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Speaker 1: David Vase.
Speaker 2: We are live at Peco Park in San Diego after
Speaker 2: the Padres beat the Dodgers tonight by a final score
Speaker 2: of seven to one. Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse
Speaker 2: with you until eleven o'clock tonight here on AM five
Speaker 2: to seventy LA Sports. We have phone lines open at
Speaker 2: eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. You'll
Speaker 2: hear from Miguel Rojas later in the show. Obviously playing
Speaker 2: with heavy heart tonight, as many of the Major leaguers
Speaker 2: that are from Venezuela are, and obviously the earthquakes there
Speaker 2: that has devastated a lot of that country was on
Speaker 2: the mind of many people and just a reminder to
Speaker 2: everybody in Venezuela and here in the United States that, yeah,
Speaker 2: you may not have experienced that earthquake, but we've had
Speaker 2: our share of natural disasters. And I think the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and Padres, and especially the Padres who gave a moment
Speaker 2: of silence to Venezuela, they did the right thing, wearing
Speaker 2: VZ on their caps, both teams, the Padres having that
Speaker 2: moment of silence, I thought Dave Roberts said it perfectly.
Speaker 2: There's nothing that they can do right now, but it's
Speaker 2: just a message to those in Venezuela that, hey, even
Speaker 2: though we're in this baseball bubble and to a certain extent,
Speaker 2: we we acknowledge you and we know you're going through
Speaker 2: a rough time. So you'll hear from Miguel Rojas a
Speaker 2: little bit later in the show. Also, Wednesday was getaway
Speaker 2: day with all the drama with Otani and Rushing not
Speaker 2: being on the same page. I was not on the
Speaker 2: air because I was traveling with the team to San
Speaker 2: Diego after the game. We can get into that if
Speaker 2: you want. I have a little bit more thoughts on
Speaker 2: what took place there, but let's start with tonight's game.
Speaker 2: And if you go back to the eighth inning. We
Speaker 2: could work backwards just to start if you go back
Speaker 2: to the eighth inning. I said this during the Clubhouse show.
Speaker 2: To me, the Dodgers losing is you know, you don't
Speaker 2: want to lose any game, but you're not gonna win
Speaker 2: all of them. But you wanted to get Mason Miller
Speaker 2: in this game. The more you get them into a game, maybe,
Speaker 2: like the last time the Dodgers were in San Diego,
Speaker 2: they get the pitch count up. Because the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: probably the only team in baseball this year that has
Speaker 2: made Mason Miller look human. Remember I know it was
Speaker 2: over a month ago, but don't you remember when Mason
Speaker 2: Miller came in in the ninth inning of games against
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. They made him work, and they gave him
Speaker 2: a scare and they beat him. So not keeping that
Speaker 2: game at three to one in the eighth inning was frustrating,
Speaker 2: and to a certain extent, you know, another loss within
Speaker 2: the loss of the game because you wanted Miller in
Speaker 2: that game. And once the Padres scored four in the
Speaker 2: eighth off a Jonathan Hernandez, Miller sat down and he's
Speaker 2: fresh for the next two games. So to me, that
Speaker 2: was the chess match within the game tonight that the
Speaker 2: Dodgers lost. Now, as far as the offense goes, I
Speaker 2: thought the sixth inning was their best chance to score.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you may look at Tucker and Tucker did
Speaker 2: not have a good game again tonight. But to me,
Speaker 2: the key at bat was in the sixth inning with
Speaker 2: one out and it was Max Munsey who swung at
Speaker 2: the first pitch and popped up with the bases loaded.
Speaker 2: To me, that was the golden opportunity and very out
Speaker 2: of character for Max Munsey to swing at the first
Speaker 2: pitch from the left hander, and that was they kind
Speaker 2: of had him on the ropes right there. Matt Suey
Speaker 2: and Munsey really bailed him out. And then Tucker obviously
Speaker 2: got down two and it feels like he has two
Speaker 2: strikes on him every single at bat. Tucker was back
Speaker 2: in the game after missing the last two in Minnesota
Speaker 2: with back spasms, and he did not have a hit tonight.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker was zero for three with the strikeout. He's
Speaker 2: now hitting two thirty two. His ops is down to
Speaker 2: seven hundred. But to me, the at bat of the
Speaker 2: game was in that sixth inning when Max Months he
Speaker 2: swung at the first pitch and popped it up with
Speaker 2: the bases loaded. To me that that was the key
Speaker 2: at bat and Andy pajs in that inning as well
Speaker 2: in the sixth inning, what was he doing going back
Speaker 2: to first base to try to tag up on that
Speaker 2: slicing fly ball that was certainly going away in a
Speaker 2: big way from Samad Taylor in left field, from Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: There's no reason to go all the way back to
Speaker 2: first base to tag up. You got to go at
Speaker 2: the very least halfway to second base, if not just
Speaker 2: a few steps away from second base. Because of what
Speaker 2: took place, he did not get a good read on
Speaker 2: that ball. Don't know what he was doing, and it
Speaker 2: would have been he would have scored. He would have
Speaker 2: scored if he was where he needed to be on
Speaker 2: the bases. And he also blew a ca in center
Speaker 2: field tonight by Manny Machado. He should have caught that ball,
Speaker 2: and he didn't have field awareness, he didn't know where
Speaker 2: he was and that was a double. So not a
Speaker 2: great game for Andy pie Has tonight as well. Eight
Speaker 2: six six seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 2: Tonight's game brought to you by Modello MODELO the mark
Speaker 2: of a fighter. All right, let's get to Roki Sasaki.
