Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vase.
Speaker 5: Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vasse with you until nine o'clock tonight here on
Speaker 2: AM five to seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers defeat the
Speaker 2: Brewers tonight by a final score of eleven to three,
Speaker 2: snapping a nine game regular season losing streak to Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: It goes back further than last year when Milwaukee beat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers all seven times. It goes back to twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. So the Dodgers get that regular season win
Speaker 2: against the Brewers. You know what, I don't put a
Speaker 2: lot of stock in it, because the Dodgers swept the
Speaker 2: Brewers when he counted the most in the NLCS. So
Speaker 2: hard to freak out over losing nine consecutive regular season
Speaker 2: games to the Brewers when you swept them last year
Speaker 2: in the NLCS to go onto the World Series and
Speaker 2: win a second consecutive championship. But that happened, and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were able to break it. I mean, Freddy Freeman
Speaker 2: even knew about it. He told me that he knew
Speaker 2: about that more than he knew about the Dodger bullpen
Speaker 2: consecutive scoreless inning streak, which the Dodger bullpen in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six accomplished thirty six consecutive scoreless innings. Tonight, after
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki went five innings, Alex Vesia and Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: and Kyle Hurt and Jonathan Hernandez came in to pitch
Speaker 2: the final four innings of tonight's game, and they put
Speaker 2: up four more zeros, and the Dodger bullpen now has
Speaker 2: the record, the modern era record in Dodger franchise history,
Speaker 2: for thirty six consecutive scoreless innings, breaking the streak that
Speaker 2: the nineteen ninety eight Dodger bullpen had of thirty three.
Speaker 5: Consecutive scoreless innings.
Speaker 2: And in case you don't know who is in that
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety eight bullpen, Mark Guthrie Brad Klantz, Jim Bruski,
Speaker 2: Antonio Osuna, Scott Radinski, and Darren Dreyfert. Those were the
Speaker 2: Dodger relievers in nineteen ninety eight that combined to pitch
Speaker 2: thirty three consecutive scoreless sinnings during that stretch of time.
Speaker 2: For the twenty twenty six Dodgers, they've used twelve different
Speaker 2: relievers to combine to have thirty six consecutive scoreless innings.
Speaker 5: Can you name all twelve? I'll help you.
Speaker 2: Kyle Hurt, Jack Dryer, Alex Vesia Tanner, Scott will Klein,
Speaker 2: Edgardo Enriquez, Jonathan Hernandez, Blake, Trinan, Charlie Barnes, Wyatt Mills,
Speaker 2: Chase McDermott, and Paul Gervais. Those are the twelve Dodger
Speaker 2: relievers that have contributed to this record setting thirty six
Speaker 2: consecutive scoreless innings. And for the Dodgers, if they want
Speaker 2: to keep going, which I'm sure they do, the major
Speaker 2: league record is held by the Kansas City Athletics of
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty six that bullpen pitched forty four consecutive scoreless innings.
Speaker 2: So history was made tonight and the Dodger bullpen is
Speaker 2: exceeding expectations. Kyle Hurt got out of a big jam
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning. He was able to get Andrew
Speaker 2: Vaughn to ground out to Mookie Betts to end the seventh.
Speaker 2: And we all know, after what I told you about
Speaker 2: Andrew Vaughn last night, he's been a thorn in the
Speaker 2: Dodger's side going back to last year wearing a Brewer uniform.
Speaker 2: So that was not a given. And I couldn't believe
Speaker 2: this when Joe Davis shared this with us. Kyle Hurt's
Speaker 2: fastball has the second most swing and miss of any
Speaker 2: other pitcher except for the padres Mason Miller. How about that,
Speaker 2: There's only one other reliever that has gotten as much
Speaker 2: swing and miss on their fastball than Kyle Hurt, and
Speaker 2: that's Mason Miller. And look, Kyle Hurt, he has two pitches.
Speaker 2: It's a fastball change up situation and it's been devastating.
Speaker 2: The Dodger bullpen has a combined thirty six consecutive scoreless innings. Well,
Speaker 2: Kyle Hurt has his own personal scoreless inning street going
Speaker 2: right now. Twelve consecutive scoreless innings for Kyle Hurt, the
Speaker 2: kid out of USC the local kid. I am so
Speaker 2: happy for him. He had a long road back from
Speaker 2: elbow surgery, and I always knew there was something about
Speaker 2: him when he was healthy that he would be a
Speaker 2: really good relief pitcher. And he's proving a lot of
Speaker 2: people right. So congratulations to Kyle Hurt and the eleven
Speaker 2: other relievers that now hold the distinction of having the
Speaker 2: longest consecutive scoreless inning streak of any Dodger bullpen eight
Speaker 2: sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Just a slide update, We'll get that out of the way. No,
Speaker 2: I did not go down the slide today, but Alex
Speaker 2: Call tried to convince or request to go down the slide.
