Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
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Speaker 1: David Vasselas Day.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase live in Milwaukee at
Speaker 2: American Family Field. After the Brewers beat the Dodgers tonight
Speaker 2: by a final score of five to one. We have
Speaker 2: phone lines open at eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. I guess I'll just throw this out
Speaker 2: there right now. Do you think I should go down
Speaker 2: the slide again?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: This game was ugly from the Dodgers side. So if
Speaker 2: you got a baseball Dodgers take, I want to hear it.
Speaker 2: But I also want to know do you think I
Speaker 2: should go down the slide again? I guess the only
Speaker 2: way I would go down Bernie the Brewers slide again
Speaker 2: is if the players really rallied around me going down
Speaker 2: the slide. Now, mind you, my wife is very much
Speaker 2: against me. My wife is very much against me going
Speaker 2: down the slide, and it is possible she could change
Speaker 2: the locks on the house if she finds out I
Speaker 2: went down the slide on the way back. So when
Speaker 2: I get back from this road trip on Sunday night,
Speaker 2: I may have galvanized the team, but I may be
Speaker 2: locked out of my house after that. So there that's
Speaker 2: that's the pros and cons of me going down the slide,
Speaker 2: and of course the chance I might break my wrist
Speaker 2: and six ribs again. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. All right, I
Speaker 2: got the good, the bad, the ugly from this game tonight.
Speaker 3: The good is the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 2: Al Gervaise and newcomer Jonathan Hernandez did not give up
Speaker 2: a run three scoreless innings between those two. So the
Speaker 2: Dodgers bullpen consecutive scoreless inning streak is now at thirty two.
Speaker 2: How about that. People call to complain about the bullpen
Speaker 2: time and time again, and the Dodger bullpen has been phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Thirty two consecutive scoreless innings without giving up a run.
Speaker 2: And there's been eleven different pictures now that have contributed
Speaker 2: to thirty two scoreless innings, So for me, that is
Speaker 2: the good. Also the good is Dalton rushing single in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning that snapped an oh for nineteen slump
Speaker 2: for Dalton Rushing, who got the start tonight behind the plate.
Speaker 2: If he would have gone over four, I would have
Speaker 2: hit the women and everybody else, the kids, I would
Speaker 2: have hit him. I would have hit everything else in
Speaker 2: that dodge your dugout. If Dalton Rushing would have gone
Speaker 2: over four because he was he kept his cool in Anaheim.
Speaker 2: I was right near the Dodger dugout for that series.
Speaker 2: But certainly he needed some hits and he got one
Speaker 2: tonight and he's going to get another start on Sunday
Speaker 2: because Dave Roberts said before the game today that Will
Speaker 2: Smith is going to catch tomorrow and that's the only
Speaker 2: game this series. Will Smith is going to catch because
Speaker 2: he feels like he needs to work on his swing,
Speaker 2: work on the hitting because it hasn't been there the
Speaker 2: last ten games or so. And I was surprised how
Speaker 2: candid Dave Roberts was. He fled out said in San Diego.
Speaker 2: The reason why he hit Smith seventh in that last
Speaker 2: game was because, quote, he's not hitting the fastball, and
Speaker 2: that's not something that we see from will Smith. He
Speaker 2: usually hits the fastball. So he had a day off yesterday.
Speaker 2: He was in the dugout during batting practice today. I
Speaker 2: asked him whether or not he's taken BP today. He said, nope,
Speaker 2: not picking up a bat today. So rest day today.
Speaker 2: He'll be back behind the plate tomorrow, and then on Sunday,
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing will be back behind the plate. The ugly
Speaker 2: was that first inning, thirty eight pitch first inning for
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski gave up four runs in that first inning,
Speaker 2: and our guy Dwayne McDonald right next to me reminded
Speaker 2: me that those four runs in the first inning were
Speaker 2: as many runs as the Brewers scored in all of
Speaker 2: last year's NLCS. The Brewers, in the Dodgers four games
Speaker 2: sweep of them last year, only scored a combined four runs. Tonight,
Speaker 2: they scored four runs off of Robleski in the first inning,
Speaker 2: including three straight hits to begin the inning, culminating and
Speaker 2: William Contreras's three run home runs. So I told people
Speaker 2: I was asking Dave Roberts before the game, seeing what
Speaker 2: the temperature was from him and from others about this
Speaker 2: matchup for Robleski because he throws a lot of strikes
Speaker 2: and the Brewers are a team that hits for average.
