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Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium on Friday night to begin a three
Speaker 2: game weekend series. We'll get to that later in the show. Also,
Speaker 2: Jose Moto will check in in fifteen minutes, but let's
Speaker 2: talk about tonight's game, and let's have at it. Phone
Speaker 2: lines are open at eight six, six, nine, eight seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy. Are we really going to debate whether
Speaker 2: or not Dave Roberts should or should not have taken
Speaker 2: Shohyotani out of this game with a no hitter after
Speaker 2: six innings, after throwing ninety nine pitches, after walking for
Speaker 2: and struggling with his command laboring basically the majority of
Speaker 2: this start. Look, I'm the biggest advocate for not robbing
Speaker 2: us of great moments and great moments with great players,
Speaker 2: but I found it hard to send Otani back out
Speaker 2: there for the seventh inning. I guess if you had
Speaker 2: to press me or push me to see whether or
Speaker 2: not O'tani could pull this off batter to batter in
Speaker 2: the seventh inning. But really, this is such a unique
Speaker 2: situation with a unique player, the most unique player, the
Speaker 2: greatest player on the planet. He's a two way player.
Speaker 2: I know, ninety nine pitches. Are Are we being lulled
Speaker 2: into accepting these type of things? I really hope not.
Speaker 2: But in this situation, I can understand why Dave Roberts said,
Speaker 2: you know what, that's enough Otani for tonight, because let's
Speaker 2: be honest, coming off his last start where both Otani
Speaker 2: and Dave Roberts talked about how he just wasn't feeling
Speaker 2: right physically, and he's doing both things. I mean, nobody
Speaker 2: has had a no hitter in the sixth inning and
Speaker 2: does what O'tani does. In fact, I guess I could
Speaker 2: say there's been one other player and it's the same
Speaker 2: guy back in twenty twenty two, because I look this up.
Speaker 2: How late did O'tani ever have a no hitter? And
Speaker 2: September twenty ninth, twenty twenty two against the Oakland A's
Speaker 2: at Angel Stadium, Otani took a no hitter into the
Speaker 2: eighth inning, gave up a hit, and was taken out.
Speaker 2: So he has taken a no hitter deep into the game.
Speaker 2: But tonight it just didn't look right to send him
Speaker 2: back out there for the seventh inning. So I would
Speaker 2: love to hear your argument for sending out Otani if
Speaker 2: you really believe that. But I have to believe you
Speaker 2: kind of side on Dave Roberts's line of thinking like
Speaker 2: I do tonight, But like I said, I don't want
Speaker 2: us to start accepting taking players out of no hitters
Speaker 2: especially great pitchers like Clayton Kershaw. I still believe and
Speaker 2: I'll always maintain this, and I'll tell Kershaw to this
Speaker 2: day that start in Minnesota a few years ago, seven
Speaker 2: perfect innings. I know it was cold, I know it
Speaker 2: was his first start, but he ended up getting hurt
Speaker 2: anyway later in that year, despite being taken out of
Speaker 2: a perfect game in the seventh inning with less than
Speaker 2: ninety pitches. So I'm not going to get lolled into
Speaker 2: accepting taking great pictures out of no hitters or pitchers
Speaker 2: out of no hitters, period. But in this case I
Speaker 2: leaned towards Dave Roberts, taking him out after six no
Speaker 2: hit innings and the Dodgers were this close to having
Speaker 2: a combined no hitter. If it wasn't for Willie Castro's
Speaker 2: single in the eighth inning off of Tanner Scott, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers would have had another combined no hitter. The last
Speaker 2: time a Dodger threw a no hitter, it actually was
Speaker 2: a combined no hitter, back in twenty eighteen, when the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were playing the Padres in Mexico City. It was
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller's first full season in the major leagues. He
Speaker 2: started that game, and guys like Yimi Garcia, Adam Libertore
Speaker 2: Chris Hatcher pitched in that combined no hitter, So it
Speaker 2: would have been two combined no hitters in the last
Speaker 2: uh last two times the Dodgers had a no hitter
Speaker 2: in their franchise. And we all know Kershaw no hit
Speaker 2: the Rockies back in twenty fourteen. That anniversary is coming
Speaker 2: up in less than a month. All right, let's head
Speaker 2: downstairs to hear from the great Otani on sports at
Speaker 2: l A.
Speaker 3: We have situations like this, what is the biggest focus
Speaker 3: for you and how you kind of want to say,
Speaker 3: either stay in the zone or be efficient to try
Speaker 3: to as you were able to get their six hittings
Speaker 3: of work, you know, being.
Speaker 4: My musket chose to shield.
Speaker 1: Listening what defense even the least?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have to give credit to our defense. They really,
Speaker 4: you know, set the don't tone today again, just command
Speaker 4: was off and just I just felt like I was
Speaker 4: battling the the lack of it and the frustration.