Speaker 2: But no active players are allowed to go down the
Speaker 2: slide for obvious reasons. And I don't need any Alex
Speaker 2: Call blood on my hands. Okay, I don't need Alex
Speaker 2: Call going down the slide and tweaking his ankle or
Speaker 2: running into a wall. I think that's a good rule
Speaker 2: to have, not just by the Dodgers, but by everybody.
Speaker 2: No active players should be going down that slide.
Speaker 5: Good thing.
Speaker 2: Ta Oscar Hernandez didn't go down the slide because he
Speaker 2: had a big night tonight, tying his career high with
Speaker 2: six r rbies. He had to go ahead three run
Speaker 2: home run in the fourth inning, which turned out to
Speaker 2: be his first home run this season off a left
Speaker 2: handed pitcher. Robert Gasser was the victim. Ken Rosenthal on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports caught up with Tao after the game.
Speaker 6: Tayo, three run homer to tie your career high with
Speaker 6: six RBIs. But let's start with Rocus. Tosaki allowed three
Speaker 6: runs in the first and that was it. We retired
Speaker 6: his last ten hitters. How impressed were you by the
Speaker 6: way he recovered?
Speaker 7: I mean the big the biggest thing is like giving
Speaker 7: those three runs and then vocals and getting back attacking
Speaker 7: the hitters and then hitting the strike zones, getting ahead
Speaker 7: of the count. You know, he's been great, Uh in
Speaker 7: the last like three start. I think he's still learning,
Speaker 7: still get in the confidence back, and I think we
Speaker 7: gotta see the Sasaki they used to see independently.
Speaker 6: Your three run homer in the fourth, you hit an
Speaker 6: oh pitch, Casser went.
Speaker 5: Sweeper change up and you came back to the street.
Speaker 1: What were you thinking of?
Speaker 7: I mean something on the play. I mean I was
Speaker 7: not trying to hit hit a homer, especially not a
Speaker 7: go to count trying to short you sway tried to
Speaker 7: put the ball in play. I just react good to
Speaker 7: that one.
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts dropped you in the order. You hit seventh today,
Speaker 6: you hit eighth quite a bit lately, Tayo, how did
Speaker 6: you react to that?
Speaker 1: Did it help you all?
Speaker 7: I mean as baseball I'd talk today if I always
Speaker 7: saw him anywhere he wanted me to play or hit
Speaker 7: in the lineup. I'm gonna be one hundred percent trying
Speaker 7: to do my best and just strength to do my job,
Speaker 7: and that is to help the teams win. You So
Speaker 7: it doesn't matter for me there are four or five, six, seven,
Speaker 7: whatever it is. I'm gonna go there with the same
Speaker 7: focus and just trying to do my job.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 6: It was a great day to congratulations.
Speaker 2: Taoscar Hernandez a big night. And look, I believe that
Speaker 2: it was a challenge to Taoscar Hernandez, and Taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: has responded big time to that challenge. Since Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: first dropped him eighth in the lineup. In his last
Speaker 2: fifteen games, Tao is hitting three point fifty eight with
Speaker 2: an ops of over one thousand three home runs, fourteen
Speaker 2: RBIs so ti Oscar Hernandez. The reality is he's a
Speaker 2: streaky hitter and when he's on a heater, he's on
Speaker 2: a heater like this. And the one thing I'll tell
Speaker 2: you is, don't forget how clutch and how many big
Speaker 2: home runs and plays Taoscar Hernandez has had the last
Speaker 2: two years in the postseason for the Dodgers. You can
Speaker 2: talk all you want about ever since Otani got here,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have won back to back championships. Ever since
Speaker 2: tai Oscar Hernandez got here, the Dodgers have won back
Speaker 2: to back championships. Don't forget it and don't jump off
Speaker 2: the tail bandwagon. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Brewers tonight,
Speaker 2: eleven to three. Let's go out to the phones. Mark
Speaker 2: in Redondo Beach, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: How you doing, Mark, I'm doing pretty good. I just,
Speaker 9: first of all, I wanted to check to see how
Speaker 9: your right arm is.