Speaker 2: If you have listened to this show, you have heard
Speaker 2: me temper the excitement from other people about Roki Sasaki.
Speaker 2: He dominated the Angels twice. I give him a lot
Speaker 2: of credit for that, but I'll just say this, he
Speaker 2: still needs to prove it to me. You can't do
Speaker 2: it for five starts. And tonight was another example of
Speaker 2: how this guy is still in the developmental stage of
Speaker 2: his career. And the Dodgers are so fortunate to have
Speaker 2: an eight game lead, so fortunate to be able to
Speaker 2: carry a pitcher like that on their major league roster
Speaker 2: where they can make up for some of his shortcomings
Speaker 2: like tonight. But again, the first four innings of this game,
Speaker 2: he was throwing so many pitches and I was watching
Speaker 2: those guys behind him, they were just standing there. That's
Speaker 2: not conducive for winning a baseball game. So I know,
Speaker 2: people like Dylan Hernandez have written after one start against
Speaker 2: the Angels that, hey, you never know, you could see
Speaker 2: a no hitter, you could see a perfect game. Now,
Speaker 2: and here's something from after Sasaki's last start that Dylan
Speaker 2: Hernandez wrote. Now, this is in print in the California
Speaker 2: Post A Little over Excited by Dylan Hernandez. Here it
Speaker 2: is the beginning of his column Imagine the scene October playoffs.
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki on the mound, not as a reliever, as
Speaker 2: a starter. I could go on and on. If Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki is starting a game for the Dodgers in the postseason,
Speaker 2: something went terribly wrong. He's going to be in the bullpen.
Speaker 2: Blake Snaill's coming back, Dave Roberts said today he will
Speaker 2: not come back before the All Star breaks, so likely
Speaker 2: on that East Coast road trip, you're gonna have Blake
Speaker 2: snail back. You got Yamamoto, Ya gott Otani, and I
Speaker 2: fully expect the Dodgers to make a trade for another starter,
Speaker 2: whether it's Trek Schouol Bowl or somebody else. They will
Speaker 2: make a trade and solidify their postseason rotation. If Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki is making a start in the postseason, something went
Speaker 2: terribly wrong. So I'm not shooting him down. I'm just
Speaker 2: saying this is in year two of a six year
Speaker 2: development type of thing. You would hope by year three
Speaker 2: next year, that you're not having these growing pains as
Speaker 2: much as you've had the first two years of his
Speaker 2: major league career. The good news is he got the
Speaker 2: velocity back. The bad news is he still doesn't know
Speaker 2: where the ball's going sometimes, and tonight he didn't know
Speaker 2: where the ball was going a lot of times. Eight six, six, nine, eight,
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: fall to the Padres tonight seven to one. We will
Speaker 2: hear from Walker Bueller in a moment, who beat his
Speaker 2: former team. Second time he has faced the Dodgers. Last
Speaker 2: year in Boston didn't go so well for him. Tonight
Speaker 2: he went five and a third, allowed just a solo
Speaker 2: home run to Mookie Betts. Let's go out to Aliso Viejo. Dave,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk. Lead us off from Peco Park.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you very much for taking my call. I
Speaker 3: don't know what you're gonna I know, I think I
Speaker 3: know what you're gonna say. The Dodgers a way ahead
Speaker 3: the twenty two games of a five hundred twenty one Now.
Speaker 3: She and should not be a starting pitcher anymore, should
Speaker 3: be in the minor leagues with Ryan should replace him.
Speaker 3: Sazaki should be in the bullpen, pitching long release, even
Speaker 3: when the Dodgers are way ahead or way behind. Give
Speaker 3: him some linings to pitch and keep him sharp and
Speaker 3: bring up land and Knack at Wyn Dave.
Speaker 2: Dave, you're very uninformed, so let me help inform you.
Speaker 2: Number one, River Ryan is heard again with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 2: Number two Landon Knack is on the sixty day il.
Speaker 2: So two of your options are gone. And that brings
Speaker 2: to everybody's attention that the Dodgers starting depth is very
Speaker 2: thin and very fragile. Where would they be without Eric Lauer,
Speaker 2: who's done phenomenal for the Dodgers, and with River Ryan
Speaker 2: having hamstring injuries now twice. If somebody goes down in
Speaker 2: this rotation, I'm not sure who they go to. I
Speaker 2: think they have to go to a five man rotation.
Speaker 3: I'm not a doctor, but why is Tyler Glasnack with
Speaker 3: bat chat spasm out just so many months? I mean
Speaker 3: I back spasms? Correct, It must.
Speaker 2: Be a little bit more serious than backspasm's Dave, That's
Speaker 2: what I'm gathering. Uh, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to dominic in Westwood. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing dominic?
