Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begne.
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.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
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Speaker 1: David Vase that day.
Speaker 3: Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vase with you until the top of the hour,
Speaker 2: live from Wrigley Field. We have phone lines wide open
Speaker 2: tonight at eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: I know many of you traveled to Chicago to see
Speaker 2: the Dodgers at Wrigley Field in the middle of summer
Speaker 2: instead of what seems to be a tradition where the
Speaker 2: Dodgers get here in April. So this is refreshing, but
Speaker 2: the result has not changed. The Dodgers have lost their
Speaker 2: eighth series in the last ten years at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 2: After dropping the first two games of this series, including tonight,
Speaker 2: five to one, they have lost a season high five
Speaker 2: in a row after being swept by the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: And look, it's not just about the pitching or the bullpen.
Speaker 2: The Dodger offense just has not been very productive, especially
Speaker 2: the bottom of the order five through nine. It just
Speaker 2: hasn't been there consistently. I mentioned this last night. I'll
Speaker 2: mention it again. Freddy Freeman, now who extended his hitting
Speaker 2: streak to fourteen games, has been on base forty five
Speaker 2: times since the beginning of July and has only scored
Speaker 2: eight runs. I'll say that again, Freddy Freeman has been
Speaker 2: on base forty five times since the beginning of July
Speaker 2: and has only been driven in eight times.
Speaker 3: That's shocking.
Speaker 2: And what that tells me is guys like Muncie Betts, Tucker,
Speaker 2: those guys and Tascar Hernandez for that matter, even though
Speaker 2: he's a few hitters behind him, are not doing the
Speaker 2: job to drive him in. And tonight Mookie Betts grounded
Speaker 2: into a double play in the second inning, Kyle Tucker
Speaker 2: Homer's I mean anything but a double play right there,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you got a multi run lead.
Speaker 2: And look, it's been a struggle for Mookie Betts. He's
Speaker 2: only hitting two seventeen this year, with balls in play,
Speaker 2: he is grounded into the second most double plays of
Speaker 2: any Dodger. Is on base percentage is two eighty. His
Speaker 2: slug in percentage is three ninety. It's hard to ignore
Speaker 2: at this point in time, and you just wonder whether
Speaker 2: or not the Dodgers are considering moving bets down in
Speaker 2: the order to give Freddy Freeman some protection and more production.
Speaker 2: Are they considering moving ta Oscar Hernandez backup in the lineup.
Speaker 2: He's sitting over three hundred since the beginning of the
Speaker 2: All Star break and is looking more like Taoscar Hernandez,
Speaker 2: even though he did add a couple of bad at
Speaker 2: bats tonight. But I could tell you this. A couple
Speaker 2: of coaches told me today that going back to the
Speaker 2: last homestand for seven ten games, ta Oscar Hernandez has
Speaker 2: been in the batting cage, actively taking batting practice in
Speaker 2: the cage at ten am. He's at the ballpark at
Speaker 2: ten am, already taking batting practice on a night that
Speaker 2: the game starts at seven ten. So don't tell me
Speaker 2: Taoscar Hernandez doesn't care. And you know what else is happening,
Speaker 2: because he's doing that who's showing up with him? Now,
Speaker 2: Andy Pa has come on. You got to reward these
Speaker 2: guys for putting in the work, and they're rewarding themselves.
Speaker 2: Let's head downstairs right now to hear from Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: on sports Net.
Speaker 3: LA.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's a long season. This is a little dister rut. Okay,
Speaker 4: I think everything's okay. I just know I need to
Speaker 4: be better. Yeah, I can't speak for everyone else, but
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to help the team at some point.
Speaker 4: It's been too long, frustrating. But you know, as far
Speaker 4: as the boys, I mean, I think everybody's in. Everybody's
Speaker 4: in a pretty good headspace, and it's just a time
Speaker 4: that we go through. You never know what happens tomorrow.
Speaker 4: What are you feeling that It is just kind of
Speaker 4: missing for yourself personally right now, I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm hitting the ball hard, feel like
Speaker 4: I'm having good at beats, you know, not swinging at
Speaker 4: bad pictures. It seems like every time I touch the
Speaker 4: bat it goes at somebody. So I just need something.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to figure it out. I'm founding it
Speaker 4: is a stretch man, especially with where you were a
Speaker 4: month ago and how well you were swinging the bat.