Speaker 2: They don't strike out a lot, they don't hit a
Speaker 2: lot of home runs. So I just didn't feel like
Speaker 2: this style was a good matchup for Robleski against the Brewers,
Speaker 2: similar to you know, I would say the Braves. If
Speaker 2: he makes the throw in the second inning of that game,
Speaker 2: it goes differently for him. But tonight, I just felt
Speaker 2: like the Brewers, being such a contact driven team, it
Speaker 2: was not a good It was not a good matchup
Speaker 2: for him. And I guess the bat for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: is the fact Max Muncie had to leave this game
Speaker 2: after being hit by a pitch in the eighth inning
Speaker 2: on his right wrist. You don't want to see that,
Speaker 2: especially when the guy's still holding onto the bat. That's
Speaker 2: where bones can be broken. Dave Roberts said moments ago
Speaker 2: that the X rays came back, so that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: And months he's not going to play the next two games,
Speaker 2: and that's a big loss.
Speaker 3: Munsey.
Speaker 2: Arguably him and Andy Paiaz have been the two best
Speaker 2: hitters the Dodgers have had from start to finish where
Speaker 2: we're at right now or since the beginning of the
Speaker 2: season consistently, So that's a big loss. He means a
Speaker 2: lot to this lineup, and he's playing great third base.
Speaker 2: So that's a big loss in the final two games
Speaker 2: of this series, and you hope that he can come
Speaker 2: back Monday when the Dodgers return home to start a
Speaker 2: six game homestand against the Rockies and Phillies. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go back downstairs to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear
Speaker 2: from Max Munsey on sports and at LA.
Speaker 4: Well, not feeling great right now, but that is relief.
Speaker 4: You know, We've got a monitor in the next couple
Speaker 4: of days. Typically, especially in that area, the X ray's
Speaker 4: never come back positive immediately. It kind of forms a
Speaker 4: little bit, but I'm pretty sure it hit half my
Speaker 4: wrist pad and then half my wrist. You know, I
Speaker 4: haven't obviously, I haven't looked at it yet, but that's
Speaker 4: kind of what I was feeling, so I think, you know,
Speaker 4: me deciding to wear that risk guard last couple of years.
Speaker 4: It might have saved my wrist at least tonight.
Speaker 5: It's really painful.
Speaker 6: Just what was going for your head immediately?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was really good.
Speaker 4: No, I mean obviously it was ninety eight on the wrist.
Speaker 7: It hurt really, really bad.
Speaker 4: You know, in that moment, you kind of just you're
Speaker 4: trying to figure out what you can feel, trying to
Speaker 4: assess how bad you think it is.
Speaker 7: You know, for me, I think we.
Speaker 4: Skipped the worst because I've been hitting that spot before
Speaker 4: and I've broken that spot before. The biggest thing I
Speaker 4: always took with me from that was just the nauseous
Speaker 4: feeling that you get, and I didn't quite have that tonight.
Speaker 4: So that's why I'm feel pretty optimistic about it.
Speaker 3: Did you want to.
Speaker 6: Stay in or is that kind of date that told
Speaker 6: you to come out?
Speaker 4: No, I mean just because of some of the things
Speaker 4: that I've happen in this year. You never know if
Speaker 4: you have to actually touch first space or not. You know,
Speaker 4: if you get pintran for you have to touch for
Speaker 4: a space. So like I looked at the doc and
Speaker 4: I was like, don't need to touch for space, and
Speaker 4: he was like, just go touch it, so.
Speaker 6: No, he pulled me immediately.
Speaker 4: He didn't want to risk it. And then you know,
Speaker 4: so it was just make sure, make sure he touched
Speaker 4: for his space because no one knows what the rules
Speaker 4: are in that situation. Twenty nineteen. You had the last
Speaker 4: time it hit there and just kind of yeah, that
Speaker 4: sounds right. Yeah, it's twenty nineteen and it was my
Speaker 4: right wrist. I've been hitting the left risk several times.
Speaker 4: You know, these things happened. Guys miss up and end.
Speaker 4: It's never on purpose, it just you know, it just happens.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 2: There's Max Munsey on sports and at LA and that's
Speaker 2: a huge sire relief. That Monthsy feels like he dodged
Speaker 2: a bullet. So that's big news right there. Obviously it'll
Speaker 2: be sore tomorrow, he won't be in the starting lineup,
Speaker 2: but the Dodgers dodged a huge bullet right there. Months
Speaker 2: he fractures his wrist, he's out for at least a month,
Speaker 2: maybe more so, speaking from experience, when you break your wrist,
Speaker 2: you know it. In Milwaukee eight six six nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Long Beach Courtney, You're a Dodger. Talk with David
Speaker 2: vasse Hi.
Speaker 8: Courtney, Hi, buddy, how are you feeling?
Speaker 3: How's the risk feel great?
Speaker 8: How are we checking in? Okay, listen, you've got to
Speaker 8: get back up on that horse. Buddy, You've got to
Speaker 8: do it again for us all. I'm not your wife,
Speaker 8: but I promise you. I think that you're going to
Speaker 8: be okay, and that we're all counting on you to
Speaker 8: make it down successfully a second time with no no
Speaker 8: casts involved.
