Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begune.
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Speaker 1: David Vasse.
Speaker 2: Last day, Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you
Speaker 2: until eleven thirty tonight here on Am five to seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports. After the Dodgers returned home and had a
Speaker 2: four to nothing lead in the seventh inning, but squander
Speaker 2: it and the Cubs scoring six unanswered runs to beat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers tonight six to four. A disappointing night for
Speaker 2: the Dodger bullpen, which has been struggling of late. The
Speaker 2: Dodger bullpen has given up twenty runs in the last
Speaker 2: eighteen innings of work. Couple that with a lot of
Speaker 2: key guys in this lineup struggling right now. First and foremost,
Speaker 2: ta Oscar Hernandez, who is two for his last twenty
Speaker 2: eight after going oh for four tonight show, he Otani,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' leadoff hitter, struck out three times Tonight was
Speaker 2: oh for three. He's two for his last twenty. Andy Paez,
Speaker 2: who started off the season red hot, has cooled off.
Speaker 2: He's four for his last twenty seven. And Kyle Tucker
Speaker 2: hasn't gotten on track at all. He is seven for
Speaker 2: his last thirty. Tucker against his former team tonight oh
Speaker 2: for three with a walk. So you couple that many
Speaker 2: key players in the lineup struggling with a bullpen that
Speaker 2: is struggling right now, you'll get a team that has
Speaker 2: lost five of his last seven eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number coming up.
Speaker 2: Later in the show, we'll check in with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: We'll get you an update on Mookie Beds and when
Speaker 2: he may return. And also i'll let you hear my
Speaker 2: questions to Craig Council about his comments last week in
Speaker 2: Chicago about wanting to change an unfair quote Otani rule.
Speaker 3: So we'll get to that as well.
Speaker 2: But for the Dodgers, a disappointing night, and look the
Speaker 2: three guys they brought in those are there, guys.
Speaker 3: Those are the.
Speaker 2: High leverage relievers. Tanner Scott yesterday saved a game in
Speaker 2: San Francisco, not an easy task. So I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: say the sky's falling when it comes to Tanner Scott,
Speaker 2: but I felt like his attention was more on Pete
Speaker 2: Crow Armstrong at first base than where it needed to
Speaker 2: be with Dansby Swanson at the plate, and I kind
Speaker 2: of had a bad feeling, especially with the momentum that
Speaker 2: was on the cut side, with the big lead that
Speaker 2: PCA was taking the way Tanner Scott was paying a
Speaker 2: lot of attention to him, made a bad pitch, fastball
Speaker 2: right down the middle, and as Tanner Scott said yesterday,
Speaker 2: I threw way too many pitches last year middle middle
Speaker 2: and major league hitters will hit that out well. Dansby
Speaker 2: Swanson proved that to be true because that's where that
Speaker 2: pitch was, and it was a no doubter or way
Speaker 2: over the home run seats in left field for the
Speaker 2: go ahead two run home run which gave the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: or gave the Cubs a six to four lead and
Speaker 2: a six to four win for the Dodgers. They've been
Speaker 2: beaten now by the opposing team's number nine hitter twice
Speaker 2: in the last three games. If you go back to
Speaker 2: the middle game of that series against the Giants, the
Speaker 2: number nine hitter Patrick Bailey hit the go ahead three
Speaker 2: run home run in the seventh inning off of Jack
Speaker 2: Dryer in a scoreless tie. And then you have Dansby Swanson,
Speaker 2: the number nine hitter for the Cubs tonight, hitting a
Speaker 2: go ahead two run home run in the ninth inning
Speaker 2: and driving in four of the cubs six unanswered runs tonight. So, uh,
Speaker 2: that also doesn't sit well with anybody with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Eight six, seven, two, five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 2: for me. The two players of the game for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers tonight was the Battery Emmitt Sheen and Will Smith.
Speaker 2: Emmit Sheen had his best start of the season tonight,
Speaker 2: getting into the seventh inning. Uh, was over the one
Speaker 2: hundred pitch limit in that seventh inning, came out with
Speaker 2: one out in the seventh, and he had a career
Speaker 2: high ten strikeouts, and that's when things started to unravel.
Speaker 2: Vesia was able to get Carson Kelly out for the
Speaker 2: second out of the seventh with a four to nothing lead,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden the wheels came off
Speaker 2: as soon as he walked Pete Crow Armstrong on four pitches.