Speaker 5: Then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, man, I don't even know what
Speaker 4: I'm doing different. I feel like I'm hitting the ball
Speaker 4: hard at the same rate I was hitting it at
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I have no idea.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty candid throughout the season about your struggles.
Speaker 5: How hard is it to stay committed to your approach,
Speaker 5: especially when you feel like you have the good quality
Speaker 5: of the best that you wanted.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, it's very hard. I mean I've never
Speaker 4: you know, I've just never done this, so I don't
Speaker 4: I don't really know how to get through it. So
Speaker 4: every day I show up and I'm trying to restore
Speaker 4: that hope meter in order to uh keep myself going.
Speaker 4: But uh, it's it's this is uh really hard.
Speaker 7: What was about a year ago this time when you
Speaker 7: said right off the season there's no play one day
Speaker 7: at a time. Is that a then a restake you
Speaker 7: need to make again or can you make?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 4: No, I mean I did that earlier in the season.
Speaker 4: I mean that I just want to help us win.
Speaker 4: That's that's really it. I mean, it doesn't matter you
Speaker 4: can hit the ball hard are you want, doesn't matter
Speaker 4: if it goes that's someone Those are outs and not
Speaker 4: trying to be result based because that's that's you know,
Speaker 4: a deep hole. But at some point you got to
Speaker 4: help us win. And if you can't keep going out there,
Speaker 4: and I mean I'm not saying I'm dragging us down,
Speaker 4: but I'm not helping at all.
Speaker 3: What was all?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: There's Mookie Bets on sports and at LA. He's very aware.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you shoot MOOKI straight, he's going to
Speaker 2: give you direct answers. And I thought he was really
Speaker 2: honest right there. The thing that I'll say about Mookie Bets,
Speaker 2: the reason why even last year he was still hitting
Speaker 2: high up in the order is because he was taking
Speaker 2: longer at bats and he was drawing walks. This year,
Speaker 2: he's swinging first pitch. He grounded into a double play
Speaker 2: in the second inning, and his walk rate is the
Speaker 2: lowest of his career. He's not even taking walks, and
Speaker 2: that makes it even more compounding. As far as the
Speaker 2: h there's no other way to say this his worst
Speaker 2: offensive season in his career. I mean, we're talking about
Speaker 2: a future Hall of Famer and he's having his worst
Speaker 2: offensive season, and that's hard to believe, especially coming off
Speaker 2: of last year where he had at the time his
Speaker 2: worst offensive season. Eight six six nine seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the Cubs tonight,
Speaker 2: five to one. David Vasse live at Wrigley Field. We'll
Speaker 2: get to your phone calls in a moment. But tonight
Speaker 2: there was a lot of excitement about Trek Schouoball making
Speaker 2: his Dodger debut.
Speaker 3: He just needed some run support.
Speaker 2: He got one run tonight in his Dodger debut, and
Speaker 2: that's hard for any pitcher to deal.
Speaker 3: With a couple of bad lucks.
Speaker 2: But Andy paj has saved him on a couple of
Speaker 2: broken bat flares to center field. But Kyle Tucker misplayed
Speaker 2: a ball that turned into a double for Alex Bregman
Speaker 2: in the sixth inning, and that allowed the Unlucky Nico
Speaker 2: or the the fortunate Nico Horner unlos Lucky Dodgers to
Speaker 2: be the victim of the Baltimore chop there for the
Speaker 2: goal ahead run to score. Let's go down back into
Speaker 2: the Dodger Club aust to hear from Trek's school ball
Speaker 2: on sports in at La yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean, that's going to bed last night, you know, excited.
Speaker 9: It felt like, you know, my major league debut, you know,
Speaker 9: kind of same type of vibe in terms of, you know,
Speaker 9: the nerves running through. But I think that's all good stuff.
Speaker 4: I did a field by the time you took the mound,
Speaker 4: and like you can actually get into the starter.
Speaker 9: I mean, baseball is baseball.
Speaker 3: The game is the game.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 9: It's my job to just go out there and compete
Speaker 9: and do what I do what I can and try
Speaker 9: to put our team in a position to win a
Speaker 9: ball game. And that's all I can ask myself to do.