Speaker 4: Besides the loss, I am doing well. First, I just
Speaker 4: want to second my thoughts with the people in Venezuela
Speaker 4: and Miguel Rojas. I know what happened was just absolutely awful,
Speaker 4: So I'll just say that from a fan's perspective, and
Speaker 4: I also want to shout out LAFD as well. I
Speaker 4: obviously what happened in San Diego today was horrible. Uh,
Speaker 4: it doesn't feel good, but I just I just want
Speaker 4: to say this because you know, it's good to say
Speaker 4: that we're back to back champs and Machado, oh that
Speaker 4: fan the contract three times, and I just want to say, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, the Madres they're they're they're having fun today.
Speaker 4: The fans are you know, they're they're had, they had
Speaker 4: their chests out, you know. And I just want to say,
Speaker 4: we're gonna win this series in San DIEGOEP. Keep the
Speaker 4: energy up. Yet we can't win them all, so I
Speaker 4: guess we'll just take that we can't win it all
Speaker 4: Mojo today, Let's take out those Madres in San Diego.
Speaker 4: And I also just want to say this. I wanted
Speaker 4: I wanted to ask if you would agree with me
Speaker 4: on this, but I feel like us Dodger fan, I know,
Speaker 4: for affect me as a Dodger fan, I've always wanted
Speaker 4: to do this, but I just haven't gotten the mojo
Speaker 4: for it.
Speaker 5: Is.
Speaker 4: You know how everyone in the league always says be
Speaker 4: la every single time we go to their stadium where
Speaker 4: we go on the road. I would love to fire
Speaker 4: that back with the beat f D when the Padres
Speaker 4: are in Blue Heaven. So, uh yeah, that's all I
Speaker 4: have tonight. But uh, thank you David and go Dodgers.
Speaker 2: All right, Dominic, thank you for the phone call. I'm
Speaker 2: not feeling BATSD now, I'm not. There's a certain well,
Speaker 2: number one bat la is legendary because it goes back
Speaker 2: to Lakers and Celtics in the eighties, and other teams
Speaker 2: now have adopted that in a lot of different sports.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of legendary in its own right because
Speaker 2: of how it started. And somebody even asked me tonight,
Speaker 2: how did beat la start? Started in the Boston Garden
Speaker 2: when the Sixers were beating the Celtics in the eighty
Speaker 2: three Eastern Conference Finals, And this just shows you just
Speaker 2: how obsessed Boston was with the Lakers back then. They
Speaker 2: started channing b to LA because they were losing in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter and they were going to lose the series,
Speaker 2: and they started channing B to LA for the Sixers
Speaker 2: to beat the Lakers, which did happen in eighty three
Speaker 2: after Moses Malone's famous faux Faux Fox. They swept the
Speaker 2: Lakers in the finals that year. But that's how the
Speaker 2: beat La chance started. So beatsd uh, no, not so much.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. San Diego did beat La tonight seven
Speaker 2: to one. The Dodgers coming into the game tonight, did
Speaker 2: have baseball's best record, but now the Brewers hold that
Speaker 2: distinction after Milwaukee became the second team in baseball this
Speaker 2: season to win fifty games. Yeah, the Brewers are fifty
Speaker 2: to twenty nine. They're seven and a half games ahead
Speaker 2: of the Cubs in the n NOW Central. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: have the most wins in baseball still fifty two and thirty,
Speaker 2: with an eight game lead over San Diego, a ten
Speaker 2: and a half game lead over the Diamondbacks. Eight six
Speaker 2: six eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's head downstairs to the Padres Clubhouse to hear from
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler, who is always going to be remembered as
Speaker 2: a Dodger, but tonight he beat a former team and
Speaker 2: pitch really well.
Speaker 6: You know what, I think the first one in Boston
Speaker 6: was was a lot bigger emotional kind of.
Speaker 2: Load for for lack of a better word.
Speaker 6: You know, I think it's a division a team and
Speaker 6: our division. I'm going to have to fish against them,
Speaker 6: and you know, it's good to get the first one
Speaker 6: in this uniform at home, and you know, we'll see
Speaker 6: what kind of happens on the road. But you know,
Speaker 6: I haven't thrown it out of your stadium yet, which
Speaker 6: will be kind of a different thing. But to nice
Speaker 6: to have kind of a something to fall back on
Speaker 6: a little bit in terms of having some success. So,
Speaker 6: you know, happy about tonight and I'm happy for a team.
Speaker 2: How much harder is it? Or is it when you
Speaker 2: know it I'm so long, when they know you so well.
Speaker 6: You know what I think is kind of interesting about
Speaker 6: that is I was kind of the young guy over
Speaker 6: there for a long time and then was hurt kind
Speaker 6: of in my.
Speaker 2: Last couple of years and not as successful.
Speaker 6: So you know, a lot of the guys over there
Speaker 6: are not the guys that I kind of came up
Speaker 6: around all the time, the Justin Turners and Chase Utley's and.
Speaker 2: Guys like that.
