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 fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Here we go again. We're geta running back.
Speaker 1: To get him on the show called eight six six,
Speaker 1: not eighty seven, two five seventy, And be sure to
Speaker 1: follow Dodger Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. Here's your host,
Speaker 1: David Vase, Last.
Speaker 2: Day, Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase live at Uniclo
Speaker 2: Field at Dodgers Stadium until eleven thirty tonight. That's right,
Speaker 2: eleven thirty tonight. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number all those happy fans
Speaker 2: leaving the stadium fifty thousand plus getting a Maxmuncy babblehead
Speaker 2: and also being treated to Maxmunsey coming up with one
Speaker 2: of the biggest hits of the night, the first big
Speaker 2: hit of the night that bases loaded double clearing the
Speaker 2: bases with two outs. And we all know the Dodger
Speaker 2: offense has not been doing so great lately, so that
Speaker 2: was so big for that dugout and for Muncie who's
Speaker 2: been struggling as well. Just big on so many different levels.
Speaker 2: And I will say this, the Dodgers won tonight six
Speaker 2: to five, but even if they didn't win, it felt
Speaker 2: like the Dodgers played with the urgency that they need
Speaker 2: to play with. And the tone was set by Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas and Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts has been saying this
Speaker 2: since some Saturday, that it's go time. And how about
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas sending a text to the team that he
Speaker 2: shared with us. I'll let you hear what he had
Speaker 2: to say. I'll let you hear what Dave Roberts had
Speaker 2: to say after the game as well. But Rojas basically
Speaker 2: texts the team, Hey, it's time to go. It's time
Speaker 2: for the sprint attitude. Now the season's almost over with.
Speaker 2: We only got forty games to go. And if I
Speaker 2: felt like the Dodgers came through with that type of
Speaker 2: focus and urgency tonight. We did not see the same
Speaker 2: base running mistakes that we've been seeing since the All
Speaker 2: Star break. We saw better at bats tonight, show Hal
Speaker 2: Tani smartly stealing second base to get into scoring position
Speaker 2: for Freddie Freeman's go ahead RBI single in the seventh inning.
Speaker 2: And for Max Munsey, I know we focus on Mookie
Speaker 2: Beds and Kyle Tucker, but the reality is Max Munsey
Speaker 2: has been in a really bad slump here in the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks. He's been striking at an almost
Speaker 2: a fifty percent rate, only walking about ten percent. And
Speaker 2: for him to come up being down one two and
Speaker 2: being able to deliver that base hit down the right
Speaker 2: field line to score all three runs was huge. Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker coming off the bench pinch hitting for te Oscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez against the righty John Schreiber. That was a great
Speaker 2: at bat by Kyle Tucker to work a walk and
Speaker 2: not try to do too much to set up what
Speaker 2: Munths he did. And I give Dave Roberts a lot
Speaker 2: of credit. I mean, I know it's August, but the
Speaker 2: urgency that Dave Roberts managed with tonight really shows and
Speaker 2: sets the tone for the rest of the team. Taking
Speaker 2: Taoscar Hernandez out in the sixth inning, to have Tucker,
Speaker 2: who did not start tonight, come off the bench was
Speaker 2: the right move. I don't know if Kyle Tucker is
Speaker 2: going to strike out on three pitches, but the way
Speaker 2: Tucker's been going the last ten games, whether or not
Speaker 2: he gets a walk, whether or not he gets a hit,
Speaker 2: whether or not he strikes out, it was the one
Speaker 2: hundred percent right move. If you've been watching Dodger games,
Speaker 2: you've been seeing really poor at bats by taoscar Hernandez,
Speaker 2: and tonight was no different. And look, I'm still a
Speaker 2: big believer in taoscar Hernandez. I believe he's still going
Speaker 2: to be a big part of the rest of the
Speaker 2: season and into October because he's done it and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have won back to back championships in large part
Speaker 2: because of his contributions. But right now he's not swinging
Speaker 2: the bat well, he's not giving you good at back quality.
Speaker 2: So that was the right move, and Kyle Tucker rewarded
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts for the right move. And like I said
Speaker 2: on Petrosen Money Show today, I said it on the
Speaker 2: pregame show yesterday. I talked to Edwin Diz yesterday morning,
Speaker 2: and I had no doubts after talking to him that
Speaker 2: that ninth inning Saturday night changed his season because once
Speaker 2: Corby and Carroll got to third base, he just basically said,
Speaker 2: you know what to hell with everything, I'm competing and
Speaker 2: I'm not going to lose this game tonight. And he
Speaker 2: was able with nobody out to Strand Carroll at third
Speaker 2: base and to me talking to him. On top of
Speaker 2: what I saw on Saturday night, I was convinced his
Speaker 2: season has changed because all of a sudden, now, whatever
Speaker 2: was in the back of his mind, whether or not
Speaker 2: he thought if he went a little bit too much
Speaker 2: with ripping it, gripping and ripping it, whether or not
Speaker 2: he threw his slider max S effort that he was
Speaker 2: going to reinjure his arm. That's out the window now,
Speaker 2: and that's that's the compete mode that we saw on
Speaker 2: Saturday night to allow the Dodgers to get to the
Speaker 2: tenth inning. And you saw tonight tonight was the best
Speaker 2: slider Edwin Diaz has thrown in a long time. And
Speaker 2: I am convinced Edwin Diaz's season changed on Saturday night.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. All right. I want to share with
Speaker 2: you what Miguel Rojas shared with us after the Dodgers
Speaker 2: lost their seventh in a row. Because you may not
Speaker 2: win five or six or seven or ten in a row.
Speaker 2: But it certainly sets the tone for the rest of
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 3: I challenge the guys I send in a little quick
Speaker 3: message on the group last night to start our sprint
Speaker 3: right now. You know why not to start when it's
Speaker 3: forty four games left, so we prepare for what is coming.
Speaker 3: And I feel like if we put the little intensity
Speaker 3: on every pitch and forget about the past and forget
Speaker 3: about what's the future is gonna look like. I think
Speaker 3: we're gonna be on the moment more and we're gonna
Speaker 3: give everything that we have in that moment. So I
Speaker 3: think it's important to remember those little things when you
Speaker 3: go in the middle of the summer and you know,
Speaker 3: like you're approaching the end of the season and you
Speaker 3: kind of wanted to get over there with so you.
Speaker 2: Can go to October.
Speaker 3: But I mean, no one's gonna give you anything for free,
Speaker 3: so we're gonna have to earn it, and this is
Speaker 3: our time to kind of start our spring. I believe
Speaker 3: we can do it. I know we've been playing a
Speaker 3: lot of games the last two years and this year,
Speaker 3: but if we have an opportunity to do something really special,
Speaker 3: So if we have it in our hands. Let's do it.
Speaker 3: You know, we're in it to win it. We're not
Speaker 3: in it just to say, oh, no, we won the
Speaker 3: last two. We okay, not winning this one, or let's
Speaker 3: see what happened. No, we're in it to win this one.
Speaker 3: And now that we have the opportunity that all we
Speaker 3: have to play is fifty some more games in this year,
Speaker 3: it's a good time for us to kind of like
Speaker 3: do the spring and finish the season.