Speaker 2: That's when this entire game changed, and the Cubs were
Speaker 2: able to score a six unanswered runs to beat the
Speaker 2: Dodgers six to four and win their tenth straight game
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers in second place. Now the Cubs and
Speaker 2: Dodgers have the same record at seventeen and nine. So look,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are doing fine, but this happens during the
Speaker 2: course of a season, and right now it's happening to
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. They've lost five of their last seven. And
Speaker 2: will Smith made two great tags as the Dodgers threw
Speaker 2: out two Cubs runners at the plate tonight. In the
Speaker 2: fourth inning, Michael Bush on a great throw ninety five
Speaker 2: miles an hour from Andy Poz, and then in the
Speaker 2: eighth inning, Ian Happ, trying to score from first base
Speaker 2: in a tied game, was thrown out Pahz to Kim
Speaker 2: to will Smith, and so the Dodgers threw out two runners.
Speaker 2: Will Smith got a big strikeout for Emid Shean challenging
Speaker 2: a ball strike call with the ABS that ended the
Speaker 2: sixth inning, and he hit a three run home run
Speaker 2: in the third inning, So for me, it was Will
Speaker 2: Smith and Emma Sheen that were the stars of the
Speaker 2: game for the Dodgers. By the way, in that seventh inning,
Speaker 2: not only do things start to open up for the Cubs,
Speaker 2: but then in the bottom of the seventh inning, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers had a chance to regain momentum, but Andy Pie
Speaker 2: has hit a ball down the right field line that
Speaker 2: Saya Suzuki did not play well, but instead of stopping
Speaker 2: at second with the leadoff double, Piz was thrown out
Speaker 2: at third. And you're always taught you don't want to
Speaker 2: make the first or last out at third base or
Speaker 2: home plate, and that's exactly what happened. And then momentum
Speaker 2: on the Cubs side. A ground ball that ricochet's off
Speaker 2: of Michael Bush, goes to the second baseman, Nico Horner.
Speaker 2: He makes a great throw to the winning pitcher, Tonight,
Speaker 2: the reliever Tonight Ryan rollas In and Kim, the speedy
Speaker 2: Kim was beaten to the bag and there's two outs
Speaker 2: nobody on. So right there in that seventh inning, uh,
Speaker 2: as Stu Lance likes to say on the Lakers broadcast,
Speaker 2: mister momentum changed jerseys He went from wearing a Dodger
Speaker 2: jersey to a Cubs jersey in that seventh inning. Eight
Speaker 2: six six, seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to the phones for the first time tonight,
Speaker 2: Mike and Carson. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 4: Mike, Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Dave?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Just to just to man that that seventh bens Andy.
Speaker 3: You are rattled. Mike, the game and you are rattled.
Speaker 5: I am.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've been dis frustrated with the April
Speaker 4: loss in a while, but you know, when you're blowing
Speaker 4: leads like this, it's you have a chance to tack
Speaker 4: onto the one run lead. I think Andy Pojez was
Speaker 4: he needs to stay at second base and let the
Speaker 4: ny unfold and trust the guys behind him. And that's
Speaker 4: that's all I got. You know, David's that was a game.
Speaker 2: Actually, you think, uh, here's something else to Pie has
Speaker 2: been thrown out at third base and the top of
Speaker 2: the seventh inning, he leaped up at the wall to
Speaker 2: try to rob Dansby Swanson of what turned out to
Speaker 2: be a triple. I think he was frustrated with himself
Speaker 2: because he thought he should have caught that, and then
Speaker 2: he tried to do too much in the bottom of
Speaker 2: the seventh inning, being overly aggressive, trying to stretch that
Speaker 2: double into a triple.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. I mean, you know, fitz Lawyer is
Speaker 4: a part of the game. But when you're when the
Speaker 4: Cubs are just driving with the momentum and you you're
Speaker 4: you're as hot as Andy Pie is at the plate.
Speaker 6: You know, he's not hot.
Speaker 2: He's actually not hot. He's four for his last twenty seven.
Speaker 2: He's not hot anymore.
Speaker 4: We need what we need him to be. All those
Speaker 4: guys do Tuckers Show and those guys just you know,
Speaker 4: maybe maybe it's April, so I don't know, but.
Speaker 3: It is April.
Speaker 2: It is April, and they have a pretty good record,
Speaker 2: So all is well, Mike.
Speaker 3: It was a disappointing loss.
Speaker 2: It was a messy loss, but the Dodgers are doing
Speaker 2: just fine with a seventeen and nine record.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number Ken in Newport Beach. Wow, not surprising
Speaker 2: you would have your first appearance on Dodger Talk after
Speaker 2: a loss like this Ken, How you doing?
Speaker 6: Hey? You know, this is one heck of a day,
Speaker 6: one of the great Laker comebacks ever, and then a
Speaker 6: disappointing Dodger loss all in once. I don't know if
Speaker 6: I'm going left or right, and you know, all over
Speaker 6: the place. I'm just a little point here. Thirty one
Speaker 6: strikeouts in twenty six games, eleven RBIs two thirty seven average,
Speaker 6: last five games won eighty He's got such a worst
Speaker 6: beverage on the team. What in the world is going
Speaker 6: on with Otani? He looks horrible at that three more
Speaker 6: strikeouts tonight. I'm concerned a little bit about him, don't you.