Speaker 9: But the game's always just a game. Stuff was I
Speaker 9: think it was one of your lowest strike rates, but
Speaker 9: you got out the change up seemed to be working
Speaker 9: the overall. Yeah, yeah, I mean I think my stuff
Speaker 9: was plenty good. You know, I felt like I commanded
Speaker 9: everything really well. I think, you know, maybe the lowest
Speaker 9: tracker I don't even look at, don't even.
Speaker 1: Know what it is, but.
Speaker 9: You know, when I was missing, I was missing in
Speaker 9: the areas that I was trying to go. There's just
Speaker 9: a few sinkers and a few sliders that can kind
Speaker 9: of flip that bats. You know, I probably should be
Speaker 9: a little better at first pitch strikes, and I think
Speaker 9: especially second or third time through. You know, I need
Speaker 9: to be better there. But you know, the stuff come
Speaker 9: out my hand was is what I expect out of myself.
Speaker 4: How was it working with Ben and kind of just
Speaker 4: being thrown together here?
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's great back there. He's great back there, called
Speaker 9: a great game, you know, on the same page all night.
Speaker 9: You know what he was trying to do, you know,
Speaker 9: feeds right into what I'm trying to do on the mountain.
Speaker 9: So credit to him. You know, it's tough both ways, right,
Speaker 9: But I'm always gonna trust my catchers. You know, the
Speaker 9: preparation that I get to watch those guys do you know,
Speaker 9: even just today, I'm gonna always trust those guys. You
Speaker 9: know that they're really important. And yeah, he was great
Speaker 9: back there today for sure.
Speaker 2: At the end of the sixth it looks like he
Speaker 2: had a short combo with Dave Roberts. As you guys
Speaker 2: get to know each other, pitch count any limits kind
Speaker 2: of come into play.
Speaker 3: How important is that conversation?
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, I mean he just he told me I
Speaker 9: was done. You know, I felt I felt good though,
Speaker 9: you know, just kind of expressed that to him. But
Speaker 9: I'm gonna trust him and in those decisions and where
Speaker 9: he wants to go. You know, he's the manager for
Speaker 9: a reason, so I'm always gonna, you know, support whatever
Speaker 9: he thinks his best. But yeah, I think he's you know,
Speaker 9: just words of encouragement about the outing obviously, but yeah,
Speaker 9: I'm always gonna trust where he goes.
Speaker 1: He look like you were trying.
Speaker 4: To sneak a fastball by Dansby there and go ahead,
Speaker 4: would maybe.
Speaker 9: That, Yeah, I mean, just trying to go down in
Speaker 9: the way and if he jumps it, there's not much
Speaker 9: damage there obviously, pull it back to the heart of
Speaker 9: the plate kind of not where I'm trying to go.
Speaker 9: And he put a good swing on it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: That was I think the only really hard hit ball today.
Speaker 9: But yeah, he put a good swing on it. I mean,
Speaker 9: he's a really good player. You know, he gets he
Speaker 9: just pulled it back middle. If that ball's down in
Speaker 9: a way, it's gonna be a tough time to pull
Speaker 9: a fastball down in a way, you know, especially the
Speaker 9: way he did. But you know, he put a good
Speaker 9: swing on it for sure.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Trek school Bawl after making his Dodger debut,
Speaker 2: going six innings tonight, aligned to e runs, including that
Speaker 2: solo home run to Dan spy Swanson in the third inning.
Speaker 2: And like I mentioned earlier, Dan spy Swanson has done
Speaker 2: a number on the Dodgers this year. He's seven for
Speaker 2: eighteen a three eighty eight batting average, with two home
Speaker 2: runs and five RBIs against the Dodgers this season. Eight
Speaker 2: sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's go out to the phones for the
Speaker 2: first time tonight, David and Westlake Village.
Speaker 3: You're on Dodger Talk Live from Chicago. How you doing.
Speaker 10: I'm doing great, DV. Thanks a lot for taking my call.
Speaker 10: I guess this is what fans of other teams must
Speaker 10: feel like. It's weird for Dodger fans to to kind
Speaker 10: of lose this much. But here's the deal, man, When
Speaker 10: you when you go on a losing streak like this,
Speaker 10: you can look at every facet of the game going bad.
Speaker 10: You know, there's bad base running, bad hitting, bad defense.
