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Speaker 2: Last day, the Dodgers snap their four game losing streak.
Speaker 2: The panic in the streets is over. After the Dodgers
Speaker 2: shut out the Giants tonight by a final score of
Speaker 2: Ford to nothing behind a dominant performance from show Hey Otani,
Speaker 2: the pitcher, seven scoreless innings, eight strikeouts, two walks. He
Speaker 2: wins his third game of the year, and he just
Speaker 2: felt like O'tani was not going to allow the Giants
Speaker 2: to come up for air, and that certainly was the case,
Speaker 2: especially after the Dodgers scored the first two runs of
Speaker 2: this game in the bottom of the third inning on
Speaker 2: back to back home runs by Santiago Espinal and Mookie Betts.
Speaker 2: We have phone lines open. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. We're with you until eleven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2: Jose Moda will join us at ten point forty. You'll
Speaker 2: hear from Jason Hayward in case you missed it earlier today.
Speaker 2: Jason Hayward has been hired by the Dodgers as a
Speaker 2: special assistant to Andrew Friedman, and Jason Hayward has aspirations
Speaker 2: to one day become a president of baseball operations or
Speaker 2: general manager. So he's not here just as a hood ornament.
Speaker 2: He's not here just to be around the guys. He's
Speaker 2: actually here to chase a goal. And we had a
Speaker 2: chance to catch up with Jason Hayward earlier today, and
Speaker 2: we'll share part of that conversation with you later in
Speaker 2: the show. Coming up in a moment you'll hear from show.
Speaker 2: Hey Otani, But yeah, damn right, I'm taking a victory
Speaker 2: lap on Mookie Bets. I told you last night Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets should be leading off tonight. The Dodgers agreed. He
Speaker 2: was leading off tonight and hit a home run back
Speaker 2: to back home runs in the bottom of the third inning.
Speaker 2: So I'm a firm believer that Mookie Bets should be
Speaker 2: leading off for the foreseeable future. Obviously, the season has
Speaker 2: twists and turns. We've already seen that in the first
Speaker 2: quarter of the season. But for me, with Otani doing
Speaker 2: what he's doing at age thirty one, asking him to
Speaker 2: be your leadoff hitter on top of what he did
Speaker 2: tonight is a lot to ask, and I just feel
Speaker 2: like O'tani would feel a lot less burden to try
Speaker 2: to be Superman leading off every single night that he's
Speaker 2: in there. Move him to move him to third. But
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets, to me, should be the leadoff hitter. And
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people out there believe that
Speaker 2: Mooki Bets has done hitting home runs and driving the
Speaker 2: baseball at age thirty three, But I've seen a renewed
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets the first two nights coming back off the
Speaker 2: injure list. I'm a big believer in Mookie Bets this year.
Speaker 2: I'm buying stock and Mooki Bets this year. And trust me,
Speaker 2: this guy, if you put him back in the leadoff spot,
Speaker 2: is going to feel empowered like he was tonight. And
Speaker 2: the reason why I say that is I remember Mooki
Speaker 2: Betts when the Dodgers brought him over in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: they experimented with some weird lineups and Mooki was not
Speaker 2: the leadoff hitter after being the best leadoff hitter in
Speaker 2: baseball with the Red Sox. He finally had a meeting
Speaker 2: with Dave Roberts and Andrew Freeman and said, look, I
Speaker 2: feel like a point guard. I feel like I'm in
Speaker 2: control of the game being the leadoff hitter. I feel
Speaker 2: like Mooki is ready to take this on again, understanding
Speaker 2: what Otani is trying to do and what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: need from Otani and what they need from Mookie Bets again,
Speaker 2: and that's for Mookie Bets to be that great leadoff
Speaker 2: hitter that he was for the first part of his career.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number Kyle Tucker. Tonight had two doubles all
Speaker 2: of a sudden. Kyle Tucker now is starting to heat up.
Speaker 2: In his last fifteen games. He has fifteen hits. He's
Speaker 2: hitting three to zero six, He's getting on base at
Speaker 2: a four to twenty six clip. He has ten walks
Speaker 2: and only nine strikeouts, so that is more like Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker and tonight he had two doubles. He scored on
Speaker 2: a Taascar Hernandez flared a right field in the fourth inning,
Speaker 2: so we're starting to see the Kyle Tucker the Dodgers
Speaker 2: signed during the offseason, so that's encouraging as well. But
Speaker 2: showe A. Otani the story of the night, not allowing
Speaker 2: the Giants to really get anything going and when they did,
Speaker 2: Willie Adamis forgot how many outs there were, which was
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning. And for Otani just the second
Speaker 2: time that he has pitched back to back starts, going
Speaker 2: seven innings, first time since twenty twenty three. I should
Speaker 2: say the second time in the last three years. This
Speaker 2: is the first time since twenty three that Otani has
Speaker 2: gone seven innings and back to back starts. He did
Speaker 2: it tonight by pitching seven scoreless innings with eight strikeouts
Speaker 2: and lowering his Major League leading era as a starting
Speaker 2: pitcher to zero eighty two. Let's head downstairs right now
Speaker 2: to hear from the best player on the planet.
