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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vase.
Speaker 2: Last day, we are live at Peco Park in San Diego,
Speaker 2: after the Dodgers hold on and beat the Padres today
Speaker 2: by a final score of four to two in front
Speaker 2: of another sellout crowd here at Peco Park that had
Speaker 2: a lot of Dodger blue in it, and they made
Speaker 2: their presence felt again last night and today. I would
Speaker 2: say it was a predominantly pro Dodger crowd. And that'll
Speaker 2: happen when the Dodgers are beating the Padres fifteen to
Speaker 2: three last night and four to two today. And it
Speaker 2: wasn't a nine run inning, but it was a three
Speaker 2: run fifth inning for the Dodgers today that made the difference.
Speaker 2: And we'll hear from Freddie Freeman and mookie bets in
Speaker 2: a moment. We have phone lines open, two lines to
Speaker 2: be specific at eight sixty six nine, eight seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy. And really that fifth inning was the beginning
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers again when they scored three runs against
Speaker 2: a very shaky Michael King, who was not very sharp today.
Speaker 2: He only lasted four to third innings and threw ninety pitches.
Speaker 2: And in the last game the Dodgers face King here
Speaker 2: in San Diego, King went seven scoreless innings. Because the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were chasing pitches outside of the strike zone, and
Speaker 2: they were swinging at pitches on the edges of that
Speaker 2: was outside of the strike zone as well. Today they
Speaker 2: did not do that, and a lot of it had
Speaker 2: to do with Michael King, because he was nowhere close
Speaker 2: to the strike zone. And one of the more impressive
Speaker 2: bats we have seen this season was by of course,
Speaker 2: from Freddy Freeman in that fifth inning, down two to
Speaker 2: begin the at bat and then works a nine pitch
Speaker 2: walk with the bases loaded. The bases were loaded, and
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman worked a nine pitch walk to force in
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' second run of the game, the first of
Speaker 2: that third inning. And if you go back and look
Speaker 2: at it. The Padres catcher probably should have challenged that
Speaker 2: pitch because it was borderline. Rudolpho Duran don't understand why
Speaker 2: with two challenges and in a high leverage spot bases
Speaker 2: loaded you if you don't get the call, a run
Speaker 2: is scoring and the line keeps moving. So, by what
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have told me, as far as their game
Speaker 2: plan goes, you want to save the challenges A for
Speaker 2: your catcher in those spots, and B you want to
Speaker 2: save them in those high leverage situations. A challenge that
Speaker 2: could flip the count, can flip the inning, can keep
Speaker 2: the inning going. And for whatever reason, Duran, the Padres
Speaker 2: catcher chose not to challenge that pitch, and it was
Speaker 2: a huge mistake because as we have seen on the ABS,
Speaker 2: when you see that ball coming through on the big
Speaker 2: screen and it barely clips the outer part of the
Speaker 2: strike zone, it's strike three, and there's a very good
Speaker 2: possibility that it would have been strike three on Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless, a great nine pitch walk to force in
Speaker 2: a run. And then Mookie Bets comes up very patiently
Speaker 2: after watching King all over the place. The entire inning
Speaker 2: doesn't swing at the first pitch and forces King to
Speaker 2: come into the strike zone, and he didn't miss. He
Speaker 2: hit a two run single in Mooki to me, looks
Speaker 2: the best that we have seen Mooki Bets look in
Speaker 2: at least two years. We haven't seen this version of
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets in a long time, and that's really good
Speaker 2: news for the Dodgers. Eight six seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Let's start with Freddy Freeman, who went through. Is that
Speaker 2: bat his ninth pitch at bat part of that three
Speaker 2: run fifth inning. Let's hear front Freddy on Sports at LA.
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously Michael you know his pitchwall against us
Speaker 4: in his career, and we knew that going in. We
Speaker 4: wanted to be a little bit more aggressive, but certain
Speaker 4: situations calls for being less aggressive. But in my certain situation,
Speaker 4: I bass loaded, so I wanted to be aggressive to
Speaker 4: the first pitch strike and I had to sweeper a
Speaker 4: little bit up and I fell off, and then it's
Speaker 4: wanted to change up. And so in that situation, I'm
Speaker 4: just trying to hit a fly ball, you know, just
Speaker 4: trying to get a sack fly. Don't want to ground
Speaker 4: into it. Whole play to lose momentum, so just kind
Speaker 4: of battling. He was, you know, he went changing a
Speaker 4: lot of change ups, front door sinkers, so just trying
Speaker 4: to bat on. Finally I was able to lay off
Speaker 4: that change up, down down belad zone, and you know,
Speaker 4: Mochi was huge getting that hit hit show he had.
