Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begne.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Here we go again. We're gay running back to get.
Speaker 1: In on the show called eight six six eighty seven
Speaker 1: two five seven, and be sure to follow Dodger Talk
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Here's your host, David Vase.
Speaker 4: Last What a game in the Bronx.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers hold on and beat the Yankees tonight by
Speaker 2: a final score of two to one. Welcome the Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk David Vase with you until eight thirty tonight back
Speaker 2: in La eleven thirty here at Yankee Stadium after an
Speaker 2: exciting opener to this three game series. The Dodgers being
Speaker 2: back at Yankee Stadium for the first time since closing
Speaker 2: them out in the World Series back in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: So a lot of great memories here. Garret Cole was
Speaker 2: on the mound that night Game five, and Garrett Cole
Speaker 2: was on the mound tonight and things went sideways on
Speaker 2: Cole in the fifth inning of Game five in the
Speaker 2: twenty four World Series, and things went sideways on Garrett
Speaker 2: Cole tonight in the seventh inning after he walked Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts to lead off the seventh inning, and Aaron Boone
Speaker 2: goes out there to talk to Garrett Cole. I mean,
Speaker 2: I understand Cole is the ace, and it's I hate
Speaker 2: saying it's his game because it's not his game.
Speaker 4: It's the team's game.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 4: If you walk.
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts to lead off the seventh inning, I would
Speaker 2: find it hard to leave him in the game, especially
Speaker 2: since we are in July. He's only made ten starts
Speaker 2: since missing almost five hundred and seventy days between starts
Speaker 2: coming back from Tommy John surgery. So again, thank you
Speaker 2: Aaron Boone for leaving Garret Cole in there. You know,
Speaker 2: I understand that you're on the mound, and Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: says done that in big games, but he has a
Speaker 2: method and a process in the regular season, and I
Speaker 2: just was surprised that they left Garret Cole in that game.
Speaker 2: So Max Munsey made Aaron Boone pay for that decision.
Speaker 2: He made Garret Cole pay for extending that at bat.
Speaker 2: He was able to hang in there for six pitches,
Speaker 2: and then on the seventh pitch, Garret Cole threw him
Speaker 2: a slider, a flat slider, and quite frankly, the slider
Speaker 2: was Garret Cole's worst pitch tonight, and he threw it
Speaker 2: and Munsey did not miss it four hundred and sixteen
Speaker 2: feet in the second deck upper deck here at Yankee Stadium,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers had a two to one lead after
Speaker 2: a fantastic game by Garret Cole, and he was dominant.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers had no real answer for Garrett Cole well tonight.
Speaker 2: He went six plus innings, he allowed four hits, and
Speaker 2: he gave up that go ahead two run home run
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning. So certainly a fun night here
Speaker 2: at Yankee Stadium. It was fun to be back here,
Speaker 2: I think for all of us, Rick Monday and Steven Nelson, myself,
Speaker 2: Dwayne McDonald and others.
Speaker 4: A lot of memories came back.
Speaker 2: Being here for the first time since Game five of
Speaker 2: the twenty four World Series. You know where I stood
Speaker 2: tonight waiting to get on the field for the final out.
Speaker 2: That's where I was standing when I was standing next
Speaker 2: to Buster only cramped in that camera. Well, when Walker
Speaker 2: Buehler came in out of that bullpen and strutted his
Speaker 2: way to closing out the Yankees and giving us that
Speaker 2: famous pose that.
Speaker 4: Will live forever.
Speaker 2: A lot of places here that you walk through, you
Speaker 2: remember where you were during the World Series, And certainly
Speaker 2: it was a great time because that was the first
Speaker 2: championship the Dodgers had won in a full season since
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight and got to experience the champagne shower
Speaker 2: because they did not get to experience that in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: And I never experienced the Dodgers winning the World Series
Speaker 2: front row and center like that, covering the team.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: I was Me and Alana Rizzo were the only two
Speaker 2: Dodger broadcasters, along with Joe Davis for Fox, that were
Speaker 2: in Texas for the entire run Globely Field, so I
Speaker 2: was there. I would talk to guys over zoom, I
Speaker 2: would talk to them over a headset in the clubhouse.
Speaker 4: But that was the extent of it.
Speaker 2: So twenty four was the first time to experience the
Speaker 2: Dodgers winning the World Series with them. To bring you
Speaker 2: a World Series winning celebration on Sports Net LA and
Speaker 2: right here on AM five to seventy, LA sports, So
Speaker 2: all those things came flooding back. But tonight was about
Speaker 2: Max Munsey continuing to be that guy who has been
Speaker 2: one of the more clutch players in baseball since he
Speaker 2: got called up in twenty eighteen. And tonight was about
Speaker 2: the Dodger defense, which was the difference in them winning
Speaker 2: the World Series last year, and it was the difference
Speaker 2: again tonight, and it was in twenty four beating the Yankees.
Speaker 2: And say whatever you want about the way Andy Pie
Speaker 2: has threw that.
Speaker 4: Ball back to the infield.
Speaker 2: He was just trying to get it back into the infield,
Speaker 2: back to the cutoff man as quickly as he could,
Speaker 2: and Mookie Betts made a Jeter esque type of instinctual play,
Speaker 2: and Dalton Rushing made an incredible tag because the throw
Speaker 2: across Mookie's body took Rushing up the first base line.