Speaker 5: So this is the most animated or frustrated that you've
Speaker 5: seen me lately on the mountain.
Speaker 2: What late, what led into some of that ministration.
Speaker 6: Got me?
Speaker 4: It's done.
Speaker 1: To listen them out, recognized she.
Speaker 7: Wasn't taking the mean they are apploments, just way.
Speaker 4: Too many walks, and of course you want to avoid
Speaker 4: the hits. But the result of that was a lot
Speaker 4: of walks today, and that's something that I just don't
Speaker 4: really want to do.
Speaker 7: Despite the command issues that you kind of had the
Speaker 7: last couple of games, I was probably taking the kind
Speaker 7: of success you've got, the results you've had the last
Speaker 7: two games.
Speaker 2: Or not you wanted to go out with.
Speaker 7: Us, then I do know it, m us.
Speaker 1: I cannot lom this.
Speaker 4: The takeaway if any of the positive is that they
Speaker 4: didn't really have many hard hits, and that's something I'm
Speaker 4: gonna you know, that's the positive. Could have finished off.
Speaker 2: There we got about.
Speaker 7: Can you sow you? Oh no, uh, JUVENI can not
Speaker 7: do you good as contest, never take another.
Speaker 4: And the bullpen has been just consistent, done a great
Speaker 4: job all year round. And I think we're setting the
Speaker 4: tone to where as long as we have the lead
Speaker 4: by the seventh we can just you know, hand a
Speaker 4: baton and and you know, win the game. So in
Speaker 4: that sense, the really the only job for us to
Speaker 4: do is make sure we had to lead in the
Speaker 4: seventh offensively and as a starting pitcher.
Speaker 2: Okay, I would have loved to have heard the direct
Speaker 2: question and heard his direct answer about whether or not
Speaker 2: he wanted to continue or he wanted to try to
Speaker 2: chase the no hitter. But that was as close as
Speaker 2: we're going to get. Eight six, six seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. And really, when you talk
Speaker 2: about the defensive place meant made Tonight to stand out
Speaker 2: the most. Alex call robbing Troy Johnston in the second
Speaker 2: inning and the play that Alex Friedland made on a
Speaker 2: chopper by Willie Castro in the fourth inning went over
Speaker 2: the head of Freddie Freeman, and Freeland smart baseball IQ
Speaker 2: feel for the game was right where he needed to
Speaker 2: be backing up and the ball got to him and
Speaker 2: he dove to first base to get Willie Castro out.
Speaker 2: So those were the two defensive plays that stood out
Speaker 2: to me the most while Otani was in there for
Speaker 2: six no hit innings. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Edward and Mission Hills. You're on Dodger tog.
Speaker 8: How you doing, Edward, I'm doing I'm doing well, just
Speaker 8: a little under the weather. But I'm hanging in there
Speaker 8: all right.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for calling in even though you're under
Speaker 2: the weather.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So I agree with you to that point with
Speaker 8: Roberts pulling OTAWNI he just didn't have a great command.
Speaker 8: His pitch time was around the nineties. Probably different stories
Speaker 8: he had command and his pitchtowns around the seventies. So
Speaker 8: I agree with you on that he just didn't have
Speaker 8: it even if he went batter to bat or he
Speaker 8: would have gone to what one hundred and twenty ten pitches,
Speaker 8: And honestly, that's not looking at the big picture. You're right,
Speaker 8: big picture is Otani being healthy, attempting to win a
Speaker 8: cy young and Roberts has not shied away pulling pitchers
Speaker 8: from a no hitter. Look at Kershaw and with the twins,
Speaker 8: that's the most I think the most recent one where
Speaker 8: he pulled him pulled Kershaw out.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was a perfect game in the seventh inning.
Speaker 2: He pulled Kershaw. That was And Kershaw later that year
Speaker 2: had a no hitter in the eighth inning in Anaheim,
Speaker 2: but Dave Roberts let him ride it out and he
Speaker 2: gave up a hit. But yes, I agree with you, Edward,
Speaker 2: and I'm glad you're You're a little bit less emotional
Speaker 2: than others when it comes to these type of things.
Speaker 2: By the way, Shoe he Otani is not the first
Speaker 2: Dodger to have six or more no hit innings and
Speaker 2: hit a home run. He is the only pitcher in
Speaker 2: baseball history to start a game and lead off a
Speaker 2: game with a home run. He did that against the
Speaker 2: Brewers in Game four of the NLCS. He did that
Speaker 2: in his last start against the Padres, and he did
Speaker 2: it again tonight. But Don Drysdale, Big d was a
Speaker 2: pretty good hitter in his day, and he also had
Speaker 2: had six no hit innings and hit a home run.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a leadoff home run, but he hit a
Speaker 2: home run in that game back on June twenty fifth,
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty nine. So O'tani joins Don Drysdale with that
Speaker 2: distinction of having six or more no hit innings and
Speaker 2: hitting a home run. So there you go. Otani's not
Speaker 2: the only pitcher that can rake. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Witty or George. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing
Speaker 2: George good?
