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Speaker 2: After the Rockies hold on and survive the Dodgers four
Speaker 2: to three, we're with you until nine o'clock tonight. Eight
Speaker 2: sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. The Dodgers fall to the Rockies tonight, four
Speaker 2: to three. Emmitt Sheehan did not have his good fastball
Speaker 2: command tonight, so he wasn't able to duplicate what Tyler
Speaker 2: Glass now was able to to do last night and
Speaker 2: just pound the strike zone with fastballs. It was just
Speaker 2: one of those nights for Sheihan, one of those nights
Speaker 2: for the Dodger offense, which had opportunities and they just
Speaker 2: weren't able to cash them in an unfortunate night. But
Speaker 2: it's gonna happen. The Dodgers are not perfect. They're not
Speaker 2: running the table on the rest of the season, and
Speaker 2: it was their first loss to a National League team
Speaker 2: ten and one. They are now against the National League
Speaker 2: and go figure, the first loss is handed to them
Speaker 2: by the Rockies, but still with baseball's best record at
Speaker 2: fifteen to five, and look, got two more games against
Speaker 2: the Rockies here at Corsfield. We'll see how it plays
Speaker 2: tomorrow afternoon with Roki Sasaki at the plate. All right,
Speaker 2: so here is a question. I brought this up to
Speaker 2: Jose Mota, and I'm a firm believer. The contact play
Speaker 2: has been going on since the mid two thousand. Mike
Speaker 2: Soshia put it on virtually every time there was a
Speaker 2: runner at third base and less than two outs. Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman tripled with one out and you got ti Oscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez at the plate. Muncy who is off tonight. You
Speaker 2: could tell that he just wasn't in sync at the
Speaker 2: plate and you're down a run at that point in time.
Speaker 2: That's a perfect situation for the contact play. If the
Speaker 2: contact play is on, Freddie Freeman scores easily. Kyle Carross
Speaker 2: made a great play to stop the ball going into
Speaker 2: left field. He made a diving stop behind the third
Speaker 2: base bag to throw out taoscar Hernandez. Freeman scores easily
Speaker 2: if there's a contact play, and that would have tied
Speaker 2: the game and put a little bit more pressure on
Speaker 2: the Rockies at that point in time. Instead, Freeman still
Speaker 2: standing at third base, and he was standing there at
Speaker 2: the end of the inning because the Dodgers could not
Speaker 2: cash him in. That was one opportunity missed. In the
Speaker 2: eighth inning, the Dodgers had runners at first and second,
Speaker 2: nobody out and couldn't score a run. They had bases loaded,
Speaker 2: two outs. Max Munsey struck out. That was an unfortunate
Speaker 2: sequence of events. And in the seventh inning, Alex Call
Speaker 2: came off the bench for Alex Friedland, who kind of
Speaker 2: jammed his thumb. Call got hit by the first pitch
Speaker 2: he saw and promptly was picked off at first base.
Speaker 2: We talked about the bottom of the order being so
Speaker 2: vital to the Dodgers' success tonight, they didn't get much
Speaker 2: production out of the bottom of the order, and Call
Speaker 2: getting picked off prevented a chance of a bigger inning
Speaker 2: with Otani coming to the plate. So those were some
Speaker 2: of the moments where I felt like the Dodgers had
Speaker 2: an opportunity to do more. They were zero for seven
Speaker 2: with runners in scoring position tonight eight men left on
Speaker 2: bass and uh, look those nights are going to happen.
Speaker 2: But I really thought the sixth inning, after the Freeman
Speaker 2: one out triple, that was the big missed opportunity. Eight
Speaker 2: six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this during the Clubhouse show as well. But
Speaker 2: another big at bat was in the ninth inning. No,
Speaker 2: not just Kyle Tucker, but Sho Hao Tani coming up
Speaker 2: after Will Smith hit a seeing I single up the
Speaker 2: middle to keep the game alive, to bring up baseball's
Speaker 2: best player and most dangerous hitter in show Heotani facing
Speaker 2: Victor Vodnik show Hao Tani versus Wognik. That's that's advantage Otani.