Speaker 2: The throw was on the first base side and he
Speaker 2: was able to reach back and tag out Trent Grisham,
Speaker 2: which was representing the tying run, and mister Momentum had
Speaker 2: pinstripes on at that point in time, if Trent Grisham
Speaker 2: is safe. So just a tremendous night from Muncie from
Speaker 2: the Dodger defense from Rushing who caught Roki Sasaki. Sasaki
Speaker 2: was maybe the best we have seen him consistently from
Speaker 2: inning one until the time Dave Roberts took him out
Speaker 2: when the gas tank was getting low. Great proactive managing
Speaker 2: by Dave Roberts taking him out with two outs in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning when he saw, you know, the gas
Speaker 2: tank blinking empty, and he brought in Jack Dryer, who
Speaker 2: got the job done. And Jack Dryer has started to
Speaker 2: look like Jack Dryer from a year ago. His last
Speaker 2: three outings, and Sasaki was throwing more pitches over the
Speaker 2: century mark tonight vlo wise than he ever has in
Speaker 2: any of his major league starts. He threw it, threw
Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour or more seventeen different times tonight,
Speaker 2: and through the hardest pitch of his major league career
Speaker 2: on the first pitch to Paul Goldschmidt in the first inning,
Speaker 2: one hundred and one point eight.
Speaker 4: Miles an hour.
Speaker 2: Those are things that get flashed up here at the
Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium video board that you can't miss. So this
Speaker 2: was this was a different Roki Sasaki than what we
Speaker 2: have seen. And Dalton Rushing said, you know what he
Speaker 2: had his good stuff. Maybe it was the big stage
Speaker 2: here at Yankee Stadium. Whatever it was, the focus was
Speaker 2: there from Roki Sasaki tonight eight nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Yankees
Speaker 2: tonight two to one. If you were here in the Bronx,
Speaker 2: would love to hear from you. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy. I can't believe we don't
Speaker 2: have a full board of calls tonight. This was such
Speaker 2: an exciting game. How can you not be pumped up
Speaker 2: after a game like tonight?
Speaker 4: Where are you?
Speaker 2: Nine eight seven two five seventy. I know where Darryl is.
Speaker 2: He's in Palmdale. Lead us off tonight, Daryl, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: What a game?
Speaker 5: What a game?
Speaker 6: I loved it. The Dodgers did exactly what they were
Speaker 6: supposed to do a veteran team, don't press the issue,
Speaker 6: laid back and let them make a mistake. And the
Speaker 6: leadoff walk was the mistakes. I don't I don't know
Speaker 6: why they looked into the game, but hey, we'll take you.
Speaker 6: And that's what the Dodgers did. They played like professionals
Speaker 6: today and they that's what they need to do play
Speaker 6: like professionals, eliminate the leadoff walk because the leadoff walk
Speaker 6: kill les. I mean, they killed us in the last game,
Speaker 6: but tonight we overcame and when they we got that
Speaker 6: leadoff walk, I knew it was something happened.
Speaker 2: But like I said, Daryl, it it's twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: it's not nineteen eighty five. When you give up a
Speaker 2: leadoff walk in the seventh inning and a guy coming
Speaker 2: off Tommy John surgery, you gotta take him out of
Speaker 2: the game. I thought Aaron Boone made a critical mistake there,
Speaker 2: even if Cole is able to get Muncie out, but
Speaker 2: you could feel things starting to turn the Dodgers way
Speaker 2: after he walked Mookie. I thought it was a poor
Speaker 2: decision by Aaron Boone.
Speaker 6: You know the fish wall, right, Yeah, And you.
Speaker 2: Know what that was him leaving Garrett Cole in there.
Speaker 2: That was a manager that wanted his player to like
Speaker 2: him instead of him being the manager.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he did it. I'll say, cool, we got it,
Speaker 6: we got it.
Speaker 2: But hey, Deck, all right, Darryl, thank you for the
Speaker 2: phone call. Appreciate it. Eight sixty six ninety seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Let's go out to Malibu. Bob, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. How you doing, Bob?
Speaker 7: I'm doing good, Dave. What a great game.
Speaker 8: That was a great way to start this series.
Speaker 7: Man, So thanks for having me on to celebrate with
Speaker 7: you guys. And first let me just give a shout
Speaker 7: out to Colin the edit. To Colin put together the
Speaker 7: first season highlights, Man, well done. Really enjoyed that last night,
Speaker 7: Dave on Dodger Talk. Nice work.
Speaker 4: Hey there we go. You were listening to off night
Speaker 4: Dodger Talk, Bob.
Speaker 7: I love that absolutely, Man, I listen every night when
Speaker 7: you're on, Man, Dave. Question for you tonight we're talking
Speaker 7: about memories of the twenty four series. One of the
Speaker 7: more sour memories, especially for MOOKI, was those two clowns
Speaker 7: who grabbed his gloves. My question was, were those guys
Speaker 7: spotted in the crowd at all tonight or anywhere near
Speaker 7: the stadium. Are those guys allowed to be back at
Speaker 7: these games?
Speaker 4: They are not. They are banned permanently from Yankee stadium.
Speaker 7: Ah, good to hear. I'm glad the Yankees upheld that.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 7: That's the right thing to do for those guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, it's funny.
Speaker 2: I was talking to Mookie Bed, who came out with
Speaker 2: his own baseball glove company, and I said, hey, speaking
Speaker 2: of gloves, when you came back on the field here
Speaker 2: for early work, did you look down the right field line?
Speaker 2: And he said, as only Mookie would, I didn't even
Speaker 2: think about that until you brought it up. I was like, what,
Speaker 2: how could you not think about that? So that's just
Speaker 2: Mookie being in the moment.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 7: Well, it was an exciting game, Dodgers played. Well, look
Speaker 7: forward to the rest of this series. And again, well Jobbed,
Speaker 7: well done job Colin, nice work man. You guys have
Speaker 7: a great time in New York. Dave, thanks for the call.