Speaker 6: How are you Dad?
Speaker 2: Awesome? It's always it's always an event when Otani is
Speaker 2: taking the mound. That that's the feeling I get. It's
Speaker 2: not just another game, it's an event.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I was there.
Speaker 6: It was pretty sweet.
Speaker 2: Okay, So, I mean you sound very numb on the inside, George,
Speaker 2: considering everything we just said.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm I'm not gonna sit here and act
Speaker 6: like he should have fit in the game. I guess
Speaker 6: I'm just kind of I've seen.
Speaker 9: A couple instances.
Speaker 6: I'm thinking of Ross trip Lane, like you said earlier,
Speaker 6: Kershaw Rich Hill, I mean Ross Shipping, he had a
Speaker 6: I think it might have been his first outing.
Speaker 1: But I'm kind of thinking of Francisco.
Speaker 2: I've been here for all of them, George, I remember
Speaker 2: all of them.
Speaker 6: I'm just trying to think of like you've missed out
Speaker 6: on some history, just because Roberts has been pretty conservative
Speaker 6: holding this pictures up.
Speaker 9: I mean, obviously it's worked.
Speaker 6: I mean we're at this point now with the organization,
Speaker 6: but I don't know, I just want to maybe I'm
Speaker 6: old school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't know where this would end. Right
Speaker 2: ninety nine pitches, he was laboring he's a two way player,
Speaker 2: not feeling great after his last start physically, even he
Speaker 2: admitted that, which says a lot speaks volumes. Okay, so
Speaker 2: you go out for the seventh inning. Now you're getting
Speaker 2: closer to one hundred and ten pitches. Let's say he
Speaker 2: labors through the seventh but doesn't give up a hit.
Speaker 2: You're sending him back out for the eighth inning, and
Speaker 2: now you're getting into the one twenties. Is it really work? It?
Speaker 2: And it's hard for me to be a hypocrite, George,
Speaker 2: because I'm a big believer that as a hitter, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers need him more as a hitter than they need
Speaker 2: him as a pitcher.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2: So that's that's the dilemma. That's the unique part of
Speaker 2: all this, and that's why I agree with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2: All right, George, thank you for the phone call. Eight
Speaker 2: sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. The only downer about tonight's game is that
Speaker 2: Teoscar Hernandez left the game in the second inning straining
Speaker 2: his left hamstring trying to beat out an infield single.
Speaker 2: He was out and out of the game in the
Speaker 2: second inning, and you could tell it was bad because
Speaker 2: he was he was going all the way up the
Speaker 2: right field line onto the grass and then was not
Speaker 2: jogging back to the dugout like he normally does. He
Speaker 2: was walking very carefully back to the dugout and grabbing
Speaker 2: the back of his leg, his left leg, and you
Speaker 2: knew it was his hamstring. And he slammed his helmet
Speaker 2: down and walk right down to the clubhouse and that
Speaker 2: was all confirmed. And Dave Roberts said after the game,
Speaker 2: ta Oscar is going on the il end quote going
Speaker 2: to be out for a few weeks. So that's really unfortunate.
Speaker 2: Ta Oscar was starting to hit his stride again, and
Speaker 2: I think he's frustrated on more than being taken out
Speaker 2: of the game because of injuring his left hamstring. You
Speaker 2: have to remember, ta Oscar Hernandez came to camp fifteen
Speaker 2: pounds lighter, and he told us in spring training part
Speaker 2: of the reason why he put in so much work
Speaker 2: and did a different type of workout during the offseason
Speaker 2: was to avoid the same groin injury that he had
Speaker 2: around the All Star Game last year. And he wanted
Speaker 2: to avoid hamstring or groin injuries. And here we are,
Speaker 2: he strains his left hamstring. So he's got to be
Speaker 2: really frustrated, obviously for the obvious, but all also the
Speaker 2: work he put in during the off season to avoid
Speaker 2: this type of injury. And here we are again. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number, Daniel in San Diego. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David vasse Hi. Daniel, Hey, how you.
Speaker 6: Doing, Dave?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
Speaker 10: Hey, listen, Yeah, I want to talk about the minor
Speaker 10: leaguers that they can call up for Kioto Hernandez. Do
Speaker 10: you have any insight of how they're doing or who
Speaker 10: do you think they're going to call up and see
Speaker 10: if they're going to be able to perform in the show.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, Ryan Ward is on the forty man roster.
