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Speaker 3: Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until eleven
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Speaker 3: After the Dodgers beat the Brewers tonight by a final
Speaker 3: score of three to one, we have phone lines open
Speaker 3: at eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3: Last night, Edwin Diaz was the lightning rod Well. Edwin
Speaker 3: Diaz found a way to get out of the jam
Speaker 3: in the ninth inning with the help of Tom Y
Speaker 3: Edmund and Keike Hernandez. And look, I was weighing all
Speaker 3: these different options that Dave Roberts had for tonight. If
Speaker 3: there was a save opportunity, Yeah, it could have been
Speaker 3: Tanner Scott. Yeah, you could use Jonathan Hernandez or Edgardo Enriquez.
Speaker 3: But you know, just talking through things with guys on
Speaker 3: the staff, this bullpen has been used a lot. There's
Speaker 3: not a lot of guys that you could really go to.
Speaker 3: And thankfully Blake Sneill pitched the way he pitched in
Speaker 3: his first game back, and thankfully Landon Knack and Eric
Speaker 3: Lower earlier on this homestand stayed away from some of
Speaker 3: these everyday relievers. And give credit to Evan Phillips and
Speaker 3: Tanner Scott for pitching scoreless seventh and eighth innings tonight
Speaker 3: to get the ball to Edwin Diaz. And look, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to act like this was a dominant performance
Speaker 3: from Edwin Diaz, but you can't forget this guy is
Speaker 3: still throwing upwards of ninety six ninety eight.
Speaker 1: He's coming back from arm.
Speaker 3: Surgery three months removed. As I mentioned in the Clubhouse show,
Speaker 3: it's one thing to try to rehab coming back from
Speaker 3: arm surgery. No matter how major or how minor it is,
Speaker 3: it's still arm surgery on your pitching arm. Whether it's
Speaker 3: loose bodies, whether it's a UCL, it's still a surgery.
Speaker 3: And Edwin Diaz is coming back from that in the
Speaker 3: middle of the season and being thrown into the fire
Speaker 3: and all of that is happening while the Dodgers are
Speaker 3: trying to secure one of the top two seeds in
Speaker 3: the National League and they're just one game back of
Speaker 3: the Brewers tonight with the win. But look, you gotta
Speaker 3: give Edwin Diaz credit for competing in what his last
Speaker 3: three outings. I know last night didn't look great. Key
Speaker 3: k a Hernandez, you're gonna hear from Edwin in just
Speaker 3: a moment again what he relayed to us that keyk
Speaker 3: Hernandez said to him when he went out to the
Speaker 3: mound really quickly. I mean, at least Key k Hernandez
Speaker 3: had the presence of mind to go to the mound
Speaker 3: to try to slow the game down or boost Diaz's confidence.
Speaker 3: It felt like the game was getting really fast on Diaz,
Speaker 3: and it was getting really fast on the Dodgers. It
Speaker 3: might have been worth a mount visit earlier in that
Speaker 3: ninth inning to slow things down, but luckily it happened
Speaker 3: later in the inning with the bases loaded and Dave
Speaker 3: Roberts trying to get his outfielders where he wanted them positioned,
Speaker 3: so he sent Mark Pryor out there to talk to Diaz.
Speaker 3: But I just think Tommy Edmund deserves a lot of
Speaker 3: credit because that ball hit by Luis Laura that he
Speaker 3: picked was at one hundred and five miles an hour.
Speaker 3: He almost had a double play, but he gathered himself
Speaker 3: and made an accurate throw to Key k Hernandez. And
Speaker 3: how about keyk Hernandez who got the start tonight at
Speaker 3: first base making a great short hop scoop on a
Speaker 3: throat that didn't have a lot of mustard on it
Speaker 3: from Mookie Betts to end the game. So it was
Speaker 3: a high wire rackt from start to finish in the
Speaker 3: ninth inning, But the Dodgers got it done, and Edwin
Speaker 3: Diaz got it done with some help from his friends,
Speaker 3: three to one.
Speaker 1: The final score.
Speaker 3: Here was Edwin Diaz and Tommy Y Edmond with us
Speaker 3: moments after the final out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just you know, expecting the ball to be hit
Speaker 4: to me, you know, trying to turn two there really
Speaker 4: faster runner at the plate, So once I kind of
Speaker 4: bottled a little bit, you know, I just knew the
Speaker 4: play was at first base, but you know.
Speaker 2: Just trying to do everything I could to keep in
Speaker 2: the infield.
Speaker 1: How big was it for Edwin to find a way
Speaker 1: out of that tonight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was huge. You know, it was so big
Speaker 2: to win that game.
Speaker 4: You know, a tough one last night, but you know,
Speaker 4: it was a big series for us, so to take
Speaker 4: a tight game like that was huge.
Speaker 3: How good did it feel, not only to Homer but
Speaker 3: to Homer at home?
Speaker 2: Yeah it felt great, you know, really good.
Speaker 4: I've been grinding a little bit, but you know, I'd
Speaker 4: been putting in the work and makes those swings feel
Speaker 4: that much sweeter.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be gratifying the way you play tonight to
Speaker 1: help the team win against the Brewers. I know you
Speaker 1: like to downplay things, Tommy Edmond, but I'm here to
Speaker 1: bang the drum. He's got the trumpets. I got the
Speaker 1: Edmund drums.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 4: And that was a fun series. It's a great team,
Speaker 4: so it's always fun to win games like that.
Speaker 1: Makes a lot for stopping.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got it anytime.
Speaker 3: Hey, there he goes, Tommy Edmond, my player of the game,
Speaker 3: that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Saves the ninth inning.
Speaker 3: Homers tonight has two hits and the Dodgers defeat the
Speaker 3: Brewers three to one with Sugar Das delivering in the
Speaker 3: ninth inning. Hey, gotta silence the critics once in a while,
Speaker 3: right sugar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know we we throw straight right now. Well,
Speaker 2: this is no foreward. I'm ready.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: I worked in every single day with a pitching coaches.
Speaker 2: You know, soon we clicked, we would be fine. So today,
Speaker 2: what's I goday for me?
Speaker 6: God?
Speaker 2: From yesterday I learned a lot on today. I did
Speaker 2: my job, got decide.
Speaker 6: For the team.
Speaker 1: Love it? What a key k tell you?
Speaker 7: You know, keep going, You're the best beach in the wharf.
Speaker 1: Keep going.
Speaker 2: We got you on you know away me.
Speaker 1: Hey, your teammates got you. Tommy Edmon got you. Key
Speaker 1: k Hernandez got you. La has got you.
Speaker 3: Thank you for stopping than Hey, how about Edwin Diaz
Speaker 3: relaying to us what Key k Hernandez told him. And look,
Speaker 3: he's not giving in and the Dodgers need Edwin Diaz
Speaker 3: h So you know Dave Roberts is going to put
Speaker 3: him out there in the ninth inning because he believes
Speaker 3: that's the best way to get Edwin Diaz back on track.