Speaker 6: So it is a thing. You know, I spent a
Speaker 6: lot of time in Los Angeles, But I don't think
Speaker 6: it's kind of quite the same as as maybe somebody
Speaker 6: that you know came up with everybody and then played
Speaker 6: against the same team, So a little bit different and
Speaker 6: and you know, also a little bit the same as well.
Speaker 2: Thanks before the game.
Speaker 5: Pretty much.
Speaker 6: Of that just well, listen, I have no bad blood
Speaker 6: against against that organization. They treated me very well for
Speaker 6: a long time, and you know, I think in some
Speaker 6: way I did to them as well. And uh, my
Speaker 6: last pitch there was the last out of a World Series.
Speaker 6: I don't really know how else I would have gone
Speaker 6: out any better than that. And so yeah, I want
Speaker 6: to kick everyone that I want to beat everyone, especially
Speaker 6: in the division, and especially a team that you know,
Speaker 6: has has been so successful, you know, against the organization
Speaker 6: that I'm with now, and and I want to be
Speaker 6: a part of turning that around. And and you know,
Speaker 6: I certainly don't want to lose to them. So you know,
Speaker 6: douc Is duc is not wrong.
Speaker 2: I wanted to keep given the battles you had against
Speaker 2: this team as a member of the Dodgers, does it
Speaker 2: feel weird at all to just be on this side
Speaker 2: of that bright worri or has enough time passed now.
Speaker 6: That it's just well, so I want to know against
Speaker 6: some as a San Diego Padre, I think that's kind
Speaker 6: of you know where we're at all.
Speaker 2: Right, there's Walker Buehler. He's got that Buehler swag back.
Speaker 2: It sounds like, I mean, he's been pitching well in
Speaker 2: his last six starts. Now his era is at too,
Speaker 2: so he is finding something and he kind of had
Speaker 2: to reinvent himself when he came to the Padres, and
Speaker 2: he's been very open to that. Ruben Niebla is a
Speaker 2: really good pitching coach, and you know, obviously it is
Speaker 2: connected with Buehler to get him to buy in to,
Speaker 2: you know, not necessarily change, but you know, make some
Speaker 2: adjustments at this stage of his career. And tonight his
Speaker 2: cutter was working really well against the Dodger lefties. And
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's, uh, I'm never going to get
Speaker 2: used to seeing Walker Buehler in a Padre uniform. It's
Speaker 2: it's kind of weird, right, But that's the circumstances. I
Speaker 2: would have loved to have seen Walker Buehler come back
Speaker 2: to the Dodgers. My understanding is that they offered him
Speaker 2: close to what the qualifying offer was last year, and
Speaker 2: he declined it and signed with the Red Sox for
Speaker 2: basically the same deal. And for whatever reason, the Red
Speaker 2: Sox signed Bueller for their hopes to get to the
Speaker 2: postseason and pitch down the stretch, and right when they
Speaker 2: were getting there, they released him, and he the Phillies
Speaker 2: picked him up, and he never pitched in the NLDS
Speaker 2: for whatever reason. So I think both those organizations kind
Speaker 2: of messed it up a little bit, especially the Red Sox,
Speaker 2: who are a disaster these days as well. So happy
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller's back on the West Coast. Not happy he's
Speaker 2: pitching for the Padres. But you know, you think back
Speaker 2: to so many great moments that he had with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: beginning when he first had his first full year and
Speaker 2: Game one sixty three and twenty eighteen. You think back
Speaker 2: to Max Scherzer tapping out and Buehler having to take
Speaker 2: the ball in the twenty one NLCS in Game six
Speaker 2: on short rest. You think about, you know, how great
Speaker 2: he was in the NLCS and twenty twenty against the Braves.
Speaker 2: I mean I remember him being in a basis loaded
Speaker 2: jam and striking out the side in order to keep
Speaker 2: the game alive, keep the series alive.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And of course his iconic moment at Yankee Stadium that
Speaker 2: will go down in history. You know, everybody only talks
Speaker 2: about Yamamoto, and what Yama Moto did was extraordinary. But
Speaker 2: let's not forget about what Walker Buehler did in Game
Speaker 2: five of the twenty four World Series. I know, when
Speaker 2: these guys leave the team and other moments happened, like
Speaker 2: we saw in that epic World Series last year, we
Speaker 2: tend to forget what contributions guys like Walker Buehler made,
Speaker 2: and that's that's a big mistake. Don't ever, don't ever forget.
Speaker 2: You know how many big games he pitched for them,
Speaker 2: and just a guy that was drafted he was. He
Speaker 2: was Andrew Friedman's first draft pick. That was the guy
Speaker 2: that Andrew Friedman drafted and developed, and you know, you
Speaker 2: just would have hoped for him to stay with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: It just didn't work out. But like he said, I mean,
Speaker 2: the last pitch he ever threw for the Dodgers was
Speaker 2: closing out Game five of the World Series and celebrating
Speaker 2: the front end of these back to back championships. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Want to point out a couple of good
Speaker 2: things that are happening with the Dodgers. Everybody wants to
Speaker 2: you know, they have fifty two wins, more than any
Speaker 2: other team. And I know people of drama, and they
Speaker 2: got drama in the last game between Rushing and Otani.