Speaker 2: All right. Miguel Rojas. He said that after the Dodgers
Speaker 2: lost their seventh in a row, he shot off a
Speaker 2: text to the players the teammates group texts that they have,
Speaker 2: and certainly that's just a reminder to everybody. On top
Speaker 2: of I would love to know what was said on
Speaker 2: the plane right back, because it's a player's only plane.
Speaker 2: People think about the traditional sense of oh, let's have
Speaker 2: a meeting in the clubhouse. Let's have a formal players
Speaker 2: only meeting in the clubhouse everybody out. The Dodgers don't
Speaker 2: have to do that. They can have their players only
Speaker 2: meeting in an informal way on their players only plane.
Speaker 2: So I would imagine that would lend itself to these
Speaker 2: guys talking about the urgency they need to play with
Speaker 2: and everything that Miguel Rojas included in his text. So
Speaker 2: that's the good part of that. Now fast forward to tonight,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts echoed those sentiments, and the way he's going
Speaker 2: to manage is similar to the way Rojas wants the
Speaker 2: rest of the team to play.
Speaker 4: I think that we're past letting him play out of it.
Speaker 4: I think that you know, we're in a we're in
Speaker 4: a playoff race, you know, trying to win the division
Speaker 4: number one, number two, you know, capture one of the
Speaker 4: first two playoff spots, and you know this is this
Speaker 4: is go time, and so you know, I'm going to
Speaker 4: manage according like I said. And we've seen enough of
Speaker 4: a sample of guys and what they've done this year,
Speaker 4: and so you know, everyone understands it's about winning. So
Speaker 4: it's not about feelings. And I love and like everybody,
Speaker 4: but we've got to do it's best for the Dodgers
Speaker 4: for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: If you listen to what Miguel Rojas had to say,
Speaker 2: and you listen to what Dave Roberts said tonight, how
Speaker 2: could you not be fired up if you're a Dodger fan,
Speaker 2: these guys do care. And you know what else, I'm
Speaker 2: kind of tired of everybody's saying this team is old.
Speaker 2: Nobody was saying that in May and June. All of
Speaker 2: a sudden, because they're in a losing streak or they're
Speaker 2: not catching up to fastballs, this team is old. Bury
Speaker 2: them now, they got nothing left. I refuse to believe that.
Speaker 2: I may be too close to the situation, but I
Speaker 2: refuse to believe that these guys all of a sudden
Speaker 2: cannot hit fastballs. And I know now the numbers show
Speaker 2: that they're not hitting off speed pitches. You know what
Speaker 2: that says to me? That reflects a poor plan by
Speaker 2: the players themselves. And that's part of the reason why
Speaker 2: you're seeing so many double plays. That's the reason why
Speaker 2: you're seeing so many poor at bats coming into tonight.
Speaker 2: Have a plan, have a better plan, compete in the
Speaker 2: batter's box. That's what the best always said. So I
Speaker 2: refuse to believe these guys are too old to try
Speaker 2: to run this to a three peat. I refuse to believe,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, these guys can't hit fastballs. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I refuse to believe that eight six, six, nine, seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: the Royals tonight six to five, A big win for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. They may not say it, but I will.
Speaker 2: This was a big win for the Dodgers. And after
Speaker 2: Dryer gave up the game tying home run after Monthsey
Speaker 2: electrified this crowd. It was huge for Otani and Freeman,
Speaker 2: the two guys that have carried this offense all year long,
Speaker 2: to do what they did to win the game for
Speaker 2: them in the seventh inning. Let's go out to Braxton,
Speaker 2: who is at the game tonight. Hi, Braxton, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hey, David. Always get to call you.
Speaker 6: Tonight.
Speaker 5: I love calling you when we have these games that
Speaker 5: the atmosphere or is just at electric. That's that's when
Speaker 5: I call you. It seems like every time tonight I
Speaker 5: sat beside a seventy year old lady and she was
Speaker 5: she was on the same page with me. I mean,
Speaker 5: she knows everything about the Dodgers and what you just
Speaker 5: said right before you took my call about tonight was
Speaker 5: a must win game. We had to win this game.
Speaker 5: That's what we were saying going through this slump and
Speaker 5: not just a slump, but an ugly slump. It's been ugly,
Speaker 5: and tonight felt like coming home was we all. I
Speaker 5: think the whole fan base felt like it was a
Speaker 5: playoff atmosphere walking into the game, and then you reflected it,
Speaker 5: I mean the whole game. I mean you just heard
Speaker 5: the fans more alive than than normal, above average, right,
Speaker 5: and then you get to that when Edmund made that
Speaker 5: play down in the game, I turned around and looked
Speaker 5: at my wife and said, plays like that, the game is,
Speaker 5: the game's over. We're gonna win this game now, and
Speaker 5: then you have the monthly moment and then it takes off.
Speaker 5: You're right, David, Tonight was special tonight with a must win,
Speaker 5: and I think it was. It was a beautiful ending.
Speaker 5: It's perfect day, perfect day.
Speaker 2: We love la Hey. The Dodgers heard you, Braxton. You
Speaker 2: heard what Freddie Freeman said middle of the August, middle
Speaker 2: of August, and there's fifty thousand plus trying to will
Speaker 2: you to a win. That was special, and you guys
Speaker 2: played a part in all that. So I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, we appreciate you. It's always good dog, David.
Speaker 5: I'll talk to you next time we have a great atmosphere.
Speaker 2: All right, Braxton, thanks for the phone call. Yeah, Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmund made an incredible catch in left field, maybe the
Speaker 2: best catch I have seen by any left fielder this season.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen every game of every left fielder, but
Speaker 2: of the games I've watched, that's the best catch I've
Speaker 2: ever seen from a guy that plays a lot of
Speaker 2: time on the infield. For him to make a catch
Speaker 2: like that to end the sixth inning momentum was on
Speaker 2: the Dodgers side. Let's go out to Hunter in the
Speaker 2: Big Apple listening on the iHeartRadio app. Hi Hunter, You're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hey with that, David, And also congrats on the shout
Speaker 7: out on the broadcast from Oral.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard about that. How about that Oral herscheizer
Speaker 2: giving me a lot of love and Steven Nelson loving
Speaker 2: our schoolbel interview. How about this Hunter, I got to
Speaker 2: give orl some love since you brought that up. He's
Speaker 2: getting the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this Thursday.
Speaker 2: I know you're in New York, but fans in LA
Speaker 2: can be there. Get there at eleven thirty am. They're
Speaker 2: lining up on Hollywood in Highland and the ceremony, s
Speaker 2: quick at end said about twelve fifteen. But yeah, how
Speaker 2: about that my guy oral Herscheizer getting a star on
Speaker 2: the Walk of Fame this Thursday.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and yeah, orl if you're listening to the Night
Speaker 7: you're listening, Yeah, glad that I got to tee that
Speaker 7: up for you. But I get to get to the
Speaker 7: point that I wanted to say, is when David you
Speaker 7: emphasized it so well. Today was a huge, a huge win.