Speaker 10: I'm wondering, is the fourth inning too early to do
Speaker 10: a defensive replacement for Kyle Tucker. I'm just I'm kidding,
Speaker 10: but I'm not really kidding. That guy is just you know,
Speaker 10: he hits a home run and still manages to contribute
Speaker 10: to a loss for the game.
Speaker 11: But here's the deal to me.
Speaker 10: When we get Will Smith back, you know, hopefully, and
Speaker 10: Il Snell and Broken Glass now come come back, this
Speaker 10: rotation with Yoshi and Scoobs is gonna be really great,
Speaker 10: which changes the bullpen because right now the bullpen's a mess.
Speaker 10: There's no one on the trust tree that that's on
Speaker 10: there right now. And but when Robleski and Rokie go
Speaker 10: to the bullpen, when all our big dogs come back,
Speaker 10: I put us up against anybody, So things are gonna turn.
Speaker 6: What do you think, d d.
Speaker 2: Right, all right, David, Yeah, you made some good points there.
Speaker 2: I know you took some shots at some guys and okay,
Speaker 2: that's fine.
Speaker 3: It makes for entertaining radio right there.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless, let's let's not forget the last two years,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have played more games than any other team
Speaker 2: in baseball, and they have had shorter off seasons than
Speaker 2: any other teams in baseball. And I had a current player,
Speaker 2: you know, give me a phone call yesterday. We were
Speaker 2: just talking about a few different things.
Speaker 3: And I mentioned just.
Speaker 2: How the Dodgers are in a little bit of a
Speaker 2: rut offensively, and he said, that's a They are playing
Speaker 2: more games than anybody else the last two years. It
Speaker 2: takes a lot out of you physically and mentally. And
Speaker 2: we're in the dog days of August, so that may
Speaker 2: be part of all this. Maybe the dog days of
Speaker 2: August are a little heavier for the Dodgers than most
Speaker 2: teams out there. I'm not going to say that's an excuse,
Speaker 2: but that's from a current player, maybe a contributing factor.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Ray in Georgia listening on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app Hi Ray, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hey Dave, thanks for getting me on.
Speaker 6: And I just have a couple of things.
Speaker 5: The first thing is, sometimes in a slump like this,
Speaker 5: you got to make things happen. And when I saw
Speaker 5: bets coming up after a tiny got I forget who
Speaker 5: got on ahead of uh? That's I say, lay down
Speaker 5: a bun.
Speaker 11: Try to get.
Speaker 5: A bunt down that ignites a team. Looks like Dave
Speaker 5: Robertson in the World Series, I mean in the playoffs
Speaker 5: against the Yankee set one stolen base and you can
Speaker 5: maybe start a rally there. And just that's why I'm
Speaker 5: glad word for it is back. This guy is like
Speaker 5: a mosquito that's gonna that can ignite a team in
Speaker 5: a sense maybe by just hustling. You know what I'm
Speaker 5: saying is and so uh Pa has too. He's so
Speaker 5: young he can make himself more valuable by learning the
Speaker 5: bun Morey Willis is in heaven right now saying what's
Speaker 5: going on with these Dodgers. And one other thing, see
Speaker 5: see what you think about is when I look at
Speaker 5: uh Will Smith being out a lineup. He's a right
Speaker 5: handed back. It gives a lot of a protection to
Speaker 5: our lefties too, and he has power and right now
Speaker 5: we don't have that right now.
Speaker 2: So one, yeah, they're not getting a lot from the
Speaker 2: right handed hitters. That's pretty apparent. Ray, And I'm glad
Speaker 2: you brought up Will Smith because the Dodgers miss him
Speaker 2: and they're going to miss Dalton Rushing's bad as well.
Speaker 2: I mean, Dalton Rushing had an ops of over eight
Speaker 2: hundred eighty at twelve home runs. Uh, they're missing the
Speaker 2: offense from their catchers, but especially Will Smith from the
Speaker 2: right side.
Speaker 3: Great call, Ray, thanks a.
Speaker 2: Lot for listening to us, and we'll see you in
Speaker 2: Atlanta later this month.
Speaker 5: You got it, you got it in The heat takes
Speaker 5: care of day.
Speaker 6: Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Hey, the heat's everywhere.
