like you're in that ninth
Speaker 6: spot and you have Show hate behind you, Like, is
Speaker 6: that kind of where the importance of that comes in?
Speaker 5: And kind of yeah, I mean I think it's just
Speaker 5: having quality at bets and getting on base. I mean, Show,
Speaker 5: he's best hitter in all of the MLB, so I
Speaker 5: mean not trying to get on base because there's a
Speaker 5: high chance he's going to hit me in and we
Speaker 5: like runs.
Speaker 6: How big is that double in the eighth field too?
Speaker 6: To kind of start that rally the end of the game.
Speaker 5: I mean that felt good, but honestly the same thought
Speaker 5: processes just go up there and try and get on
Speaker 5: base for Show, have a quality at bet and try
Speaker 5: to win the game like that.
Speaker 6: Would you make a Edwins entrance with them, that was insane.
Speaker 1: I loved it.
Speaker 7: I loved it.
Speaker 5: I mean I loved all the entrances that we've had,
Speaker 5: like Will Klein's on on Thursday. I love that one,
Speaker 5: but everybody's got super cool entrances. But that Edwins was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: that was cool.
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks Alex Freeland. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: Alex Freeland had a great game tonight, by the way,
Speaker 2: not only his two hits, scoring twice, including scoring himself
Speaker 2: off a home run to start that four run third inning,
Speaker 2: but also the double. Like I said, leadoff double turned
Speaker 2: into be the go ahead and run and the run
Speaker 2: that made the difference in the game in the bottom
Speaker 2: of the eighth inning, the leadoff double him getting to
Speaker 2: third base and Kyle Tucker driving him in. But how
Speaker 2: about the defense by the Dodgers tonight, specifically Tucker and Freeland.
Speaker 2: There were a couple of balls hit to right field
Speaker 2: that Kyle Tucker had to hustle and pounce on, and
Speaker 2: he made perfect relay throws two different times to Alex Freeland,
Speaker 2: who also threw two perfect relays to cut down runners,
Speaker 2: the first one a big one at the plate in
Speaker 2: the second inning, getting Peven Smith and then in the
Speaker 2: fourth inning Alec Thomas trying to stretch a double into
Speaker 2: a triple. A great play by Tucker to Freeland to
Speaker 2: Max Munsey to cut him down as well to help
Speaker 2: manage that game and that inning specifically. So the Dodger
Speaker 2: defense in right field and the relay throws were exceptional tonight,
Speaker 2: from Tucker to Freeland, to Will Smith in the second
Speaker 2: inning and then to Max Munsey in.
Speaker 3: The fourth inning.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks tonight five to four. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Johnny. Johnny, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: How you doing, Hey, David Good I'm driving leaving the
Speaker 8: stadium just now.
Speaker 9: I just got to the freeway.
Speaker 8: Uh, what you're Sayingbolt, Edwin Diaz. I'll touch on that
Speaker 8: real quick.
Speaker 9: Was electric.
Speaker 8: Was awesome to watch.
Speaker 9: Alex Freeland was a dog in a sudge to night.
Speaker 8: With My question is what's exactly going to be going
Speaker 8: on with Kershaw with his new role with Friedman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna hear from Kershaw coming up in our
Speaker 2: next segment, Johnny. He'll explain all of that, but it's
Speaker 2: basically a voice. You know, you heard him last night
Speaker 2: on NBC. This guy knows the game. He knows the players,
Speaker 2: he knows their makeup, he knows their whole their whole
Speaker 2: package as far as who they are as a player,
Speaker 2: their weaknesses, their strengths. And he's a really good sounding board.
Speaker 2: So he's not going to be traveling, he's not going
Speaker 2: to the minor leagues to coach. He's a really good evaluator.
Speaker 2: And I think Andrew Freeman values that.
Speaker 7: I think it's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 8: And hearing him last night on the on the call,
Speaker 8: he was cool and fluid, and then seeing him get
Speaker 8: his ring tonight and throw out the pitch and the
Speaker 8: dramatics of oral and doc was it was a special.
Speaker 8: It was a really cool game to be at tonight.
Speaker 7: And the Dodgers are helmet.
