WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (4-19-26) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.960 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:07.240 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:12.000 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:13.120 the fifth. 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:15.800 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:17.880 Here we go again. We're getta running. 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:19.800 Back to get in on the show called eight six 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.000 six eighty seven two five seven days and be sure 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:27.240 to follow Dodger Talk wherever you catch short podcasts. Here's 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.160 your host, David Vase Day. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:33.440 Welcome the Dodger Talk. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.520 David Vase with you until five o'clock today on AM 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:42.440 five to seventy LA Sports. After the Dodgers lose nine 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.360 to six to the Rockies. It's the first time this 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:49.400 season the Dodgers have lost back to back games. They're 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.680 the last team in Major League Baseball to have consecutive 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:58.360 losses this season. The Dodgers again today struggled with runners 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.880 in scoring position. They were or for fourteen and so 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.080 far in the first three games of this series, they 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.759 are six for thirty one with runners in scoring position. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.440 That is not very Dodger like, but they in some 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.839 ways let the Rockies off the hook the last two 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.520 days and give the Rockies credit. I mean, they made 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.840 the plays the last two nights, and they got the 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.360 big hits when he counted, and no play was bigger 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.160 than the last play of the game. With two on 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.559 and two out, Ryan Ward at the plate, he sent 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:38.400 a flare into a shallow right center field and Troy Johnston, 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.679 the Rockies right fielder, came out of deep right field, 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.480 to make a head first dive to rob Ryan Ward 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.320 of what would have been a two run single that 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.240 would have made this a one run game and still 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.680 the Dodgers threatening to try to send this game into 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.280 extra innings at the very least, But it wasn't to be. 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.200 But a nice day for Ryan Ward, who made his 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.600 major league debut, got the start at first base today, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.960 was two for four with an RBI. Got his first 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.360 hit and first run driven in on the same play 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.359 in the fourth inning. So congratulations to Ryan Ward. We'll 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.520 hear from him in just a moment. But today was 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:24.720 a very course field type day after cold, humid nights 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.839 here the first two games of this series. A day 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.320 game at Coursefield. The sun was out, no clouds in 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:36.240 sight above Coursefield, and the humidity at six percent, you 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.280 kind of felt like, yeah, this has the makings of 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.840 a old school course field type of game, and it 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:47.799 did fifteen combined runs thirty combined hits in a game 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.840 that went over three hours. The Rockies are only averaging 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.040 playing two and a half hours two thirty six this season, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.360 and today the Dodgers and Rockies played to a three 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.440 hour and seven minutes a game in front of forty 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.720 two thousand, six hundred and seventy seven, so a very 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.160 coarse field type of day. Before we get to Edwin 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.359 Diaz and Blake Trent, and let's get to Ryan Ward, 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.200 who spoke to reporters in the clubhouse after today's game. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.760 Yeah, you know, I mean it was a lot of fun. 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.280 I mean from start to finish. The Butterflies were there 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.840 for sure to start the game. They went away though. 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.040 I mean I once the game started, it was like, okay, 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:28.280 it's just baseball. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:29.400 So it was a lot of fun to be out 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.920 there seeing how you were able to get the results. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.400 I mean, how encouraging is that for you, just facing 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.040 big league pitching and understanding where you can fit in 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.000 with either this team or even at this level. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.160 Yeah, you know, I mean it's kind of it's kind 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.640 of been something that especially down a triple A. Guys 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.720 talked about it's a lot different up there. Everything's different 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.400 up there. So like coming up here and getting swings 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.640 off and seeing some results was really cool. 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:55.880 Were just being first that no matter what. 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.200 Before the game, I was told you only get one 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.200 first pitch, so so remember it. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.040 So so I was ready to go for sure. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.560 Kind of a highlight for you today. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.240 A key moment I'd welcome in the big league's moment. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.960 That's probably the first hit, you know, I mean seeing 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.200 everyone on the bench get excited for me, Woody over 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.480 there was it was excited and just being able to 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.080 take like that that deep breath. I was like, okay, 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.640 like that's over with and we can move forward. 