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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vase.
Speaker 2: It's been an exciting first two nights of this ten
Speaker 2: game homestand going into the All Star break as the
Speaker 2: Dodgers come from behind again against the Padres to beat
Speaker 2: San Diego.
Speaker 3: Four to three. Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vase say with you until eleven o'clock tonight on
Speaker 2: this third of July. I hope you're being safe out
Speaker 2: there wherever you may be. We have phone lines open
Speaker 2: at eight sixty six nine, eight seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from show hal Tani coming up in a
Speaker 2: little bit. We'll also let you hear from Teoscar Hernandez again.
Speaker 2: Jose Moto will check in, and I also have an
Speaker 2: update on Kei y Hernandez and.
Speaker 3: Also Alex Call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Alex Call noticed he hasn't played in a while,
Speaker 2: but isn't on the IL. I'll share with you what's
Speaker 2: going on with Alex Call as well. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 2: the Dodgers tonight with their fifty eighth win of the season.
Speaker 2: They're on pace for one hundred and six wins this year.
Speaker 2: They dropped the Padres below five hundred for the first
Speaker 2: time since April seventh. They have a fourteen game lead
Speaker 2: on San Diego, who's now in third place in the
Speaker 2: NL West, and the Arizona Diamondbacks, who lost tonight to
Speaker 2: the Brewers, are thirteen and a half games back of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in the NL West. The Dodgers certainly got
Speaker 2: a good start from Otani and Rushing, just as far
Speaker 2: as the fact that there was so much drama and
Speaker 2: talk and soap opera being made out of them not
Speaker 2: being on the same page in the first couple of
Speaker 2: innings in Otani's last start in Minneapolis. Well, tonight, there
Speaker 2: was no shaking off. There was no challenge disputed by anybody.
Speaker 2: In fact, there wasn't even a challenge in play that
Speaker 2: Rushing or Otani wanted tonight with Trip Gibson behind the plate,
Speaker 2: so there was none of that. You saw a lot
Speaker 2: of head nodding like they were on the same page.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of embrace coming off the mound.
Speaker 2: But the one thing that Dalton Rushing had nothing to
Speaker 2: do with was the fact that Otani was laboring through
Speaker 2: those six innings tonight. He threw one hundred and ten
Speaker 2: pitch in six innings. If that's not laboring, I don't
Speaker 2: know what is. He gave up a home run on
Speaker 2: a ninety nine fastball two to zero ninety nine fastball
Speaker 2: to Jackson Merrill in the fourth inning with two outs.
Speaker 3: He walked a couple of batters in the first.
Speaker 2: Innings, so it just seemed like maybe eight days of rest.
Speaker 2: He was a little rusty, and who knows how the
Speaker 2: right bicep was feeling. Who knows how that left knee
Speaker 2: was feeling. Who knows how his overall body was feeling
Speaker 2: on the mound. Because we are seeing something that is unprecedented,
Speaker 2: I know, we take it for granted and now it's
Speaker 2: just a kind of normal thing to see Otani pitch
Speaker 2: every week and do marvelous things every day as the
Speaker 2: leadoff hitter and DH for the Dodgers. But don't take
Speaker 2: this for granted. This is not the norm. And playing
Speaker 2: at this level, just as a hitter, just as a
Speaker 2: hitter in the middle of July July third, you're going
Speaker 2: to have your body not feeling great. Just as a hitter.
Speaker 2: Now think about this, just as a pitcher start to start,
Speaker 2: it may take a little bit more recovery time to
Speaker 2: get ready every fourth or fifth day. Now we're talking
Speaker 2: about a guy that is playing every day, doing things
Speaker 2: on the basis hitting home runs and then having to
Speaker 2: pitch every week. You combine those two things. How many
Speaker 2: starts I would love to know at the end of
Speaker 2: this year if Otani would ever answer this question, how
Speaker 2: many times this season did his body feel ninety percent?
Speaker 2: Not even one hundred percent? I would venture to say
Speaker 2: that on July third and moving forward, the body's not
Speaker 2: going to feel great, even though he gets more sleep
Speaker 2: than anybody, even though he's on the cut edge of
Speaker 2: how to get his body to recover. So there are
Speaker 2: going to be nights like tonight where he does labor
Speaker 2: on the mound and he is zero for three.
Speaker 3: At the plate.