Speaker 8: We got one sixty more And I love the show.
Speaker 8: And thanks David, Thanks thanks Johnny.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Kershaw is officially indoctrinated into the front office
Speaker 2: as a special assistant because he told me he played
Speaker 2: pickleball with Andrew Friedman today, So that's a baseball front
Speaker 2: office thing. And he has his own official employee badge
Speaker 2: to get into the stadium, so he is fully he
Speaker 2: is fully now an employee for sure. Don't miss the
Speaker 2: Santa Anita Derby at Santa Anita Park on April fourth,
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Speaker 2: Anita dot Com slash events And after Kuruse shot throughout
Speaker 2: the first pitch and his buddy Brad Paisley sang the
Speaker 2: national anthem, they hung out in one of the sweets
Speaker 2: here at Dodger Stadium. So a very cool night all
Speaker 2: around for Kerus Shaw, who I'm sure must have been
Speaker 2: feeling a little surreal the last two nights being back
Speaker 2: here at Dodger Stadium seeing all the old the faces
Speaker 2: that he saw throughout his entire career, specifically as recently
Speaker 2: as last year. And now he's sitting up in a
Speaker 2: suite with Brad Paisley watching the Dodgers. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to John who is at the ballpark tonight. Hi, John,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Hey man, it feels like we got a real closer
Speaker 10: and that trumpet player really set the tone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure if she is going
Speaker 2: to be here every night Tatiana tape. But she's basically
Speaker 2: I don't know what you would call it, but it's
Speaker 2: Timmy Trumpet that's playing it on the original song. And
Speaker 2: Timmy Trumpet's on tour right now, so he can't just
Speaker 2: be on standby for whenever Edwin Diaz is coming in.
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers found a local trumpet player in Tatiana
Speaker 2: tape and she did a great job playing along with
Speaker 2: Timmy Trumpet tonight, John, did.
Speaker 3: You like the light show? And about the light show?
Speaker 3: The lights were, Yeah, the light show?
Speaker 7: Yet? What's the lights are still on the boat.
Speaker 9: The lights are still on the boat.
Speaker 7: We don't got lights yet?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got lights here. Were you at the stadium?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I was at the Stateum, they don't got any
Speaker 10: of the LEDs up yet.
Speaker 7: They're all stuck.
Speaker 1: On the boat.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, once that happens, it'll be I guess a little
Speaker 2: bit more. But they had the lights of the stadium
Speaker 2: flickering and changing colors and all that.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean that that that's fun.
Speaker 7: But they need to get the whole LED thing around.
Speaker 9: I think they'll take it to a whole other level.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, I don't know the logistics about
Speaker 2: where the LEDs are? All right, John, I mean that's
Speaker 2: two straight nights. Somebody brought that up. I don't know
Speaker 2: where it is. I don't know if they're in route
Speaker 2: or not. So uh, they'll be here, trust me, sooner
Speaker 2: rather than later. Thanks for the phone call. Geeesh, Nitpicky
Speaker 2: over here. I mean that's that's uh, yeah, when those
Speaker 2: LEDs are here, it'll be uh, it'll be even more
Speaker 2: light terrific at Dodger Stadium or should I say uniclo
Speaker 2: field at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to JD. Who is here at the
Speaker 3: ballpark tonight?
Speaker 7: Hi?
Speaker 3: JD. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: Hey Dave.
Speaker 10: That was an awesome night between the ring ceremony that
Speaker 10: started it off and kershawf finally getting his ring, although
Speaker 10: I thought they were just gonna give it to him
Speaker 10: when they had a night for him. So it was
Speaker 10: a nice touch for him to come in and throw
Speaker 10: the first ball out and then Timmy Trumpets was just
Speaker 10: freaking awesome. And I gotta say, if that's something to
Speaker 10: look forward to in the ninth inning, that it's a
Speaker 10: tight game and Diaz is gonna close and if he
Speaker 10: has success as a closer after that lead in, and
Speaker 10: that's gonna make the part jump, like you know, when
Speaker 10: Eric Ganye was the closer, Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: When Kenny Jansen was the closer California love.
