Speaker 1: The quest for the free peat has begun.
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Speaker 1: Here's Tim Kakes.
Speaker 4: Like a boxer waiting for the bell to ring, to
Speaker 4: get to the corner to save them. The All Star
Speaker 4: break has saved the Dodgers. Hi, everybody, and welcome in
Speaker 4: to Dodger Talk on this Sunday afternoon. Theysture being with
Speaker 4: us wherever you may be. A hot, muggy day here
Speaker 4: in southern California. Here monsoon conditions in some areas actually
Speaker 4: reigned outside of our Burbank studios earlier today at the
Speaker 4: lights on at Dodgers Stadium. Unfortunately, the Dodgers couldn't wake
Speaker 4: up offensively after the third inning. Not a single hit
Speaker 4: after Tommy Emmons two out, two runs single in the
Speaker 4: third inning as the Dodgers blow a three to ninhing
Speaker 4: lead and fall to the Arizona Diamondbacks by a final
Speaker 4: of five to three. They get swept at home by
Speaker 4: the Snakes, and they go into the All Star Break
Speaker 4: having lost four of their last five. If you heard
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts on The Clubhouse Show, not too happy is
Speaker 4: the Dodger Skipper the way his Dodgers team is playing.
Speaker 4: Rick Monday alluded to it. Tim Neverett talked about it
Speaker 4: as well on Sports and at LA. Eric Carrolls said,
Speaker 4: it's not the brand of baseball we're used to seeing
Speaker 4: with this Dodgers team. Everything we've talked about the last
Speaker 4: two nights here on Dodger Talk, really since Friday when
Speaker 4: the Dodgers shot themselves in the foot a couple of airs,
Speaker 4: some bullpen game turned into a game in which five
Speaker 4: of the seven relievers gave up runs and just kind
Speaker 4: of kind of just fell up heart for the Dodgers
Speaker 4: Friday night, and we said it, then, this isn't Dodgers baseball.
Speaker 4: Whatever this is, they got to fix it. We thought
Speaker 4: Yamamoto was gonna be the stopper last night. I took
Speaker 4: some criticism on X. People say, well, up, we do
Speaker 4: the stopper. Kates where's Yamamoto the stopper. Well, I don't
Speaker 4: know what happened to Yamamoto last night. He got roughed
Speaker 4: up as well. And the Dodgers' offense didn't do much
Speaker 4: as well last night, getting beaten nine to two, nine
Speaker 4: to three, and back to back games. And then today
Speaker 4: the Dodgers got a lead off home run from show
Speaker 4: Ao Tani Tommy Emit, a two runs single in the third,
Speaker 4: a three to nothing lead. You're feeling pretty good about
Speaker 4: what the way the Dodgers were going gonna go into
Speaker 4: the All Star Break with the win, little positivity. They
Speaker 4: pick up a game, go twelve and a half games
Speaker 4: up on Arizona in the division, and then then it
Speaker 4: got away from him in the fifth inning, and then
Speaker 4: the sixth they gave up the lead and then an
Speaker 4: insurance run. Tim Tawa has become the new Dodger Killer,
Speaker 4: by the way, for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Paul Golshman and
Speaker 4: Christian Walker were the last two to be the Dodger
Speaker 4: Killers from Arizona, and now they've passed the baton onto
Speaker 4: a guy who was hitting under two hundred coming into
Speaker 4: this weekend series. In Tim Tawa drives in seven runs.
Speaker 4: Dodgers has a team scored eight runs the entire series,
Speaker 4: and Tim Tawa drove in seven alone for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 4: Just not a good weekend for the Dodgers, and they
Speaker 4: hang their hat on slug good pitching and really good defense. Well,
Speaker 4: the pitching was there at times this weekend. The offense
Speaker 4: was there in spurts. I guess the defense has just
Speaker 4: been flat out bad. A dropped ball by Andy Pajez
Speaker 4: in the fifth inning opened the door for two runs.
Speaker 4: Max Munsey is throwing a ground ball into the back
Speaker 4: of Eraldo Perdomo on a play trying to get him
Speaker 4: out at home. That led to a two runs six
Speaker 4: and the league was gone. A battle later on an
Speaker 4: RBI single from Vargas. You cannot give team second chances.
Speaker 4: You cannot open the door even just a little bit
Speaker 4: for even an Arizona Diamondbacks team to take advantage, because
Speaker 4: they will. And I mentioned in the Clubhouse show, the
Speaker 4: door has been opened for a lot of teams around
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball. About two and a half weeks ago,
Speaker 4: you looked at the standings and there was what four
Speaker 4: teams in the American League over five hundred everybody else
Speaker 4: was below five hundred, and there was a lot of
Speaker 4: separation in the standings in the American League. At one point,
Speaker 4: the Atlanta Breaks were completely running away with the NL East.