Speaker 3: He doesn't believe bringing Edwin Diaz in in the seventh inning,
Speaker 3: where the sixth inning is going to help him keep
Speaker 3: his confidence up or even try to duplicate what he
Speaker 3: needs to do in the ninth inning. And Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: mentioned earlier in the night that Edwin Diaz has been
Speaker 3: working mechanics with the pitching coaches earlier today, the strength
Speaker 3: coaches are trying to get him back on track as well.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of resources pouring in to Edwin
Speaker 3: Diaz to get him back to where he was last
Speaker 3: year and where he's been the majority of his career.
Speaker 1: And look, the.
Speaker 3: Dodgers need like I mentioned last last night, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: need him because they don't really have a high leverage
Speaker 3: right handed reliever and they need Edwin Diaz. You got
Speaker 3: Edwin Diaz closing the game in the ninth inning. It
Speaker 3: makes everything else work backwards. It's a lot easier to
Speaker 3: count out's backwards when you have a closer like Edwin Diaz,
Speaker 3: when he's pitching like Edwin Diaz, and they're going to
Speaker 3: keep running them out there. Not to mention he's got
Speaker 3: the freshest arm of any of those guys in the
Speaker 3: bullpen because he missed three months with that with that
Speaker 3: arm surgery. The loose bodies being removed from his tricep area.
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Speaker 3: of a Fighter. Eight six six two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number before we go out to the phones.
Speaker 3: Just a quick highlight spotlight on Andy Pajez, who had
Speaker 3: a big game tonight, three hits including a home run.
Speaker 3: He stole a big bass to score a run course
Speaker 3: twice tonight, and he certainly had a big game as well.
Speaker 3: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number. Dodger Talk rolling all the way to
Speaker 3: eleven thirty tonight, so we got phone lines open. You
Speaker 3: were so fired up last night, so convicted that Tanner
Speaker 3: Scott needed to close the games.
Speaker 1: For the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Moving forward, Tanner Scott put up a zero in the
Speaker 3: eighth inning. Evan Phillips put up a zero in the
Speaker 3: seventh inning tonight. Let's go out to Emily, who is
Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium for Kershaw Bobblehead night. Hi Emily, you're
Speaker 3: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hi David, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I agree
Speaker 5: with everything you're saying. Can't offer much of a unique
Speaker 5: perspective there, You know, it was definitely, the nerves were
Speaker 5: palpable in the ninth inning, but you can tell that
Speaker 5: Diaz is, you know, working really hard, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: But really what I wanted to call in about was
Speaker 5: about Kershaw, and it was so great to see him
Speaker 5: and his family there at Dodger Stadium. You know, he's
Speaker 5: just he's been a contant in all our lives so long,
Speaker 5: and I just hope for the rest of his life
Speaker 5: he gets all the love from Dodger fans. And I
Speaker 5: also wanted to say, you know, a lot of people
Speaker 5: think of him as a Hall of Fame pitcher, but
Speaker 5: I think of him as a hitter because I was
Speaker 5: actually there in twenty thirteen on Opening Day when he
Speaker 5: hit the only run of the game, and it was
Speaker 5: so special, and I just wanted to bring that up
Speaker 5: and keep that memory alive. I know that you've talked
Speaker 5: about that a lot on the show, and especially you
Speaker 5: know now that pictures don't hit. It just seems crazy,
Speaker 5: and it's just it's going to be a special memory
Speaker 5: and will probably make me feel very old one day
Speaker 5: to remember that.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's that's one of my favorite Krusehaw moments, not
Speaker 3: only because he hit that home run in a scoreless
Speaker 3: tie laid in the game on opening Day, but also
Speaker 3: it was against the Giants, so that made it even sweeter.
Speaker 5: Right, Emily, Yes, definitely, all right.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for the phone call, Emily. And it
Speaker 3: was at that time the defending world champion Giants, and
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen marked this era of Dodger baseball which has
Speaker 3: never looked back. So hopefully they keep moving it forward
Speaker 3: with a three peat this season. Let's go out to Skip,
Speaker 3: who was at the ballpark tonight's Skip? Were you booing
Speaker 3: or were you cheering? Edwin Diaz in the ninth inning?
Speaker 8: Was up?
Speaker 2: Dave, you're a big fan man.
Speaker 9: Well, first of all, seeing Kersha.
Speaker 7: Out there get me all again, you know, seeing him
Speaker 7: on the field, it was awesome. I love seeing.
Speaker 10: Kersh out there.
Speaker 11: Edwin He's gonna figure it out.
Speaker 1: But Kyle Tucker, all right, thank you so much. Skip.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it starting to go that way, Colin, can
Speaker 3: you dump it please?
Speaker 1: That was not appropriate.
Speaker 3: What he was trying to say was, Kyle Tucker has
Speaker 3: not performed well in a very surfer You know, we're
Speaker 3: not at Shellbacks all right down to the South Bay.
Speaker 3: We're doing the show here. Okay, we got the message. Wow, Colin,
Speaker 3: did we get that? Okay, let's go out to Daniel.
Speaker 3: So y'all heard that. You know what he was trying
Speaker 3: to say there he thought he was at shellbacks. Hi, Dan, Daniel,
Speaker 3: you're on Dodger Talk. I guess I'm not gonna pretend
Speaker 3: that you didn't hear that, Danielle.
Speaker 1: I guess ear muffs for you and everybody else out there.
Speaker 12: You know what, it was a great game. We were
Speaker 12: there at the game tonight, and you know, Piaz is
Speaker 12: just he's been awesome. It's just awesome to see him play.
Speaker 13: What a great player man.
Speaker 12: He was just he you know, he was just consistent.
Speaker 12: He's one of our best players. And I just think
Speaker 12: he's he's gonna he's gonna do phenomenal. He's taking us
Speaker 12: into the playoffs. I think he's just great. I just
Speaker 12: want to give a shout out to Piaz and I
Speaker 12: appreciate all he does for the team. He's just so consistent,
Speaker 12: and shout out to you know, all the rest of
Speaker 12: the team. Mookie Betts, you know, rookie's kind of heating
Speaker 12: up again. So it's exciting to see Moki getting his
Speaker 12: stry Back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know tonight was you know, not what
Speaker 3: it looked like a couple of nights ago.
Speaker 1: But that's baseball.
Speaker 3: But he has shown signs that he can help the
Speaker 3: Dodgers offensively down the stretch and hopefully he keeps it going.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call, Daniel, appreciate it. Eight sixty
Speaker 3: six nine to eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 3: phone number. Dodgers beat the Brewers tonight three to one
Speaker 3: with Dave Roberts going back to Edwin Dz Tonight in
Speaker 3: the ninth inning, it didn't start out well. He hit
Speaker 3: the first batter he faced, he got behind hitters, but
Speaker 3: he got good defense, great defense behind him from Tommy
Speaker 3: Edmond and keyk Hernandez, and somehow, some way found a
Speaker 3: way to get out of that ninth inning by not
Speaker 3: only saving the game but also not giving up a run.
Speaker 1: So it's a work in progress.
Speaker 3: But like I said, the Dodgers need Edwin Diaz, and
Speaker 3: you know it's he's a big part of this bullpen.
Speaker 3: You look at this bullpen. They need Edwin Diaz. There's
Speaker 3: no way around it. And right now it's similar to
Speaker 3: so Tanner Scott last year and his struggles for basically
Speaker 3: the entire year. Not only do the Dodgers need to
Speaker 3: find a way to get Diaz back on track, but
Speaker 3: if he can't get on track, now's the time to
Speaker 3: find out. It's not the time to find out in October.
