Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vasse.
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Speaker 2: to seventy LA Sports. We have phone lines open at
Speaker 2: eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy after
Speaker 2: the Dodgers play their first extra innings game of the season,
Speaker 2: beating the Rockies eight to seven in eleven innings. That's right,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers had played ninety one games without extra innings,
Speaker 2: and in game ninety two, Tanner Scott gave up three
Speaker 2: runs in the ninth inning, blowing the save to force
Speaker 2: extra innings and the Dodgers come out on top in
Speaker 2: eleven eight to seven eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. Now you know we've been keeping track
Speaker 2: of this since what game sixty five, since it was
Speaker 2: brought to my attention by our guy Dwayne McDonald here.
Speaker 2: So I've been keeping a running tab on all this,
Speaker 2: and I still remember having it burned in my brain
Speaker 2: now for the rest of my life that the two
Speaker 2: thousand and five Red Sox opened up the season playing
Speaker 2: ninety eight games without extra innings. So I'll always remember
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six Dodgers for a obviously being very talented,
Speaker 2: possibly B three peating and c playing ninety one games
Speaker 2: before having an extra innings affair. And that's what we
Speaker 2: had tonight. And the Dodgers come out on top eight
Speaker 2: to seven in eleven. And remember last week somebody brought
Speaker 2: up the bullpen and how good it's been, and I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the reason why they haven't played extra innings. But
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott, who's been phenomenal this year, had a little hiccup.
Speaker 2: It happens, he gave up three runs in the ninth inning.
Speaker 2: Kyle Carros my guy, with an RBI bass hit to
Speaker 2: start the rally. Cole Carrig with a two run base
Speaker 2: hit as well, got the Rockies tied, and it almost
Speaker 2: was a four run ninth inning if it wasn't for
Speaker 2: Andy Pie has his strong arm Miguel Rojas as savvy
Speaker 2: to be able to get the ball to Dalton Rushing
Speaker 2: for the play at the plate, rushing giving Hunter Goodman
Speaker 2: the lane, and also putting the tag on him to
Speaker 2: send it into a tied game into the bottom of
Speaker 2: the ninth inning. So all those things played a part
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers going extra innings. But like I mentioned
Speaker 2: last week, how good the Dodgers have been and undefeated
Speaker 2: season until tonight after leading after eight innings, So I
Speaker 2: don't think that counts, but I mean, I guess it does.
Speaker 2: They were leading after eight innings, so I guess you
Speaker 2: could say they're fifty six and oh. Now, I mean
Speaker 2: they did give up the lead, but they did come
Speaker 2: back to win, So they are fifty six and oh
Speaker 2: after leading after eight innings technically. But I want to
Speaker 2: talk about my guy, Dalton Rushing, another one of my guys,
Speaker 2: and look, he's an emotional player, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: But I love his edge and I love how he
Speaker 2: makes things uncomfortable sometimes for his teammates and especially the
Speaker 2: other team. And cole Kerrik looking at him in his
Speaker 2: eyes before the game I was introduced to him, and
Speaker 2: then seeing his eyes in that play at the plate
Speaker 2: in the tenth inning, that doesn't seem to.
Speaker 4: Be a dude I would want to mess with. But
Speaker 4: then you look at Dalton Rushing and when I asked
Speaker 4: him what he said to Cole Kerrik, he had the
Speaker 4: fire still in his eyes, and I was like, that's
Speaker 4: a guy I don't want to mess with. I'll just
Speaker 4: leave it right here.
Speaker 2: So two guys that it doesn't seem like you really
Speaker 2: want to mess with, and you had two emotional players
Speaker 2: and that's what took place. And look, Cole Kerrick's foot
Speaker 2: seemed to get tangled on the play at the plate
Speaker 2: where he was called safe. He was safe at the plate.
Speaker 2: So here's my thing, Cole Carrick. We grew up in
Speaker 2: LA with a guy by the name of Mike Soosha
Speaker 2: who had concussions, was sent into the first row at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium and came back to play the next day.
Speaker 2: Did he start a fight with Jack Clark or Norm Charlton. No,
Speaker 2: he just held onto the ball and kept going and
Speaker 2: vice versa. Runners on the Dodgers and other players that
Speaker 2: back in the day were allowed to collide with catchers.
