WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (5-27-26) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.000 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:07.280 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:12.039 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:13.200 the fifth. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.800 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.280 Here we go again, Rigo running back to get. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.200 In on the show called eight six six eighty seven, 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.000 two five, seven days and be sure to follow Dodger 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.920 Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. Here's your host, David 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.200 vase Last Day. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:35.960 Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasey live at Uniclo Field 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.680 at Dodgers Stadium. After the Dodgers defeat the Rockies four 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.520 to one and sweep this three game series. Your back 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.680 to back World Series champion Dodgers have won five in 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:51.440 a row, twelve of their last fourteen, and now have 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.040 a four and a half game lead over both the 0:00:55.080 --> 0:01:00.360 Padres and the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Padres were just wept 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:04.280 by the Phillies in their home ballpark, Philadelphia, will be 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.880 at Dodger Stadium on Friday night to begin a three 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:12.040 game weekend series. We'll get to that later in the show. Also, 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.120 Jose Moto will check in in fifteen minutes, but let's 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.119 talk about tonight's game, and let's have at it. Phone 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.920 lines are open at eight six, six, nine, eight seven, 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.520 two five seventy. Are we really going to debate whether 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.639 or not Dave Roberts should or should not have taken 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.759 Shohyotani out of this game with a no hitter after 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:37.760 six innings, after throwing ninety nine pitches, after walking for 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:42.760 and struggling with his command laboring basically the majority of 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:47.640 this start. Look, I'm the biggest advocate for not robbing 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.600 us of great moments and great moments with great players, 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:56.240 but I found it hard to send Otani back out 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.440 there for the seventh inning. I guess if you had 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.440 to press me or push me to see whether or 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.000 not O'tani could pull this off batter to batter in 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.560 the seventh inning. But really, this is such a unique 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.840 situation with a unique player, the most unique player, the 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.240 greatest player on the planet. He's a two way player. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:22.400 I know, ninety nine pitches. Are Are we being lulled 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.200 into accepting these type of things? I really hope not. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:31.120 But in this situation, I can understand why Dave Roberts said, 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:35.520 you know what, that's enough Otani for tonight, because let's 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.720 be honest, coming off his last start where both Otani 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.680 and Dave Roberts talked about how he just wasn't feeling 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.639 right physically, and he's doing both things. I mean, nobody 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.880 has had a no hitter in the sixth inning and 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.000 does what O'tani does. In fact, I guess I could 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.040 say there's been one other player and it's the same 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.880 guy back in twenty twenty two, because I look this up. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.040 How late did O'tani ever have a no hitter? And 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:08.040 September twenty ninth, twenty twenty two against the Oakland A's 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.920 at Angel Stadium, Otani took a no hitter into the 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.720 eighth inning, gave up a hit, and was taken out. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.960 So he has taken a no hitter deep into the game. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.000 But tonight it just didn't look right to send him 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.480 back out there for the seventh inning. So I would 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.640 love to hear your argument for sending out Otani if 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.440 you really believe that. But I have to believe you 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.960 kind of side on Dave Roberts's line of thinking like 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.920 I do tonight, But like I said, I don't want 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.160 us to start accepting taking players out of no hitters 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:45.080 especially great pitchers like Clayton Kershaw. I still believe and 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.720 I'll always maintain this, and I'll tell Kershaw to this 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:52.120 day that start in Minnesota a few years ago, seven 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.080 perfect innings. I know it was cold, I know it 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.440 was his first start, but he ended up getting hurt 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:01.440 anyway later in that year, despite being taken out of 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.160 a perfect game in the seventh inning with less than 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:08.160 ninety pitches. So I'm not going to get lolled into 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.520 accepting taking great pictures out of no hitters or pitchers 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:17.039 out of no hitters, period. But in this case I 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:21.800 leaned towards Dave Roberts, taking him out after six no 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.000 hit innings and the Dodgers were this close to having 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.680 a combined no hitter. If it wasn't for Willie Castro's 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.760 single in the eighth inning off of Tanner Scott, the 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.720 Dodgers would have had another combined no hitter. The last 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.039 time a Dodger threw a no hitter, it actually was 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.719 a combined no hitter, back in twenty eighteen, when the 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.360 Dodgers were playing the Padres in Mexico City. It was 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.359 Walker Bueller's first full season in the major leagues. He 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.640 started that game, and guys like Yimi Garcia, Adam Libertore 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.800 Chris Hatcher pitched in that combined no hitter, So it 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.600 would have been two combined no hitters in the last 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.240 uh last two times the Dodgers had a no hitter 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.480 in their franchise. And we all know Kershaw no hit 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.520 the Rockies back in twenty fourteen. That anniversary is coming 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.040 up in less than a month. All right, let's head 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.240 downstairs to hear from the great Otani on sports at 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:16.760 l A. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.320 We have situations like this, what is the biggest focus 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.280 for you and how you kind of want to say, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.400 either stay in the zone or be efficient to try 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.279 to as you were able to get their six hittings 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:26.360 of work, you know, being. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:30.680 My musket chose to shield. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:49.440 Listening what defense even the least? 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.960 Yeah, I have to give credit to our defense. They really, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:57.120 you know, set the don't tone today again, just command 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.080 was off and just I just felt like I was 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.800 battling the the lack of it and the frustration. 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.560 So this is the most animated or frustrated that you've 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:06.760 seen me lately on the mountain. 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.920 What late, what led into some of that ministration. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:10.640 Got me? 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.240 It's done. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.919 To listen them out, recognized she. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:32.480 Wasn't taking the mean they are apploments, just way. 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.480 Too many walks, and of course you want to avoid 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.760 the hits. But the result of that was a lot 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.400 of walks today, and that's something that I just don't 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:43.080 really want to do. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.320 Despite the command issues that you kind of had the 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.800 last couple of games, I was probably taking the kind 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.840 of success you've got, the results you've had the last 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.240 two games. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:53.240 Or not you wanted to go out with. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.440 Us, then I do know it, m us. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:04.280 I cannot lom this. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.719 The takeaway if any of the positive is that they 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.960 didn't really have many hard hits, and that's something I'm 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:17.680 gonna you know, that's the positive. Could have finished off. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:27.360 There we got about. 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:46.560 Can you sow you? Oh no, uh, JUVENI can not 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.200 do you good as contest, never take another. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.040 And the bullpen has been just consistent, done a great 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.000 job all year round. And I think we're setting the 0:07:58.040 --> 0:07:59.760 tone to where as long as we have the lead 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.120 by the seventh we can just you know, hand a 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.520 baton and and you know, win the game. So in 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.960 that sense, the really the only job for us to 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.560 do is make sure we had to lead in the 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.720 seventh offensively and as a starting pitcher. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.000 Okay, I would have loved to have heard the direct 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.920 question and heard his direct answer about whether or not 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.880 he wanted to continue or he wanted to try to 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.600 chase the no hitter. But that was as close as 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.200 we're going to get. Eight six, six seven two five 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.040 seventy is the phone number. And really, when you talk 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.840 about the defensive place meant made Tonight to stand out 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.480 the most. Alex call robbing Troy Johnston in the second 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.640 inning and the play that Alex Friedland made on a 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.040 chopper by Willie Castro in the fourth inning went over 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:52.560 the head of Freddie Freeman, and Freeland smart baseball IQ 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.440 feel for the game was right where he needed to 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.600 be backing up and the ball got to him and 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:02.760 he dove to first base to get Willie Castro out. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.520 So those were the two defensive plays that stood out 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.080 to me the most while Otani was in there for 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.560 six no hit innings. Eight six six nine eight seven 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.360 two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.920 to Edward and Mission Hills. You're on Dodger tog. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.640 How you doing, Edward, I'm doing I'm doing well, just 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.280 a little under the weather. But I'm hanging in there 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:24.120 all right. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.360 Well, thank you for calling in even though you're under 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:26.800 the weather. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.400 Yeah, So I agree with you to that point with 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.079 Roberts pulling OTAWNI he just didn't have a great command. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.679 His pitch time was around the nineties. Probably different stories 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.240 he had command and his pitchtowns around the seventies. So 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.240 I agree with you on that he just didn't have 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.840 it even if he went batter to bat or he 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.120 would have gone to what one hundred and twenty ten pitches, 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.320 And honestly, that's not looking at the big picture. You're right, 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.199 big picture is Otani being healthy, attempting to win a 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.880 cy young and Roberts has not shied away pulling pitchers 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.960 from a no hitter. Look at Kershaw and with the twins, 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.560 that's the most I think the most recent one where 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.720 he pulled him pulled Kershaw out. 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.320 Yes, that was a perfect game in the seventh inning. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.080 He pulled Kershaw. That was And Kershaw later that year 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.600 had a no hitter in the eighth inning in Anaheim, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.040 but Dave Roberts let him ride it out and he 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.040 gave up a hit. But yes, I agree with you, Edward, 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.520 and I'm glad you're You're a little bit less emotional 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.840 than others when it comes to these type of things. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.000 By the way, Shoe he Otani is not the first 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.200 Dodger to have six or more no hit innings and 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.840 hit a home run. He is the only pitcher in 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.840 baseball history to start a game and lead off a 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.600 game with a home run. He did that against the 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.360 Brewers in Game four of the NLCS. He did that 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.840 in his last start against the Padres, and he did 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.600 it again tonight. But Don Drysdale, Big d was a 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.959 pretty good hitter in his day, and he also had 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.640 had six no hit innings and hit a home run. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.600 It wasn't a leadoff home run, but he hit a 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.680 home run in that game back on June twenty fifth, 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:12.240 nineteen fifty nine. So O'tani joins Don Drysdale with that 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.600 distinction of having six or more no hit innings and 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.160 hitting a home run. So there you go. Otani's not 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.960 the only pitcher that can rake. Let's go out to 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.480 Witty or George. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.720 George good? 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:27.360 How are you Dad? 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:32.040 Awesome? It's always it's always an event when Otani is 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.800 taking the mound. That that's the feeling I get. It's 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.560 not just another game, it's an event. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:38.920 Yeah, I was there. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:39.760 It was pretty sweet. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:46.320 Okay, So, I mean you sound very numb on the inside, George, 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:47.959 considering everything we just said. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.720 I mean, I'm I'm not gonna sit here and act 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.120 like he should have fit in the game. I guess 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.760 I'm just kind of I've seen. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:58.560 A couple instances. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.760 I'm thinking of Ross trip Lane, like you said earlier, 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:07.240 Kershaw Rich Hill, I mean Ross Shipping, he had a 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:08.880 I think it might have been his first outing. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.160 But I'm kind of thinking of Francisco. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.320 I've been here for all of them, George, I remember 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.439 all of them. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.079 I'm just trying to think of like you've missed out 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.880 on some history, just because Roberts has been pretty conservative 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:24.400 holding this pictures up. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:25.440 I mean, obviously it's worked. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.480 I mean we're at this point now with the organization, 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.559 but I don't know, I just want to maybe I'm 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:31.040 old school. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.040 Yeah, I just don't know where this would end. Right 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.679 ninety nine pitches, he was laboring he's a two way player, 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.960 not feeling great after his last start physically, even he 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.480 admitted that, which says a lot speaks volumes. Okay, so 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.839 you go out for the seventh inning. Now you're getting 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.080 closer to one hundred and ten pitches. Let's say he 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.719 labors through the seventh but doesn't give up a hit. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.520 You're sending him back out for the eighth inning, and 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.400 now you're getting into the one twenties. Is it really work? It? 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.400 And it's hard for me to be a hypocrite, George, 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:07.080 because I'm a big believer that as a hitter, the 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.120 Dodgers need him more as a hitter than they need 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:09.920 him as a pitcher. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.320 Yeah, I'm with you. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.840 So that's that's the dilemma. That's the unique part of 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.880 all this, and that's why I agree with Dave Roberts. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.600 All right, George, thank you for the phone call. Eight 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.280 sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.560 phone number. The only downer about tonight's game is that 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:36.320 Teoscar Hernandez left the game in the second inning straining 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.439 his left hamstring trying to beat out an infield single. 