Speaker 4: I mean, the Phillies fire their manager earlier this year,
Speaker 4: brought in Donnie Baseball Don Mattingly. The Milwaukee Brewers and
Speaker 4: Dodgers were going back and forth with the best record
Speaker 4: in baseball. Well, the Brewers. They go into the All
Speaker 4: Star Break having lost three in a row. They also
Speaker 4: had the mizz scratched from his start today against the
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Pirates. That's not good. He's got soreness in his arm, fatigue.
Speaker 4: How about their left hander Kyle Harrison eight and two
Speaker 4: over one hundred strikeouts, already on the injured list with
Speaker 4: left forearm tightness. The Brewers getting hurt and starting to
Speaker 4: fall apart here at the All Star break, So it
Speaker 4: could be worse for the Dodgers. Other teams are getting hurt,
Speaker 4: They're losing, and their lead is getting smaller in their division.
Speaker 4: The Brewers are only five games up now on the
Speaker 4: Cubbies in the NL Central. The Braves are only two
Speaker 4: games up on the Phillies in the NL East. Things
Speaker 4: have tightened in the other divisions. While the Dodgers lose
Speaker 4: three to the Diamondbacks don't look like the same team
Speaker 4: that we saw before the off day. Still have eleven
Speaker 4: and a half game lead now that oft D On Thursday,
Speaker 4: John Hartongue brought it up on sports and at LA,
Speaker 4: So I want to kind of take what he said
Speaker 4: and borrow it. Thank you, John, if you're listening driving
Speaker 4: right back home. On the four h five, the Dodgers
Speaker 4: had a stretch of thirteen games in thirteen days. They
Speaker 4: went nine to four during that stretch and one all
Speaker 4: four series. Then they had a day off on Thursday
Speaker 4: at home, a golden day off, as they call, no travel,
Speaker 4: no nothing. You can go to Disneyland, you can go
Speaker 4: to the beach, you can just sleep all day, whatever
Speaker 4: you want. You don't have to do anything. It's a
Speaker 4: golden day at home. Don't get a lot of them
Speaker 4: in baseball. Usually you're traveling on days off. They had
Speaker 4: a golden day off on Thursday. Kind of feels like
Speaker 4: this team didn't wake up from that golden day off
Speaker 4: on Thursday. Yeah, they kind of played well against Colorado,
Speaker 4: but they all three games were one run games. Very
Speaker 4: easily could have gone bad for the Dodgers day off,
Speaker 4: and then they come back and kind of felt like
Speaker 4: they were still going through the motions the last three
Speaker 4: games against the Diamondbacks, who came out scrapping and fighting
Speaker 4: and playing for something. And Dave Roberts said, yeah, they
Speaker 4: were out there fighting more than they were today. He's
Speaker 4: absolutely right. Tory Leavello's got that team believing. No, does
Speaker 4: he have him believing they're gonna win the division? Probably not,
Speaker 4: but they are right now two and a half games
Speaker 4: back in the wild card race. I mentioned the standings
Speaker 4: and how close it is in the East, in the Central,
Speaker 4: and in the American League, all three divisions starting to
Speaker 4: tighten the belt buckle in each of those races. The
Speaker 4: wildcard race in the American League right now it's the
Speaker 4: Yankees and Guardians, But then you got the Mariners, Twins,
Speaker 4: Red Sox, Astros, Orioles, Blue Jays, and Tigers all within
Speaker 4: three and a half games. That, my friends, is a
Speaker 4: race for the wildcard race in the American League. In
Speaker 4: the National League, you've got the Nationals four games back,
Speaker 4: the Padres three and a half, the Diamondbacks two and
Speaker 4: a half, Pirates two Cardinals one, and Miami tied with
Speaker 4: Philadelphia and the Cubs for the wild card spots two
Speaker 4: of those being available. That's also a great race for
Speaker 4: the two wildcard spots in the National League. So you're
Speaker 4: seeing a lot of teams back in the race as
Speaker 4: we get to the All Star break now two and
Speaker 4: a half weeks ago. As we alluded to, it's a
Speaker 4: lot different. Who's to say it doesn't change in a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks as we get to the end of
Speaker 4: July and we start looking at the MLB trade deadline
Speaker 4: and we start thinking, Okay, what's gonna happen on that Monday,
Speaker 4: August third by three pm Pacific, Things could change and
Speaker 4: swing back the other way where you got more teams
Speaker 4: now out of the race that we're in it. We'll see.
Speaker 4: There's still a lot of time between now in August third,
Speaker 4: but it's interesting to see out in the last two
Speaker 4: and a half weeks the races have tightened up and
Speaker 4: things have uh, things have really really gotten tight in
Speaker 4: the divisions outside of the NL West. Eight sixty six
Speaker 4: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the number eight
Speaker 4: sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy all right,
Speaker 4: let's go out to the phones and let's see what
Speaker 4: you have to say. Ken Newport Beach. Start things off, Ken,
Speaker 4: how you doing fine?
Speaker 5: You know, it's been probably I think two or three
Speaker 5: years since I call them two consecutive days, which is
Speaker 5: I guess it's my fault. But there's a couple of
Speaker 5: little points here.