Speaker 2: He plays left field. You can go a Ryan Ward
Speaker 2: Alex call platoon in left field. Or you could find
Speaker 2: a way to maneuver James Tibbs, the third onto your
Speaker 2: forty man roster and call up Tibbs, who has been
Speaker 2: very streaky and very good at Triple A this year,
Speaker 2: and give him an opportunity to platoon with Alex call
Speaker 2: in left field. So those would be my first two options.
Speaker 10: Okay, well, we kind of need you because our Osol.
Speaker 10: There's a little bit old Tioskars about two years and
Speaker 10: Tucker may leave next year, so we need to see
Speaker 10: how our minor leaguers they can come up and produce.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree, it's just the organizational depth, Daniel.
Speaker 2: I don't think Tucker's going anywhere quite honestly, But yes,
Speaker 2: this is an opportunity for somebody because ti Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: is going to be out for a few weeks. Keik
Speaker 2: A Hernandez is going to be out six to eight weeks,
Speaker 2: So there are opportunities now for young Dodgers. Eight six,
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Rockies tonight four to one. Also an
Speaker 2: opportunity for Alex Call, who is one of the most
Speaker 2: prepared Dodgers, and he made a great defensive play in
Speaker 2: the second inning that I don't believe Kyle Tucker would make,
Speaker 2: laying out for a fly ball a sinking line drive
Speaker 2: by Troy Johnson in and right field to at that
Speaker 2: time second inning, but preserved a no hitter for show.
Speaker 2: Heyo Tani and yesterday Alex Call was a pregame guest
Speaker 2: and I noticed how he was going to all the
Speaker 2: outfield spots to shag during batting practice, and I asked
Speaker 2: him why he does that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, as the outfield like, the best work you
Speaker 11: can do is live reads off the bat in batting practice.
Speaker 11: So this is a cherished time, I would say, because
Speaker 11: it's really the best practice you can do. And you know,
Speaker 11: nowadays with how they evaluate outfielders, how they evaluate everybody
Speaker 11: on defense, there's never been more data available for every
Speaker 11: single play. Every single play gets graded, every single play
Speaker 11: can carry an enormous weight for the amount of value
Speaker 11: that you provide for the team. And so trying to
Speaker 11: get the best reps possible via the best means of
Speaker 11: practice with batting practice, live reads off the bat is
Speaker 11: how you can get better, stay sharp, and be ready
Speaker 11: for the game. So understanding like, hey, every single ball
Speaker 11: off the bat is an opportunity for me to create
Speaker 11: value for the team, and I have to be ready
Speaker 11: for every one of those in every position. So I
Speaker 11: like to rotate around all three. You know, might not
Speaker 11: get all three one day, but over the course of
Speaker 11: the week, try to touch all three.
Speaker 2: How about that? How about that Alex call preparing yesterday
Speaker 2: during batting practice to be ready to make a catch
Speaker 2: like he made tonight in the second inning to rob
Speaker 2: Troy Johnston. That's what I try to tell you. These
Speaker 2: guys don't show up at six o'clock and put on
Speaker 2: their uniform to play. These guys are out here every
Speaker 2: single day, grinding through the summer and one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty two game marathon, preparing some more than others. But
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers, all these guys prepare and grind a
Speaker 2: lot to be ready to go for a seven to
Speaker 2: ten game. And Alex Call was preparing yesterday to be
Speaker 2: in right field tonight and to be ready to make
Speaker 2: that type of catch. And at that time, you know,
Speaker 2: obviously nobody knew Otani would have a six no hit
Speaker 2: outing or the Dodgers would have a no hitter going
Speaker 2: into the eighth inning. But if Alex Call isn't prepared
Speaker 2: and doesn't make that catch, it's a move point Eight
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the Horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Jose Moto, What a night at Dodgers Stadium. It always
Speaker 2: is when show hal tani is center stage. What did
Speaker 2: you think about his six no hit innings tonight?
Speaker 9: It was great to see show fight through an outing war.
Speaker 9: You could see in the beginning in his face he
Speaker 9: just was not feeling the command release point. He was
Speaker 9: very sweeper happy tonight, which is sometimes one thing that
Speaker 9: gets him into a little bit of trouble, and it's
Speaker 9: because where he pitches from the first base, they watch
Speaker 9: how many times he has to forge that sweeper to
Speaker 9: finish outside. When he's not feeling well. He has to
Speaker 9: really force it. It happened in San Diego, it happened
Speaker 9: here again tonight. It's a very efficient angle that he
Speaker 9: gives because I mean, as fastball plays well, the sweeper
Speaker 9: plays well, the breakawall plays well, but only two splitters
Speaker 9: to that, which is very interesting for show. But nonetheless,
Speaker 9: when the big ones and the great ones know they
Speaker 9: don't feel well, they'll still find a way to go
Speaker 9: out there and avoid some damage. And we saw once
Speaker 9: again the greatness at one show Hey Oltani.
