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Speaker 1: your host, David Vase Day.
Speaker 3: Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vase with you until five o'clock today on AM
Speaker 2: five to seventy LA Sports. After the Dodgers lose nine
Speaker 2: to six to the Rockies. It's the first time this
Speaker 2: season the Dodgers have lost back to back games. They're
Speaker 2: the last team in Major League Baseball to have consecutive
Speaker 2: losses this season. The Dodgers again today struggled with runners
Speaker 2: in scoring position. They were or for fourteen and so
Speaker 2: far in the first three games of this series, they
Speaker 2: are six for thirty one with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 2: That is not very Dodger like, but they in some
Speaker 2: ways let the Rockies off the hook the last two
Speaker 2: days and give the Rockies credit. I mean, they made
Speaker 2: the plays the last two nights, and they got the
Speaker 2: big hits when he counted, and no play was bigger
Speaker 2: than the last play of the game. With two on
Speaker 2: and two out, Ryan Ward at the plate, he sent
Speaker 2: a flare into a shallow right center field and Troy Johnston,
Speaker 2: the Rockies right fielder, came out of deep right field,
Speaker 2: to make a head first dive to rob Ryan Ward
Speaker 2: of what would have been a two run single that
Speaker 2: would have made this a one run game and still
Speaker 2: the Dodgers threatening to try to send this game into
Speaker 2: extra innings at the very least, But it wasn't to be.
Speaker 2: But a nice day for Ryan Ward, who made his
Speaker 2: major league debut, got the start at first base today,
Speaker 2: was two for four with an RBI. Got his first
Speaker 2: hit and first run driven in on the same play
Speaker 2: in the fourth inning. So congratulations to Ryan Ward. We'll
Speaker 2: hear from him in just a moment. But today was
Speaker 2: a very course field type day after cold, humid nights
Speaker 2: here the first two games of this series. A day
Speaker 2: game at Coursefield. The sun was out, no clouds in
Speaker 2: sight above Coursefield, and the humidity at six percent, you
Speaker 2: kind of felt like, yeah, this has the makings of
Speaker 2: a old school course field type of game, and it
Speaker 2: did fifteen combined runs thirty combined hits in a game
Speaker 2: that went over three hours. The Rockies are only averaging
Speaker 2: playing two and a half hours two thirty six this season,
Speaker 2: and today the Dodgers and Rockies played to a three
Speaker 2: hour and seven minutes a game in front of forty
Speaker 2: two thousand, six hundred and seventy seven, so a very
Speaker 2: coarse field type of day. Before we get to Edwin
Speaker 2: Diaz and Blake Trent, and let's get to Ryan Ward,
Speaker 2: who spoke to reporters in the clubhouse after today's game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I mean it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: I mean from start to finish. The Butterflies were there
Speaker 4: for sure to start the game. They went away though.
Speaker 4: I mean I once the game started, it was like, okay,
Speaker 4: it's just baseball.
Speaker 5: So it was a lot of fun to be out
Speaker 5: there seeing how you were able to get the results.
Speaker 5: I mean, how encouraging is that for you, just facing
Speaker 5: big league pitching and understanding where you can fit in
Speaker 5: with either this team or even at this level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I mean it's kind of it's kind
Speaker 4: of been something that especially down a triple A. Guys
Speaker 4: talked about it's a lot different up there. Everything's different
Speaker 4: up there. So like coming up here and getting swings
Speaker 4: off and seeing some results was really cool.
Speaker 3: Were just being first that no matter what.
Speaker 4: Before the game, I was told you only get one
Speaker 4: first pitch, so so remember it.
Speaker 3: So so I was ready to go for sure.
Speaker 6: Kind of a highlight for you today.
Speaker 3: A key moment I'd welcome in the big league's moment.