Speaker 10: Yeah, although I think Jansen coming in made people more
Speaker 10: nervous than Kanye.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: Stop at three hundred and fifty saves, jd You stop
Speaker 2: that right now. Speaking to Kennley Jansen. He closed out
Speaker 2: his first save for the Detroit Tigers tonight in San Diego.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3: John?
Speaker 2: He helped beat the Padres tonight five to two for
Speaker 2: his four hundred and seventy seventh career save. He's just
Speaker 2: two saves away from passing Lee Smith for third all
Speaker 2: time in saves in baseball history. So Edwin Diaz gets
Speaker 2: his first save as a Dodger. Kenley Jansen gets his
Speaker 2: first save as a tight her down south in San Diego.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to the OC. Brandon. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Can you believe that Brandon John taking a cheap shot
Speaker 2: at Kenley Janssen?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Now that's not good man.
Speaker 8: Kenley's been awesome for us, and I just want.
Speaker 3: To just kind of like say, you know, as far
Speaker 3: as Jimmy trumpets.
Speaker 4: I think that in La and Hollywood that we should have.
Speaker 8: Mariacci's played big time. Mariacci's like six to eight trump
Speaker 8: It's playing while he comes out. And I'd like to
Speaker 8: see the the lights go out a little sooner, and
Speaker 8: i'd like to see the music starts sooner too.
Speaker 11: But other than.
Speaker 2: That, Yeah, you know the song, the song, it starts
Speaker 2: out low with a little drum beat, right, a bass drum,
Speaker 2: So you really got to I can't believe I'm saying
Speaker 2: this make it louder when the song first starts, or
Speaker 2: you just got to hit it running. But yeah, uh
Speaker 2: that's the way the song starts. Now you want the
Speaker 2: mariachi said Dodger Stadium, So you want these trumpet players
Speaker 2: on standby just in case Edwin Diaz does come in.
Speaker 2: I mean that's not going to happen every night. So
Speaker 2: you want mariachi bands on stand by every Dodger home game.
Speaker 2: Is that what you're asking for?
Speaker 3: Brandon?
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, only because.
Speaker 9: Kind of brought it together.
Speaker 12: And I think Fernando Mania is like coming back, and
Speaker 12: I just love.
Speaker 7: To see it.
Speaker 6: I'd love to see it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't think Fernando media is coming back, Brandon.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I get what you're saying. You know what
Speaker 3: I would do.
Speaker 2: I would find a way to get Timmy Trumpet to
Speaker 2: get on camera, do his thing on the trumpet, play
Speaker 2: it up on the video boards like you see these
Speaker 2: other celebs. I would have Timmy Trumpet, you know, a
Speaker 2: close one shot with the trumpet in the foreground and
Speaker 2: him playing it. When Timmy trump when Edwin Diaz comes out,
Speaker 2: let him get some shine for his song and his
Speaker 2: trumpet playing. I see, I just came up with that
Speaker 2: on the fly. See, you can make these tweaks during
Speaker 2: the season. But like I said, I've been trying to
Speaker 2: chase down Timmy Trumpet to call into Dodger Talk. I
Speaker 2: am well aware of his schedule. He was in Australia
Speaker 2: in February, he was in San Diego, Vegas, LA while
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were in spring training, and I'm not sure
Speaker 2: where he's at now.
Speaker 3: So this guy is.
Speaker 2: Not only an incredible trumpet player, but he's a DJ.
Speaker 2: He's incredible DJ as well. So anything you need to
Speaker 2: know I know about Timmy Trumpet these days.
Speaker 3: Hey, by the.
Speaker 2: Way, tomorrow afternoon, it's time to come to WSS and
Speaker 2: Boyle Heights. We're going to have another Dodger Talk for you.
Speaker 2: Instead of eleven at night, it's gonna be at eleven
Speaker 2: in the morning tomorrow. Yeah, I'll be there eleven in
Speaker 2: the morning. I know I'm gonna be there WSS, Boyle Heights.
