WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (6-26-26) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.080 The quest for the three peat has begne. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:07.240 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:12.000 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:13.200 the fifth. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.840 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:17.959 Here we go again. We're got running back. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.120 To get in on the show called eight six six 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.079 nine eighty seven two five seventy, and be sure to 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.880 follow Dodger Talk wherever you get your podcasts. Here's your host, 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:29.360 David Vase. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.240 We are live at Peco Park in San Diego after 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.879 the Padres beat the Dodgers tonight by a final score 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.200 of seven to one. Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.920 with you until eleven o'clock tonight here on AM five 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.319 to seventy LA Sports. We have phone lines open at 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:55.400 eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. You'll 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.720 hear from Miguel Rojas later in the show. Obviously playing 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.000 with heavy heart tonight, as many of the Major leaguers 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.720 that are from Venezuela are, and obviously the earthquakes there 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:12.440 that has devastated a lot of that country was on 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.399 the mind of many people and just a reminder to 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:21.400 everybody in Venezuela and here in the United States that, yeah, 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.679 you may not have experienced that earthquake, but we've had 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.640 our share of natural disasters. And I think the Dodgers 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.640 and Padres, and especially the Padres who gave a moment 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:36.160 of silence to Venezuela, they did the right thing, wearing 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:40.840 VZ on their caps, both teams, the Padres having that 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.800 moment of silence, I thought Dave Roberts said it perfectly. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.840 There's nothing that they can do right now, but it's 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:54.920 just a message to those in Venezuela that, hey, even 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.920 though we're in this baseball bubble and to a certain extent, 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.960 we we acknowledge you and we know you're going through 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.440 a rough time. So you'll hear from Miguel Rojas a 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.840 little bit later in the show. Also, Wednesday was getaway 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:15.120 day with all the drama with Otani and Rushing not 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.440 being on the same page. I was not on the 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:20.880 air because I was traveling with the team to San 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.040 Diego after the game. We can get into that if 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.280 you want. I have a little bit more thoughts on 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:31.240 what took place there, but let's start with tonight's game. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.520 And if you go back to the eighth inning. We 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.639 could work backwards just to start if you go back 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.280 to the eighth inning. I said this during the Clubhouse show. 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.280 To me, the Dodgers losing is you know, you don't 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.280 want to lose any game, but you're not gonna win 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.079 all of them. But you wanted to get Mason Miller 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:55.279 in this game. The more you get them into a game, maybe, 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.119 like the last time the Dodgers were in San Diego, 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.119 they get the pitch count up. Because the Dodgers are 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.600 probably the only team in baseball this year that has 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:10.720 made Mason Miller look human. Remember I know it was 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.600 over a month ago, but don't you remember when Mason 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.400 Miller came in in the ninth inning of games against 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.280 the Dodgers. They made him work, and they gave him 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:24.079 a scare and they beat him. So not keeping that 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:29.800 game at three to one in the eighth inning was frustrating, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:34.280 and to a certain extent, you know, another loss within 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.840 the loss of the game because you wanted Miller in 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.760 that game. And once the Padres scored four in the 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:44.560 eighth off a Jonathan Hernandez, Miller sat down and he's 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.040 fresh for the next two games. So to me, that 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.920 was the chess match within the game tonight that the 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.560 Dodgers lost. Now, as far as the offense goes, I 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.960 thought the sixth inning was their best chance to score. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.400 And yeah, you may look at Tucker and Tucker did 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.560 not have a good game again tonight. But to me, 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.400 the key at bat was in the sixth inning with 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.400 one out and it was Max Munsey who swung at 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.200 the first pitch and popped up with the bases loaded. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:18.480 To me, that was the golden opportunity and very out 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:23.200 of character for Max Munsey to swing at the first 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:28.600 pitch from the left hander, and that was they kind 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.960 of had him on the ropes right there. Matt Suey 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.760 and Munsey really bailed him out. And then Tucker obviously 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.000 got down two and it feels like he has two 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.440 strikes on him every single at bat. Tucker was back 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.160 in the game after missing the last two in Minnesota 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.480 with back spasms, and he did not have a hit tonight. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:53.040 Kyle Tucker was zero for three with the strikeout. He's 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.359 now hitting two thirty two. His ops is down to 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.800 seven hundred. But to me, the at bat of the 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.640 game was in that sixth inning when Max Months he 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.920 swung at the first pitch and popped it up with 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.719 the bases loaded. To me that that was the key 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.200 at bat and Andy pajs in that inning as well 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.680 in the sixth inning, what was he doing going back 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.200 to first base to try to tag up on that 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:24.920 slicing fly ball that was certainly going away in a 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:29.080 big way from Samad Taylor in left field, from Freddie Freeman. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.919 There's no reason to go all the way back to 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.880 first base to tag up. You got to go at 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.680 the very least halfway to second base, if not just 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:44.039 a few steps away from second base. Because of what 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.279 took place, he did not get a good read on 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.000 that ball. Don't know what he was doing, and it 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.120 would have been he would have scored. He would have 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.960 scored if he was where he needed to be on 0:05:56.040 --> 0:06:01.080 the bases. And he also blew a ca in center 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:05.440 field tonight by Manny Machado. He should have caught that ball, 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.280 and he didn't have field awareness, he didn't know where 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.599 he was and that was a double. So not a 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.760 great game for Andy pie Has tonight as well. Eight 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.359 six six seven two five seventy is the phone number 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.679 Tonight's game brought to you by Modello MODELO the mark 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.720 of a fighter. All right, let's get to Roki Sasaki. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.920 If you have listened to this show, you have heard 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:36.000 me temper the excitement from other people about Roki Sasaki. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.880 He dominated the Angels twice. I give him a lot 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.320 of credit for that, but I'll just say this, he 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.400 still needs to prove it to me. You can't do 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:49.800 it for five starts. And tonight was another example of 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.039 how this guy is still in the developmental stage of 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.800 his career. And the Dodgers are so fortunate to have 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.400 an eight game lead, so fortunate to be able to 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.200 carry a pitcher like that on their major league roster 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.760 where they can make up for some of his shortcomings 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.200 like tonight. But again, the first four innings of this game, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:15.080 he was throwing so many pitches and I was watching 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.280 those guys behind him, they were just standing there. That's 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.440 not conducive for winning a baseball game. So I know, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:27.960 people like Dylan Hernandez have written after one start against 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.520 the Angels that, hey, you never know, you could see 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.080 a no hitter, you could see a perfect game. Now, 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:38.280 and here's something from after Sasaki's last start that Dylan 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.920 Hernandez wrote. Now, this is in print in the California 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:47.040 Post A Little over Excited by Dylan Hernandez. Here it 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:52.360 is the beginning of his column Imagine the scene October playoffs. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:57.480 Roki Sasaki on the mound, not as a reliever, as 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:02.120 a starter. I could go on and on. If Roki 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.320 Sasaki is starting a game for the Dodgers in the postseason, 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:10.240 something went terribly wrong. He's going to be in the bullpen. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.280 Blake Snaill's coming back, Dave Roberts said today he will 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.440 not come back before the All Star breaks, so likely 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.880 on that East Coast road trip, you're gonna have Blake 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:26.160 snail back. You got Yamamoto, Ya gott Otani, and I 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.920 fully expect the Dodgers to make a trade for another starter, 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.160 whether it's Trek Schouol Bowl or somebody else. They will 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:40.040 make a trade and solidify their postseason rotation. If Roki 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:44.080 Sasaki is making a start in the postseason, something went 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:50.000 terribly wrong. So I'm not shooting him down. I'm just 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:54.360 saying this is in year two of a six year 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.080 development type of thing. You would hope by year three 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.679 next year, that you're not having these growing pains as 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.280 much as you've had the first two years of his 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.400 major league career. The good news is he got the 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.520 velocity back. The bad news is he still doesn't know 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.560 where the ball's going sometimes, and tonight he didn't know 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.000 where the ball was going a lot of times. Eight six, six, nine, eight, 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.559 seven two five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.000 fall to the Padres tonight seven to one. We will 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.720 hear from Walker Bueller in a moment, who beat his 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.360 former team. Second time he has faced the Dodgers. Last 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.840 year in Boston didn't go so well for him. Tonight 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.880 he went five and a third, allowed just a solo 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.920 home run to Mookie Betts. Let's go out to Aliso Viejo. Dave, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.319 you're on Dodger Talk. Lead us off from Peco Park. 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.640 Yeah, thank you very much for taking my call. I 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.480 don't know what you're gonna I know, I think I 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.680 know what you're gonna say. The Dodgers a way ahead 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.760 the twenty two games of a five hundred twenty one Now. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.640 She and should not be a starting pitcher anymore, should 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.360 be in the minor leagues with Ryan should replace him. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.240 Sazaki should be in the bullpen, pitching long release, even 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.040 when the Dodgers are way ahead or way behind. Give 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.800 him some linings to pitch and keep him sharp and 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:15.640 bring up land and Knack at Wyn Dave. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.360 Dave, you're very uninformed, so let me help inform you. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.480 Number one, River Ryan is heard again with a hamstring injury. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.240 Number two Landon Knack is on the sixty day il. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:31.160 So two of your options are gone. And that brings 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:36.079 to everybody's attention that the Dodgers starting depth is very 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.800 thin and very fragile. Where would they be without Eric Lauer, 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:44.600 who's done phenomenal for the Dodgers, and with River Ryan 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:49.040 having hamstring injuries now twice. If somebody goes down in 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.559 this rotation, I'm not sure who they go to. I 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.760 think they have to go to a five man rotation. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:11:00.560 I'm not a doctor, but why is Tyler Glasnack with 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.520 bat chat spasm out just so many months? I mean 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.240 I back spasms? Correct, It must. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.960 Be a little bit more serious than backspasm's Dave, That's 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.840 what I'm gathering. Uh, thank you for the phone call. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.200 Let's go out to dominic in Westwood. You're on Dodger Talk. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:19.200 How you doing dominic? 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.400 Besides the loss, I am doing well. First, I just 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.319 want to second my thoughts with the people in Venezuela 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.320 and Miguel Rojas. I know what happened was just absolutely awful, 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.320 So I'll just say that from a fan's perspective, and 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:38.000 I also want to shout out LAFD as well. I 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.760 obviously what happened in San Diego today was horrible. Uh, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.520 it doesn't feel good, but I just I just want 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.960 to say this because you know, it's good to say 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:55.480 that we're back to back champs and Machado, oh that 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:00.240 fan the contract three times, and I just want to say, uh, 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.160 you know, the Madres they're they're they're having fun today. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.160 The fans are you know, they're they're had, they had 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:09.520 their chests out, you know. And I just want to say, 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.960 we're gonna win this series in San DIEGOEP. Keep the 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:13.880 energy up. Yet we can't win them all, so I 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.160 guess we'll just take that we can't win it all 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:21.600 Mojo today, Let's take out those Madres in San Diego. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.800 And I also just want to say this. I wanted 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.280 I wanted to ask if you would agree with me 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.720 on this, but I feel like us Dodger fan, I know, 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.360 for affect me as a Dodger fan, I've always wanted 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.560 to do this, but I just haven't gotten the mojo 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:35.440 for it. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:35.600 Is. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.160 You know how everyone in the league always says be 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:43.079 la every single time we go to their stadium where 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.440 we go on the road. I would love to fire 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.119 that back with the beat f D when the Padres 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.320 are in Blue Heaven. So, uh yeah, that's all I 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:57.640 have tonight. But uh, thank you David and go Dodgers. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.960 All right, Dominic, thank you for the phone call. I'm 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:05.840 not feeling BATSD now, I'm not. There's a certain well, 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.320 number one bat la is legendary because it goes back 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.240 to Lakers and Celtics in the eighties, and other teams 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.480 now have adopted that in a lot of different sports. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.600 So that's kind of legendary in its own right because 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.000 of how it started. And somebody even asked me tonight, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.360 how did beat la start? Started in the Boston Garden 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:31.280 when the Sixers were beating the Celtics in the eighty 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:36.080 three Eastern Conference Finals, And this just shows you just 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:41.000 how obsessed Boston was with the Lakers back then. They 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.360 started channing b to LA because they were losing in 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.720 the fourth quarter and they were going to lose the series, 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.680 and they started channing B to LA for the Sixers 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.400 to beat the Lakers, which did happen in eighty three 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:59.440 after Moses Malone's famous faux Faux Fox. They swept the 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.560 Lakers in the finals that year. But that's how the 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:07.520 beat La chance started. So beatsd uh, no, not so much. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.920 Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.440 the phone number. San Diego did beat La tonight seven 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.600 to one. The Dodgers coming into the game tonight, did 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.400 have baseball's best record, but now the Brewers hold that 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:26.320 distinction after Milwaukee became the second team in baseball this 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.840 season to win fifty games. Yeah, the Brewers are fifty 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.120 to twenty nine. They're seven and a half games ahead 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.720 of the Cubs in the n NOW Central. The Dodgers 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.360 have the most wins in baseball still fifty two and thirty, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.480 with an eight game lead over San Diego, a ten 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.440 and a half game lead over the Diamondbacks. Eight six 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.480 six eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:54.000 Let's head downstairs to the Padres Clubhouse to hear from 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:58.000 Walker Buehler, who is always going to be remembered as 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.960 a Dodger, but tonight he beat a former team and 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.680 pitch really well. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.440 You know what, I think the first one in Boston 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.640 was was a lot bigger emotional kind of. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.680 Load for for lack of a better word. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.360 You know, I think it's a division a team and 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.000 our division. I'm going to have to fish against them, 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.960 and you know, it's good to get the first one 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.120 in this uniform at home, and you know, we'll see 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.000 what kind of happens on the road. But you know, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.520 I haven't thrown it out of your stadium yet, which 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.720 will be kind of a different thing. But to nice 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.000 to have kind of a something to fall back on 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.080 a little bit in terms of having some success. So, 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.240 you know, happy about tonight and I'm happy for a team. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.280 How much harder is it? Or is it when you 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.000 know it I'm so long, when they know you so well. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:41.600 You know what I think is kind of interesting about 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.320 that is I was kind of the young guy over 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.400 there for a long time and then was hurt kind 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:46.040 of in my. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.760 Last couple of years and not as successful. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.600 So you know, a lot of the guys over there 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.400 are not the guys that I kind of came up 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.840 around all the time, the Justin Turners and Chase Utley's and. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:57.560 Guys like that. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:02.000 So it is a thing. You know, I spent a 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.840 lot of time in Los Angeles, But I don't think 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.800 it's kind of quite the same as as maybe somebody 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.640 that you know came up with everybody and then played 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.840 against the same team, So a little bit different and 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.160 and you know, also a little bit the same as well. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:17.640 Thanks before the game. 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:18.520 Pretty much. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.760 Of that just well, listen, I have no bad blood 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.920 against against that organization. They treated me very well for 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.640 a long time, and you know, I think in some 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.320 way I did to them as well. And uh, my 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.840 last pitch there was the last out of a World Series. 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.760 I don't really know how else I would have gone 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.560 out any better than that. And so yeah, I want 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.040 to kick everyone that I want to beat everyone, especially 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.280 in the division, and especially a team that you know, 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.280 has has been so successful, you know, against the organization 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:51.840 that I'm with now, and and I want to be 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.720 a part of turning that around. And and you know, 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.240 I certainly don't want to lose to them. So you know, 0:16:58.440 --> 0:16:59.800 douc Is duc is not wrong. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.640 I wanted to keep given the battles you had against 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.719 this team as a member of the Dodgers, does it 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.800 feel weird at all to just be on this side 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.480 of that bright worri or has enough time passed now. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.560 That it's just well, so I want to know against 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.680 some as a San Diego Padre, I think that's kind 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:15.920 of you know where we're at all. 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.600 Right, there's Walker Buehler. He's got that Buehler swag back. 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.000 It sounds like, I mean, he's been pitching well in 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.080 his last six starts. Now his era is at too, 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.120 so he is finding something and he kind of had 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.840 to reinvent himself when he came to the Padres, and 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:35.679 he's been very open to that. Ruben Niebla is a 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.000 really good pitching coach, and you know, obviously it is 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.600 connected with Buehler to get him to buy in to, 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:46.720 you know, not necessarily change, but you know, make some 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.520 adjustments at this stage of his career. And tonight his 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.840 cutter was working really well against the Dodger lefties. And 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.200 I don't know, it's, uh, I'm never going to get 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.640 used to seeing Walker Buehler in a Padre uniform. It's 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:05.159 it's kind of weird, right, But that's the circumstances. I 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.240 would have loved to have seen Walker Buehler come back 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.840 to the Dodgers. My understanding is that they offered him 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:15.600 close to what the qualifying offer was last year, and 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.199 he declined it and signed with the Red Sox for 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:22.080 basically the same deal. And for whatever reason, the Red 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:25.520 Sox signed Bueller for their hopes to get to the 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.959 postseason and pitch down the stretch, and right when they 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.120 were getting there, they released him, and he the Phillies 