Speaker 4: All right, Bob, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll play that montage tomorrow night after the game
Speaker 2: where maybe during a rain delay Dodger talk because rain
Speaker 2: is in the forecast for tomorrow here in New York.
Speaker 4: And I.
Speaker 2: Checked in with the grounds crew and they said they
Speaker 2: think the rain's going to end around seven o'clock Eastern time,
Speaker 2: four o'clock Pacific, so we may be in the clear,
Speaker 2: but hey, you never know, we might have to play
Speaker 2: that beautiful montage and that music was our guy Brad Paisley,
Speaker 2: loyal Dodger Talk listener, big time Dodger fan who I
Speaker 2: met up with last night in the city.
Speaker 4: How about that? Can you believe? Brad Paisley invited.
Speaker 2: Me to his condo here in New York and then
Speaker 2: he took me to the gastropub that he watched Game
Speaker 2: four of the NLCS Otani's big game.
Speaker 4: He said, I need to take you there. There's a
Speaker 4: great spot.
Speaker 2: This is where I watched O'tani's three home runs ten
Speaker 2: strikeout game.
Speaker 4: I mean, he is that big of a fan.
Speaker 2: And I have no idea why this guy wants to
Speaker 2: hang out with me, but we did. We had a
Speaker 2: great time, and I appreciate Brad Paisley's kindness. See and
Speaker 2: today he was on the Today Show last night hanging
Speaker 2: out with a bum like me, and then to today
Speaker 2: he was on the Today Show promoting his new album.
Speaker 2: So how about that. I didn't even know he had
Speaker 2: a new album. Let's go out to Coasta Mesa. Rick,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Rick?
Speaker 8: Hey, nice to talk to you.
Speaker 4: Did I catch you by surprise? You called me?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Hey, Hey, you know what. I'm from San Diego
Speaker 8: and I was telling your speener that the gold Glover
Speaker 8: and made just like Paw his tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean Pa has made a great throw tonight, and
Speaker 2: that's why he has a very good chance of being
Speaker 2: a Goal Glove winner. And that's part of the reason
Speaker 2: why he was an All Star starter. So you think
Speaker 2: about Pa, has you think about Max Munsey, You even
Speaker 2: think about Mookie Betts, who was the runner up at
Speaker 2: shortstop for the goal Glove last year. These aren't just guys,
Speaker 2: they're really good players that are three time World Series
Speaker 2: champions in the case of Muncie, a four time World
Speaker 2: Series winner in Mookie Betts, and a guy that made
Speaker 2: a big catch in the World Series last year and
Speaker 2: who's really coming into his own. These aren't just also rans.
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like people. I know, if the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: these group of Dodgers were playing on the East Coast,
Speaker 2: if they were the Mets or the Yankees, all these
Speaker 2: people east of the Mississippi would be, you know, crowning
Speaker 2: these guys the greatest team of all time. But because
Speaker 2: they're in LA, they don't get their due. They should
Speaker 2: get there due, and if they three pete, they're going
Speaker 2: down in history as one of the greatest teams of
Speaker 2: all time. I don't care where they play. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Whittier. Michael, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: How are you doing, Michael, I'm doing well.
Speaker 3: David.
Speaker 9: Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 4: My pleasure. Did you get a chance to listen or
Speaker 4: or watch this game tonight?
Speaker 9: I got to watch you on TV.
Speaker 4: But nice.
Speaker 9: Honestly, I think whatever whatever break that the Zaki had
Speaker 9: with an entire you know, all Star break, whatever mentality
Speaker 9: that they worked with him, that was fantastic. As far
Speaker 9: as the way he pitched today, he is outstanding when
Speaker 9: he gets that first strike and they just need to
Speaker 9: keep beating that into him. And second, what I would
Speaker 9: like to say is pe should have had All Star
Speaker 9: appearance last year. He is a phenomenal.
Speaker 6: Center killer.
Speaker 9: He definitely deserved all the tack plays that he got
Speaker 9: this year.
Speaker 4: Thank you, David, no doubt, no doubt, Michael, thank you
Speaker 4: for calling in. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: He's the only challenge for Pa haz now is to
Speaker 2: carry this through the end of the year. He's proven
Speaker 2: he could do it for our first half, but now
Speaker 2: he's got to take the next step in his major
Speaker 2: league career. And do it for a full season. That's
Speaker 2: the challenge for Andy. Pie has not to let down
Speaker 2: and mentally a one sixty two season plus the playoffs
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers will wear you down mentally, and that's
Speaker 2: the challenge for him.
Speaker 4: Now, can he take this.
Speaker 2: Through the rest of the season and into October because
Speaker 2: we all know he struggled offensively in October.
Speaker 4: What is he going to do this year? That's the
Speaker 4: next challenge.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Want to give you an update on show.
Speaker 2: Hey Otani, who was oh for for tonight. In his
Speaker 2: first at bat, he sent a ball to the wall
Speaker 2: in right field. It was an out he was oh
Speaker 2: for for tonight. He hit the ball hard tonight, but
Speaker 2: not a lot to show for it. As we were
Speaker 2: talking about before the All Star break, he was going
Speaker 2: to manage that left knee, and we all, including Otani,
Speaker 2: thought he was going to have his left knee drained.
Speaker 4: That wasn't the case.
Speaker 2: We found out today from Dave Roberts and head trainer
Speaker 2: Thomas Aalbert that Otani did not have his left knee drained. Instead,
Speaker 2: O'tani got an injection some lubricant type of injection. Wouldn't
Speaker 2: be surprised if doctor Neil Elatrosh was involved or you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure who was involved, but he's the head
Speaker 2: doctor for the Dodgers, so he obviously okayed this.