Speaker 3: So right now is the time to find out. And
Speaker 3: that's why I wasn't ready to go all in with
Speaker 3: all of you to say get Diaz out of there.
Speaker 3: My only point was, if anybody's asking the rhetorical question,
Speaker 3: who else can I use? It's Tanner Scott, but a
Speaker 3: lot of you, and you know Tanner's had a good year,
Speaker 3: but is he really the answer for the ninth inning?
Speaker 3: That takes away from the other part of the game.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Pomona. George, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: How you doing, George, good Davy, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3: My pleasure. Let's keep it clean, George. We don't want
Speaker 3: ear muffs again.
Speaker 10: Oh no, no, we're gonna keep it clean. Thank you
Speaker 10: for calm down, keeping us in it, because yes, it's
Speaker 10: been dramatic in the ninth inning with Edwin Diaz. I'm
Speaker 10: calling with two ideas for high leverage. Ry Haan releevers.
Speaker 3: Okay, so we're talking the seventh inning or you talking
Speaker 3: about the ninth inning.
Speaker 10: I'm talking about the ninth inning, maybe not tomorrow but
Speaker 10: in the week to come. And I agree, I think
Speaker 10: we had to Doc had to send Edwin out there again.
Speaker 10: I'm glad it worked out this time. I agree with you.
Speaker 10: We need him. But looking ahead, what about the Saki.
Speaker 3: He's a starting picture right now, George. That's something for
Speaker 3: the postseason.
Speaker 10: I mean, is his first ninth inning appearance going to
Speaker 10: come in October?
Speaker 1: Or does it last year?
Speaker 3: It was last year, George, and he has experience with it,
Speaker 3: he understands it, so it's not brand new this year.
Speaker 3: It was brand new last year when he did really well.
Speaker 3: So you can't do that during the regular season.
Speaker 10: But what about the full rotation. I mean, we're overflowing
Speaker 10: with starting pitchers and glass now is on his way back.
Speaker 10: Who bounces out of the rotation when glass Now comes in?
Speaker 10: Could it be Sasaki? And in preparation for the office,
Speaker 10: it could be.
Speaker 3: It could, but maybe not until the last two weeks
Speaker 3: of the season, George. If sho he Otani comes back
Speaker 3: as well, you know the Dodgers may have him piggyback
Speaker 3: with lower lower piggyback Otani or Robleski goes to the
Speaker 3: bullpen and piggybacks because you know, it's just not going
Speaker 3: the same way that was going earlier for him. So
Speaker 3: there's a lot of different creative ways that you could
Speaker 3: use Lower and Robleski. When glass Noow comes back, and
Speaker 3: if shoe Hey Otani, who threw a bullpen session today,
Speaker 3: comes back into the rotation, he's gonna have to rehab
Speaker 3: in major league games like he did last year, and
Speaker 3: that's only going to be an inning or two the
Speaker 3: first couple of starts, and you're gonna need a robleskier
Speaker 3: Allower to follow him. So that's how I see that
Speaker 3: laying out. And look, I firmly believe that Roki Sasaki
Speaker 3: is gonna have a big part of the Dodgers pitching
Speaker 3: plans in October. If glass Now's healthy.
Speaker 1: I don't see how glass Now's not starting and Sasaki's
Speaker 1: coming out of the bullpen. Let's go out to Griffin,
Speaker 1: who is at the game tonight. Hi, Griffin, you're on
Speaker 1: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 13: How are we doing?
Speaker 3: We're doing good, Griffin. We got a little loose with
Speaker 3: it earlier tonight. So let's not let's not go Yankee
Speaker 3: doodles or shellbacks. Let's just keep it Dodger talk, clean, family,
Speaker 3: clean tonight.
Speaker 13: Yes, sir, I wanted to talk about k K Man.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's not at his regular position.
Speaker 6: He's playing first base.
Speaker 13: You know, definitely switch it for him as a pivotal move.
Speaker 8: When he made that pick at the very end of
Speaker 8: the game.
Speaker 3: It was huge that that throw did not have a
Speaker 3: lot of mustard on it, and I feel like the
Speaker 3: weird hop kind of maybe didn't allow Mookie to get
Speaker 3: a good grip on the baseball. But I mean, that's
Speaker 3: not Freddie Freeman at first base, who you know, is
Speaker 3: able to do a lot of different things. He's like
Speaker 3: the Hoover vacuum over there. But Key k he's a
Speaker 3: baseball player. And that's the best compliment you could give anybody.
Speaker 3: He's a baseball player. Put him at third base, put
Speaker 3: him in center field, put him at first base.
Speaker 1: He can do it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, and speaking of baseball players, Kyle Tucker Man.
Speaker 3: That guy, Hey, you're not gonna get it again, Griffin. Hey, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker not great. Eight six to six I knew
Speaker 3: I recognized his voice. Eight six six two five seventy
Speaker 3: is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Brewers tonight three
Speaker 3: to one. We're gonna take a time out. When we
Speaker 3: come back, you'll hear from Clayton Kershaw. We had a
Speaker 3: chance to catch up with him on the pregame show.
Speaker 3: Plus we'll get more of your phone calls in at
Speaker 3: eight sixty six eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 1: This is like a mound visit. It's like a mound
Speaker 1: visit on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: You gotta slow the game down when you let Yahoo's through.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 3: Dodgers beat the Brewers three to one on a five
Speaker 3: to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: Dodger fans, this is Tommy Edmond.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the home of the back to back
Speaker 4: world champion Dodgers. On a five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: Edmon cracks went in the air to deep left field.
Speaker 1: This ball is gone.
Speaker 7: Tommy with a much needed tank. They double the Dodger lead,
Speaker 7: now three to one.
Speaker 2: After Evans fourth of the.
Speaker 3: Year, Tommy Edmund with his first home run at Dodgers
Speaker 3: Stadium this season. Obviously, Tommy got a late start to
Speaker 3: the year. Recovering from right ankle surgery. Tonight was only
Speaker 3: his twenty fourth game at Dodgers Stadium, but he finally
Speaker 3: homers as the Dodgers beat the Brewers tonight three to one,
Speaker 3: and that was a huge insurance run in the sixth
Speaker 3: inning for the Dodgers. Andy poh Haz also homer tonight.
Speaker 3: He had three hits in a stolen bas so the
Speaker 3: Dodgers got a big night from Edmund and Pahz and
Speaker 3: Edmund made a great play in the ninth inning to
Speaker 3: save Edwin Diaz and the Dodgers in the ninth inning.
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Speaker 3: at A nine eight seven, two five seventy. Obviously, Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 3: as you heard from the same caller twice tonight, has
Speaker 3: not had a great year, but especially at home.
Speaker 1: He was zero for four tonight.
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker coming into the game for whatever reason is
Speaker 3: only hitting a buck ninety six at Dodger Stadium. When
Speaker 3: on the road, Kyle Tucker is a respectable player. His
Speaker 3: ops on the road is eight forty. He has nine
Speaker 3: home runs, he has thirty seven RBIs. He's a two
Speaker 3: seventy five hitter on the road. He's only a one
Speaker 3: ninety six hitter at Dodger Stadium in over two hundred
Speaker 3: at bats.