Speaker 2: Not only am I gonna be there, but Miguel Rojas
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Speaker 2: We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: When we continue, more of your phone calls eight sixty
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Speaker 2: Mota after the Dodgers defeat the Diamondbacks and silence those
Speaker 2: obnoxious applause down the hall of the press box Tonight
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Speaker 1: This is Dodger Talk with David bess In. Nelson looks
Speaker 1: at Eltony comes to Bets. Turkey rise one right center field.
Speaker 1: This one's hit well back at the wall. Thomas is there.
Speaker 6: He leaves Pat's gone.
Speaker 10: Cookie Betts with a laser to right center field to
Speaker 10: turn this game around and put the Dodgers in front.
Speaker 2: Just like yesterday, the Dodgers were down to nothing and
Speaker 2: then came back with a four run inning. Tonight, it
Speaker 2: was in the third inning of four run inning thanks
Speaker 2: to two home runs, a solo shot to start the
Speaker 2: inning by Alex Friedland and then that one by Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts to give the Dodgers the lead, a big three
Speaker 2: run home run, and Mooki was pumped getting some air
Speaker 2: and hang time when he was rounding second base on
Speaker 2: that home run. And oh, by the way, Brad Paisley
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Speaker 2: Eight sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to one of my favorite spots, Oxnard. Javier,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Javier, Hey.
Speaker 9: Good goodness, good to talk to you, first time, long time.
Speaker 7: First before thank you, Before to.
Speaker 9: Make my comment, I want to take my wife take
Speaker 9: me to the game last night and tonight it was
Speaker 9: our tonight, was our date night, so she took me
Speaker 9: to the game. Was it was awesome?
Speaker 3: Great wife.
Speaker 9: And then and then my question to you is from
Speaker 9: the from these three closers, which entest was were your
Speaker 9: favorite ken Lee, Gan Ye or Edwin Dia which which
Speaker 9: where would you rank them.
Speaker 2: Wow, all right, well, Edwin Diaz, I mean it is
Speaker 2: really special. I would say, I feel like there are
Speaker 2: some tweaks to the Edwin Diaz entrance here at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: So I'm not going to put that at my top
Speaker 2: right now. I'm going ken Ley number one, Ganne number two,
Speaker 2: and Edwin Diaz number three right now.
Speaker 9: All right, I can respect that mine, Danye, Kenley and
Speaker 9: then and then Da right now.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, Javier, like I said, you get
Speaker 2: Timmy Trumpet on Dodger Vision when uh, when Timmy Trumpet
Speaker 2: comes through, you blast that music right away when the
Speaker 2: spotlight goes on the bullpen.
Speaker 3: I think we got something cooking. But it was special.
Speaker 2: I just uh, I mean, I just don't want to
Speaker 2: jump on the Timmy Trumpet bandwagon right away. So maybe
Speaker 2: that's part of my reasoning too.
Speaker 9: I'm not a for I go to spur Goos through
Speaker 9: all my pregame snack, so I got to take my
Speaker 9: snack and today that I.
Speaker 7: Bought at the Sores for this afternoon.
Speaker 3: So all right, did you hear the word of the day?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I didn't, Okay, all right, well maybe tomorrow we'll do
Speaker 3: it again. Tomorrow run it back tomorrow. Javier, thanks for
Speaker 3: the phone call, appreciated.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number before we hear from Clayton Kershaw, who he
Speaker 2: caught up with before the ring ceremony. I just want
Speaker 2: to point out, you know I've said this before. I've
Speaker 2: told this story before because it was relayed to me
Speaker 2: by Tim Salmon and Dino Ebol separately and then together.
Speaker 2: Mike Sosha used to tell his superstars, everybody from Troy
Speaker 2: Glass to Tim Salmon, to move on. I need twenty
Speaker 2: five team at bats every year, and he would ask
Speaker 2: at the end of the meeting if anybody had any
Speaker 2: issues with that, raise your hands, speak up now.
Speaker 3: Nobody ever did.
Speaker 2: The reason why I bring that up is Alex Freeland
Speaker 2: led off the bottom of the eighth inning with a double.
Speaker 2: Who comes up, showe Aotani. He took a couple of
Speaker 2: cracks at it didn't happen for him, filed a ball back.
Speaker 3: You know what he did.