Speaker 7: I think it was the biggest win so far of
Speaker 7: the sea. And what kind of clicks for me with
Speaker 7: the win is Max Monthly It is a great alignment
Speaker 7: on his bobblehead night. He had the biggest hit of
Speaker 7: the night and therefore in the way like the biggest
Speaker 7: hit of the season. And what I've been saying for
Speaker 7: like the last few months is I want to start
Speaker 7: the conversation for Max Monsey potentially having his number retired.
Speaker 7: He has the most postseason home runs in Dodgers baseball.
Speaker 7: He's he's probably gonna pass Harrows in the most home
Speaker 7: runs as an LA Dodger. He has legendary home runs
Speaker 7: in the postseason. And also his story of coming to
Speaker 7: the Dodgers and first, the second, third.
Speaker 8: Et cetera.
Speaker 7: There's a lot more to say, but it's like this.
Speaker 7: This is what it looks like where a guy has
Speaker 7: like these accolades and has these moments.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me tell you this. The Dodgers have a
Speaker 2: franchise rule, if you will, that you have to be
Speaker 2: inducted into the Hall of Fame to have your number retired.
Speaker 2: The only two that do not have that distinction are
Speaker 2: transcendent Fernando Vvenezuela, who should be in the Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame for a number of different reasons, and Jim Gillion,
Speaker 2: who was Walter O'Malley's favorite player. He died during the
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy seventh season. That was an emotional reflection and
Speaker 2: honor to Jim gilliam. So those are the only two
Speaker 2: and that's part of the reason why the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: thanks to our guyln Rosen and Stan Casten for starting
Speaker 2: this the Legends of Dodger Baseball where it's a pseudo
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame that honors guys that are not getting
Speaker 2: to the Hall of Fame but had great Dodger careers.
Speaker 2: In fact, on Saturday, Reggie Smith is going to be
Speaker 2: honored with that Legends of Dodger Baseball, Oral Herscheiser, your guy, Hunter,
Speaker 2: He's in there too, So I love the Dodgers starting
Speaker 2: that for guys like Maximun Sye that are not want
Speaker 2: to make it to the Hall of Fame or have
Speaker 2: their number retired.
Speaker 7: So then it's well deserved. And then those of us
Speaker 7: that adventure and suffer through we know that he deserves it.
Speaker 2: All right, Hunter, thanks for the phone call, and I
Speaker 2: guess you're taking full credit for me reminding fans that
Speaker 2: they should show up and show out Thursday morning for
Speaker 2: the Hollywood Walk of Fame Oral getting his star.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I'm glad I got to see that up.
Speaker 5: Thanks David.
Speaker 2: All right, Hunter, thank you for the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just a reminder. Oral Herscheiser is getting his star on
Speaker 2: the Hollywood Walk of Fame this Thursday. From what I understand,
Speaker 2: if you're planning to attend, and it should be fun,
Speaker 2: Oral always makes it fun. Joe Davis is speaking, Clayton
Speaker 2: Kershaw is going to be out there speaking line up
Speaker 2: on the corner of Hollywood and Highland this Thursday morning
Speaker 2: at eleven thirty. Let's go out to Scooter in LA.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi Scooter.
Speaker 9: Hey, what's going on, Dave?
Speaker 10: How you doing?
Speaker 2: I couldn't be better after a game like tonight. These
Speaker 2: guys are firing me up because they're not conceding anything.
Speaker 2: And I'm getting tired of hearing how old they are.
Speaker 2: They usually blame me for calling them old. Well, I'm
Speaker 2: defending the fact that these guys got a lot left
Speaker 2: in the tank.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I think so true. I just wanted to
Speaker 9: say that I called your your show about about about
Speaker 9: four weeks ago.
Speaker 10: And when they're like about fifteen games or something like that,
Speaker 10: and I said, I was, you know, I didn't really
Speaker 10: like when they go up big early, you know, in
Speaker 10: the middle of the season and win by a lot
Speaker 10: of games.
Speaker 9: Going into yep, by a lot of games going into September.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember. I think we all were a little.
Speaker 9: Bit of this, right, Yeah, you know, because you know
Speaker 9: what happened in twenty two twenty three, they won.
Speaker 7: Big and want to get knocked in the first round.
Speaker 9: The last couple of years they got pushed little by
Speaker 9: Padres and they went on to win the real series.
Speaker 9: So I was saying that, you know, you know, maybe
Speaker 9: I'm too big, But be trouble what you wish for,
Speaker 9: because since then, you know, you know what happened.
Speaker 11: The league got cut in half.
Speaker 9: But it's it's good right now. I mean some games
Speaker 9: I can live with that, you know, for the rest
Speaker 9: of the season.
Speaker 2: The biggest thing, Scooter is not Scooter, Scooter. The biggest
Speaker 2: thing is not the division. They're winning the division. The
Speaker 2: biggest thing is to get a buy and not be
Speaker 2: a wildcard team, not play in the first round, and
Speaker 2: not have to go on the road to start the NLDS.
Speaker 2: When you talk about age, you know, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to go that far. But there are older guys, thirty
Speaker 2: something guys, and having to travel cross country and not
Speaker 2: have home field advantage throughout the postseason like last year.
Speaker 2: That's hard to do. And I would love their chances
Speaker 2: a lot more if they were the one or two seed.
Speaker 2: So I think it's not about the division. It's about
Speaker 2: catching the Braves or the Brewers to have one of
Speaker 2: those first two round For having one of those first
Speaker 2: two seeds, don't get it twisted, that would be great.
Speaker 9: And as long as uh we got Yaminado and.
Speaker 2: We got Yamamoto, come on, Scooter.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Yamaodo, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, just say Yama. How about this, Just say Yama.
Speaker 9: Okay, we got Yama, we got we got and we
Speaker 9: got Snell. And I don't know between now, you said
Speaker 9: it wrong against Scooter.
Speaker 2: Don't say Snell. Say snell Zilla and say it with
Speaker 2: some attitude.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, we got Snell. I hope he, you know,
Speaker 9: gets back in the form. And then that fourth pitcher,
Speaker 9: I don't know if it's gonna be Glasgow or Tani
Speaker 9: or Sasaki or whoever it is. I think we got
Speaker 9: a part of the best.
Speaker 2: It's not that's not the problem. The problem is not
Speaker 2: the pitching. They just need to get this offense going,
Speaker 2: and tonight was a good start. Hey, Scooter, love you,
Speaker 2: Yama snell Zilla all.
Speaker 9: Right, Yeah, thanks to day.