Speaker 4: But Otani did not have his left knee drained.
Speaker 2: He did get an injection left knee lubricant injection. He
Speaker 2: is going to dh tomorrow and on Snday night baseball,
Speaker 2: so no day games here in New York lend itself
Speaker 2: to that. And I was around Otani in the clubhouse today.
Speaker 2: He seemed to be in good spirits. He seemed to
Speaker 2: wake up from a nap. He loves to sleep, and
Speaker 2: that obviously is a big part of the recovery. But
Speaker 2: he's in good spirits and didn't seem to be limping
Speaker 2: at all today. And he will pitch on Wednesday in Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: not a surprise because there's a day off on Thursday.
Speaker 2: So the first half of the year, that's the way
Speaker 2: it went. The Dodgers lined up his starts for Wednesdays
Speaker 2: because there were a lot of days off on Thursdays.
Speaker 2: So that's the plan for show Hey Otani and coming
Speaker 2: up in fifteen minutes you'll hear from manager Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: had a chance to be in the office with the
Speaker 2: Dodger Skipper, and he gave us a little bit more
Speaker 2: detail about Otanian managing him in the second half of
Speaker 2: the season. Tonight's game brought to you by Modello. Modello
Speaker 2: the mark of a fighter Dodger fan, I gotta say,
Speaker 2: I'm really disappointed in you tonight. What an exciting game
Speaker 2: in the Bronx. The Dodgers beat the Yankees the way
Speaker 2: they beat them, the way they beat Eric Cole. Where
Speaker 2: are you? We have two lines open plus eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy. Don't get complacent
Speaker 2: on me, Dodger fans. Don't get spoiled. You better not
Speaker 2: get spoiled. This team is spoiling you. I could feel it.
Speaker 2: Don't let that. Don't let that start to set in.
Speaker 2: I want to feel that intensity. I want to feel
Speaker 2: that excitement in you after games like tonight as the
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Yankees two to one on a five
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Speaker 6: Has worked to count even now the two to two pitch.
Speaker 1: Lunch to right field, Mounsey drumps a bat and the hammer.
Speaker 4: Dodgers up two.
Speaker 6: To one as Mounsey sends one to the second deck.
Speaker 2: Max Monsey that funky Munseie coming up big in the
Speaker 2: Bronx tonight as he gives the Dodgers the lead on
Speaker 2: one swing a two to one or I should say
Speaker 2: a two run home run to give the Dodgers the
Speaker 2: two to one lead. That would be the final score
Speaker 2: tonight in Game one of this three game series between
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and Yankees. Jack Dryer the winning pitcher, Garrett Cole,
Speaker 2: the losing pitcher, and Tanner Scott with his fourteenth save
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Speaker 2: Eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number Dodger fans don't embarrass me. You know
Speaker 2: I called you out. Don't get spoiled. You should be
Speaker 2: so excited after a game like tonight. You should be
Speaker 2: as excited as the Dodger fans that were in attendance
Speaker 2: tonight here at Yankee Stadium. I know a lot of
Speaker 2: them flew out here to be here for the weekend.
Speaker 2: What an exciting weekend in New York. Not only the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Yankees going at it, Fanatics Fest is happening,
Speaker 2: and the World Cup Final is happening in Jersey on Sunday.
Speaker 2: And trust me, Rockefeller Center that was the FIFA hub
Speaker 2: they had the fan experiences going on.
Speaker 4: New York is.
Speaker 2: Very crowded because of this World Cup, but a lot
Speaker 2: of excitement about the Dodgers being back in New York
Speaker 2: and specifically at Yankee Stadium for the first time since
Speaker 2: Game five of the twenty four World Series. Garrett Cole,
Speaker 2: my guy from UCLA, pitched great. I just would not
Speaker 2: have left him in to face Max Munsey after that
Speaker 2: five pitch leadoff walk to Mookie Betts, Aaron Boone did
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers win two to one, and a great
Speaker 2: relay throw from Pahz to Mookie to Dalton Rushing, who
Speaker 2: did not have a great night at the plate, but
Speaker 2: he was very pivotal defensively behind the plate. I know
Speaker 2: he let a ball go through the wickets. He was
Speaker 2: kicking himself about that after the game, but he made
Speaker 2: up for it and then some later in that game
Speaker 2: and the way he caught Roki Sasaki, and don't let
Speaker 2: him fool you. He has a lot to do with
Speaker 2: the fire in Roki. There's something about Rushing that he
Speaker 2: knows how to light a fire underneath Roki Sasaki, and
Speaker 2: that certainly was there tonight.
Speaker 4: Let's go back out to the phones. Greg in La
Speaker 4: you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 5: Greg, mister vassay, it is a pleasure. I haven't called
Speaker 5: in years. Only reason why I haven't called in years
Speaker 5: because I know, normally it's so hard to get through.
Speaker 5: But you know, when you hauled out everybody, I was like,
Speaker 5: you know, let me give it a try. Next thing,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm talking to.
Speaker 4: You, try. I just don't want anybody getting spoiled out.
Speaker 5: There, and it looks like they are because I got
Speaker 5: through and I haven't called him years, and for me
Speaker 5: to call through call in and I got through. That
Speaker 5: means there's a lot of fans are just laying back
Speaker 5: and are getting complacent, and you know, you've got to
Speaker 5: really enjoy what this team is doing. Especially look you
Speaker 5: guys like you guys remember the years when we couldn't
Speaker 5: even get to this point as far as being dominant,
Speaker 5: you know, and and play the Yankees and to win
Speaker 5: a game like this, and it's just like, come on, guys,
Speaker 5: you gotta wake up. And at the same time, before
Speaker 5: you let me go, I just wanted to know the
Speaker 5: backup situation with the catching with with with with Will
Speaker 5: Smith and with Dald Rushing. He did really great tonight.