Speaker 1: I don't know how.
Speaker 3: You explain that, but those are drastic, drastic differences with
Speaker 3: the same player. And you know, if I'm Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 3: I'm doing something different than what I've been doing all
Speaker 3: year long as far as my routine at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: For example, two guys that don't like to hit on
Speaker 3: the field, Freddie Freeman and show Heyotani. When they're not
Speaker 3: going good, Otani, the best player in the game, will
Speaker 3: come out and take batting practice on the field so
Speaker 3: he can see the ball travel, so he can readjust
Speaker 3: his eyes to see the batter's eye. A lot of
Speaker 3: different things why players come out to take batting practice
Speaker 3: on the field. Freddie Freeman, you're telling me Kyle Tucker's
Speaker 3: better than Show Hayo Tani and Freddie Freeman you're telling
Speaker 3: me Kyle Tucker's routine is better than Freddie Freeman, and
Speaker 3: show Hao Tani's Freddie Freeman when he's not going well,
Speaker 3: like at the beginning of this homestand would come out
Speaker 3: and take batting practice to see the ball travel the
Speaker 3: opposite way, to see the spin of the ball, how
Speaker 3: it's playing. How about Kyle Tucker come out once and
Speaker 3: take batting practice out on the field. Because you're hitting
Speaker 3: a Buck ninety at Dodger Stadium. You gotta change something.
Speaker 3: Something in your routine has got to change here because
Speaker 3: it's not working. We're fifty nine games in on the
Speaker 3: home schedule and Kyle Tucker is hitting a Buck ninety
Speaker 3: five and he was zero for four to night with
Speaker 3: two strikeouts.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 3: And like I said, and I said this, I actually
Speaker 3: pointed this out two weeks ago, but now it's becoming
Speaker 3: more glaring because the number is below two hundred.
Speaker 1: And Kyle Tucker on the road.
Speaker 3: If he would just be Kyle Tucker on the road
Speaker 3: at Dodgers Stadium, we would not be getting Yahoo callers
Speaker 3: trying to be pottymouth on the show. He's sitting two
Speaker 3: seventy five with an ops of eight to forty on
Speaker 3: the road. At home, Kyle Tucker in fifty nine games
Speaker 3: has an ops of five seventy five. That's incredible, and
Speaker 3: quite honestly, there's a lot of other Dodgers that don't
Speaker 3: do well at home compared to the road. You look
Speaker 3: at Max Munsey Homan Road, completely different, but at least
Speaker 3: respectable seven to seventy one ops. Taoscar Hernandez only five
Speaker 3: home runs at Dodgers Stadium this year. He's only hitting
Speaker 3: two forty five at home. Freddie Freeman, Who's Freddy Freeman
Speaker 3: hits three twenty nine.
Speaker 1: Away from Dodgers Stadium. At home, Freddie Freeman's hitting two
Speaker 1: seventy eight. That's still better than one ninety six like
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker's hitting this year. Just wanted to point all
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Brewers tonight three to
Speaker 3: one in Game two of this four game series. Let's
Speaker 3: go out to our guy Ken in Newport Beach, who
Speaker 3: is on hold all night long. I'm sorry I couldn't
Speaker 3: get you last night, Ken, but happy to talk to
Speaker 3: you tonight.
Speaker 13: Oh well, thank you. A couple of things. First off,
Speaker 13: a lot of people don't know that the Dodgers before
Speaker 13: today's game, there were only one game ahead of Chicago
Speaker 13: for fourth place. Now what does that mean. Well, if
Speaker 13: you finish fourth, I think you just playing in a
Speaker 13: one game series in the playoffs.
Speaker 12: Is that correct?
Speaker 3: The Dodgers aren't finishing fourth, they're the division winner, so
Speaker 3: that's not happening.
Speaker 13: Oh, okay, all right, you're right, that's right. I'm sorry
Speaker 13: about that. Okay, thank you. Now here's my other point,
Speaker 13: and I'm not going to be making bad comments about Tucker,
Speaker 13: but I was going to bring up that average at
Speaker 13: home and it's really really bad. I'm just wondering, is
Speaker 13: there something going on where Tucker? And now this new
Speaker 13: picture who's getting crusted every time out is not supposed
Speaker 13: to be. Yeah, it's Freedman involved in this because he's
Speaker 13: got a lot on the line and there's a lot
Speaker 13: of money here, and it's hard for me to believe
Speaker 13: that Dave was going to put Diaz back in and
Speaker 13: Dave continues to play fucker. Who's as you said, one
Speaker 13: ninety six is just just Dave Or is Andrew Freeman involved.
Speaker 3: Andrew Freeman is very involved. He's the president of baseball Operations, Ken,
Speaker 3: he signed both players, but just like last year with
Speaker 3: Michael Conforto, who was a lesser player than Kyle Tucker
Speaker 3: and a lot less of a price tag, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: won the division going away with Michael Conforto being in
Speaker 3: left field and giving them virtually zero offensive production. So
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are going to give Kyle Tucker and have
Speaker 3: given him a long leash because Kyle Tucker's a really
Speaker 3: good player. So my point to you, Ken, is if
Speaker 3: they're going to let Conforto play his way through it,
Speaker 3: they're going to let Kyle Tucker play his way through it.
Speaker 3: And then in the postseason, you know anything's in play
Speaker 3: to win the game, because you got to win the
Speaker 3: game in the postseason, and if Tucker doesn't pick it up,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna see him start.
Speaker 1: I don't believe.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, well, I think that's the way it should be,
Speaker 13: and was obviously I was, Ken.
Speaker 1: Ken.
Speaker 3: They've won back to back championships, so obviously they care
Speaker 3: about winning and they're not just here to let money play.
Speaker 3: So I think you've got to switch your thought process here.
Speaker 1: This isn't nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 3: This is twenty twenty six, and the Dodgers are having
Speaker 3: unprecedented success with probably the best GM manager combo they've
Speaker 3: had since Al Campanis and Tommy Lasorda or Al Campanis
Speaker 3: and you know, Walter Alston.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Ken, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, at some point, you know, this isn't nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety eight. It's not signing Kevin Brown and letting Mike
Speaker 3: Piazza walk away.
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are very.
Speaker 3: Capable, and they've won back to back championships, something that's
Speaker 3: never happened in Dodger history. And they're looking to make
Speaker 3: even more history by going for a three peat, which
Speaker 3: would mean the first National League team ever to do it.
Speaker 3: And that's Andrew Friedman and that's Dave Roberts. Let's go
Speaker 3: out to Michael, who was at the game tonight. Hi, Michael,
Speaker 3: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: How's it going?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Just great, Michael?