Speaker 2: See you all right, Scooter, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight. Hey, I've seen some local
Speaker 2: TV broadcasters not get easier names. Right, all right, he's
Speaker 2: just a he's a fan. He's calling in. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Royals tonight six to five. Jack Dryer
Speaker 2: the winning pitcher, Edwin Diaz with his first save since
Speaker 2: July twenty ninth, after you know, uneven appearances in the
Speaker 2: ninth inning. But like I mentioned earlier in the show,
Speaker 2: after what we saw on the ninth inning on Saturday night,
Speaker 2: him yes, blowing the save, but him not allowing the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks to win that game with the speedy Corbyn Carrol
Speaker 2: at third base with nobody out. I mean, come on,
Speaker 2: if you want to look at these grafts on chances
Speaker 2: to win, that was off the charts. The Diamondbacks were
Speaker 2: going to win that game, and the Dodgers got an
Speaker 2: opportunity to win the game in the tenth because Edwin
Speaker 2: Diaz did not give in. And talking to him yesterday,
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you I can't use some of the
Speaker 2: competitive language that he was sharing with me about the
Speaker 2: way he's feeling now, the way he felt in that
Speaker 2: ninth inning after those back to back triples. But I
Speaker 2: had no doubt tonight. I had no doubt tonight he
Speaker 2: was going to shut the door in the ninth inning
Speaker 2: with authority. His season changed in the ninth inning that
Speaker 2: night in the desert. Let's go out to Jacksonville, Marty.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Marty?
Speaker 12: How are you doing, Dave, Listen. I was telling Colin
Speaker 12: I was in a wreck today.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he destroyed my car. I got a concussion. I
Speaker 12: got neck injury, you know, all muscular, and.
Speaker 2: Here you are.
Speaker 12: Yeah. I wanted to tell you that they wanted to
Speaker 12: keep me in the hospital overnight or they said I
Speaker 12: could go home. I should get me out of here.
Speaker 12: I gotta see the game. I got home. I missed
Speaker 12: the first inning, but I watched the rest of the
Speaker 12: game and we won, and I'm thrilled. And now I
Speaker 12: know how bad it is when the catcher gets hitting
Speaker 12: the mass, you know, with a foul ball, because when
Speaker 12: those airbags go, it's like a weapon.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. Hey, yeah, you know how those foul
Speaker 2: balls come off the mask. Hey, I'm glad you're okay, Marty,
Speaker 2: but take care of yourself. We want you around for
Speaker 2: the World Series this year, so be well out there.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Marty, if you need a new car, downy,
Speaker 2: Hyundai could ship you a new car all the way
Speaker 2: out there to Jacksonville. Okay, you let me know.
Speaker 12: What I want to tell you. I do need a
Speaker 12: new car. My call was totaled, and they I have
Speaker 12: gap insurance so I get a new car for whatever
Speaker 12: it's currently work.
Speaker 2: Downy Hundai dot Com. That's where you need to go. Okay,
Speaker 2: you'll get a new car and hopefully that neck feels better.
Speaker 2: All right, you gotta get some physical therapy. Dodger Baseball
Speaker 2: and an Ionic nine or an Ionic five from downy Hunday.
Speaker 12: You got it, I'll look it up.
Speaker 2: Okay, Marty, take care. I'm glad you're okay. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: What he needed a new car. I'm trying to help
Speaker 2: him out. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. We're gonna take a time
Speaker 2: out here on Dodger Talk. When we come back, more
Speaker 2: of your phone calls. Plus you'll hear from Trek Skoubole,
Speaker 2: who made his first start as a Dodger here at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium. I bet you didn't realize that he has
Speaker 2: pitched here before with the Tigers, but tonight was his
Speaker 2: real Dodger Stadium home debut. As he is able to
Speaker 2: make two starts already, he'll make another one Sunday, I'm
Speaker 2: sure against the Brewers. Tonight five innings, three earned runs,
Speaker 2: and we'll get to him when we come back. And
Speaker 2: also Jose Moto will join us at eleven fifteen after
Speaker 2: the Dodgers hold on and come from behind to beat
Speaker 2: the Royals six to five on a five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 8: Dodger fans, this is Max Munsey.
Speaker 13: You're listening to the home of the backs back world
Speaker 13: champion Los Angeles Dodgers on AM five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: And that three quarter function is not easy to track.
Speaker 2: Here's the one too line.
Speaker 1: Drive face head into the right field torner in the
Speaker 1: score is Everton.
Speaker 2: Here comes row Hot and here comes Tucker a Facer's
Speaker 2: clearing ten sheds double from Max Mudsi Charlie Steinerer on
Speaker 2: the call tonight in the sixth inning as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: got a big hit from Max Mounsey on his Bobblehead
Speaker 2: Night in front of fifty thousand plus at Uniclo Field
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium, fifty one thousand, seven hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: nine cheering on the Dodgers, willing them to a win
Speaker 2: tonight six to five over the Royals on Max Monsey
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Speaker 2: about the pinch hit plate appearance by Kyle Tucker, who
Speaker 2: drew a walk ahead of Monseie against John Schreiber and
Speaker 2: then Monsey was able to do the rest with two
Speaker 2: strikes and two outs. A struggling Monsey delivered for the
Speaker 2: hometown fans on his bobblehead nights. So that was great.
Speaker 2: Great to see his kids out there before the game.
Speaker 2: His wife, Kelly my favorite Monsie by the way, she's
Speaker 2: she's not as you know what, not as no, I'm
Speaker 2: just you know what. Munsey's a great guy. It's a
Speaker 2: love hate relationship. But Kelly Munsey definitely a friend of Vassay,
Speaker 2: no doubt, no doubt. Anyway. The Dodgers beat the Royals
Speaker 2: tonight six to five Freddie Freeman after Jack Dryer gave
Speaker 2: up a game tying home run to the number nine hitter. Tonight,
Speaker 2: Kyle Isbel came up with a big hit following Otani
Speaker 2: stealing second base in the bottom of the seventh inning
Speaker 2: to give the Dodgers a six to five lead. Tanner
Speaker 2: Scott to care the eighth Edwin Diaz took care of
Speaker 2: the ninth inning. Here was Freddy after the game with us.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that was an incredible atmosphere on you know, Monday
Speaker 13: night in August, the packed house month with the big,
Speaker 13: big hit that we needed. I was just a good game,
Speaker 13: going back and forth, countering when they were scoring runs.
Speaker 8: We came back, so that was a good win.
Speaker 2: How big was it for Monsey to deliver in that
Speaker 2: situation for you guys, it's huge. We needed that hit.
Speaker 13: You know, we've been we've been grinding at the play
Speaker 13: for about ten days needing that big hit and months
Speaker 13: got it going and we were to scored a couple
Speaker 13: one more run after that and our both been shut
Speaker 13: it down.
Speaker 2: I know you have a great appreciation for what happens before.
Speaker 2: How big was it for Otawni to get a again
Speaker 2: on for you? And how big was it for Tucker
Speaker 2: to draw that walk ahead a month.
Speaker 13: Seat That's huge. There's are the little things I help
Speaker 13: win games. Also show he's still in the base here
Speaker 13: on steel base we have probably don't score run there.
Speaker 8: So it's the little things.
Speaker 13: Ninety feet in this game are huge and show hey,
Speaker 13: getting that still in base, it's huge And obviously Tyle
Speaker 13: Kyle kinchinchitting is one of the hardest things to do
Speaker 13: in this game and put out in the great bat.
Speaker 2: I'll leave you with this, Tony Gwinn smiling from heaven
Speaker 2: your second head six hole. Nobody was there. Tony Gwynn
Speaker 2: is smiling down Yep.
Speaker 13: They left a hole open for me and I try
Speaker 13: to get it and I was lible a good one.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for stopping Freddy. I love the big smile.
Speaker 2: I tell you, David, I appreciate it. Have a good one.