Speaker 3: Thank you, David.
Speaker 7: It's a pleasure.
Speaker 5: I haven't talked to you in years.
Speaker 6: You're the best man.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Hey, call back sooner than a few years. Greg, all right,
Speaker 2: thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the catching situation is this, there's no new
Speaker 2: news that came out of what Dave Roberts said today,
Speaker 2: because if you've been listening to the show, you've been
Speaker 2: listening to our conversations with Dave Roberts, even going back
Speaker 2: to the last road trip in Minnesota when I was
Speaker 2: asking him.
Speaker 4: Virtually every other day.
Speaker 2: About Will Smith, he said, I don't see him coming
Speaker 2: back before July, which means August, and that's exactly what
Speaker 2: he said today. Look, I don't know what's going on
Speaker 2: with Will Smith's neck. They've been very vague about what
Speaker 2: specific injury Will Smith has.
Speaker 4: But he's feeling pain.
Speaker 2: He can't turn his head left as freely as you
Speaker 2: need to turn it, and I don't know. I feel
Speaker 2: like this may bleed into late August, maybe the beginning
Speaker 2: of September. And that's why I'm a big advocate for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to go out there and acquire a veteran
Speaker 2: backup catcher. And I know, Auto Matt, everybody talks about
Speaker 2: Ben Rortvitt. Well, Ben Rortvitt isn't the only catcher out
Speaker 2: there that can be a good backup. And look, Ben
Speaker 2: did a great job. He's familiar with the Dodger pitchers,
Speaker 2: the Dodger program as a catcher. But there's other guys
Speaker 2: out there that could be had other than Ben Roortfitt.
Speaker 4: And then also, you know, as The Athletic.
Speaker 2: Reported, the Dodgers could spin off a guy like Eric
Speaker 2: Lauer or make another trade with the Twins or the
Speaker 2: Cardinals to get more minor league catching depth to help
Speaker 2: themselves to pad that area moving forward. So catching definitely
Speaker 2: would be on the radar at the trade deadline. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number. Okay,
Speaker 2: there you are Dodger fans. You know you talk about
Speaker 2: the Dodger players getting complacent. I'm worried you're getting complacent,
Speaker 2: Danny and Marietta.
Speaker 4: I hope you're not spoiled out there.
Speaker 10: No, not at all. I just want to say it
Speaker 10: was a good win despite all the injuries we have.
Speaker 10: We have a lot of debt, and we're never out
Speaker 10: of any game. They stay patient and they pushed through
Speaker 10: all all through the nine innings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so tonight was one of those great playoff type wins, Danny.
Speaker 2: Those are the type of games that you win in
Speaker 2: the playoffs against the pitcher like Garrett Cole.
Speaker 10: Yeah, one percent. And it shows what kind of veterans
Speaker 10: tim they are. And they you got to beat the champion.
Speaker 10: You got to play a complete game.
Speaker 3: So they don't.
Speaker 11: They don't get.
Speaker 10: Nervous, and they play all nine innings and they know
Speaker 10: that they could win any team at any time and
Speaker 10: it's a it's a marathon, it's not a sprint.
Speaker 2: All right, Danny, thanks for the phone call. I'm glad
Speaker 2: you're not getting complacent out there. Let's go out to Ventura,
Speaker 2: a very beautiful beachside city.
Speaker 4: Terry.
Speaker 2: I could see you getting lulled into some sort of
Speaker 2: complacency out there, not me.
Speaker 12: You got the wrong guy. I'm not on the antithesis
Speaker 12: of complacent. But let me just say, obviously, Dalton Rushing
Speaker 12: made a great swipe tag and he's really done generally
Speaker 12: a great job. And like you said, catching asaki isn't easy.
Speaker 12: But you know, Rick Money on the radio said these things.
Speaker 12: And I saw replays that pass ball. He was trying
Speaker 12: to frame the pitch, and that was like, really, I
Speaker 12: got to be honest, like a high school catcher could
Speaker 12: have caught that ball. He just made a bad idea
Speaker 12: on that one. And the other thing Rick Money pointed
Speaker 12: out is because you know, he was the center fielder
Speaker 12: once again, Pie's like kind of dropped the ball. But
Speaker 12: I'm just saying, our defense still is a little bit shaky,
Speaker 12: but you can't get past the most amazing cutoff thing.
Speaker 12: That was amazing. But I wondered what your take is
Speaker 12: on Rushing in that pass ball, because if you saw
Speaker 12: the replay, it was like, are you kidding me? I
Speaker 12: gotta be honest.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he was embarrassed about that, Terry, And look,
Speaker 2: he's going through growing pains. But I would say the
Speaker 2: good has outweighed the bad for Rushing so far being
Speaker 2: the starting catcher. With Will Smith's injury, I think this
Speaker 2: is maybe the best thing for Dalton Rushing because who
Speaker 2: knows the Dodgers may need him to catch in October.
Speaker 2: We don't know about Will Smith's neck. It seems to
Speaker 2: be the most mysterious neck injury I've ever heard of,
Speaker 2: So there's no guarantees from what we're gathering right now.
Speaker 2: He'll learn from that.
Speaker 12: I think Dalton Rushing. I think Dalton Rushing is mine large,
Speaker 12: doing a great job. I just want to make a
Speaker 12: comment that one thing I saw, and I hope they
Speaker 12: correct that. That's all.