Speaker 3: Okay. I love that vote of confidence, Courtney. If if the.
Speaker 2: Locks are changed at the house, I might be sleeping
Speaker 2: at Phil Trainey's in Long Beach.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, Well, you know I live closer to the beach,
Speaker 8: so we can figure out like a beach tent situation
Speaker 8: for you.
Speaker 2: You're not going to offer your couch. You're going to
Speaker 2: offer a tent on the beach.
Speaker 8: I went over the tent. Actually, I take that back.
Speaker 8: I do have a pool, so I can offer a
Speaker 8: floating in the pool.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's like a waterbed.
Speaker 8: Yes, exactly. So maybe that's easing the injury. I don't know,
Speaker 8: but I believe in you this time around. I think
Speaker 8: that you're going to be okay, and I think that
Speaker 8: all of Dodger's nation is rooting for you, buddy. We're
Speaker 8: all here for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, Courtney, thank you. I appreciate that. We'll see what
Speaker 2: happens eight six six, five seventy. That felt like a
Speaker 2: therapy session right there. Let's go out to kenan Newport Beach. Hi, Ken,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk. Do you want me to go
Speaker 2: down the slide again?
Speaker 3: Ken?
Speaker 6: Well, well, first of all, we'll tell you that that
Speaker 6: that girl we're just called it was really cool. I
Speaker 6: thought yourure for humors. No, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: Try to try to top it.
Speaker 6: I can't do not go down. I have acrophobia. I
Speaker 6: once got caught on a on a scheme in the
Speaker 6: mountains and I had to walk down. So do not
Speaker 6: do it. You made a mistake once. You're going to
Speaker 6: be a little bit. Let it go. Let it go.
Speaker 6: A couple of questions, man.
Speaker 3: Are these rhetorical questions?
Speaker 2: Is this where like when you start rattling off numbers
Speaker 2: on how bad certain players are? These are real questions
Speaker 2: directed towards me.
Speaker 6: These are rhetorical, stupid questions. Okay, I really don't understand
Speaker 6: what Mookie's doing run our first first inning, took three
Speaker 6: strikes and didn't even move the bat, and that was weird,
Speaker 6: the three of them in the middle, And I'm just
Speaker 6: sitting there going, what do you batting second for? With
Speaker 6: a man on first? And watching those I know he's
Speaker 6: still injured. I know he's maybe spending too much time
Speaker 6: with his guitar, but you got to swing the bat
Speaker 6: mook or a.
Speaker 2: Super And I would say that was his worst. That
Speaker 2: was his worst at bat since coming back off the IL.
Speaker 2: I feel like he's done pretty well. He's hit into
Speaker 2: some bad luck. He's hitting the ball hard, but I
Speaker 2: agree with you, I don't know how you take three
Speaker 2: straight pitches right there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think that was the problem.
Speaker 2: Even James Loney said that during the broadcast the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: we were allowing this young right hander, Logan Henderson to
Speaker 2: to get deeper into counts. They were taking too many
Speaker 2: pitches instead of just trying to be aggressive early in
Speaker 2: the count, and that at bat by Mookie Betts kind
Speaker 2: of encapsulated the Dodgers tonight.
Speaker 6: I agree. And it's nice that what's his name to hit?
Speaker 6: He was betting one thirteen in his last fifteen games.
Speaker 6: With eighteen strikeouts. I don't think he's a major league hitter.
Speaker 6: The entire league figured out dultrone fastball, throw the curves
Speaker 6: and he won't hit him. I think you need she
Speaker 6: looking for Yep, terrible.
Speaker 2: Just you know, Rushing is one of the best hitters
Speaker 2: in baseball this year on off speed pitches. Ken, really, yes,
Speaker 2: batting average is uh is really high against off speed pitches,
Speaker 2: top five in baseball.
Speaker 6: Well I missed that one. That's surprising me. But anyway,
Speaker 6: you know, first game.
Speaker 2: No, let's not forget about facts. Yeah, let's forget about Thanks.
Speaker 2: I love you, Ken, Thank you for calling Dalton Russian.
Speaker 2: Will be back in there Sunday.
Speaker 3: Okay, Ken, I'll go down that slide.
Speaker 2: Do not do not okay, Ken, thank you for the
Speaker 2: phone call in the warning. Eight sixty six, seven seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Dodgers fall to the Brewers tonight,
Speaker 2: five to one. And how about I'm not sure if
Speaker 2: you saw this on the broadcast or if James Loney
Speaker 2: and Tim never mentioned this during the game. Did you
Speaker 2: see those college kids up in the corner in left
Speaker 2: field take their shirts off and start chanting And they
Speaker 2: were the most entertaining part about this game from about
Speaker 2: the fifth inning on I guess it's called Tarp's Off.
Speaker 2: It started in Saint Louis a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and it, you know, a couple of different stadiums.