Speaker 2: Always good. When we catch up with happy Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: Three hits tonight. He drove in to go ahead run
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning and the Dodgers beat the Royals
Speaker 2: tonight six to five. Great to hear him recognize the
Speaker 2: fans fifty one thousand plus willing the Dodgers to a
Speaker 2: win tonight. Let's go out to Dane who is at
Speaker 2: the ballpark one of those fifty one thousand plus. How
Speaker 2: you do, Dane, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: Hey, how's it going.
Speaker 14: I say, yeah, man, super exciting game, super stoked. First
Speaker 14: time able to get through to you guys here on
Speaker 14: the radio. I just listening to you on the drive home.
Speaker 14: Right now, you're saying that pitching's not the problem. I'd
Speaker 14: have to disagree. I definitely think that pitching has been one.
Speaker 8: Of the problems.
Speaker 14: I don't know if it's because Will Smith is not
Speaker 14: behind the dish and I don't know who's calling pitches,
Speaker 14: but we definitely need to step it up. Like Starter's bullpen,
Speaker 14: Vessia looked. I mean, I'm Vessie is one of my guys,
Speaker 14: but he definitely velocity was down. Not sure what's going
Speaker 14: on there. And then even Schooble like the home run
Speaker 14: to CAGLIONI like, you know, two strikes and then you know,
Speaker 14: just serves it up. So, I mean, longtime Dodger fan,
Speaker 14: love the show, just I think the pitching does need
Speaker 14: to pick it up a little bit. Hopefully, when Will
Speaker 14: Smith gets back and we run in the playoffs, it's
Speaker 14: going to be a different story.
Speaker 2: That's fair, Dane. Will Smith is a calming presence and
Speaker 2: has a lot more experien rats with these guys than
Speaker 2: Hunter Fiducia does and Ben Rourfitt does. But I was
Speaker 2: just thinking big picture wise going into the postseason, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers thirteen best pitchers, I would take them against anybody
Speaker 2: else's thirteen best pitchers.
Speaker 14: Of course, of course, of course, and I definitely think,
Speaker 14: you know, the three headed monster and probably a fourth
Speaker 14: going into any series, we have the advantage, but we
Speaker 14: definitely need to get the ship right it. In regards
Speaker 14: to the bullpen, I mean, I would say Henriquez has
Speaker 14: probably been the most consistent throughout the season, but definitely
Speaker 14: looking forward to getting Will Smith back, getting these guys
Speaker 14: more consistency going.
Speaker 5: In the into the playoff run.
Speaker 14: So but love everything you do, man, and thank you
Speaker 14: for the time.
Speaker 8: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I say, all right, Dan, thanks for listening. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: obviously the bullpen it hasn't been lights out over the
Speaker 2: course of the last month. But keep this in mind
Speaker 2: as well. They're working Evan Phillips back in, They're working
Speaker 2: Edwin Dies back back in, so that sometimes distorts the numbers,
Speaker 2: and the bullpen of any team is always the most
Speaker 2: volatile part of the staff. So I'm not that concerned
Speaker 2: about the bullpen. I know there's been some miss missteps,
Speaker 2: but with Edwin Diaz being Edwin Diaz again now and
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott having a really good year and Evan Phillips
Speaker 2: starting to shake that rust off, I like where the
Speaker 2: Dodger bullpen is at. And like I said in October,
Speaker 2: when it's the thirteen best pitchers, we're going to see,
Speaker 2: you know, Roki Sasaki go out to the bullpen. You're
Speaker 2: gonna see a guy like that, or Robleski go out
Speaker 2: to the bullpen, and that's gonna change things. But like
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said, it's go time right now. They want
Speaker 2: to get one of those top two seeds to be
Speaker 2: able to secure a buye from that wildcard round and
Speaker 2: not have to play on the road in the first
Speaker 2: round as well. So all of that matters, and they're
Speaker 2: trying to catch the Braves and Brewers. The Brewers coming
Speaker 2: in for a big series beginning on Thursday, a four
Speaker 2: game series against the team with the best record in
Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Brewers. And right now the Dodgers and Braves
Speaker 2: have the exact same record seventy one and forty eight.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers and two road trips from now Head to Atlanta,
Speaker 2: so that's also going to be a pivotal series to
Speaker 2: decide seeding as well. Our guy Dane talked about Trek Scubale.
Speaker 2: He made his first start at Dodgers Stadium wearing the blue.
Speaker 2: It was somewhat of anti climactic start. He went five innings.
Speaker 2: He competed. That's one thing you can't say about Schooble.
Speaker 2: He'll compete, but only for the fourth time in what
Speaker 2: sixteen starts this year. He didn't get into the sixth inning.
Speaker 2: He's human. You have to imagine that he was trying
Speaker 2: to do maybe more or than he should have. He
Speaker 2: had his wife, his kids here. We saw him go
Speaker 2: down the left field line on the way to the
Speaker 2: bullpen greet them. You don't usually see that from a
Speaker 2: starting pitcher. But he's a little bit more relaxed than
Speaker 2: other starters on start day. But you have to imagine
Speaker 2: maybe he was trying to impress a little bit too
Speaker 2: much and it worked against him, especially early in the game.
Speaker 2: Going back to what oral Herscheizer said on their broadcast,
Speaker 2: in the fifth inning, when he needed a strikeout, a
Speaker 2: Jack Kgialleione who got him for a two run home run.
Speaker 2: In the previous at bat, Herscheizer said on sports net LA,
Speaker 2: you need to get a slider here, not your best one,
Speaker 2: but a slider, a competitive slider here, And that's exactly
Speaker 2: what Schoolboll threw to strike out Kagalione. And that was
Speaker 2: the biggest at bat of that fifth inning. Let's head
Speaker 2: downstairs to the Dodgers clubhouse to hear from tonight's starter,
Speaker 2: Trek Skoubel on sports net LA.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean I just I kind of sprayed the
Speaker 15: ball a little bit. That's kind of unusual for me, especially,
Speaker 15: you know, with fastball command and stuff like that. But
Speaker 15: you know, I thought I competed well and gave our
Speaker 15: team a chance to win. And you know, our offense
Speaker 15: picked me up big time, defense picked me up a
Speaker 15: big time then, and the bullpen was outstanding tonight. So
Speaker 15: you know, all in all, a good a good team win,
Speaker 15: you know, especially when I don't feel like I performed
Speaker 15: up to my standard.
Speaker 7: Would you feel like there was something in specific that
Speaker 7: was just missing when it came to that command, the
Speaker 7: fastball command of the field for you today, Yeah, I
Speaker 7: think it.
Speaker 8: Was just fastball command. I was just spraying them up
Speaker 8: a little bit too much.
Speaker 15: You know, I got to get back to competing in
Speaker 15: the strike zone, you know, and that's when I'm at
Speaker 15: my best, you know, consistently getting one and o two.
Speaker 15: But you know, we won, so it's you know, I'd
Speaker 15: gladly take that in a win, you know, any day
Speaker 15: of the week.
Speaker 8: But you know, I'll be better going forward.
Speaker 9: How do you how did you feel pitching here for
Speaker 9: the first time as a fan favorite sport?