Speaker 2: There was a lot more contact back in the day,
Speaker 2: Cole Kerrick, when you were like ten years old. So
Speaker 2: just because your foot got caught under Dalton rushing doesn't
Speaker 2: mean it was a dirty play.
Speaker 4: It was just an awkward play.
Speaker 2: It happens, And honestly, that was an example of how
Speaker 2: bad the rule is, the Buster Posey rule.
Speaker 4: When that was first implemented, catchers actually said the runners
Speaker 4: were at more risk now of getting injured and Cole
Speaker 4: Carrot could have turned his ankle or torn some ligaments
Speaker 4: in his ankle with that awkward play at the plate,
Speaker 4: say with Hunter Goodman in the ninth inning. Dalton Rushing
Speaker 4: was not at risk. It was the runner and that's
Speaker 4: why it was such a ridiculous rule. Again, kind of
Speaker 4: like Rubin Tahada in twenty fifteen, Buster Posey. If you
Speaker 4: ask any catcher that understands the fundamental ways to block
Speaker 4: the plate, we'll tell you that Buster Posey was out
Speaker 4: of position when they decided to overreact and put in
Speaker 4: this Buster Posey rule. More catchers ask will Smith get
Speaker 4: concussions off of foul balls on their mask than plays
Speaker 4: at the plate.
Speaker 2: Those are far and few between. And now you've put
Speaker 2: runner in peril like Cole Carrott was, and it almost
Speaker 2: started a big fight. I mean, bench is cleared, bullpens
Speaker 2: emptied thanks to the buster posey rule. Tonight's game brought
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Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Rockies eight to seven
Speaker 2: in eleven. But going back to Rushing, I have no
Speaker 2: problems with him. Sometimes he does take it a little
Speaker 2: bit too far, especially when he gets emotional with his
Speaker 2: own teammate like show Hey Otani and doesn't want to
Speaker 2: challenge a pitch that O'tani wants to. But you saw
Speaker 2: it in Otani's last start that rushing cot Were there
Speaker 2: any issues.
Speaker 4: No. Rushing made a few outs tonight. Were there any
Speaker 4: issues No?
Speaker 2: But Rushing helped the Dodgers win in many different ways tonight.
Speaker 2: He set up Otani's go ahead two run home run
Speaker 2: with a double leading off the third inning. He also
Speaker 2: scored on a base hit to center field, where it
Speaker 2: was a bang bang play with him at the plate.
Speaker 2: An aggressive send by Dino Ebel on a base hit
Speaker 2: to center field in the fourth inning Rushing gave him
Speaker 2: everything that he needed to send him and he was safe.
Speaker 2: So two doubles, three runs scored in an RBI, not
Speaker 2: to mention two plays at the plate, and he walks
Speaker 2: off the game with a broken bat and he got
Speaker 2: to love what he said after the game that bat
Speaker 2: had a lot of hits in it. He's going to
Speaker 2: miss it, so sorry. You know, if Dalton Rushing wasn't
Speaker 2: on the Dodgers. He's that type of player where when
Speaker 2: he's on your team, you love him. When he's on
Speaker 2: the other team, you hate him. He's that polarizing of
Speaker 2: a player. But the Dodgers have got a love having him.
Speaker 2: Eight six six seven two five seventy. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Lars, who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight.
Speaker 4: Hi, Lars, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Great to talk to you, and just got back to
Speaker 6: field each year on the drive home. But what a game.
Speaker 6: I'm still riveted from what went down. Two questions for
Speaker 6: you and one apology to all of Dodgers Nation. I
Speaker 6: fear that I jinxed the game and send it into extrainings.
Speaker 6: I was keeping score and I wrote down I'm looking
Speaker 6: at it right now on the bottom of my scoreesheet.
Speaker 6: This was in the ninth inning. I tell you, Dodgers
Speaker 6: sixty is win before the All Star break, best in baseball.