Speaker 5: Doing doing good.
Speaker 2: It's been doing good since doctor Shinn put it back
Speaker 2: together in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 9: Right, No, I know, I was I was hoping that
Speaker 9: things are doing well for you and I hate Yeah.
Speaker 9: I was just really encouraged by the Dodgers and I
Speaker 9: think we're going to go all the way again this year.
Speaker 9: Just yeah, it what's a little troubling. Sometimes it appears
Speaker 9: that they're a little on the flat side or flat
Speaker 9: footed in terms of offense. But at the same time,
Speaker 9: you've also got some pretty significant pictures on the other
Speaker 9: side of those days.
Speaker 5: So it's Mark, I'll tell you something about that.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why it appears to be that way sometimes, Mark,
Speaker 2: because I've asked players about it recently and they told me.
Speaker 2: Number One, pitchers are pitching the Dodgers differently than they
Speaker 2: pitch other teams. So they're seeing a game plan that
Speaker 2: they were not prepared for coming into it a lot
Speaker 2: of times because pitchers are pitching them differently than they
Speaker 2: pitch other teams. Number Two, the Dodgers are a veteran
Speaker 2: team that have won back to back championships and understand
Speaker 2: how to pace themselves for the regular season. All these guys, Mark,
Speaker 2: I think we lose sight of the fact have played
Speaker 2: more games than anybody else. They have started seasons before
Speaker 2: anybody else. Each of the last two years, so you
Speaker 2: have to forgive them some nights where the adrenaline isn't
Speaker 2: as high as it may be for other nights. And
Speaker 2: I feel like we all need to grant them a
Speaker 2: pass here and there because of all those things in play.
Speaker 9: Well, I don't think they need forgiveness because I always
Speaker 9: reflect on what what Lasorda said was, Uh, you know
Speaker 9: what they call a team that lost forty games World
Speaker 9: champions and so we're gonna lose games, you know, And
Speaker 9: so I'm just wondering when can I call back and
Speaker 9: get the prediction from you for the uh, for the
Speaker 9: whole season in terms of wins. Usually that's kind of
Speaker 9: in July.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you right now. I think there we're
Speaker 2: looking at ninety five wins this year. I don't want
Speaker 2: over one hundred because when they win one hundred, they
Speaker 2: haven't won the World Series. But under one hundred wins
Speaker 2: they won back to back championships.
Speaker 9: Okay, very good, all right, thank you, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Mark, thank you for the phone call. Eight six
Speaker 5: six seventy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are three things that was told to me
Speaker 2: by a couple of these veteran players, you know, during
Speaker 2: those two weeks where it wasn't looking very pretty for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. They reminded me of those things, and even
Speaker 2: I forget at times when you get caught up in
Speaker 2: the individual game that the Dodgers the last two years
Speaker 2: have played more games than anybody else. They started the
Speaker 2: last two seasons in South Korea and Tokyo respectively, and
Speaker 2: started the season earlier than anybody, So pitchers are pitching
Speaker 2: them differently. The adrenaline is not going to be there
Speaker 2: every single night. And see, these guys have played a
Speaker 2: lot of games and they understand how to navigate a
Speaker 2: full regular season, So all of those things are in
Speaker 2: play as the Dodgers go through the one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty two game marathon. That's why you need a guy
Speaker 2: like Kyle Tucker to give a little bit more because
Speaker 2: he wasn't part of the group the last two years.
Speaker 2: That's what you need from him, and we haven't really
Speaker 2: seen it. We've seen flashes, but we haven't seen consistently
Speaker 2: that type of, you know, spark that the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: looking for. And I'm not look talking about a spark
Speaker 2: to be raw raw. I'm talking about a spark to
Speaker 2: hit to get on bass, to drive in runs. And
Speaker 2: to pick other guys up. Tonight Tucker was pretty good.
Speaker 2: He got on base a couple of times tonight, one
Speaker 2: for four with a walk score twice. So just a
Speaker 2: little more engagement for Tucker consistently would go a long
Speaker 2: way for this team. Eight six six, eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number tonight's game brought to
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Speaker 2: we continue live from Milwaukee, we'll take more of your
Speaker 2: phone calls. We have two lines open at eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Plus, we'll give
Speaker 2: you an update on Max Smuntsey. We'll let you know
Speaker 2: what the plan is for Key Gay Hernandez. And today
Speaker 2: is the anniversary of Sean Green's nineteen total base game
Speaker 2: here in Milwaukee in two thousand and two, so we'll
Speaker 2: get to all that. And Adam Wainwright on Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 2: his peer, two guys that pitched at a very high
Speaker 2: level and were warriors on two different teams.