Speaker 1: Show hey, Otani, tolly first to seven shutout innings tonight.
Speaker 2: You were efficient.
Speaker 4: How did you find navigating just through their lineupkakorris Man.
Speaker 1: Oh Mamasa's even.
Speaker 5: Think you something?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just did what I know I had to
Speaker 6: do today.
Speaker 7: And also just like collaborating with the pitching coach and
Speaker 7: Will Smith, just reading and reacting with the hitter swings.
Speaker 8: Your seven starts in and you have an e r
Speaker 8: A under one?
Speaker 5: In what ways do you feel like you're a better
Speaker 5: picture now than you were in other parts of your career?
Speaker 6: Like the feeling is pretty good. I feel really good
Speaker 6: with my pitches.
Speaker 7: But today, you know, the deep fly ball to and
Speaker 7: the the last out of the seventh inning, you know
Speaker 7: that have really swayed the uh, you know my e
Speaker 7: r A.
Speaker 6: So I think there's some luck involved as well.
Speaker 2: He sends a little bit of fatigue from you, especially offensively.
Speaker 2: How do you feel like you've adjusted to the first
Speaker 2: whole season of two way in two years?
Speaker 6: You know, money too, you from one didn't mist equal
Speaker 6: to this year?
Speaker 7: Off onio and here quota practice first and foremost, the
Speaker 7: fact that I'm not injured, that's a good thing, you know.
Speaker 7: I do want to contribute more offensively. I haven't done
Speaker 7: so uh this year, so I'm looking forward to doing that.
Speaker 2: All right, So who are we show Hao Tani? And
Speaker 2: certainly he's feeling good and he acknowledged the fact that
Speaker 2: Willie Adamas bailed him out in the seventh inning thinking
Speaker 2: there were two outs when there was only one. When
Speaker 2: Drew Gilbert hit that fly ball to Andy Paz, caught
Speaker 2: it on the warning track in right center field, and
Speaker 2: Adamis was rounding third base with only two outs in
Speaker 2: the seventh inning, it was an easy double up because
Speaker 2: Adamis don't know what he was thinking, but it certainly
Speaker 2: was not thinking about what was happening in the game
Speaker 2: at that point in time. So with the eight strikeouts tonight,
Speaker 2: sho Hao Tani has fifty strikeouts in his first seven
Speaker 2: starts of the season. He also has an ELRA under one.
Speaker 2: His ELRA now is zero eighty two. He is now
Speaker 2: just one of ten pitchers in baseball history through their
Speaker 2: first seven games in a season to have fifty or
Speaker 2: more strikeouts and a sub one ELRA, first one since
Speaker 2: Jacob Degram did it a few years ago. Three of
Speaker 2: those ten pitchers won the Cy Young, or four of
Speaker 2: those ten pitchers won the Cy Young Zach Grank, Randy Johnson,
Speaker 2: Roger Clemens, and Fernando Valezuela, So he is in elite company,
Speaker 2: one of just ten pitchers in baseball history through his
Speaker 2: first seven games to have fifty strikeouts and a sub
Speaker 2: one Elra. That's historic, and we are witnessing the greatest
Speaker 2: player in baseball history in real time. I know he's
Speaker 2: been struggling offensively, but how many guys can do what
Speaker 2: he's doing right now, even venturing to be a two
Speaker 2: way player and doing it better than anybody has ever
Speaker 2: done it. Tonight's game brought to you by Modello Modelo
Speaker 2: the mark of a fighter, and that's why I'm such
Speaker 2: a big advocate of helping to lessen the on Otani.
Speaker 2: Other than just giving him a day off from hitting
Speaker 2: tonight or tomorrow and or tomorrow, how about take the
Speaker 2: burden off of him being the leadoff hitter in the
Speaker 2: catalyst of the offense. Mookie Bets is definitely ready to
Speaker 2: go for that role again and it will trust me,
Speaker 2: empower Mookie Bets. You will get the best out of
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets. And who knows tonight Mookie might have showed
Speaker 2: off for one of his fancy bowling friends, Jason Belmonte,
Speaker 2: who was in the house tonight. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Polo in San Diego. You're on Dodger talk with David
Speaker 2: vasse Hi Polo.