Speaker 2: He gave a team at back, gave himself up in
Speaker 2: a tied game. Hit the ball hard to the right side.
Speaker 2: Alex Freeland went to third base. You know what happened next?
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks brought the infield in with Kevin Ginkel on the
Speaker 2: mound facing Kyle Tucker, and Kyle Tucker delivered a ground
Speaker 2: ball through the right side of the infield. That doesn't
Speaker 2: happen without show. Hey Otani. So we talk about the
Speaker 2: home runs, and yes they're remarkable. Everything he does is
Speaker 2: so special, but it's things like that that lead by example.
Speaker 2: And we're with Kershaw retired. The Dodgers need a guy
Speaker 2: like that to lead by example. If Otani can do that,
Speaker 2: everybody else can do that. And that's one of those
Speaker 2: things that won't show up in the box score tomorrow,
Speaker 2: but it stood out to me. Eight six six seven,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's check in with
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw had a chance to catch up with him
Speaker 2: before the ring ceremony. We had some fun and here's
Speaker 2: part of that conversation. You don't seem to have that
Speaker 2: fomo that guys that just retired usually have.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that I'll kick in at
Speaker 13: some point, but I also know that like I did,
Speaker 13: I did just about as much as I could. The
Speaker 13: everything was slowing down a little bit, and just that
Speaker 13: there are so many factors, and then when you top
Speaker 13: it all off with the way it ended, it's just
Speaker 13: like you can't really ask for anything more. So I'm
Speaker 13: at peace with all that. It doesn't mean I don't
Speaker 13: miss it. It doesn't mean I don't miss being around the
Speaker 13: guys and hanging out, flying with them, playing cards. Just uh,
Speaker 13: I just knew it was probably my time.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you'll have some sort of connection
Speaker 2: to the organization as time moves on.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think I'll always be a Dodger. I want
Speaker 13: to help in any way I can.
Speaker 3: From afar.
Speaker 13: You know, there's probably not going to be much traveling
Speaker 13: in my future, but if I can help, you know,
Speaker 13: if I watch games, I know I'm gonna watch all
Speaker 13: the games, So if there's somebody that wants to talk
Speaker 13: or see something or whatever, I want to be a
Speaker 13: part of this group, and I think Andrew let me
Speaker 13: do that, so it'll be good.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Before I let you go, I'm just curious about, you know,
Speaker 2: all of that, any recruiting.
Speaker 3: Did you recruit Tucker?
Speaker 2: Were you trying to recruit Schooble during the w World
Speaker 2: Baseball Classic?
Speaker 13: You know, think about the Dodgers. Is I don't I
Speaker 13: don't really know if you have to recruit anymore. You know,
Speaker 13: it just kind of everybody kind of knows a great
Speaker 13: place to be and uh, just by word of mouth,
Speaker 13: by other people being here. And so Tucker, Tucker figured
Speaker 13: it out. And I'm sure Scoobs at the end of
Speaker 13: this year, if everything's even, he'll figure it out too.
Speaker 2: Oh Scoobs, Hey, we're on that type of nickname basis
Speaker 2: between Krushawn Schooble, and by the way, World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 3: Kruse.
Speaker 2: Shaw was not an employee of the Dodgers at that
Speaker 2: point in time, but he's a special assistant now. So
Speaker 2: that was a very very good answer by a guy
Speaker 2: that's now a special assistant with the Dodgers. And oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, as good as Krushaw was as a broadcaster,
Speaker 2: he doesn't want to dive into it full time. He
Speaker 2: wants to be with his family enjoy a summer. And
Speaker 2: he told me that he's only going to broadcast one
Speaker 2: more game on NBC as it's plan right now, another
Speaker 2: Dodger game in August, So don't expect to see him
Speaker 2: every Sunday night. Baseball eight sixty six, nine, eight seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: We'll get back to your phone calls in a moment,
Speaker 3: but first.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, jose Mota, what a nice night. Uh, we're
Speaker 2: getting spoiled now. Opening night and then a ring ceremony.
Speaker 2: I can get used to this every year.