Speaker 6: And then I got up from my seat to get
Speaker 6: a head start to the car, of course, never leaving
Speaker 6: the stadium before the game ends, but trying to get
Speaker 6: a little head start. And then things turned south on
Speaker 6: Tanner Scott, so I went back to my seat. We
Speaker 6: got back on track and wanted on a walk off
Speaker 6: thanks to Dalton Russian. He's just a great competitor at
Speaker 6: love him.
Speaker 4: I hope fans appreciate him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we talked about him the other day. He
Speaker 6: was so nice to my son the last two spring training.
Speaker 6: So it really is this Jackal and Hyde where like,
Speaker 6: personality wise, he's such a nice guy and amazing with kids,
Speaker 6: and then you get him on the field and the
Speaker 6: fire comes out. But man, that's who you want behind
Speaker 6: the plate. So he just does a great job for
Speaker 6: us all the time. My questions are these. One is
Speaker 6: in extra innings. I realized I haven't scored a game
Speaker 6: in extra innings because of course the Dodgers haven't taken
Speaker 6: us there. It's funny starting with a runner at second base,
Speaker 6: and then when he scores, you can't fill in the diamond.
Speaker 6: He had this like awkward triangle. Am I right in
Speaker 6: scoring the game that way?
Speaker 4: Yeah? For sure.
Speaker 2: You put the runner there, and that's the way you
Speaker 2: score it. I mean it's a it's a ghost runner
Speaker 2: or a place runner, or as Charlie Stunner likes to say,
Speaker 2: the Manfred man. I mean, there's no way to score it.
Speaker 2: And it's weird how a pitcher would get an earn
Speaker 2: run for that runner scoring. I mean that just doesn't
Speaker 2: add up. So it's a weird rule. But the intention
Speaker 2: is to shorten games so they don't go eighteen innings.
Speaker 2: And I thought the Rockies and Dodgers played it the
Speaker 2: right way. I did wonder, you know, having Edmund bunt
Speaker 2: with rushing behind him.
Speaker 4: I thought that was.
Speaker 2: You could have made a quick regroup and have Rojas
Speaker 2: laid down the bun if that's what you wanted to do.
Speaker 2: Would not burn Edmond in that situation. But yeah, that's
Speaker 2: it's a weird rule. It's a weird rule because in baseball,
Speaker 2: every run, every runner is accounted for when you keep
Speaker 2: scoreing earn runs and all that, so it's weird in
Speaker 2: the regular season, for sure, Lars, But I.
Speaker 4: Don't hate it as much as I did at the beginning.
Speaker 4: It's fine. It makes it interesting, like it did tonight.
Speaker 6: It looked even weirder in the score book because he
Speaker 6: usually have the diamond that you fill in, and now
Speaker 6: suddenly I had this like awkward triangle in my scorebook,
Speaker 6: and I was like, oh, I haven't done that yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the other least the run when the run scores,
Speaker 4: it's an unearned run.
Speaker 6: Oh I didn't know that. Oh that's good enough, excellent. Well,
Speaker 6: I won't fill it in.
Speaker 4: Then you got to fill it in, but don't charge
Speaker 4: the picture with an earn run at the final box.
Speaker 6: Exactly on the base running era on the Rockies in
Speaker 6: the sixth am I right in thinking that Andy Andy
Speaker 6: Pajez gets credit for an outfield assist. I think that
Speaker 6: double play would go eight three six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he got it tonight. He got McCarthy at first
Speaker 2: base and he got good Men at home plate.
Speaker 4: Tonight. I guess he gets the outfield assist on that.
Speaker 7: I love that.
Speaker 6: How far ahead is he in the in the All
Speaker 6: Major League Baseball and outfield assist I think he's leading.
Speaker 2: He is leading and that's why he's an All Star,
Speaker 2: All Star center fielder. Thanks for the phone call, Lars,
Speaker 2: appreciate well. A lot of scoring questions right there. I'll
Speaker 2: have to look right now the updated But last time
Speaker 2: I think Pa has is that nine outfield assists. I'll
Speaker 2: have to uh check to see how many he has
Speaker 2: for this season. Eight six, six nine, eight seven, two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Scooter in l A. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Scooter?
Speaker 6: Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 4: Dave doing great? How about you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: Good? Yes? I want to say, you know what, Tannis Scott.