Speaker 2: And look he got a base hit. But it was
Speaker 2: a big victory for Vodnik to keep Otani in the
Speaker 2: ballpark because it very easily could have been a two run,
Speaker 2: go ahead home run by show Hao Tani and dead
Speaker 2: it was a single and that brought up Kyle Tucker, who,
Speaker 2: let's face it, it's been struggling his first few weeks
Speaker 2: as a Dodger, even though tonight he had three hits
Speaker 2: coming into that last at bad, including a two run
Speaker 2: home run in the first inning. Couldn't understand why he
Speaker 2: was swinging first pitch after what he saw with Will
Speaker 2: Smith and o'tani facing Vodnik. But he swung first pitch
Speaker 2: and it was a lazy fly ball to the left field
Speaker 2: and the game was over. Let's head downstairs right now
Speaker 2: to hear from the Dodger right fielder Kyle Tucker on
Speaker 2: Sports at LA so bad.
Speaker 4: I mean, some of bats are better than others. I
Speaker 4: just needed to try and carry it over to each
Speaker 4: of bat in each game rather than just kind of
Speaker 4: here and there. But I hope they'll just continue doing
Speaker 4: that tomorrow as well.
Speaker 1: He guys actually had sknock too, especially late in this game.
Speaker 1: What did you find just when it came to I
Speaker 1: guess kind of leaving runners on or even just kind
Speaker 1: of falling shorts with later in this one.
Speaker 4: I mean it happens at times, you know, they we're
Speaker 4: facing big league pitchers and they're they got some guys
Speaker 4: in there. And their bullpen that can you know, Pitt
Speaker 4: really well. But you know, at the same time, we
Speaker 4: got to do our part. You know, we had some
Speaker 4: opportunities with guys on base, especially late, just got to
Speaker 4: find ways to get hits or just get those guys in.
Speaker 4: So it happens at times, but you just got to
Speaker 4: do a better job at it. What's the home run like?
Speaker 4: To be able to attack a first pitch like that,
Speaker 4: Like when you're.
Speaker 1: Talking about ending at thats sooner and not getting behind
Speaker 1: an account, Like, is that an example of kind of
Speaker 1: what you're talking about to be able.
Speaker 4: To Yeah, I mean I've kind of fat off pitches
Speaker 4: like that or like swung through some. I mean it
Speaker 4: wasn't bad pitches, you know, heater at the top of
Speaker 4: the zone, but you know, I feel like I should
Speaker 4: be able to hit those pitches and stay on top
Speaker 4: and say through them and you know, barrel them up
Speaker 4: more often. But it's just a good swing right there.
Speaker 3: Good pulls ball.
Speaker 4: They are a couple of times this week. Does that
Speaker 4: whet to tell you that the swing is just getting
Speaker 4: closer to where you kind of want it. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: the thing. I mean, you know, like I said, I
Speaker 4: have had good swings that I just need to carry
Speaker 4: over to the next I bat in the next about
Speaker 4: in the next game, rather than just kind of sporadically throughout.
Speaker 4: So I just have a few good A bads and
Speaker 4: good swings. I just need to do a better job
Speaker 4: at carrying it over to the next one.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Kyle Tucker on sports Net LA, a
Speaker 2: little surprised why nobody asked him why he's swung at
Speaker 2: the first pitch in the ninth inning. That's the question
Speaker 2: in the game context. We're not talking bigger picture here.
Speaker 2: That last at bat was a game ending play and
Speaker 2: kind of a head scratcher swinging at the first pitch
Speaker 2: right there. So missed opportunity to ask Kyle Tucker the
Speaker 2: most important question of the night. Eight six, six, nine, seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. We're going to
Speaker 2: take a time out here on Dodger Talk. When we
Speaker 2: come back more of your phone calls. We'll get into
Speaker 2: another big question that I have, as far as the
Speaker 2: way baseball keeps records of streaks, hitting streaks, scoreless inning streaks,
Speaker 2: and on bass streaks. Otani extended his tonight in his
Speaker 2: last at bat with the single. There's a there's a
Speaker 2: head scratching question that nobody's asking, and we'll get to
Speaker 2: that as we continue live from coors Field after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to the Rockies tonight four to three on
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Speaker 2: One one delivery, Hey Sin, it's a high flyve aall alright,
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Speaker 3: It is going to.
Speaker 2: Be gone off the top of the wall. Dalton rushing, Well,
Speaker 2: there's fifth home run of the season and it's three
Speaker 2: to one. Dalton rushing in his first at bat, homers
Speaker 2: to right field over the high score board wall here
Speaker 2: at Corsfield. That was his fifth home run in his
Speaker 2: first eighteen at bats this year. Unfortunately, not enough for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, as the Rockies hold on to beat the
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Speaker 2: Speaking of Dalton Rushing, he's been very patient waiting for
Speaker 2: his opportunities. He's come into this year with a different
Speaker 2: mindset than what he had when he was called up
Speaker 2: last year. A guy that has not been the starting
Speaker 2: catcher day since maybe never. He was in high school,
Speaker 2: he was in college, he was in the minor leagues,
Speaker 2: and this is the first time he's a backup, and
Speaker 2: there's a different mentality that goes into that, especially for
Speaker 2: a guy that believes he is the man. But he
Speaker 2: understands Will Smith is the man on the Dodgers. He's
Speaker 2: not going anywhere, and he's gonna play at least six five,
Speaker 2: six times a week and.