Speaker 4: Okay, go ahead, Ken.
Speaker 6: Chen after five innings as an eer rail over seven
Speaker 6: and we've got seven guys in the bullpen that won't
Speaker 6: be pitching for the next four days.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they yeah, the least. It's made no sense to me.
Speaker 7: None.
Speaker 5: Okay. Now, let's get back to a couple of other things.
Speaker 5: Nine errors in the last five games for the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: which is unbelievable. The Oscar last ten games is now
Speaker 5: two for thirty three. That's an sixty batting average with
Speaker 5: twelve strikeouts. Yet he's still out there, he's still playing.
Speaker 5: He should be on the bench once. He is three
Speaker 5: for his last twenty three. That's a one thirty average.
Speaker 5: He has three errors in his last four games and
Speaker 5: now has eleven on the year, which leads the major
Speaker 5: leagues for all third base. Now, the team had eight
Speaker 5: errors in the last few games it makes no sense.
Speaker 5: Last four games and four hits all day till the
Speaker 5: night they're two and five. They're gonna rest, They're gonna
Speaker 5: watch the All Star Game, and then they're gonna go
Speaker 5: to the East Coast. Something needs to change. They need
Speaker 5: to move some players around. And the two that I'm
Speaker 5: most concerned about is the Oscar and Luncie, the two
Speaker 5: guys that are doing the worst. I don't know, am
Speaker 5: I missing anything or just going goofy.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna panic quite yet. Can I appreciate it?
Speaker 4: Thanks for making us back to back calls for you
Speaker 4: here on Dodger Talk. I appreciate that that also means
Speaker 4: the Dodgers lost back to back games, because we usually
Speaker 4: only hear from Ken when the Dodgers lose. I'm not
Speaker 4: panicking yet on Ti Oscar or Max Muncie, and I
Speaker 4: think the Dodgers going to this break it's the perfect
Speaker 4: thing for him. And again I use the analogy like
Speaker 4: a boxer trying to find the ropes, trying to get
Speaker 4: that bell to ring. You hear the knocking of the
Speaker 4: stick for ten seconds. You got to get through those
Speaker 4: ten seconds, and the Dodgers today just needed to get
Speaker 4: through nine innings as fast as they could hopefully go
Speaker 4: out with the flurry, win the round, so to speak,
Speaker 4: win the game and get to the All Star Break,
Speaker 4: and in the boxing terms, get to the corner, and
Speaker 4: they get to the corner. But they lost the game,
Speaker 4: and they lost the last three to the Diamondbacks. Lost
Speaker 4: lost for their last five. Overall, there gonna regroup and
Speaker 4: they're gonna come back, and I gotta believe they're gonna
Speaker 4: be good to go for this series against the Yankees
Speaker 4: on Friday. This is a team that, again I think
Speaker 4: after the thirteen games in thirteen days, exhaled on Thursday
Speaker 4: and saw the All Star Break in front of them
Speaker 4: and got All Star itis. I just think it was
Speaker 4: part of it. Look at the it's only human to
Speaker 4: look at the standings and say, we're fourteen and a
Speaker 4: half games up. You know, we're gonna we're gonna just
Speaker 4: go through the motions here, or we're just you know,
Speaker 4: we'll be okay, we'll be okay, we'll get the wins,
Speaker 4: we'll figure it out. You know, we'll beat the Diamondbacks. Well, unfortunately,
Speaker 4: Arizona came to play and rallied to win today. For
Speaker 4: he had another comeback win for the Snakes as they
Speaker 4: beat the Dodgers by final of five to three. My guy,
Speaker 4: Blake in Colorado, thanks for being patient, Blake. Great to
Speaker 4: hear your voice. How you doing, Buddy good.
Speaker 8: I'm doing really, really good.
Speaker 4: I'm are you. Are you worried, Blake? This team's lost
Speaker 4: three in a row, four of their last five. You
Speaker 4: hear the callers, you hear the panic Dodger fans a
Speaker 4: little worried, are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I'm kind of willy. But what all the three main
Speaker 8: things that the Dodgers need to approve on to make
Speaker 8: it back on the World Series.
Speaker 4: What do they need to improve on? Well? I think
Speaker 4: defense is the first thing, Blake. I think this defense
Speaker 4: has got to get back to playing clean baseball. They
Speaker 4: had twenty four errors going into this last week, and
Speaker 4: they committed nine nine errors this last week at a
Speaker 4: home against Colorado and the Arizona Diamondbacks. I mean they
Speaker 4: committed six in this last three games. They've got to
Speaker 4: play clean baseball, Blake. And it starts with the defense,
Speaker 4: and then it starts with the pitching. You cannot walk
Speaker 4: fourteen guys in three games. You cannot have two bocks.