Speaker 2: Well he told me in Toronto he has not felt
Speaker 2: good at the plate this month, and he feels like
Speaker 2: by May he's going to start feeling like himself again.
Speaker 2: And if you look at his May from last year,
Speaker 2: he hit more home runs in that month than he
Speaker 2: did in any other month last year. So I'll just
Speaker 2: take his word for it. But yeah, he doesn't look
Speaker 2: like Otani. I mean, when was the last time Otani
Speaker 2: struck out and his helmet fell off? That just tells
Speaker 2: you how far off he is right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, he's off balance.
Speaker 3: And he's trying to pull everything.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's wide open when he's swinging. But you know,
Speaker 6: thirty one strikeouts in twenty six games. That's not good.
Speaker 6: But you know, Dodgers will be fine. Clubs are a
Speaker 6: good team, but you know, the kind of start hitting
Speaker 6: and they're relieving is really killing him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's just happening at the wrong time when
Speaker 2: you have four key guys that are in a slump
Speaker 2: right now. So hopefully that changes tomorrow against Colin Ray,
Speaker 2: who's been pretty good. So we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, can appreciate it. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, we talked about it in San Francisco on
Speaker 2: the days that O'tani pitches. He's not that great hitting
Speaker 2: in sixty four at bats with the Dodgers. But if
Speaker 2: we're just looking at twenty twenty six, he's been in
Speaker 2: a little bit of a funk here in the month
Speaker 2: of April, the last two and a half weeks, and
Speaker 2: tonight it just he was trying to pull everything. He
Speaker 2: didn't look comfortable in the batter's box. Like I just said,
Speaker 2: I can't remember the last time I saw show Hey
Speaker 2: Otani strikeout and his helmet fell off, So that just
Speaker 2: kind of tells you where he's at right now. Eight
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Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers give
Speaker 2: up six unanswered runs to the Cubs tonight and fall
Speaker 2: six to four in the first game of this three
Speaker 2: game series against Chicago, and then you got Roki Sasaki tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and you never know what you're gonna get with him.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he could be efficient. And I feel like that
Speaker 2: also played into the decisions Dave Roberts made with his bullpen.
Speaker 2: You look at the guys he used tonight, Scott pitching
Speaker 2: on back to back days, but Trina Invesia had not
Speaker 2: pitched since last Sunday in Colorado, So if you're not
Speaker 2: gonna use them tonight, when you're gonna use them to
Speaker 2: close out the game, It was just unfortunate that PCA
Speaker 2: walked on four pitches with two outs, and that kind
Speaker 2: of changed the complexion of this game. And that'll happen
Speaker 2: with two outs. Eight six six nine, eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go up to Johnny,
Speaker 2: who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Johnny, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing fine, Johnny. The Dodgers are are doing all right.
Speaker 2: Just the frustrating loss tonight.
Speaker 7: Frustrating. That was ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I mean you didn't see that coming.
Speaker 7: Huh No, I mean you know we're coming off a
Speaker 7: hot streak all of a sudden.
Speaker 4: A series?
Speaker 3: Are we coming off a hot streak?
Speaker 7: We were?
Speaker 3: Now they lost two out of.
Speaker 2: Three in San Francisco and split four in Denvers. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I wouldn't say they came home without that.
Speaker 7: I mean, how strong?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 7: Show Hey needs to do something. I don't know what's
Speaker 7: going on, but you know he needs to find his rhythm.
Speaker 7: It's just like I.
Speaker 2: Say, Johnny, if I was able to put you in
Speaker 2: front of show Hey, O'toni, what advice would you give
Speaker 2: him to snap out of this two for twenty slump?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Stop trying to hit everything and stop swinging up
Speaker 7: his just relax, focus and get it done. You know
Speaker 7: you're paying four hundred something million dollars a.
Speaker 6: Year for.
Speaker 2: Come on right, Johnny, I'll be I'll be sure to
Speaker 2: pass along those hitting tips. Thanks a lot for the
Speaker 2: phone call, boy. Eight six six eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. I wonder how o'tani would
Speaker 2: receive those hitting tips from the car right there, Thanks, Johnny.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. When we continue more of your phone calls.
Speaker 2: And also you'll hear my question, my Q and a
Speaker 2: time with Craig Counsel, the man that was whining about
Speaker 2: the Otawni rule next last week, I gave him a
Speaker 2: chance to clear the air.
Speaker 3: You'll hear that next.