Speaker 4: That's probably the first hit, you know, I mean seeing
Speaker 4: everyone on the bench get excited for me, Woody over
Speaker 4: there was it was excited and just being able to
Speaker 4: take like that that deep breath. I was like, okay,
Speaker 4: like that's over with and we can move forward.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: Do you have any doubts when you hit it? I
Speaker 4: did see him go up in the air and was like,
Speaker 4: oh okay, thank gosh. Yeah. And then how about that
Speaker 4: last play of the game with you Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: I mean three one count heater in and kind of
Speaker 4: get jammed a little bit, which which shouldn't happen in
Speaker 4: that situation, but almost split in and God made a
Speaker 4: great catch.
Speaker 7: And that was that.
Speaker 3: Where's the first ball, the first hit going.
Speaker 4: In that's going back home for sure, go back home,
Speaker 4: and then when I get back, I'm sure I'll take
Speaker 4: care of where it goes after that.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Ryan Ward after going two for four
Speaker 2: within our in his first ever major league game, the
Speaker 2: twenty eight year old rookie who was the PCL Player
Speaker 2: of the Year last year for Oklahoma City. But unfortunately
Speaker 2: it comes in a loss for the Dodgers nine to six.
Speaker 2: Before we closed the book on Ryan Ward, and I
Speaker 2: see a couple of callers want to talk about it.
Speaker 2: We'll get to you. But how did Ryan Ward get
Speaker 2: called up with Freddie Freeman going on the paternity list.
Speaker 2: That's one part of the story. The other part is
Speaker 2: how did he get the start at first base with
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing on this team. Dave Roberts I asked him
Speaker 2: before today's game how this came about, How Rushing was
Speaker 2: on the bench and Ward was starting.
Speaker 8: There was and actually I was going to start Dalton.
Speaker 8: And then I went to Dalton last night and I said, hey,
Speaker 8: I'm going to go against what we talked about and
Speaker 8: I'm going to start Ryan because and Dalton finished. My
Speaker 8: senate said, because he's earned it. And Dalton said he
Speaker 8: was going to come up to me actually and say that,
Speaker 8: you know, for go a start to let Ryan start,
Speaker 8: and that just speaks to Dalton's you know, being a
Speaker 8: teammate and getting it and so yeah, this is just
Speaker 8: the certain things you got to do that because of
Speaker 8: the right thing. And I also thinks he's he's good
Speaker 8: in this spot, but Dalk swinging a good bat. But
Speaker 8: I really wanted Ryan to get a start today.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Dave Roberts sharing a really cool story
Speaker 2: that Dalton Rushing. Who you know, let's be honest, his
Speaker 2: opportunities are far and few between on this team with
Speaker 2: Will Smith catching every day basically and Freddie Freeman playing
Speaker 2: every day, and this was an opportunity for him to
Speaker 2: get a rare start at first base. It would have
Speaker 2: been his first start of the year at first base.
Speaker 2: But he said, you know what, give it to Ryan Ward.
Speaker 2: And that's pretty special and as unselfish as it gets
Speaker 2: considering the circumstances. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the
Speaker 2: Rockies today, nine to six. And just a reminder, this
Speaker 2: doesn't happen very often. The last time the Dodgers lost
Speaker 2: back to back games to the Rockies was in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two, and last year the Dodgers only lost twice
Speaker 2: to the Rockies in thirteen head to head matchups. So
Speaker 2: the Rockies are a little bit scrappier and maybe maybe
Speaker 2: a little more talented, but certainly they're up for this
Speaker 2: series and you can understand why. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: the phones for the first time. Art in Montclair. You're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk live from Corsfield High Art.
Speaker 9: Hey, Dave, thanks for taking my call. Just a couple
Speaker 9: quick thoughts comments for you, and I'll listen off air. Yeah,
Speaker 9: today's game was a little disappointing, but thank god, it's
Speaker 9: only April, so you know we're gonna get through our bumps.
Speaker 9: But you know, everything's good with the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: I'm glad to.