Speaker 3: He has to wait his turn.
Speaker 2: But how do you get Dalton Rushing more at bats
Speaker 2: because it seems like he can be a difference maker
Speaker 2: with one swing of the bat. I know the Dodgers
Speaker 2: going into last year and it played out that way,
Speaker 2: wanted to keep Will Smith fresh for the postseason, and
Speaker 2: by doing that, they wanted a catcher that can give
Speaker 2: them a little something as far as throwing behind the plate,
Speaker 2: some offense behind the plate, and Dalton Rushing is that
Speaker 2: type of guy. But if it's not behind the play
Speaker 2: and Rushing's hot, is it? At first base? Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: is still, you know, swinging the bat really well. But
Speaker 2: like I said, big picture, thirty six years old, would
Speaker 2: it benefit Freddy Freeman to get more days off as
Speaker 2: we go through the summer and Dalton Rushing and Will
Speaker 2: Smith being in the same lineup with Rushing at first
Speaker 2: base and Smith catching just to keep if we're talking
Speaker 2: about keeping guys fresh and we're talking big picture, wouldn't
Speaker 2: that help Freddie Freeman Because you know, there are times
Speaker 2: that maybe he shows his age during the summer. Maybe
Speaker 2: he's going through it, and he's a big believer that
Speaker 2: the way he gets out of slumps is by playing
Speaker 2: every day. But I think you have to adjust as
Speaker 2: you get older, even if you're playing first base.
Speaker 3: But I'm not saying that we're at.
Speaker 2: The point that we were in twenty seventeen where Adrian
Speaker 2: Gonzalez was running out of gas at first base and
Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger needed to get in that lineup and really
Speaker 2: took off one rookie of the year. But certainly, you know,
Speaker 2: if we're talking big picture, like the Dodgers always talk about,
Speaker 2: I don't see any harm in Dalton rushing getting more
Speaker 2: starts at first base. Not necessarily now, but as you
Speaker 2: go through the summer into August, to keep Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: fresh and ready for October. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Rockies beat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers tonight four to three in Game two of
Speaker 2: a four game set here at Coors Field. Show Heyo
Speaker 2: Tani reached base twice on errors that would not have
Speaker 2: extended his on base streak. What extended it was his
Speaker 2: two out single in the ninth inning, which gave him
Speaker 2: an on base streak of fifty games.
Speaker 3: Here's the question.
Speaker 2: Obviously, the Dodgers have not played fifty games this year,
Speaker 2: so it's on base streak that carried over from a
Speaker 2: year ago. Have you ever asked yourself why baseball allows
Speaker 2: a streak and on base streak to carry over from
Speaker 2: one season to the next, but they don't allow a
Speaker 2: hitting streak to carry over from one season to the next.
Speaker 2: That seems a little peculiar to me, that's not something
Speaker 2: that you would accept as I don't know. Maybe that's
Speaker 2: why I'm not putting a lot of weight into this
Speaker 2: on base streak. And there's a number of ways to
Speaker 2: get on base, and he's the leadoff hitter. It's impressive
Speaker 2: that he's gotten on base in fifty consecutive regular season games.
Speaker 2: But every season's new. How many times do we hear
Speaker 2: major league players say every season is unique. That's behind us,
Speaker 2: that's behind me. Well, why does a hitting streak not
Speaker 2: carry over? But an on base streak does? And if
Speaker 2: I remember correctly, Oral Herscheiser's fifty nine consecutive scoreless innings
Speaker 2: in the regular season carried over from nineteen eighty eight
Speaker 2: to nineteen eighty nine. They're going to carry that over
Speaker 2: as well. And honestly, Oral had sixty seven consecutive scoreless innings,
Speaker 2: but they didn't count what he did in his first
Speaker 2: start in the NLCS against the Mets. So just a
Speaker 2: baseball question wondering why that is the case and hitting
Speaker 2: streaks do.
Speaker 3: Not carry over?