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, great environment.
Speaker 15: I mean, the fans are they were great. You know,
Speaker 15: it felt like I don't know how many of the
Speaker 15: stadium holds, but it felt like there was forty fifty thousand,
Speaker 15: forty minutes before the game in their seats, and you
Speaker 15: know when I walked out there, it was that stuff special,
Speaker 15: you know, and you appreciate it, you know, the fan support,
Speaker 15: and it's a is it Monday, Yeah, Monday night, you know,
Speaker 15: so you know I appreciate that for sure.
Speaker 4: How do you feel about the Dodgers offense?
Speaker 8: Offense? Yeah, yeah, it was great.
Speaker 15: You know, score more runs another team, you know, that's
Speaker 15: the name of the game. And you know that that
Speaker 15: base clearing triple had ended up being a was was huge.
Speaker 15: You know, obviously in the moment and gave us a good,
Speaker 15: you know, a good, good lead in this game. But
Speaker 15: you know, winds are winds are tough to come by
Speaker 15: in this league, and and it's a it's good to
Speaker 15: get one in the first game of a series.
Speaker 2: What if these last nine or however many days it's
Speaker 2: been felt like for you, I think you were here
Speaker 2: for a few hours and you went on a road
Speaker 2: with them, and then you come back, you make your
Speaker 2: deput're here, like, what is this all felt like?
Speaker 7: So far?
Speaker 15: It's been great. It's been great. You know, the organization
Speaker 15: is first class. This clubhouse is is is a very
Speaker 15: tight knit group. And then and they've had my back
Speaker 15: through everything and and then and if I can feel it,
Speaker 15: you know, I felt it like two days into this
Speaker 15: thing in Chicago, and it's I think that's special, you know,
Speaker 15: a very welcoming group here.
Speaker 8: And then obviously the staff and.
Speaker 15: Support staff all that stuff, they've been They've been great
Speaker 15: to me and and in my family, you know, getting
Speaker 15: everything settled and as seamless as things can go, and
Speaker 15: kind of when your life gets a little chaotic, you know,
Speaker 15: they've they've done a great job at calming all that
Speaker 15: stuff down and helping us out and helping this transition
Speaker 15: go really smoothly. So I really appreciate that, and you know,
Speaker 15: I don't I don't expect any different, you know, from
Speaker 15: what I've heard about the Dodgers from the outside, and
Speaker 15: it's been a ton of fun to be a part of.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Trek school Bull after tonight's first start
Speaker 2: wearing a Dodger uniform in this ballpark, and he went
Speaker 2: five innings tonight, three earned runs, And really that was
Speaker 2: the confusing part of tonight's game, and he explained it
Speaker 2: that he wasn't using his force seamer as much as
Speaker 2: you would expect that four seam fastball. He was able
Speaker 2: to strike out Bobby Wood Junior with it when he
Speaker 2: needed it in the third inning for the second out,
Speaker 2: but it just didn't seem like he felt comfortable changing
Speaker 2: eye level from his sinker to his four seam fastball.
Speaker 2: That's a fastball that kind of goes up in the
Speaker 2: strike zone, while his two seam fastball, the sinker, if
Speaker 2: you will, ninety six plus down at the bottom of
Speaker 2: the strike zone. It just didn't seem like he had
Speaker 2: a great confidence or feel for those two pitches coming
Speaker 2: off each other. Tonight's game brought to you by Modello Modello,
Speaker 2: The Mark of a Fighter.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Hose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota. We've been talking about how big
Speaker 2: of a game this was, how big of a hit
Speaker 2: it was for Max Munsey and this offense in the
Speaker 2: sixth inning. How big do you believe this game was
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers.
Speaker 16: This could be a turnaround. It should be a turnaround
Speaker 16: because there's a lot of things lining up in the
Speaker 16: way they acted, in the way that things were said
Speaker 16: by Dave Roberts, by the players themselves, the word urgency
Speaker 16: being used a lot. You know, the phrase it's time now,
Speaker 16: you know, let's get going. It's important Dave, and you
Speaker 16: know it happens against royals, and don't downplay that because
Speaker 16: these are the teams that you gotta go out there
Speaker 16: and beat. The Dodgers have done a very good job
Speaker 16: taking care of teams they're.
Speaker 2: Supposed to beat.
Speaker 16: You're going to go through some struggles, but in a
Speaker 16: game like today, with those so much on the line,
Speaker 16: Scooble a little amped up. We know he was out
Speaker 16: of whack. That's that doesn't matter. I love his words
Speaker 16: about the team one, which really is what you want
Speaker 16: to hear from anybody. But I there's an attitude from
Speaker 16: Dave Roberts on to you know, guys, understanding that things
Speaker 16: could change from here on because you're now playing for
Speaker 16: something else. And the clear thing that managers don't like
Speaker 16: to talk about Dave Roberts talking about he said before
Speaker 16: the game and you were there right now, we are
Speaker 16: a wildcard team. Do you think this team wants to
Speaker 16: hear that, this city won't hear that. No, And I
Speaker 16: think that's a little wake of for everybody who are
Speaker 16: involved to go out there.
Speaker 2: And do better without a doubt. Jose, when you put
Speaker 2: it in those terms and you say we're a wildcard team,
Speaker 2: that's a wake up call for everybody. Because it is August,
Speaker 2: there are only forty games to go. And I'm a
Speaker 2: big believer that the urgency has to start with the
Speaker 2: manager and the game planning before the game and the
Speaker 2: way they manage in the game. And Dave has certainly
Speaker 2: showed that urgency the last couple of games.
Speaker 16: And we have seen this happen in the last two seasons,
Speaker 16: especially starting in September. Win de says, Okay, this is
Speaker 16: my lineup. This who I'm going to play. In fact,
Speaker 16: I'm going to play a little bit differently because if
Speaker 16: you go back to, you know, things that migol' rojal
Speaker 16: was talking about even last September about what they needed
Speaker 16: to do is to go out them, celebrate the little things,
Speaker 16: and get the guy aboard, win innings, win thirds of games.
Speaker 16: All those things add up for you to think, well,
Speaker 16: we're doing something right, and at the very end, the
Speaker 16: other team is just waiting for you to explode and
Speaker 16: do something. Here's something else I'm going to clarify here
Speaker 16: to Dave, which is important that you know. You've been
Speaker 16: hearing about it. I've been hearing about it today. Average
Speaker 16: age of roster all this team in the big leagues.
Speaker 16: Chicago Cubs, okay, thirty one years, fifty eight days, Letter
Speaker 16: Braves number two thirty years, two seventy one, Dodgers number
Speaker 16: three yet thirty years, two forty nine, Phillies Rangers. So
Speaker 16: where are these teams that they're all involved in something
Speaker 16: right now? So let's not talk about age or guys
Speaker 16: getting tired. That has nothing to do with it. It's
Speaker 16: just who you are, who you believe you are the
Speaker 16: talent that you have and knowing that from here on
Speaker 16: it is they spring. You got to go out and
Speaker 16: take care of business. So age has nothing to do
Speaker 16: with this.