Speaker 4: You cannot have two wild pitches again. Clean it up,
Speaker 4: so to speak, clean it up, button it up, and
Speaker 4: this Dodgers team will be okay. I think that's where
Speaker 4: it starts and where it ends. Clean it up, moving forward, award.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, what do you what do you got playing
Speaker 4: for the All Star Blake? You know what you know?
Speaker 4: Watch the Home Run Derby on Monday nights. See if
Speaker 4: c if our guy Dino Ebel can bring some of
Speaker 4: his home run Derby luck to Bryce Harper. He's gonna
Speaker 4: be pitching to him in the Home Run Derby. They
Speaker 4: go way back to their days in Las Vegas together
Speaker 4: when Bryce was growing up and Dino Eble was coaching
Speaker 4: out there in the minor leagues. And now he's gonna
Speaker 4: throw it to him. As far as the Home Run Derby,
Speaker 4: he's done it before for guys who have won, including
Speaker 4: Teoscar Hernandez just a couple of years ago. It's gonna
Speaker 4: be fun.
Speaker 8: At home.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I'm a little disappointed because I love the
Speaker 4: All Star Game because it's the brightest stars on the
Speaker 4: biggest stage and we're not gonna have Otani. And again,
Speaker 4: injuries are part of it. I get it, Blake, but
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's stinks No Otani, no miss he's
Speaker 4: out right now. Then you know, no Aaron Judge, and
Speaker 4: you know who else we miss? No Paul Skeens because
Speaker 4: he's pitched this weekend, he won't be able to pitch.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: It's it's I want to see the big stars. I
Speaker 4: want to see them out there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but at least we have That's.
Speaker 4: Right, Andy pai has. The world is gonna get to
Speaker 4: know Andy pa Has here on Tuesday in the All
Speaker 4: Star Game. I got this sneaky feeling, Blake that Paz
Speaker 4: is gonna do something. He's gonna hit a home run.
Speaker 4: He's gonna put his stamp on this All Star Game
Speaker 4: on Tuesday night. I got a feeling it's one of
Speaker 4: those guys that around baseball they know him, but the
Speaker 4: fans may not know him in all the big cities,
Speaker 4: but certainly they're all gonna know who Andy pie Has is.
Speaker 4: I think after the All Star Game on Tuesday, Blake,
Speaker 4: great to hear your voice, buddy, don't be a stranger. Okay,
Speaker 4: I gonna be back. I'll be back next weekend when
Speaker 4: they wrap up the series in New York against the Yankees,
Speaker 4: hopefully a series ending win for the Dodgers as they
Speaker 4: go to the Bronx next weekend. Have you have you
Speaker 4: ever been to the old Yankee Stadium or the New
Speaker 4: Yankee Stadium. I don't think you're old enough to go
Speaker 4: to the the old one.
Speaker 8: No, but.
Speaker 10: Bucket leg Yeah.
Speaker 4: Tell dad, let's oh, we gotta get to the Bronx.
Speaker 4: We gotta see a game at Yankee Stadium. You gotta
Speaker 4: go to Fenway Pac in Boston. Got to get you
Speaker 4: to some of these these old historic venues in cities
Speaker 4: like New York to see some baseball. Yeah, all right, Blake,
Speaker 4: great to hear your foroys, my friend. We'll talk soon. Okay,
Speaker 4: talk sounds good. There he goes, my guy, Blake and
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Speaker 4: little bit more fight the last three games against the
Speaker 4: Arizona Diamond Basketball. Take a break, we'll come back. We'll
Speaker 4: hear from Max Monsey. Rough weekend for Max Munsey and
Speaker 4: air today. Through the ball into the back of Perdomo
Speaker 4: that tied the game in the sixth and the next
Speaker 4: batter single to drive in the game leading run for
Speaker 4: Arizona and they go on and win it by a
Speaker 4: final of five to three. We'll hear from Max Munsey
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Speaker 2: The show starts right away on the first pitch.
Speaker 1: His thirty third career leadoff home run, ninth this year.
Speaker 4: Show Hey Otani does it again. A leadoff home run
Speaker 4: in the bottom of the first is ninth of this season,
Speaker 4: now one behind Davy Lobs Mookie Betts, the all time
Speaker 4: leader of Dodger leadoff home runs with thirty three. Show
Speaker 4: Hey Otani home run number twenty two on this season.
Speaker 4: As the Dodgers jumped out to a one nothing lead,
Speaker 4: had a three to nothing lead that was then erased
Speaker 4: win the sixth then with Italian and then go ahead
Speaker 4: run by the Arizona Diamondbacks attack on one more than
Speaker 4: ninth on a Tim Tawa home run as the Snake
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Speaker 4: ninet eighty seven two five seventy. The Dodgers today with
Speaker 4: a couple of costly airs, one of throwing air into
Speaker 4: the back of Perdomo trying to advance from third to
Speaker 4: home from Max Munsei. The other drop fly ball in
Speaker 4: the fifth inning from Andy Paez, both leading to runs
Speaker 4: and they go ahead run. Then in the sixth inning
Speaker 4: by the Diamondbacks game the lead and they win it.