Speaker 2: And also we'll check in with Jose Mota and get
Speaker 2: you an update on Mookie bets and when the heck
Speaker 2: he may return to this Dodger lineup that needs him.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers fall to the Cubs tonight six to four
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Speaker 3: Will Smith has been a terrific clutch hitter. Let's see
Speaker 3: what he can do with too on. There's a fly
Speaker 3: ball the right field and deep back o Suzuki.
Speaker 7: To the wall and is gone.
Speaker 3: A home run, Will Smith, when you're hot, You're hot,
Speaker 3: a three run blast. It's his third home run of
Speaker 3: the year.
Speaker 8: He's knocked in fourteen and the Dodgers lead three nothings.
Speaker 2: Will Smith coming up big in the third inning. After
Speaker 2: show Heyotani and Freddie Freeman could not deliver and drive
Speaker 2: in those runs or even move them over. Will Smith
Speaker 2: comes up with a huge three run home run with
Speaker 2: two outs in that third inning off of Jamison tie On. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers squander a four nothing lead and the Cubs
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Speaker 2: Dodger talk with you until the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 3: Will check in with Jose Mota in ten minutes.
Speaker 2: You'll get an update on Mookie Bets and when he
Speaker 2: may return. But I want to get to my question
Speaker 2: and answer time with Craig Council during his media session
Speaker 2: before the game.
Speaker 3: Now we read.
Speaker 2: Did not hear because haven't seen it on camera or audio.
Speaker 2: We read what Craig Council had to say out of
Speaker 2: the blue, out of nowhere, five years too late, after
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball made the Otani rule where he is
Speaker 2: designated as a two way player, not a position player,
Speaker 2: not a pitcher, but a two way player, so he
Speaker 2: doesn't count against the pitching staff's thirteen maximum limit when
Speaker 2: it comes to roster construction. And also part of the
Speaker 2: Otani rule is he can stay in as the DH
Speaker 2: after he's removed.
Speaker 3: As the starting pitcher.
Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, Craig Council, out of nowhere
Speaker 2: from Wrigley Field comes up and says he wants the
Speaker 2: Otani rule to be looked at. He wants it changed.
Speaker 2: It's unfair. None of us knew the context of all that.
Speaker 2: I mean, where's this coming from? So that was part
Speaker 2: of my question to Craig Council, and that's where things
Speaker 2: started between me and the Cubs manager.
Speaker 8: I don't know, I'm I have no idea if it's
Speaker 8: Scott traction or not.
Speaker 9: It has gotten some traction, but just curious, like what
Speaker 9: prompted that answer now, Craig.
Speaker 8: Well, it was I answered a different question actually, so
Speaker 8: the question I answered had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 7: So I was.
Speaker 8: Answering different questions. But what sometimes happens is when you
Speaker 8: answer a question, whatever's more interesting about your answer is
Speaker 8: the part that gets printed.
Speaker 9: Do you feel like it is an unfair advantage?
Speaker 8: It's Look, this is not a Dodger thing. It's not
Speaker 8: an otaw thing. It is a bad rule. Which part
Speaker 8: of the rules?
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 8: I mean, you guys figured it out. You figured you
Speaker 8: It's a good discussion. It's a it's an interesting discussion,
Speaker 8: and I think that that there's it's worth discussing too.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's worth discussing. But he's the one that
Speaker 2: brought this up out of nowhere, and he won't discuss
Speaker 2: it or answer the questions. And I could tell you this,
Speaker 2: virtually every member of the LA Baseball media that was
Speaker 2: here today was in the cups, dugout to hear or
Speaker 2: I would imagine ask Craig Council some of the same
Speaker 2: questions that I had, as you can hear. I give
Speaker 2: everybody some time to follow up on my questions, and
Speaker 2: nobody did. But they're writing stories and using the quotes
Speaker 2: from all that. So you're a You're welcome America media
Speaker 2: for all those clicks.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I also asked Dave Roberts before today's game if he
Speaker 2: was surprised about the traction that Counsel's comments have gotten
Speaker 2: because Ken Rosenthal wrote a story off of it today
Speaker 2: and an anonymous Baseball operations person agreed with Counsel, So
Speaker 2: obviously there is some traction.
Speaker 3: And Dave Roberts gave me a better answer.
Speaker 5: Not surprised. That's kind of what happens these days, you know,
Speaker 5: when you say certain things. Yeah, it was just more
Speaker 5: of and I don't think he meant it really maliciously.
Speaker 5: I mean, they're going through it on the pitching side.