Speaker 7: All right, I just want to talk about the Dodger
Speaker 7: game experience. It was awesome. We've seen a lady take
Speaker 7: a beast fall to the face. We've seen the famous
Speaker 7: peanut guy throw behind the back pass, so a customer
Speaker 7: on the dot. But I do have one question, why
Speaker 7: not play? Why not play Monty at first and Kika,
Speaker 7: who's a little bit more athletic at third. What are
Speaker 7: your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3: Well, part of the thinking there, Michael, going back to
Speaker 3: last year, is that the Dodgers have worked and Munsey
Speaker 3: has worked really hard to become a really good third baseman,
Speaker 3: So they don't want to take away from that and
Speaker 3: bounce him back and forth across the Diamonds. So they
Speaker 3: just prefer to leave Munsey at third because he's one
Speaker 3: of the best defensive third basemen this year, and just
Speaker 3: whenever Freddy takes that rare day off, have Kik play
Speaker 3: first base?
Speaker 7: Got it?
Speaker 10: Got it?
Speaker 7: I feel like Kiko was doing a lot of huggin
Speaker 7: at the bag, so I felt like, maybe, you know,
Speaker 7: he could utilize his skill set a little bit better.
Speaker 1: But that makes sense, all right, Michael, thank you for
Speaker 1: the phone call. Appreciate it. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 1: seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3: There's been a lot of talk, obviously the last two
Speaker 3: nights about Edwin Diaz, and obviously last night many of
Speaker 3: you were very emotional, very upset, and this afternoon before
Speaker 3: the game. Clayton Krushaw, who was out here being celebrated,
Speaker 3: was our pregame guest, and I asked him about Edwin Diaz,
Speaker 3: the closer situation, and just the volatility of a bullpen.
Speaker 14: I mean, I think, you know, I think managing a bullpen.
Speaker 14: Obviously I've never been a manager, but I think Doc,
Speaker 14: I think Doc would probably say it too, is like
Speaker 14: figuring out the bullpen is probably the hardest job, hardest
Speaker 14: part of your job, because it's just a roller coaster sometimes,
Speaker 14: you know. And even though they're all individual guys down there,
Speaker 14: I do feel like they feed off each other and
Speaker 14: I feel like there's a lot of momentum given and
Speaker 14: a lot of momentum that matters in the bullpen and
Speaker 14: when everybody, when everybody's on the same page, it's a
Speaker 14: really good track. And obviously these guys are super talented
Speaker 14: and Edwin's no different. So yeah, like you said, he's
Speaker 14: coming off surgery. It's a it's a quick rehab from
Speaker 14: an elbow surgery, no matter how small. And you know,
Speaker 14: I do think that ultimately he's going to be the
Speaker 14: guy getting the outs in the ninth inning when it matters,
Speaker 14: and I think that's the way that we're built, and
Speaker 14: I think that's the way that we want it all right.
Speaker 3: There you go from the guy himself, Clayton Kershaw on
Speaker 3: board to allow Edwin Diaz to figure this out and
Speaker 3: get things right, not in the seventh inning, but in
Speaker 3: the ninth inning, and to hear the full conversation with
Speaker 3: the future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw. You can find
Speaker 3: it on the iHeartRadio app. It was great to see him,
Speaker 3: spend time with him, make him laugh at me, with me,
Speaker 3: whatever you want to describe it as, but it was
Speaker 3: a great time having him around and having his family here.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Anne, who was at Dodgers Stadium tonight.
Speaker 3: Hi Anne, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 12: Hi Dave. We're We're almost home.
Speaker 9: But we had a great time we play. My friend
Speaker 9: and I both clapped for div because he needed it,
Speaker 9: I think, and there were a lot of people around
Speaker 9: us that we're not clapping for him. But there's a
Speaker 9: lot of swear words, and I didn't quite understand that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a family affair. Come on, we don't need
Speaker 3: swear words at a game. It's always awkward when there's
Speaker 3: kids around and you're and these guys, these are a
Speaker 3: little bit over zealous, you know, using those kind of words.
Speaker 9: Anne, I go, they're children here, stop up, I mean,
Speaker 9: you know. And we had good seats.
Speaker 2: But haven't they heard.
Speaker 3: Charlie Steiner's Code of conduct before every game.
Speaker 9: I don't think they listen to that. I think they're
Speaker 9: too busy drinking.
Speaker 13: But that's just fun.
Speaker 9: It's just my guess. Oh my gosh, it was such
Speaker 9: a fun.
Speaker 15: Guy.
Speaker 9: I hadn't been to I do like come a lot
Speaker 9: more and I didn't haven't gotten a come this year,
Speaker 9: so this was my second game, and oh gosh, it
Speaker 9: was fun.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I'm glad you had a great time, man,
Speaker 1: And I hope you got your Kruse Shaw bobblehead.
Speaker 9: We did, we did. And my friend is she has
Speaker 9: like a one of a kind sweatshirt. If she got
Speaker 9: involved early on in the Kershaw's Challenge and for some
Speaker 9: reason she wound up with a sweachers that nobody's ever.
Speaker 3: Seen, well there you go, there you go. I know
Speaker 3: she must be a very generous donor. That's why she
Speaker 3: got it. Thanks for the phone call and get home safe.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Dodgers beat the Brewers tonight three to one, ed when
Speaker 3: Diaz loaded the bases and stranded the bases loaded to
Speaker 3: pick up his seventh save of the season. Yama Moto
Speaker 3: tonight pitched really well, nine strikeouts in six innings. Maybe
Speaker 3: not his sharpest, but that just shows you the greatness
Speaker 3: of Yama Moto, and that's the next level for a
Speaker 3: guy like him.
Speaker 1: When you don't have your.
Speaker 3: Best stuff, you still go at least six innings and
Speaker 3: compete your way through understanding the bullpen situation, especially, and
Speaker 3: he only gave up one earned run, and the Dodger
Speaker 3: offense still I would like to see a little more
Speaker 3: from the Dodger offense. Lost in last night's disappointing loss
Speaker 3: in the ninth inning was the Dodgers only collecting four hits.
Speaker 3: And if it wasn't for Max Months He's pinch hit
Speaker 3: three run home run, the Dodgers may not have had
Speaker 3: the lead in the ninth inning tonight. They scored three
Speaker 3: runs on eight hits, and we're just one for six
Speaker 3: with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.
Speaker 3: So we need more. We need more from the Dodger offense.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Culver City. Kevin, you're on Dodger Talk, Hi.
Speaker 11: Kevin, David my man, what's going on?
Speaker 10: Boss?
Speaker 1: Living the dream? Kevin living the dream.
Speaker 11: Hey, these guys they talk about were ruining baseball. It's
Speaker 11: not ruining baseball. We have the culture.
Speaker 1: The best thing talking about that anymore.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well we got Freeman. Look, we got Scooball because
Speaker 11: schoo ball wants to be part of the culture. Kyle Tucker, Now,
Speaker 11: let me tell you this, Kyle Tucker, he's gonna leave
Speaker 11: his imprint on this team in this postseason. He's gonna
Speaker 11: do something. He's gonna get a base it, he's gonna
Speaker 11: get RBI, it's gonna win a game, a home run,
Speaker 11: and we're gonna be talking about what a great performance.
