WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (5-13-26) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.120 The quest for the three peat has begune. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:07.280 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:12.000 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:13.240 the fifth. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.880 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.000 Here we go again. We're going to running back. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.280 To get him on the show called eight six six, 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.520 eight seven two five seven, and be sure to follow 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.960 Dodger Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. Here's your host, 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:29.480 David Vase. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.720 Last day, the Dodgers snap their four game losing streak. 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.720 The panic in the streets is over. After the Dodgers 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.159 shut out the Giants tonight by a final score of 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:47.200 Ford to nothing behind a dominant performance from show Hey Otani, 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:52.320 the pitcher, seven scoreless innings, eight strikeouts, two walks. He 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.920 wins his third game of the year, and he just 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.760 felt like O'tani was not going to allow the Giants 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.160 to come up for air, and that certainly was the case, 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.120 especially after the Dodgers scored the first two runs of 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.720 this game in the bottom of the third inning on 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.880 back to back home runs by Santiago Espinal and Mookie Betts. 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.480 We have phone lines open. Eight six six nine eight 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.959 seven two five seventy. We're with you until eleven o'clock tonight. 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.600 Jose Moda will join us at ten point forty. You'll 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.600 hear from Jason Hayward in case you missed it earlier today. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.720 Jason Hayward has been hired by the Dodgers as a 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:39.440 special assistant to Andrew Friedman, and Jason Hayward has aspirations 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.640 to one day become a president of baseball operations or 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.920 general manager. So he's not here just as a hood ornament. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.760 He's not here just to be around the guys. He's 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.200 actually here to chase a goal. And we had a 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.720 chance to catch up with Jason Hayward earlier today, and 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.760 we'll share part of that conversation with you later in 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.800 the show. Coming up in a moment you'll hear from show. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.400 Hey Otani, But yeah, damn right, I'm taking a victory 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.800 lap on Mookie Bets. I told you last night Mookie 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.440 Bets should be leading off tonight. The Dodgers agreed. He 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.919 was leading off tonight and hit a home run back 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.720 to back home runs in the bottom of the third inning. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:25.200 So I'm a firm believer that Mookie Bets should be 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.760 leading off for the foreseeable future. Obviously, the season has 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.079 twists and turns. We've already seen that in the first 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.240 quarter of the season. But for me, with Otani doing 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.440 what he's doing at age thirty one, asking him to 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.320 be your leadoff hitter on top of what he did 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:48.520 tonight is a lot to ask, and I just feel 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:53.160 like O'tani would feel a lot less burden to try 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:58.359 to be Superman leading off every single night that he's 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.720 in there. Move him to move him to third. But 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.040 Mookie Bets, to me, should be the leadoff hitter. And 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.240 I know a lot of people out there believe that 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.520 Mooki Bets has done hitting home runs and driving the 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.800 baseball at age thirty three, But I've seen a renewed 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.880 Mookie Bets the first two nights coming back off the 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.959 injure list. I'm a big believer in Mookie Bets this year. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:26.520 I'm buying stock and Mooki Bets this year. And trust me, 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.080 this guy, if you put him back in the leadoff spot, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.600 is going to feel empowered like he was tonight. And 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.720 the reason why I say that is I remember Mooki 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.480 Betts when the Dodgers brought him over in twenty twenty, 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.480 they experimented with some weird lineups and Mooki was not 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.040 the leadoff hitter after being the best leadoff hitter in 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.200 baseball with the Red Sox. He finally had a meeting 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.000 with Dave Roberts and Andrew Freeman and said, look, I 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:54.960 feel like a point guard. I feel like I'm in 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.320 control of the game being the leadoff hitter. I feel 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:03.320 like Mooki is ready to take this on again, understanding 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.320 what Otani is trying to do and what the Dodgers 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:10.040 need from Otani and what they need from Mookie Bets again, 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.320 and that's for Mookie Bets to be that great leadoff 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.240 hitter that he was for the first part of his career. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.719 Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.720 the phone number Kyle Tucker. Tonight had two doubles all 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.600 of a sudden. Kyle Tucker now is starting to heat up. 