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:22.800 Now. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.240 Do you have any doubts when you hit it? I 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:26.680 did see him go up in the air and was like, 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.320 oh okay, thank gosh. Yeah. And then how about that 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.000 last play of the game with you Yeah, you know, 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.840 I mean three one count heater in and kind of 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.000 get jammed a little bit, which which shouldn't happen in 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.039 that situation, but almost split in and God made a 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:43.559 great catch. 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:44.599 And that was that. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.839 Where's the first ball, the first hit going. 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.320 In that's going back home for sure, go back home, 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.279 and then when I get back, I'm sure I'll take 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:54.400 care of where it goes after that. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.520 All right, there's Ryan Ward after going two for four 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.520 within our in his first ever major league game, the 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.520 twenty eight year old rookie who was the PCL Player 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.880 of the Year last year for Oklahoma City. But unfortunately 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.680 it comes in a loss for the Dodgers nine to six. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.120 Before we closed the book on Ryan Ward, and I 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.200 see a couple of callers want to talk about it. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.960 We'll get to you. But how did Ryan Ward get 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.839 called up with Freddie Freeman going on the paternity list. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.360 That's one part of the story. The other part is 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.919 how did he get the start at first base with 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.520 Dalton Rushing on this team. Dave Roberts I asked him 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.640 before today's game how this came about, How Rushing was 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.120 on the bench and Ward was starting. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.560 There was and actually I was going to start Dalton. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:52.600 And then I went to Dalton last night and I said, hey, 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:56.000 I'm going to go against what we talked about and 0:05:56.040 --> 0:06:00.960 I'm going to start Ryan because and Dalton finished. My 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:05.000 senate said, because he's earned it. And Dalton said he 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.120 was going to come up to me actually and say that, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.719 you know, for go a start to let Ryan start, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.240 and that just speaks to Dalton's you know, being a 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.160 teammate and getting it and so yeah, this is just 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:18.920 the certain things you got to do that because of 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.520 the right thing. And I also thinks he's he's good 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.039 in this spot, but Dalk swinging a good bat. But 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.680 I really wanted Ryan to get a start today. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.800 All right, there's Dave Roberts sharing a really cool story 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.960 that Dalton Rushing. Who you know, let's be honest, his 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.160 opportunities are far and few between on this team with 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:44.520 Will Smith catching every day basically and Freddie Freeman playing 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.719 every day, and this was an opportunity for him to 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.840 get a rare start at first base. It would have 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.640 been his first start of the year at first base. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.360 But he said, you know what, give it to Ryan Ward. 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.919 And that's pretty special and as unselfish as it gets 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:04.120 considering the circumstances. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.160 five seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.800 Rockies today, nine to six. And just a reminder, this 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.040 doesn't happen very often. The last time the Dodgers lost 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.800 back to back games to the Rockies was in twenty 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:21.520 twenty two, and last year the Dodgers only lost twice 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.640 to the Rockies in thirteen head to head matchups. So 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.680 the Rockies are a little bit scrappier and maybe maybe 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.640 a little more talented, but certainly they're up for this 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.800 series and you can understand why. Let's go out to 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.320 the phones for the first time. Art in Montclair. You're 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.160 on Dodger Talk live from Corsfield High Art. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.320 Hey, Dave, thanks for taking my call. Just a couple 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:49.400 quick thoughts comments for you, and I'll listen off air. Yeah, 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.440 today's game was a little disappointing, but thank god, it's 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.520 only April, so you know we're gonna get through our bumps. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.760 But you know, everything's good with the Dodgers. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:07:59.920 I'm glad to. 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.440 See they called the rookie up. That was one of 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:07.600 my thoughts and asking you how does that call up happen? 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.320 Who makes the decision? Who makes the call down to 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.160 the Triple AA manager? You know, does Doc make that 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.800 part of that decision? Andrew Friedman, you know that whole decision. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.560 I'm calling up guys from the miners. You know, it 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.240 was great to see and hear the story that his 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.960 manager had tears in his eyes. I mean, it's just 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:30.320 great that we're giving that rookie a chance to make 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:34.000 his play with such great lineup that we have. I'm 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.120 so happy that we're doing that for him. So I 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.720 was just wondering how that call up happens. And you know, 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.480 like I said, I'll listen off air. So thanks thanks 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.839 for taking my call, Dave. Keep up the great work. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:48.560 Okay, Art, thank you for the phone call. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.439 Well, first and foremost, this all started during the off 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.040 season where the Dodgers had to either cut ties at 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.480 Ryan Ward by non tendering him or putting him on 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.040 the forty man roster, and certainly, with the season he 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.240 had last year, they added him to the forty man roster. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.240 Now fast forward to Freddie Freeman needing to go on 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.520 the paternity list. Well, you're not going to add somebody 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.839 just for three days and put them on the forty 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.120 man roster. Ryan Ward made sense because he was on 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.160 the forty man roster, and that decision is made by 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:23.280 Andrew Friedman and Branding Gomes. I'm sure Branding Gomes made 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:27.440 the call to the Triple A manager and let them 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.760 know Hey, we're calling up Ryan Ward. And that's where 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.720 the Triple A manager Scott Hennessy pulled Ward off the 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.920 on deck circle yesterday or the day before yesterday and 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.320 let him know, Hey, you're going to the big leagues 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.800 for the first time in your career. So that decision 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.360 is made by the President of Baseball Operations, and that 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.600 is Andrew Friedman and his GM branding Gomes. Let's go 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.200 out to Pasadena. David, you're on Dodgery Talk. How you doing, David. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.360 I'm doing great. Hi, David, how you doing. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:00.120 I'm doing well. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.679 Thank you listening good man, listening to you for a 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.080 long time. I'm in my sixties, sixties, so I've been 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.440 a Dodger fan all my life, and I wanted to 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.800 talk about Ryan Ward. And some of my feelings were 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.560 what Art said preceding me, so to be efficient about 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.959 my call here. You know, it was heartwarming. I love 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.199 an underdog. It was great to see the appearance, interviewed, 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.600 all that stuff. It feels good. This kid clearly is 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.240 a major league player. I mean he looks like a 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.440 major leaguer, he feels like a major leaguer. He is 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.400 ready to play on some team. So my question to 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.600 you is like, there's nowhere for him to fit in 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:44.960 long term, Freddie's not going anywhere. Ryan A. Dalton tremendous 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.000 hitting this and he's had what fifteen at bats he said, 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:52.680 five dingers. Unbelievable batting five hundred. Happy for Dalton. So 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:58.280 does this maybe build wards stock in terms of the 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.240 league seeing him at the major leage level, and maybe 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.480 the Dodgers would give him the gift of a trade 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.120 so that he could start on another team's question. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.400 Okay, well, two things, David, How does he fit in? 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.120 As you know, the Dodgers use the entire forty man 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.080 roster during the season, so in a situation like this, 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.080 they needed him, so he is needed. It's not like 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.320 they don't need him. They needed him to fill a 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.680 spot here, even in the short term. And if there's 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.479 another injury down the road, certainly he would be considered. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.439 But the reality is Ryan Ward's defense is not great. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.960 We saw it in spring training and that was part 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.679 of the debate last year when Michael Confordo was struggling. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:45.439 Are they going to get even better defense than Confordo? Offensively? 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.199 Still a flip of the coin, and the answer is no, 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.160 He's not that good defensively, as scouts like to say. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.920 He's below average defensively in the outfield and that's why 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.520 he got the started first base and not in a 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.920 big left field today. And now, as far as gifting 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.720 him a trade, I could tell you that if the 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.160 Dodgers non tendered him, I know for certain at least 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.080 two teams that would have scooped him up would have 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.160 fought to scoop him up and maybe make Ryan Ward 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.720 a DH. So look, he can hit teams with lesser 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.520 talent than the Dodgers believe he can hit and have 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.480 a spot as a DH on their team. But the 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.439 Dodgers are not just giving away the PCL Player of 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.280 the year, even though you know they have a lot 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.920 of talent. So if there's a need at the trade 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.920 deadline and a team is asking about Ryan Ward, Am 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:39.160 I saying that he's untouchable. Absolutely not. But the Dodgers 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.400 prove that they're not just giving him away. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.839 Okay, thank you. That makes sense. As he's approaching thirty 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.120 years old, it'd be great to see him have a 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.640 full career. He you know, it looks like he's earned 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.920 it for sure, But I understand your analysis makes total sense. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.199 All right, David, thanks for the phone call. Appreciate it. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.480 Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy is the 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.760 phone number. Dodgers fall to the Rockies today, nine to 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.319 six on a very special day. Fans have been clamoring 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.520 for Ryan Ward. Tim Neverett's been clamoring for Ryan Ward, 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.320 and here he was today making his major league debut 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.839 two for four with an RBI in the fourth inning, 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.000 and had a chance to get the Dodgers even closer 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.880 in the ninth inning if not for a great play 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.199 by Troy Johnston. And speaking of the Rockies, they did 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.560 hit two home runs today. Mickey Moniak hit a two 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.440 run home run off of Blake trine In. But also 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:40.240 Kyle Carros, the son of the all time LA Dodger 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.160 home run leader Eric Carros, hit a home run leading 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.480 off the fifth inning, and I wanted to celebrate a 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:50.280 kid that's a local from Manhattan Beach and his dad 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.160 means so much to the Dodgers. So here it was 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:57.760 Kyle Carros in the fifth inning off of Rokie Sasaki. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.840 Who's a pitch swung on well hit deep to left. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.840 Carross has hit it out. Kyle Carroll's when his second 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.720 career home run against the Dodgers makes it a one 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.800 run ball game at three to two. He got a 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:14.320 fastball of the inner half and turned on it and 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.840 hits his first home run of the Cason. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.520 Ninety six fastball by Roki Sasaki and Kyle carrols now 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.400 has two career home runs. They're both against the Dodgers, 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.840 his dad's former team. So great to see Kyle Carross 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.440 have some success today, even at the expense of the Dodgers. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.560 And that was a no doubter four hundred and forty 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.720 eight feet to left field by Kyle Carros eight sixty 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.280 six seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.480 go out to Blake. Who is that course field today? 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.120 Hi? Blake, you're on Dodger Talk. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.560 Hi David that say? Do you remember me from last year? 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.880 How could I forget Blake? How you doing? 0:14:58.600 --> 0:14:58.800 Yeah? 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:04.920 Geez, yeah, I was on TV? And hold on. And 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.960 the coolest part about this weekend was to talk to 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.120 get to talk to Alex Vesia. I give Alex Vesia 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:19.400 two autism blacelet and one for him and one full 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:24.080 not go Hernandez the key because he has autism. Here, 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.200 I give him a yellow blacelet, and it was so awesome. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.200 I love to talk to Alex. We have kept we 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.440 kept no Alex fo. We know for Alex for a 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.640 very long time. We know him on Instagram. I have 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:47.240 his Instagram info. I talk to him every time I 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.720 go to the games with when the DoD did play 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.080 and all go to my vacations. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:54.880 Oh that's awesome, Blake. 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.920 Yeah, you gave bracelets to two great guys there, Alex 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:02.080 Vessia and Taoscar her Andez who told us here on 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.280 AM five to seventy LA Sports that he's wearing a 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.880 gear to honor those that are dealing with autism. So 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.040 I'm sure that bracelet meant a lot to him. Are 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.160 you coming back tomorrow, Blake here coming back to the 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:14.920 game tomorrow? 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.400 No, but I went Friday and Saturday. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.600 All right, I'm glad you got to see your Dodgers play. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:30.920 Should be another fun season. Don't be a stranger. Okay, okay, okay, Blake, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.160 thanks a lot for calling in. Appreciate it. That's so 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.200 cool that you gave ta Oscar and Alex Vessio those 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.520 special bracelets. I'm sure they'll wear them again tomorrow. All right, 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.640 We're gonna take our first time out here on Dodger 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.440 Talk when we continue more of your phone calls at 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.560 eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two, five seventy, and 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.360 we'll get to the Dodger bullpen, which was a little 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.600 shaky today as Blake Trening and Edwin Diaz each gave 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.960 up three runs as the Dodgers fall to the Rockies 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:07.920 nine to six on a five to seventy LA Sports. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.639 Dodger Talk is available on AM five to seventy LA 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.840 sports dot com, hand on the iHeartRadio app. Back to 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.640 more Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:27.639 Basse no highlight. 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Daniels Jewelers 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.200 owned the dream. But if you work for the team, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:11.080 you are not eligible, so stay away. Anyway, I am 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.119 going to preface all this because I said this a 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:14.960 few times. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.600 Today was a typical course field day. 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:23.800 Day game, no humidity, six percent humidity, and you had 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:28.320 two starting pitchers that, to put it kindly, struggle to 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.720 find the strike zone and they weren't long for this game. 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:36.560 But this game lasted three hours and seven minutes, typical 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.280 course field game. This game had to combine fifteen runs, 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:44.879 combined thirty hits. So let's just preface what I'm saying 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.400 with all that. But Blake Trinin did not look very good. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.800 In the seventh inning, he could not get an out. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.040 He gave up a two run home run a Mickey Moniac. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.200 He came, he gave up a double the Hunter Goodman 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.760 and then a single to Tyler Freeman. That's Dave Roberts 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.000 took him out of the game. He was charged with 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:07.160 three runs and then in the eighth inning, Edwin Diaz 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.959 came into the game had not pitched in nine days 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.439 because of a mysterious injury that we found out to 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.679 be his knee that he injured in the World Baseball 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.639 Classic a few years back. Today he came in not 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.480 sure if it was rust or if it was the 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:27.440 course field conditions, but he also was charged with three 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.880 runs and couldn't finish the inning. A little concerning because 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.919 that's back to back outings by Edwin Diaz where he 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:39.120 has not looked Edwin Diaz like, let's head downstairs right 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.240 now to the manager's office to hear what Dave Roberts 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.800 had to say about Diaz is outing. Should there be 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:51.240 cause for concern that whatever lingering inner injury affected him today? 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.520 Obviously he hasn't pitched in eight days, so there, I'm 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:59.280 certain there's some rust to that again, the non safe situation, 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.560 But talking to him today, he wanted to pitch regardless, 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.240 and so I think it's just one of those things, 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.320 and hopefully it's, you know, one of those things that 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:08.080 he just hadn't. 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.439 Pitched in a wall, especially that he's pushed past some 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.399 of the stuff he's been working for at this point. 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.040 You know, I think for us, it's just going on 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.760 what the training staff and the player tells me. You know, 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.240 you got to trust him and believe that they feel good, 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.000 and a veteran player like him and no one should 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:25.520 know his body better than he does. But obviously today 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:26.480 it just didn't look sharp. 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.000 Harder to trust vision you see like a ninety three 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:32.040 up there at one point, or how do you evaluate 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:32.760 what you saw today? 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:34.679 Had given those caveats. 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:36.919 Today Today was a tough evaluation. I mean it really was, 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.639 because you know, I know what it's supposed to look like, 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.840 and you know, and then when it doesn't look like that, 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.199 it gets a little concerning, really, And so I'll have 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.280 a conversation with him, I know our training staff and 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.600 pitching guys will and make sure that there is nothing 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.280 to it, because you know, the radar gun has been 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.679 consistent and his velocity been consistent, and it wasn't there today, 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.320 So we got to kind of I gotta know more. 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.880 Yeah, all right, Well, Dave Roberts certainly not putting any 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.680 of those doubts that I had to rest about. As 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:13.160 far as Edwin Diaz and how he's feeling physically after 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.320 what we saw in the eighth inning, and the fact 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:17.720 that he has not pitched in a game in the 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.200 last nine days. In fact, the only time he's really 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.440 got off the mound was you know, throwing for trainers 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:28.199 and coaches at Dodger Stadium in the bullpen. And we 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.600 just haven't seen him look like Edwin Diaz. So there's 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:34.200 gotta be some cause for concern because that ninety five 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:38.400 fastball look very straight, the slider looked very flat. And 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.639 certainly the altitude plays a factor in all that. And look, 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:46.800 any little nagging thing you have, whether it's a knee, 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.280 whether it's a shoulder, whether it's an ankle, whether you 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:52.840 stub your toe on your bed at night like I did, 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:56.119 it's gonna accentuate here at the court at course Field 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.640 in the mile High You know, I remember years ago 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:00.960 when JP Howe was on team, he would have to 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:03.919 go to the oxygen tank in the dugout because he 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:06.359 couldn't breathe. I actually had to do that in my 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.040 hotel room. They actually have this in front of the 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:11.600