Speaker 4: We just good pitching, timely hitting, good defense. That's what
Speaker 4: what it was the game today.
Speaker 5: Now, are you that last call would have stood up
Speaker 5: if they challenged?
Speaker 2: Were you surprised they did?
Speaker 4: On which one?
Speaker 6: The walk? The last pair?
Speaker 4: I didn't is that of a strike?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: I don't ever look at the iPads. That's news to me.
Speaker 4: But he didn't call it. Maybe it makes up for
Speaker 4: the strikeout.
Speaker 1: Being able to put together the kind of a pants
Speaker 1: that ending is.
Speaker 4: It's just kind of been one of the things as
Speaker 4: an offense the last like month or two now that
Speaker 4: you guys have been able to do consistently.
Speaker 1: That's led to the consistent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just we got good players that can control
Speaker 4: strike zones, good timely hits. It comes together. Sometimes there'll
Speaker 4: be a one or two game stretch where it doesn't happen,
Speaker 4: but we know we're okay. And when you can control
Speaker 4: the zone with the guys that was on the mountain
Speaker 4: today and get him out after four and a third.
Speaker 4: That it's a huge win for us. So we knocked
Speaker 4: every I mean grant yesterday wasn't open about every starter
Speaker 4: out before the sixth inning. So that's huge for us,
Speaker 4: especially with this bullpen, to get those guys in and
Speaker 4: really make them work in the first game and then
Speaker 4: we lost. We got all their big guys in and
Speaker 4: I kind of changed a series of how they've been
Speaker 4: about it with the bull.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Freddy Freeman on sports in at LA,
Speaker 2: and how about this. The Dodgers never saw Mason Miller
Speaker 2: in this series. The padres blew it open late, so
Speaker 2: he never came in to close that game. That seven
Speaker 2: to one win for San Diego. The Dodgers had a
Speaker 2: commanding lead of course last night, beating them fifteen to three,
Speaker 2: and then today the Dodgers were ahead, laid in the
Speaker 2: game and Miller was never deployed. So uh, that was
Speaker 2: that was a win within the win where the Dodgers
Speaker 2: kept Mason Miller in the bullpen all series long as
Speaker 2: they take two out of three from San Diego eight
Speaker 2: six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: We got to go out to this guy because in
Speaker 2: the eighth and ninth inning of last night's game, Rick
Speaker 2: Monday and Steven Nelson called out Ken and Newport Beach
Speaker 2: for only calling after Dodger losses. So here we are,
Speaker 2: Ken in Newport Beach calling in after two Dodger wins
Speaker 2: against the Padres. Did did you hear the challenge? Ken?
Speaker 2: Is that why you're calling?
Speaker 5: I didn't. I always hit the doctors. I had like
Speaker 5: some a little flu thing going on. Sorry I missed it,
Speaker 5: but yeah, you were.
Speaker 2: You are infamous now, Ken, And I'm sorry you had
Speaker 2: to go to the doctors. Hope you're feeling better. But
Speaker 2: you don't usually call after Dodger wins. Maybe that trip
Speaker 2: to the doctor's off has changed something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe they gave me a shot of positivity. It's possible.
Speaker 5: So first off, I had so many San Diego fans
Speaker 5: after that first game. I said, oh, I'm gonna hear
Speaker 5: about this because if they won two or three of
Speaker 5: these games, dude and talking about World Series. So I
Speaker 5: think the doctors were wonderful. Last two games. I think
Speaker 5: Shehn was probably one of his best games. Was very impressed.
Speaker 5: I only have one questions last fifteen games. It's hitting
Speaker 5: hundred two hundred, Okay, I mean you're not.
Speaker 2: There, it is. There's the Ken. We know, there's the can.
Speaker 3: We know.
Speaker 2: We know you're feeling good now, Ken.
Speaker 5: Try to steal six times he got thrown out when
Speaker 5: you got Freeman and Mookie hitting behind you. Is that
Speaker 5: silly to try to steal when you got thrown out?