Speaker 5: But again, this is this is a rule that's applicable
Speaker 5: to show. Hey, it's not a Dodger rule, right, I
Speaker 5: mean this is this was implemented when he was with
Speaker 5: the Angels, and so yeah, but not surprising because he's
Speaker 5: a very important player, so it gets a lot of attention.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And now he's getting a lot more attention because
Speaker 2: he's on a team that's extremely relevant instead of languishing
Speaker 2: in Anaheim. And when he was languishing in Anaheim, nobody
Speaker 2: cared about this rule. Creig Council didn't care about it
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. I mean, he must have been simmering on
Speaker 2: this for a long time. And look, what are the
Speaker 2: Dodgers supposed to do. Are they supposed to taxi an
Speaker 2: extra pitcher to be activated on the days that Otani
Speaker 2: is pitching and then deactivate him just to conform to
Speaker 2: whatever Creig Council believes should be the number for a
Speaker 2: pitching staff. You know, if Creig Council really wanted to
Speaker 2: make a stink about the Otani rule, he's picking the
Speaker 2: wrong side of it. I could see opposing teams being
Speaker 2: more frustrated with the fact that he stays in the
Speaker 2: game as a DH even though he's removed as the
Speaker 2: starting pitcher. Now I pose this question on Twitter slash
Speaker 2: x what the solution would be instead of just throwing
Speaker 2: out a problem or a gripe or a complaint, and
Speaker 2: of all people, Justin Turner replied, and he just said,
Speaker 2: why not change the number of pitchers a team can
Speaker 2: have on their roster. If they're that upset about Otani
Speaker 2: having the two way designation, why not add it to
Speaker 2: fourteen pitchers. I mean, I guess that's fine. But here's
Speaker 2: the thing. The reason why Major League Baseball put that
Speaker 2: in place is because Otani is the most unique player
Speaker 2: in the history of modern baseball.
Speaker 3: Forget about Babe Ruth.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, we're talking about modern baseball, the
Speaker 2: most unique player. He's not a hitter and he's not
Speaker 2: just a pitcher. That's why he has the two way designation.
Speaker 2: And yes, that was an advantage for any team that
Speaker 2: signed show hey Otani, and look I gave Craig camp.
Speaker 2: The reason why I went there to ask him or
Speaker 2: here's somebody else ask him these questions was not a
Speaker 2: gotcha moment. It wasn't about going viral or saying I gotcha.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to give him the opportunity to clarify
Speaker 2: the context of his answer and maybe expand on why
Speaker 2: he believes the Otawi rule is bad. But he chose
Speaker 2: not to, and he said, it's a great discussion. So
Speaker 2: that's what I do here every night. I discuss things.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two, five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers fall to the Cubs tonight, six
Speaker 2: to four. Let's go out to Lakewood. Ron You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, ron Hey?
Speaker 10: Pretty good? Pretty good? Very concerned about the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 10: You know, besides the injuries. You know, the last four
Speaker 10: games started, pitchers only gave up I think tour in
Speaker 10: runs and bullpen you know, gave up the rest Dodger's
Speaker 10: only one of those games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the reason why Dave Roberts is letting his
Speaker 2: starters go deeper into games. You saw glass Now go
Speaker 2: eight innings yesterday in San Francisco. You let you saw
Speaker 2: Sheehan go into the seventh inning for the first time
Speaker 2: this season. So he's acutely aware of the bullpen struggles recently.
Speaker 2: But these are the guys they have until Brock Stewart
Speaker 2: comes back, until Bruce star Gratorol comes back. And look,
Speaker 2: it was just a bad night for Tanner Scott, who's
Speaker 2: been pretty good this year, and IVESSI has been pretty
Speaker 2: good this year.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I know, And maybe it's past things. I
Speaker 10: just don't feel real comfortable with anybody in the bullpen really,
Speaker 10: just I just I just don't feel comfortable, you know, like, hey, okay,
Speaker 10: this guy's lights out.
Speaker 3: And well, I'll say this.
Speaker 2: I'll say that a lot of the guys in the
Speaker 2: bullpen has been used a lot the last three years
Speaker 2: because the Dodgers have been playing more games than anybody else.
Speaker 2: But you know, Vesia has been one of the best
Speaker 2: relievers in baseball the last six years, at the very
Speaker 2: least the last three or four years. Blake trin In
Speaker 2: did not look good in his last appearance, did not
Speaker 2: look great tonight. I'll give you that. But Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: has looked pretty good. And I'll say this, the loss
Speaker 2: of Edwin Diaz is huge, whether or not anybody wants
Speaker 2: to admit that or not, it's huge because you can
Speaker 2: work backwards, start counting out out backwards, and without him,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a huge hole not having that closer,
Speaker 2: and that's the reason why the Dodgers went out there
Speaker 2: and signed him.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and but I'm thinking, man, you know, Dodger's got
Speaker 10: a lot of these really good farm hands where there's
Speaker 10: nowhere to put him. You know, maybe they should go
Speaker 10: out and get some bullpen help, you know, trade trade
Speaker 10: some of these guys.