Speaker 2: Through six innings, Jose, nobody asked him after the game
Speaker 2: whether or not he wanted to try to go out
Speaker 2: for the seventh inning and chase the no hitter. Do
Speaker 2: you believe that he wanted that or he understood and
Speaker 2: was reconciled with where he was at and how much
Speaker 2: he labored tonight.
Speaker 9: Yeah, wanting it is one thing, of course he wanted,
Speaker 9: But in reality, he just tells you that he's not
Speaker 9: ready for that ninety nine pitches. He's never thrown more
Speaker 9: than one hundred and seventeen at any outing in his career.
Speaker 9: That was back in twenty twenty three. Let's keep in
Speaker 9: mind day this is his first full season pitching in
Speaker 9: three years, there's a lot. He's already has more innings
Speaker 9: in the regular season this season, the last year, and
Speaker 9: that kind of the playoffs obviously, so there's a lot
Speaker 9: to really take care of here in the month of May.
Speaker 9: If it's for show, he said, yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 9: go one twenty one thirty. But you know very well
Speaker 9: we have this conversation and there's arguments why not about
Speaker 9: letting him go or not, but I think he understood
Speaker 9: where he was the fighting and how many times he
Speaker 9: had to shake you know, Will Smith and just go out.
Speaker 9: It just didn't feel right. Whatever pitch, the sequence called for,
Speaker 9: or the scouting call for, it just didn't feel right.
Speaker 9: And once again he got it through. But there's no
Speaker 9: question in my mind he was not coming out for
Speaker 9: that one ending here. There's no need to push him
Speaker 9: that way because remember, keep in mind, this guy also
Speaker 9: has two surgeries in that right elbow, and there's absolutely
Speaker 9: no need to push this right now in the month
Speaker 9: of May or July or August. It doesn't matter. You
Speaker 9: got to go out and take care of showhill Tony
Speaker 9: because you need him both ways, hitting and pitching.
Speaker 2: Hose Mota was at the Big A when Otani took
Speaker 2: a no hitter into the eighth inning on September twenty ninth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Do you remember that game and did
Speaker 2: you believe that night was going to be the night
Speaker 2: that he threw a no hitter.
Speaker 9: I was actually here with the Dodgers in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 9: but I remember following that game, David, No, It's okay.
Speaker 9: I mean I was still falling show hey, and I
Speaker 9: was going to report. So what I know is one thing,
Speaker 9: he was pushing himself to go outable like one hundred
Speaker 9: and forty pitches and is not gonna happen. But it
Speaker 9: didn't surprise me at all when show he does something
Speaker 9: like this like today, it just doesn't give in, which
Speaker 9: is the main thing. And I think you know overall
Speaker 9: in the conversation with Yamamoto and him, it's like they
Speaker 9: push each other to do the same thing to make
Speaker 9: sure they don't cave it in any type of situation.
Speaker 9: But maybe one day we'll see it when he's economical,
Speaker 9: he's fresh and not a guy that has to work
Speaker 9: so hard as he did today like last time, just
Speaker 9: to get through five innings or six innings today and
Speaker 9: eventually it'll happen at the right time, Dave.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is just one of those you're at
Speaker 2: the bar type of question. Yama Toto came so close
Speaker 2: last year in Baltimore to have a no hitter. Otani
Speaker 2: came close in twenty twenty two. If you had to
Speaker 2: pick one, who do you believe is going to get
Speaker 2: that no hitter first?
Speaker 9: I have to go stuff. Man, it's hard. I have
Speaker 9: to pick one. Put me on the spot, that's straight.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Yoshi.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I agree with you, just because he's a pitcher.
Speaker 9: I mean. And the thing with Ryoshi is he he
Speaker 9: may be at ninety four ninety five great, but he
Speaker 9: has so many different weapons to get you out of
Speaker 9: an inning and be economical and not have to push
Speaker 9: himself for the punch outs, which is great, But especially
Speaker 9: in season like this one where Yoshinobu to strike us
Speaker 9: are down, there's a good possibility who might see that happening?
Speaker 9: You know, just don't throw that cutter where he missed
Speaker 9: it right there with holiday and it should have been
Speaker 9: a different result right there in Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Before I let you go, Jose, the only downer, like
Speaker 2: we said tonight, was ta Oscar Hernandez hurting his left
Speaker 2: hamstring and going to be out now for at least
Speaker 2: a few weeks. According to Dave Roberts, the Dodgers lose
Speaker 2: keyk Hernandez, they lose Taoscar Hernandez tonight. Can they sustain
Speaker 2: I know they got a lot of depth. I know
Speaker 2: they have a lot of great players. Can they keep
Speaker 2: this going with without Taoscar Hernandez specifically that will keep.