Speaker 2: Eight seven, two, five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 2: fall to the Rockies tonight, four to three. Brendan Bernardino,
Speaker 2: the winning pitcher, Victor Vodnik gets the safe and Will
Speaker 2: Klein takes the loss. How about Ryan Feltner? He hung
Speaker 2: in there for five and two thirds innings, only gave
Speaker 2: up that two run home run to Kyle Tucker, and
Speaker 2: he gave up a solo home run to Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 2: I actually thought Feltner was tipping his pitches because five
Speaker 2: out of the first six Dodgers swung at first pitch fastballs,
Speaker 2: so I was thinking a crooked number was coming because
Speaker 2: I felt like maybe the Dodgers had a tip on Feltner.
Speaker 2: And what's interesting, if they did have a tip, he
Speaker 2: either executed better, or the Dodgers mispitches, or a combination
Speaker 2: of both, or something that rarely happens may have happened tonight.
Speaker 2: A lot of times pitchers have told me, yeah, I
Speaker 2: was tipping. I knew I was tipping, but there was
Speaker 2: nothing I could do. And they go back to the
Speaker 2: video room after the start or in between starts, and
Speaker 2: they identify what they were tipping. But it's very difficult
Speaker 2: for a pitcher to identify when he's or how he's
Speaker 2: tipping pitches. So if Feltner was tipping pitches, that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: That he was able to correct that in the middle
Speaker 2: of the game, and the Dodgers kind of let him
Speaker 2: off the hook, let some of the Rockies' relievers off
Speaker 2: the hook, and they fall tonight four to three. First
Speaker 2: lost to a National League team tonight, the Dodgers fall
Speaker 2: to Colorado of all teams. But hey, they lost twice
Speaker 2: to the Rockies last year as well. They won eleven
Speaker 2: out of thirteen from the Rockies, so they didn't sweep
Speaker 2: all thirteen games from the Rockies last year on their
Speaker 2: way to the championship. A few other things going on
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball that I felt like, maybe just
Speaker 2: to put how good the Dodgers are playing into context.
Speaker 2: The team with the second best record now in the
Speaker 2: National League and all of Major League Baseball to the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: are the Atlanta Braves. The surprising Atlanta Braves are fourteen
Speaker 2: and seven now, their percentage points behind the Dodgers for
Speaker 2: the best record in baseball. The Dodgers are fifteen and five.
Speaker 2: They have one more win than the Padres, who are
Speaker 2: playing in Anaheim tonight. Also something interesting about the NL East.
Speaker 2: The Braves are the only team to be above five
Speaker 2: hundred in that division.
Speaker 3: The second place.
Speaker 2: Marlins are nine to twelve and oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: the Mets lost their ten in a row. The Mets
Speaker 2: are seven and fourteen. That's the same record as teams
Speaker 2: like the Blue Jays who are in last place, the Royals,
Speaker 2: the White Sox, and also the Astros who are eight
Speaker 2: and fourteen. The Phillies are looking old. Speaking of looking old,
Speaker 2: they're looking old. The only division in baseball right now
Speaker 2: that have all of the teams in the division above
Speaker 2: five hundred is the NL Central. Every team first place
Speaker 2: to last place is above five hundred. The Reds are
Speaker 2: in first place thirteen and eight. The Cubs are eleven
Speaker 2: and nine in last place in the NL Central.
Speaker 3: So there we go.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Look, last night, I know there was
Speaker 2: a report from the athletic that Ryan Ward is being
Speaker 2: called up.
Speaker 3: He was not here. He was not here today.
Speaker 2: That move probably coming tomorrow, and I'll let the dot,
Speaker 2: you know, figure out what that move is going to be.
Speaker 2: But why is everybody freaking out over Ryan Ward? I
Speaker 2: like Ryan Ward a lot. I know he won the
Speaker 2: PCL Player of the Year, but I love the Dodgers
Speaker 2: calling him up for a few days just to reward
Speaker 2: him for all that because he still hasn't made his
Speaker 2: major league debut. But it's not like the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: calling up Corey Seeger a Cody Bellinger. They're calling up
Speaker 2: Ryan Ward for a short period of time for whatever
Speaker 2: reason that's going to be. But look, I like Ryan Ward.
Speaker 2: He's a great guy. But the way the media and
Speaker 2: some of the bloggers react to his name, he's twenty
Speaker 2: eight years old and hasn't made his major league debut yet,
Speaker 2: he's a He could be a guy in the past
Speaker 2: where the Dodgers didn't have the wherewithal to sign players
Speaker 2: like ta Oscar Hernandez or Kyle Tucker to maybe get
Speaker 2: more of a runway, similar to them finding Max Munsey.