Speaker 4: Let's head back out to Dodger Stadium. On here from
Speaker 4: the Dodger All Star third baseman Maximuncie.
Speaker 2: What made you decide to go home instead of trying
Speaker 2: to go to second? Did you feel like you had
Speaker 2: time to maybe starter a double play?
Speaker 9: No, I mean you played out in your head, be
Speaker 9: folded the pitches thrown. You know, in that situation, anything
Speaker 9: in front of you to your right, you go home.
Speaker 9: Anything to your left you try to turn two. The
Speaker 9: ball took me to my right, so you know, instinctively,
Speaker 9: I just went home. He runner did his job by
Speaker 9: getting inside the line and it just clipped his shoulder.
Speaker 9: You know, throws online, but not online because.
Speaker 2: He was in the way uncharacteristically. In the last you know,
Speaker 2: handful of games, the defense hasn't been there for a
Speaker 2: team that's been a lead all year. What do you
Speaker 2: point your finger to on that?
Speaker 1: Just a slump?
Speaker 9: You know, you go through slumps both offensively and defensively mentally.
Speaker 9: It's just one of those stretches for us right now,
Speaker 9: and you know, I think everyone's ready for the break.
Speaker 2: Has a you know on this home stand, do you
Speaker 2: feel like you let the offense bleed into the defense
Speaker 2: or have you been able to keep those separate.
Speaker 9: No, it's been just been with those. I guess it's
Speaker 9: just one of those those times, at least for me personally,
Speaker 9: just going through slumps and you know, you just try
Speaker 9: to weather it.
Speaker 4: You guys, im slipping ahead to the break a little
Speaker 4: bit this weekend, just with these things happen now.
Speaker 1: Or is that coincidence that too?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 9: Both, No, thanks, just coincidence. We played really flat and uh,
Speaker 9: they they didn't. You know, they took they took advantage
Speaker 9: of opportunities we didn't. You know, It's just one of those.
Speaker 1: Series we have.
Speaker 9: We have them every now and then. I know we're
Speaker 9: just to win ever single game, but you know we
Speaker 9: we do lose them from time to time.
Speaker 2: You ran into series like this during the first half
Speaker 2: of the season where there's a little bit more at
Speaker 2: stake for the opponent than there is for you guys,
Speaker 2: Did you feel like that was part of the equation
Speaker 2: in this series for them?
Speaker 9: I can't speak for them, you know, I'm not I'm
Speaker 9: not in that clubhouse. I don't know what they were thinking.
Speaker 9: You know, Like I said, for for us, what we saw,
Speaker 9: we just we didn't take advantage of the opportunities they did,
Speaker 9: and we played sloppy. You look at sort of bench
Speaker 9: marks throughout the course of the season, and you guys
Speaker 9: returned back from great, Sure, what's the conversation.
Speaker 2: What are some things that you want to make sure
Speaker 2: you're doing.
Speaker 9: I don't know. Well, well, we'll see when when we
Speaker 9: get back. You know, I think for most guys it's
Speaker 9: time to you know, mentally and physically reset these next
Speaker 9: several days. And you know that's what that's what we're
Speaker 9: focused on.
Speaker 4: All right, there's Max Moncy. Yeah, it is a mental
Speaker 4: and physical reset and it has come at the perfect
Speaker 4: time for this Dodgers team as they get swept by
Speaker 4: the Arizona Diamondbacks today, a five to three loss to
Speaker 4: the Snakes. Rick and Sam Pedro, thanks for being patient.
Speaker 4: Welcome to Dodger Talk on this Sunday afternoon. How you doing.
Speaker 13: Late, Jim, Yeah, I just wanted to say, if history
Speaker 13: is any type of indicator of future success, we're right
Speaker 13: on cue. This happened last year right before the All
Speaker 13: Star Games, through the middle of August. I think we
Speaker 13: were six or seven under five hundred and about a
Speaker 13: five week period one hundred and six two games. You're
Speaker 13: gonna have these, You're gonna have swoons. And I know
Speaker 13: we're an older team, but we're a veteran team, and
Speaker 13: you can circle the calendar. We'll be there in October.
Speaker 4: Baby, I agree. I think they're gonna be Okay. This
Speaker 4: is just a lull here before the All Star break,
Speaker 4: and I appreciate the phone call. This is just uncharacteristic.
Speaker 4: We don't see this and haven't seen it at all
Speaker 4: this year, and I'm trying to think of the last
Speaker 4: time we saw a stretch in which this Dodgers team,
Speaker 4: at least defensively played like this. And again, there's three
Speaker 4: facets of a game. There's the hitting, there's the pitching,
Speaker 4: and there's the defense. And if you can overcome one
Speaker 4: of those and win a baseball game, that's a good job.