Speaker 8: You know, I kind of had a little flashbacks from
Speaker 8: from last season with him. I hope he's just a
Speaker 8: you know, a bad game and it doesn't cao to
Speaker 8: a next outing. And the other thing is, I mean,
Speaker 8: I love it the Dodgers are winning. I love it
Speaker 8: the way ahead in their division. But it concerns me
Speaker 8: a little bit that these other teams in our division
Speaker 8: are not pushing the Dodgers, man, because you know how
Speaker 8: it was a few seasons ago when they would win
Speaker 8: division by twenty games or whatever and then get knocked
Speaker 8: out in the first round by Arizona or the Padres
Speaker 8: and stuff man, And.
Speaker 4: I don't know what you know what the difference is, Scooter,
Speaker 4: You know what the difference is this year?
Speaker 8: No, I don't.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are back to back champions, which means they
Speaker 2: know how to win. And if you go back to
Speaker 2: listen to our pregame interview with Max Muntsey, I asked
Speaker 2: him the same question you asked me, and that's what
Speaker 2: he said. This team is has a better mindset to
Speaker 2: be able to stay in the moment and worry about
Speaker 2: tonight's scheme than those teams did, because why they know
Speaker 2: how to win. It's not experienced. It's not experience, it's
Speaker 2: knowing how to win. And the Dodgers have proven that
Speaker 2: the last two years they know how to win.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, I hope you're right, David. I mean, I
Speaker 6: hope they win one hundred and.
Speaker 8: Twenty games, but I just hope I just take the
Speaker 8: momentum into the playoffs.
Speaker 4: All right, Scooter, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that's something that I'm sure a lot
Speaker 2: of people are worried about now, and that's going to
Speaker 2: be the narrative in the second half of the season,
Speaker 2: because when the Dodgers have won one hundred games and
Speaker 2: they've had big leads going into September, they've had first
Speaker 2: round flameouts, and that those teams in twenty two and
Speaker 2: twenty three number one were not as talented as this one.
Speaker 2: The twenty two team, you can make an argument, but
Speaker 2: the twenty three team was not as talented as this one.
Speaker 2: But the one thing I'll say, and there's a difference
Speaker 2: between experience and knowing how to win. The Phillies are experienced.
Speaker 2: They have a lot of experienced players. Do they know
Speaker 2: how to win? They haven't shown it yet because they
Speaker 2: haven't won. But the Dodgers have won twice in the
Speaker 2: last two years. So that tells me they know how
Speaker 2: to win. And Max Munsey answering the question the way
Speaker 2: he did before the game, and you can find that
Speaker 2: conversation right now on the iHeartRadio app if you make
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk a preset. But he said, this team is
Speaker 2: better equipped to be able to stay in the moment
Speaker 2: and worry about that game, and that's how they came
Speaker 2: back down three games to two in the World Series.
Speaker 2: He said, it's no different. Just have to win that
Speaker 2: game tonight. That's all we're concerned about. And that's where
Speaker 2: people get it twisted.
Speaker 4: Right, The Dodgers aren't experienced team, but they were experienced
Speaker 4: in twenty one and twenty two and twenty three, but
Speaker 4: did they know how to win?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 2: There were some players from twenty still on the team,
Speaker 2: but they were starting to bring in and incorporate players
Speaker 2: from other organizations that didn't really know how to win
Speaker 2: and weren't fully all in a Max Scherzer. So you know,
Speaker 2: now they have everybody invested, and this group has been
Speaker 2: together two years running, and they know how to win.
Speaker 2: And that's the difference. Eight six six, nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Rockies tonight eight to seven in eleven innings. And by
Speaker 2: the way, with the win tonight, the Dodgers reached sixty
Speaker 2: wins faster than any other team in baseball this year.
Speaker 2: They do have a fourteen game lead over second place
Speaker 2: Arizona and a fifteen game lead over third place San Diego.
Speaker 4: All right, I had a chance to catch up with
Speaker 4: Dalton Rushing. We talked about the plays at the plate,
Speaker 4: we talked about the walkoff win. Here was Rushing moments
Speaker 4: after the final out or the walkoff hit that broke
Speaker 4: his bat that had so many hits in it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I know it. Uh was a broken bat.
