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We 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.840 got this to get in on the show called eight 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.680 six six not eighty seven, two five seven day and 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.199 be sure to follow Dodger Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.240 Here's your host, David Vasse. 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.800 Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vase with you until nine 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.160 thirty after the Cardinals take Game one of this three 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:59.120 game series by a final score of seven to two 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.960 eight six nine eight seven two five seventy is the 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.040 phone number coming up In the next thirty minutes. You'll 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.520 hear from Emi Sheen. We had a chance to catch 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.000 up with tom Y Edman. We'll get an update on 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:15.640 how his right ankle is responding after undergoing off season 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.080 surgery to try to surgically repair that right ankle that 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.279 has been giving him problems for the last two years. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.600 So you'll hear part of our conversation with Tommy Edmund 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.319 But as far as tonight goes for the Dodgers, it 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.039 just was another flat night. And I know when a 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.360 team's not hitting and not scoring runs and not stringing 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:41.039 hits together, they will look flat. But you know, having 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.080 a chance to hear what Adrian Gonzalez and No More 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.400 Garcia Para had to say on Sports Net LA after 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.440 the final out, the way they describe it is something 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.960 that you know, I couldn't put into words. They're two 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.440 of the best hitters of their generations and actually had 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.240 an idea of what they were doing and what was 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.480 going on in the game, and I thought they hit 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.960 the nail on the head, not only when it comes 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.960 to Andy Pajz, but everybody tonight seem to be trying 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.760 to cover too much of the strike zone and you 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.440 can't do that. You'll hear some of the best hitters 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.120 like Adrian Gonzalez and No Mar Garcia Para, they'll say 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.680 you can't cover the outside part of the plate and 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.720 the inside part of the plate you can't cover down 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.920 in the way and up and in. You've got to 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.560 know your strike zone. And that goes back to what 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:34.240 people always say, like Adrian and Nomar, you gotta know 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.680 who you are, you gotta know what your strike zone is. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.760 And we saw a lot of indecisive swings tonight. We 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.120 saw show Hey Otani take a fastball right down the 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:49.720 middle for strike three to end the seventh inning. So 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.679 we saw the Cardinals do the exact opposite. I thought 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.640 they brought up a great point. Jordan Walker was a 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.160 great example of that. He was first pitch swinging. He 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.760 was ready to hit on the first pitch. Did not 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.880 want to get into any counts with Emit Sheen where 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.040 he's gonna throw his slider or his change up. No, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.200 he knows Emit Sheen relies on his fastball, So he 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.279 was going to be ready to hit she Hen's fastball 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.200 early and often, same thing with a Guardo Enriquez who 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.800 throws one hundred miles an hour. Jordan Walker hits a 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.519 ball down the left field line for a two run double, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.240 ends up at third base because of a bad play 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.400 by taoscar Hernandez. So it just seems like a lot 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.800 of guys, some of the best, are very indecisive at 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.880 the plate, and maybe to a certain extent. You know, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.360 this is just a theory, and they threw it out there, 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.720 and I feel like at times it does hamper the Dodgers. 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:54.480 They have paralysis by analysis, too much information, too much guessing. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.880 This guy is gonna throw this pitch in this count, 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.000 Look for this pitch in this out. No, look for 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.440 the pitch in your strike zone. That's what Andy Pai 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.280 has was doing so well in spring training and to 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.680 start the year. Now all of a sudden, he's expanding 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.760 his strike zone, and you saw tonight the reason why 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.479 he's in a slump. Now, in the fourth inning, he 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.719 swings at a pitch out of the strike zone. Not 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:25.600 his pitch grounds into a soft double play to end 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.280 the inning. In the fourth and then in the sixth inning, 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.599 first and third, two outs, he works a full count 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:37.480 somehow and swings at a pitch down in the zone 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.200 and it was ball four. You gotta know, if you're 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:46.080 Andy pa Has, I gotta keep the line moving. Max Muncie, 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:51.080 our most consistent and best hitter is on deck behind me. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.159 I need to get on to force the issue to 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:59.080 load the bases again against George Soriano, who didn't really 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.880 have command of the strike zone in that inning, and 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.719 he swung at a pitch outside the strike zone, popped 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.600 it up shallow center field, and the inning was over 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.279 and Muncie was on deck. I'm not pointing the finger 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.800 at Pajez, but my point is when you're in a 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.240 slump like Paz, the game will find you. The biggest 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.719 moments of the game will find you. And Jose Mota 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:23.960 brought up a great point just a couple of weeks ago. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.320 We wanted the game to find Pahz, but right now 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.279 he looks like the Paez of last year, and same 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.679 with Freddie Freeman on the home stand. The game found 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.240 him and he was in a slump. He was three 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:40.080 for twenty five on this last homestand including zero for 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.400 five the day before yesterday, and tonight in a ballpark 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.080 that he loves to hit in. He started to hit 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.839 the ball hard up the middle, two for four with 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:54.400 a run score tonight, so that was encouraging. But my 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.320 point being on the offense, they just got to get 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.920 back to not trying to do it all them So 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:05.800 going back to twenty fifteen, the Dodgers always talked about 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.600 passing the baton. That's when they're at their best. That's 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.400 when they were at their best at times last year. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.440 That's when they were at their best the year before. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.239 When they start trying to be the hero, things really 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.039 fall apart. The chain gets broken and you go homerless 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:29.280 for four straight games. That hasn't happened since twenty twenty three. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.760 And I told you last night on off day Dodger 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.680 talk that the Cardinals can hit the ball out of 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.480 the ballpark. The Dodgers lead major League Baseball with seventy 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.960 five home runs, while the Cardinals coming into tonight had 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.680 seventy one home runs. The problem was their pitching staff 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.960 gave up thirty seven home runs. It's the pitching for 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.359 the Cardinals right now that is holding them back. But 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.200 tonight Nolan Gorman and Alec Burlison homer and off Emmi Shean, 0:06:56.279 --> 0:07:00.320 who had eight strikeouts, which is great, but they were 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.720 jumping all over his first pitch fastballs and he wasn't 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:08.680 adjusting and then things kind of snowballed him after that. Bok, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.200 you heard Dave Roberts say that speaking of Emmit Shean. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.679 Let's go back to Saint Louis to hear from Shean 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.080 on sports and at LA met some mistake. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.160 I didn't share that I was switching to the to 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.360 the stretch. I know the rule, it was just in 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.200 the moment I didn't declare it, and yeah, unacceptable. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.240 And you look at just kind of what followed after that. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.040 Did it just feel like things kind of went in 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:30.040 a little haywire there? 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.040 Yeah, I mean maybe a little bit. Just gotta have 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:39.160 a better execution on that fastball to Gorman. Other than that, yeah, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.280 just frustrating. You know, stuff wasn't where it should be. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.960 Delivery is still a little out of whack, but we're 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:47.720 going to stay on it. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.760 So it just seemed like Emmit Sheen was fighting himself tonight. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.400 I know the fastball was on and off good, but 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.120 he just didn't seem to have command of his pitches 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.320 and was getting front strated with himself and in turn, 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.960 it was snowballing on him, especially in that first inning. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.200 The Cardinals scored their three runs with two outs in 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.120 that first inning. If he's able to get that last out, 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.600 maybe it's a different game for IMiD Shean. But that 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.280 first inning went a lot longer than it should have, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.400 and the Cardinals were able to take advantage of a 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.400 frustrated she Hen in that first inning with two outs, 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.040 got the first two outs, couldn't get the last one. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.040 Celebrate ninety years of racing at Santa Anita Park every 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.680 Friday through Sunday with millions and payouts every race day. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.960 For heart pounding action and new experiences, visit Santa Anita 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.400 dot com slash events. Eight six six, nine eighty seven 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.080 two five seventy is the phone number. You know, the 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.960 narrative coming into the game tonight, because this series is 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:53.000 going to have three guys that were in the bullpen 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.720 at times last year. We're in the minor leagues at 0:08:55.760 --> 0:09:01.160 times last year. Are not glass now, Yamamoto, Otan, right, Sheehan, 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:06.200 Roki Robleski are all pitching in this series this weekend. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.319 And we all know Blake Snell is on his way back, 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.960 if not by the end of the next homestand then 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.840 in Anaheim at the beginning of the next road trip 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.880 because he is going to pitch Sunday for Oklahoma City. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.200 He is going to make one more rehab start after that, 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.000 so it would line him up for the Giant Series 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.359 at the end of that four game series or in Anaheim. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.920 So he is coming back. He is the two time 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.040 Cyung Award winner. The Dodgers need him, and that is 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.560 going to make their rotation even more devastating. With the 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:47.200 way glassnow's pitching, you're getting Otani Yamamoto and now you're 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.040 getting Blake Snell back. I mean, name a better four 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:54.240 in baseball than those four starters. But nonetheless, the narrative 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.679 coming into the game tonight was this series is somewhat 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:01.199 of a tryout for these three guys. I got news 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.840 for you. Andrew Friedman is not going to let one 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:09.400 start in Saint Louis dictate what his plan is for 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.360 any one of these three guys. He already knows what 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.880 he's going to do, barring an injury. That's what it's funny. 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.560 There's a lot of new people covering the Dodgers, so 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.880 they don't understand that. Obviously they don't know Andrew Friedman. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.120 He is not going to allow one start in Saint 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.240 Louis to dictate whether or not Emid Shehan is out 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.440 of the rotation, or if Roki Sazaki is out of 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.880 the rotation, or if Justin Robleski is going back to 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:42.720 the bullpen. That's not how he operates. It was evident 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.760 by the way the Dodgers opening day roster was laid 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.760 out this year. It was obvious in past years. It's 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.920 obvious how they navigate a regular season. It's not about 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.280 one start being a tryout in the middle of the year. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.880 It's about looking at the schedule, looking at the matchups, 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.040 looking at the state of their bullpen to see whether 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.760 or not one of these three guys can help their bullpen. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.160 Is Robleski better suited to help the Dodgers in the 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:17.839 bullpen and maybe combo him on a start with Roki Sasaki? 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.360 Is Emi Shean better for the team? Do the puzzles 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.480 fit better for a guy that has struggled to get 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.720 through a lineup more than twice this year? Is he 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:34.040 a better fit to piggyback a erratic Roki Sasaki? Now, 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:38.280 if you took all three of these guys, Robleski and 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:42.760 Shehan obviously have had better results. I would say Robleski 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.880 way better results than Roki Shean. Mixed results, but still 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.880 better than Roki Sasaki. Uh, the Dodgers are gonna look 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.319 at what he does tomorrow and figure out whether or 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.120 not if he's going to continue to walk five guys 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.880 and only you know, pitch four innings, if that's going 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.480 to work for them. But like I said, the Dodgers 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.880 are not going to allow one start this weekend to 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.240 dictate whether or not one of these guys is out 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.680 of the rotation. That's not how Andrew Freeman works. That's 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.480 not the way that they've won back to back World series. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.520 That's not the way they've mastered the regular season. So 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.320 can we please stop with this being a so called 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:29.040 tryout series for all three of these guys, because it's not. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.200 I got news for you. Andrew Freeman has already plotted 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.640 out what he's going to do when Blake Snell comes 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.120 back in a week and a half, not a few weeks, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:45.400 not a few starts, two more rehab starts, two more weeks. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.320 And it's not an indictment on Sheehan or Robleski. It's 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.400 about what's best for the team. And Robleski said this 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.000 coming out of spring training. Of course I want to 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.840 be a starter. Of course I know I can be 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.400 a starter, but I'll do whatever it takes to be 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:05.600 on this team. Same with Sheehan. He may be ultimately 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.640 in the same type of bucket as a Dustin May 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.680 and maybe better suited for the bullpen, because right now 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.280 he's been, you know, not very effective either, and he 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.920 hasn't been really on his game since day one of 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.560 spring training for whatever reason. His mechanics just haven't been 