Speaker 4: And if you can overcome two of those, it's a
Speaker 4: really good job. But it's almost impossible to do. And
Speaker 4: the Dodgers this weekend had to overcome three days of
Speaker 4: just not playing good defense. I mean, quite frankly, the
Speaker 4: numbers speak for themselves. Six heirs committed by the Dodgers
Speaker 4: this weekend. Then you throw on the pitching side of it, Okay,
Speaker 4: can we overcome with good pitching and good hitting? Fourteen
Speaker 4: walks in this last three games against Arizona, two bocks,
Speaker 4: two wild pitches, and then today a pass ball which
Speaker 4: led to a runner advancing to second and then scoring
Speaker 4: two batters later. You got to clean it up. As
Speaker 4: we mentioned with my guy Blake a few minutes ago,
Speaker 4: what's the one thing the Dodgers need to do. They
Speaker 4: got to figure it out, figure it out fast, and
Speaker 4: clean it up on defense, because that's where it all starts.
Speaker 4: Because you can get away with some bad pitching this
Speaker 4: you've got good defense behind you. They'll make you look good.
Speaker 4: I mean, how many times have we said it? Honestly,
Speaker 4: a great play here, a great pick at first, a
Speaker 4: great catch in the outfield. You know, it makes up
Speaker 4: for a hard hit ball and a mistake made by
Speaker 4: the pitcher, like oh oh, that ball is just one
Speaker 4: hundred and ten miles an hour off the bat in
Speaker 4: the right center field. But Andy paj Has makes a
Speaker 4: great running catch and it's an F eight in your
Speaker 4: score book, and we move on to the next inning.
Speaker 4: But hey, that ball gets down, it's extra bases and
Speaker 4: it's a completely maybe different outcome that half inning, and
Speaker 4: that can change a complete game, and that can change
Speaker 4: the series. So you see what I'm talking about. Defense
Speaker 4: can set the tone for you, good or bad. Prime
Speaker 4: example is the sixth inning today. The Dodgers give up
Speaker 4: the lead. The throwing air by Max Munsey in the
Speaker 4: six ties the game. The next batter, Vargas, with an
Speaker 4: RBI single gave them the lead. Well, what happened in
Speaker 4: the bottom half of the sixth inning. The Dodgers come
Speaker 4: back out. The Dodgers have some hard hit balls, a
Speaker 4: ball hit that you know, Mookie Betts is right past
Speaker 4: the pitcher, looks like he's gonna beat it out. In
Speaker 4: Perdomo at short makes a running, bare handed grab and
Speaker 4: beats Bets by a step. And then a fly ball
Speaker 4: in the right center field and what happens, Yeah, a
Speaker 4: great catch. We're almost three guys collide into each other
Speaker 4: by the Arizona Diamondbacks, but Carol hangs on for the out.
Speaker 4: And then what happens. A hard hit ball by Kyle
Speaker 4: Tucker the opposite away with the shift on or the
Speaker 4: minimize shift, and what is Nolan? A Nolan Ernado do
Speaker 4: finds the fountain of youth and a ball hit to
Speaker 4: his his bare hand side bear backhands a ball that's
Speaker 4: hit scorching off the bat of Kyle Tucker and should
Speaker 4: have been a base hit to left field. Yeah, should have,
Speaker 4: But great defense stopped that. Great defense prevented the Dodgers
Speaker 4: in three straight at bats from getting guys on base.
Speaker 4: Who knows what happens if Perdomo doesn't make that play,
Speaker 4: Mookie Betts is on, Maybe he overthrows first, Bets gets
Speaker 4: the second as a leadoff hitter. What happens next? It
Speaker 4: could open the door for the Dodgers in that sixth
Speaker 4: inning on what was a four to three game, and
Speaker 4: maybe they pick up a crooked number. But you know
Speaker 4: what stopped it. Defense. Defense can be the greatest stopper
Speaker 4: or killer of a baseball team, and it has killed
Speaker 4: the Dodgers the last three games against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 4: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 4: our telephone number. Let's go to David in Kansas. David,
Speaker 4: how you doing, my friend? Thanks for checking in from
Speaker 4: the middle of America.
Speaker 7: Well, I finally got an iPhone a couple of years ago.
Speaker 7: I retired when I was eighty years old. I've got
Speaker 7: more time, you know, a lot of time. But when
Speaker 7: I was a kid, I listened to the Dodgers and
Speaker 7: the Yankees all the time. And when television finally came
Speaker 7: to my hometown, I got to watch these guys and
Speaker 7: Mickey Mantle and Yogi Bearra and all those. God, I
Speaker 7: just fell in love with baseball. And then I kind
Speaker 7: of got away with it, you know, working on a
Speaker 7: career and all that. But anyway, I finally started to
Speaker 7: settle down a little bit, and I came to Kansas
Speaker 7: Church to take care of my parents, and I was
Speaker 7: I was watching television. I finally got a television, and
Speaker 7: I didn't one for a long time, don't have one now,
Speaker 7: but I watched I was watching TV and there was
Speaker 7: this sports show that came on, and I've never seen
Speaker 7: one like this. There was a shot of the studio.