Speaker 2: Yes, I agree with you. And look, the reality is
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have had a hard time finding a guy
Speaker 2: to be productive hitting behind otaany did you know this, Ken,
Speaker 2: that the dodgers number two hitter, whether it's been Tucker, Mookie,
Speaker 2: Freddy pa Has, they're hitting two eleven, whoever the Dodgers'
Speaker 2: number two hitter is. So they've had a hard time
Speaker 2: finding a number two hitter, and Paz has struggled ever
Speaker 2: since he's gotten into that two spot. I know he's
Speaker 2: a high variant type of hitter, but that's the reality.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have had a hard time finding a number
Speaker 2: two hitter.
Speaker 5: Well, there is a guy who's sitting through that could
Speaker 5: be their number two hitters wasn't playing today, but I'm
Speaker 5: just sa fan. Well, who's the Dodger's heaving three seventy.
Speaker 2: Oh Tommy Edmund. I wouldn't mind Tommy Edmund hitting second.
Speaker 2: I hope he doesn't fall into that number two trap though,
Speaker 2: But yeah, I like Tommy Edmund hitting second too. Ken,
Speaker 2: I would say he would be the next option. Thanks
Speaker 2: to the phone call. Hope you feel better. There we go,
Speaker 2: Ken and Newport Beach. A rare call after a Dodger win.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Curtis, who is in attendance today
Speaker 2: at Petco Park. How you doing, Curtis?
Speaker 7: Hi, Dave, I'm here with my two sons.
Speaker 6: Were on our way back home to Riverside County. I
Speaker 6: wasn't available last weekend for Father's Day and my two
Speaker 6: awesome sons because I've always wanted to go to Oracle.
Speaker 7: Park to watch a Dodger route game, and my kids
Speaker 7: blessed me with the tickets to go watch the game
Speaker 7: today and beautiful stadium. Very happy commute back home. Was
Speaker 7: very happy with em at Shean's performance today as opposed
Speaker 7: to last Sunday. And when when I was little, my
Speaker 7: parents we.
Speaker 6: Were in saclamenty and back then Jack Murphy Stadium and
Speaker 6: we went there, but just a very fun experience and.
Speaker 7: It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Dave. Oh, that's a great fallas day gift to come
Speaker 2: down to Peco Park. Curtis, what I mean, what were
Speaker 2: your first impressions of Peco Park and the fans sitting
Speaker 2: around you.
Speaker 6: Well, I've been in to Oracle Park in San Francisco.
Speaker 6: My son was going up there to Berkeley and he
Speaker 6: would go watch a Dodger road game and beautiful stadium,
Speaker 6: Oracle TechCo the beat la Chen I could deal without.
Speaker 6: Fortunately we didn't get to hear that today or yesterday.
Speaker 6: So just a very fun experience. I'd love to come
Speaker 6: back there again, maybe next season, maybe on a night game.
Speaker 6: But just a very fun day day.
Speaker 7: And I'm blessed to have my two boys.
Speaker 2: All right, Curtis, I'm glad. It was a great family
Speaker 2: trip down to San Diego. There were a lot of
Speaker 2: Dodger fans here the last two nights and in fact
Speaker 2: all weekend long. But you really heard the Dodger fans
Speaker 2: the last two games here as they bounce back after
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller and the Padres won the first game of
Speaker 2: this series. And it feels like again the Padres win
Speaker 2: the first game of this series. They're feeling great about
Speaker 2: themselves despite being nine games back or eight games back,
Speaker 2: and again a very emotional Padres team getting weight too
Speaker 2: high after one win. And how are they feeling now?
Speaker 2: You know? The Padres are headed to Chicago, I believe,
Speaker 2: to take on the Cubs. How are they going to
Speaker 2: recover from losing the last two games in the fashion
Speaker 2: that they lost. I wouldn't be surprised if the Padres
Speaker 2: lost two out of three to the Cubs in Chicago
Speaker 2: and they show up limping even more at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 2: but then find a way to get emotional there. So
Speaker 2: still the same DNA of that team, no matter who
Speaker 2: the manager is, it's basically the same core group of players,
Speaker 2: and they're way too emotional and they were feeling way
Speaker 2: too good about themselves after that first game of this series.