Speaker 7: Oh it's pretty cold there to consider it. You know,
Speaker 7: everything these guys go through and to have it pretty
Speaker 7: much come to conclusion and getting the rings their smiles.
Speaker 7: I mean, you think about spring training, there's two championship.
Speaker 7: Remember spring training was not an almost spring training. The
Speaker 7: dollars at openings in Soul, Korea and then in Tokyo.
Speaker 7: Never an excuse about the schedule, the travel, any of
Speaker 7: that stuff. Just playing best for as we saw them
Speaker 7: do today. But what a nice culmination for the fans
Speaker 7: to watch their heroes get the rings act pretty much
Speaker 7: like little kids. I mean, those guys with those rings.
Speaker 7: This a beautiful thing to watch a high school team
Speaker 7: of college seem just to know that as a group
Speaker 7: we got something that so special and you are on
Speaker 7: the verge of also, you know, being close to doing
Speaker 7: it again. So congratulations again. Just to run the show
Speaker 7: and a lot of fun to watch for.
Speaker 3: Sure, Jose.
Speaker 2: You pointed out the outfield defense last night at Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: How about tonight it was it was a little bit
Speaker 2: more obvious than last night. In the second and fourth inning,
Speaker 2: him and Freeland teamed up for perfect relays. Those are
Speaker 2: difference making place that we didn't see last year.
Speaker 7: Dave, It wins games at this point last season, I
Speaker 7: remember you asking about should the outfield be a concern
Speaker 7: because of the defense, and I said yes, because he
Speaker 7: got who's in experience and you have ta Oscar playing
Speaker 7: right field on Taska did not move all that well
Speaker 7: at all. But let's forget about last year they won.
Speaker 7: Now let's talk about this year. You cut down base runners,
Speaker 7: you go after balls, as Tucker did yesterday in the
Speaker 7: very first inning against Predomant, keep to the first base.
Speaker 7: That sends a message about you being a complete player,
Speaker 7: you hitting the cutoff man and just making sure you
Speaker 7: play catch. It just came down basically today to the
Speaker 7: dollar's playing baseball, I mean playing team baseball, executing and
Speaker 7: all those things you go through the spring training about
Speaker 7: knowing your personnel. You know, guy like Alex Freeland, he
Speaker 7: needs to know where to line up well where he
Speaker 7: can put his arms up and also how Kyle Tucker
Speaker 7: which kind of arm he has to make sure that
Speaker 7: this is a correct to get the relay and fire away.
Speaker 7: I mean, just to the point by the book. And
Speaker 7: that is why a one run game becomes a win
Speaker 7: and not a loss because of plays.
Speaker 3: Like that great point that would have been a loss
Speaker 3: last year. For sure.
Speaker 2: When you look at Alex Friedland tonight, if you had
Speaker 2: to say somebody had the best overall game, he would
Speaker 2: be the guy that I point to tonight.
Speaker 7: I would say. So. Had a good conversation with him
Speaker 7: in spring turning and end today. One thing he told
Speaker 7: me that it was very interesting. He goes, you know,
Speaker 7: I need it last year kind of to pull me
Speaker 7: back a little bit more and just let me know
Speaker 7: that I needed to learn the game a little bit more.
Speaker 7: Remember he did not even get called up after you know,
Speaker 7: Russell's expanded now he spanned by a couple of players,
Speaker 7: but he did not get a chance to come up
Speaker 7: after September third, I believe, And he said, I took
Speaker 7: that to heart. I knew I needed to get better
Speaker 7: some things. I know that in terms of numbers, I
Speaker 7: didn't have the greatest of springs. But I was seeing
Speaker 7: the ball so well, and he said to me today, Dave,
Speaker 7: he goes, I am so looking forward to being in
Speaker 7: a batter's box. I cannot wait because I know the feeling.
Speaker 7: I know I'm going to see the ball better. I'm
Speaker 7: going to feed up this whole environment. And mainly, he goes,
Speaker 7: I'm getting the opportunity. I want to make the most
Speaker 7: out of him. Also with the bats, with the glove,
Speaker 7: and this guy has a powerful arm. Notice of that too.