Speaker 5: Wainwright played his entire career for the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Kershaw, as you know, his entire future Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: career for the Dodgers. So you'll hear what Adam Wainwright
Speaker 2: had to say reflecting on the rivalry between him and
Speaker 2: Clayton when we continued to nine o'clock live from Milwaukee
Speaker 2: after the Dodgers beat the Brewers eleven to three on
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Speaker 1: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassan.
Speaker 10: Oh two pitch, he swingson, hits a high drive down
Speaker 10: the left field line. This fall is off the palling
Speaker 10: gone hits a three run home run. Tioscar Hernandez and
Speaker 10: the Dodgers take a four to three lane in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: Ti Oscar Hernandez never doubt him. He's a really good
Speaker 2: player and has come up big for the Dodgers so
Speaker 2: many times the last two years. He comes up big
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee tonight as he hit a go ahead three
Speaker 2: run home run in the fourth inning. He drives in
Speaker 2: six runs to help the Dodgers blow out the Brewers
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Speaker 2: Wanted to give you an update on Max Mounsey, who
Speaker 2: last night left the game in the eighth inning after
Speaker 2: being hit by a pitch on his right wrist. Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts said they're still swelling in that right wrist, but
Speaker 2: seen Monsey before the game and on the field after
Speaker 2: the game, he seemed to be in good spirits and
Speaker 2: what he said after the game last night made you
Speaker 2: believe that there is no fracture in that right wrist.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers, for precautionary reasons, may have Monthsy go for
Speaker 2: a CT scan on Monday, just to make sure there's
Speaker 2: no microfracture, but he's not going to play tomorrow, and
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts told us Max Monsey's not going to play
Speaker 2: Monday night when the Dodgers return home either, because keyk
Speaker 2: Hernandez is going to be activated. Keyk Hernandez is wrapping
Speaker 2: up his extended rehab assignment in Oklahoma City basically his
Speaker 2: spring training, because he was not able to participate in
Speaker 2: any baseball games during spring training, and usually batters want
Speaker 2: to get about fifty plate appearances, and Keyk's been able
Speaker 2: to accomplish that.
Speaker 5: KEI k A.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not going to put a lot of
Speaker 2: stock in these numbers. He was over for tonight and
Speaker 2: in forty two at bats has a two fourteen batting
Speaker 2: average with only three extra base hits. But the one
Speaker 2: thing that I've noticed is that Key Hernandez has played
Speaker 2: exclusively at third base his entire rehab assignment. He hasn't
Speaker 2: been moving around, he hasn't played the outfield a lot.
Speaker 2: He hasn't played second base much. It's been third base.
Speaker 2: So Dave Roberts said, Kyle Freeland is going to start
Speaker 2: for the Rockies, a left handed starter, and with Muncie's
Speaker 2: right wrist still swollen and a little sore, just to
Speaker 2: be cautious, Key Y Hernandez will start at third base
Speaker 2: on Monday night. And that's a good thing as he
Speaker 2: come off the il. Now the Dodgers just need Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmund to get going on his rehab assignment. Probably the
Speaker 2: similar amount of time that Keik got that. You want
Speaker 2: to get Tommy Edmund close to fifty plate appearances at
Speaker 2: Triple A and then he'll be activated. So that's a
Speaker 2: good thing. And don't I don't know who the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are going to send down, and I wouldn't even rule
Speaker 2: out right now, Monsey going on the ten day IL
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers not having to make a decision on
Speaker 2: Santiago Espinal or his son Kim when Key Hernandez is activated.
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Speaker 2: Not only ta Oscar Hernandez with six RBIs, but Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman on base five times tonight, including his five, one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty first career double. He's just four away
Speaker 2: from Tyan Carlos Beltran for the twenty eighth most doubles
Speaker 2: in baseball history. And Freddie scored three times tonight and
Speaker 2: also stole his second base of the season. So another
Speaker 2: good night for Freddie Freeman. He's getting on base. He's
Speaker 2: starting to look like Freddie Freeman again taking great at bats.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to San Fernando Valley. Carlos, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk Live from Milwaukee.