Speaker 4: Hi Dai, How are you nice to talk to you again?
Speaker 2: Hey, great to have you call in for the first
Speaker 2: time this year.
Speaker 4: I know it's been a long time.
Speaker 9: So first of all, I was back to a knowledge,
Speaker 9: you know, to Charlie Steigner.
Speaker 4: I was driving home the other day. Well come back.
Speaker 4: It was good to hear his voice again.
Speaker 9: I know, yes, you know. I have a question about you, Tani.
Speaker 9: And I was looking at you know, the MLB in
Speaker 9: the start, but how come Otani is not listed as
Speaker 9: the course he's got the lower c ra And then
Speaker 9: I was googling up and he said that because he's
Speaker 9: pitching and it's hitting, and so it's not it's not basically,
Speaker 9: it's not in the in the MLB stat But what
Speaker 9: I mean, what does that mean? It's got the lower
Speaker 9: c ra in pitching, So why is not listed as
Speaker 9: the best pitcher in baseball?
Speaker 4: That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm not sure where you're looking, but he
Speaker 2: is listed when you look at the e r A
Speaker 2: leaders on MLB dot com, he is listed as the
Speaker 2: guy with the tops as far as e r A
Speaker 2: goes zero eighty two. Cam Schlittler of the Yankees has
Speaker 2: the second lost e RA in baseball and one thirty five.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's he's there, Pallo. So go to MLB
Speaker 2: dot com. They've really done a great job of updating
Speaker 2: their leaderboard, team and individual players. That's where I go
Speaker 2: now to see all that stuff.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 2: All right, Bonna note day. We'll see you in San
Speaker 2: Diego next week. Eight six six nine, eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. By the way, show
Speaker 2: Hao Tani, Rick Monday, slip me this note. With two
Speaker 2: strikes tonight, the Giants were just two for nineteen with
Speaker 2: one walk. On the season. Hitters that have two strikes
Speaker 2: on them facing show Hao Tani are hitting zero seventy
Speaker 2: six seven for ninety two when they have two strikes
Speaker 2: on them facing show Hao Tani. This year he's putting
Speaker 2: hitters away, obviously, so certainly dominant stats from a dominant
Speaker 2: pitcher this year. Let's go out to stock Scott, who
Speaker 2: is at the stadium tonight. Hi Scott, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Hey Dave, good to talk to you first time this season.
Speaker 4: How are you, buddy?
Speaker 2: Everything's great, especially when the Dodgers snap a losing streak.
Speaker 4: Thank god, looks like we got a feast tomorrow. We
Speaker 4: got Panda, we got Habit, we got Jack in the box.
Speaker 4: What a game so quickly. I won't take a lot
Speaker 4: of time because I know it's a short show. Tonight. Wow,
Speaker 4: what a performance. I was at the yard with my
Speaker 4: friend Rich and show Hey, he's practically unhittable, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, practically unhittable these days.
Speaker 4: So as far as you calling for Bets to be
Speaker 4: the leadoff, do you also think he should lead off
Speaker 4: when show hands in the DH I do.
Speaker 2: I don't think Sho Hao Tani should lead off. I
Speaker 2: think the Dodgers should consider he's the burden on him,
Speaker 2: feeling a guy that's pressing these days, especially offensively, and
Speaker 2: just you know, allow him to ease into the game
Speaker 2: and read and react to the game. I just feel
Speaker 2: like Mookie Bets would be empowered and you're taking a
Speaker 2: little bit of the burden off of Otani to be
Speaker 2: the Otani of the last two years that hit fifty
Speaker 2: home runs and jump started your offense.
Speaker 4: Well, he keeps putting the team on his back, doesn't he?
Speaker 4: Because last night he had really the only offense, and
Speaker 4: tonight he was on defense, so I was just glad
Speaker 4: to see the team give him some bats day. If
Speaker 4: you're the bomb, I love you Dodgers baby.
Speaker 2: All right, Scott, Yeah, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: It's not a knock on Otani. I'm just empathizing with
Speaker 2: what he's asking of himself to do. That's a lot
Speaker 2: to ask. It's one thing to do it when you're
Speaker 2: twenty seven years old, it's another to do it at
Speaker 2: thirty one years old. And certainly I'm not one of
Speaker 2: those guys that says you should shut down O'tani from
Speaker 2: playing games to reset to get healthy. I'm not one
Speaker 2: of those guys that says Otani shouldn't pitch, because that's
Speaker 2: not realistic. He is going to pitch. He's going after
Speaker 2: the cy Young this year. But what I am saying
Speaker 2: is he is pitching. He is all in on pitching,
Speaker 2: and he's not the same hitter that he was the
Speaker 2: last couple of years. So why are you going to
Speaker 2: expect the same results if he's not that guy to
Speaker 2: start the season. So move him down in the order.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying hit him seventh or eighth. I'm just
Speaker 2: saying move him down in the order. And have mooky
Speaker 2: Bets be Mooky Bets and make Mooki Bets feel like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we need you. We need you to be Mooky Bets,
Speaker 2: not just another guy. And you know, I can't believe,
Speaker 2: really how many of you have forgotten about Mooki Bets.