Speaker 2: But fortunately for Ryan Ward, there's no spot for him
Speaker 2: on this roster. So look, I like him, but there's
Speaker 2: no spot on this on this roster for him right now,
Speaker 2: So we'll see what the move is going to be.
Speaker 2: But Ryan Ward's locker was not there before tonight's game.
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Speaker 2: Before the game today, had a chance to get into
Speaker 2: the manager's office and talk to Dave Roberts for a
Speaker 2: one on one conversation.
Speaker 3: Here's how it went, and certainly Dave deserves.
Speaker 2: A lot of credit for the success the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: had since taking over in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dave, it's always good catching up with you, and yeah,
Speaker 5: we're off to a good start. And you know it's
Speaker 5: interesting is yesterday we were in the midst of snow
Speaker 5: and today it's clear skies and it's seventy degrees. Dave.
Speaker 2: One thing that I'm not sure everybody can wrap their
Speaker 2: head around. You're the manager. You're never feeling comfortable, no
Speaker 2: matter how good the record is. How do you handle
Speaker 2: this with the team playing as well as it has.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good question.
Speaker 5: I think that there's a realistic perspective, a presence in
Speaker 5: the sense of appreciating that you're winning more than you're losing,
Speaker 5: which is good. But I think as a manager you're
Speaker 5: always mindful of trying to keep things on the rails
Speaker 5: and moving forward, So you know, whether it's player staff,
Speaker 5: how we play, you know, the mindset, the mechanics part
Speaker 5: of it, and just trying to have a pulse on that.
Speaker 5: So but again still being positive, appreciating the start we're
Speaker 5: off at.
Speaker 2: This time last year, the defense was a little inconsistent,
Speaker 2: the bullpen was a little leaky. How big had those
Speaker 2: two areas contributed to having the best record to start
Speaker 2: the year both.
Speaker 5: I think that certainly the bullpen has done a fantastic job.
Speaker 5: There was obviously, you know, going back to last year,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of questions with the pen, and then
Speaker 5: you know, coming into the spring, how the spring some
Speaker 5: of these guys had. There were some questions kind of
Speaker 5: coming into the season, but all those questions have been
Speaker 5: answered up to this point, and you know, so I'm
Speaker 5: really excited about what they're doing. And the starting pitchers
Speaker 5: have done a fantastic job. And obviously we saw what
Speaker 5: Tyler did last night, and hopefully emmittt can build on
Speaker 5: what he's done the last couple outings and the defense,
Speaker 5: and so I think that for me, it's what Andy's
Speaker 5: done it in centerfield, what Max has done at third base,
Speaker 5: and obviously, you know, you expect the shortstop play to
Speaker 5: be really good even without Mookie out. But I think
Speaker 5: Tao has done a great job. I think Tucks played
Speaker 5: a really nice defense and a nice right field and
Speaker 5: Freddy's sunwell. So across the diamond, we're playing well and
Speaker 5: it's good to see.
Speaker 2: Is it fair to say it feels like the pieces
Speaker 2: are fitting a little better defensively this year?
Speaker 5: They are, they are, but I just feel that we're
Speaker 5: also playing better. I think that you know, Max looks
Speaker 5: a lot better, He's in better shape. I think that
Speaker 5: Freddie's done a lot to work on his mobility, which
Speaker 5: has helped, and obviously adding Tucker, I think Tucker's done
Speaker 5: a nice job in right field. And then I think
Speaker 5: Tao's inspired and he's playing really good left field, and
Speaker 5: he's getting off the ball really well. And Andy continues
Speaker 5: to make stride, so it's fun to see. And at
Speaker 5: second base, Alex Friulan, one of the things that we
Speaker 5: asked him to do is play good defense, and he's
Speaker 5: done that and getting Haysong Kim in the mix, he's
Speaker 5: you know, been a wonder at second and a shortstop.
Speaker 5: So across the board, it's been fun to watch.
Speaker 2: It's so unique you come off back to back championships,
Speaker 2: yet individually it seems like some of your better players
Speaker 2: are still playing with a chip on their shoulder. Have
Speaker 2: you have you experienced anything like this? How unique it
Speaker 2: is for so many guys that have won but are
Speaker 2: acting like they haven't one yet.