Speaker 9: That bat had a lot of heads in it. I'm
Speaker 9: gonna miss it for sure, but no, it died a
Speaker 9: hero for the boys, and wins always a good thing.
Speaker 2: What can you say about what that Gardo Enriquez was
Speaker 2: able to do to keep you guys in it?
Speaker 3: Man, that's that's impressive.
Speaker 9: He hasn't had two ups many times this year, if any,
Speaker 9: And for him to go out there and do it
Speaker 9: in a big time like this when we needed it
Speaker 9: the most, it's special. It says a lot about that bullpen.
Speaker 9: This bullpen, everyone wants the ball. They don't care how
Speaker 9: long they gotta go.
Speaker 3: They just want the ball.
Speaker 4: Not only did you get the walk off hit, but
Speaker 4: you prevented the Rockies from taking the lead in the
Speaker 4: ninth inning. The play at the plate with Hunter Goodman.
Speaker 4: Take us through that and the balance where you have
Speaker 4: to give a lane but also try to make a play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you make a play on the ball.
Speaker 9: We know the rules over here, and so anything that
Speaker 9: goes up the line right there, you have the right
Speaker 9: tag towards the ball and then make the tag on
Speaker 9: the player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully they learned from him.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like Carrick wasn't clear about the rules there?
Speaker 2: I mean back in my day, Dalton, I saw Mikezosha
Speaker 2: get hammered. That didn't seem that bad. No, it wasn't bad.
Speaker 2: Maybe to him it was bad, but it wasn't bad
Speaker 2: at automatic.
Speaker 4: What'd you say to him?
Speaker 3: I said, nothing bad. Don't worry. Make sure he knows
Speaker 3: who I am.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, congratulations a catcher always controlling the
Speaker 4: game offensively and defensively.
Speaker 2: That was you tonight. Congratulations. There he is the man,
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing. Nothing bad, no harm, no foul on this
Speaker 2: side of it. Dalton Rushing a big night. The walkoff
Speaker 2: bas said to give the Dodgers the eight to seven
Speaker 2: win in eleven innings. When we continue on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: Live from Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium, we'll check in
Speaker 2: with Jose Mota. We'll take more of your phone calls
Speaker 2: at eight sixty six, nine, eight seven two, five seventy
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers play their first extra innings game and
Speaker 2: win it in eleven, eight to seven. On AM five
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Speaker 10: Fly ball left field, bend McCarthy to the wall and
Speaker 10: it's gone. A home run Joe Haotani his nineteenth home
Speaker 10: run in the year, and the Dodgers take a two
Speaker 10: to one lead.
Speaker 4: A big night for show.
Speaker 2: Haotani three for four with four RBIs, including that go
Speaker 2: ahead two run home run in the third inning off
Speaker 2: of Kyle Freeland. Dalton Rushing had the leadoff double right
Speaker 2: there to get things going for Otani, who now is
Speaker 2: hitting three to oh two with five home runs and
Speaker 2: forty one RBIs when runners are on base in front
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Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Rockies in eleven tonight, eight to seven,
Speaker 2: all the way back before extra innings. Eric Lauer got
Speaker 2: the start, got himself out of a bases loaded jam
Speaker 2: in the second inning, allowed just one run in that second,
Speaker 2: and completed six innings for the Dodgers tonight. He had
Speaker 2: some high praise for Dalton Rushing, another teammate backing up
Speaker 2: their catcher.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he's a great player, and I think he plays
Speaker 11: with a lot of moxy and he definitely doesn't back
Speaker 11: down to anybody, and.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we love him for that.
Speaker 11: And he's a great guy that you want on your
Speaker 11: team and you want playing with you. So he's a
Speaker 11: great competitor, great guy.
Speaker 1: So I like him a lot.
Speaker 4: All Right.
Speaker 2: That's a veteran pitcher that's been with a couple of
Speaker 2: different teams backing up the young Rushing. You certainly want
Speaker 2: to have a guy like that on your side. I
Speaker 2: can understand how he gets under the skin of other teams,
Speaker 2: but certainly a true that fights for his pictures is
Speaker 2: a guy that you want behind the plate. And Will
Speaker 2: Smith does a great job of doing that as well.