Speaker 2: Nobody called to ask about Mooky Bets. Nobody called and said,
Speaker 2: you know what we're missing Mookie Bets. I was shocked.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm the only guy in LA that
Speaker 2: remembered who Mooky Bets was and that the Dodgers needed
Speaker 2: mooky Bets. And he proved. He made me look good
Speaker 2: tonight because he did get the opportunity to lead off,
Speaker 2: and he was that mooky Bets hitting back to back
Speaker 2: home runs with Antiago Espinal in the third inning. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: When we come back, you'll hear from Jason Hayward. We'll
Speaker 2: get you an update on Tyler glassnow and River Ryan.
Speaker 2: Plus we'll check in with Jose Mota. After the Dodgers
Speaker 2: shut out the Giants four to nothing on a five
Speaker 2: to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 10: Bassi the.
Speaker 1: Two one to Bets, How Bets smashes one to.
Speaker 2: Left field back to back with Bets, good to see
Speaker 2: you move.
Speaker 6: First home run off the injury list is third of
Speaker 6: the season. Two nothing Dodgers in a blink.
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts has seven hits this season. Three of them
Speaker 2: are home runs, including that one, the back end of
Speaker 2: back to back home runs off a Robbie Ray to
Speaker 2: begin the third inning. The Dodgers shut out the Giants
Speaker 2: four to nothing and snap their four game losing streak.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers do this despite really leaving a lot of
Speaker 2: runners on base tonight. They left seven runners on base.
Speaker 2: They were just two for ten with runners in scoring position,
Speaker 2: but hitting those two home runs, getting the lead early
Speaker 2: for a dominant Otani certainly was a big momentum change
Speaker 2: in this game and for the Dodgers in their last
Speaker 2: five games that they've played, because it feels like they've
Speaker 2: been playing from behind and they've been trying to climb
Speaker 2: an uphill battle that they really can't with this offense
Speaker 2: that's been averaging two runs per game since April eighteenth.
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Speaker 2: the Dream. Also, Mooki hit the ball hard in the
Speaker 2: fourth inning. It was a line drive that Adamis leaped
Speaker 2: and made a catch on. Miguel Rojas was at second base.
Speaker 2: I did notice that he did give it a little
Speaker 2: crow hop when Robbie Ray was releasing the pitch and
Speaker 2: Mooki jumped all over a fastball. It was just right
Speaker 2: at Williadamas. So Moki's hitting the ball hard. And certainly,
Speaker 2: you know, people forget how good Mookie Beds is. You know,
Speaker 2: don't bury this guy. Many of you forgot about him.
Speaker 2: Don't bury this guy. All right, Let's check in with
Speaker 2: Jose Mota.
Speaker 1: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right. Jose I asked for Muki to be the
Speaker 2: leadoff hitter without Otani in the lineup. I'm asking for
Speaker 2: it more. I feel like MOOKI leading off and show
Speaker 2: Hey hit somewhere you know between three and five would
Speaker 2: help a lot of things in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 5: I agree with you one hundred percent. Going back to
Speaker 5: when the Dodgers got Shohil Tawny Day, that was the
Speaker 5: design lineup. It wasn't show letting off Mookie second. It
Speaker 5: was Bets first or Tiny second. And that lasted through
Speaker 5: mid June in twenty twenty four until Muki betzk is
Speaker 5: hit by in a hand by Dan al Tabilla fastball
Speaker 5: the dollars, then Crusan and go to Denver and everything
Speaker 5: changed from there on where they actually asked if tany
Speaker 5: would you mind moving up? He's like no, it's all
Speaker 5: for the team. And then when Muki returned, he was
Speaker 5: adding second. So it's nothing strange, nothing new. Both guys
Speaker 5: were adaptable. But I think your point about making show
Speaker 5: just wait a little bit longer to see it that
Speaker 5: is not I agree hundred percent. At this point they
Speaker 5: got to read and react to show, he says, and
Speaker 5: I think it's time not to read and react to
Speaker 5: know that it's besting for the.