Speaker 2: I know everybody likes to talk about how Tucker has
Speaker 2: struggled the first half of the year, But how about
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts. Now in his last eleven games, he's starting
Speaker 2: to find himself and that's a big deal for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: His batting average is now up to two thirty one,
Speaker 2: And you may say two thirty one, Yeah, two thirty
Speaker 2: one for a guy that was in the in the
Speaker 2: one fifties, one sixties for the better part of the
Speaker 2: first couple of months of the year. And if you remember,
Speaker 2: I said, give this guy a chance, Give this guy
Speaker 2: a chance to get one hundred and fifty two hundred
Speaker 2: at bats under his belt before you start judging his season.
Speaker 2: And here we are now, he's getting over He's over
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty at bats. He's sitting three ninety
Speaker 2: three in his last seven games, in his last fifteen games,
Speaker 2: hitting three seventeen. So uh, that's a that's a good
Speaker 2: thing for the Dodgers. Also, Tommy Edmund, this guy's back,
Speaker 2: his right ankle is feeling great. All he has done
Speaker 2: is crushed the baseball ever since he came off the IL.
Speaker 2: He's sitting three sixty with an eight twenty nine ops.
Speaker 2: So that's a big deal too, that Tommy Edmund's back.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers are going to get Taoska Hernandez back
Speaker 2: when they're in Sacramento on Monday, So that's gonna change
Speaker 2: the complexion of this lineup as well. We're gonna take
Speaker 2: a time out here on Dodger Talk when we come back,
Speaker 2: more of your phone calls. At eight sixty six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two, five seventy, we'll hear from Miguel Rojas,
Speaker 2: and I'll give you my thoughts on what took place
Speaker 2: Wednesday night in Minnesota. Since I was there, I was
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse. I spoke to Otani, spoke to Rushing,
Speaker 2: and spoke to a few people around the team about
Speaker 2: where things are at. And no, the sky's not falling. No,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are not cracking. They're as strong as ever.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Twins on Wednesday night. They come to
Speaker 2: San Diego and drop the first game of this series
Speaker 2: seven to one to San Diego and Walker Bueller on
Speaker 2: a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 2: Bets against Bueller. First pitch, crack to left.
Speaker 1: Fail back toward the wall.
Speaker 2: It is gone.
Speaker 7: Mookie Betts with a laser to left, ambushing Bueller on
Speaker 7: the first pitch of the second inning.
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts starting to get hot, starting to get his
Speaker 2: season on track. Unfortunately for the Dodgers, that was the
Speaker 2: only run they scored tonight, as the Padres beat the
Speaker 2: Dodgers tonight by a final score of seven to one.
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Speaker 2: the phone number David Vasse Live Pecho Park taking you
Speaker 2: to the top of the hour. Now, Like I mentioned
Speaker 2: on Wednesday night, it was getaway day, Tim Kates doing
Speaker 2: the show and being in the clubhouse, standing in front
Speaker 2: of Rushing, standing in front of Otani, hearing what Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts had to say, and just getting to the ballpark
Speaker 2: earlier today. Talking to a few people, everybody can agree
Speaker 2: the situation could have been handled better by both guys
Speaker 2: Rushing and Otani, but especially Dalton Rushing. And the consensus
Speaker 2: is like, hey, if Otani wants to challenge a pitch,
Speaker 2: let him challenge a pitch. If Otani wants to throw
Speaker 2: a fastball, throw a fastball. But here's the thing. Otani
Speaker 2: went to starting to call his own game with the
Speaker 2: PitchCom in the third inning after him and Rushing couldn't
Speaker 2: get on the same page. That probably should have been
Speaker 2: done to start the game because if you don't have
Speaker 2: have conviction behind your pitches, because you're not all in
Speaker 2: with your catcher, then you probably and since Otani has
Speaker 2: such a clear, direct thought process on what pitch he
Speaker 2: wants to throw and the sequence he wants to throw them,
Speaker 2: then call your own pitches from the beginning. If it's
Speaker 2: not Will Smith and it's Dalton Rushing or CHUCKI Robinson,
Speaker 2: call your own pitches. And I feel like that's something
Speaker 2: that's going to happen moving forward. And just the way,
Speaker 2: you know, things were handled in public view where everybody
Speaker 2: could see what was happening in the dugout, the disagreement,
Speaker 2: heated disagreement on the mound. Take that into the tunnel,
Speaker 2: don't do it in the dugout, don't do it on
Speaker 2: the field for everybody to see. And my understanding talking
Speaker 2: to a few players today, the bus ride was fine,
Speaker 2: on the way to the airport, the plane ride was fine.