Speaker 9: See they called the rookie up. That was one of
Speaker 9: my thoughts and asking you how does that call up happen?
Speaker 9: Who makes the decision? Who makes the call down to
Speaker 9: the Triple AA manager? You know, does Doc make that
Speaker 9: part of that decision? Andrew Friedman, you know that whole decision.
Speaker 9: I'm calling up guys from the miners. You know, it
Speaker 9: was great to see and hear the story that his
Speaker 9: manager had tears in his eyes. I mean, it's just
Speaker 9: great that we're giving that rookie a chance to make
Speaker 9: his play with such great lineup that we have. I'm
Speaker 9: so happy that we're doing that for him. So I
Speaker 9: was just wondering how that call up happens. And you know,
Speaker 9: like I said, I'll listen off air. So thanks thanks
Speaker 9: for taking my call, Dave. Keep up the great work.
Speaker 3: Okay, Art, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Well, first and foremost, this all started during the off
Speaker 2: season where the Dodgers had to either cut ties at
Speaker 2: Ryan Ward by non tendering him or putting him on
Speaker 2: the forty man roster, and certainly, with the season he
Speaker 2: had last year, they added him to the forty man roster.
Speaker 2: Now fast forward to Freddie Freeman needing to go on
Speaker 2: the paternity list. Well, you're not going to add somebody
Speaker 2: just for three days and put them on the forty
Speaker 2: man roster. Ryan Ward made sense because he was on
Speaker 2: the forty man roster, and that decision is made by
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman and Branding Gomes. I'm sure Branding Gomes made
Speaker 2: the call to the Triple A manager and let them
Speaker 2: know Hey, we're calling up Ryan Ward. And that's where
Speaker 2: the Triple A manager Scott Hennessy pulled Ward off the
Speaker 2: on deck circle yesterday or the day before yesterday and
Speaker 2: let him know, Hey, you're going to the big leagues
Speaker 2: for the first time in your career. So that decision
Speaker 2: is made by the President of Baseball Operations, and that
Speaker 2: is Andrew Friedman and his GM branding Gomes. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Pasadena. David, you're on Dodgery Talk. How you doing, David.
Speaker 7: I'm doing great. Hi, David, how you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well.
Speaker 7: Thank you listening good man, listening to you for a
Speaker 7: long time. I'm in my sixties, sixties, so I've been
Speaker 7: a Dodger fan all my life, and I wanted to
Speaker 7: talk about Ryan Ward. And some of my feelings were
Speaker 7: what Art said preceding me, so to be efficient about
Speaker 7: my call here. You know, it was heartwarming. I love
Speaker 7: an underdog. It was great to see the appearance, interviewed,
Speaker 7: all that stuff. It feels good. This kid clearly is
Speaker 7: a major league player. I mean he looks like a
Speaker 7: major leaguer, he feels like a major leaguer. He is
Speaker 7: ready to play on some team. So my question to
Speaker 7: you is like, there's nowhere for him to fit in
Speaker 7: long term, Freddie's not going anywhere. Ryan A. Dalton tremendous
Speaker 7: hitting this and he's had what fifteen at bats he said,
Speaker 7: five dingers. Unbelievable batting five hundred. Happy for Dalton. So
Speaker 7: does this maybe build wards stock in terms of the
Speaker 7: league seeing him at the major leage level, and maybe
Speaker 7: the Dodgers would give him the gift of a trade
Speaker 7: so that he could start on another team's question.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, two things, David, How does he fit in?
Speaker 2: As you know, the Dodgers use the entire forty man
Speaker 2: roster during the season, so in a situation like this,
Speaker 2: they needed him, so he is needed. It's not like
Speaker 2: they don't need him. They needed him to fill a
Speaker 2: spot here, even in the short term. And if there's
Speaker 2: another injury down the road, certainly he would be considered.
Speaker 2: But the reality is Ryan Ward's defense is not great.
Speaker 2: We saw it in spring training and that was part
Speaker 2: of the debate last year when Michael Confordo was struggling.