Speaker 4: Team Right now.
Speaker 2: Shohey said he's reading and reacting when he's pitching, reading swings.
Speaker 2: Has he improved a lot from the last time you
Speaker 2: saw him be a full time picture jose At reading
Speaker 2: swings and attacking and adapting in that way he has.
Speaker 5: And I think overall, you know, because of their culture
Speaker 5: and how respectful they are. Dave and I learned this
Speaker 5: by talking to the form of pitching coaches and over
Speaker 5: and WBC to some coaches in Japan. When he came here,
Speaker 5: obviously he came with the idea that that's how they
Speaker 5: taught in Japan. Hey, you later react, we might give
Speaker 5: you a card or report. Go and find out what
Speaker 5: guys are trying to do against you. And it took
Speaker 5: him a while to say, you know what, I'm going
Speaker 5: to just bring it in. Listen to what I've been taught,
Speaker 5: also listen to what's new here in the big leagues
Speaker 5: and follow a plan. But now reading and reacting is
Speaker 5: he is such a super picture elite level with great
Speaker 5: stuff that guys have an idea on what they want
Speaker 5: to do and he's able to counterfeit that counteract then
Speaker 5: you know, so think about that if a guy looking
Speaker 5: for he's gonna tell me that sweeper stars crossing over
Speaker 5: where he's able to bury that fastball in on you
Speaker 5: and repeat it inside. I think more guys should be
Speaker 5: based on that, like you know her big pictures. I mean,
Speaker 5: you know Clayton Kerschill talked about reacting to swings and
Speaker 5: that's a big part of knowing how to picture and Dave.
Speaker 5: The most important thing about this is navigating a lineup
Speaker 5: for a third time, even getting through a third time.
Speaker 5: It's about what guys are doing from swing number one
Speaker 5: to the second time they feed you to the third time,
Speaker 5: how you react, and just what they're doing against him.
Speaker 2: It feels like over the course of the last three
Speaker 2: or four starts show Hey is pumping more and more fastballs.
Speaker 2: Is that because the teams he's facing can't catch up
Speaker 2: to it? Does he feel more confident with his command
Speaker 2: of that fastball? Why are we seeing more and more fastballs?
Speaker 5: Your point number two command command has been an issue
Speaker 5: with a fastball. So when he overthrows, now that he's
Speaker 5: working on the first blase side of the rubber, which
Speaker 5: he didn't always do, he finds it that even though
Speaker 5: sometimes he thwer across his body, his fastball runs, he's
Speaker 5: got a consistent release point to utilize it and make
Speaker 5: it look sometimes like a cutter, and then make the
Speaker 5: four sever sometimes look up and in or down and
Speaker 5: in against the right handers like a sinker. So he's
Speaker 5: sortedly you know. Actually, if you pick up his relief point,
Speaker 5: you just never know from that relief point, which is
Speaker 5: almost prospering against you against against right had better water.
Speaker 5: The bone is going to go. And that's what he
Speaker 5: knows is reacting to guys if they're opening the front
Speaker 5: hip or diving in, he's able to bury it or
Speaker 5: run us a little bit more and spread it on
Speaker 5: top of that, then the differential with that splitter. Look
Speaker 5: at you how many splitters you feel it? Not because
Speaker 5: he's changing strikes. It's because he's going, Hey, if I'm
Speaker 5: throwing fastibles and I have command of it, even when
Speaker 5: I want to miss the command, why should I do
Speaker 5: anything different? My co author, and just adapt to what
Speaker 5: I'm seeing, forgetting sometimes about the Scullery report and just
Speaker 5: following your gut.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us. After the Dodgers shut out
Speaker 2: the Giants forward to nothing and snap their four game
Speaker 2: losing streak. Am I being a little bit too greedy here? Jose.
Speaker 2: I know, the Dodgers scored four runs, but it felt
Speaker 2: like again some of the stuff that's been plaguing them
Speaker 2: the last three weeks, situational hitting, being able to hit,
Speaker 2: just get base hits with runners and scoring position just
Speaker 2: didn't seem like it's all clicking yet. But because of
Speaker 2: the home runs, it kind of overshadowed some of that
Speaker 2: other stuff in the way Otani just wouldn't let the
Speaker 2: Giants come up for air. Obviously was a big factor
Speaker 2: in the win. But did you see do you see
Speaker 2: the same things that have been plaguing the Dodgers offense tonight?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a little energy.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, I'll hop in that first step
Speaker 5: for a lot of guys. I Freddy Freeman, the kinds
Speaker 5: of plenty of Freddy Freeman seeing the second base. I mean,
Speaker 5: all those things matter a whole lot. Tail with a
Speaker 5: great up bat with Tucker at second base and briding
Speaker 5: through and getting a guy over third base, even though
Speaker 5: the run didn't score later. But those are the types
Speaker 5: of things that if you started doing them early in
Speaker 5: the game and stay with the process, eventually the baseball
Speaker 5: guts will reward you until gets some looper later on
Speaker 5: because he stays with a sag approach mental deal.