Speaker 2: Everybody was fine. They knew how to make light of
Speaker 2: the situation. But the reality what he is is O'tani
Speaker 2: has thrown a lot of his games to Will Smith,
Speaker 2: So that kind of tells you, you know, Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: has aligned the schedule to give Smith days off, so
Speaker 2: he's ready to go when Otani pitches, well, Smith is
Speaker 2: still not doing any baseball activities. So Dalton Rushing is
Speaker 2: the Dodgers starting catcher, and Dave said that Rushing's probably
Speaker 2: going to catch Otani's game on Wednesday, and both those
Speaker 2: guys have put it behind them. But you got to
Speaker 2: have a better game plan. And the better game plan is,
Speaker 2: if Otani wants to challenge your pitch, don't say don't
Speaker 2: do it, just let him do it. And also Otani
Speaker 2: should call his own pitches from the very first pitch
Speaker 2: he throws. Problem solved. So I it was the talk
Speaker 2: of not only local and local Dodger fans, it was
Speaker 2: national fodder for everybody, and rightfully so, I mean, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are the team, they're the marquee team, and if
Speaker 2: there's any sort of drama, people are going to latch
Speaker 2: onto it. And that was good drama. That was great TV,
Speaker 2: but not so great for the way it was handled.
Speaker 2: And that's the consensus. And look, Rushing is a great guy.
Speaker 2: I maintain Rushing is a great guy. His heart is
Speaker 2: in the right place. He just needs to control himself
Speaker 2: better when the bell rings and he's between the lines.
Speaker 2: Because as Freddie Freeman said, you know when he went
Speaker 2: viral in Denver, he kind of blacks out. He can't
Speaker 2: allow that to happen. He's got to stay in the moment.
Speaker 2: He's got to be present and he can't just go
Speaker 2: into another headspace that is not conducive for anybody. So
Speaker 2: I love Rushing. I will stand by him, and he
Speaker 2: just needs to be more. He can't allow himself to
Speaker 2: go in that realm of being blacked out when he's playing, right,
Speaker 2: you got to be aware of what you're doing. You
Speaker 2: can't be emotional. And certainly when you got a guy
Speaker 2: like Otani who's the best player on the planet, you've
Speaker 2: got to, you know, follow his lead. You got to
Speaker 2: follow his lead. I think everybody agrees on that. And
Speaker 2: if you don't believe Otani's going down the right path, well,
Speaker 2: I mean he's He's done it pretty well for a
Speaker 2: long time. Now. Eight six six seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Let's go out to Kenny and Tarzana.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How's the eight one eight tonight, Kenny.
Speaker 5: Nice warm evening, very very good. So David, first of all,
Speaker 5: very impressive your Laker history with the seventy six years
Speaker 5: and Mo Cheeks and Andrew Tony and doctor j. You
Speaker 5: got it right. So I'm talking about Kyle Tucker primarily.
Speaker 5: Maybe I misunderstood you. You had some recordings I think
Speaker 5: with Dan Patrick cow and Coal going on where you
Speaker 5: talked about Tucker's walks versus strikeouts, and it seemed to
Speaker 5: me that you were surprised that he had more strikeouts
Speaker 5: this year than waks. And maybe again I've misinterpreted what
Speaker 5: you said. But for his career, I mean, he's four
Speaker 5: hundred and three versus five sixty three, so that wouldn't
Speaker 5: be a surprise to me. So maybe it is.
Speaker 2: I mean that you're taking cumulative numbers there, but look
Speaker 2: at every individual season, He's never struck out more than
Speaker 2: ninety five times. In a year. He's already struck out
Speaker 2: sixty six times. And his strikeout to walk ratio last
Speaker 2: year in the last two years is basically one to one.
Speaker 2: That's what you're looking at. Last year eighty eight strikeouts,
Speaker 2: eighty seven walks. The year before fifty four strikeouts, fifty
Speaker 2: six walks. This year sixty six strikeouts and only forty walks.
Speaker 2: That's not Kyle Tucker are.
Speaker 5: Like, well, how did he do in the second half
Speaker 5: last year? You know, all the people.
Speaker 2: He had a bad risk. He had a bad risk.
Speaker 2: He wasn't very good last year, he was hurt.
Speaker 5: Well, what's what's happened?
Speaker 2: Well, what's your point? What I mean? Like, I think
Speaker 2: we've established the fact that Kyle Tucker has not performed
Speaker 2: to what he would expect or what the Dodgers would expect.
Speaker 2: What's your point to all this?
Speaker 5: Right? Well, I agree. I just wanted to clarify in
Speaker 5: terms of.
Speaker 2: You didn't You didn't clarify anything. I I clarified what
Speaker 2: I was trying to say. And you could take total
Speaker 2: strikeouts and total walks, but my point is he's a
Speaker 2: one to one strikeout to walk guy the last three years,
Speaker 2: basically last four or five years of his career, and
Speaker 2: he's going to be surpassing uh strikeouts in a single
Speaker 2: season for his career. Kenny, that was my point.
Speaker 5: Okay, I appreciate it. Yeah, I don't know why we
Speaker 5: would pay him the second highest average annual contract for
Speaker 5: a guy who's finished one time in the top ten
Speaker 5: of MVP. I don't get that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, all right, that brings me to this topic, right, Kenny.
Speaker 2: I wanted to get to this and thank you for
Speaker 2: the phone call. I think you all should have realistic
Speaker 2: expectations for Kyle Tucker. He's not a forty five home
Speaker 2: run guy. He's just not. He's not a three point
Speaker 2: thirty hitter either. His career batting average is two sixty nine.