Speaker 2: El ninil eight sixty six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers fall to the Cups
Speaker 2: tonight five to one. We're gonna take a time out
Speaker 2: when we continue more of your phone calls. We have
Speaker 2: two lines open at eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy.
Speaker 3: Also, you'll hear from Dave Raws.
Speaker 2: On what he shared with us exclusively regarding the extent
Speaker 2: of Dalton Rushing's elbow injuries.
Speaker 3: So don't go anywhere more.
Speaker 2: Dodger talk on a five to seventy LA Sports Cubs
Speaker 2: beat the Dodgers five to one.
Speaker 9: Hi, this is Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 4: This is the home of the back to back world
Speaker 4: champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 9: Don't miss a moment of the quest. Four to three, P.
Speaker 12: Two one, Tucker slings hits a high drive the left
Speaker 12: center field, caring this ball headed back and his gone
Speaker 12: and office a field home run Kyle Tucker. He comes
Speaker 12: back to Wrigley Field and picks up his tenth pome
Speaker 12: runner this season, getting the Dodgers on the board and
Speaker 12: it is.
Speaker 3: One to nothing.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker turned the booze into silence and cheers from
Speaker 2: the Dodger fans that were here at Wrigley Field, and
Speaker 2: that was the only run the Dodgers score tonight as
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Speaker 2: Jewelers own the dream. With the Dodgers loss and another win,
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks are just eight and a half games back
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers now, and more importantly, the Dodgers now
Speaker 2: are tied with the Atlanta Braves for the number two
Speaker 2: seed in the National League. The Brewers are two games
Speaker 2: better than both the Dodgers and Braves for the top
Speaker 2: seed in the National League. And I just mentioned to
Speaker 2: our friend Ray and Georgia the Dodgers will be in
Speaker 2: Atlanta to take on the Braves later this month and
Speaker 2: that should be a big series as it as it
Speaker 2: pertains to seeding in the National League postseason. We all
Speaker 2: know the top two seeds get to skip that wildcard series.
Speaker 2: If you're the number three seed, you have to play
Speaker 2: the top wildcard team in an NLDS matchup. So, uh,
Speaker 2: that's that's something that is steering the Dodgers in the
Speaker 2: face after losing their fifth in a row. Eight six
Speaker 2: six seven, two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Dave and to Luca Lake. You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk Live from Wrigley Field.
Speaker 6: Hi, Dave, heyy Dave, how you doing, man? You're the man.
Speaker 6: Always love listening to your show. Congratulations on being connected
Speaker 6: with some great trajectory here. I got two questions. I
Speaker 6: always wonder if when a team, you know, like the
Speaker 6: Dodgers come out and alys scratch one run, is it
Speaker 6: bad hitting or is it good pitching? You know? And
Speaker 6: you could say that with any kind of sporting event,
Speaker 6: like is it good d or great offense or vice versa.
Speaker 6: Then the other thing, a sense of urgency. Sense of
Speaker 6: urgency is something you can't fake. Everybody says, oh, you
Speaker 6: gotta have a sense of urgency create sense of urgency,
Speaker 6: but says of urgency is something that comes from deep inside,
Speaker 6: when you really have that feared when you're like a
Speaker 6: wounded animal. So my question to you is, at what
Speaker 6: point do you think the Dodgers will have a sense
Speaker 6: of urgency because in the past they haven't had one,
Speaker 6: and they got punched in the mouth going into the
Speaker 6: playoffs when they had one hundred plus wins. So this
Speaker 6: is a mine.
Speaker 2: Dave, pump pump the brakes. You're talking about something that happened.
Speaker 3: Three years ago. We're talking about the here and now.
Speaker 2: They're the reigning back to back World Series champions, So
Speaker 2: I would say they've had a sense of urgency.
Speaker 6: Come on, well, yeah, no, I get I get that, and.
Speaker 2: I had the best record in baseball for a long
Speaker 2: stretch of time. This is just about the ebbs and
Speaker 2: flows about a season, and right now the offense is
Speaker 2: in a little bit of a funk. But I'm not
Speaker 2: going to make these broad brushes of statements to declare
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are not playing with urgency where they flat
Speaker 2: against the Red Sox, I guess so the Red Sox
Speaker 2: are a hungry young team because they're fighting for their
Speaker 2: playoff lives. The Dodgers are not. And in that series
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium, the Dodgers threw out a bullpen game
Speaker 2: and image shean in that series. So come on, let's
Speaker 2: take a step back and examine what's exactly going on.