Speaker 2: Told you some bullpen helps on the way. Some injured
Speaker 2: pitchers are coming back. So and these guys are pretty good.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're not going to be perfect every night run.
Speaker 2: They're just in a little bit of a slump. And
Speaker 2: unfortunately that's right now when hitters are in a slump.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it. Look, the
Speaker 2: bullpen is the most volatile part of any baseball team,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers have a lot of guys down there
Speaker 2: that have done pretty well over the course of their
Speaker 2: careers and in the recent memory. So you know, tonight
Speaker 2: it was an off night for trn In, It was
Speaker 2: an off night for Scott Vesia uncharacteristically walks PCA on
Speaker 2: four pitches with two outs or this game is completely different. So, uh,
Speaker 2: just a bad night for Tryning, Vessia and tannor Scott.
Speaker 2: It's going to happen eight six, six, nine seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Cups score six answered
Speaker 2: runs and beat the Dodgers tonight six to four.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Hose Moda.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota, there's a lot going on at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium today, but let's start with what everybody's calling
Speaker 2: about the bullpen. How does Dave Roberts navigate this without
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 7: Well, people have to step up, and they're going through
Speaker 7: a little funk right.
Speaker 6: Now, you know.
Speaker 7: And there's one thing that really kind of worries me
Speaker 7: a little bit, Dave, is the fact that there's a
Speaker 7: time when a guy like town O God and say,
Speaker 7: you know what, I'm going to be the guy. I'm
Speaker 7: going to be the guy going to come to as
Speaker 7: I did yesterday at San Francisco today, too much middle, middle,
Speaker 7: as he said, just too much of the plate. And
Speaker 7: you know, these are circumstances where you playing a very
Speaker 7: good team, a hot team. Things are going well for them,
Speaker 7: and they play one through nine. Mean no doubt, they
Speaker 7: play one through nine from the lineup to the game,
Speaker 7: inning through inning. But you got to make better pictures. Now.
Speaker 7: What I'm looking at is usually we say you are
Speaker 7: as good as your starting rotation is.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 7: Well, the star rotations are really good, and the Dodgers
Speaker 7: have been just okay with a star rotation. The way
Speaker 7: it is because the offense does not responded well and
Speaker 7: then the offenses respond well, you don't tack on any runs.
Speaker 7: This is what happens with your bullpen ig. It's more
Speaker 7: exposed and the guys are allowed to have a bat
Speaker 7: night here and there. But because the offense is not
Speaker 7: a tacking on runs, Davis all connected one thing to
Speaker 7: the other. But the wave that you're writing with starting
Speaker 7: pitcher is what you want to see right now. Just
Speaker 7: the other guys have a compliment much better.
Speaker 2: Hey, the good way for the Dodgers ended in the
Speaker 2: seventh inning. It's incredible how much momentum changed in that
Speaker 2: seventh inning after p Crow Armstrong was walked on four
Speaker 2: pitches and then the triple by danzby Swanson where Paz
Speaker 2: goes up he thinks he should catch it doesn't and
Speaker 2: the Cubs score a run. And then in the bottom
Speaker 2: of the seventh inning, Pa haz makes the first out
Speaker 2: at third base. Those chain of events, how much did
Speaker 2: that change the way this game ended?
Speaker 7: When you are a team like the Cubs. He has
Speaker 7: mentioned the plays one through nine, and you're looking for
Speaker 7: any kind of opportunity like that, any kind of leakage
Speaker 7: on the defensive side. Glad Pious, this didn't happen in
Speaker 7: games said of the World Series, they all standing play
Speaker 7: the ball hit the side of his glove tonight, which
Speaker 7: is very strange with Pious. He still played a solid
Speaker 7: centerfield with the throws and then the other relay throw.
Speaker 7: But for the Cubs going about them, you know, DENIZI.
Speaker 7: Swanson is not a guy that we is going to
Speaker 7: be hitting ninth. They're trying to just kind of, you know,
Speaker 7: lighting the load on him a little bit more. But
Speaker 7: he's still a guy that can go out there and
Speaker 7: hurts you with a home run. As we were mentioned
Speaker 7: during the game, this guy's got twenty seven two ns
Speaker 7: in the season. And today, even after a tough start,
Speaker 7: is by the pitch gets right into the game right away,
Speaker 7: a little bit more and courtious pitches, but overall, momentum
Speaker 7: is big Davis you mentioned, and the Cubs knew exactly
Speaker 7: how to capitalize, and they wanted to turn the line
Speaker 7: up around, go to Niko Horner and then to Michael Bush,
Speaker 7: and that's what happened.
Speaker 2: The Cubs beat the Dodgers tonight six to four. Jose
Speaker 2: Modes joining us on Dodger Talk, I went through the
Speaker 2: four Dodgers that are in the deepest of slumps right now. Uh,
Speaker 2: sho hal Tani three more strikeouts tonight?