Speaker 4: Of the way.
Speaker 5: On top of that, you and I talked about, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm being afraid of being a good singles team. Just
Speaker 5: get some singles and understand that that creates rallities and
Speaker 5: keeps anythings alive, and also that it spoils a lot
Speaker 5: of pitches. They gun being able to get through Robbie
Speaker 5: Ray into Chris Sale this homestand that tells you a
Speaker 5: little bit more about the right. So I mean it's
Speaker 5: like for baffling, right, like wait a minute, But the
Speaker 5: way they've done it is by being a little more
Speaker 5: in control of the zone.
Speaker 4: And that's whut you so much?
Speaker 5: And maybe against lesser names, you know, Pardon for me
Speaker 5: saying that they're trying to a little bit too much
Speaker 5: to create. But certainly good to see Dave robertson the
Speaker 5: way he keeps guys involved in every one of these
Speaker 5: things by having spnol play today and having a planning
Speaker 5: with this guy student because they need to be fresh.
Speaker 5: And they responded quite well.
Speaker 2: Today, all right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in.
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you after a Dodger's win.
Speaker 1: Care Pops, see no.
Speaker 2: Doubt great to see Pops out here. He was here
Speaker 2: for the win, so love to see it. And definitely
Speaker 2: the Dodgers offense was back rolling. There he goes. Jose Mota,
Speaker 2: part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast, got an update
Speaker 2: for you on a couple of Dodger pitchers. Tyler Glass Now,
Speaker 2: who was placed on the injured list last Saturday with
Speaker 2: lower back spasms, was out here playing catch from about
Speaker 2: sixty to seventy five feet for the first time since
Speaker 2: going on the IL. So that's a good sign. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised if he had some sort of quartzone
Speaker 2: injection to calm the inflammation down. Maybe that's what played
Speaker 2: into the Dodgers deciding, you know what, we're putting you
Speaker 2: on the IL, We're gonna help out your lower back
Speaker 2: with an injection. So maybe that's part of the reason
Speaker 2: why we really haven't seen him out here, but it
Speaker 2: was a good sign to see him. Also, River Ryan,
Speaker 2: many of you may have forgotten about River Ryan and
Speaker 2: how good of a spring he had. Well, he only
Speaker 2: made two starts for TRIAA Oklahoma City after injuring one
Speaker 2: one of his hamstrings, not really clear which one it was.
Speaker 2: But he hadn't pitched or hasn't started a game for
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City since April eleventh. Well, he's scheduled to start
Speaker 2: on Friday for OKC, which is good news for OKC
Speaker 2: and River Ryan, but also for the Dodgers because River Ryan,
Speaker 2: to me, seems to be the guy that Emma Shehan
Speaker 2: was for the Dodgers last year in the second half
Speaker 2: of the season. He's a guy that certainly the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are going to manage in the minor leagues, but is
Speaker 2: really going to help the team and the rotation in
Speaker 2: the second half of the season. So great to hear
Speaker 2: that River Ryan is going to be back on the
Speaker 2: mat at TRIPAA this Friday for Oklahoma City. We're gonna
Speaker 2: take you to the top of the hour. I know
Speaker 2: I suggested maybe replaying ice Cube after a Dodger win,
Speaker 2: but the Dodgers lost last night. And if you want
Speaker 2: to hear that interview, I would love for you to
Speaker 2: check it out on the iHeartRadio app. But I want
Speaker 2: to share with you a conversation that we had with
Speaker 2: Jason Hayward in just a moment. But first I want
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Speaker 2: Hayward one of the great guys you'll ever meet. Sixteen
Speaker 2: years in the big leagues. His first year in the
Speaker 2: Big leagues was Bobby Cox's final year managing the Braves,
Speaker 2: and Jason Hayward was an All Star his first year
Speaker 2: in the big leagues, won the World Series in sixteen
Speaker 2: with the Cubs, spent a year and a half with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, but left such a big impression on so
Speaker 2: many people. And that's the reason why Andrew Friedman answered
Speaker 2: his call, because Jason Hayward has aspirations to be a
Speaker 2: GM one day. He had talked to a couple of
Speaker 2: other clubs, but the Dodgers is where he wanted to be,
Speaker 2: and he has aspirations to one one day leader front office,
Speaker 2: and he's willing to start from the ground up to
Speaker 2: learn how an organization works, how to evaluate. He was
Speaker 2: with one of the Dodgers pro scouts today, Dave Finley.