Speaker 11: That's why you get players like Kyle Tucker because of
Speaker 11: the playoffs, when you're going against marquee teams, you need
Speaker 11: those guys who's won World Series, who've seen that pitching
Speaker 11: in the postseason, and that's what he's here for. I'm
Speaker 11: not concerned about the pitching because you and I know
Speaker 11: when Dave Roberts has to get a closer or a
Speaker 11: close out the game, it will be ol Tani or
Speaker 11: Yamamoto closing it out or even a scooball. So I'm
Speaker 11: not concerned about that. Leed Diaz work through his kiaks
Speaker 11: and let them figure it out. But we got the
Speaker 11: best rotation in baseball, and we're getting sealthy at the
Speaker 11: right time. Snail Glass now on the back end, coming
Speaker 11: in Otani, who threw the bullpen session today. We got
Speaker 11: young Mooto the ace.
Speaker 3: Kevin, let me ask you a question, Kevin, I'll ask
Speaker 3: you this question that I'm gonna ask, and we're gonna
Speaker 3: do a show on this as we get closer to
Speaker 3: the postseason. The last three Dodger Championships, the final out
Speaker 3: has been recorded by their starting pitcher Julio Urias in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, Walker Bueller in twenty four and of course
Speaker 3: last year the World Series MVP Yamamoto, who's getting the
Speaker 3: last out of the World Series for the Dodgers. This year,
Speaker 3: Kevin kared Scuba no chance. Scott Boris would not allow
Speaker 3: him to come out of the bullpen. I don't see
Speaker 3: that happening. I disagree with you. I'll share with you
Speaker 3: guys later in in the month of September, who I
Speaker 3: believe is going to get the final out of the
Speaker 3: season for the Dodgers. Love you, Kevin, thank you for
Speaker 3: the phone call.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just like Max Scherzer closed out Game five of the
Speaker 3: twenty one NLDS and then didn't pitch Game six. I
Speaker 3: don't see that happening with Schoobol. I love schoobl I
Speaker 3: think he's gonna pitch great in the postseason. I just
Speaker 3: don't see him doing those super Superman type of things
Speaker 3: that Yamamoto did last year.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to Sergio in Azusa. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Sergio great?
Speaker 7: David want to announce my friend Ryan had a baby
Speaker 7: boy named Alice clay On Clayton bobble hits or we're
Speaker 7: stoked about that.
Speaker 10: And then I got my nephew visiting here with my.
Speaker 7: Son and they want to say hi.
Speaker 2: Say hi guys.
Speaker 11: Oh Hi.
Speaker 1: That sounds like they were forced to say Hi. Sergio.
Speaker 3: It's like when I when my mom forces me to
Speaker 3: say hi to relatives I don't even know.
Speaker 1: Help me, Oh guys, yeah, yeah, you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: listen to the show.
Speaker 3: Your dad is like, hey, hey, you want me to
Speaker 3: call into a radio show, and you guys say Hi
Speaker 3: to this guy that you don't even know.
Speaker 15: I freaking love the Dodgers. Okay, so today I ranked
Speaker 15: my uncle here fifth and I and he said, so
Speaker 15: what can I do to be ranked higher than fifth?
Speaker 15: And I said, if you can get me to a
Speaker 15: free Dodger games, then I'll reconsider. So I'm coming here
Speaker 15: to say that show, Hey is the greatest player. If
Speaker 15: it's okay, you can get me some free tickets.
Speaker 3: No, no, don't have to whoa, yeah, geez, uncle, take
Speaker 3: it easy, all right, Hey, Sergio, have a great time.
Speaker 3: Congratulations to your family. And that sounds like, uh, that
Speaker 3: sounds like a great family right there. Very very fun
Speaker 3: family right there. Uh A six six two, five seventy
Speaker 3: is the phone number. It's been a great night. Very
Speaker 3: different show than last night. I'll just say that a
Speaker 3: little bit more lighthearted. Let's go out to David, who
Speaker 3: is at the game tonight. Hi, David, you're on Dodger.
Speaker 16: Talk that.
Speaker 3: You're David. I'm David at Dodgers Stadium. You're David on
Speaker 3: the way to Westlake Village.
Speaker 7: Dave, You're the man.
Speaker 16: We all love him. Let's say, yeah, today's game was
Speaker 16: a little nerve wracking at the end, but I'm happy
Speaker 16: for Dsay came through. And then as far as Kyles
Speaker 16: Hutter goes, you know, we need Kyle Tuner like we
Speaker 16: need DS. So I'm not giving up on Tucker, you know, because,
Speaker 16: like you said, we need all these guys win another championship.
Speaker 3: I mean, if Tucker could do what he keep away
Speaker 3: from Dodgers Stadium at Dodgers Stadium, I think everybody would
Speaker 3: be happy with that, because that's who he is as
Speaker 3: a player. He's a two seventy five hitter, he's a
Speaker 3: twenty five home guy. He's got nine away from here.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what it is, but he's got
Speaker 3: to change his routine. It's not always on Dave Roberts,
Speaker 3: it's not on Andrew Friedman, it's not on Aaron Bates
Speaker 3: or Rob van Zoyak or anybody else. Kyle Tucker, you're
Speaker 3: so good, you know yourself, so well change it up.
Speaker 1: That's my advice to you.
Speaker 16: And then it's interesting that you said that she doesn't
Speaker 16: take batting practice at home.
Speaker 3: He never takes no, he never takes batting practice on
Speaker 3: the field anywhere, home or road. But how about at home?
Speaker 3: Since you're struggling, change it up. Change up your routine.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree with you there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever it is, that was just my observation suggestion,
Speaker 3: just change it up.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the phone call, David, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number. So many fans came out for Kershawn Knight.
Speaker 3: It was great to have him here. And my guy
Speaker 3: Sam from Downy Hunday was out here and out here
Speaker 3: a couple of nights ago for the Hello Kiddie Night.
Speaker 3: That was a good giveaway night. And tomorrow, man, what
Speaker 3: a game Robleski versus Jacob Mizzowski. If you don't have
Speaker 3: your tickets now, there are still tickets available.
Speaker 1: It's a four fifteen game.
Speaker 3: A great way to spend your Saturday, to come out
Speaker 3: and see the Miz take on the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: All right, let's check in with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 3: All right, Jose Mota, let's start right there with Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3: I mean, everybody now has caught on to the fact
Speaker 3: that he has had an abysmal season at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: Don't you feel like in these situations like Otani like
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman, maybe change up your routine to get things going.
Speaker 8: I'm all for that, There's no doubt about it. We
Speaker 8: saw him do it a couple of times earlier this season.
Speaker 8: It seems like you got a little bit better, Dave.
Speaker 8: There's so much importance in just thumb and getting used,
Speaker 8: your eyes used to the background. That's the main thing,
Speaker 8: even though you're not going to be hitting around the
Speaker 8: same type of daylight or lights. But it's good to
Speaker 8: be out there and get the flow and get pitches
Speaker 8: coming at you and see what the ball is doing too,
Speaker 8: how the ball is traveling, what kind of spin are
Speaker 8: you getting. You know, the machines inside do tell you
Speaker 8: exit velocity and you know probable distance, things like that.
Speaker 8: But there's nothing like watching the ball come off your bat.
Speaker 8: It's nothing like watching your barrel and see where it is.
Speaker 8: We're seeing a Kyle Tucker again, where there's a lot
Speaker 8: of chick swings on favorable account for hitters. It's very unusual.