Speaker 3: It's happened.
Speaker 2: It's basically college kids that take their shirt off and
Speaker 2: start waving their shirts around. They were in the upper
Speaker 2: corner of American Family Field tonight. It was about three
Speaker 2: rows and by the sixth inning it had grown to
Speaker 2: the entire section. It was entertaining. They were channing Joey
Speaker 2: for Joey Ortiz. They were they they called bs on
Speaker 2: an overturned call at first base on ti Oscar Hernandez's
Speaker 2: infield single. They were the most entertaining part about the
Speaker 2: game tonight. And you know, outside of that for the Dodgers,
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Speaker 2: great to get a visit from former Dodger the original
Speaker 2: number seventeen. Since when I first started in twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: he was wearing that number. Aj Ellis, who lives in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: His wife was coaching a volleyball team, a girl's volleyball
Speaker 2: team that was honored they won the championship and they
Speaker 2: were part of a group here at American Family Field.
Speaker 2: So aj Ellis was in the house. He's a special
Speaker 2: assistant for the Padres, but he came up to the
Speaker 2: press box and wanted to he surprise me. I was
Speaker 2: not expecting to see aj who is a family man
Speaker 2: these days here in Milwaukee, along with his duties working
Speaker 2: remotely with the Padres. But it was awesome to see
Speaker 2: aj and aj Ellis, by the way, caught more Curshaw
Speaker 2: games than any other catcher one hundred and eighteen regular
Speaker 2: season Kurshaw games aj Ellis Cott. So definitely, if you're
Speaker 2: an old school Dodger fan, I guess these days you
Speaker 2: appreciated aj Ellis and how good of a defensive catcher
Speaker 2: he was. And I remember back in twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: maybe he had a big double basis loaded cling double
Speaker 2: in San Francisco to help beat the Giants and for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to clinch the NL West Division title. So
Speaker 2: awesome to see. AJ was a great surprise. And speaking
Speaker 2: of former Dodgers, let's get to Chris Taylor. When we continue,
Speaker 2: what's your memories? What's the one memory you remember the
Speaker 2: most about Chris Taylor? Because Chris Taylor was playing for
Speaker 2: the Angels Triple A team and Bill Shakin of the
Speaker 2: La Times was reading the transactions and it came across
Speaker 2: the transaction wire that Chris Taylor decided to retire. I
Speaker 2: talked to somebody I know with the Angels. They said
Speaker 2: that he had some other injuries and maybe that forced
Speaker 2: him to retire. But Chris Taylor had so many memorable
Speaker 2: moments with the Dodgers. All share mine. I would love
Speaker 2: to hear yours. Chris Taylor has retired after twelve major
Speaker 2: league seasons, ten of them ten of his best years
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers after being acquired in a trade with
Speaker 2: the Mariners back in twenty sixteen for Zach Lee. Chris
Speaker 2: Taylor talk when we come back. Also, I'll give you
Speaker 2: an update on Blake Snell and if you want to
Speaker 2: give me more advice, life advice, slide or no slide.
Speaker 2: The next two days eight six, six, nine, eight seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy Brewers beat the Dodgers tonight five to
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Speaker 1: Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy LA sports
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Speaker 1: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Basse.
Speaker 2: We are live at American Family Field in Milwaukee. After
Speaker 2: the Brewers beat the Dodgers tonight by a final score
Speaker 2: of five to one. Dodger Talk with you until nine
Speaker 2: o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 2: David Vasse Live in Milwaukee. The Dodgers only had three
Speaker 2: hits tonight. Dalton Rushing snapped out of an zero for
Speaker 2: nineteen slump. He had one of the three heads show
Speaker 2: he Otani also and a sacrifice fly. That's how the
Speaker 2: Dodgers score their one run. Logan Henderson pitched five score
Speaker 2: as Sinning struck out seven Dodgers to pick up the win.
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski takes the loss. He's now six and two
Speaker 2: after giving up five earned runs in the first two win.
Speaker 2: Robleski is six and two. Chad Patrick with his second
Speaker 2: save of the year. William Contreras had three hits tonight.
Speaker 2: That's as many as the entire Dodger team had tonight,
Speaker 2: including a three run home run off of Robleski in
Speaker 2: the very first inning. Eight six six, nine, eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. How about Andrew Vaughn.
Speaker 2: I can't get over this. I mentioned this in the
Speaker 2: Clubhouse show. I remember taking last year's trip to Milwaukee off.
Speaker 2: I was Andrew Vaughn made his Milwaukee Brewers' debut against
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and hit a grand Slam.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy out of nowhere who was released
Speaker 2: was a you know, first round pick, top pick by
Speaker 2: the White Sox. They kept on waiting and waiting for
Speaker 2: him to hit his potential. He never did. They release him.