Speaker 2: Are they going to get even better defense than Confordo? Offensively?
Speaker 2: Still a flip of the coin, and the answer is no,
Speaker 2: He's not that good defensively, as scouts like to say.
Speaker 2: He's below average defensively in the outfield and that's why
Speaker 2: he got the started first base and not in a
Speaker 2: big left field today. And now, as far as gifting
Speaker 2: him a trade, I could tell you that if the
Speaker 2: Dodgers non tendered him, I know for certain at least
Speaker 2: two teams that would have scooped him up would have
Speaker 2: fought to scoop him up and maybe make Ryan Ward
Speaker 2: a DH. So look, he can hit teams with lesser
Speaker 2: talent than the Dodgers believe he can hit and have
Speaker 2: a spot as a DH on their team. But the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are not just giving away the PCL Player of
Speaker 2: the year, even though you know they have a lot
Speaker 2: of talent. So if there's a need at the trade
Speaker 2: deadline and a team is asking about Ryan Ward, Am
Speaker 2: I saying that he's untouchable. Absolutely not. But the Dodgers
Speaker 2: prove that they're not just giving him away.
Speaker 7: Okay, thank you. That makes sense. As he's approaching thirty
Speaker 7: years old, it'd be great to see him have a
Speaker 7: full career. He you know, it looks like he's earned
Speaker 7: it for sure, But I understand your analysis makes total sense.
Speaker 2: All right, David, thanks for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Dodgers fall to the Rockies today, nine to
Speaker 2: six on a very special day. Fans have been clamoring
Speaker 2: for Ryan Ward. Tim Neverett's been clamoring for Ryan Ward,
Speaker 2: and here he was today making his major league debut
Speaker 2: two for four with an RBI in the fourth inning,
Speaker 2: and had a chance to get the Dodgers even closer
Speaker 2: in the ninth inning if not for a great play
Speaker 2: by Troy Johnston. And speaking of the Rockies, they did
Speaker 2: hit two home runs today. Mickey Moniak hit a two
Speaker 2: run home run off of Blake trine In. But also
Speaker 2: Kyle Carros, the son of the all time LA Dodger
Speaker 2: home run leader Eric Carros, hit a home run leading
Speaker 2: off the fifth inning, and I wanted to celebrate a
Speaker 2: kid that's a local from Manhattan Beach and his dad
Speaker 2: means so much to the Dodgers. So here it was
Speaker 2: Kyle Carros in the fifth inning off of Rokie Sasaki.
Speaker 10: Who's a pitch swung on well hit deep to left.
Speaker 10: Carross has hit it out. Kyle Carroll's when his second
Speaker 10: career home run against the Dodgers makes it a one
Speaker 10: run ball game at three to two. He got a
Speaker 10: fastball of the inner half and turned on it and
Speaker 10: hits his first home run of the Cason.
Speaker 2: Ninety six fastball by Roki Sasaki and Kyle carrols now
Speaker 2: has two career home runs. They're both against the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: his dad's former team. So great to see Kyle Carross
Speaker 2: have some success today, even at the expense of the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And that was a no doubter four hundred and forty
Speaker 2: eight feet to left field by Kyle Carros eight sixty
Speaker 2: six seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Blake. Who is that course field today?
Speaker 3: Hi? Blake, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Hi David that say? Do you remember me from last year?
Speaker 3: How could I forget Blake? How you doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Geez, yeah, I was on TV? And hold on. And
Speaker 6: the coolest part about this weekend was to talk to
Speaker 6: get to talk to Alex Vesia. I give Alex Vesia
Speaker 6: two autism blacelet and one for him and one full
Speaker 6: not go Hernandez the key because he has autism. Here,
Speaker 6: I give him a yellow blacelet, and it was so awesome.