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Speaker 2: You know, I was trying to preach patience when Mookie
Speaker 2: was struggling coming off the il after missing five weeks
Speaker 2: with the oblique strain, and we had so many people
Speaker 2: jumping off the Mookie bandwagon, so many people saying, drop
Speaker 2: him to eighth, bench him, put him back to right field.
Speaker 2: This guy is finished, he's done, he's cooked. And all
Speaker 2: I said was talking to world champion Kenny Landro. He
Speaker 2: reminded me and gave me some first hand experience. He said, David,
Speaker 2: you can't judge mooki Bets after ninety at bats. You
Speaker 2: can't judge him after just twenty five at bats coming
Speaker 2: back from the oblique string. He said, David, give this
Speaker 2: man at least two hundred at bats before you judge him.
Speaker 2: And I took that advice, and look where it's at
Speaker 2: right now. Mookie Bets has one hundred and ninety five
Speaker 2: at bats. He's got his batting average up to a
Speaker 2: respectable ish two thirty six but the stats don't matter.
Speaker 2: What matters is him helping the Dodgers win now, because
Speaker 2: when you start as slow as Mooki did, uh, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be hard to get those stats looking like Mooki
Speaker 2: bets by the end of the year. And I believe
Speaker 2: he's come to that realization. Even Dave Roberts told us
Speaker 2: on Friday that, you know, Mooki and the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: not looking at the stats anymore. He's got to worry
Speaker 2: about how he's going to win that day. And he's
Speaker 2: done that the last fifteen to twenty games. So again,
Speaker 2: great players don't all of a sudden become bad players.
Speaker 2: The guy had a really good spring training. He maybe
Speaker 2: did a little bit too much of sense YadA on
Speaker 2: his shoulders, but he has gone back to working on baseball,
Speaker 2: and ever since he went back to working on baseball,
Speaker 2: the rest has has taken care of itself. Here was
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts with Kirsten Watson on Sports net LA.
Speaker 10: Really just to stay aggressive. You know, he kind of
Speaker 10: was out of his own that inning, you know, uncharacteristic.
Speaker 10: You know, he's starting a little more balls than normal.
Speaker 10: But so I just knew, like I got to be
Speaker 10: ready to go because he's trying to. He's got to
Speaker 10: get back on his own to get himself out.
Speaker 4: Of it, and I got to get Fish to hit.
Speaker 2: Where are all those Mookie Bets haters? Everybody's jumping off
Speaker 2: the HOOKI bendwagon A four time World Series champion. He's
Speaker 2: built up a lot of credit in this series. And
Speaker 2: I've always said that that's the biggest difference between Mookie's
Speaker 2: early season struggles and Kyle Tucker's continuing struggles. Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: has three World Series championships with the Dodgers. He's played
Speaker 2: a big part of it. He's won Gold Gloves and
Speaker 2: right field and he's a goal glove caliber shortstop. Now,
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker, you know, I'm not like I said last night.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say he's back. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to say he's going to go on a tear. That's
Speaker 2: just complete fan emotional overreaction to one game. That's what
Speaker 2: fans do. I am still a believer in Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, but I don't see him really
Speaker 2: taking off until after the All Star break. And today
Speaker 2: Tucker was one for four with two strikeouts, So you're
Speaker 2: going to see flashes because he is working to try
Speaker 2: to get out of this and get that feel. But
Speaker 2: I feel like until the All Star break comes and
Speaker 2: he's able to just reset his season, and maybe he
Speaker 2: needs to come to that realization that whatever the bit
Speaker 2: back of the baseball card is going to show at
Speaker 2: the end of this year, it's not going to look
Speaker 2: like the other Kyle Tucker years. He has to come
Speaker 2: to that realization as well and just try to win
Speaker 2: that day. Eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Padres today,
Speaker 2: four to two. Let's go out to Eric in Riverside.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Eric.
Speaker 11: Hey, Dave, Hey, I was one of those Mookie haters
Speaker 11: kind of Hey.
Speaker 2: I like that self reporting, self reporting. I appreciate that,
Speaker 2: Eric recording.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thank you. Yeah. I just wanted him to make
Speaker 11: some adjustments.
Speaker 12: And I've been seeing him hit the ball the other way,
Speaker 12: and I've been seeing.
Speaker 11: Him hit that high fastball. He's the way I see it.
Speaker 12: In my opinion, he's a low ball hitter.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So he just has.