Speaker 2: He's only hit thirty home runs in a season twice.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers are the Dodgers, and they could go
Speaker 2: out and get the best available free agent. Now, the
Speaker 2: Mets were the team that started to bring this annual
Speaker 2: average salary to Tucker at fifty five million dollars. Now
Speaker 2: we can argue whether or not, you know, he's sixty
Speaker 2: million dollars for Kyle Tucker. Obviously that's not you know,
Speaker 2: that's not something you would expect. But he got it right.
Speaker 2: And it's not hampering the Dodgers from operating or making
Speaker 2: a trade at the deadline to bring on more payroll.
Speaker 2: That's neither here or there. But the sixty million dollar
Speaker 2: price tag brings him a lot of attention, and he's
Speaker 2: not comfortable with a lot of attention. But that's the
Speaker 2: reality of it when you sign that type of deal.
Speaker 2: But here's my point, the expectation should be realistic. He's
Speaker 2: a two seventy five, two seventy to two eighty hitter
Speaker 2: that'll hit you twenty five to thirty home runs and
Speaker 2: drive in somewhere between eighty and one hundred runs. That's
Speaker 2: who Kyle Tucker is. Whether or not you want to
Speaker 2: accept that or not. Just because he signed a sixty
Speaker 2: million dollar one year, two year contract is not going
Speaker 2: to change that. His best year in the big leagues
Speaker 2: was twenty two, when he hit thirty home runs and
Speaker 2: drove in one hundred and seven runs, twenty three twenty
Speaker 2: nine home runs, one hundred and twelve RBIs, and hit
Speaker 2: two eighty four But what we're seeing now two thirty
Speaker 2: two betting average with sixty six strikeouts. Uh, that's not him.
Speaker 2: And he like I said before, I don't see Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker resetting a season until the second half of the year.
Speaker 2: I just don't see it happening. It's it's not possible
Speaker 2: when you're playing every day and you're underwater, right You're
Speaker 2: you're underwater. It's you might have a game or two
Speaker 2: here or there. But I just don't see him taking
Speaker 2: off and giving himself an opportunity to be able to
Speaker 2: have a better half then until after the All Star
Speaker 2: break that's when I feel like, if it's going to
Speaker 2: happen this year, it's gonna happen, then let's go out
Speaker 2: to Malibu. Bob, You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing,
Speaker 2: Bob day?
Speaker 7: Thanks for getting me oh man, I always appreciate you
Speaker 7: and call and staying late and taking all our calls
Speaker 7: out there. Yeah, couldn't agree more with you. You've made
Speaker 7: the point about Tucker as well. And let's not neglect
Speaker 7: the fact that our defense in the outfield with him
Speaker 7: and right, has gotten better this season. So everyone can
Speaker 7: give the guy some breathing room. Know that he's doing
Speaker 7: a great job out there. He's gonna come alive in
Speaker 7: the second half. You know, I believe in that guy completely.
Speaker 7: But Dave, I did want to bring up with you
Speaker 7: the double plays. We've hit into an exorbitant amount of
Speaker 7: double plays. It feels like, am I wrong about that?
Speaker 7: Thanks man?
Speaker 2: Yeah, over seventy on the season. Jose Mota pointed that
Speaker 2: out and tonight four double plays, and yeah, it's there
Speaker 2: was a stretch of time when the offense wasn't going
Speaker 2: very good where they seemingly were hitting into three or
Speaker 2: four double plays every night. But the Dodgers don't put
Speaker 2: a lot of guys in motion. That's how you stay
Speaker 2: out of it, right right, all right, Bob, Well, thank
Speaker 2: you for the phone call. Appreciate Yeah, tonight four double
Speaker 2: plays And like I said to me, the key at
Speaker 2: bat of the game was in the sixth inning, Max
Speaker 2: Munsey's swinging at the first pitch with the bases loaded
Speaker 2: and won out. That's just not Mounsie like and that
Speaker 2: was to me, the best chance the Dodgers had to
Speaker 2: get back in the game. Eight six, seven, two, five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers fall to the Padres tonight,
Speaker 2: seven to one. Walker Buehler beats Roki Sasaki. Buehler is
Speaker 2: five and three. Sasaki's record now is three and five.
Speaker 2: Miguel Ross did not play in the game tonight, but
Speaker 2: obviously a heavy heart as everybody in baseball is thinking
Speaker 2: of those in Venezuela who were affected, lost relatives, lost
Speaker 2: lives out there because of the horrific earthquakes that devastated
Speaker 2: that country, and Miguel Rojas World Series Hero is no different.
Speaker 2: And Miguel Rojas's family is actually in Venezuela and was
Speaker 2: an Venezuela when those earthquakes hit. I'm talking about his
Speaker 2: wife and kids. They went back there for visa passport renewals,
Speaker 2: so they were there when the earthquake hit, and obviously
Speaker 2: he still has family out there and friends, and certainly
Speaker 2: it was a tough day for him to be at
Speaker 2: the ballpark, especially after knowing that, you know, his family
Speaker 2: was in harm's way. So thankfully his wife and kids
Speaker 2: are safe. And we had a chance to catch up
Speaker 2: with Rojas before tonight's game, just to take inventory of
Speaker 2: what's going on in his head and how his family
Speaker 2: is doing out there.