Speaker 2: All right, before I let you go, Hoose, let's talk
Speaker 2: about m it Shehan. I had noticed when the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were in Mesa on March sixteenth, it was a split
Speaker 2: squad game, his velocity was down considerably, and he said
Speaker 2: it was a mechanical thing. He didn't really like me
Speaker 2: asking about it tonight again, as the game went on,
Speaker 2: the velocity started to dip. What are you seeing about it?
Speaker 2: Do you feel like it is a mechanical issue or
Speaker 2: should there be more concern? Cause for concern.
Speaker 7: It's always been a mechanical issue with him, because if
Speaker 7: you look at the rising class ball that he got
Speaker 7: guys without early he still has that. But what happened
Speaker 7: to me, is he lost to feel that change of it.
Speaker 7: He was executing so well in pronating so in and
Speaker 7: out of the zone early in the game. Dot with
Speaker 7: that pitch he was able to steal early strikes, have
Speaker 7: guys guessing and then not being able to catch up
Speaker 7: with that fastball later on. But what happened was she
Speaker 7: And I've been told by people in the organization that
Speaker 7: armslot needs to say consistent, Dave, carry on the fast
Speaker 7: balls there the velocity drops because everything else drops, right,
Speaker 7: and if you're not aligned properly with your arm angled
Speaker 7: release point and pointing to the right way, you can
Speaker 7: make the biggest of efforts and it's not going to
Speaker 7: be there because you're pushing the ball now, it's not
Speaker 7: coming out as hot because you're not getting on top
Speaker 7: as much. So that's the one thing that has to
Speaker 7: be careful with. And sometimes who knows if there's something
Speaker 7: he thinks about as the game goes on and he
Speaker 7: gets a little fatigue. But at the same time, I
Speaker 7: think mechanically is the one thing he needs to stay
Speaker 7: on top of it, not just velocity, but to make
Speaker 7: sure there's consistency in the delivery and repeating those mechanics
Speaker 7: with the armslot and not drops that elbow later in
Speaker 7: the game.
Speaker 2: He seems to be a guy, these newer generation type
Speaker 2: pitchers that are competing and judging themselves off whatever the
Speaker 2: data is telling them in their bullpen sessions during the game.
Speaker 2: How important is it for him to take the next
Speaker 2: step and feel that himself without looking at the iPad
Speaker 2: between innings.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you say something very important the next for him
Speaker 7: to go out there and say, hey, whatever I have
Speaker 7: that day, I know I could win. His stuff is
Speaker 7: good enough. His mother September was one that he'd have
Speaker 7: to remember how good he was because he was able
Speaker 7: to pitch. I mean September last year aar at one
Speaker 7: point four to two with thirty five strikeouts, only six walks,
Speaker 7: because he was consistent. He was strong. Remember and you
Speaker 7: said this a looted during the show that Dave Roberts
Speaker 7: said he is a physical specimen. He got so strong,
Speaker 7: the legs got stronger. Go back and build those legs
Speaker 7: again and keep it where they are. But in terms
Speaker 7: of data, Dave, I think sometimes even in bullpens, that
Speaker 7: thing should be thrown off. Bullpens should be more to me,
Speaker 7: just a feel for what the ball's doing as is
Speaker 7: coming in get reaction from maybe a stand up hitter.
Speaker 7: But if he started thinking too much and it's not
Speaker 7: a bad thing. I'm not saying a bad thing. It's
Speaker 7: modern day baseball. But at some point he's got to
Speaker 7: say whatever I have, no matter what the data says,
Speaker 7: I can go out there and trust that when the
Speaker 7: ball leaves my hand something that's going to happen, and
Speaker 7: then understand that it's all about hitters adjustments hitters. I'm
Speaker 7: not going to home play thinking about data. At what
Speaker 7: you have that'll know, well, they've seen us. How's the
Speaker 7: woll coming out of your head? And your conviction to
Speaker 7: compete on every single pitch. I want to see him
Speaker 7: compete every single pitch as he was in the first
Speaker 7: couple of innings.
Speaker 2: Jose, what'd you think about the first night of timmy
Speaker 2: trumpet and.