Speaker 12: To adjust to the other pitches. And another thing is
Speaker 12: just I love the toughness of his team, Like for example, today,
Speaker 12: I thought Michael Kings is gonna call him up again,
Speaker 12: and they hung in there, and they adjust and they
Speaker 12: didn't chase.
Speaker 2: They don't chase. When they don't chase, you see games
Speaker 2: like that, and you're right. They are the most mentally
Speaker 2: tough team in all of baseball. That's the reason why
Speaker 2: they've been able to win back to back championships and
Speaker 2: find a way to win that Game seven and win
Speaker 2: the final two games of the World Series after being
Speaker 2: one win away from going home. So you're right, they
Speaker 2: are the most mentally tough team out there.
Speaker 11: That's right, Dave. And I think this series against the
Speaker 11: as you know, with these young talented kids, it's gonna
Speaker 11: be a really good test for them.
Speaker 2: It's not a test and Eric stopped that. Eric stop,
Speaker 2: It's not a test for the Dodgers. It's a test
Speaker 2: for the A's, and the A's are a young team
Speaker 2: that has a lot of good hitters. You're right, and
Speaker 2: that's going to be again, like the White Sox series,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be their biggest series of the year. Having
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in a minor league stadium in Sacramento for
Speaker 2: the A's. It's a test for the A's, it's not
Speaker 2: a test for the Dodgers.
Speaker 11: I'll rephrase it like like like make the brick would say,
Speaker 11: it's a track game, it's a trapper.
Speaker 2: Why why is it a track game? Why is it
Speaker 2: a trap series? The Dodgers can't get up for every
Speaker 2: single game, every single series. They know how to pace
Speaker 2: themselves for the whole year. So even if they lose
Speaker 2: two out of three, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 11: Eric, I got you, I got you, Dave. All right,
Speaker 11: I'm panicking.
Speaker 2: Sorry, they're up ten games. They have the best record
Speaker 2: in baseball. There's nothing to panic about. They just took
Speaker 2: care of the Padres.
Speaker 11: You're right, I hate losing. Hey, I love san Diego.
Speaker 11: I was at San Diego Zoo yesterday. Love san Diego. Hey, Dave,
Speaker 11: I got a stupid quiest.
Speaker 2: I mean already, I mean, who's to hold on? I mean,
Speaker 2: you are just taking a lot of liberties right now.
Speaker 2: You just think you could stay on the whole show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what's your last question?
Speaker 11: Okay? I noticed that the the the batting boxes at
Speaker 11: Dodger Stadium, they're thin lines, and normally they're like thick
Speaker 11: lines at other stadiums. Do you know why that is?
Speaker 2: That's their style. Some teams have the thick chalk, some don't.
Speaker 2: But the batter batter's box has got to be outlined
Speaker 2: into the standard outlined area. And even in stadiums like Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: they they have the catcher's box as well to make
Speaker 2: sure the catcher knows where he's supposed to be.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, I thought maybe it's just some of the
Speaker 11: Dodger players liked it that way.
Speaker 2: Okay, Lorenz style at Dodger Stadium. Thanks for the phone call, Eric. Wow. Eric, Yeah,
Speaker 2: had a lot to say right there. I mean, the
Speaker 2: sky's panicking. He let's let's just take a breath here.
Speaker 2: Did Eric just say that the next series is a
Speaker 2: test for the Dodgers. What's the test whether or not
Speaker 2: you can play in a minor league stadium or not?
Speaker 2: They can. They did it in Tampa last year. It's
Speaker 2: not a test. The only intriguing part of this series
Speaker 2: in Sacramento is Wednesday, when Otani makes his start. Will
Speaker 2: Rushi be, will Rushing be catching Otani, will rush, Will
Speaker 2: Otani be calling his own pitches? I mean he should
Speaker 2: to me, That's the only intriguing part of this series
Speaker 2: coming up in Sacramento in a minor league stadium. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine seven two five seventy is the phone
Speaker 2: number we got to give Emmitt Sheehan some love. He
Speaker 2: hasn't had a great year. It's been a little disconnected.