Speaker 2: That's just being human, and I don't think there's anything
Speaker 2: wrong with that. I thought the biggest thing though tonight
Speaker 2: was that him and Dalton Rushing were on the same page.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Tonight's game brought to you by Modello
Speaker 2: Modelo the mark of a fighter. All right, ta Oscar Hernandez. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know how much I'm in Taoscar Hernandez's corner. If
Speaker 2: you were listening during the off season, there were some
Speaker 2: of you that wanted to trade Teoscar Hernandez. There were
Speaker 2: some of you that wanted to trade Teoscar Hernandez last
Speaker 2: year when he was fighting through a groin injury. And
Speaker 2: I'll say this. I have said this the last two postseasons.
Speaker 2: I'll say it again. You can't spell October without Teoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 2: Without Tayo, you can't spell October. And this guy is
Speaker 2: one of the most clutch hitters the Dodgers have on
Speaker 2: their team. And he was hitting the ball, crushing the
Speaker 2: ball before he heard his hamstring. And he was crushing
Speaker 2: the ball in Oklahoma City. And now he got his
Speaker 2: feet underneath him, getting that rhythm again. After coming back
Speaker 2: off the il in Sacramento, and he smelled blood. When
Speaker 2: Adrian Morejone threw that Frisbee ninety slider right down the
Speaker 2: middle of the plate, there was no chance Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: was missing that and that was the go ahead Grand Slam.
Speaker 2: First Grand Slam for Tioscar Hernandez since he did it
Speaker 2: at Yankee Stadium wearing a Dodger uniform in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four back in June. Remember that series in June. That
Speaker 2: was the Yamamoto Taoscar Hernandez series. And for Tiascar Hernandez
Speaker 2: his sixth career Grand Slam. Two of them have been
Speaker 2: against left Let's hear from Tail again. We caught up
Speaker 2: with him after the game.
Speaker 5: I mean it was a big situations, you know, big
Speaker 5: moment of the game. We were losing. I wasn't trying
Speaker 5: to drive all forwards, but it was a good swing
Speaker 5: and then thank god I hit.
Speaker 2: It up after the air by Croninworth. Obviously the stadium
Speaker 2: feels it. You're a big moment type of player. Do
Speaker 2: you feel the momentum? Do you feel like Mora Home
Speaker 2: feels like he has to make a perfect pitch to you.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. He knows he's a good pitcher.
Speaker 5: He just like it happens. Sometimes you just right to
Speaker 5: make a really good pitch and you left it over
Speaker 5: the play.
Speaker 3: But you know, I just better go swing on that pitch.
Speaker 5: Obviously he didn't want it to throw it there, but
Speaker 5: you know, we just trying to keep the momentum. But
Speaker 5: I wasn't trying to drive all four runs, but just
Speaker 5: trying to have a good as good contact and just
Speaker 5: write one.
Speaker 2: The emotions you showed after you hit that Grand Slam
Speaker 2: reminded me of the Grand Slam you hit in San
Speaker 2: Diego in the NLDS. Did it feel the same even
Speaker 2: though it's not October.
Speaker 5: It's always feel the same, especially when we play at home.
Speaker 5: These fans are unbelievable. They bring the energy every single day,
Speaker 5: the support. They always there supporting the team, supporting. I
Speaker 5: was even when we were down, and that was a
Speaker 5: big moment of the game. So I have to slow
Speaker 5: my body down, slow the game down, and just trying
Speaker 5: to give them a good show.
Speaker 2: I'll self report, I got caught up. I didn't see
Speaker 2: who brought you the sunflower seats when you got back
Speaker 2: to the dugout.
Speaker 5: It was Andy, Andy at only a lot, a lot
Speaker 5: of the like the rest of this heats, the are
Speaker 5: in the bottom of the bag. It was all over
Speaker 5: my face. But you know, it's one of those moments
Speaker 5: as a hitter you take anything.
Speaker 2: Way to go, Tail, Great to have you back, great
Speaker 2: to see the smile, Great to see the slam six
Speaker 2: in your career.
Speaker 3: Now Tail, there you go.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm keeping the receipts for ta Oscar Hernandez sixth
Speaker 2: career Grand Slams.
Speaker 3: And you could hear the joy in his voice.
Speaker 2: He has great joy for this great game, and he
Speaker 2: has great joy for life.
Speaker 3: Uh and uh.
Speaker 2: Anybody that's been around Taascar Hernandez feels the love from him.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone
Speaker 2: number we'll hear from Otani and Rushing coming up. But
Speaker 2: first let's go out to the calls. Peter in mar Vista,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Peter, Hey, Dave, how are you doing.
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm feeling great.