Speaker 7: Edwin Diaz oh Man sugar coming in just making everything
Speaker 7: sweeter for everybody? Dave, how about that? That was so sweet?
Speaker 7: And to include the local Intana Ta thing that was
Speaker 7: outstanding beautiful?
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, We'll see tomorrow night as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: go for the sweep on Will Smith bobblehead night.
Speaker 7: It should be fun for number sixteen again.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for the phone call, Thanks Jose, thanks for
Speaker 2: checking in part of the Spanish radio broadcast. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks five to four tonight. They're looking
Speaker 2: for the sweep tomorrow. It's Will Smith go ahead home
Speaker 2: run bobblehead night, the swing that gave the Dodgers the
Speaker 2: lead in the eleventh inning last year in Toronto. That's
Speaker 2: the bobblehead that it's replicating or trying to replicate. So
Speaker 2: be here early, get your bobblehead and enjoy Opening weekend
Speaker 2: and celebrate your back to back World Series champion Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, we all notice this. Steven
Speaker 2: Nelson pointed it out the most. As the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: getting their rings tonight, Jeff Hoffman was giving up a
Speaker 2: game tying home run in the ninth inning to the
Speaker 2: A's How about that with one out in the ninth inning?
Speaker 3: Sound familiar?
Speaker 2: The Jays found a way to come back and win
Speaker 2: it in the bottom of the ninth or extras. But yeah,
Speaker 2: as the Dodgers literally were getting introduced and getting handed
Speaker 2: their rings. Jeff Hoffman in Toronto was giving up a
Speaker 2: two to one lead at Rogers Center.
Speaker 3: How about that? The world works in mysterious ways.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, all right, let's take one more film
Speaker 2: came before we say goodnight.
Speaker 3: Joe. You're on Dodger Talk. Make it good, walk us off,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 12: We're just on our way home from the game right now.
Speaker 12: What a great game. All the talk about Kershaw getting
Speaker 12: the job as a special assistant made us think, what's
Speaker 12: going on with Justin Turner? Can we get him to
Speaker 12: be a special assistant to Kershaw or somebody? What do
Speaker 12: we got?
Speaker 3: What do you think? Special assistant to David Vasse?
Speaker 7: I love that.
Speaker 12: I think that sounds great.
Speaker 2: He could be my intern as he breaks his way
Speaker 2: into broadcasting. Maybe you know, Justin wanted to play this year,
Speaker 2: and he still probably does, but nobody brought him into camp,
Speaker 2: so I'm not sure where he's at with his career.
Speaker 3: But he's forty years old.
Speaker 2: You don't see too many forty year old position players,
Speaker 2: let alone.
Speaker 3: Forty year olds in the game anymore.
Speaker 2: Joe, So you know, we love Justin Turner and he
Speaker 2: certainly deserves a spot with the Dodgers. And even if
Speaker 2: he doesn't have an official capacity one day, his nine
Speaker 2: years with the Dodgers is so it'll always be remembered.
Speaker 12: How about a role in the minors for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Now, he could teach. I'm telling you he could teach.
Speaker 2: He would be great as a coach in the minor leagues,
Speaker 2: in the major leagues, college baseball, he went to Fullerton.
Speaker 2: Whatever he decides to do in baseball, he'll be great
Speaker 2: at He knows the game as well as anybody. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll keep you updated on what he decides to do. Officially,
Speaker 2: Jason Hayward officially retired today, so we'll keep you updated
Speaker 2: on what Justin Turner decides to do. Thanks for the
Speaker 2: phone call, Joe, in case I didn't get to your
Speaker 2: phone calls tonight. I'll be back with you tomorrow morning
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Speaker 2: So we'll talk to you then thanks to Coliny, who's
Speaker 2: going to be up early with me tomorrow as well.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at the ballpark, and
Speaker 2: thanks to you for listening. In case you missed any
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Speaker 11: There.
Speaker 2: He is tonight's national anthem performer, Brad Paisley. Have a
Speaker 2: great rest of your night. We'll talk to you tomorrow
Speaker 2: at eleven am from WSS and Boyle Heights.
Speaker 3: See you once again. The final score Dodger Speed Arizona
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