Speaker 2: He hasn't been able to put together a complete start,
Speaker 2: and today may have been the closest thing to a
Speaker 2: complete start for Emma she who went five innings today,
Speaker 2: allowed just one earn run, which was a solo home
Speaker 2: run to Manny Machado on a flat slider. So all
Speaker 2: in all, I know it was only five innings, but
Speaker 2: this was a very positive start for image Shean. Let's
Speaker 2: hear from Emmett on Sports at LA.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it felt really good. You know, execution was a
Speaker 13: lot better today, so that's that always helps. That was
Speaker 13: the main focus coming into today.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Fuck, Felick, is just this outing?
Speaker 10: I mean, is this like a confidence booster for you
Speaker 10: just as you are looking to kind of get the
Speaker 10: consistent results of being where you want to be.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think you know, you got to try to
Speaker 13: separate the process from the results as much as possible.
Speaker 13: So I feel really good about where you know, the
Speaker 13: work and the process is right now and just try
Speaker 13: to build on it.
Speaker 5: At least the execution being better. Is it mostly a mechanical.
Speaker 2: Thing for you?
Speaker 13: Maybe being a little more comfortable my mechanics p also
Speaker 13: just yeah, the focus in between starts of maybe trying
Speaker 13: to get a little more execution set of delivery thoughts.
Speaker 13: I had seven days third, two bullfens this week, which
Speaker 13: is nice.
Speaker 6: He were more convicted with high leverage pitch and high
Speaker 6: leverage counts with the pitch selection and really buying into
Speaker 6: attacking hitters in that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I mean I thought Chucky called a great game, and
Speaker 13: then Mark and Connor putting together game plan did a
Speaker 13: really good job too, So trusted that completely and yeah
Speaker 13: worked out.
Speaker 4: Thinking is the type ning that pass pirdly at different
Speaker 4: points of this season, like what it loves you kind
Speaker 4: of get that last execution against a small dealer.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think just being more convicted, like you said,
Speaker 13: trying to stay with him my mechanics, slow the game
Speaker 13: down a little bit as much as possible, and yeah,
Speaker 13: worked out all right.
Speaker 2: There's Emmit Sheen on sports and at LA and I
Speaker 2: don't know if you've noticed this, but because the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are in a six man rotation. It seems like Emmit
Speaker 2: Sheen is the Dodgers Sunday starter because the only pitch
Speaker 2: is once a week. And I asked him, you know,
Speaker 2: has that affected you as far as just getting a
Speaker 2: rhythm to the season. He said, it hasn't, but he
Speaker 2: has compensated by pitching two bull pens in between starts
Speaker 2: because he's pitching literally every Sunday. Last time he pitched
Speaker 2: was last Sunday the time before that Sunday. So I
Speaker 2: asked him, so, what do you adjust to only pitching
Speaker 2: once a week? What do you do? And he said,
Speaker 2: the way I adjust for that is throwing two bullpen sessions.
Speaker 2: So there you go a little behind the scenes on
Speaker 2: how Emma Sheen gets ready for his Sunday starts. And
Speaker 2: today was his best one eight six six nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. By the way,
Speaker 2: I apologize. There's a couple of other subplots to the
Speaker 2: Dodgers playing in that minor league city minor league stadium
Speaker 2: in Sacramento. Dave Roberts now is only two wins away
Speaker 2: from one thousand in his managerial career, all with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: of course, and before today's game, I presented everything that
Speaker 2: we talked about last night on Dodger Talk. Your first
Speaker 2: managerial win was here at Peko. It was a fifteen nothing,
Speaker 2: fifteen something win, figuring nothing, fifteen nothing, shut out, So
Speaker 2: you remember it, so you remember it.
Speaker 14: I heard vaguely, vaguely now it was. I mean it
Speaker 14: was twenty sixteen. It was a beautiful day at Petco Park.
Speaker 14: The sun was out.
Speaker 2: Now you know what.
Speaker 14: Kurse took them out, and yeah, you know, and I
Speaker 14: know I'm close to a thousand wins, which is bananas
Speaker 14: to even think about, but yeah, my first one was
Speaker 14: here and couldn't put a bow on it to win
Speaker 14: one thousand here, but a lot of gratefulness, a lot
Speaker 14: of great players, coaches and support for me. So I'm
Speaker 14: very very excited about that.
Speaker 2: How do you know I was gonna ask about you
Speaker 2: closing in on one thousand wins.
Speaker 14: I figured that was a little segue. So I did
Speaker 14: your job for you. You welcome, great feel.