Speaker 2: It's been a it's been an electric two nights here
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 7: He sure has last night's and I've been fantastic. I
Speaker 7: did before I get what I'm gonna say. How many
Speaker 7: National League teams have won three World Series in a row?
Speaker 3: None? No National League team has ever three peeded.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers be the first, right, Yes, okay, that's always
Speaker 7: very curious. Back the Dodgers start of a team of
Speaker 7: destiny as they're coming from behind so many times. He
Speaker 7: says they've tied for the Braves and can the Diamondbacks
Speaker 7: for most come from behind wins this year?
Speaker 2: That's correct, twenty seven times they've come from behind.
Speaker 7: I think he hits Stale and Glassnow back this year.
Speaker 2: Snell should be back by the end of July. Glass
Speaker 2: Now was thrown out here, so I'm not sure. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure when he's coming back. But yeah, think about that.
Speaker 2: No Snell, no Edwin dis no glass Now for the
Speaker 2: last month plus. Will Smith has missed the last month
Speaker 2: and is going to miss the rest of this homestand
Speaker 2: and also Evan Phillips hasn't pitched this year. He's expected
Speaker 2: to be back by the end of this home stand
Speaker 2: as well. Evan Phillips tonight, by the way, pitched in
Speaker 2: another rehab appearance. He pitched a scoreless eighth inning for
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City only through twelve pitches, nine of them were strikes,
Speaker 2: and he struck out two batters. So all in all,
Speaker 2: in ten innings of work, Evan Phillips in his rehab
Speaker 2: appearances has allowed just to earned runs and has thirteen
Speaker 2: strikeouts and five walks. That's gonna be a huge boost
Speaker 2: to this Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to.
Speaker 2: Palmdale, Darryl, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 3: Darryl.
Speaker 6: Hi, David, what's going on with your better living the dream?
Speaker 3: Daryl?
Speaker 6: This Dodger team has to be the most complete team
Speaker 6: up a scene in my life. I mean, but I've
Speaker 6: got one question. I need that Field has come back.
Speaker 6: Who's going to be the closer?
Speaker 3: Will be?
Speaker 6: Hey, they're gonna move tennis back to setup.
Speaker 2: They'll be using Tanner Scott in the eighth, the seventh.
Speaker 2: Maybe they used Diaz in the eighth and have Scott
Speaker 2: match up. That's the beauty of having both those guys
Speaker 2: lefties and rightis. But Diaz is the closer.
Speaker 6: That's what little to see. We have a poop hem,
Speaker 6: I mean, we have a poop him give up the
Speaker 6: lead out seven. I love to see. I love what
Speaker 6: to do him and I love with Dave Robinson. Still
Speaker 6: the scene. This man is best. Whatever he touched terms
Speaker 6: the goal, and I just want to say, BET's look Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Preefe all right, thank you for the phone call, Daryl.
Speaker 2: Darryl's not too far off. When the Dodgers do have
Speaker 2: a lead late in the game, they usually win.
Speaker 3: How about this.
Speaker 2: If the Dodgers are leading after eight innings, they're fifty
Speaker 2: four and oh, nobody has beaten them. When they have
Speaker 2: a lead after eight innings, fifty four and oh, and
Speaker 2: when they have a lead after seven innings, they're now
Speaker 2: fifty and four. So Daryl was onto something. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Bob who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Bob,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Uncle Dave, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 8: Man, what an electric night at Dodgers Stadium. Man, Holy smoke, David,
Speaker 8: like you always say, it's an event. First of all,
Speaker 8: you got show Hey pitching, which we were lucky enough
Speaker 8: to see.
Speaker 6: That was a miracle.
Speaker 1: This guy was amazing. I know he was.
Speaker 8: Struggled a little bit through some of the innings, but
Speaker 8: he still pitched grapes and I got us through six.
Speaker 9: You got Tao hitting a grand slam. The place went
Speaker 9: bonkers when that happened. You could feel it in the air,
Speaker 9: when the bases were loaded right there with Tao coming up.
Speaker 9: It was just such a perfect moment. Then the guy,
Speaker 9: my buddy, my best friend, Brant went out to the
Speaker 9: game with caught a foul ball.
Speaker 7: I mean, does it get any better than this Dodgers win?
Speaker 9: It would a knife Just I feel so lucky to
Speaker 9: be a part of this team, be a fan out
Speaker 9: there watching his team play, no doubt, Bob.
Speaker 3: Glad you were here.