Speaker 6: And let me just say one thing about the Cops.
Speaker 6: Credit to them. They look like a legit contender. There's
Speaker 6: no doubt.
Speaker 3: Oh they're legit.
Speaker 2: And they just got Clay Holmes and Kevin Gossman, and
Speaker 2: they just acquired a really good reliever from the Angels
Speaker 2: and Zephyr John. You saw that tonight as well. So
Speaker 2: all of that has contributed to the Cubs beating the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in the first two games of this series. Hey Dave,
Speaker 2: great call, Thanks a lot for the phone call. Eight
Speaker 2: sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Trek Scuoble went six innings tonight, struck out six,
Speaker 2: allowed just two earned runs but no offense from the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And look, like I said, I'm not going to say
Speaker 2: the Dodgers don't have urgency.
Speaker 3: He was going back three years ago, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't have the sense of urgency in those playoffs.
Speaker 2: Series in twenty two and twenty three. They thought they
Speaker 2: could just show up be the Dodgers and beat the
Speaker 2: Padres and Diamondbacks, and we found out you can't do that.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers have made major adjustments in their mindset
Speaker 2: going into the postseason each of the last two years
Speaker 2: and it's resulted in winning back to back championships. And look,
Speaker 2: the biggest concerns right now would be the Dodgers' lineup,
Speaker 2: and you go back to last year. The Dodgers ran
Speaker 2: Michael Confordo out every single day all season long, and
Speaker 2: then when at time to get to the postseason, they
Speaker 2: left them off the playoff roster. So even though right
Speaker 2: now Mookie Beds probably shouldn't be hitting fifth, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to overreact that they have to move him down immediately.
Speaker 6: But.
Speaker 3: You have lost five in a row.
Speaker 2: He is stalling a lot of rallies, and when the
Speaker 2: Dodgers talk about passing the baton, he's not really doing that,
Speaker 2: not even taking walks, And to me, that's a big
Speaker 2: problem because he's had his lowest walk rate. And I'm
Speaker 2: not putting this all on Mooki Ohtani really hasn't done
Speaker 2: a lot here. In the last couple of weeks. When
Speaker 2: he does, the Dodgers have a good chance to win.
Speaker 2: Max Munsey's been in a little bit of a funk
Speaker 2: outside of a couple of key home runs on the
Speaker 2: last road trip. Ta Oscar Hernandez to me, should be
Speaker 2: hitting behind Freeman and Munseie right now at this point,
Speaker 2: because with one swing he could give you a three
Speaker 2: run lead. And Tommy Edmond he's cooled off since he
Speaker 2: came back. But trust me, losing Dalton Rushing and not
Speaker 2: having Will Smith hurts the offense, especially at the bottom
Speaker 2: of the order. Speaking of Dalton Rushing, we got a
Speaker 2: little bit more detail on the extent of his right
Speaker 2: elbow injury. Dave Roberts joins us every week on the
Speaker 2: Manager's Meeting presented by Downy Hunday, and here's what he
Speaker 2: told us as far as the Rushing's injury and the extent.
Speaker 3: Of it and how long they may be without Rushing.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts is our guest the Manager's Meeting presented by
Speaker 2: Downey Hyundai. All Right, you got Trek Scooble on the mound,
Speaker 2: and you got Ben rhurtvid catching. Ben Rurtvitt is back,
Speaker 2: So is Hunter Fiducca. Where is the Dodgers catching situation
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 8: You know, obviously with the news of Dalton having a
Speaker 8: slightly torn UCL, I think it is. So we're going
Speaker 8: to keep the hitting going. You know, he's gonna have
Speaker 8: a slow program with a throwing don't know what that
Speaker 8: looks like, you know, for the rest of the season
Speaker 8: and throughout the postseason. Fortunately, it happened the day before
Speaker 8: the trade deadline. So here we are a day after
Speaker 8: we had two catchers on our roster and the day
Speaker 8: today we're looking at two new catchers. And thankfully, you know,
Speaker 8: we had wrote Vet last year caught in some postseason games,
Speaker 8: we had Fidusha last year in the years prior, so
Speaker 8: there's a lot of familiarity and so we certainly raised
Speaker 8: the floor on the catching.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: That's Dave Roberts giving us that update on Dalton rushing
Speaker 2: before the game that he does have a slight tear
Speaker 2: of his right UCL. And look, that's that's a big
Speaker 2: problem if you're a catcher that needs to throw.