Speaker 2: You know, here's one thing about Dalton Rushing versus Will Smith,
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing wears his emotions on his sleeve. But I'll
Speaker 2: tell you this, and I'm sure if you think back,
Speaker 2: you'll remember these scenes, these moments in time. Will Smith
Speaker 2: has had some moments where he has said something to
Speaker 2: hitters like Marcelo Zuna who had the backswing on the
Speaker 2: back of his head. He stood up for himself and
Speaker 2: didn't take that and he barked at Ozuna. Remember when
Speaker 2: he called Jerkson profar irrelevant. I mean, he's had some
Speaker 2: moments too. But Will is such a quiet guy. But
Speaker 2: there's a quiet toughness about him, and he'll say things
Speaker 2: with the mask on to somebody where it doesn't go viral.
Speaker 2: Where Dalton Rushing, he's emotional and he wears his emotions
Speaker 2: on his sleeves right now at this stage of his career,
Speaker 2: and he doesn't care if John Boy wants to transcribe
Speaker 2: eating his lips. That's who he is and he's not
Speaker 2: apologizing for it. And Will Smith, I got news for you,
Speaker 2: doesn't apologize for who he is either. So the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have two tough catchers and very different personalities. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 4: Trust me.
Speaker 2: I've seen Will Smith's toughness. I've been on the other
Speaker 2: end of that before. All right, let's go out to
Speaker 2: Jose Mota.
Speaker 1: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 4: All right, Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: What a game in July against the Rockies, first extra
Speaker 2: innings game, A couple of big plays at the plate,
Speaker 2: Dalton rushing all over it. Otani explodes, this was an
Speaker 2: entertaining game between a team that's headed to the postseason
Speaker 2: compared to a team that isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 7: A team isn't playing so good lately. Five hundred for
Speaker 7: the Rockies coming into this one, last thirty four games,
Speaker 7: and I think, Dave overro it's a good test. You know,
Speaker 7: many many tests coming different ways, and a lot of
Speaker 7: times we expect like the worst things to happen and
Speaker 7: the biggest tests, and uh, you know situations. Are you
Speaker 7: going to prove yourself against you know, mighty competitors and
Speaker 7: the big names and the big teams. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: It's baseball, man, And you know this forced a lot
Speaker 7: of things happened. Number one is the Dodgers consider to
Speaker 7: play good defense. Let's not ignore that, including Dave the
Speaker 7: one guy that you know he has to make you
Speaker 7: thrown to the basis at god Vinriquez, he played catch
Speaker 7: on the big double play in that inning, that one
Speaker 7: four to three. The other thing, too, is Dave Roberts
Speaker 7: is seeing his team execute at the highest level now
Speaker 7: against a Rockies team that you got to respect implementing
Speaker 7: playing baseball. The Dodgers had thirteen sacrifices all of last year.
Speaker 7: They're twelve right now. So you're finding out right now
Speaker 7: that Tommy Edmant had one sacrifice butt last year. He
Speaker 7: has two already in consecutive at bats. So many many
Speaker 7: things happen, obviously now the cleanness of games. You want
Speaker 7: to see a Tanner Scot come out cleanly, but he's
Speaker 7: not perfect. But overall, just a lot of good things
Speaker 7: happening in terms of just moving runners along, playing the
Speaker 7: game right, having better at bats, and not giving in
Speaker 7: until the very end. That was remarkable to watch.
Speaker 2: How about the plays at the plate in the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: adults and rushing, you know, walking that fine line of
Speaker 2: knowing how to play that play at the plate, giving
Speaker 2: a lane but also making a great tag. And also
Speaker 2: in the tenth inning where Cole Kerrick's foot kind of
Speaker 2: got caught underneath them, and we had that benches clearing
Speaker 2: and bullpen clearing situation.
Speaker 7: Yeah, told me, that's like ridiculous. You know your clea
Speaker 7: gets caught at So what I mean if anybody should
Speaker 7: complain as a catcher saying hey man, you know you
Speaker 7: hit me or you know, I mean you can't touch
Speaker 7: guys anymore. But runners have to understand that lane is open.