Speaker 8: Andy Pies came out today and hit early. How about that, David, say,
Speaker 8: what happened with me like that?
Speaker 3: I saw that, and and he looked at me and said,
Speaker 3: what am I doing here so early.
Speaker 1: I was like, what are you doing here so early?
Speaker 1: Why are you asking me?
Speaker 8: He's out there early a lot just to get this
Speaker 8: outfield work with Dino Evil. But today it was good
Speaker 8: to see him go out there and have a plan
Speaker 8: and paying attention to what he was doing, getting into
Speaker 8: the baseball so well, cutting down his swing, hitting up
Speaker 8: the machine, hitting off velocity, and just again the flow
Speaker 8: of your body and just the idea that I've been
Speaker 8: here before. I can see them out, I can see
Speaker 8: center field, I can see how the ball's traveling. There
Speaker 8: are a lot of times when you're hitting inside you
Speaker 8: get fool yourself by saying, oh that was quick off
Speaker 8: the net. You don't know who the one's going to
Speaker 8: do with, you know, if it got to the offulo
Speaker 8: or not. And it's important that guys get used to
Speaker 8: doing that. And even though it's a modern thing now
Speaker 8: with baseball, going back, you know, maybe eight ten years,
Speaker 8: as you mentioned, guys like Freddie Freeman when he needs
Speaker 8: to come out to see get a flow for see
Speaker 8: what the ball's doing. Standing inside the ball, I want
Speaker 8: to shoot it in this direction. The field is a
Speaker 8: target for you, and the good hitters find targets to
Speaker 8: go out there and say I'm going to shoot for
Speaker 8: this because I guess my body in a position where
Speaker 8: I'm going to repeat it during the game there. So
Speaker 8: it's so much about body repetition and you know, and
Speaker 8: muscle memory that it would be very beneficial thing for
Speaker 8: a guy like Kyle Tucker to do the same thing.
Speaker 3: All right, Hey, I like that validation, Jose. I'm not
Speaker 3: a hitting coach. I'm just a guy that talks baseball.
Speaker 3: But I mean I know about.
Speaker 8: Long enough, yeah, long enough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, if it works for Otani and Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 3: two of the best players in baseball, I feel like
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker, can you know, change it up a little
Speaker 3: bit like those two guys.
Speaker 8: Bryce Harper, Kyle Schrauber. You go to Philly, those guys
Speaker 8: are out there hitting outside. Those guys don't need to
Speaker 8: be doing this in this day and age, when you
Speaker 8: know a lot of guys are a backups not even
Speaker 8: hitting outside. So I'm all for it. So hopefully, you know,
Speaker 8: he'll be convinced that at least just to change it
Speaker 8: up and just to say, you know what, I just
Speaker 8: need base hits here. I need better at best, and
Speaker 8: you see the ball better. That's a very good option
Speaker 8: to go on to hang out with your teammates too,
Speaker 8: and hang out in the outfield, Shagan and tailor balls
Speaker 8: also traveling through the infield when he hit line drives.
Speaker 1: Jose Mota is joining us.
Speaker 3: After the Dodgers defeat the Brewers tonight three to one,
Speaker 3: and when Diaz got himself into a basis loaded jam,
Speaker 3: and when Diaz, with some help from Keik and Tommy Edmond,
Speaker 3: got out of a basis loaded jam to help the
Speaker 3: Dodgers hold on, compared to last night when the Brewers
Speaker 3: scored three runs in the ninth inning. So what did
Speaker 3: you see tonight from Edwin Diaz?
Speaker 8: Maybe a sharper slider sometimes where he forced it to
Speaker 8: mechanically be on top of it. I again saw Aim
Speaker 8: working out early today with Connor mcguinnis to work through
Speaker 8: some things. I'm glad that he got a little bit
Speaker 8: of the Assay karmath for the game today. He actually was,
Speaker 8: you know, attracted to you and said, I gotta go
Speaker 8: talk to this guy. So the fans hear me. Obviously
Speaker 8: it was the cleanest of save. But let's just take
Speaker 8: the save right now, Dave. That's all you want right
Speaker 8: got to w got to save. Let's give Keiki Hernandez
Speaker 8: a lot of credit for his defense throughout this whole
Speaker 8: home stand in left field and third base, in a
Speaker 8: first base and also his form of just having a
Speaker 8: good sense for the game, not having anybody tell you.
Speaker 8: From Doug out Hey, go out there to the mountain. No, no,
Speaker 8: he was like, I gotta do this with my guy
Speaker 8: from Puerto Rico. I gotta go out there and just
Speaker 8: tell him to slow it down. Here the best on
Speaker 8: the mound. You're exactly what we need. And Dave, there's
Speaker 8: a lot of times which that's all guys need to
Speaker 8: hear from a teammate. You're the guy we want right
Speaker 8: now in this situation. You've done it before. Go out
Speaker 8: there and get it done. So with everything that could
Speaker 8: have gone wrong, even including Mookie's throat, let's just celebrate
Speaker 8: the fact that they got a W and Edwin could
Speaker 8: be himself catapulting from this one to say I got
Speaker 8: to do better, but I know I'm back.
Speaker 1: Are you starting to buy into the Dodgers thinking that
Speaker 1: the ninth inning is the place where they need Edwin
Speaker 1: Diaz and it's the place where he's going to get
Speaker 1: better and get back to himself.
Speaker 8: Here's what I know. This what's going to continue to
Speaker 8: happen because we've seen it happen in the past with
Speaker 8: every star, every closer that's you know, struggled. So be
Speaker 8: convinced that this is where Dave Roberts is going to go.
Speaker 8: I mean going back to him in the front office.
Speaker 8: I mean there's in conjunction. There's not just Dave Roberts desitions.
Speaker 8: As you know the previous color was talking about. Yeah
Speaker 8: it is, it comes to the top and they'll get
Speaker 8: together and say this is our best option. Now, remember
Speaker 8: one thing to David. There's a lot lot of times
Speaker 8: when the game is not saved in the ninth inning,
Speaker 8: it is saved in the seventh inning or in the
Speaker 8: eighth inning, and they do have options to go there
Speaker 8: and get those stays for you in those innings. So
Speaker 8: for now, get used to it. Going back to Blake
Speaker 8: trying to last year. He lost five games September, and
Speaker 8: it kept going back to him, going back to him
Speaker 8: until it was not a fact because then you start
Speaker 8: scoring more runs. But then you go to you know
Speaker 8: LCS and before you know it, you know, rookie gets
Speaker 8: into a little trouble. Who comes in the mount blake
Speaker 8: trying and strike out, you know the guy they need
Speaker 8: to be struck it out. And at the same time,
Speaker 8: then if you don't use in those situations, it's like
Speaker 8: you can't bury him. But then they become your best
Speaker 8: option and only option, and you just got to be
Speaker 8: ready for it. So there's many guys that I would say,
Speaker 8: for like Evan Phillips, keep pushing and you want to
Speaker 8: be that guy, and you know, and be consistent and
Speaker 8: throwing strikes and missing bets, but at the same time,
Speaker 8: be ready for any inning, six seventh inning, that's your inn,
Speaker 8: and get it done because you know da is going
Speaker 8: to get the baseball. Now, he's going to be out
Speaker 8: for a couple of days. So guess what, David, somebody
Speaker 8: else is going to get up or Tae.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that goes tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: And I when I saw this series and I started
Speaker 3: to see just how it was laying out with the
Speaker 3: pitching matchups.