Speaker 2: Matt Arnold, who in my opinion is the most underrated
Speaker 2: baseball executive in the sport, picks him up, goes to
Speaker 2: the leagues for a couple of weeks, makes his debut
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers, and in seven regular season games now
Speaker 2: Andrew Vaughn against the Dodgers is eight for nineteen with
Speaker 2: a home run and eight RBIs, including tonight two for
Speaker 2: four with an RBI double. Andrew Freakin Vaughn eight for
Speaker 2: nineteen of four hundred average and seven regular season games
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers. A home run in eight RBIs somebody
Speaker 2: stopped this guy.
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that. I really can't. Andrew Vaughn, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Something happened. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. I mean, he
Speaker 2: is hitting three point thirty three this year, and he
Speaker 2: was a big part of the Brewers beating the Cubs
Speaker 2: and winning the division last year. But Andrew Vaughn hitting
Speaker 2: four hundred and seven games against the Dodgers since joining
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Speaker 3: I mentioned.
Speaker 2: Chris Taylor has retired after twelve major league seasons, ten
Speaker 2: of them with the Dodgers, ten great years with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: ten clutch years with the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: There are a lot.
Speaker 2: Of memorable Chris Taylor moments. This is one of them.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty one Wildcard game against the Cardinals. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: had won one hundred and six games that year, but
Speaker 2: the Giants got so freaking lucky. They've never even sniffed
Speaker 2: one hundred and seven wins combined the last three years,
Speaker 2: but they won one hundred and seven that year somehow,
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers were the wildcard team with one hundred
Speaker 2: and six wins. And it felt like home run Derby
Speaker 2: between the Dodgers and Cardinals that year in that Wildcard game,
Speaker 2: and Chris Taylor was the one that hit the home
Speaker 2: run and walk the Dodgers off to the NLDS against
Speaker 2: San Francisco in twenty twenty.
Speaker 7: One, race on two and one, Taylor.
Speaker 3: Flypall the left and deep and don.
Speaker 9: Chris Taylor, oh walk off home run. The Dodgers are
Speaker 9: walking off to San Francisco.
Speaker 3: They win the wild Card three to one. Here comes
Speaker 3: Taylor to the plate. They are bobbing him. The crowd
Speaker 3: is going crazy.
Speaker 9: The Dodgers advance to the National League Division Series with
Speaker 9: one the mighty swing by Chris Taylor.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Charlie Steiner on the call for that night and twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, the Wildcard game, a bottom of the ninth
Speaker 2: inning walk off home run by Chris Taylor, with Juan
Speaker 2: Soto sitting behind home play that night as he was
Speaker 2: embarking on his final year with the Washington Nationals. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that was a memorable Chris Taylor moment. And I thought
Speaker 2: it was kind of fitting that Chris Taylor retires when
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are in Milwaukee, because this was when you
Speaker 2: say Chris Taylor and you say memorable Dodger moment. I
Speaker 2: think about Game seven of the NLCS. Taylor was in
Speaker 2: left field, not a position at that point that he
Speaker 2: played a lot. He took a weird route to make
Speaker 2: a game saving, series saving catch. So here it was
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, Game seven NLCS, Rick Monday and Charlie Steiner
Speaker 2: on the call again.
Speaker 7: No ball's two strikes, Kane leading from second. Burri is
Speaker 7: set at the belt. THEO two fly ball left center field.
Speaker 7: It's gonna be a long run for Taylor and he.
Speaker 9: Makes a spectac killer over the shoulder catch on the
Speaker 9: warning track, falling to the ground. What to play by
Speaker 9: Chris Taylor saving a run and ending the inning.
Speaker 10: I didn't think he had a chance in the world.
Speaker 10: He reached up as high as he could as he
Speaker 10: was really falling down. He was gonna sacrifice body and
Speaker 10: all an incredible catch in a critical spun.
Speaker 2: If he doesn't catch that, the Brewers are probably winning
Speaker 2: Game seven and going to the World Series against the
Speaker 2: Boston Red Sox. Cody Bellinger was playing center field and
Speaker 2: he had to leap over the body of Chris Taylor
Speaker 2: after he made that incredible catch. As I'm staring out
Speaker 2: to where he made that catch on the warning track
Speaker 2: and left center field right where the wall kind of
Speaker 2: jets out in that cookie cutter style. To me, when
Speaker 2: you say Chris Taylor, that's the moment I remember the most.