Speaker 2: He'll correct it himself, no doubt, Terry, thank you for
Speaker 2: the phone call. Look, even in our walkoff interview, I
Speaker 2: didn't even bring that play up.
Speaker 4: He brought it up.
Speaker 2: He was still upset about that play, allowing that run
Speaker 2: in and the error by Piz even allowed that runner
Speaker 2: to get the third base. He never should have been
Speaker 2: at third base, So rushing and po has redeemed themselves
Speaker 2: in the eighth inning on that relay throw, because both
Speaker 2: guys were responsible for that run scoring for the first
Speaker 2: Yankee run tonight, that was on both of them. There
Speaker 2: was no reason for that runner to be at at
Speaker 2: third base. Piez should not have allowed Domingas to get
Speaker 2: to third. That was a double and when you give
Speaker 2: away ninety feet, runs will score. And luckily the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were able to make up for it tonight. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Joseph in Ontario. You're on Dodger Talk live
Speaker 2: from Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 10: Hi, Joseph, Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 11: I second that emotion. I'm driving home with my daughter Leila,
Speaker 11: and you called us out. So here I am calling,
Speaker 11: what is Aaron Boone?
Speaker 4: Where you been?
Speaker 12: Joe?
Speaker 2: Hey, Joseph, where you been? You just waiting for October
Speaker 2: to call in?
Speaker 11: No, sir, I'm saying, like the other guy, I just
Speaker 11: don't even bother. It's always so packed. But thanks for
Speaker 11: calling us out. What's what Aaron Booney doesn't remember Pedro
Speaker 11: Martinez and Gritty Little and keeping him out there and
Speaker 11: that magnificent home run he hit. I kind of got
Speaker 11: a flashback of that when I heard on the radio
Speaker 11: that he was leading him out there. I was like,
Speaker 11: allread we go, Max is gonna knock it out of
Speaker 11: the park just like he did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, great call.
Speaker 2: You know the differences in that type of game with
Speaker 2: that Red Sox bullpen. I am leaving Pedro in there.
Speaker 2: This is July seventeenth. He's only made ten starts since
Speaker 2: coming back from Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 4: Why why do that?
Speaker 2: You could see the guest tank was going low for
Speaker 2: Garrett Cole, and I think that was just a manager
Speaker 2: not wanting to have any sort of ill will from
Speaker 2: his player.
Speaker 11: Oh well, that's not as fun as what I was saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah all right, I feel like it was. Joseph.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone call. And look, I know
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people that call in. I know
Speaker 2: the way time can be a little bit long, but look,
Speaker 2: give it a call, give it a try. You never
Speaker 2: know when you can get through. Let's take one more
Speaker 2: phone call before we check in with manager. Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: Andrew and Riverside.
Speaker 4: How you doing. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 13: Dave, great to talk to you man. Never called him,
Speaker 13: been listened for a while. I just wanted to call in.
Speaker 13: So yeah, earlier this season, I was trying of hating
Speaker 13: on him call my buddy. Well, No, earlier this season,
Speaker 13: I wanted to self report. A couple of my buddies
Speaker 13: can really testify to that. So, yeah, I just got
Speaker 13: to apologize to Mookie. He's having a hell of a
Speaker 13: comeback this this rest of the season. And wanted to
Speaker 13: know who you wanted for. Who were going for Sunday
Speaker 13: for the World Cup?
Speaker 4: Oh, man, how can you go against MESSI?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I agree, I agree completely. Uh, I'm going the
Speaker 13: same way, even though the world seems to be hating
Speaker 13: on him though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna have it. So how are you going
Speaker 4: to manage this?
Speaker 2: Andrews Sunday night baseball, Dodgers Yankees, and you got the
Speaker 2: World Cup starting a little bit earlier? You going to
Speaker 2: a bar in Riverside. You're gonna watch it at home,
Speaker 2: split screen TV. How are you going to manage this?
Speaker 7: You know what?
Speaker 13: We might be going out to Dana Point to watch
Speaker 13: the start of the World Cup and then hopefully catch
Speaker 13: the rest of the Dodger game after.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was I was just in Dana Point for
Speaker 2: the All Star break. I was at the Monarch Bay
Speaker 2: Hotel out there. I took the family.
Speaker 13: Oh beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I don't know where exactly we'll be hanging out, but
Speaker 13: the girlfriends had a friend.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you.
Speaker 2: Before you go to wherever you're gonna watch the game,
Speaker 2: I'm giving you a tip right now. Truly Pizza and
Speaker 2: Dana Point the best pizza you will ever have. I
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Speaker 13: Okay, thank you very much. Hey, can I give a
Speaker 13: quick shout out to my buddy Armando and Nason here
Speaker 13: in Riverside as well. Last year went up the CEO
Speaker 13: Tawny pitch three innings in San Francisco. We just travel
Speaker 13: every year to go see the Dodger. So just shout
Speaker 13: out to them and we're big fans. Dave, thank you
Speaker 13: for what you do.
Speaker 2: Man, Hey, thank you, Andrew. Have a great time in
Speaker 2: Dana Point. That's a great city, all right. I had
Speaker 2: a chance to catch up with the manager, Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2: It's the manager's meeting every week, we presented by our
Speaker 2: friends at Downy Hunday, and we had a chance to
Speaker 2: dive right in today being a great ambassador at the
Speaker 2: Midsummer Classic and also the latest on show. Hey O, Tani, Dave,
Speaker 2: thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 3: Oh Dave Man.
Speaker 14: I feel refreshed, recharged, and we certainly do have a
Speaker 14: lot of great members here at this new Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2: Some of your players told me not to get too nostalgic,
Speaker 2: but it's hard not to the last time we were here,
Speaker 2: I remember before Game five talking to you outside of
Speaker 2: the doors of the clubhouse and who could forget your
Speaker 2: trust and Blake trining your trust in Walker Buehler. Do
Speaker 2: some of those memories start to flood back?