Speaker 1: I was circling tomorrow's game a week ago.
Speaker 3: Jose Jacob Mizerowski on the mound for the Brewers tomorrow
Speaker 3: against the Dodgers. I mean, does it feel like it's
Speaker 3: Reggie Smith. Legends of Baseball Night Tomorrow. Does it feel
Speaker 3: like this is Nolan Ryan? Does it feel like it's JR.
Speaker 3: Richard like Reggie Smith and the Dodgers used to face.
Speaker 8: Oh my god, yes, And I remember I was a
Speaker 8: bad boy watching these games, especially tomorrow. By the way,
Speaker 8: as we're talking about hitting outside, get outside tomorrow because
Speaker 8: it's not going to be easy hitting at four point
Speaker 8: thirty in the afternoon. So oh yeah, hit your eyes
Speaker 8: out there and got thrown one hundred and five. Do
Speaker 8: the best you can to just see the ball, meet
Speaker 8: the ball, and have a good plan. So he's beatable.
Speaker 8: You can beat up the Angels beat him recently, so
Speaker 8: you know what, go through and just throw some zeros
Speaker 8: from Robleski. But give yourselves a better chance and honor
Speaker 8: Reggie Smith, who could be a guy that can send
Speaker 8: a quick masters to you and Dave Roberts respects so
Speaker 8: much about just going after and putting your best effort
Speaker 8: together and fight for the baths man. Just don't give in.
Speaker 8: Fight for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love to, you know.
Speaker 3: I hope Reggie Smith gets a chance to talk to
Speaker 3: some of these Dodger hitters because even in a you know,
Speaker 3: a five to ten minute conversation. I feel like he
Speaker 3: would enlighten them a lot when it comes to hitting.
Speaker 8: Someday you will and I will have a conversation with
Speaker 8: Reggie Smith and what I saw from him as a
Speaker 8: leader in the clubhouse, just on real somebody didn't do
Speaker 8: their job, young player who had a little facial hair,
Speaker 8: somebody around the base is wrong. And he would not
Speaker 8: do it during the game, but once a game was
Speaker 8: over and before the media came in, he would grab
Speaker 8: somebody and just say, this is not the way we
Speaker 8: play baseball here.
Speaker 1: Son.
Speaker 8: If you won't be around here, you got to do better.
Speaker 8: And that's who Reggie was.
Speaker 3: That's part of the legacy of Reggie Smith. A great
Speaker 3: team leader, a great teacher, a great player, and he'll
Speaker 3: be part of the legends of Dodger Baby spalled joining
Speaker 3: your Pops.
Speaker 1: Nights.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Reggie introduced me to the Jerry Curl So I'm
Speaker 8: pretty happy about that too.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you know he can't be right on everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sure is. We'll see tomorrow night, Jose, there he goes.
Speaker 1: Dodger broadcaster Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio
Speaker 1: broadcast with Luis Cochito Cruz before we say goodnight. I
Speaker 1: have breaking news now. You know.
Speaker 3: I've been waiting for Will Smith for the last two
Speaker 3: months in front of his locker at Dodger Stadium, waiting
Speaker 3: for him, waiting for him to come to the locker.
Speaker 3: He has not come until this homestand the other day
Speaker 3: I asked him a couple of questions. All he gave
Speaker 3: me was a shoulder shrug, zipped his lips like he's
Speaker 3: not gonna talk to me.
Speaker 1: And then today a big day.
Speaker 3: Will Smith took back practice on the field, as did Dalton, rushing,
Speaker 3: but rushing obviously he's been playing. He can still hit,
Speaker 3: he can't throw. Will Smith has not taken batting practice
Speaker 3: on the field since going on the il with that
Speaker 3: disc issue.
Speaker 1: In his neck.
Speaker 3: So today was a big step and he is trending
Speaker 3: in the right direction. And I did see Will Smith
Speaker 3: today and I did have my microphone waiting for him
Speaker 3: after he came off the field taking batting practice, trying
Speaker 3: to get Will Smith to break his silence, and he did.
Speaker 3: Here's what Will Smith told me about his injury.
Speaker 6: Can you kick him out please?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I guess that was a no comment. Can you play
Speaker 3: that again, Colin, I have an exclusive interview with Will
Speaker 3: Smith regarding the status of when he may return.
Speaker 6: Can you kick him out? Please?
Speaker 1: How about that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Will doesn't really want to talk still. Maybe he feels
Speaker 3: like if he opens up to me he might have
Speaker 3: a setback with his neck. But hey, I'll be here tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Will Smith.
Speaker 6: Can you kick him out please?
Speaker 1: They want to trust me.
Speaker 3: Maybe Will Smith will take bad in practice again tomorrow
Speaker 3: before the game, and I'll be standing right there waiting
Speaker 3: for him. And I'll be at his locker tomorrow when
Speaker 3: they open the clubhouse to the media, waiting for him.
Speaker 1: Will he give us a little more, just a little
Speaker 1: more about when he may return, or how he's feeling,
Speaker 1: or how this turned into a three month injury.
Speaker 6: Can you kick him out please?
Speaker 3: I'll be here tomorrow, Will Anyway, Tomorrow, the miss is
Speaker 3: on the mound for the Dodgers, going up against Justin Robleski.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a great pitching matchup. And Jose Mota
Speaker 3: just depressed the Dodger hitters because yes, four point fifteen
Speaker 3: not a great time to hit. But the sun goes
Speaker 3: down a little a little later these days in the
Speaker 3: summer months, so the sun should be shining at four
Speaker 3: point fifteen. Justin Robleski will have that same advantage. He's
Speaker 3: eleven and four with an ERA at three forty four.
Speaker 3: The lefties actually have an advantage. Remember a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago in the NLCS against the Mets, Sean Mania
Speaker 3: was pitching for the Mets, and the Dodger hitters were
Speaker 3: saying because of the game time around five o'clock with
Speaker 3: the shadows, they couldn't see the ball coming.
Speaker 1: Out of Mania's hand.
Speaker 3: And we all know shan Manya is not that, you know,
Speaker 3: but the sun and the shadows helped him. So it
Speaker 3: may help Robleski more than Mislerowski tomorrow, but Misslerowski doesn't
Speaker 3: need a lot of help from mother nature. He's eleven
Speaker 3: and five this year with an ERA of one seventy six,
Speaker 3: and he already has recorded two hundred strikeouts. Our coverage
Speaker 3: begins tomorrow at three o'clock, first pitch at four fifteen.
Speaker 1: That'll do it for us tonight on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, thanks
Speaker 3: to calling you back at our Burbank studios, and thanks
Speaker 3: to you for listening in case you missed any of
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Speaker 3: That's also where you can listen to our pregame conversation
Speaker 3: with future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 1: Once again.
Speaker 3: The final score tonight the Dodgers hold on for a
Speaker 3: three to one win over the Brewers.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a great rest of
Speaker 1: your night, Be safe, see them
Speaker 3: Send it away.