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:31.040 In his last fifteen games. He has fifteen hits. He's 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.680 hitting three to zero six, He's getting on base at 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.800 a four to twenty six clip. He has ten walks 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.800 and only nine strikeouts, so that is more like Kyle 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.279 Tucker and tonight he had two doubles. He scored on 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.359 a Taascar Hernandez flared a right field in the fourth inning, 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:52.000 so we're starting to see the Kyle Tucker the Dodgers 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:56.040 signed during the offseason, so that's encouraging as well. But 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.360 showe A. Otani the story of the night, not allowing 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.880 the Giants to really get anything going and when they did, 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.120 Willie Adamis forgot how many outs there were, which was 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:10.080 in the seventh inning. And for Otani just the second 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.039 time that he has pitched back to back starts, going 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:17.640 seven innings, first time since twenty twenty three. I should 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.720 say the second time in the last three years. This 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.120 is the first time since twenty three that Otani has 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.160 gone seven innings and back to back starts. He did 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.359 it tonight by pitching seven scoreless innings with eight strikeouts 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.440 and lowering his Major League leading era as a starting 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.680 pitcher to zero eighty two. Let's head downstairs right now 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.279 to hear from the best player on the planet. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.039 Show hey, Otani, tolly first to seven shutout innings tonight. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:46.840 You were efficient. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:53.520 How did you find navigating just through their lineupkakorris Man. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.679 Oh Mamasa's even. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:05.159 Think you something? 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.320 Yeah, I just did what I know I had to 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:08.839 do today. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.080 And also just like collaborating with the pitching coach and 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:16.719 Will Smith, just reading and reacting with the hitter swings. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.880 Your seven starts in and you have an e r 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:20.680 A under one? 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:22.920 In what ways do you feel like you're a better 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.080 picture now than you were in other parts of your career? 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:52.440 Like the feeling is pretty good. I feel really good 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:53.120 with my pitches. 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.240 But today, you know, the deep fly ball to and 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.680 the the last out of the seventh inning, you know 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.720 that have really swayed the uh, you know my e 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:03.080 r A. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.920 So I think there's some luck involved as well. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.000 He sends a little bit of fatigue from you, especially offensively. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.360 How do you feel like you've adjusted to the first 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.400 whole season of two way in two years? 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:30.840 You know, money too, you from one didn't mist equal 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:31.400 to this year? 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:49.360 Off onio and here quota practice first and foremost, the 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.920 fact that I'm not injured, that's a good thing, you know. 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.320 I do want to contribute more offensively. I haven't done 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.320 so uh this year, so I'm looking forward to doing that. 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.920 All right, So who are we show Hao Tani? And 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.880 certainly he's feeling good and he acknowledged the fact that 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.040 Willie Adamas bailed him out in the seventh inning thinking 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.320 there were two outs when there was only one. When 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.720 Drew Gilbert hit that fly ball to Andy Paz, caught 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:18.960 it on the warning track in right center field, and 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.680 Adamis was rounding third base with only two outs in 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.960 the seventh inning, it was an easy double up because 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:31.600 Adamis don't know what he was thinking, but it certainly 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.680 was not thinking about what was happening in the game 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.680 at that point in time. So with the eight strikeouts tonight, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:44.000 sho Hao Tani has fifty strikeouts in his first seven 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:49.760 starts of the season. He also has an ELRA under one. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:54.000 His ELRA now is zero eighty two. He is now 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:58.600 just one of ten pitchers in baseball history through their 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.480 first seven games in a season to have fifty or 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.480 more strikeouts and a sub one ELRA, first one since 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.959 Jacob Degram did it a few years ago. Three of 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.679 those ten pitchers won the Cy Young, or four of 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:18.160 those ten pitchers won the Cy Young Zach Grank, Randy Johnson, 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:23.400 Roger Clemens, and Fernando Valezuela, So he is in elite company, 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.079 one of just ten pitchers in baseball history through his 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.640 first seven games to have fifty strikeouts and a sub 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:36.720 one Elra. That's historic, and we are witnessing the greatest 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.719 player in baseball history in real time. I know he's 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.120 been struggling offensively, but how many guys can do what 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.880 he's doing right now, even venturing to be a two 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.480 way player and doing it better than anybody has ever 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.120 done it. Tonight's game brought to you by Modello Modelo 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.079 the mark of a fighter, and that's why I'm such 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:01.000 a big advocate of helping to lessen the on Otani. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.760 Other than just giving him a day off from hitting 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.160 tonight or tomorrow and or tomorrow, how about take the 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.360 burden off of him being the leadoff hitter in the 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:14.480 catalyst of the offense. Mookie Bets is definitely ready to 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.199 go for that role again and it will trust me, 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.400 empower Mookie Bets. You will get the best out of 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.520 Mookie Bets. And who knows tonight Mookie might have showed 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.400 off for one of his fancy bowling friends, Jason Belmonte, 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.199 who was in the house tonight. Let's go out to 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.520 Polo in San Diego. You're on Dodger talk with David 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:34.880 vasse Hi Polo. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.040 Hi Dai, How are you nice to talk to you again? 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.480 Hey, great to have you call in for the first 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:41.320 time this year. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:43.319 I know it's been a long time. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.440 So first of all, I was back to a knowledge, 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.240 you know, to Charlie Steigner. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.120 I was driving home the other day. Well come back. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.040 It was good to hear his voice again. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:57.400 I know, yes, you know. I have a question about you, Tani. 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.240 And I was looking at you know, the MLB in 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:05.439 the start, but how come Otani is not listed as 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.360 the course he's got the lower c ra And then 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.400 I was googling up and he said that because he's 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:16.040 pitching and it's hitting, and so it's not it's not basically, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:20.280 it's not in the in the MLB stat But what 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.880 I mean, what does that mean? It's got the lower 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.719 c ra in pitching, So why is not listed as 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.080 the best pitcher in baseball? 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:30.240 That's what I want to know. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.160 Yeah, well, I'm not sure where you're looking, but he 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.599 is listed when you look at the e r A 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.880 leaders on MLB dot com, he is listed as the 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.800 guy with the tops as far as e r A 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:47.640 goes zero eighty two. Cam Schlittler of the Yankees has 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.200 the second lost e RA in baseball and one thirty five. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.160 So yeah, he's he's there, Pallo. So go to MLB 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.440 dot com. They've really done a great job of updating 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.240 their leaderboard, team and individual players. That's where I go 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:03.600 now to see all that stuff. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:05.360 Thank you, Dave. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.439 All right, Bonna note day. We'll see you in San 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.880 Diego next week. Eight six six nine, eight seven two 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.240 five seventy is the phone number. By the way, show 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.679 Hao Tani, Rick Monday, slip me this note. With two 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.760 strikes tonight, the Giants were just two for nineteen with 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:27.400 one walk. On the season. Hitters that have two strikes 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.960 on them facing show Hao Tani are hitting zero seventy 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:36.880 six seven for ninety two when they have two strikes 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.480 on them facing show Hao Tani. This year he's putting 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:45.760 hitters away, obviously, so certainly dominant stats from a dominant 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.880 pitcher this year. Let's go out to stock Scott, who 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.640 is at the stadium tonight. Hi Scott, you're on Dodger Talk. 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.280 Hey Dave, good to talk to you first time this season. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:56.040 How are you, buddy? 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.920 Everything's great, especially when the Dodgers snap a losing streak. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.679 Thank god, looks like we got a feast tomorrow. We 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:08.040 got Panda, we got Habit, we got Jack in the box. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.559 What a game so quickly. I won't take a lot 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.839 of time because I know it's a short show. Tonight. Wow, 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.439 what a performance. I was at the yard with my 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:22.120 friend Rich and show Hey, he's practically unhittable, right. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.080 Yeah, practically unhittable these days. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.360 So as far as you calling for Bets to be 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.559 the leadoff, do you also think he should lead off 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.199 when show hands in the DH I do. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.520 I don't think Sho Hao Tani should lead off. I 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:45.319 think the Dodgers should consider he's the burden on him, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:50.839 feeling a guy that's pressing these days, especially offensively, and 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.000 just you know, allow him to ease into the game 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.560 and read and react to the game. I just feel 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.360 like Mookie Bets would be empowered and you're taking a 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.599 little bit of the burden off of Otani to be 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.640 the Otani of the last two years that hit fifty 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.880 home runs and jump started your offense. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.280 Well, he keeps putting the team on his back, doesn't he? 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.199 Because last night he had really the only offense, and 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.160 tonight he was on defense, so I was just glad 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.560 to see the team give him some bats day. If 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.600 you're the bomb, I love you Dodgers baby. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.400 All right, Scott, Yeah, thank you for the phone call. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.760 It's not a knock on Otani. I'm just empathizing with 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.600 what he's asking of himself to do. That's a lot 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.120 to ask. It's one thing to do it when you're 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.560 twenty seven years old, it's another to do it at 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.280 thirty one years old. And certainly I'm not one of 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.760 those guys that says you should shut down O'tani from 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.680 playing games to reset to get healthy. I'm not one 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.560 of those guys that says Otani shouldn't pitch, because that's 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.240 not realistic. He is going to pitch. He's going after 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.600 the cy Young this year. But what I am saying 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.000 is he is pitching. He is all in on pitching, 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.400 and he's not the same hitter that he was the 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.920 last couple of years. So why are you going to 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.040 expect the same results if he's not that guy to 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.200 start the season. So move him down in the order. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.080 I'm not saying hit him seventh or eighth. I'm just 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.920 saying move him down in the order. And have mooky 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:23.920 Bets be Mooky Bets and make Mooki Bets feel like, yeah, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.840 we need you. We need you to be Mooky Bets, 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:30.680 not just another guy. And you know, I can't believe, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.200 really how many of you have forgotten about Mooki Bets. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.680 Nobody called to ask about Mooky Bets. Nobody called and said, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:42.200 you know what we're missing Mookie Bets. I was shocked. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.880 I feel like I'm the only guy in LA that 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.480 remembered who Mooky Bets was and that the Dodgers needed 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.640 mooky Bets. And he proved. He made me look good 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.960 tonight because he did get the opportunity to lead off, 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.120 and he was that mooky Bets hitting back to back 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:03.280 home runs with Antiago Espinal in the third inning. Eight 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.440 six six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.760 We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.680 When we come back, you'll hear from Jason Hayward. We'll 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.120 get you an update on Tyler glassnow and River Ryan. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.600 Plus we'll check in with Jose Mota. After the Dodgers 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.240 shut out the Giants four to nothing on a five 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:22.960 to seventy LA Sports. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.320 On air at am five to seventy, online at am 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.680 five seventy, la sports dot com, and available by podcast 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.760 on the iHeartRadio app. This is Dodger Talk with David 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.720 Bassi the. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.760 Two one to Bets, How Bets smashes one to. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:50.320 Left field back to back with Bets, good to see 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:50.800 you move. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.520 First home run off the injury list is third of 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.560 the season. Two nothing Dodgers in a blink. 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.680 Mookie Betts has seven hits this season. Three of them 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.840 are home runs, including that one, the back end of 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.560 back to back home runs off a Robbie Ray to 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.960 begin the third inning. The Dodgers shut out the Giants 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.800 four to nothing and snap their four game losing streak. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:22.280 The Dodgers do this despite really leaving a lot of 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.480 runners on base tonight. They left seven runners on base. 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.560 They were just two for ten with runners in scoring position, 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.800 but hitting those two home runs, getting the lead early 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:36.679 for a dominant Otani certainly was a big momentum change 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.480 in this game and for the Dodgers in their last 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.520 five games that they've played, because it feels like they've 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.280 been playing from behind and they've been trying to climb 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.400 an uphill battle that they really can't with this offense 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.679 that's been averaging two runs per game since April eighteenth. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.440 Daniel Steelers presents the home Run Forecast. For your chance 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.720 to win a fifty dollars Daniel Steelers gift card, visit 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.240 a seventy LA sports dot com. He's the keyword home 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:07.320 run into your name. You could win. Daniel Steelers Own 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.080 the Dream. Also, Mooki hit the ball hard in the 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:14.000 fourth inning. It was a line drive that Adamis leaped 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.240 and made a catch on. Miguel Rojas was at second base. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.480 I did notice that he did give it a little 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.920 crow hop when Robbie Ray was releasing the pitch and 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.600 Mooki jumped all over a fastball. It was just right 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:31.480 at Williadamas. So Moki's hitting the ball hard. And certainly, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.000 you know, people forget how good Mookie Beds is. You know, 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.320 don't bury this guy. Many of you forgot about him. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.879 Don't bury this guy. All right, Let's check in with 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:42.720 Jose Mota. 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.800 It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.119 All right. Jose I asked for Muki to be the 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.800 leadoff hitter without Otani in the lineup. I'm asking for 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.400 it more. I feel like MOOKI leading off and show 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:03.800 Hey hit somewhere you know between three and five would 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.280 help a lot of things in a lot of different ways. 