Speaker 2: And certainly, not only could you feel it in the air,
Speaker 2: you could feel it in your feet because when ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez hit that grand slam, the press box was
Speaker 2: shaking because the sellout crowd of forty nine, five hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy eight made it shake. And it was definitely
Speaker 2: one of those postseason feelings, because when a big home
Speaker 2: run is hit or a big play is made, the
Speaker 2: press box shakes at Dodgers Stadium, and tonight it was
Speaker 2: shaking when ta Oscar Hernandez hit that go ahead grand
Speaker 2: slam off of Adrian Morohane in the seventh inning eight six, six,
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: All right, let's hear from show Hey, o Tani. We
Speaker 2: want to hear from him about how the right bicep
Speaker 2: was feeling, how he was feeling out there on the
Speaker 2: mound for six innings.
Speaker 10: Show Hey, First, just it's not typical. We see you
Speaker 10: come out of the game late. Was there a reason
Speaker 10: just that Miguel Rojas pinched it for you late in
Speaker 10: the game?
Speaker 11: A yeah, more precautionary reason. And I was a little
Speaker 11: concerned with my biceps with the last at bat that
Speaker 11: I took.
Speaker 10: When you look at just the stuff on the mound
Speaker 10: right now, ultimately the numbers really have been excellent. But
Speaker 10: I know, you know, you are someone who who wants
Speaker 10: the best. How do you just assess a night when
Speaker 10: you have the strikeouts but you do have some of
Speaker 10: that hard contact there.
Speaker 11: So it's like, uh, yeah, I think I did the
Speaker 11: bare minimum, which is to get through six, give the
Speaker 11: team the chance to win, still keep the you know,
Speaker 11: game in check.
Speaker 1: But there are some good and some bad in there.
Speaker 5: I think clearly, wasn't he right?
Speaker 12: My SEPs?
Speaker 5: And then did you sort of feel on the specific sway?
Speaker 11: Not media they consist my grandma, not on the schedule. Yeah,
Speaker 11: it's my right biceps.
Speaker 1: It's the same location that I, you know, felt.
Speaker 5: A couple of months ago.
Speaker 11: And it relative it went away pretty relatively quickly, so
Speaker 11: I expect that to happen again.
Speaker 2: All right, there's show Hey Otani on Sports Net LA. Look,
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, Dave Roberts said it was benign.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even on his radar two months ago. That's
Speaker 2: how minimal the discomfort was. And Otani's right bicep. Nobody
Speaker 2: has really noticed it. We haven't seen him favoring anything
Speaker 2: when he swings, but two months ago he wasn't really
Speaker 2: swinging the bat that well, and maybe that was part
Speaker 2: of the reason why. So, uh, he's not going to
Speaker 2: be in the starting lineup tomorrow as the d H.
Speaker 2: That's the right move and we'll see where it goes
Speaker 2: after that. But look, any sort of issue with Otani's
Speaker 2: right bicep, his pitching arm that that raises a red flag.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it's it's something. It's something.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. When we continue on Dodger Talk more
Speaker 2: of your phone calls. We'll also hear from Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 2: We'll check in with Jose Mota. We'll give you updates
Speaker 2: on Keyke, Hernandez and Alex call and I'll get to this.
Speaker 2: This question about the Dodgers chalk line of the batter's box.
Speaker 2: Somebody called in and wanted to know why it was
Speaker 2: different at Dodgers Stadium than it was in other ballparks.
Speaker 3: Well, it's all uniform. Now we'll fill you in why.
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Speaker 3: This is way back then. It is gone.
Speaker 1: Grand slam.
Speaker 13: Teoscar Hernandez tale on time in the Dodgers lead four
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Speaker 3: What a moment at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: Ti Oscar Hernandez delivers the knockout blow and the seventh
Speaker 2: inning a go ahead grand slam off of Adrian morahone
Speaker 2: and that would be the final score tonight as the
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Padres four to three, eight six six
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Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Kenny?
Speaker 14: I dodn't know well tonight, David? How are you?
Speaker 3: Couldn't be better?
Speaker 1: King? Terrific?
Speaker 14: So you had mentioned just a couple minutes ago the
Speaker 14: Dodgers record referee eatings. I think he said it's fifty
Speaker 14: four to oh right, yeah, it's terrific. So Canner Scott
Speaker 14: Obviously all of us were not happy last year, but
Speaker 14: he's got an amazing forty five k's to three walker
Speaker 14: season and verty twelve out of thirteen saves.
Speaker 6: What do you attribute the difference to why do we
Speaker 6: have this one to eighty?