Speaker 8: Hi, Carlos, How you doing? David So So, I'm calling
Speaker 8: because you know, I think you're gonna agree with me
Speaker 8: when I say that. You know, a lot a lot
Speaker 8: of fans, specially out here in the eight one eight,
Speaker 8: you know, they kind of jump on Roki a little bit,
Speaker 8: you know, And I'm thinking, and this is the part
Speaker 8: where I want you to I would like for you
Speaker 8: to agree with me that he's getting better. He's getting better.
Speaker 8: I mean, he got touched up a little bit that
Speaker 8: first you need, but I mean if you've watched them
Speaker 8: the second, the third, to fourth and the fifth, you know,
Speaker 8: like he kept it together, he responded, And I just
Speaker 8: I just think that we just have the I haven't seen.
Speaker 1: The best yet.
Speaker 8: You know what do you think?
Speaker 5: I hope you're right. I hope you're right.
Speaker 2: I do agree with you that he has gotten better
Speaker 2: the last three starts. I mean, he had his best
Speaker 2: start of his major league career in Anaheim against the Angels,
Speaker 2: and tonight it showed a lot to bounce back after
Speaker 2: that rough first inning and make the necessary adjustment. So
Speaker 2: I agree with you. He is getting better. And the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are probably the only team in baseball that is
Speaker 2: contending for a championship that could allow Rokie to have
Speaker 2: on the job training. Nobody else could allow this to happen,
Speaker 2: that daft.
Speaker 8: Hump, that death we have with pitching kind of Lets
Speaker 8: us give him a longer leash.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 9: I love it, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Carlos, you're a Rokie believer.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 2: And look a thirty five pitch first inning. Your thinking
Speaker 2: thinking the Brewers are going to just make contact all
Speaker 2: night on Rokie and he wasn't going to make the adjustments.
Speaker 2: But as Adam Wainwright said during the Fox Sports broadcast,
Speaker 2: they couldn't touch his slider. They were not on his slider.
Speaker 2: He was reading the swings. Will Smith did a great
Speaker 2: job to help him navigate, and he retired the last
Speaker 2: ten batters that he faced. So, yeah, he is improving,
Speaker 2: and let's see what he could do the next time.
Speaker 2: Because the jury is still out and it start to
Speaker 2: start with Roki Sasaki. Let's go out to Louisville. Bill
Speaker 2: listening on the iHeartRadio app. Hi, Bill, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: Hey, Dave, I wanted to get your take. I'm like,
Speaker 11: I was telling your guy the elephant in the room, man, Mookie,
Speaker 11: the guy's hitting one to sixty six. They got him
Speaker 11: second in the lineup. I just I want to get
Speaker 11: your take on him.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'll say this, the last two games have
Speaker 2: not been pretty. But I thought, up until these last
Speaker 2: two games in Milwaukee, he's been hitting the ball hard,
Speaker 2: but unfortunately hitting it right at people. And there's been
Speaker 2: some nice plays against some of those hard hit balls
Speaker 2: that he's hit. So when that happens and you're not
Speaker 2: getting results and then you go into a little bit
Speaker 2: of a mini funk, all of a sudden, your numbers
Speaker 2: are going to look the way they're looking. And the
Speaker 2: one thing I'll say is, let's judge Mooki for his
Speaker 2: season after coming back off the IL, because you know,
Speaker 2: the first part of it it wasn't great, so why
Speaker 2: not just start new. But I will say this, Bill,
Speaker 2: if it continues, I would consider moving him down in
Speaker 2: the order, maybe hitting sixth.
Speaker 11: Right. Yeah, I'm not ready to do.
Speaker 2: That right now, because I thought he was having good
Speaker 2: at bats, but these first two games in Milwaukee have
Speaker 2: not looked great.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but I have faith in I keep thinking he's
Speaker 11: going to come back and give us his all because
Speaker 11: he always has. But it's just since the virus last year,
Speaker 11: he just hasn't been the same.
Speaker 2: He was looking good in spring training, he was, and
Speaker 2: like I said, he's been hitting the ball hard up
Speaker 2: until these two games in Milwaukee. So I'm with you,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm not I'm not ready to concede anything when
Speaker 2: it comes to Mookie Betts yet. So I think it's
Speaker 2: just part of it and he'll he'll start to get
Speaker 2: that average up and get results.