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.920 He was out and out of the game in the 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.559 second inning, and you could tell it was bad because 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.600 he was he was going all the way up the 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.000 right field line onto the grass and then was not 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.120 jogging back to the dugout like he normally does. He 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:59.200 was walking very carefully back to the dugout and grabbing 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.120 the back of his leg, his left leg, and you 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.280 knew it was his hamstring. And he slammed his helmet 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.200 down and walk right down to the clubhouse and that 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.199 was all confirmed. And Dave Roberts said after the game, 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.520 ta Oscar is going on the il end quote going 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.199 to be out for a few weeks. So that's really unfortunate. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.080 Ta Oscar was starting to hit his stride again, and 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.800 I think he's frustrated on more than being taken out 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.600 of the game because of injuring his left hamstring. You 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.960 have to remember, ta Oscar Hernandez came to camp fifteen 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:37.720 pounds lighter, and he told us in spring training part 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.320 of the reason why he put in so much work 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.440 and did a different type of workout during the offseason 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.920 was to avoid the same groin injury that he had 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.120 around the All Star Game last year. And he wanted 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.520 to avoid hamstring or groin injuries. And here we are, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.880 he strains his left hamstring. So he's got to be 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.960 really frustrated, obviously for the obvious, but all also the 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.080 work he put in during the off season to avoid 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.840 this type of injury. And here we are again. Eight 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.560 six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.960 phone number, Daniel in San Diego. You're on Dodger Talk 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.400 with David vasse Hi. Daniel, Hey, how you. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:17.840 Doing, Dave? 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:19.400 I'm doing great. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.880 Hey, listen, Yeah, I want to talk about the minor 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.480 leaguers that they can call up for Kioto Hernandez. Do 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.240 you have any insight of how they're doing or who 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:29.640 do you think they're going to call up and see 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.600 if they're going to be able to perform in the show. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.480 All right, Well, Ryan Ward is on the forty man roster. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.760 He plays left field. You can go a Ryan Ward 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:43.160 Alex call platoon in left field. Or you could find 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.440 a way to maneuver James Tibbs, the third onto your 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:50.320 forty man roster and call up Tibbs, who has been 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.440 very streaky and very good at Triple A this year, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.920 and give him an opportunity to platoon with Alex call 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:02.000 in left field. So those would be my first two options. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.640 Okay, well, we kind of need you because our Osol. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.680 There's a little bit old Tioskars about two years and 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.760 Tucker may leave next year, so we need to see 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.560 how our minor leaguers they can come up and produce. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.920 Yeah, yeah, I agree, it's just the organizational depth, Daniel. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.920 I don't think Tucker's going anywhere quite honestly, But yes, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.600 this is an opportunity for somebody because ti Oscar Hernandez 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.000 is going to be out for a few weeks. Keik 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.000 A Hernandez is going to be out six to eight weeks, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.240 So there are opportunities now for young Dodgers. Eight six, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.240 six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.640 Dodgers beat the Rockies tonight four to one. Also an 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.520 opportunity for Alex Call, who is one of the most 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:51.720 prepared Dodgers, and he made a great defensive play in 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.640 the second inning that I don't believe Kyle Tucker would make, 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:59.000 laying out for a fly ball a sinking line drive 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.520 by Troy Johnson in and right field to at that 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:06.080 time second inning, but preserved a no hitter for show. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.920 Heyo Tani and yesterday Alex Call was a pregame guest 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.480 and I noticed how he was going to all the 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:16.280 outfield spots to shag during batting practice, and I asked 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.000 him why he does that. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:22.399 Yeah, well, as the outfield like, the best work you 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.560 can do is live reads off the bat in batting practice. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.399 So this is a cherished time, I would say, because 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.840 it's really the best practice you can do. And you know, 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:38.560 nowadays with how they evaluate outfielders, how they evaluate everybody 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:42.520 on defense, there's never been more data available for every 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:46.040 single play. Every single play gets graded, every single play 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.119 can carry an enormous weight for the amount of value 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.480 that you provide for the team. And so trying to 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.119 get the best reps possible via the best means of 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.520 practice with batting practice, live reads off the bat is 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.600 how you can get better, stay sharp, and be ready 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:08.280 for the game. So understanding like, hey, every single ball 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.720 off the bat is an opportunity for me to create 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.760 value for the team, and I have to be ready 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.480 for every one of those in every position. So I 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.679 like to rotate around all three. You know, might not 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.480 get all three one day, but over the course of 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:23.479 the week, try to touch all three. 