Speaker 6: I love to talk to Alex. We have kept we
Speaker 6: kept no Alex fo. We know for Alex for a
Speaker 6: very long time. We know him on Instagram. I have
Speaker 6: his Instagram info. I talk to him every time I
Speaker 6: go to the games with when the DoD did play
Speaker 6: and all go to my vacations.
Speaker 3: Oh that's awesome, Blake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gave bracelets to two great guys there, Alex
Speaker 2: Vessia and Taoscar her Andez who told us here on
Speaker 2: AM five to seventy LA Sports that he's wearing a
Speaker 2: gear to honor those that are dealing with autism. So
Speaker 2: I'm sure that bracelet meant a lot to him. Are
Speaker 2: you coming back tomorrow, Blake here coming back to the
Speaker 2: game tomorrow?
Speaker 6: No, but I went Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm glad you got to see your Dodgers play.
Speaker 2: Should be another fun season. Don't be a stranger. Okay, okay, okay, Blake,
Speaker 2: thanks a lot for calling in. Appreciate it. That's so
Speaker 2: cool that you gave ta Oscar and Alex Vessio those
Speaker 2: special bracelets. I'm sure they'll wear them again tomorrow. All right,
Speaker 2: We're gonna take our first time out here on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk when we continue more of your phone calls at
Speaker 2: eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two, five seventy, and
Speaker 2: we'll get to the Dodger bullpen, which was a little
Speaker 2: shaky today as Blake Trening and Edwin Diaz each gave
Speaker 2: up three runs as the Dodgers fall to the Rockies
Speaker 2: nine to six on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 2: Basse no highlight. Rockies beat the Dodgers today nine to six.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers fall for the first time in back to
Speaker 2: back games. They're the last team in Major League Baseball
Speaker 2: to lose back to back games, and the Rockies have
Speaker 2: matched their win total against the Dodgers from a year ago.
Speaker 2: That's right, the Dodgers only lost twice to the Rockies
Speaker 2: last year in thirteen head to head meetings. Today, the
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Speaker 2: going to preface all this because I said this a
Speaker 2: few times.
Speaker 3: Today was a typical course field day.
Speaker 2: Day game, no humidity, six percent humidity, and you had
Speaker 2: two starting pitchers that, to put it kindly, struggle to
Speaker 2: find the strike zone and they weren't long for this game.
Speaker 2: But this game lasted three hours and seven minutes, typical
Speaker 2: course field game. This game had to combine fifteen runs,
Speaker 2: combined thirty hits. So let's just preface what I'm saying
Speaker 2: with all that. But Blake Trinin did not look very good.
Speaker 2: In the seventh inning, he could not get an out.
Speaker 2: He gave up a two run home run a Mickey Moniac.
Speaker 2: He came, he gave up a double the Hunter Goodman
Speaker 2: and then a single to Tyler Freeman. That's Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: took him out of the game. He was charged with
Speaker 2: three runs and then in the eighth inning, Edwin Diaz
Speaker 2: came into the game had not pitched in nine days
Speaker 2: because of a mysterious injury that we found out to
Speaker 2: be his knee that he injured in the World Baseball
Speaker 2: Classic a few years back. Today he came in not
Speaker 2: sure if it was rust or if it was the
Speaker 2: course field conditions, but he also was charged with three
Speaker 2: runs and couldn't finish the inning. A little concerning because
Speaker 2: that's back to back outings by Edwin Diaz where he
Speaker 2: has not looked Edwin Diaz like, let's head downstairs right
Speaker 2: now to the manager's office to hear what Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: had to say about Diaz is outing. Should there be
Speaker 2: cause for concern that whatever lingering inner injury affected him today?
Speaker 8: Obviously he hasn't pitched in eight days, so there, I'm
Speaker 8: certain there's some rust to that again, the non safe situation,
Speaker 8: But talking to him today, he wanted to pitch regardless,
Speaker 8: and so I think it's just one of those things,
Speaker 8: and hopefully it's, you know, one of those things that
Speaker 8: he just hadn't.