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.160 picked him up, and he never pitched in the NLDS 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.920 for whatever reason. So I think both those organizations kind 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.480 of messed it up a little bit, especially the Red Sox, 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.800 who are a disaster these days as well. So happy 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.640 Walker Bueller's back on the West Coast. Not happy he's 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:52.400 pitching for the Padres. But you know, you think back 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.400 to so many great moments that he had with the Dodgers, 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.439 beginning when he first had his first full year and 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.680 Game one sixty three and twenty eighteen. You think back 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.480 to Max Scherzer tapping out and Buehler having to take 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.840 the ball in the twenty one NLCS in Game six 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:15.320 on short rest. You think about, you know, how great 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:19.440 he was in the NLCS and twenty twenty against the Braves. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.800 I mean I remember him being in a basis loaded 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.600 jam and striking out the side in order to keep 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.560 the game alive, keep the series alive. 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:27.280 Uh. 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:32.119 And of course his iconic moment at Yankee Stadium that 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:36.280 will go down in history. You know, everybody only talks 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:40.240 about Yamamoto, and what Yama Moto did was extraordinary. But 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.600 let's not forget about what Walker Buehler did in Game 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.160 five of the twenty four World Series. I know, when 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.800 these guys leave the team and other moments happened, like 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.760 we saw in that epic World Series last year, we 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:58.280 tend to forget what contributions guys like Walker Buehler made, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.920 and that's that's a big mistake. Don't ever, don't ever forget. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.240 You know how many big games he pitched for them, 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.520 and just a guy that was drafted he was. He 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.840 was Andrew Friedman's first draft pick. That was the guy 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:14.720 that Andrew Friedman drafted and developed, and you know, you 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.480 just would have hoped for him to stay with the Dodgers. 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.920 It just didn't work out. But like he said, I mean, 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.479 the last pitch he ever threw for the Dodgers was 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.919 closing out Game five of the World Series and celebrating 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.800 the front end of these back to back championships. Eight 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.679 six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.440 phone number. Want to point out a couple of good 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.280 things that are happening with the Dodgers. Everybody wants to 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.320 you know, they have fifty two wins, more than any 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.200 other team. And I know people of drama, and they 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:49.200 got drama in the last game between Rushing and Otani. 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.719 I know everybody likes to talk about how Tucker has 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.200 struggled the first half of the year, But how about 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.639 Mookie Betts. Now in his last eleven games, he's starting 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.560 to find himself and that's a big deal for the Dodgers. 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:03.840 His batting average is now up to two thirty one, 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:06.800 And you may say two thirty one, Yeah, two thirty 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.000 one for a guy that was in the in the 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.480 one fifties, one sixties for the better part of the 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.480 first couple of months of the year. And if you remember, 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.960 I said, give this guy a chance, Give this guy 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:21.359 a chance to get one hundred and fifty two hundred 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:25.280 at bats under his belt before you start judging his season. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.520 And here we are now, he's getting over He's over 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.760 one hundred and fifty at bats. He's sitting three ninety 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:35.080 three in his last seven games, in his last fifteen games, 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:38.680 hitting three seventeen. So uh, that's a that's a good 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:44.359 thing for the Dodgers. Also, Tommy Edmund, this guy's back, 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:48.280 his right ankle is feeling great. All he has done 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.800 is crushed the baseball ever since he came off the IL. 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.600 He's sitting three sixty with an eight twenty nine ops. 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.720 So that's a big deal too, that Tommy Edmund's back. 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:01.160 And the Dodgers are going to get Taoska Hernandez back 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:04.879 when they're in Sacramento on Monday, So that's gonna change 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:08.040 the complexion of this lineup as well. We're gonna take 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.320 a time out here on Dodger Talk when we come back, 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:12.880 more of your phone calls. At eight sixty six nine, 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.119 eight seven two, five seventy, we'll hear from Miguel Rojas, 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.040 and I'll give you my thoughts on what took place 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:22.320 Wednesday night in Minnesota. Since I was there, I was 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:25.400 in the clubhouse. I spoke to Otani, spoke to Rushing, 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:28.399 and spoke to a few people around the team about 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:31.520 where things are at. And no, the sky's not falling. No, 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:35.120 the Dodgers are not cracking. They're as strong as ever. 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.159 Dodgers beat the Twins on Wednesday night. They come to 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.639 San Diego and drop the first game of this series 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:44.800 seven to one to San Diego and Walker Bueller on 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:49.159 a five to seventy LA Sports. 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:56.200