Speaker 3: They do?
Speaker 14: They do, And yeah, you just look back and kind
Speaker 14: of here and the stanks stakes certainly aren't as high,
Speaker 14: and kind of going back to what Blake Tryning did,
Speaker 14: what Walker Bueller did, the mindset of closing these guys
Speaker 14: out in Game five, the World Series, and how Game
Speaker 14: five starts so many great memories and it's hard not
Speaker 14: to be nostalgic.
Speaker 2: One of the images that go through my mind is
Speaker 2: when you're going out to the mound to get the
Speaker 2: temperature of Blake trying and Freddie Freeman waving you off,
Speaker 2: and you just wanted to gauge where everybody was. What
Speaker 2: stood out to you about leaving trining in.
Speaker 14: Yeah, so I went out there and I just wanted
Speaker 14: to get his pulse, told him he had one more hitter,
Speaker 14: wanted to slow the game down, look into his eyes,
Speaker 14: put my hands on him, and then he gets the
Speaker 14: hit her out and then at that point in time,
Speaker 14: I was going to go get him. And then that's
Speaker 14: when Freddie was kind of like waving me off, shoeing
Speaker 14: me off. And I'm happy I listened to him, because
Speaker 14: you know, I said he was going to get one hitter.
Speaker 14: I didn't want to bait and switch Blake. But at
Speaker 14: that point in time, he didn't look at me, because
Speaker 14: if he was going to look at me after he
Speaker 14: got that hitter, I was going to get him. But
Speaker 14: and I've talked to him and laugh with Blake after
Speaker 14: the fact, said I wasn't going to make eye contact
Speaker 14: with you once I got that guy out because I
Speaker 14: wanted the next guy and he ended up getting stanned.
Speaker 2: I've never asked you this before, but Daniel Hudson we
Speaker 2: all know now got hurt warming up in the bullpen
Speaker 2: that night in Game five. If he doesn't get hurt,
Speaker 2: does anything change.
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 14: Because to be quite honest, I didn't even know he
Speaker 14: was hurt. And so it's funny is that as it
Speaker 14: played out, I stuck with Blake, didn't know Huddy was hurt.
Speaker 14: Walker was going to have that inning, and then my
Speaker 14: hope was that Huddy would be the guy if we
Speaker 14: didn't win it there, but if it would have prolonged
Speaker 14: the game, I don't know what we would have done.
Speaker 2: To be quite honest, Hey, you bet on your players,
Speaker 2: like you talk about, and they delivered for you.
Speaker 4: That was a special time.
Speaker 14: No, they did, And I think you know, we all
Speaker 14: make mistakes and learn from things. And so the one
Speaker 14: thing that I do know is that you know, you've
Speaker 14: got to trust your players, bet on your players, certainly
Speaker 14: in those biggest spots.
Speaker 2: Manager Dave Roberts, three times World Series winning manager for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, is our guest, presented by Downy hun Day.
Speaker 2: All right, let's StAst forward to the here and now.
Speaker 2: Show heyl Tani's in your starting lineup. When do you
Speaker 2: anticipate him pitching again.
Speaker 14: Well, right now, he's slated for Wednesday, and so right
Speaker 14: now it's good that you know he can get here
Speaker 14: from the break, play catch, we can put eyes on them,
Speaker 14: see ice progressing. Expecting to be in the lineup all
Speaker 14: three games. And I should have a bullpen here over
Speaker 14: the weekend. And like I said, as we sit here
Speaker 14: right now, he's going to start on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Hey, it works out this first Wednesday. You got a
Speaker 2: day off on Thursday.
Speaker 3: No, that's right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 14: So you know for show, Hey, you know potentially it's
Speaker 14: the Wednesday, then you get the off day, so he'll
Speaker 14: be in a good spot.
Speaker 2: When you look at your team, obviously, it kind of
Speaker 2: feels like a lifetime ago those last three games at
Speaker 2: home against Arizona. Do you feel like this is a
Speaker 2: new start to the season in some respects and whatever
Speaker 2: took place there was, whatever the feelings we're going into
Speaker 2: the break.
Speaker 14: I do I think that, and I hate to admit it,
Speaker 14: but it just did seem like we were sleepwalking a
Speaker 14: little bit, certainly on the offensive side and the defensive
Speaker 14: side actually going into the break. And so hopefully, you know,
Speaker 14: everyone gets up to play the Dodgers. Everyone gets up
Speaker 14: to play the Yankees. We're on their home turf. Then
Speaker 14: we go to City Field, which we go and play
Speaker 14: another good team in the Phillies, and then we go
Speaker 14: to Flushing and play the metsa city field. So we
Speaker 14: got a good run of kind of what fans, what
Speaker 14: media wants. So my expectation is at the floor the
Speaker 14: quality of play is going to be heightened.
Speaker 2: You were such a great ambassador again for Major League Baseball,
Speaker 2: not just the Dodgers during the All Star break in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: You've been through this a few times now. What was
Speaker 2: it like this experience?
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 14: I think the game was probably forgettable in the sense
Speaker 14: that there wasn't a whole lot going on. I was
Speaker 14: happy with Robo him being able to go to innings.
Speaker 14: As far as a Dodger fan, the home run derby
Speaker 14: was fantastic. But for me, as always, it was my
Speaker 14: fifth go at this with me and my staff, the
Speaker 14: conversations with the players was fantastic. Spending time with Don
Speaker 14: Mattingly was great, Ali Marmol was great, and so that's
Speaker 14: always kind of the best takeaway.