Speaker 11: Yeah, let's see what he does, all right, man, Thanks.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to us all the way out there
Speaker 2: in Louisville, Kentucky. Dodgers got two catchers from Louisville thanks
Speaker 2: to Marty Lamb the Dodgers scout out that way and
Speaker 2: Will Smith and Dalton Rushing. Hey, I want to remind
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Speaker 2: Eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Well, I want to share what Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts had to say about Sean Green's big game in
Speaker 2: two thousand and two. On this day, May twenty third,
Speaker 2: two thousand and two, Sean Green was six for six
Speaker 2: with four home runs in nineteen total bases. Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: was on the Dodgers, but he wasn't in the starting
Speaker 2: lineup because there was a left handed starter on the mound,
Speaker 2: so his platoon partner, Marquise Grissom was in the starting lineup,
Speaker 2: and Dave was reminded that today with Sean Green's nineteen
Speaker 2: total base anniversary game.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Sean was scuffling before we got here, and then
Speaker 12: he had. He went four to six for six, four homers.
Speaker 3: I forgot how.
Speaker 12: Many nineteen total bases maybe, and they had a lefty
Speaker 12: on the mound, so I was on that I didn't start,
Speaker 12: so I got to I got to watch Shawn Green
Speaker 12: have a huge day. Yeah, Shawn's day was special day
Speaker 12: game here. Yeah, Sunday. I think it was a Sunday right,
Speaker 12: It was in a Sunday getaway there's a getaway day
Speaker 12: day game. We went to Italian lunch the day before.
Speaker 12: There used to be a little spot where the back
Speaker 12: in the day was a spot. Things went down there.
Speaker 12: So I don't know. I don't want to talk too
Speaker 12: much about it. Oh, I was where on the street.
Speaker 5: Hey, you swim with the fishes.
Speaker 2: If you tell anybody what happened at that Italian restaurant
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, you'll be swimming in Lake Michigan.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Sean Green on this date in two thousand and
Speaker 2: two nineteen total bases, six for six with four home runs.
Speaker 2: Sean Green still shares the major league record with Nick
Speaker 2: Kurtz of the Sacramento A's, who had that type of
Speaker 2: game last year. So whenever you come to Milwaukee, if
Speaker 2: you're a Dodger fan, that remembers Seawn Green comes to mind,
Speaker 2: among other men.
Speaker 5: Maurice and we had.
Speaker 2: Did a whole tribute to Chris Taylor speaking of memories
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee last night, and he decided not to retire
Speaker 2: after all. He actually broke his forearm in Triple A
Speaker 2: Salt Lake City and was gonna retire and I said
Speaker 2: that to you last night, but decided today against it.
Speaker 2: He's gonna stay active and go on the Triple A
Speaker 2: injured list. So sorry, Chris, I'm not doing another tribute
Speaker 2: when you retire officially the next time. We did it
Speaker 2: last night. You could podcast it whenever you decide to
Speaker 2: make it official, But that won't change anything that Chris
Speaker 2: Taylor has done, nor will it change anything that Clayton
Speaker 2: Kershaw or Adam Wainwright accomplished in their incredible careers. I
Speaker 2: had a chance to catch up with Adam Wainwright before
Speaker 2: today's game. He was on the call with Joe Davis
Speaker 2: and aj Prazinski and for the first time had an
Speaker 2: extended conversation with him and had a chance to ask
Speaker 2: him about the rivalry the respect between him and Clayton
Speaker 2: Kershe off he found a way to come back from
Speaker 2: a couple of different injuries to continue to go out
Speaker 2: his own way. How important do you believe it was
Speaker 2: for him, like you to go out on your own terms.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, so, I mean, just you still want to
Speaker 13: have regrets, you know, you don't want to look back
Speaker 13: and say I wish I would have played one more year.
Speaker 3: You know, you give it everything you.
Speaker 13: Have and play as I remember Jeff Soupon told me
Speaker 13: one time, play as long as you can, you know,
Speaker 13: because you can't come back into this game ten years
Speaker 13: after you get done and go back in and play
Speaker 13: in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: Just not how it works.
Speaker 13: So our bodies are are are a lot at a
Speaker 13: certain amount of time, you know, and you got to
Speaker 13: you got to grind through some injuries, and you got
Speaker 13: to play through hurt, and you got to learn how
Speaker 13: to get the job done sometimes when you feel like crap,
Speaker 13: And that's just part of it.
Speaker 3: That's part of being a pro. And I always loved
Speaker 3: that part of it.
Speaker 13: You know, like if I could, if I could get
Speaker 13: my team to believe that no matter what, I was
Speaker 13: gonna go out there and fight, no matter how I felt,
Speaker 13: they knew I was going to compete my butt off.
Speaker 3: You know, that was a win for me right there.