Speaker 5: Pitched in a wall, especially that he's pushed past some
Speaker 5: of the stuff he's been working for at this point.
Speaker 8: You know, I think for us, it's just going on
Speaker 8: what the training staff and the player tells me. You know,
Speaker 8: you got to trust him and believe that they feel good,
Speaker 8: and a veteran player like him and no one should
Speaker 8: know his body better than he does. But obviously today
Speaker 8: it just didn't look sharp.
Speaker 4: Harder to trust vision you see like a ninety three
Speaker 4: up there at one point, or how do you evaluate
Speaker 4: what you saw today?
Speaker 1: Had given those caveats.
Speaker 8: Today Today was a tough evaluation. I mean it really was,
Speaker 8: because you know, I know what it's supposed to look like,
Speaker 8: and you know, and then when it doesn't look like that,
Speaker 8: it gets a little concerning, really, And so I'll have
Speaker 8: a conversation with him, I know our training staff and
Speaker 8: pitching guys will and make sure that there is nothing
Speaker 8: to it, because you know, the radar gun has been
Speaker 8: consistent and his velocity been consistent, and it wasn't there today,
Speaker 8: So we got to kind of I gotta know more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well, Dave Roberts certainly not putting any
Speaker 2: of those doubts that I had to rest about. As
Speaker 2: far as Edwin Diaz and how he's feeling physically after
Speaker 2: what we saw in the eighth inning, and the fact
Speaker 2: that he has not pitched in a game in the
Speaker 2: last nine days. In fact, the only time he's really
Speaker 2: got off the mound was you know, throwing for trainers
Speaker 2: and coaches at Dodger Stadium in the bullpen. And we
Speaker 2: just haven't seen him look like Edwin Diaz. So there's
Speaker 2: gotta be some cause for concern because that ninety five
Speaker 2: fastball look very straight, the slider looked very flat. And
Speaker 2: certainly the altitude plays a factor in all that. And look,
Speaker 2: any little nagging thing you have, whether it's a knee,
Speaker 2: whether it's a shoulder, whether it's an ankle, whether you
Speaker 2: stub your toe on your bed at night like I did,
Speaker 2: it's gonna accentuate here at the court at course Field
Speaker 2: in the mile High You know, I remember years ago
Speaker 2: when JP Howe was on team, he would have to
Speaker 2: go to the oxygen tank in the dugout because he
Speaker 2: couldn't breathe. I actually had to do that in my
Speaker 2: hotel room. They actually have this in front of the
Speaker 2: nuts and the drinks in your room. They actually have
Speaker 2: a canister for oxygen. The first night here that when
Speaker 2: I woke up the second day, I was a little
Speaker 2: out of breath. I had to crack open that oxygen tank.
Speaker 3: And sorry to H.
Speaker 2: Brian Long, our program director, but there's gonna be an
Speaker 2: extra incidental charge on my bill when we come back
Speaker 2: from Corsefield because I was a little out of breath,
Speaker 2: the oxygen, the altitude got to me. So you know,
Speaker 2: things could happen here. But the point being in all seriousness,
Speaker 2: is Edwin Diaz hasn't pitched in nine days for some
Speaker 2: reason physically, and the first time he's gonna pitch in
Speaker 2: nine days is at course Field. That's not that's not ideal.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number the Dodgers fall to the Rockies today,
Speaker 2: nine to six, on a day that saw sho he
Speaker 2: O Tani extend is on bas streak to fifty one
Speaker 2: consecutive games. And I do have corrections and retractions from
Speaker 2: last night's show because I asked the question. I posed
Speaker 2: the question, why does an on bass streak carry over
Speaker 2: from the previous season? When a hitting streak doesn't carry
Speaker 2: over from a previous season, Well, corrections and retractions breaking
Speaker 2: news hitting streaks do carry over to the next season.