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.080 I agree with you one hundred percent. Going back to 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.320 when the Dodgers got Shohil Tawny Day, that was the 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.240 design lineup. It wasn't show letting off Mookie second. It 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.360 was Bets first or Tiny second. And that lasted through 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.080 mid June in twenty twenty four until Muki betzk is 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.240 hit by in a hand by Dan al Tabilla fastball 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.359 the dollars, then Crusan and go to Denver and everything 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.040 changed from there on where they actually asked if tany 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.800 would you mind moving up? He's like no, it's all 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.320 for the team. And then when Muki returned, he was 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.760 adding second. So it's nothing strange, nothing new. Both guys 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.280 were adaptable. But I think your point about making show 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.480 just wait a little bit longer to see it that 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.119 is not I agree hundred percent. At this point they 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.200 got to read and react to show, he says, and 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:57.879 I think it's time not to read and react to 0:19:57.920 --> 0:19:58.760 know that it's besting for the. 0:19:58.760 --> 0:19:59.239 Team Right now. 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:04.440 Shohey said he's reading and reacting when he's pitching, reading swings. 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.240 Has he improved a lot from the last time you 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.480 saw him be a full time picture jose At reading 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:16.120 swings and attacking and adapting in that way he has. 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.840 And I think overall, you know, because of their culture 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.119 and how respectful they are. Dave and I learned this 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.080 by talking to the form of pitching coaches and over 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:27.240 and WBC to some coaches in Japan. When he came here, 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.520 obviously he came with the idea that that's how they 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.719 taught in Japan. Hey, you later react, we might give 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.680 you a card or report. Go and find out what 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.119 guys are trying to do against you. And it took 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:39.840 him a while to say, you know what, I'm going 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.440 to just bring it in. Listen to what I've been taught, 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:45.920 also listen to what's new here in the big leagues 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:48.920 and follow a plan. But now reading and reacting is 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.200 he is such a super picture elite level with great 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.440 stuff that guys have an idea on what they want 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.199 to do and he's able to counterfeit that counteract then 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:00.480 you know, so think about that if a guy looking 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:02.639 for he's gonna tell me that sweeper stars crossing over 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:04.639 where he's able to bury that fastball in on you 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:08.240 and repeat it inside. I think more guys should be 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.119 based on that, like you know her big pictures. I mean, 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:13.680 you know Clayton Kerschill talked about reacting to swings and 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.240 that's a big part of knowing how to picture and Dave. 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.439 The most important thing about this is navigating a lineup 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.640 for a third time, even getting through a third time. 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:25.720 It's about what guys are doing from swing number one 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:28.480 to the second time they feed you to the third time, 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:30.960 how you react, and just what they're doing against him. 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:33.959 It feels like over the course of the last three 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:38.359 or four starts show Hey is pumping more and more fastballs. 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.919 Is that because the teams he's facing can't catch up 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:45.160 to it? Does he feel more confident with his command 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:48.800 of that fastball? Why are we seeing more and more fastballs? 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.400 Your point number two command command has been an issue 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.920 with a fastball. So when he overthrows, now that he's 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:58.640 working on the first blase side of the rubber, which 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.359 he didn't always do, he finds it that even though 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:04.280 sometimes he thwer across his body, his fastball runs, he's 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.440 got a consistent release point to utilize it and make 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:09.960 it look sometimes like a cutter, and then make the 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:12.240 four sever sometimes look up and in or down and 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.960 in against the right handers like a sinker. So he's 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:17.720 sortedly you know. Actually, if you pick up his relief point, 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.240 you just never know from that relief point, which is 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.000 almost prospering against you against against right had better water. 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:25.440 The bone is going to go. And that's what he 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:28.280 knows is reacting to guys if they're opening the front 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.000 hip or diving in, he's able to bury it or 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:33.240 run us a little bit more and spread it on 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:36.240 top of that, then the differential with that splitter. Look 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:37.960 at you how many splitters you feel it? Not because 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:40.600 he's changing strikes. It's because he's going, Hey, if I'm 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:42.919 throwing fastibles and I have command of it, even when 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.119 I want to miss the command, why should I do 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.440 anything different? My co author, and just adapt to what 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:50.600 I'm seeing, forgetting sometimes about the Scullery report and just 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:51.480 following your gut. 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:55.560 Jose Mota is joining us. After the Dodgers shut out 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:58.560 the Giants forward to nothing and snap their four game 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:03.920 losing streak. Am I being a little bit too greedy here? Jose. 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:06.640 I know, the Dodgers scored four runs, but it felt 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:09.160 like again some of the stuff that's been plaguing them 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:13.360