Speaker 5: How much mutual respect you and Clayton have for each other.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about From his side. I have
Speaker 3: lots of respect for him.
Speaker 13: From my side, I think we're you know, he's a
Speaker 13: he's a good friend.
Speaker 3: Of mine.
Speaker 13: And uh, he was one of the guys I told
Speaker 13: him this.
Speaker 3: He hated.
Speaker 13: He always hated when out because I'm a hugger and
Speaker 13: I'm a words of affirmation guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's he's not so much. And so he
Speaker 3: would be like, gosh, I hate when you do this.
Speaker 13: But you know, I always love to tell him, like, listen, man,
Speaker 13: you're one of the guys that pushes me to be better.
Speaker 3: You know. They're one of the guys that when I
Speaker 3: go into the.
Speaker 13: Gym, I know I got to get that third fourth
Speaker 13: set when I don't want to.
Speaker 3: You know, you're one of the guys that I get.
Speaker 13: Up early to do this stuff for and and and
Speaker 13: put those extra sweat you know, beads on your forehead
Speaker 13: because I know guys like him were doing it, you know.
Speaker 13: And so I always was chasing him. I wanted to
Speaker 13: be the cy young guy every year. He just never
Speaker 13: would let me because he kept having a one ady
Speaker 13: r a you know. And and uh, and I see
Speaker 13: guys when the cy young now I'm like man's because
Speaker 13: they don't have Clayton Kershaw and his prime to go
Speaker 13: up against, you know, Max Serzer and his prime royality
Speaker 13: and his Prime, like a bunch of my years. I'm
Speaker 13: like that could have won, you know, and today, but
Speaker 13: it was always so fun competing against Clayton. He's just
Speaker 13: as great a competitor as there's ever been in our game.
Speaker 13: He made me go to bed early and wake up earlier,
Speaker 13: you know, just to try to compete with him. So
Speaker 13: I'll always be appreciative of him that.
Speaker 3: You both were known for.
Speaker 2: Uncle Charlie, did you ever look at the curveballs and
Speaker 2: the similarities. I know you're a right hander, he was
Speaker 2: a left hander. But was there any parallels.
Speaker 3: Well, I think we.
Speaker 13: Used we used them similarly. I mean, his curveball was
Speaker 13: such a contrast to his fastball.
Speaker 4: Though.
Speaker 13: You know, he's coming hard in the fastball, hard end
Speaker 13: with that nasty slider, and that was probably like ninety
Speaker 13: percent of the time you were going to see fastball slider,
Speaker 13: and then all of a sudden, you know, he'd pop
Speaker 13: that that straight over the top like he's throwing a
Speaker 13: washer into a five gallon bucket curveball, and you just
Speaker 13: can't even it looks so different out of his hand.
Speaker 13: You can't look for that because you had to be
Speaker 13: ready for ninety four nine five n heavy, and so
Speaker 13: it just was such a surprise.
Speaker 3: Everybody was always out front of it. Mine, you know,
Speaker 3: that kind of knew it was coming.
Speaker 13: Eventually you faced me, You're gonna see a curveball most likely,
Speaker 13: and uh and I never had Clayton's great fastball really, so.
Speaker 3: We used them. We used them similarly to get them
Speaker 3: off our fastballs, you know, he he.
Speaker 13: He did it as more of like a like a
Speaker 13: there's no way you can look for this. I did
Speaker 13: it as a I need to get you out with
Speaker 13: my heater, So I want you to try to hit
Speaker 13: this curveball. And if you try to hit this curveball,
Speaker 13: most likely you're gonna get out. So that so then
Speaker 13: you know, it kind of played in my favor that way.
Speaker 3: But as I got.
Speaker 13: Older and I lost my heater, uh, the curveball wasn't
Speaker 13: that much of a contrast anymore.
Speaker 3: It became very hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I know Clayton Halls used to talk about
Speaker 2: change up envy, but he never wanted to compromise just
Speaker 2: his other pitches by throwing that pitch. Did you ever
Speaker 2: have anything any change up envy or any other pitch envy?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Always, I always wanted a great change up, and I
Speaker 13: had an absolute banger of a change up every spring
Speaker 13: training that I got lots of outs with. I got
Speaker 13: lots of outs in spring with my change up every year,
Speaker 13: and it was always with a new grip and a
Speaker 13: new swagger always.
Speaker 3: I called it my Devastator.