Speaker 2: He's hanging out with Raoul Labanyez and Chris Archer and
Speaker 2: he is officially a special assistant to Andrew Friedman, and
Speaker 2: we had a chance to catch up with Jay Hay.
Speaker 8: The reaction was well, first honestly, it was a lot
Speaker 8: of texting and I'll give you know, Gomer and Andrew
Speaker 8: credit because the season at all started like I said,
Speaker 8: and you know they're on pace for you know, trying
Speaker 8: to have another championship season and that's that's winning three
Speaker 8: in a row. So a lot of responsibility on their end.
Speaker 8: But no, we we did a lot of texting back
Speaker 8: and forth. Andrew said, look like we're going to pull
Speaker 8: up our slaves here and see what we can do
Speaker 8: to find find a space for you to come on
Speaker 8: and for one, contribute in ways we think you can
Speaker 8: help today, but also give you that opportunity you're asking for,
Speaker 8: and that's to learn and that's to you know, see
Speaker 8: what this side of the game looks like. So again
Speaker 8: like no, super grateful for the opportunity. And then the
Speaker 8: rest of the way with Brandon Gomes, you know, doing
Speaker 8: what he's done of court, former player, so he has
Speaker 8: that perspective, he's been in my shoes and he's been
Speaker 8: a great sounding board to talk to.
Speaker 2: On like what this may look like, how this feels right?
Speaker 8: And and again like Tyson Ross Chris Archer's you know
Speaker 8: same guys as well that that have done the same
Speaker 8: thing on sharing perspective. But no, our two front office guys,
Speaker 8: like our head Honchos so to speak, they've been absolutely
Speaker 8: instrumental and just you know, creating an opportunity for me
Speaker 8: this year to do something.
Speaker 2: Since your shoes are on the ground now, not the spikes,
Speaker 2: you have a different kind of view of how the
Speaker 2: team is playing and what you've been seeing. Obviously they're
Speaker 2: not swinging the bats as well as we saw in
Speaker 2: the first few weeks of the season. What do you
Speaker 2: see and what do you remember as a player when
Speaker 2: you're kind of in this group type slump. How do
Speaker 2: you get out of it?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 8: I think there are always going to be different ways
Speaker 8: to get out of things right out of those slumps, David,
Speaker 8: because every year's a different year.
Speaker 1: Every year is a new year.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yehour, amazing twenty twenty five, amazing photo finish twenty
Speaker 8: twenty six. They're gonna be different variables along the way,
Speaker 8: and you've got to figure out how to get through
Speaker 8: those and I think it's just this group being creative.
Speaker 8: They're gonna have fun with it, you see it with
Speaker 8: some changes in the celebration. And I was listening to
Speaker 8: you on Dodger talking one the other day saying, please
Speaker 8: get rid of that the kick, you know, kick the
Speaker 8: bad vibes out of there, which I completely understand.
Speaker 2: But I think it's just the.
Speaker 8: Fact that they're forward thinking, right, they're realizing, all right,
Speaker 8: we know things aren't going how we want them to go.
Speaker 8: Let's get creative on ways to stay in the moment.
Speaker 8: Let's do our best to have fun. But I think
Speaker 8: most importantly, to be honest, it's call a spade has
Speaker 8: paid and they realize things aren't going how they want
Speaker 8: them to go right now. But every day we see
Speaker 8: the work they put in out here on the field,
Speaker 8: We see the work in the clubhouse and in the
Speaker 8: cage in the weight room. So no doubt in my
Speaker 8: mind the process will rise over the results and there'll
Speaker 8: be where they need to be. Just need to get
Speaker 8: a few people.
Speaker 2: Healthy, yeah, no doubt, and maybe do the Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 2: not the dance, but maybe simplify things. Seaball hit Ball.
Speaker 8: On Seaball Hit Ball helps, but no, the game is hard.
Speaker 8: The game is hard, and there's something to be said
Speaker 8: about being that last team standing back to back years,
Speaker 8: playing the most games, managing pitching staffs and innings and
Speaker 8: all these things. Like again, there's so many variables of
Speaker 8: being that team that wins it. The first variable is
Speaker 8: nobody feels sorry for you at all. Right, so every
Speaker 8: day teams are getting enough to play against you, and
Speaker 8: that's what you want to have happen. But again, you
Speaker 8: just got to be creative, got to be open minded
Speaker 8: and realize that it's not always going to be how
Speaker 8: we got here, How we won the first one might
Speaker 8: be a little different in the second one, how we
Speaker 8: win that third one might look a little different. But
Speaker 8: you just find a way to do it and trust
Speaker 8: the people you have in the room.