Speaker 2: Well, Number one, I just think his head's in a
Speaker 2: better spot. He's more comfortable. He's not really feeling the
Speaker 2: weight of his contract and a new team and expectations.
Speaker 2: He's just being himself. Number two. It's just different. The
Speaker 2: fastball is different this year. The slider's different. I'm not
Speaker 2: a pitching coach, and Tanner really hasn't been able to
Speaker 2: explain it really well what the difference is. He just
Speaker 2: said that he's thrown better pitches and his fastball has
Speaker 2: more life. So those are the best answers I could
Speaker 2: give you.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate David.
Speaker 14: All right, take care.
Speaker 2: There, right, Kenny, thank you for the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's different. I mean that pitch that Fernando Tatists Junior
Speaker 2: struck out on to end the game. It was an
Speaker 2: eighty seven slider and it did catch the bigger part
Speaker 2: of the plate. But I could read Dalton Rushing's lips.
Speaker 2: Here we go again, reading lips. But he was Tanner
Speaker 2: Scott wanted some feedback on a pitch, and I think
Speaker 2: he was asking about that slider to Tattoos, and you
Speaker 2: could read Rushing's lips at the end of the game,
Speaker 2: saying it was nasty and that would explain why Tattoos
Speaker 2: Junior didn't swing at a pitch that was eighty seven
Speaker 2: and appear to have the bigger part of the strike zone.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to Linda, who is
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Linda, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 15: Oh, hey, David, how are you.
Speaker 2: I think we've established I'm doing pretty good these days, Linda,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 15: I'm good? Thank you, just calling to you know, I
Speaker 15: kind of wanted to chat. I was on hold while
Speaker 15: I was listening, and Showy kind of answered my question.
Speaker 15: But you know, we were at the game. It was great,
Speaker 15: it was exciting, it was awesome.
Speaker 9: We loved it.
Speaker 15: We loved Tales Grand Slam. But I was sitting so
Speaker 15: far away that I couldn't see whether Shohey was hanging
Speaker 15: out in the dugout or all. But we didn't see him,
Speaker 15: so we were just a little concerned, and so that
Speaker 15: was the reason I called, and he kind of answered
Speaker 15: my question. We kind of knew about the knee issue,
Speaker 15: but I don't know if the bicep thing is new.
Speaker 2: Well, he said he felt something like this two months
Speaker 2: ago and it kind of went away pretty quickly. But Linda,
Speaker 2: let's be transparent. If Otani's feeling something more than just
Speaker 2: a little discomfort in his right bicep, he's not going
Speaker 2: to say it. The Dodgers aren't going to say it.
Speaker 2: But he came out of the game and they're admitting
Speaker 2: that there was something going on with the right bicep.
Speaker 2: And when you're talking about the best player on the planet,
Speaker 2: any little thing that they say is happening is concerning.
Speaker 15: Yes, you're right about that. And we were concerned and
Speaker 15: we were looking for him and we're like, we don't
Speaker 15: see him, and I hope he's okay, et cetera. So
Speaker 15: you know, I mean, we're only in July.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers need Otani in October to be the best
Speaker 2: hitter in the postseason. They don't need Otani to be
Speaker 2: the best pitcher. They need Otani the hitter.
Speaker 15: Correct, Correct, you're right about that. So I'm just hoping
Speaker 15: everything's good and uh, you know, he covers from whatever
Speaker 15: he has and and that you know, we have a
Speaker 15: great rest of the season, which I'm sure we will,
Speaker 15: but yeah, thanks for all that you do as well,
Speaker 15: and we appreciate you and and go Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Thanks Linda, thanks for coming out to Uniclove Field at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium tonight. Eight six six eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number speaking of the field. If
Speaker 2: you were listening to Dodger Talk during the Padres series
Speaker 2: in San Diego, somebody called in about the chalk lines
Speaker 2: around the batter's box at Dodger Stadium compared to Petco
Speaker 2: Park and other stadiums. And when I got a call
Speaker 2: like that, I was thinking, what's the big deal about that?
Speaker 2: It's not a huge deal. But what I will tell
Speaker 2: you is that was a very observing caller because up
Speaker 2: until two homestands ago, the Dodgers batter's box chalk lines
Speaker 2: were extremely thinner compared to the ones at Peco Park
Speaker 2: and the ones that you see across other Major League stadiums.
Speaker 2: And here's the story behind why it was a thinner
Speaker 2: line up until two home stands ago. Back in two
Speaker 2: thousand and seven, they used to be the way they
Speaker 2: were tonight, where it was thick chalk lines, Except my
Speaker 2: understanding was it wasn't chalk.