Speaker 2: And Cody Bellinger turned out to be the eighteen NLCSMVP,
Speaker 2: but Chris Taylor and Justin turned were the co twenty
Speaker 2: seventeen NLCS MVP. So congratulations to Chris Taylor, who was
Speaker 2: an unknown when the Dodgers made that in season trade
Speaker 2: for him in twenty sixteen for Zach Lee. I remember
Speaker 2: the first time I met Chris Taylor. He showed up
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh. That's where the Dodgers were when they made
Speaker 2: the trade for Chris Taylor. Chris Woodward was the third
Speaker 2: base coach that year. He had known Taylor when he
Speaker 2: was coaching in Seattle and was a coach in the
Speaker 2: minor league system for the Mariners, and I remember him
Speaker 2: telling me at the time that, yeah, he vouched for
Speaker 2: Chris Taylor when Andrew Freeman asked him about whether or
Speaker 2: not they should pull the trigger on the trade. And
Speaker 2: the rest is history. Chris Taylor is such a big
Speaker 2: part of Dodger history from twenty sixteen until you know,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, the day that the Dodgers let him go.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'll just say this about Chris Taylor.
Speaker 2: He treated me really well. We were at his charity
Speaker 2: Polar Plunch that he and his wife put on. I
Speaker 2: brought my daughter, I brought my son, and he treated
Speaker 2: them like family. And I can't say enough. He's first
Speaker 2: class all the way. And I can't wait for that
Speaker 2: night at Dodgers Stadium when they bring him back they
Speaker 2: play the video montage and celebrate number three Chris Taylor,
Speaker 2: because look, I know it's at another level right now,
Speaker 2: back to back World Series champions, and all these guys
Speaker 2: on this team that have been part of it are
Speaker 2: going to be celebrated forever. But guys like Chris Taylor,
Speaker 2: aj Elis, Justin Turner, Walker Buehler, Julio Orias, Austin Barnes,
Speaker 2: the list goes on and on. Even you could even
Speaker 2: throw in Yasiel Puig. Those guys contributed a lot to
Speaker 2: a lot of winning and a lot of great moments
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. Adrian Gonzalez, Skip Schumacher, Nick Punto, Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 2: I mean, the list goes on and on, and I
Speaker 2: know this is at another level the Otani era with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. He's been here for two years, They've won
Speaker 2: back to back championships. But I feel like Dodger fans,
Speaker 2: myself included being with these guys every day for the
Speaker 2: last fifteen years, had an emotional attachment to these guys
Speaker 2: more than you would expect. Guys like Chris Taylor and
Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger, Cory Seger, Justin Turner, Chris Taylor, Puige, Urius
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller, because they if they weren't drafted by the
Speaker 2: Dodgers or came up through the minor leagues with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: they were unknowns, discarded by other franchises, and they were
Speaker 2: our own. They were our own. And those guys the
Speaker 2: reason why those guys to this day are still super
Speaker 2: tight and even take vacations together. Jock Peterson, how could
Speaker 2: I forget him? They were so tight because they went
Speaker 2: through a lot of failures together. They had a lot
Speaker 2: of great times together. And you could say whatever you
Speaker 2: want about the twenty twenty World Series, but those group
Speaker 2: of players who had lost the seventeen and eighteen World Series,
Speaker 2: at least they had a moment in twenty twenty. It
Speaker 2: would have been great because I remember spring training of
Speaker 2: twenty before the pandemic and the shutdown, the Dodgers, for
Speaker 2: the first time in a while, were not only built
Speaker 2: to beat the National League, they were built to be
Speaker 2: the best team in baseball that year. Whether it was
Speaker 2: sixty games or one hundred and sixty two games. I
Speaker 2: know injuries happened, but they were built in spring training
Speaker 2: to be the best team in baseball. And I guess
Speaker 2: the only regret that I would say for those group
Speaker 2: of players is that they never got a parade, because
Speaker 2: that's what makes it real and a ring ceremony and
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff with fans in the stands.
Speaker 2: They were short changed in two ways twenty twenty and also,
Speaker 2: of course twenty seventeen by the Astros. As much as
Speaker 2: everybody wants you to forget that ever happened, it didn't.
Speaker 2: Lives were changed with what the Astros did. It was
Speaker 2: the last time the rich Hills, the andre Ethiers, the
Speaker 2: Chase ut LEAs the logan for size of the World
Speaker 2: ever Brandon Morrow ever had a chance to win a
Speaker 2: World Series Championship. But Chris Taylor and the rest of
Speaker 2: those guys got it in twenty twenty, and nobody can
Speaker 2: ever take that ring away from them. And certainly very
Speaker 2: very happy that Chris Taylor had a great year. And
Speaker 2: you know, before the season, when I was helping him
Speaker 2: promote the Polar Plunge, I asked him whether or not
Speaker 2: he was even going to come back this year, and
Speaker 2: I offended him, as I often did. He said, Hey,
Speaker 2: don't retire me yet, Vassy. I want to try to
Speaker 2: go out on my own terms. And you know, I
Speaker 2: hope he got the closure he was looking for because
Speaker 2: he had nothing else to prove in this game. He
Speaker 2: got more out of his career than anybody ever thought.