Speaker 2: That was part of our conversation with Jason Hayward, who
Speaker 2: is certainly a wise man and always had great conversations
Speaker 2: with him in the clubhouse when he was at his locker.
Speaker 2: Just taught me a lot, and that's a big reason
Speaker 2: why the Dodgers did not hesitate when Jason Hayward reached
Speaker 2: to bring him back into the organization because he's not
Speaker 2: here just to be around or just to get out
Speaker 2: of the house. He actually has a goal. He really
Speaker 2: does want to be at a higher, higher level in
Speaker 2: a front office, and he's doing it the right way,
Speaker 2: learning from the best, starting at the bottom, going to
Speaker 2: the minor league, affiliates all that stuff. So if you
Speaker 2: to hear the full conversation with Jason Hayward, you can
Speaker 2: find it on the iHeartRadio app. And man, he admitted
Speaker 2: he admitted that he listens. How about that. A rare
Speaker 2: person admitting in public that played the game of baseball
Speaker 2: at a high level listening to Dodger talk. How about that?
Speaker 2: I wonder if he listened when he was playing. Not
Speaker 2: too many people will admit it while they're playing that
Speaker 2: they're listening to this on the way home. But I
Speaker 2: appreciate Jason Hayward coming out and saying, you know what,
Speaker 2: I listened, So thank you Jason Hayward. Anyway, Yeah, just
Speaker 2: awesome to have him back. And he commands so much respect.
Speaker 2: He's so genuine, and that's what players want. He understands
Speaker 2: that as a player, all he wanted was somebody to
Speaker 2: be genuine, whether his manager, his coaches, his front office,
Speaker 2: just wants that's what players want. Be yourself, don't be
Speaker 2: somebody else, Be Jenet genuine, and be upfront with me.
Speaker 2: Don't lie to me. That's what players have told me
Speaker 2: over the years. And he said something else that you know,
Speaker 2: I remember Andre Ethier telling me a long time ago.
Speaker 2: Every season is unique. Just because he hit three hundred
Speaker 2: last year and he had thirty home runs and things
Speaker 2: were great for you, doesn't mean the next year you
Speaker 2: can do it again, because it's hard to start all
Speaker 2: over again. That's what makes the Otani's, the Freeman's better
Speaker 2: than everybody. They're able to do that. That's what makes
Speaker 2: you a multi All Star, makes you a Hall of Famer,
Speaker 2: being able to do it year after year year because
Speaker 2: you see it all the time. Some years a guy
Speaker 2: has a great season and then dips the following year
Speaker 2: and then bounces back. It's hard to start all over again,
Speaker 2: and every season is unique. That's something that I remember
Speaker 2: hearing Andre Ethiers saying. It was great to hear Jason
Speaker 2: Hayward remind us of all that. All right, that'll do
Speaker 2: it for us tonight on Dodger Talk Tomorrow, Emit Shean
Speaker 2: will be on the mound for the Dodgers. He's two
Speaker 2: and one with an ERA of four to seventy nine,
Speaker 2: going up against Lyndon Rupp or Roupe who is five
Speaker 2: and three with an ERA at three zero nine. Morongo
Speaker 2: Casino Dodgers on Deck begins at six o'clock, first pitch
Speaker 2: at seven ten with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett. Tomorrow
Speaker 2: night after the game, Tim Kats will have postgame in
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. In fact, he'll have it tomorrow night and
Speaker 2: the entire Angels series in Anaheim because I'll be filling
Speaker 2: in for Kirsten Watson on sports net LA starting Tomorrow
Speaker 2: night all the way through Sundays. So that's the lineup
Speaker 2: for the broadcast. Booth and Steven Nelson will be on
Speaker 2: sports net LA tomorrow night as well with Oral Herscheizer,
Speaker 2: So looking forward to that. Thanks to Colin Ye for
Speaker 2: all his help back at our burd Bank Studios. Thanks
Speaker 2: to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks
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Speaker 2: like Jason Hayward apparently does once again, the final score tonight,
Speaker 2: does O'toni listen? Do you think Otani's listening right now?
Speaker 2: Does he podcast? I mean, he might be asleep by now,
Speaker 2: but I feel like maybe he's podcasting on the way here.
Speaker 2: I like to believe that anyway. Once again, the final
Speaker 2: score tonight, the Dodgers shut out the Giants forward to nothing.
Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your night. See you
Speaker 4: Just come