Speaker 2: How about that. Dave Roberts knew where I was going
Speaker 2: with this. Yes, he's very aware of that. Now it's
Speaker 2: down to two wins, Dave Roberts, just two wins away
Speaker 2: from one thousand in his managing career, and like we
Speaker 2: mentioned last night, his first managing win with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: was Opening Day twenty sixteen. The Dodgers shut out the
Speaker 2: Padres that night, fifteen to nothing, with Clayton Kershaw on
Speaker 2: the mound. So yeah, I'm glad Dave acknowledged he's had
Speaker 2: some pretty good players over his eleven years, and the
Speaker 2: marriage between him and Andrew Friedman. Some marriages in LA
Speaker 2: don't last eleven years, and these two guys have. And look,
Speaker 2: there were some tenuous moments along the way that you know,
Speaker 2: maybe Dave wouldn't be around for his one thousand managerial
Speaker 2: win with the Dodgers, but they stuck it out and
Speaker 2: it's really paid off. The consistency, the continuity the Dodgers
Speaker 2: believe in, has lent itself to the sustained success. You
Speaker 2: look at the Padres changing managers every couple of years,
Speaker 2: it doesn't work. You look at the team up the
Speaker 2: Five Freeway, the Angels, changing gms, changing managers. It's not
Speaker 2: a recipe for success. You want continuity. The Dodgers had
Speaker 2: it with Walter Ralston and Al Campanis. They had it
Speaker 2: with Tommy Lesorda and Al Campanis, and then Fred Claire
Speaker 2: and now the Dodgers have it with Dave Roberts and
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman. So there is a common theme in all that.
Speaker 2: And Dave Roberts has already separated himself with back to
Speaker 2: back World Series championships, he would elevate that if the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are able to win this three peat, which they
Speaker 2: are in prime position to do, eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Dina in Seal Beach. You're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk Live from San Diego.
Speaker 15: Hi, Dina, Hi, I just wanted to say congratulations to
Speaker 15: the Dodgers. I think it's an amazing that we won
Speaker 15: two out of three on a road trip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good one in San Diego, especially
Speaker 2: after losening to out of three to the Orioles at
Speaker 2: home exactly.
Speaker 15: And I mean we should be more appreciative that we're
Speaker 15: ten games up and pantone two ninety four going down
Speaker 15: there representing Los Angeles. I mean, this is something special
Speaker 15: this team, and we don't have a couple.
Speaker 2: I think it was just regular fans finding their own
Speaker 2: way down here. Dina, I don't think they needed a
Speaker 2: travel agent to get him down here, but yeah, that
Speaker 2: group travels a lot. They even went down to Tijuana
Speaker 2: and put together a watch party for Justin Turner, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, I text to see if we could
Speaker 2: either get together while I was here in San Diego
Speaker 2: or maybe even go down to see a Tijuana Toros
Speaker 2: game last Thursday. But it's the All Star break for
Speaker 2: the Mexican League, and Justin Turner was an All Star
Speaker 2: of course, and he even participated in the home run
Speaker 2: derby for the Mexican All Star Breaks. So there you go.
Speaker 2: There's your update on Justin Turner and the Tijuana Toros.
Speaker 2: Eight six six two seventy is the phone number. By
Speaker 2: the way, this upcoming week we will have our Managers
Speaker 2: Meeting presented by Downy Hunday with Dave Roberts, the day
Speaker 2: after he wins his one thousandth victory in his managerial career.
Speaker 2: I also had a chance to talk to Dave about
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman Frisky Freddie again, the way Freddie Freeman is
Speaker 2: moving in the last month or so, especially last night,
Speaker 2: a jump throw to start a double play and then
Speaker 2: scoring on an error by the second baseman, the ball
Speaker 2: kicks away, and Dino and Freddie on the same page
Speaker 2: and he scores head first into home plate. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is a rejuvenated Freddie Freeman. I asked Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: whether or not he has seen Freddie move like this
Speaker 2: in a while, that catlike quickness. Freddie movin better as
Speaker 2: the season has gone on. He scored on that ball
Speaker 2: that kicked away last night. He made that jump throw
Speaker 2: in the third inning. Do you feel like he's moving
Speaker 2: better than he has in a while? He is?