Speaker 2: We always talk about the guy that gets the hit,
Speaker 2: and Munsey was slumping. Obviously that was a big hit
Speaker 2: for him. But how about Kyle Tucker coming off the
Speaker 2: bench and giving Dave Roberts the at bat that he
Speaker 2: wanted to set up the big hit for Muncie.
Speaker 16: And the attitude that Dave Roberts wanted. I mean, coming
Speaker 16: out of the box the other day in Arizona, it
Speaker 16: was a different Kyle Tucker. When he hit the ball
Speaker 16: down that line. It's like sprinting out of the box,
Speaker 16: you know, not cruising into first base, second base, and
Speaker 16: see what happens. Same thing happened today to Oskart. I
Speaker 16: think for him it's a message. Now, two consecutive games
Speaker 16: where they pinch it for you because you're not getting
Speaker 16: to your pitches, you're not fighting through at bats, you're
Speaker 16: not competing with at bats.
Speaker 3: He should get better.
Speaker 16: They need him to be better. They need to be
Speaker 16: hitting a little bit higher. But he has to go
Speaker 16: earn that and you know, feeling the side, that urgency
Speaker 16: and that message of here's who we are. Let's identify
Speaker 16: who we are and implement some plays. I mean Shohio
Speaker 16: Tani alertness. I mean Tommy, I haven't playing defense. Remember
Speaker 16: this team, there's not win a role series last year
Speaker 16: without defense. And every single series they played, starting against
Speaker 16: the risk, they made it out standing place. They made
Speaker 16: the routine plays and they were aware to play good
Speaker 16: fundamental baseball team at bats and start from there. Before
Speaker 16: you know it, there starts lugging. You know, score opens
Speaker 16: up a little bit more. But make sure you take
Speaker 16: care of those teams are gunning for you, because you
Speaker 16: know the roles will have to come here and say, hey,
Speaker 16: we kept going against the Dodgers and we found something
Speaker 16: about ourselves. On the positive side, you're the Dodgers. Identify
Speaker 16: with that. Don't be cocky, don't be over confident, but
Speaker 16: know who you are and go out there and making
Speaker 16: it every single time out.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers come from
Speaker 2: behind twice to beat the six to five tonight at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. Jose, you mentioned Tommy Edmund. I know we
Speaker 2: watched the Dodgers. Obviously we don't get to see every
Speaker 2: single other game, but that was, maybe, considering a guy
Speaker 2: that plays second base the majority of the time, the
Speaker 2: best catch I've seen from a left fielder this season.
Speaker 16: There's no doubt about that one where he was playing
Speaker 16: at where he had to come from a member. As
Speaker 16: a left fielder playing and going towards that line, it's
Speaker 16: not glove sid you gotta go across your border to
Speaker 16: make that play. Tommy didn't glide into that play. He
Speaker 16: went to a spot where you think the ball is
Speaker 16: going to go into sprint there. Dan, He's got a
Speaker 16: kind of start a step a little bit just to
Speaker 16: make sure he's not going full bore into that wall.
Speaker 16: But he did a very good job tracking in the
Speaker 16: baseball and understanding that any play like that Dave as
Speaker 16: a left fielder is going to have a little slide
Speaker 16: on it. You got to make sure it's the lies.
Speaker 16: You also do the same thing with your body adjusting.
Speaker 16: So this guy is a guy that Tommy playing finally
Speaker 16: unhealthy ankles. He's been a very good on the defensive side.
Speaker 16: Even when he was limited, he was very good. But
Speaker 16: before he came from the Cardinals, it was like, you know,
Speaker 16: you put him in center field. He's the best in
Speaker 16: our fielder, second base, short's up, just gets the job done.
Speaker 16: Tommy Edmands just a good all round ballplayer who can
Speaker 16: inspire other guys to do the same thing by just
Speaker 16: playing your game.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, I'm gonna leave you with this tonight.
Speaker 2: But you thought schoolball was the main event. The main
Speaker 2: events Tomorrow night, the real shows, tomorrow night seven. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right, snell Zilla, You're gonna see him dominate tomorrow night.
Speaker 16: I love to see that. I love to see him,
Speaker 16: you know, come here and stay and go out there
Speaker 16: and do what he did in October. We know who
Speaker 16: he is. Yeah, he's got a couple of youngs, but
Speaker 16: I think Dave overall in the regular season, Dodgers fans
Speaker 16: have not seen when you and I have witnessed this
Speaker 16: guy on the opposing team. Remember I saw with Tampa
Speaker 16: Bay and he was absolutely dominated as a young player.
Speaker 16: Dodger fans have not seen the very best in the
Speaker 16: regular season yet from this guy, and he could be
Speaker 16: very special.
Speaker 2: And for the first time as a Dodger, he's healthy.
Speaker 2: So that's a scary thing for the rest of the league.
Speaker 2: You're gonna see it tomorrow, bump day with snell Zilla. Jose,
Speaker 2: we'll talk about it tomorrow night.
Speaker 16: Get some runs to work with, that's the one thing.
Speaker 16: Get him some runs to work with, that would be
Speaker 16: the most important thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. Early runs always helps the starting pitcher. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: all right, we'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 16: Okay, they'll be there, he goes.
Speaker 2: Jose Morte part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast with
Speaker 2: Luis Cochito Cruz. That's right, snell Zilla day tomorrow, second
Speaker 2: start of the season. And I'm just exuding the same
Speaker 2: type of confidence that Snell's been exuding to me over
Speaker 2: the course of the last two weeks. And the one
Speaker 2: thing that you know, he's he's been talking about is
Speaker 2: the range of motion that he has. And for the
Speaker 2: first time in a long time, he said he doesn't
Speaker 2: have numbness in his fingers. After undergoing that two hour
Speaker 2: nanoscope procedure by doctor Elatrosh he said as soon as
Speaker 2: he woke up, he couldn't believe that he actually had
Speaker 2: feelings at the tip of his fingers. Is pitching fingers.
Speaker 2: He pitched last October, the way he dominated in the
Speaker 2: first three rounds without feelings in his fingers and that's
Speaker 2: something that now he has, and now he has range
Speaker 2: of motion. And he said he hasn't felt this healthy
Speaker 2: in three years. So you know, he could say all
Speaker 2: he wants. He's got to prove it on the mound
Speaker 2: because I don't care about what he did in Tampa
Speaker 2: Bay or San Diego. I know you don't care what
Speaker 2: he did in Tampa Bay or San Diego. And he's
Speaker 2: very aware of that. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Steve in North Hollywood. You're on Dodger Talk. Thanks
Speaker 2: for being patient, Steve.
Speaker 8: Hey, Dave, what are you doing tonight?
Speaker 2: Doing great?
Speaker 17: So I called you probably March April sometime around there,
Speaker 17: and I'm like, hey, they should have pitched Otani, we
Speaker 17: should bring him in August. And he said I was crazy.
Speaker 17: But I I'm just wondering what you think about that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 17: If he would have maybe rested Otania and he brought
Speaker 17: me in August, or if you had just kept everything
Speaker 17: the same.
Speaker 2: I would have pitched him, because here he is. He
Speaker 2: hasn't gone on the IL and he's having a great year.