Speaker 3: Oh for three?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: How does he get out of this? Jose?
Speaker 2: Because he just hasn't looked like himself the last two
Speaker 2: and a half weeks.
Speaker 7: When I was listening to you, I went back to
Speaker 7: look at my notes from last season, Dave. At this
Speaker 7: point last season, we were talking about one war for
Speaker 7: Shohil Tani poster. That's what he talks about when you
Speaker 7: talk about balance, That's what he talks about when he
Speaker 7: talks about weight shift that he talks about. His pot
Speaker 7: sture is not where he needs to be right now.
Speaker 7: His bat is not standing in the zone like at all.
Speaker 7: Show usually does not hit like key balls, you know,
Speaker 7: like and today he did one off the left side
Speaker 7: because he is pulling away so much fut of baseball,
Speaker 7: And I'm going to tell you exactly what this is
Speaker 7: related to. It is David Peterson hitting him in the
Speaker 7: right shoulder. Go back and look and show his numbers
Speaker 7: since that pick, and he is a much different hitter.
Speaker 7: And we've seen this happen before. We see him get
Speaker 7: away and get back on his heels where he doesn't
Speaker 7: cover home plate, and that's why he's pulling off. Even
Speaker 7: when he's taking pitches b Luke, sometimes he's like bleaching
Speaker 7: a little bit because he's not comfortable just staying in
Speaker 7: and having that bat drag from the zone. So one
Speaker 7: thing relates to the other. His posture needs to be
Speaker 7: in line to the middle of the field. When it's
Speaker 7: not and he flies open, the bat just stays in
Speaker 7: the zone way too short for him, producing damage. And
Speaker 7: hopefully he understands he's been through this before and starts
Speaker 7: waiting in the ball, not afraid to get jamped, not
Speaker 7: afraid to get pitches inside, which he has been in
Speaker 7: his entire life, and just react to making better decisions
Speaker 7: the batter's box. But that bat needs to stand the
Speaker 7: zone a little bit longer, and it starts with his posture.
Speaker 3: As he says, that makes so much sense.
Speaker 2: And I saw him in his last at bat where
Speaker 2: he took a bad swing and he was pounding the
Speaker 2: back leg, you know, just trying to tell himself something
Speaker 2: about that back leg and maybe that's related to what
Speaker 2: you're describing as far as the posture and maybe staying
Speaker 2: back and you know, it just doesn't seem like it's
Speaker 2: happened so far.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know this, stay through the zone a
Speaker 7: little bit longer with your bat, keep the battle in
Speaker 7: a little bit longer. It's kind of a modern term,
Speaker 7: but it really is nothing magical or new in baseball.
Speaker 7: It's just in new way of describing that you're not
Speaker 7: covering the ball, you're not covering the zone. That's better
Speaker 7: as good as you should, I should say, And tels
Speaker 7: Cardan is going to the same thing. You know, sometimes
Speaker 7: they call a leakage from the backside. When you're leaking
Speaker 7: from the backside, everything goes forward and you're not able
Speaker 7: to keep the bat in a good zone and make
Speaker 7: better decisions your ball. Your eyes are moving, the ball
Speaker 7: is moving when it's I'm not supposed to move that much,
Speaker 7: and then you're chasing pitches out of the zone. Just
Speaker 7: a little fun here or label that. You know, you
Speaker 7: make six hundred pearances at home play in the big
Speaker 7: leagues and you're going to be exposed right now. A
Speaker 7: couple of guys are getting exposed because of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I noticed ta Oscar, Hernandez and San Francisco
Speaker 2: started to go to an open stance. Is that kind
Speaker 2: of a bad thing to do when you're ta Oscar
Speaker 2: and you've had so much success to start changing just
Speaker 2: because you're in a slump.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's strange to see that because Tail really, when
Speaker 7: he goes through stuff like this, he's more of a handsitter.
Speaker 7: But I haven't seen the hands work very well for
Speaker 7: the last ten days or so. For Tail to open
Speaker 7: up like that, to me, knowing tales as he got
Speaker 7: to the bigs of the Astros way back then, it
Speaker 7: just creates too much movement for him to get to
Speaker 7: what needs to be the land and track the baseball.
Speaker 7: I'm sure maybe is because if you open up, usually,
Speaker 7: David's because you want to face the picture a little
Speaker 7: bit more with your eyes. Does that mean not seeing
Speaker 7: the ball? Well, perhaps that's what he's trying to do
Speaker 7: a little bit better. But opening up usually causes more
Speaker 7: problems because what happens is you're not used to it.