Speaker 3: But they're going to keep the hitting going.
Speaker 2: Remember, Otani was going to have Tommy John surgery a
Speaker 2: few years back, and he's still finished out the season
Speaker 2: for the Angels. So you can still hit with a
Speaker 2: torn UCLA. You you cel whether it's slight or major.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's unfortunate for Dalton Rushing. That's a that's
Speaker 2: a big blow. I was just singing the praises of
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing, how well he's controlled his emotions and how
Speaker 2: well he's swinging the bat. That's a big loss for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. I'm glad they got Ben, Roard Finn and
Speaker 2: Hunter Fiducca, but they're not Will Smith and Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Century City. Ben, You're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk Live from Wrigley Field.
Speaker 13: Hi Ben, Hi, good evening. I'm gonna give away my
Speaker 13: age here, but you know, my first great memory is
Speaker 13: a Dodger stadium, Eric Ganne, Welcome to the jungle. You know,
Speaker 13: the stadium shaking, big Kenley fan as well. When I
Speaker 13: was a bit older, So I was so amped up
Speaker 13: to see the Diaz signing this offseason. Really excited. His
Speaker 13: first few appearances, you know, pretty worried and then it
Speaker 13: made sense, Okay, he's you know, injured and getting that
Speaker 13: magic new fangled surgery, and I've been worried you know,
Speaker 13: obviously a lot of the focus on the offense, uh,
Speaker 13: the hitting, but I gotta say, you know, his last
Speaker 13: two appearances now post injury. Of course you've got to
Speaker 13: be patient and everything, but yeah, it's I'm getting kind
Speaker 13: of flashbacks to uh, sort of the Tanner Scott experience
Speaker 13: last year.
Speaker 2: And all right, bet let me let me ease your concerns,
Speaker 2: because yes, in three games since coming back from surgery,
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz has not looked like Edwin Diaz. And during
Speaker 2: the rehab process he was talking about getting the feel
Speaker 2: for the slider because the slider was not where he
Speaker 2: wanted it to be, and it hasn't been where he
Speaker 2: needs it to be. Like I said, going back the
Speaker 2: last you know, five years, I guess recent history here
Speaker 2: talking to Dodger hitters about Edwin Diaz is facing him,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers have gone to Diaz in the past
Speaker 2: when he was with the Mets. They say, if he
Speaker 2: doesn't have his slider, then his fastball is very hittable
Speaker 2: because that all you're sitting on. You don't have to
Speaker 2: respect the slider. So the slider is his wipeout pitch.
Speaker 2: That is the pitch. Uh, don't get distracted with the
Speaker 2: ninety eight. The slider is the pitch, and Nico Horner
Speaker 2: was sitting on the fastball because he knew Diaz did
Speaker 2: not have his money slider tonight. So that's the issue,
Speaker 2: and that's another part of the equation. Evan Phillips Edwin
Speaker 2: Diaz are coming back after not pitching for long periods
Speaker 2: of time. So all of these things are a perfect
Speaker 2: storm to have a five game losing streak and just
Speaker 2: not look like themselves so far. But Evan pitch good tonight.
Speaker 2: He was solid, I guess tonight.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, no, I believe in those guys in the
Speaker 13: bullpen in general.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So that's it right there. I mean, look, if it's
Speaker 2: going this way for d as ten more appearances from now,
Speaker 2: Ben than we can have a serious conversation. And at
Speaker 2: the end of the year. I have an interesting question
Speaker 2: for Dodger fans. We all expect them to go to
Speaker 2: the World Series and win it, who would be the
Speaker 2: pitcher that gets the last out? Because in their previous
Speaker 2: three World Series it wasn't their closer, It was Juliorius,
Speaker 2: it was Walker Bueller, and it was Yamamoto last year.
Speaker 13: I mean, there's still no one in the world. I
Speaker 13: want to see more than Yamamoto and the noun when
Speaker 13: things really matter. He's my guy.
Speaker 3: What can I say?