Speaker 2: He ever would trust me, So congratulations to Chris Taylor
Speaker 2: for a great year. And I don't know what your
Speaker 2: memories are of Chris Taylor, but those are just a
Speaker 2: couple of mine. Eight nine, eight seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Dodgers fall to the Brewers tonight,
Speaker 2: five to one. It was an interesting game plan by
Speaker 2: the Dodgers against this young pitcher, Logan Henderson. I just
Speaker 2: thought they were way too passive early in the counts.
Speaker 2: James Loney pointed that out during the broadcast. I felt
Speaker 2: like maybe they should have been like the Brewers against Robleski,
Speaker 2: be ready to swing first pitch, and the Dodgers certainly
Speaker 2: were not doing that tonight, and that's part of the
Speaker 2: reason why Logan Henderson pitched five scoreless innings with seven strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki will be on the mound for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: He's coming off his best start in major league career.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to uh Savannah in all Hambra. You're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk Live from Milwaukee. Hi Savannah, Hi, it's
Speaker 2: nice to talk to you.
Speaker 11: I just wanted to touch on what you had said about
Speaker 11: Chris Taylor and you know, the World Series of twenty
Speaker 11: twenty with the Dodgers. I really do think that if
Speaker 11: the Dodgers do win back to back to back, they
Speaker 11: should really have a World Series parade with all three
Speaker 11: World Series players. I really wish they brought out the
Speaker 11: players did it in twenty twenty when they won last
Speaker 11: year and the year before, because you know, they didn't.
Speaker 11: They missed out on it because of COVID, and I
Speaker 11: feel like they definitely deserve to be feeling the love
Speaker 11: of all the Dodger fans. We all still love them,
Speaker 11: and you know, yeah, and I also do think you
Speaker 11: should move on to find.
Speaker 3: Okay, Savannah, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Uh, maybe I'll have to come to All Hambra if
Speaker 2: the locks are changed on my house if I go
Speaker 2: down the slide.
Speaker 11: Yeah, most definitely, Apple connection with a hammer police department,
Speaker 11: so maybe we can get you.
Speaker 2: Was like a best Western, right, best Western, five star
Speaker 2: best Western in All Hambro Right, Oh.
Speaker 11: Most definitely. There's a bunch of hotels.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks savan, I appreciate that. Who will take
Speaker 2: me in if I go down the slide? Speaking of
Speaker 2: that slide back in twenty twenty two, after I went
Speaker 2: down the slide, I still had my responsibilities. I needed
Speaker 2: to get a pregame guest after I broke my wrist
Speaker 2: and six ribs going down that slide. So before I
Speaker 2: left for urgent care, Justin Turner and I went out
Speaker 2: to the Dodger dugout and did the pregame interview for
Speaker 2: sports and at LA and and five to seventy LA Sports. Well,
Speaker 2: we're in the Dodger dugout now after I completely ruined
Speaker 2: my wrist and my ribs. But Justin Turner part of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers that took care of me, and I appreciate
Speaker 2: you doing this interview and the care that you guys
Speaker 2: have for me.
Speaker 5: All I got to say, you're really chiefing this out
Speaker 5: because you should be going to get a picture on
Speaker 5: that thing right now, and you insisted on doing this interview.
Speaker 7: First, so.
Speaker 4: Props you.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: So that was the beginning of the interview, and then
Speaker 2: we just started talking baseball and I'll never forget that
Speaker 2: Justin Turner gave me a sandwich, gave me a bottle
Speaker 2: of water to eat because he knew I was going
Speaker 2: to have to take some meds out there. And I'll
Speaker 2: never forget. I tried to keep it together as I
Speaker 2: was waiting outside the Dodger clubhouse until Cody Bellinger came
Speaker 2: out and.
Speaker 3: Said, dude, you are so messed up. I was like,
Speaker 3: oh no.
Speaker 2: Then I started sweating a lot, and I knew Cody
Speaker 2: would tell me the truth. It's like your kids, right,
Speaker 2: He's like a toddler. He'll tell you the truth. That's
Speaker 2: what he did, and I always appreciate Alex Taurus, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers clubhouse manager. When I came back to the stadium
Speaker 2: to finish the job, he helped me put my dress
Speaker 2: shirt back on, my tie on, Andjuanderado, the player's relations guy,
Speaker 2: helped me out a lot, and Mookie Betts FaceTime me.
Speaker 2: Oral herscheizer called me while I was in the urgent care,
Speaker 2: and I can't forget about my guy. Kurt, the cameraman
Speaker 2: sports net LA has out here in Milwaukee, drove me
Speaker 2: to the urgent care and when I was done, he
Speaker 2: came back to pick me up and bring me back
Speaker 2: to the stadium. So a lot of people helped me
Speaker 2: out and Rode Aware made that shirt, and I'll never
Speaker 2: forget the guys wearing it proudly. Max Muntsey, Evan Phillips
Speaker 2: among them, So a lot of love. I found out
Speaker 2: there was a lot of love for David Vasse. All
Speaker 2: I had to do was break my wrist and six
Speaker 2: ribs to find that out. Eight sixty six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Hey, I
Speaker 2: have a great idea. I know where I'll sleep. If
Speaker 2: I go down the slide and my wife locks me
Speaker 2: out of the house, I'll had to Downy Hunday. I
Speaker 2: think that's where I'm gonna go. They've got an incredible showroom.