Speaker 7: There were four people in the studio and there were
Speaker 7: three guys and a woman. And the guy was kind
Speaker 7: of big and burly and had a mustache, and he
Speaker 7: would be talking a lot to the guy that was
Speaker 7: sitting to his left. He kept calling Tim, and I
Speaker 7: finally heard your name for the very first time, Tim Cakes,
Speaker 7: and that's stuck in my mind for I don't know
Speaker 7: how many years it was. Let's see, that would have
Speaker 7: been in probably early twenty oh two, so you could
Speaker 7: ask how long it was. And so anyway, I heard
Speaker 7: you when you were a youngster, I guess you'd be
Speaker 7: a youngster, you know, his producer. And now look at you.
Speaker 7: You're doing everything and you're just so good at your
Speaker 7: job and you fit right in. And I'm so proud
Speaker 7: of the way you handled yourself. And that uh that
Speaker 7: mister Hay, he's very good. I like him a lot.
Speaker 7: But you guys had a great stick about, you know,
Speaker 7: not liking each other or I just get a big
Speaker 7: out of it. But uh, you know that that whole
Speaker 7: that whole team you've got there, the radio guys and
Speaker 7: everything else. I listen all the time to your stations.
Speaker 7: You've got four stations there, you've got the Clipper station,
Speaker 7: then you've got the main five. Then you've got five seventies,
Speaker 7: and then you've got you've got the Fox National National
Speaker 7: featout and then there's another k.
Speaker 5: I b A.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the next. So those are all on my
Speaker 7: uh button push thing, so I can listen to just
Speaker 7: about anything. And and this soccer the way the way
Speaker 7: Fox and your station's handled this soccer it's just wonderful.
Speaker 7: That's been more fun. And I've had any summer a
Speaker 7: long time, and you're you're, you're a great part of it.
Speaker 7: You do, you do a good job. I'm a little
Speaker 7: suspicious about your ability to talk as fast as it
Speaker 7: sounds like you're talking at the end of some of
Speaker 7: these commercials.
Speaker 1: More than.
Speaker 4: I speed that up, David, I pulled the curtain back
Speaker 4: for you. That's a little uh, that's a little computerized
Speaker 4: editing there speeds up the voice for you. But David,
Speaker 4: I appreciate the nice words. Thank you for uh for
Speaker 4: for all the compliments, And yeah, David vass Is is
Speaker 4: great and does a superior job in covering the Dodgers
Speaker 4: on a daily basis as the best Dodger insider, and
Speaker 4: we're honored to have him here at m FI seventy
Speaker 4: LA Sports and share him with our friends over at
Speaker 4: Sports net LA and of course MLB Network. David, thank
Speaker 4: you so much. I love the fact you're listening on
Speaker 4: the iHeartRadio app. And please don't be a stranger checking
Speaker 4: more often.
Speaker 7: All right, Yeah, well I did sometimes I get pretty
Speaker 7: fired up. I'm kind of disappointed enough in the Dodgers
Speaker 7: right now, but I mean stuff that's happening to them.
Speaker 7: I don't, I don't you know what I think it is.
Speaker 7: That's that I think the stadium is mad at the
Speaker 7: baseball guys for letting those football guys run all the
Speaker 7: place in there.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if football has or football at
Speaker 4: soccer has taken over recently. David, great to have you
Speaker 4: on the show. Thanks for checking in and for being
Speaker 4: a Dodger fan and am FI seventy fan from Kansas.
Speaker 4: Really appreciated. That is awesome. That is awesome. Thank you
Speaker 4: David for all the nice words. Yeah, football soccer taken over.
Speaker 4: We got down to the final four in the World Cup,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna be able to hear the championship game,
Speaker 4: by the way, right here on ANFI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4: You're gonna hear both semi final games. In fact, this
Speaker 4: week Tuesday and Wednesday at noon, we have got both
Speaker 4: semi final FIFA World Cup games right here on ANFI
Speaker 4: seventy LA Sports. And then we got the championship game
Speaker 4: next Sunday. The Dodgers and Yankees play Sunday Night. Baseball
Speaker 4: at four o'clock. That game. The World Cup Championship final
Speaker 4: will start at noon, so we're gonna have the entire
Speaker 4: soccer game leading right into Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck
Speaker 4: a week from today. That's gonna be pretty awesome to
Speaker 4: have both of those happening Dodgers Yankees and right before
Speaker 4: at the championship game of the World Cup. And that
Speaker 4: is sweet. All right, let's go back out to the phones.
Speaker 4: Let's squeeze in Billy for mission viah. Thanks for being patient, Billy.
Speaker 4: How you doing pretty good?
Speaker 12: Thanks for taking my call. You know, besides, TI was amazing,
Speaker 12: you know, art to the weekend after having coming in
Speaker 12: with one home run and just a few eight RBIs.