Speaker 2: I know we always talk about oh being around other
Speaker 2: players and learning and picking from them. But are you
Speaker 2: starting to get the sense now that players from other
Speaker 2: teams are coming to you trying to find out what
Speaker 2: the magic of the Dodgers is.
Speaker 14: I am that is certainly the case where people are
Speaker 14: courting me and trying to get my ear. You know
Speaker 14: about certain things, and you know what makes the Dodgers
Speaker 14: so special. And I think in this game people talk,
Speaker 14: you know, players talk, coaches talk. Obviously they see the
Speaker 14: success that we had, so it is fun for me
Speaker 14: as the opposing or the manager of the NL team
Speaker 14: to I do get that opportunity to kind of not
Speaker 14: vet players but get to know them, so when they
Speaker 14: do become free or you make trades and things like that,
Speaker 14: you have a little bit more insight and color. But
Speaker 14: it is interesting, Dave, that people always want to know
Speaker 14: the what's under the hood or behind the curtain with
Speaker 14: the Dodgers.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite moments that I saw was somehow,
Speaker 2: some way Dave Roberts got roped into a photo with
Speaker 2: all the Cuban players or all this Chapman Randia Rose Arena.
Speaker 2: How did you find yourself in that situation?
Speaker 3: That was hilarious.
Speaker 14: So they were taking pictures and then Junior Kamenera wanted
Speaker 14: to take a picture with me, so I said okay,
Speaker 14: and then they were talking and I go, hey, said,
Speaker 14: is what they call cubans And so I said, hey,
Speaker 14: you guys come here, then let's go take a photo.
Speaker 3: And so they all got in there. We were all laughing.
Speaker 3: It was hilarious.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw I saw the video of that.
Speaker 2: I was like, only Dave Roberts can bring these guys together.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 14: But the thing is is that we're all a small
Speaker 14: fraternity and we're playing a game we get to do
Speaker 14: and it's bigger than us.
Speaker 3: The game.
Speaker 14: Like I tell my players all the time, Dave Man,
Speaker 14: the game doesn't need us. It's going to go on
Speaker 14: with or without us, and we just got to hopefully
Speaker 14: make our little contribution.
Speaker 2: Well, you've made a big contribution, and you are great
Speaker 2: for the game. You're a great ambassador for the game.
Speaker 2: And here's something that this is a fan question that really,
Speaker 2: you know, turned the light bulb for me. You're one
Speaker 2: of the few managers that still wears his full uniform.
Speaker 2: You don't go with a T shirt, you're not putting
Speaker 2: the hoodie over. Where does that come from? And how
Speaker 2: much pride do you have to button up that jersey,
Speaker 2: which we don't really see for managers these days.
Speaker 14: I really appreciate that insight, that that fan noticing that
Speaker 14: it's intentional. I think that it's my ode to the game,
Speaker 14: you know, and old manager from Walt Alston to Tommy
Speaker 14: to the managers well beyond them, and I think it's.
Speaker 3: Something that I look forward to doing.
Speaker 14: Joe Tory did it, and so something for me is
Speaker 14: like I just feel like if I manage the Los
Speaker 14: Angeles Dodgers, a certain optics and how I carry myself
Speaker 14: should come with it. And so I take a lot
Speaker 14: of pride and wear my uniform every day.
Speaker 2: That's why you're the perfect guy for this job. Before
Speaker 2: I let you go, let's bring a full circle really quick.
Speaker 2: I have to ask you this. So we're in your
Speaker 2: office right now. Do you remember the last moments that
Speaker 2: you were in this office? After Game five? What do
Speaker 2: you remember about the last couple of and the last
Speaker 2: time you walked out of here.
Speaker 14: I remember being drenched in champagne, having goggles on top
Speaker 14: of my head, my son Cole in this office, and
Speaker 14: Andrew Brandon Gombs just in here, just chopping it up
Speaker 14: having a blast like, got my showers on, kind of
Speaker 14: taking a big exa going. I just cannot believe we
Speaker 14: just won the World Series. So when I walked down
Speaker 14: those steps today for batting practice, it's going to kind
Speaker 14: of be fresh in my mind. You know what transpired,
Speaker 14: you know, a couple years ago.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for sharing all those memories with us.
Speaker 2: Great job as always being an ambassador for Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball at the All Star Game, and we look forward
Speaker 2: to doing this again next week.
Speaker 4: We'll be back in New York.
Speaker 3: Look forward to it, Dave, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Thanks again to Dave Roberts for another great managers meeting
Speaker 2: presented by Downy Hundai. It was great insight to not
Speaker 2: only what the Dodgers were thinking, was show hey O'tani
Speaker 2: what was happening during the All Star break, but also
Speaker 2: the experience of being the National League manager again for
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts. So a fun conversation. We do it every
Speaker 2: week with Dave Roberts. Hope you're enjoying it as well.
Speaker 2: By the way, O'tani did not have his left knee drained.
Speaker 2: He had some sort of lubricant injection and he's scheduled
Speaker 2: as you heard Dave say to pitch Wednesday in Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: with the day off on Thursday, that'll do it for
Speaker 2: us tonight on Dodger Talk. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald here
Speaker 2: in the Bronx, thanks to calling you back at our
Speaker 2: Burbank studios, and thanks to you for listening. In case
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Speaker 2: tomorrow and Machine going up against Ryan Weathers four o'clock pregame,
Speaker 2: first pitch at five oh eight. Once again. The final
Speaker 2: score tonight from Yankee Stadium. The Dodgers beat Garrett Colin
Speaker 2: the Yankees two to one. Have a great rest of
Speaker 2: your night, see your