Speaker 2: I might sleep in one of those beautiful Hyundays that
Speaker 2: my guy Sam has in his showroom. It's Memorial Day weekend,
Speaker 2: so they're having a big sale. You gotta get down there.
Speaker 2: And after the Memorial Day's sale is over and I
Speaker 2: show up Sunday night, I hope he leaves the key.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll sleep in my Ionic nine that I drive
Speaker 2: around today. Thanks to my friends at Downy Hunday, Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Bob in Malibu. Hi, Bob, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Oh Dave, thanks for having me on tonight. Man, I
Speaker 5: just wanted to take a second to say thanks to
Speaker 5: Chris Taylor, my son Lennon and I are in the
Speaker 5: car or we're talking about all the great memories we
Speaker 5: have of him on the field, But the two memories
Speaker 5: that stick out the most to me are the way
Speaker 5: he treated the fans. One for my son. He came
Speaker 5: back from the dougallut he reached out, he grabbed a
Speaker 5: ball and signed it for him at a game, which
Speaker 5: was kind but I'll never forget. In Boston in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 5: the year after they lost to the Red Sox, my
Speaker 5: wife and daughter flew out there to see the Dodgers
Speaker 5: play at Fenway. There watch the Dodgers against the Socks,
Speaker 5: and as the team was going to the bus, Chris
Speaker 5: was there with his parents. My daughter was in the hallway.
Speaker 5: She was waiting for him to come by. He walked
Speaker 5: past to get on the bus, walked out the door
Speaker 5: and she called his name sheepishly, and he turned around
Speaker 5: and he came back and he took time to shake
Speaker 5: her hand, take a photo with her, meet her, and
Speaker 5: she said he was just the kindest guy. He took
Speaker 5: all the time he could with her, which was very
Speaker 5: kind of him. So for that and all the great
Speaker 5: plays on the field, wish the guy the best of
Speaker 5: luck and retirement, a happy life from here on out.
Speaker 5: Just want to thank him as a fan man.
Speaker 3: All right, Bob, I love that. Thank you for the
Speaker 3: phone call.
Speaker 2: That's a good way to end the show because that's
Speaker 2: exactly who Chris Taylor was. He did appreciate the fans.
Speaker 2: Guys like him and Munsee, I think appreciate what they
Speaker 2: have more than most because Munsey was on his couch
Speaker 2: when the Dodgers called. Chris Taylor was just wallowing with
Speaker 2: the Mariners before they traded him. He was just drifting
Speaker 2: in their minor league system before the Dodgers acquired him.
Speaker 2: So I think that's part of the reason why they
Speaker 2: have greater appreciation for what they have now and sign autographs,
Speaker 2: take pictures with fans and really appreciate you and the
Speaker 2: celebration of what it means to be a Dodger and
Speaker 2: a World Series champion. Tomorrow, Roki Sasaki will be on
Speaker 2: the mound for the Dodgers, going up against left hander
Speaker 2: Robert Gasser. Our coverage begins at three o'clock, first pitch
Speaker 2: at four point fifteen with Tim Neverett and James Loney.
Speaker 2: Rick Monday is spending the weekend in Cooperstown. He's being
Speaker 2: celebrated for the fiftieth anniversary of him saving the American Flag.
Speaker 2: There's a whole exhibit out there at the Baseball Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame, so that's where Rick is. He'll rejoin us
Speaker 2: on Tuesday at Dodgers Stadium. And I thought James Loney
Speaker 2: did a great job. He called three or two Dodger
Speaker 2: Brewers games last year at Dodgers Stadium. As you know,
Speaker 2: the Brewers beat the Dodgers all seven times last year.
Speaker 2: So Loney's here again and the Brewers beat the Dodgers
Speaker 2: again in the regular season. Don't know if this is
Speaker 2: a James Loney thing or not, so we'll have to
Speaker 2: wait until tomorrow. But James and Tim sounded great tonight,
Speaker 2: and look forward to having Rick back on the Homestand
Speaker 2: thanks to Colin Ye back at our Burbanks Studios doing
Speaker 2: a great job as always, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out
Speaker 2: here in Milwaukee, and thanks to you for listening. In
Speaker 2: case you missed any of the show, you can find
Speaker 2: it on the iHeartRadio app once again. The final score
Speaker 2: tonight from American Family Field in Milwaukee. The Brewers beat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers five to one holy crap. Have a great
Speaker 2: rest of your night, be safe, See you Ze.