Speaker 9: It going because even without the Oscar hitting well, they're
Speaker 9: still doing the job. Once again. You know, your death
Speaker 9: gets tested in so many ways. As Dave Roberts and
Speaker 9: every manager in baseball says, we need every single one
Speaker 9: of you the first day of spring training. This is
Speaker 9: why be ready. And know what I was thinking about,
Speaker 9: this would have been a great opportunity for a guy
Speaker 9: named Alec Thomas. Say he's right their guy and yeah,
Speaker 9: he got activated recently yesterday for the Arizona League. Right now,
Speaker 9: he's not played in Triple A yet, but this will
Speaker 9: have been a great opportunity for him. But you know what,
Speaker 9: the guys have been grinding through his Dodgers right now.
Speaker 9: Deserves to get a look and certainly for Tia Oscar
Speaker 9: being out, they'll find a way again to find depth
Speaker 9: and to make sure that whatever fit's that part of
Speaker 9: the lineup is going to come out and do their job.
Speaker 9: But you know, let's see what happens. But so so
Speaker 9: bad for two Oscar and one thing to keep in
Speaker 9: mind to it, and I'll say this in the most
Speaker 9: positive way, Dave, this is not a young team, Okay.
Speaker 9: We have to keep in mind that these things are
Speaker 9: are doing to happen with an older team. They take
Speaker 9: care of themselves, they work very hard, they know exactly
Speaker 9: how to bounce back. But these things sometimes are expected
Speaker 9: throughout baseball when you know your team's aging as good
Speaker 9: as they're doing. These are things that teams prepare for
Speaker 9: coming out of spring training because you know, of course
Speaker 9: the possibilities are much higher. But nonetheless still a very
Speaker 9: good team, very deep team, and they'll find the way again.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in tonight.
Speaker 2: Enjoy Thursday, and we'll see you back out here Friday night.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Man Jose Mota with the Dodgers since twenty twenty two
Speaker 2: in the Spanish radio booth. Certainly great to have him
Speaker 2: check in after every game on Dodger Talk. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Torrance, Kate. You're on Drew Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Kate?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 13: Hey, do the Dodgers need a closer?
Speaker 14: Or can we just have our awesome bullpen be situational
Speaker 14: right now?
Speaker 2: It seems like they can have their awesome bullpen be
Speaker 2: situational right now. And really, Tanner Scott's been that guy
Speaker 2: just tonight. The matchup dictated for him to come in
Speaker 2: in the eighth inning, and Kyle Hurt, who's been absolutely
Speaker 2: dominant against right handed hitters, closed out the ninth inning
Speaker 2: because of those string of writings.
Speaker 13: Yep, that's all right, Okay, thanks.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to we're on the same page. Bye, Kate.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Lars, who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Lars,
Speaker 2: how you doing?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 13: Massa just got back to Seal Beach from Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 13: but had an incredible night. What a time to be alive?
Speaker 13: Was a time to be a Dodgers fan. I went
Speaker 13: down saw they pitch in San Diego to to see
Speaker 13: him hit a homer and pitch so well there and
Speaker 13: then do it again here in la is just is
Speaker 13: so exciting. One moment that I observed that I.
Speaker 2: Ask you a real quick question, Lars. Did you have
Speaker 2: tickets before you knew Otani would be pitching tonight or
Speaker 2: did you get tickets after you found out Otani would
Speaker 2: be pitching tonight?
Speaker 13: Great question, And I do map it out so that
Speaker 13: I try to go to all of his starts. In fact,
Speaker 13: we my son Max and I would do it down
Speaker 13: in Anaheim, which is a little closer to us, all
Speaker 13: of the years he was pitching there. This one, I
Speaker 13: did did have tickets already with the Yamamoto bobblehead, so
Speaker 13: I was coming regardless. But but yeah, I definitely circle
Speaker 13: this on the calendar. I was excited when Otani's turn
Speaker 13: came up tonight, and he's just He's incredible to watch,
Speaker 13: and I'm glad that that hopefully this this and the
Speaker 13: talk of him not hitting when he pitches, because the
Speaker 13: whole time in Anaheim he would have some of his
Speaker 13: best offensive performances on his pitching day. Is and after
Speaker 13: three pitching opportunities where he didn't get a chance to hit,
Speaker 13: to then hit two home runs in the first inning
Speaker 13: of the next two I think speaks volumes.