Speaker 2: There was an instance about fifteen sixteen, twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: where Jimmy Rawlins on the Phillies extended his hitting streak
Speaker 2: into the following season, and there was a lot of
Speaker 2: eyebrows raised because Joe DiMaggio's record setting fifty six game
Speaker 2: hitting streak came in one year. So Otani's on Bass streak,
Speaker 2: which you know, it's a nice streak, and look, not
Speaker 2: a lot of guys have a streak of getting on
Speaker 2: base and fifty one consecutive games, but it did carry
Speaker 2: over from the previous season, and so do hitting streaks.
Speaker 2: So Otani today, with two doubles, extended his on Bay
Speaker 2: streak to fifty one consecutive games. And Sean Green should
Speaker 2: be a little nervous because he is second in Dodger
Speaker 2: franchise record as far as getting on base in fifty
Speaker 2: three consecutive games. So Otani's taking away all of Sean
Speaker 2: Green's records, the most home runs hit in one single season,
Speaker 2: and now he's gonna take away Sean Green's consecutive on
Speaker 2: Bay streak. So Sean Green, you know, living there in
Speaker 2: his cushy life in Newport Beach, on the beach, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's concerned over there in Laguna
Speaker 2: Beach about all this happening. But Sean Green, Otani's knocking
Speaker 2: on the door. He's only two games away from reaching base,
Speaker 2: to tying you in three from passing you. And Duke Snyder,
Speaker 2: the Duke of Flashbook Flash flat Bush got on base
Speaker 2: in fifty eight consecutive games. So o'tani is getting closer
Speaker 2: to two Dodgers that, in their own right have a
Speaker 2: place in Dodger history. You know, when I see Eric Carros,
Speaker 2: who his son hit a home run today, I tell him, now,
Speaker 2: with Munsey getting closer and closer to his home run
Speaker 2: record in La Dodger history, when I see Caros in
Speaker 2: the booth, I tell him, oh, your record's safe for tonight.
Speaker 2: But really, how's Eric Carro's gonna deal with life when
Speaker 2: Max Munsey passes him and then sho heo Tani passes him?
Speaker 2: All his claim to fame to be is going to
Speaker 2: be the nineteen ninety two National League.
Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: That's all he'll have once those two guys pass him.
Speaker 2: Just a fair warning out there to Sean Green and
Speaker 2: Eric Carrows. And by the way, Caros, who I joke
Speaker 2: with him, is a very huge helicopter father on his
Speaker 2: son Kyle and his son. Jared watches every single at
Speaker 2: that of his son Kyle, except for the first two. Today,
Speaker 2: he texts me he was in church when Caro's younger
Speaker 2: Carros hit his home run, So maybe his dad should
Speaker 2: go to church more and maybe his son will hit
Speaker 2: more home runs. Eight six, six ninety eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy Dodgers beat the Rockies. I'm sure Eric's driving
Speaker 2: off his beach cruisers somewhere on the strand in Manhattan
Speaker 2: Beach hearing that part. Before we wrap things up here,
Speaker 2: I want to bring this up. I brought up Otani
Speaker 2: for a reason because failed GM. Jim Bowden tweeted this
Speaker 2: out earlier today, and I appreciate.
Speaker 3: This because it gave me something.
Speaker 2: To talk about on a day where the Dodgers still
Speaker 2: have baseball's best record.
Speaker 3: They lost a game in April to the Rockies.
Speaker 2: But Jim Bowden, out of nowhere comes up with this tweet,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure he mentioned it on his satellite show,
Speaker 2: and he said it's time for Major League Baseball to
Speaker 2: revisit one aspect of the Otani rule and to eradicate
Speaker 2: the exemption the Dodgers have to carry, in his words,
Speaker 2: an extra pitcher. I'm okay with allowing him to DH
Speaker 2: when he pitches and remain in the game, but roster
Speaker 2: advantage is not fair in my opinion.
Speaker 3: And that was his tweet.