Speaker 8: Because everything is okay with my family, that doesn't mean
Speaker 8: everything is okay with the country. We're going through really
Speaker 8: tough moments right now, and I just wish and hope
Speaker 8: for everybody to kind of like pray for us, because
Speaker 8: he's devastated seeing how many families are losing everything. And
Speaker 8: I'm not talking about.
Speaker 2: In general, it's just life.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: It's really tough.
Speaker 8: Because I got a pretty close connection to the city
Speaker 8: where a lot of the things are happening right now,
Speaker 8: which is like wider. I play in that city for
Speaker 8: so many years, and it's really tough to see teammates
Speaker 8: of mine and players who I who I play with
Speaker 8: at some point in my career to lose family members
Speaker 8: and to lose kids, and it's really devastating. It's been
Speaker 8: really hard for me to go to sleep. And actually
Speaker 8: my family is in Minnesota right now. My kids and
Speaker 8: my wife are in Venezuela and they have to go
Speaker 8: through that a couple a couple of days ago when
Speaker 8: it happened, and I just I just feel terrible right now.
Speaker 8: I mean, they're they're in a place where they have power,
Speaker 8: they have connection, they have everything that we need to
Speaker 8: talk and stay in contact every single day. But it's
Speaker 8: still still really feel like I'm so far away from them.
Speaker 2: Maybe how far from the europe The quick struggle is
Speaker 2: your family right now.
Speaker 8: So literally two blocks away from where my family was,
Speaker 8: two buildings collapse the whole building. So in the building
Speaker 8: where my family was, were shaking really pretty bad and
Speaker 8: they have to kind of go away from that place
Speaker 8: to stay somewhere else. The same night, they were lucky
Speaker 8: enough to get down on time before everything else happened,
Speaker 8: and the building is staying kind of like in some
Speaker 8: kind of good shape for them to go down on
Speaker 8: the stairs and get out of there. But I'm lucky,
Speaker 8: to be honest to you guys, I'm really lucky to
Speaker 8: have my family still alive and still with me. So
Speaker 8: I'm I'm not taking this for granted and kind of like,
Speaker 8: this is a really tough moment for us right now. So,
Speaker 8: my sister was a little farted away, like thirty five
Speaker 8: minutes away in lost takes where I'm from, but my
Speaker 8: wife and kids were in Caracas. Actually, yeah, obviously the
Speaker 8: worst part happens to Lawaida, where the airport is and
Speaker 8: where the water is, like really close to the ghost
Speaker 8: that's where the biggest impact was.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Miguel Rojas, and that's his story, and
Speaker 2: I don't think we ever imagined that his wife and
Speaker 2: kids would be in Venezuela, but they are, and thankfully
Speaker 2: they are safe, and obviously Rojas knows how blessed he
Speaker 2: is that his wife and kids are safe, and obviously
Speaker 2: still thinking about all those that did lose loved ones.
Speaker 2: And it's just horrific. The scenes if you've seen them
Speaker 2: of Venezuela right now, after those twin earthquakes over seven
Speaker 2: point zero magnitude hit Venezuela. It's it's so sad to
Speaker 2: see what has happened there, and I think we all
Speaker 2: wish we could do something right to snap our fingers
Speaker 2: to help those and you know, obviously do something to
Speaker 2: to help those that have lost so many loved ones
Speaker 2: and to help restore that country in those cities that
Speaker 2: were affected by it, in that country. And it's just
Speaker 2: too bad these things happen. Obviously, earthquakes. Being from LA,
Speaker 2: we know about it. I lived through the ninety four
Speaker 2: earthquake and did a lot of damage, but in a
Speaker 2: concentrated area that obviously doesn't have the resources that we
Speaker 2: do in the United States and Los Angeles, it's even
Speaker 2: more devastating. So our hearts, our thoughts and prayers go
Speaker 2: out to all those in Venezuela that are being affected
Speaker 2: by these earthquakes. That'll do it for us. On Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk tonight tomorrow, Yamamoto is on the mound for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers here at Petco Park, going up against Randy Vasquez.
Speaker 2: Our coverage begins at four thirty tomorrow with first pitch
Speaker 2: at five point forty, with Rick Monday and Stephen Nelson
Speaker 2: on the call. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at
Speaker 2: pet Goo Park. Thanks to calling you back at our
Speaker 2: Burbank studios and thanks to you for listening. In case
Speaker 2: you missed any of the show, you know where to
Speaker 2: find it the iHeartRadio app. That's where you can stream
Speaker 2: all the Dodger games as well. And in case you
Speaker 2: missed our pregame conversation with Kyle Tucker, we got into
Speaker 2: some hitting talk. You can find that on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: app as well. Once again, the final score tonight from
Speaker 2: San Diego. Walker Bueller and the Padres beat the Dodgers
Speaker 2: tonight seven to one. Have a great rest of your night,
Speaker 2: see you
Speaker 3: Away.