Speaker 15: One small moment that I observe that I just think
Speaker 15: speaks to how tight this team is and how well
Speaker 15: God keeps him on the tracks. Is Hayes on Kim
Speaker 15: coming in for ta Oscar Hernandez. I mean, here's a
Speaker 15: guy that presumably was replaced by Alex Freeland now at
Speaker 15: second comes into the game, makes that incredible play up
Speaker 15: in foul territory where he kind of reaches over the
Speaker 15: fence awkwardly and gets it. And who's the first guy
Speaker 15: and the loudest guy clapping him on was Alex Freeland
Speaker 15: at second base. I looked over and he's given him
Speaker 15: a standing ovation and applauding him. I think that speaks
Speaker 15: for just how tight these guys are. Even when there's
Speaker 15: competition amongst pitchers, when they're pitching the shot out innings
Speaker 15: or position players trying to get the start, they're just
Speaker 15: all together and rowing in the right direction.
Speaker 13: And that's why we won five in a row.
Speaker 2: All right, Lars, thanks a lot for the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Kim got his first taste of left field in a
Speaker 2: major league game tonight, with Taoscar Hernandez being forced out
Speaker 2: of the game in the second inning. Alex call in
Speaker 2: there already. Obviously, Dave Roberts told Kyle Tucker, you're not
Speaker 2: playing tonight, or he would have gone out to right,
Speaker 2: Cal would have gone to left, and with the unfortunate
Speaker 2: injury to Keith a Hernandez Kim was the only option
Speaker 2: that he had. Let's take one more phone call, Gilbert
Speaker 2: in Southgate. You're the last man standing, Gilbert. So if
Speaker 2: you want to come to the game on Friday night,
Speaker 2: I got a pair of tickets for you. On Alex
Speaker 2: Vesia Babblehead Night.
Speaker 14: Oh man, Yes, that sounds so good right now, Bro,
Speaker 14: I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for being patient and holding on and walking
Speaker 2: it off tonight on Dodger Talk, What do you have
Speaker 2: to say about Otani?
Speaker 14: Okay, So here's my thing. Everybody wants to speak on
Speaker 14: his negatives, right, like like how he wasn't doing so good.
Speaker 14: But I mean, we're right here witnessing like the best
Speaker 14: player we've ever witnessed ever. And what I want to
Speaker 14: bring up is who in this game in the age
Speaker 14: is actually throwing striking out somebody and hitting a home
Speaker 14: run in the same inning. Nobody, Bro nobody's doing that
Speaker 14: right now, but Otani.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know who's tearing down Otani. All I
Speaker 2: hear is a lot of love for Otani.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean as far as just like his little
Speaker 14: those little negatives, the tucks that I hear. I just
Speaker 14: I don't like it. I just I just like to
Speaker 14: bring up the fact that he is the best player
Speaker 14: in the league and actually the best player I've ever
Speaker 14: win this period.
Speaker 2: All right, Gilbert, I agree with you. Hold on and
Speaker 2: we'll get you those tickets. It's all brought to you
Speaker 2: by AM five to seventy LA Sports. You're home for
Speaker 2: the back to back world champion Dodgers, and don't forget
Speaker 2: you can stream every game on the iHeartRadio app. I'll
Speaker 2: say this, you know, before I started covering the Dodgers
Speaker 2: exclusively in twenty twelve, I covered all the LA teams,
Speaker 2: including the Shaq and Kobe Lakers. And I could tell
Speaker 2: you this, when Kobe and Shaq were active in playing,
Speaker 2: everybody took shots at those guys and weren't appreciating how
Speaker 2: great Shaq was for his size and what he can
Speaker 2: do and how dominant he was. They would always want
Speaker 2: more from him, and it seemed like they always wanted
Speaker 2: more from Goliath Kobe Bryant. Now that he's retired and
Speaker 2: unfortunately passed away, it feels like everybody appreciates everything that
Speaker 2: he did as a player, his mindset, that Mamba mentality
Speaker 2: more after he stopped playing than when he actually was playing.
Speaker 2: So that's my appeal to you, not only with Otani,
Speaker 2: but when Mookie Beds, Freddie Freeman and some of these
Speaker 2: other really good players. Just enjoy the greatness that you're
Speaker 2: able to watch. Enjoy Otani because you're not going to
Speaker 2: see this again. I can guarantee you you will not
Speaker 2: see this again in your lifetime. So just sit back
Speaker 2: and enjoy the show. No player is perfect. There is
Speaker 2: no such thing as a perfect player. Kobe Bryant wasn't perfect.
Speaker 2: Shaquille O'Neal was not perfect. I got news for you.