Speaker 5: I've never seen anything like this, you know. It seems
Speaker 5: like every year I say, this is the best group
Speaker 5: of men I've ever been around, And this is the
Speaker 5: best group I've ever been around. And it's the character,
Speaker 5: it's how they work, the focus, and yeah, I think
Speaker 5: that these guys understand the opportunity we have as far
Speaker 5: as the chance to win three in a row, something
Speaker 5: that's unprecedented in the National League, and they want to
Speaker 5: make their market baseball on Dodger history. So but with that,
Speaker 5: you still got to go out there every day and
Speaker 5: play the right way. And that's what I really marvel at,
Speaker 5: you know, because I think that there's no talk of
Speaker 5: a let down, a hangover, because I do think that
Speaker 5: you know yourself, and people that are familiar with our
Speaker 5: ball club know that that's not who we are, and
Speaker 5: we're showing that with the start that we've had.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts is our guest in front of first pitch
Speaker 2: between the Dodgers and Rockies. Here's another thing I'm curious about.
Speaker 3: You have so many really good players, and you know this.
Speaker 2: You have to have a certain level of ego to
Speaker 2: be as good as some of these guys are. How
Speaker 2: have you found a way How have they found a
Speaker 2: way to check their egos at the door, because there's
Speaker 2: other teams out there that have a big egos and
Speaker 2: they can't seem to do that.
Speaker 5: It starts with Freddie Freeman. I think that he's uh,
Speaker 5: you know, he's going to be a first ballot Hall
Speaker 5: of Famer. There's there's not an entinement, there's a there's
Speaker 5: a gratitude, there's a responsibility. I think that you know,
Speaker 5: with our guys, this game doesn't need any of us.
Speaker 5: And I think our guys have that appreciation the responsibility
Speaker 5: to go out there and play a certain way. And
Speaker 5: I do think that with success comes an inflated ego.
Speaker 5: And you know, the media, the fans telling you how
Speaker 5: good you are, but you can't let that bleed into
Speaker 5: your psyche because I do believe that, you know, the saying,
Speaker 5: you're never as good as they say, and you're never
Speaker 5: as bad, and so our guys have that even keeled
Speaker 5: mindset and that grinder minds set. And when you take
Speaker 5: a lot of talent, like minded talent and you perform
Speaker 5: the way we do and prepare the way we do,
Speaker 5: that's why we have something special.
Speaker 2: You can appreciate this more than most being a UCLA
Speaker 2: Bruin going to college there with Coach Wooden being around,
Speaker 2: his famous saying was make every day your masterpiece? In
Speaker 2: other words, do you feel like you and your players
Speaker 2: try to make every day your masterpiece without getting too
Speaker 2: far ahead?
Speaker 5: I love that and I love that, and I think
Speaker 5: for me it's every day's a test, you know, And
Speaker 5: I think that you know, what you did yesterday doesn't
Speaker 5: you know, matter today, And so it's hard to you know,
Speaker 5: to make a masterpiece. But I respect what coach wouldn't
Speaker 5: said I and I love that mindset, that idea, and
Speaker 5: me being a Bruin as well, I love it, and
Speaker 5: I think for me it's just to add on to
Speaker 5: that is you know, every day's a test. You know,
Speaker 5: you're you're trying to prepare, and you know you got
Speaker 5: you gotta pass a test, and nothing is owed to you.
Speaker 5: So very similar and for me to be even mentioned
Speaker 5: in the same breadth as coach Wood, and there's something
Speaker 5: that's truly humbling for me.
Speaker 3: All Right, Dave, thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 2: It is incredible to watch this run of success that
Speaker 2: you've had since you've taken over managing the Dodgers since
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. And we'll make today our masterpiece.
Speaker 5: Love it. Thanks Dave.
Speaker 2: There he was Dave Roberts our pregame guest earlier today.
Speaker 2: And look, even though the Dodgers lost tonight and they
Speaker 2: were zero for seven with runners in scoring position, this
Speaker 2: was the first game the Dodgers had lost to a
Speaker 2: National League team, they still have baseball's best record and
Speaker 2: coming off back to back World Series championships. Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: deserves a tip of the cap, certainly for the job
Speaker 2: he has done over the years. That'll do it for
Speaker 2: us tonight on Dodger Talk. Coming up tomorrow, Roki Sasaki
Speaker 2: will be on the mound. He's going up against Mike Lorenzen.
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Speaker 3: App once again.
Speaker 2: The final score tonight the Rockies defeat the Dodgers four
Speaker 2: to three.
Speaker 3: Have a great rest of your Saturday. Seeales and