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.480 that good. So are his mechanics going to get better 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.800 in the bullpen? It's a lot harder to work on 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:33.679 your mechanics in the bullpen, it really is. So maybe 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.440 he gets sent down to work out those mechanical issues 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.440 be more consistent to help the Dodger rotation. Now, the 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:45.760 whole Rokie thing, that's a whole different topic that, you know, 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:51.680 I'm not sure anybody really fully understands, because our eyes 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.160 would tell you that maybe he's not major league ready 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.480 right now. Eight six six nine eight seven two five 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.439 seventy is the phone number. Want to remind you that 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:07.959 one week from yesterday, this next Thursday, next Thursday, May seventh, 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.440 I'm gonna be out at our friends downy Hunday. My 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.080 guy Sam is putting on a party with Alex Vesia 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.280 and myself from four to five o'clock. We are going 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.800 to interview Vessia. We're gonna have a good time. There's 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.840 gonna be a DJ there's gonna be food, there's gonna 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:28.200 be drinks. 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Eight 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.960 six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:30.600 phone number. Uh. Look, when the Dodgers are flat like this, 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.200 they're not really fun to watch and you're just wondering, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.920 how can all these great hitters go into a slump 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.240 at the same time. And that's That's one of those 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.480 baseball mysteries that are hard to understand. We always just 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.920 lean on the default that hitting is contagious. When you're 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.520 going good, everybody's feeling great and you're rolling. Other times, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.520 when you're in a slump, it's contagious and everybody's cold. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.200 But when that happens, everybody wants to be the hero. 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.080 And then you start pressing, and that's when it starts 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.480 to look like it looked tonight. You start expanding your zone, 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.840 your strike zone, and you swing at pitches out of 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.840 the strike zone and not in a place that you 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.359 can do some damage with. And I think we're seeing that. Really, 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.719 the only Dodger that has been consistent is Max Munsey, 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.240 and I know there's been a lot written about him 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.320 in the last week about the eyeglasses, about all that. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.080 I mean, if you go back to what we talked 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.560 about last year, so many of you were off the 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:35.760 Munseie bandwagon but didn't understand until he came back his 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:40.480 function in the lineup. Yes, he's he came into the 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.639 league as a three true outcome player walk, home run, 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.159 or strike out, but he has made a concerted effort 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.560 to be a much better hitter than that. And the 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.320 one thing that wasn't written about when it comes to 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:59.280 Max Munsey's worth is how many pitches he sees per 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:03.920 at bat, understands the situation, understands whether or not it's 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:08.200 time to ambush the first pitch, whether or not depending 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.080 on who's hitting in front of him. Like Andy Paz, 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.720 who swings at everything, is it time for him to 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.280 be a little bit more patient and go deeper into 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.320 the count. That is the function of Max Munsey. And 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.080 you know what, I know what Dave Roberts is thinking. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.679 The bottom third of the order against the lefty like 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.760 Matthew Libertore. I know what he's thinking. I need Muncy 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:34.480 in that area sandwiched between Rojas and Paz because they 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.919 may especially Pahz will swing at the first pitch, and 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.439 you need a guy it attacks the opposing pitcher. But 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:46.439 Taoscar Hernandez is hitting two thirty eight, he's not really 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.639 doing much power. If I'm Dave Roberts, you know who's 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.160 hitting cleanup for me tomorrow, It's Max Munsey. Let's get 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.040 back to the guys that got you there, right, Max 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:01.199 Munsey should be hitting cleanup. Kyle tu probably should be 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.200 hitting fifth or sixth in this lineup right now, that's 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.240 where he did the most damage when he was with 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.320 the Astros, when he was hitting fifth behind guys like 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:14.320 Bregman and jor Don Alvarez. Let's get back to Max 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:18.480 Munsey being the cleanup hitter. If this lineup is that stagnant, 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.679 and I hate to say this, but he is. He 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.600 has the second most home runs on the team. He 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:30.200 has seventeen RBIs, his ops is almost thirteen hundred. He 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.240 right now is the hottest Dodger hitter. And his name's 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.119 Dalton Rushing. And he didn't get in at bat tonight. 