Speaker 14: He is, you know, I think that the last couple
Speaker 14: of years we got so used to seeing him banged
Speaker 14: up with the ankle, and I think it was maybe
Speaker 14: the knee or the back or whatever it was that
Speaker 14: he just wasn't moving well. But this is as good
Speaker 14: as he's moved in three years for me. On the
Speaker 14: basis defensively, he's playing great and it swings in a
Speaker 14: great spot too.
Speaker 2: Did you think he still had that in him? That
Speaker 2: jump throw?
Speaker 14: You know what he practices that, he practices that every day,
Speaker 14: So yeah, I did.
Speaker 2: He's moving pretty well. I don't know if he practices
Speaker 2: that every day. I mean, I'm out here watching him.
Speaker 2: I see him do some ground balls at shortstop. He
Speaker 2: does that once in a while, but yeah, Freddy Freeman
Speaker 2: looking frisky these days around first base is from what
Speaker 2: I understand talking to people around the Dodgers that have
Speaker 2: a glimpse at the advanced analytics, the way we are
Speaker 2: watching Freddy Freeman move around first base matches up with
Speaker 2: the defensive analytics that he is moving the best that
Speaker 2: he has moved in quite some time. Laterally around first base.
Speaker 2: He's always been a great guy to save throws in
Speaker 2: the dirt, being a great scooper at first base, but
Speaker 2: the way he's moving around the bag laterally, and we're
Speaker 2: actually even seeing Freddy Freeman take ground balls to first
Speaker 2: base on his own. Usually in the last couple of
Speaker 2: years we see him feeding the pitcher. But Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: this year has been moving a lot better. And even
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts confirmed that speaking of covering first base, it
Speaker 2: was a little dice in the sixth inning when Alex
Speaker 2: Vesia didn't cover first base when Jackson Merrill got aboard
Speaker 2: and then got into scoring position and then scored that
Speaker 2: run never should have scored. Vessia forgot to cover first base,
Speaker 2: and that could have been a difference making run and
Speaker 2: nobody knows about it more than Alex Vessia. That was
Speaker 2: very out of characters. So those are the type of things,
Speaker 2: the little things that the Dodgers do better than other teams.
Speaker 2: And you see it. When you don't, it costs you runs.
Speaker 2: And when it's a two run ballgame, you know, in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning, there was still a lot of game left,
Speaker 2: and the Padres still have a lot of dangerous hitters,
Speaker 2: even though the offense hasn't really clicked for them this year.
Speaker 2: You still got Merril, you still got Machado, you still
Speaker 2: got tattoos, and Douhar's dangerous. So that was a little
Speaker 2: bit of a nervous type of situation that also created
Speaker 2: the chain effect the later in the game to make
Speaker 2: it still a game in the eighth inning after that
Speaker 2: second run scored because Vesia didn't cover first base. So
Speaker 2: I'm sure I am one hundred percent positive that will
Speaker 2: not happen again with Alex Vesia involved. All Right, that'll
Speaker 2: do it for us today, Dodger talk. Great to be
Speaker 2: with you on this getaway day. The Dodgers will be
Speaker 2: in Sacramento tomorrow. Eric Lower will be on the mound
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers, there will be no opener. Lauer will
Speaker 2: start the game, and in five games with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: for of them, starts one of them as a bulk
Speaker 2: innings pitcher. He is two to zero with an ERA
Speaker 2: of two point fifty four. He's going up against Gage Jump,
Speaker 2: who's only made six starts in his major league career,
Speaker 2: but has been a really good starter for the Sacramento
Speaker 2: as he's three to one with an ERA of two
Speaker 2: zero four. Our coverage begins at five point thirty tomorrow
Speaker 2: with first pitch at six forty with Rick Munde and
Speaker 2: Tim Neverritt from Sacramento and Taoscar Hernandez is expected to
Speaker 2: be activated before the game Tomorrow night, so Taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: likely will be in left field for the Dodgers again,
Speaker 2: coming back from that Grade one left hamstring strain. Ta
Speaker 2: Oscar was three for thirteen in his short rehab stint
Speaker 2: with Oklahoma City. All three hits were home run, so
Speaker 2: looking forward to having ta Oscar Hernandez back in the
Speaker 2: Dodgers starting lineup Tomorrow night. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out
Speaker 2: here Petco Park. Thanks to Colin me back at our
Speaker 2: burd Banks Studios and thanks to you for listening. In
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Speaker 2: great rest of your Sunday. Once again, the final score
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers beat the Padres four to two. Have
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