Speaker 13: And ever go into every year like really confident to
Speaker 13: throw my Devastator, and I'd come out of the first
Speaker 13: game of the season and I would have thrown one
Speaker 13: or two, you know, and it's like, dang it. I
Speaker 13: thought I was gonna throw twelve or fifteen of them,
Speaker 13: you know, And so I did a little bit. But
Speaker 13: the same thing he said, you know, I knew that
Speaker 13: I could get you out with my sinker and my
Speaker 13: curveball and my cutter. He knew he could get you
Speaker 13: out with his four seamer and his slider and his curveball.
Speaker 13: And you know, what you don't ever want to do
Speaker 13: is give up extra base hits or put yourself in
Speaker 13: a bad count throwing your fourth best pitch if.
Speaker 3: You don't have confidence in them, he.
Speaker 5: H before I let you go.
Speaker 2: One thing that Clayton always talked about, especially towards the
Speaker 2: end of his career, is just go out there and
Speaker 2: compete with what you have.
Speaker 5: That's something you did as well.
Speaker 2: Is there anybody or any few guys in the game
Speaker 2: that stand out to you now that have that same
Speaker 2: type of compete that you and Clayton had.
Speaker 13: Well, my favorite guy to watch is Zach Wheeler. You know,
Speaker 13: I just love I love watching him pitch. And he's
Speaker 13: an actual pitcher, you know, he goes.
Speaker 3: Out there and competes.
Speaker 13: I mean, guys like Trek Scoble, they're they're so great
Speaker 13: because he has he has the mindset to go along
Speaker 13: with the stuff. There's tons of guys of our in
Speaker 13: our game that have stuff. There's tons of guys that
Speaker 13: throw upwards one hundred miles an hour now, uh.
Speaker 3: But they don't have that dog inside of them, you know.
Speaker 13: And and Zach Wheeler and uh and Trek they're they're
Speaker 13: they're my probably my two favorite guys because they're.
Speaker 3: Just out there.
Speaker 13: They're putting their cajonas on the line every pitch. You know,
Speaker 13: they're they're they're out there just fighting like dogs.
Speaker 3: And I love that.
Speaker 13: You know, as a pitcher, if you're not competing your
Speaker 13: tail off of your team, I don't really know what
Speaker 13: you're doing out there.
Speaker 2: How cool was that what Adam Wainwright had to say
Speaker 2: about Clayton Kershaw. I always find that really intriguing when
Speaker 2: you have two peers, two guys that competed the same
Speaker 2: way in different uniforms, and guys that played for one
Speaker 2: team across the coast. I know Wainwright was in the Midwest,
Speaker 2: Kershaw was in LA for his entire career. But to
Speaker 2: hear what Wainwright had to say about Kershaw, two guys
Speaker 2: that certainly competed at the highest levels. They faced off
Speaker 2: against each other so many times in their careers, fought
Speaker 2: through a lot of injuries to continue to pitch and
Speaker 2: go out on their own terms. Kershaw three time World
Speaker 2: Series champion, Waynwright a one time World Series champion. Kershaw
Speaker 2: an MVP, three times cy Young Award winner, obviously one
Speaker 2: of the greatest pitchers of our generation. But certainly I
Speaker 2: know Clayton has a lot of respect for Adam Wainwright.
Speaker 2: And you just heard what Adam Wainwright had to say
Speaker 2: about Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 5: So that was really special for me.
Speaker 2: And to hear the full conversation with Wayno Adam Waynwright.
Speaker 2: You can find it on the iHeartRadio app. We'll end
Speaker 2: the show right there. Coming up tomorrow, Yamamoto will be
Speaker 2: on the mound for the Dodgers trying to win the
Speaker 2: series in Milwaukee. We all remember what he did in
Speaker 2: Game two of the NLCS last year, pitching a complete game.
Speaker 2: Yama Moto this season is three and four with an
Speaker 2: ERA of three point thirty two, going up against Brandon Sprote,
Speaker 2: who's one and two with an ERA of five seventy five.
Speaker 2: We already know two things. Dalton Rushing will be catching
Speaker 2: and Max Munsey will not be at third base as
Speaker 2: he continues to nurse that right wrist that was hit
Speaker 2: by a pitch last night. Thanks to Colinie back at
Speaker 2: our Burbank studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at
Speaker 2: American Family Field, and thanks to you for listening. In
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Speaker 5: Once again.
Speaker 2: The final score tonight from Milwaukee, the Dodgers defeat the
Speaker 2: Brewers eleven to three. Have a great rest of your
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