Speaker 7: You've got to time yourself to close your stands, get
Speaker 7: back to what you know, what feels natural, and before
Speaker 7: that you're thinking way too much about movement and leg
Speaker 7: and closing up. And then there comes to baseball in
Speaker 7: ninety seven to ninety eight and nasty sliders, and you're
Speaker 7: not gonna be able to get to us. So hopefully
Speaker 7: you've got to actually spread out a little bit more
Speaker 7: when she's on the past, spread out, be a good
Speaker 7: two strike hitter and go out there and give your
Speaker 7: team more team bats. And overall this team need to
Speaker 7: go to the same mentality, give better team at bats
Speaker 7: at this point.
Speaker 3: All right, Hose, thanks a lot for checking in. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We'll see you back out here at the ballpark tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 7: Always they're just a little blit up here and there.
Speaker 7: All good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: It can't be perfect, can't win all one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty two. There it goes. Jose Mota, part of the
Speaker 2: Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast with Luis Cochito Cruz. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to the Cubs tonight, six to four. Happy
Speaker 2: to be back in La though, so I could drive
Speaker 2: my beautiful Hyundai Tucson from my friends at downy Hunday,
Speaker 2: win or lose, I'll be driving that downy Hunday to
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium the rest of the season. Now, before we
Speaker 2: say good night, I want to give you that update
Speaker 2: on Mookie bat because Dave Roberts gave it to us
Speaker 2: before the game. Here is the latest on Mookie Beds,
Speaker 2: who has been out over two weeks with the right
Speaker 2: oblique string.
Speaker 5: BP from a coach in the cage. Now, so that's
Speaker 5: a good thing. He says he doesn't feel it swinging
Speaker 5: the bat, throwing. There was a little bit of a
Speaker 5: couple of days ago when I talked to him, he
Speaker 5: was running. He said he felt it a little bit.
Speaker 5: My assumption is he'll go out on a rehabits on
Speaker 5: it and take a couple of games to get him
Speaker 5: at bats, get his legs back. He's getting closer, you know,
Speaker 5: Is it you know next weekend that he goes out?
Speaker 5: Is it you know a week from you know, Monday?
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I know that each day it's
Speaker 5: gotten a lot better. So we're really encouraged.
Speaker 9: You Flip and Tucker and Freddie, does that change anything
Speaker 9: when Mookie returns about where he.
Speaker 5: May be, where he may be thinking, about him now,
Speaker 5: you know it does it doesn't. I think that it's
Speaker 5: more of you know, that's more what I talked about
Speaker 5: the other day is versus right handed pitching number one
Speaker 5: and number two. It's I'll have a conversation with Mooki
Speaker 5: and feel and figure it out whether I put him
Speaker 5: in the three or the five. But that's probably the
Speaker 5: two options.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, there you go three or five when Mooki
Speaker 2: bets return. So we'll see when all that happens. But
Speaker 2: he's got to get back first. I think we all
Speaker 2: forget about Mooki Bets, but the Dodgers need him. They
Speaker 2: need him at shortstop, they need him in the lineup.
Speaker 2: His presence is huge, and you can't forget about how
Speaker 2: important he is to this Dodger lineup. That'll do it
Speaker 2: for us tonight on Dodger Talk Tomorrow a four fifteen start,
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki will be on the mound going up against
Speaker 2: Colin Ray. Our coverage begins at three o'clock with Morongo
Speaker 2: Casino Dodgers on deck and like I'm mentioned, first pitch
Speaker 2: at four fifteen with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson. And
Speaker 2: tomorrow is the fiftieth anniversary of Rick Monday saving the
Speaker 2: American flag right here at Dodger Stadium, wearing a Cubs uniform.
Speaker 2: That was his last year with the Cubs and he
Speaker 2: was playing center field that afternoon when he made that
Speaker 2: great play. And tomorrow, before the game, the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: going to honor and salute our very own Rick Monday
Speaker 2: for making that great play fifty years ago tomorrow, and
Speaker 2: my understanding is the flag that he saved is going
Speaker 2: to be headed to Cooperstown and Baseball's Hall of Fame,
Speaker 2: and the president of the Baseball Hall of Fame is
Speaker 2: going to be at Dodgers Stadium tomorrow, Josh Rawich, and
Speaker 2: is going to join Rick and Steven in the booth
Speaker 2: during the game. So we're going to celebrate Rick Monday tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and hopefully the Dodgers can celebrate him with a win
Speaker 2: to beat the Cubs. Thanks to Colinie back at our
Speaker 2: Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 2: and thanks to you for listening. In case to any
Speaker 2: of the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio
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Speaker 2: conversation with Freddie Freeman once again. The final score tonight,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers fall to the Cubs six to four.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you tomorrow, sealal and so braf.
Speaker 4: It's true
Speaker 10: Away