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.159 And I know, if you're Dave Roberts, it's hard to 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.919 get him in a bat because Freddie Freeman's at first base, 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.080 Will Smith is catching, so he can't get in there 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:50.560 every night. But I'm just letting you know that right now, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.959 with this lineup, with so many guys scuffling, when you 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.520 don't have Dalton Rushing in this lineup, it's not the 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.720 same at least right now. The month of April belonged 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:06.080 to Dalton Rushing and Max Munsey on this team, more 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:10.080 Rushing than anybody else. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.480 two five seventy is the phone number. And don't get 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.520 me wrong, I am not saying that Dalton Rushing should 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:20.720 split time with Will Smith because that's only going to 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:24.280 hurt Will Smith. And Will Smith to me, along with 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:30.960 Max Munsey, are the two most underrated Dodgers period, the 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:36.280 two most underrated Dodgers. Max Munsey's defense has been stellar 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.760 this year. It was really good last year. If it 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:46.600 wasn't for his incredible stab at Andres Jimenez's line drive 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.639 in the eighth inning of last year's Game seven, the 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.119 Blue Jays win the World Series. If it wasn't for 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.399 Max Munsey's home run to pull the Dodgers within a 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.000 run off a tree is savage in Game seven of 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:02.320 the World Series, the Dodgers don't win the World Series. 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:06.840 There is no Miguel Rojas game tying home run. Will 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:09.760 Smith hit the go ahead home run in the eleventh 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.440 inning of Game seven last year. He also caught more 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.399 innings than any other catcher in the history of the 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:21.479 World Series, including all eighteen innings. He's just not a 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.280 self promoter. He's not a guy that's gonna go on 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.800 a media tour. He's not a guy that loves to 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:29.959 be in front of the camera or the microphone, and 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:33.000 that's fine, that's him. But he's a really good teammate 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.439 and he's a really good hitter. And I would argue 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:40.439 that Muncie, will Smith and Freddie Freeman are the three 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:45.800 most clutch hitters on the Dodgers for the last three years. 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.240 Will Smith since he got here in twenty nineteen. Remember 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:53.600 walk off weekend against the Rockies. That was the beginning 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:57.160 of will Smith being one of the most clutch players 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:01.199 on the Dodgers and in Major League Baseball. The problem is, 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:06.200 will Smith and Freddie Freeman play the positions that Dalton 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:09.520 Rushing play and he got Shoe hal Tani as the 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:15.119 DH so right now, that's a problem. Eight six, six, nine, seven, two, 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:19.080 five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers are winning 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:24.840 for tom Yedman as well. He is the twenty four NLCSMVP. 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.280 He's a back to back World Series champion. He's a 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:33.119 guy that could play second, short, third, center, left, right, 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:35.879 anywhere you want to play, he could play there. But 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:40.840 he's been hampered by this right ankle since he was 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:44.080 with the Cardinals. So he finally had something done about it. 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.840 Had off season surgery and he's not eligible to come 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:51.000 off the IL until the end of this month. Whether 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.680 or not that happens still remains to be seen, because 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:57.439 he doesn't seem to me moving past running in the 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:01.280 straight line, So that makes you wonder. And I had 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:03.439 a chance to catch up with Tomy Edmond on the 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:05.600 pregame show today. 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.000 Yeah, you know, it's it's tough. It's it's tough when 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:11.440 you know, we're baseball players and you know, or a 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:13.159 lot of the time we find our value and just 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:14.840 like how we're contributing on the field. But you know, 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:16.760 I'm trying to do everything I can to, you know, 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:18.639 just stay part of the team and and be the 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:21.800 best cheerleader that I can be, and you know, just supporting, 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:24.080 supporting everybody, supporting all the guys who are going through 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:26.400 the grind and you know, hopefully I'll be a part 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:26.840 of it soon. 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:29.120 Have some of the young guys try to lean on you, 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:32.160 like Alex Freeland, maybe he's Sun Kim here and there. 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:36.040 Yeah, you know, it's it's tough. You've seeing, uh, you know, 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:39.320 seeing everybody go through the stuff of a regular season, 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:41.520 you know, all the ups and downs, and you know, 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:43.720 me not really not being able to to relate since 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:46.880