Speaker 7: That's why you and not we're talking. Last week, more
Speaker 7: guys are diving into home plate, which was not ever
Speaker 7: ever recommended because you're going to run to somebody's gear
Speaker 7: and shint guards. But as you it's about too it's
Speaker 7: supposed to the runner to do different things. A lot
Speaker 7: of guys sometimes's so on the side to day they
Speaker 7: go and standing up, which is even more dangerous. Catchers
Speaker 7: have to learn so many things nowadays. And you are
Speaker 7: in a desperate mode to get it out, and you
Speaker 7: know you're gonna get a bang bang play. You want
Speaker 7: to lean into making sure that the guy is not
Speaker 7: going to give any type of advantage against you. And
Speaker 7: that's where young catchers are learning way more in terms
Speaker 7: of the footwork. Technicality is like the game and waiting
Speaker 7: for the ball to get there, which is also a
Speaker 7: little bit dangerous. If the ball carries you into the lane,
Speaker 7: what are you gonna do. So there's so many things
Speaker 7: being exposed because of that. But overall, I think Rushing,
Speaker 7: with the emotions that you talk about, is a guy
Speaker 7: that coming through the minor league's understood every single one
Speaker 7: of these things. He knows how to explain it too,
Speaker 7: as he does very clear with you as to why
Speaker 7: you set your feet in one position, why that lane
Speaker 7: is open, and why exactly you don't want to jump
Speaker 7: the gun even if your throat gets you into the
Speaker 7: lane for the runner.
Speaker 2: You gotta love it how he and Cole carrig were
Speaker 2: chirping at each other. It was the picture and Gardo
Speaker 2: Enriquez that had to come down and calm down this catcher,
Speaker 2: and then Max Mounsely, the veteran, came in and walked
Speaker 2: them away from that home played area to diffuse the situation.
Speaker 2: Did you feel like that was going to escalate.
Speaker 7: With Rushing?
Speaker 1: He just never know.
Speaker 7: But I mean, you gotta love the guy because they
Speaker 7: really if you think about what they saw and how
Speaker 7: the league has him, you know, a bit of a target.
Speaker 7: Everybody knows who rushing he is. With the emotions and
Speaker 7: things have happened here publicly, It's like Enriquez knows, I
Speaker 7: cannot allow this to happen. We need this guy to
Speaker 7: just get back and to play in the game. He
Speaker 7: already did his job. Let's get it back. Max Monthly, obviously,
Speaker 7: one of the leaders of the team knows exactly how
Speaker 7: to take care of that. And at the same time,
Speaker 7: it's a matter of managing what you have in front
Speaker 7: of you in terms of teammates and characters. But I
Speaker 7: think about Rushing all the things he's gone through, Dave,
Speaker 7: I've seen a lot of guys fold okay after they're
Speaker 7: confronted public buy something, they said, something they did, being
Speaker 7: questioned by teammates, overacting, overreacting, and being called out in
Speaker 7: front of the world media. Pretty much, this guy is
Speaker 7: tough as they come. Mentally, you want this guy in
Speaker 7: your team, as Eric Laarer was saying, because of what
Speaker 7: he brings. Obviously, he's surrounded by a lot of good
Speaker 7: veteran players that can kind of just explain things soever
Speaker 7: Freddy did and as they all do throughout you know
Speaker 7: when the cameras are not on, but man when he's
Speaker 7: on your team, he's like, you know, he's gonna be tough.
Speaker 7: Nothing's going to bother him. Showhill Toney's not gonna intimidate him.
Speaker 7: Nobody's gonna intimidate him. But if you can turn it
Speaker 7: down a little bit more and understand that you don't
Speaker 7: be a target for the unknown reasons or one wanted reasons.
Speaker 7: But you cannot take a fire away from this guy.
Speaker 7: There's a guy that you like a lot that had
Speaker 7: to control this when he first came up, his name
Speaker 7: Ander EIGHTHI and he turned out to be pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah he did.
Speaker 2: I know, some bats took a beating, but yeah, he
Speaker 2: turned out to be pretty good. And with age and
Speaker 2: maturity he knew how to kind of pick his spots.