Speaker 2: He has twenty six home runs, he's hitting almost three
Speaker 2: hundred and look, Steve, I'm not against him trying to pitch,
Speaker 2: but the Dodgers are going to be extremely careful and
Speaker 2: have been with him because they don't want him to
Speaker 2: irritate that left knee where it comes at a cost
Speaker 2: of him being sidelined for an extended period of time
Speaker 2: because they need him more as their leadoff hitter than
Speaker 2: they need him as a pitcher. But how about this scenario, Steve,
Speaker 2: what if I told you Otani could take down at
Speaker 2: least nine outs, nine to twelve outs in a playoff game,
Speaker 2: would you take that?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Any day?
Speaker 17: Sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think there's anything in danger of him,
Speaker 2: you know, coming back and pitching, you know, and taking
Speaker 2: down six to nine outs and combine him with a
Speaker 2: Robleski or a glass Now or a Rokie in a
Speaker 2: playoff game. To me, that sounds like a pretty good idea.
Speaker 14: I think in.
Speaker 17: October day, Will Roberts will get the field for il
Speaker 17: a roster and everything will work itself out, and you know,
Speaker 17: moreover that kind of you.
Speaker 2: Know what the advantage of that too is, Steve? You
Speaker 2: know what the advantage of all that is too? You
Speaker 2: don't have to leave another pitcher off just in case
Speaker 2: O Tawny can pitch. He's in his own category. He
Speaker 2: doesn't count against your thirteen pitchers on your postseason roster.
Speaker 2: So maybe at the beginning of the playoffs the knees
Speaker 2: not working or you don't want to use him in
Speaker 2: the first round, but then maybe in the second round.
Speaker 2: And even if in the middle of a round he
Speaker 2: can pitch, he doesn't take away from somebody else. So
Speaker 2: there's really no drawback for seeing how this goes and
Speaker 2: being extra careful with it, which the Dodgers have been.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Well, I mean again, Roberts will he'll figure it out.
Speaker 17: And again I kind of like this little losing the
Speaker 17: street kind of gets through the target off their back and.
Speaker 2: Really allows them to the target's still on their back.
Speaker 2: Target is still very much on their back. They're not
Speaker 2: the underdogs. Yeah, thanks Steve. Eight sixty six nine seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Look, I think
Speaker 2: he was missing the point right there. The beauty of
Speaker 2: Otani and the way the rules are set up because
Speaker 2: he's so unique, is that even now in the regular
Speaker 2: season on a twenty six man roster, he's not counted
Speaker 2: as a pitcher because he's a two way player. It's
Speaker 2: its own category. That's the way it would go in
Speaker 2: the postseason as well. So let's say the Dodgers, you know,
Speaker 2: want to give that left knee a little extra time,
Speaker 2: or Otani wants to try to refine them mechanics a
Speaker 2: little bit more. You can have Otani even in the
Speaker 2: middle of an NLCS Best a seven series, if it's
Speaker 2: being extended and you feel like you need a guy
Speaker 2: to take down the first nine outs of a game,
Speaker 2: he could be that guy for you and it doesn't
Speaker 2: take another picture off the roster. So that's the beauty
Speaker 2: of all that. And that's the reason why guys like
Speaker 2: Great Council are so upset these days because Otani's on
Speaker 2: a playoff team. Now, let's go out to Pallas Verdi's
Speaker 2: Eddie walk Us off on Dodger Talk tonight. How are
Speaker 2: you doing, Eddie?
Speaker 11: I'm doing good. Dave, how about you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? And the show strong Eddie.
Speaker 11: Oh okay, I want to say to everybody, all the
Speaker 11: Dodger fans and even some of the post game stuff
Speaker 11: that's going on with with Hernandez ti Oscar, I think
Speaker 11: you know he got pretty good at a hitting today,
Speaker 11: hitting the ball, and uh, he.
Speaker 2: Had a better game today. I'm with you, Eddie, he
Speaker 2: had a better game.
Speaker 11: Today, Bobby, Bobby what Junior made two great plays?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he hit it on the ground. That he
Speaker 2: hit it on the ground, Well, don't hit it on
Speaker 2: the ground. You're te Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 11: Right, right, right. But I think he's all in with
Speaker 11: just not trying to hit a home run and just
Speaker 11: to hit the balls.
Speaker 2: Like I disagree with you. I think he's trying to
Speaker 2: get twenty home runs in one swing, Eddie. That's what
Speaker 2: I've seen. Thanks for the phone call. Let's take one
Speaker 2: more Lewis in the Bay Area. It's late night, Lewis,
Speaker 2: people have insomnia, So I'm going to get you on
Speaker 2: the show tonight.
Speaker 6: You're a goot, You're a good person. I'm looking forward
Speaker 6: to seeing seeing you Saturday night when I'm coming down
Speaker 6: for Reggie Smith, one of my all time.
Speaker 2: Love it. I think miss Rowski is going to be
Speaker 2: pitching for the Brewers on Saturday. Actually, who's for the Dodger?
Speaker 2: That would be I had that at my fingertips here.
Speaker 2: So what else do you want to know Lewis? Besides
Speaker 2: the pitching matchup. Well, for the game you're coming to,
Speaker 2: it's going to be Robleski versus Misowski the way it's
Speaker 2: lined up right now.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, that's wonderful. I'm really looking forward to it.
Speaker 6: I think what everybody has said about Diaz that's probably
Speaker 6: the most significant thing. And I'm hoping that Tucker is
Speaker 6: finally coming out. It seems that the Advats are a
Speaker 6: little bit better, and I really like Sidusha. I have
Speaker 6: to say that it's a tough one without Will Smith there,
Speaker 6: but the ingredients and Rojas is why you shared. Tonight
Speaker 6: was great. I'm really looking forward to it. I haven't
Speaker 6: been in the stadium since Fernando was honored in twenty three.
Speaker 6: Did I try and hunt you down?
Speaker 2: Uh, I'll have some coffee with me. I'll be ready, Yes,
Speaker 2: hunt me down.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's great.
Speaker 2: Will I will know. Yeah, I'd love to meet you, Lewis.
Speaker 2: You're a loyal Dodger fan and we appreciate you listening
Speaker 2: and calling in. And it'll be a special night. And
Speaker 2: Reggie Smith certainly deserves his due because he was one
Speaker 2: of the greatest players of his generation, and some may
Speaker 2: say deserves a spot in Cooperstown as well. He's actually
Speaker 2: being inducted into the Negro League Hall of Fame this
Speaker 2: year as well, So he deserves all the love he
Speaker 2: gets and I'm looking forward to celebrating him too. Gotta run, Lewis,
Speaker 2: We'll see you Saturday night. Get that head start now tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Gotta get my sleep. It's bump day. Blake Snell on
Speaker 2: the Mount tomorrow night, making his second start of the year.
Speaker 2: This one he believes there is no looking back, going
Speaker 2: up against Michael Waka, who's five and eight with an
Speaker 2: era at three forty four. Our coverage begins at six
Speaker 2: o'clock tomorrow, with first pitch at seven to ten. Thanks
Speaker 2: to Dwayne McDonald staying up late tonight, thanks to Colin
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