Speaker 2: Well, that doesn't make a lot of sense because number one,
Speaker 2: the day that he pitches, what are you gonna do
Speaker 2: activate your thirteenth pitcher. He's in his own category. He's
Speaker 2: the DH and he's a pitcher for the Dodgers, So
Speaker 2: you can't just eradicate what he's doing. And why now
Speaker 2: because he's on the Dodgers all of a sudden, he
Speaker 2: wants to eradicate this so called Otani rule. It's an
Speaker 2: advantage to any team that has Otani on their team
Speaker 2: to carry thirteen pitchers. So what are you gonna do.
Speaker 2: You're gonna shuttle around a thirteenth pitcher to be activated
Speaker 2: the day that Otani's not pitching, Because when he's the
Speaker 2: DH and he's not pitching, are you telling me the
Speaker 2: Dodgers should only be allowed to have twelve active pitchers.
Speaker 2: You're telling me they should go a picture short when
Speaker 2: Otani is not pitching. That just you know, it seems
Speaker 2: like a hot take tweet, and people like me love
Speaker 2: it because we could talk about it, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: make sense and it's not realistic, and that's why there
Speaker 2: is a rule for it. And the other part of
Speaker 2: the equation is why now because he's on the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: If he was still on the Angels, I'm sure nobody
Speaker 2: would have any issue with the Angels carrying a thirteenth pitcher.
Speaker 2: So that's just not to me something that's realistic, because
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do taxi a thirteenth pitcher on
Speaker 2: the days that Otani's not pitching. That's just part of
Speaker 2: the equation and a huge advantage to have the most
Speaker 2: unique player in the game on your team, not to
Speaker 2: mention the best player in baseball. So we'll leave it
Speaker 2: at that, and that'll do it for us on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Coming up tomorrow, the final game of this four game
Speaker 2: series between the Dodgers and Rockies, Justin Robleski will be
Speaker 2: on the mound for the Dodgers. Coming off his best
Speaker 2: start as a professional, eight scoreless against the Mets. He's
Speaker 2: going up against journeyman Jose Kntana. The former White Sox
Speaker 2: is zero to one and two starts with an ERA
Speaker 2: of five sixty three. Our coverage begins tomorrow at four
Speaker 2: point thirty with first pitch at five forty, and we'll
Speaker 2: see what answers Dave Roberts has tomorrow in regards to
Speaker 2: his closer Edwin Diaz, because he made it sound like
Speaker 2: he has to have a more of a conversation with
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz about how he's feeling after today's eighth inning,
Speaker 2: and rightfully so, before the game, Dave Roberts said that
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz needs to be a little bit more honest
Speaker 2: with his communication just to make sure they can manage
Speaker 2: him for the full season, because that's what it's about
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. It's not just about April, June or
Speaker 2: July whatever may be going on with Diaz or any
Speaker 2: other player. The Dodgers want to handle it in the
Speaker 2: right way so they're pitching and their their healthiest in October.
Speaker 2: So we'll see where things lead tomorrow with Edwin Diaz
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers. Like I said, tomorrow, our cover which
Speaker 2: begins at four thirty, first pitch at five point forty
Speaker 2: from Corsefield with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Colin me back at our burd Banks Studios. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Dwayne McDonald out here at Corsfield, and thanks to you
Speaker 2: for listening.
Speaker 3: In case you missed any of the show, you know
Speaker 3: where to find it. Download the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: That's where you can hear our pregame conversation with Kyle
Speaker 2: Hurt and also Ryan Ward. Ryan Ward Day here at Corsfield.
Speaker 2: Everybody was excited. He had twenty family and friends, some
Speaker 2: marching in Chowder. Society for Ryan Ward was out in
Speaker 2: full force today. He gets two hits and an RBI
Speaker 2: in his major league debut, but the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Fall to the Rockies nine to six.
Speaker 2: Coming up next Fox Sports Radio, we'll talk to you tomorrow.
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