Speaker 12: How about mccannon last night hitting his first home run
Speaker 12: ever against Yamamoto.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had two jacks last night and it wasn't
Speaker 4: even the lineup again today for the Arizona Diamondbacks against
Speaker 4: you know, against the Emichian So it was a good
Speaker 4: weekend for Arizona. Thanks for the call there, Billy. It
Speaker 4: was certainly a It was telling to see these two
Speaker 4: team square off in this final series before the All
Speaker 4: Star break. Clearly the Dodgers of the superior team, that
Speaker 4: is no secret. But they didn't play that way this weekend.
Speaker 4: They played down and they played flat. They didn't have energy,
Speaker 4: The defense wasn't there. They weren't sharp pitching wise, not
Speaker 4: like we're used to seeing. And you know, you can say, well,
Speaker 4: it's a blip on the radar. It's just a hiccup
Speaker 4: of a season, probably right, And I'm gonna lean towards that.
Speaker 4: But they need to take this break for the All
Speaker 4: Star a few days that they're off rest mentally, rest emotionally,
Speaker 4: and certainly rest physically, and come back or ready to
Speaker 4: go for what is gonna be a second half blitz
Speaker 4: to start off post All Star break. I mean, the
Speaker 4: Dodgers are gonna get the Yankees next weekend Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 4: and Sunday, and the Yankees are playing hot baseball right now.
Speaker 4: Then the Dodgers will head to Philadelphia, where a lot
Speaker 4: of the contingent is going right now, as they get
Speaker 4: ready to get on a plane, Dave Roberts is coaching
Speaker 4: staff and all the Dodger All Star players heading to
Speaker 4: Philadelphia for the Midsummer Classic. The Dodgers as a team
Speaker 4: will be in Philadelphia after the three games against the
Speaker 4: New York Yankees. But then the Dodgers will head back
Speaker 4: to New York, probably via train. Is the way I
Speaker 4: expect that it could be doing, which is kind of
Speaker 4: cool and old timey, right, go from New York to
Speaker 4: Philadelphia on the train and the s see that'll be fun,
Speaker 4: and then head back to New York, this time to
Speaker 4: for a three game series against the Mets. And they'll
Speaker 4: have a day off on the twenty third to enjoy themselves.
Speaker 4: So before they get back home at the end of
Speaker 4: the month, it is going to be a road trip
Speaker 4: like no other to start the second half of the season.
Speaker 4: So they better buckle up and be ready to go.
Speaker 4: They better figure out what they did this weekend, throw
Speaker 4: it away, put it behind them, and get ready for
Speaker 4: the start of the second half of the season. Is
Speaker 4: he final call before the All Star break here on
Speaker 4: postgame Dodger Talking, which the Diamondbacks come back and beat
Speaker 4: the Dodgers five to three. Is he how we feeling?
Speaker 14: I'm not too happy right away with nineteen on Friday.
Speaker 14: I don't know if I will apply to you last
Speaker 14: night when you said but anyway, never mind, I'm just
Speaker 14: stay with this team mine now.
Speaker 10: Say you say, well, I want is saying no energy.
Speaker 10: They just play sloppy, deep offense. I don't think I
Speaker 10: can take this season anymore. But yeah, I did thing
Speaker 10: with like dad last year too, so they'll be in
Speaker 10: the playoffs. I'm not that well, I just didn't like
Speaker 10: them game sweep. I gotta have to dinner with friend
Speaker 10: in my friend and mine who used.
Speaker 14: To live in ever well she does live in Arizona
Speaker 14: now and she's sitting down this week, and I'm see
Speaker 14: the Diamondback now, So now I'm gonna have.
Speaker 7: To deal with it this week.
Speaker 10: Thanks a lot, dog just for that. No, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 10: but anyway, I but listen, they just they got They
Speaker 10: just have to just have to play better. It was
Speaker 10: no excuse though, losing to the Diamondback. I'm stova being swepting.
Speaker 10: Beside that, I hate the Diamondback. I always hated.
Speaker 14: The Diamondbacks in twelfth thirteen.
Speaker 10: I'm still I'm still magic them in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 14: Anyway, but that beside that. But yeah, the Dodgers be okay, fan,
Speaker 14: just irritating, just vicating, no.
Speaker 10: Excuse, and I don't know what to say anymore.
Speaker 14: I'm just spreadsay doing this team right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, so all right is I think a lot
Speaker 4: of Dodger fans are frustrated as well because the way
Speaker 4: they went into the All Star Break. But I'm confident
Speaker 4: this team will come back out focused and ready to
Speaker 4: go here in the second half of the season. Thank
Speaker 4: you Asy for checking in and that's gonna do it
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Speaker 4: Star Break, Dodgers have time to relax, reflect and get
Speaker 4: ready to go for back to back to back World
Speaker 4: Series championships. The second half surge begins on Friday in
Speaker 4: New York with a three game series against the Yankees.
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Speaker 4: a great safe rest your Sunday afternoon, enjoy your all
Speaker 4: star break. Dodger fans breathe, it's gonna be Okay solo.
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