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:29.159 How about that? How about that Alex call preparing yesterday 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.520 during batting practice to be ready to make a catch 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.680 like he made tonight in the second inning to rob 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.640 Troy Johnston. That's what I try to tell you. These 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.639 guys don't show up at six o'clock and put on 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.760 their uniform to play. These guys are out here every 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.640 single day, grinding through the summer and one hundred and 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:55.439 sixty two game marathon, preparing some more than others. But 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.520 for the Dodgers, all these guys prepare and grind a 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.600 lot to be ready to go for a seven to 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.919 ten game. And Alex Call was preparing yesterday to be 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.800 in right field tonight and to be ready to make 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.239 that type of catch. And at that time, you know, 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.800 obviously nobody knew Otani would have a six no hit 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.760 outing or the Dodgers would have a no hitter going 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.560 into the eighth inning. But if Alex Call isn't prepared 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.960 and doesn't make that catch, it's a move point Eight 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.679 six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:32.760 phone number. We're gonna take a time out when we 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.760 continue more of your phone calls at eight six six 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.280 nine eighty seven two five seventy. We still have a 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.040 pair of tickets to give away for Friday Night's game 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.720 Alex Vesia babbohead Night and we'll check in with Jose 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.640 Mota and I'll give you a peek into what's going 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:52.160 on in San Diego with the Padres. Don't forget Tonight's 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.679 game brought to you by Modello Modello The Mark of 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.920 a Fighter. More Dodger Talk Around the Corner with David 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.800 vasse on a five to seventy Sports Dodgers beat the 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:07.480 Rockies four to one. 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.760 On air at AM five seventy, online at AM five 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:15.040 seventy LA sports dot com, and available by podcast on 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:16.400 the iHeartRadio app. 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.920 This is Dodger Talk with David Basson. 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:24.919 Won one pitch to Freeman, You'll swing and hit on 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:26.119 a long way to left. 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:27.960 This ball heading back to the wall. 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:29.440 This ball's gone. 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:35.000 Home run Freddie Freeman, two Nothling Dodgers or three hundred 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:39.680 and seventy fourth career home run for Freeman, his seventh 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.480 per season that the Dodgers are playing long ball against 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:44.080 the Rockies. 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:51.200 Early Freddy Freeman hitting a hanging curveball for a home 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:55.240 run in the first inning, coming off Shoho Tani's bottom 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:58.439 of the first inning leadoff home run. Two homers for 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.760 the Dodgers Stars in the first stinning, Andy Pie has 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.600 hit another one in the eighth. They hit eight home 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:07.680 runs in the last two games of this series, sweeping 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:11.640 the Rockies tonight, the final score four to one. Daniels 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.879 Jewelers presents the home Run Forecast. For your chance to 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.960 win a fifty dollars Daniels Jeweler's gift card, visit AM 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:21.200 five to seventy LA sports dot Com, use the keyword 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:23.360 home run and to your name and you could win. 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:26.200 Daniels Jewelers Own the Dream. 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:30.679 It's time to go around the Horn with Jose Mota. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.680 Jose Moto, What a night at Dodgers Stadium. It always 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:39.560 is when show hal tani is center stage. What did 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.040 you think about his six no hit innings tonight? 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:45.760 It was great to see show fight through an outing war. 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:47.480 You could see in the beginning in his face he 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:52.040 just was not feeling the command release point. He was 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:55.760 very sweeper happy tonight, which is sometimes one thing that 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:57.920 gets him into a little bit of trouble, and it's 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.720 because where he pitches from the first base, they watch 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:05.200 how many times he has to forge that sweeper to 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:07.679 finish outside. When he's not feeling well. He has to 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:10.600 really force it. It happened in San Diego, it happened 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:13.679 here again tonight. It's a very efficient angle that he 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.480 gives because I mean, as fastball plays well, the sweeper 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:18.600 plays well, the breakawall plays well, but only two splitters 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.919 to that, which is very interesting for show. But nonetheless, 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.040 when the big ones and the great ones know they 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:27.760 don't feel well, they'll still find a way to go 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.160 out there and avoid some damage. And we saw once 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:32.560 again the greatness at one show Hey Oltani. 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:35.800 Through six innings, Jose, nobody asked him after the game 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:38.360 whether or not he wanted to try to go out 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:40.879