Speaker 2: I saw Michael Jordan play. He was not perfect. So
Speaker 2: just enjoy the greatness of these players because you're never
Speaker 2: going to see another Kobe Bryant. You're never going to
Speaker 2: see another show heo Tani, and I'll go out on
Speaker 2: the limb and say, you're never going to see another
Speaker 2: Shaquille O'Neal period. All right, I want to say a
Speaker 2: couple of things. Speaking of guys you'll never see again,
Speaker 2: well I saw one today. Ramo Martinez was back at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium tonight. He and Hideo Nomo were the two
Speaker 2: best starting pitchers the Dodgers had in the decade of
Speaker 2: the nineties. Ramo Martinez in nineteen ninety struck out eighteen
Speaker 2: braves here at Dodgers Stadium, tying Sandy Kofax's record of
Speaker 2: eighteen strikeouts in a game. He also threw a no
Speaker 2: hitter against the Florida Marlins in nineteen ninety and was
Speaker 2: on his way to winning the Cy Young in the
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one season if it wasn't for Jack Howell
Speaker 2: hitting a line drive off his right shoulder in the
Speaker 2: final game of the first half of that season. So
Speaker 2: it was great to have Ramo Martinez back here tonight.
Speaker 2: And Ramon is going to be out at Oral Herscheiser's
Speaker 2: new car dealership grand opening in Gino. But it was
Speaker 2: great to have Ramon Martinez back here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: And you can hear the interview we did together on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. Also, the Dodgers now have won five
Speaker 2: in a row twelve of their last fourteen have a
Speaker 2: four and a half game lead over the San Diego Padres,
Speaker 2: who just got swept by the Phillies. The Phillies are
Speaker 2: coming to town on Friday night for a three game series.
Speaker 2: Christopher Sanchez, speaking of Oral Herscheiser, threw more zeros up
Speaker 2: tonight in San Diego. He now has forty four and
Speaker 2: two third scoreless innings. But more importantly, the Padres are
Speaker 2: not hitting in this four game losing streak. The Padres,
Speaker 2: if you can believe this, we're oh for twenty eight
Speaker 2: with runners in scoring position. I know Rick Monday's ears
Speaker 2: just perked up because he loves that stat. Yes, the
Speaker 2: Padres have a four game losing streak and are OH
Speaker 2: for twenty eight with runners in scoring position. Today's starter
Speaker 2: and former Dodger Walker Buehler took them DOUN and didn't
Speaker 2: get any run support against the Phillies. Here's what he
Speaker 2: had to say to the San Diego media after tonight's game.
Speaker 5: You know, I think the record said we're doing pretty
Speaker 5: well obviously, you know of you know, kind of annual
Speaker 5: playoff team comes in and wins three games.
Speaker 2: This is that's baseball.
Speaker 5: That's why we play one hundred and sixty two. And
Speaker 5: you know, I think for us and what we're a
Speaker 5: big kind of momentum based team. And you know, being
Speaker 5: playing against the Fadres for as long as I have,
Speaker 5: like that's part of the DNA here, and you know,
Speaker 5: we catch momentimum, have a good road trip, and you know,
Speaker 5: I think, hopefully go in there and do the same
Speaker 5: to them at their place.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Walker Buehler, who obviously knows how emotional
Speaker 2: and the emotional rollercoaster the Padres are as a team.
Speaker 2: Manny Machado has not gotten on track. He's hitting under
Speaker 2: two hundred, and Fernando Tatist Junior still has not hit
Speaker 2: a home run this season, and the Dodgers are starting
Speaker 2: to open up a gap in the NL West. After
Speaker 2: the Phillies swept the Padres. With the win today, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers now have a four and a half game lead
Speaker 2: over both the Padres and the Diamondbacks, and more importantly,
Speaker 2: the lost column. The Dodgers have a six game lead
Speaker 2: over both San Diego and Arizona, or excuse me, a
Speaker 2: four game lead in the lost column over the Padres
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Speaker 2: game weekend series against the Phillies. Justin Robleski will be
Speaker 2: on the mound. He's six and two with an ERA
Speaker 2: at three zero seven, going up against Zach Wheeler, who
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Speaker 2: Dodgers in Phillies. The Phillies have won four in a row.
Speaker 2: They're over five hundred now with interim manager Don Mattingly
Speaker 2: taken over for the fired Rob Thompson. That'll do it
Speaker 2: for us tonight on Dodger Talk thanks to Colin Ye
Speaker 2: back at our Burbank Studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out
Speaker 2: here at Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium. Maybe Dwayne on
Speaker 2: the day off is gonna go shopping at Uniclo tomorrow.
Speaker 2: You never know what he might show up with on
Speaker 2: Friday Show. Haltani got the win tonight, he's five and two.
Speaker 2: Sigano takes the loss, and congrats to our guy Kyle
Speaker 2: Hurt with his first career save Otani. Freeman pajs All
Speaker 2: went deep tonight to help the Dodgers beat the Rockies
Speaker 2: four to one. Coming up next, it'll be Ben Maller
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. We'll talk to you tomorrow night
Speaker 2: at seven o'clock for OP Day Dodger Talk Adrian Gonzalez.
Speaker 2: We'll be joining us at seven point fifteen. Have a
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