Speaker 2: He's all of our guys been Thank you for the
Speaker 2: phone call. World Series MVP. Let's go out to Eric
Speaker 2: in Hollywood. Hi, Eric, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Dodger Dition.
Speaker 11: Oh Man, oh Dave, Wow.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 11: We're kind of like a little boozy streak or something
Speaker 11: like that. Doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: We're the two time World Series tans.
Speaker 11: We're gonna have to deal with stuff like this during
Speaker 11: the regular season. It's fine. We're gonna retool, we're gonna recalibrate,
Speaker 11: we're gonna get things going. It sucks that Dlphin's got
Speaker 11: that UCL That kind of bums me out, But you
Speaker 11: know what, We've got all the weapons in our cachet
Speaker 11: and we're ready to go, but we just need to
Speaker 11: calibrate things. So doctor Nash, relax.
Speaker 6: We got this, We got this.
Speaker 11: You know what I mean. And Yo, I gotta give
Speaker 11: you some DV yo.
Speaker 6: Ben Robred, everybody.
Speaker 11: Was telling you, everybody was calling you and saying, hey, man,
Speaker 11: let's get in, let's get Ben back, and You're like, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 11: and Drew was like, all right, let's bring back durham
Speaker 11: Man Road back. So Drew's got to sump up his sleeve,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean. He's bringing him back and
Speaker 11: Hunter Producia. But hey, man, I don't care about this series.
Speaker 11: I just want the Dodgers to recalibrate. I love the
Speaker 11: fact that everybody's talking about us. We went through the
Speaker 11: nineties and the two thousands and it sucked, and now
Speaker 11: we are at the top of the hill and this
Speaker 11: feels good. So that being said, Dodger Nation should let's
Speaker 11: stay positive. Let's stay good.
Speaker 6: We got this. dB.
Speaker 11: Tell me something about Chicago hot dogs. Is that something to.
Speaker 6: Eat over there or what?
Speaker 11: Or is it New York hot dogs? Of me eat
Speaker 11: over there?
Speaker 2: I haven't had any hot dogs here, but the deep
Speaker 2: dish is good. Eric, thank you for that monologue. I
Speaker 2: love the energy and that's a great way to walk
Speaker 2: it off tonight. And yes, I did say Ben Rortvitt
Speaker 2: was not the only catcher in the world if the
Speaker 2: Dodgers needed to acquire one, but he's a good one,
Speaker 2: especially when you find out that Dalton Rushing as a
Speaker 2: tear in his ucl.
Speaker 3: So Ben Rohdfitt.
Speaker 2: I guess the biggest silver lining in all this is
Speaker 2: that if you're gonna find out about an injury as
Speaker 2: severe as Rushing has, at least you found.
Speaker 3: Out before the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: Because if this happened on August fourth, the Dodgers would
Speaker 2: be in a heap of.
Speaker 3: Trouble as far as they're catching situation.
Speaker 2: So that's why, I I hate to say it, I
Speaker 2: was foreshadowing something there a week ago. What if Dalton
Speaker 2: Rushing gets hurt, who do you have? And I was
Speaker 2: not expecting this to happen, But man, the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: very fortunate that, you know. I don't even want to
Speaker 2: say they're fortunate, but I mean, dang it, Dalton Rushing
Speaker 2: with a torn ucl. Hopefully Will Smith comes back here
Speaker 2: in September. But luckily for the Dodgers, it happened before
Speaker 2: three o'clock Pacific time yesterday and the trade deadline. Royt
Speaker 2: Finn and Hunter Faducca, who were traded for each other
Speaker 2: last year, are now teammates, so a little bit of
Speaker 2: a surreal experience for both those guys. Tomorrow the Dodgers
Speaker 2: will try to avoid the sweep. You know what, like
Speaker 2: Tommy Lasorda said, I could find anybody to try. I
Speaker 2: need somebody to do well. You got the right guy,
Speaker 2: Uncle Tommy. Eric lower is on the mound and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are undefeated this year. When Loward takes the mound. Overall,
Speaker 2: he's six and five with an ERA of four fifty,
Speaker 2: going up against left handers Showta Imanaga, who is seven.
Speaker 3: And nine with an ERA of three sixty seven.
Speaker 2: Our coverage begins tomorrow morning at ten am, first pitch
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Speaker 2: The final score tonight at the Dodgers fall to the
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