Speaker 3: With all that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and then the catching position that requires a lot.
Speaker 7: I mean, let's not forget about Steve Yeger and the
Speaker 7: stuff he took behind home plays. So that is have
Speaker 7: bet a history of guys that you know, Russell Martin
Speaker 7: to have taken their beatings behind home plate and understand
Speaker 7: how important it is to play that leadership role behind
Speaker 7: that position, to take charge. And then when you walk
Speaker 7: over the clubhouse it could be the most unpopular teammate
Speaker 7: in some ways, but when they're like between the White Lions,
Speaker 7: I want that guy on my team as my catcher
Speaker 7: in Turnty. For pitchers, that is a big, big deal.
Speaker 2: To all right, Jose, what a fun night at the ballpark.
Speaker 2: It's always an event. Freddie Freeman Bobo Head night, he
Speaker 2: had his family out here. And then the first extra
Speaker 2: innings game of the year for the Dodgers, and there
Speaker 2: was a lot of late drama.
Speaker 7: Love it for some play baseball to find out that
Speaker 7: they can win the close games. And it doesn't matter
Speaker 7: who it is. Execution is the name of the game.
Speaker 7: And if you can execute a little bit more and
Speaker 7: catch a ball better as Eero Julian couldn't do, then
Speaker 7: you're gonna win ball games.
Speaker 4: No doubt.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers gave a La Soccer fans something to cheer
Speaker 2: about after Mexico lost yesterday and the US lost today.
Speaker 2: All you have in La now, as always.
Speaker 4: Is the Dodgers, those Doyers. Thanks Jose.
Speaker 2: There he goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish
Speaker 2: radio broadcast with a proud Mexican like Luis Cochito Cruz,
Speaker 2: who was a little sad today. I'll have to admit
Speaker 2: he was a little sad, a little consado today. Couchito
Speaker 2: Cruz and a lot of sad US soccer fans. Can
Speaker 2: you believe somebody text me asking me if they're going
Speaker 2: to show the soccer game in the stadium club before
Speaker 2: first pitch tonight, I said, I have no idea. This
Speaker 2: is a Dodger game. Go to a sports bar if
Speaker 2: you want to watch soccer, and look, they let you down.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers never let you down.
Speaker 4: All right, Tomorrow, game two of this three game series
Speaker 4: between the Dodgers and Rockies, Justin Robleski will be.
Speaker 2: On the mound tomorrow. He has ten wins on the season.
Speaker 2: Only two other pitchers have that. He's ten and two
Speaker 2: with an ERA of two to eighty. And don't worry,
Speaker 2: he will be in Philadelphia. There's a number of pitchers
Speaker 2: that already are lined up to pitch this weekend that
Speaker 2: won't be able to pitch in Philadelphia. So I have
Speaker 2: no doubts that Robleski will be in Philadelphia with the
Speaker 2: rest of the National League All Stars. He's going up
Speaker 2: against former Angel Mike Lorenzen, who's three and nine with
Speaker 2: an era of six point ninety one. Our coverage begins
Speaker 2: at six o'clock with first pitch at seven ten with
Speaker 2: Rick Monday and Tim Neverett. Thanks to Colinie back at
Speaker 2: our Burbank studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you for listening. In case
Speaker 2: you missed any of the show, you know where to
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Speaker 2: and listen to that conversation with All Star Max Muncie,
Speaker 2: who's making the first start at third base in an
Speaker 2: All Star game by a Dodger since the Penguin Ron
Speaker 2: Say in nineteen seventy seven, and we did get into
Speaker 2: the big lead, and how the Dodgers are going to
Speaker 2: stay focused all the way through the finish line.
Speaker 4: No doubt that they know.
Speaker 2: How to do that with winning back to back championships
Speaker 2: once again. The final score Tonight the Dodgers play their
Speaker 2: first extra innings game of the season, Game ninety two,
Speaker 2: and they come out on top in eleven eight to
Speaker 2: seven over the Rockies. Ben Mallor is he finally working tonight?
Speaker 2: I mean the holidays over, Big Ben will find out
Speaker 2: on the other side at least his shows on Fox
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Speaker 4: See you playing