Speaker 3: They were painting those.
Speaker 2: Lines, and a guy by the name of Andre Ethier
Speaker 2: said that the glare from the paint lines was distracting
Speaker 2: and he couldn't see the ball that well, and he
Speaker 2: wanted the lines changed to make it thinner because the
Speaker 2: thick paint of the batter's box being painted was affecting
Speaker 2: his vision from the left handed side of the batter's box.
Speaker 2: So the ground screw back then acquiesced, and it's all
Speaker 2: the same batters box. That's uniform, right, But the chalk
Speaker 2: lines or the paint lines don't have to be as
Speaker 2: thick as they are at Peco Park or at Great
Speaker 2: American Ballpark in Cincinnati, or at Dodgers Stadium tonight. And
Speaker 2: here's the reason why it got changed back two homestands ago.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers' hitting coaches, Aaron Bates, he asked the ground screw, hey,
Speaker 2: can we go back to the way it is at
Speaker 2: other ballparks to have the chalk lines thicker?
Speaker 3: So they said, yeah, sure, no problem. So there you go.
Speaker 2: That's the story behind the batter's box and how it
Speaker 2: changed from pre two thousand and seven post two thousand
Speaker 2: and seven to.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty six. Two home stands ago.
Speaker 2: It was Andre Ethier, of all people, and I did
Speaker 2: text it him to confirm that, because Tony Gwinn Junior
Speaker 2: was the one that remember remembered and outed the player
Speaker 2: that asked for the batter's box lines to go to
Speaker 2: a more thinner line, and it was Andre Ethier. Not surprising.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this about him. He's
Speaker 2: kind of high maintenance and a foodie. So it was
Speaker 2: my guy, Andre Ethier. And seven and Dodgers hitting coach
Speaker 2: Aaron Bates asked the ground screw, Hey, can we just
Speaker 2: have it the way it is in every other ballpark?
Speaker 2: And Jordan Lorenz, the head ground screw keeper, said sure.
Speaker 2: So there's the story. Let's go out to Rico, who
Speaker 2: is at Dodger Stadium tonight. Hi, Rico, how you doing?
Speaker 6: Ollo Mala?
Speaker 16: Hey, Philly good Man. Just got out of the Dodger
Speaker 16: Stadium and thanks to the Mulana show that we got
Speaker 16: out of the parking lot. Real smooth today.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 16: Anyways, Hey, listen, Davie, we are in the heads of
Speaker 16: the San Diego Padres. It doesn't matter what they do,
Speaker 16: they're all gonna fail every time they match against us.
Speaker 17: There's a couple of Padridge fans around my area field
Speaker 17: level when they were up three oh ooh, they so happy.
Speaker 17: But once the Oscar hit that home run, man got quiet,
Speaker 17: and I think they went home because they know they
Speaker 17: end up coming back.
Speaker 2: They went home to sad Diego Rico, Hey, DV I
Speaker 2: got a question for you about Tucker.
Speaker 17: I believe that, you know, being a Dodger, being signed
Speaker 17: as a Dodger, it's great to say, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 17: be a Dodger, but it's also a lot of pressure
Speaker 17: where it takes over their performance. So like Tanner Scott
Speaker 17: last year and Tucker now, they're not living up to
Speaker 17: what we're expecting it to be.
Speaker 16: But I believe that everybody wants to be a Dodger.
Speaker 16: But once they find out how it is Dodger, I
Speaker 16: think a lot of players don't really, you know, live
Speaker 16: up to it, and that's what happens.
Speaker 6: I think, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like there's a lot of big names
Speaker 3: in that room.
Speaker 2: And Michael Conforto even admitted this last year that he
Speaker 2: tried to compete with Otani, with Freddie Freeman, with Max Munsey.
Speaker 2: And once you start doing that and not being yourself,
Speaker 2: it gets away from you, and I feel like maybe
Speaker 2: Tucker fell into that trap. But he's starting to get
Speaker 2: that rhythm, starting to see the ball better, starting to
Speaker 2: be himself, and I think that's the reason why you're
Speaker 2: seeing a better version of him the last thirty played appearances.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone
Speaker 2: number before we get to Jose Mota. Let's head back
Speaker 2: downstairs to hear from Dalton rushing on sports and at LA.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I thought he can take the two walks in
Speaker 12: the first out of it. That's it's hard to get
Speaker 12: out of that kind of situation. I thought you did
Speaker 12: a good job throughout the game. These guys saw him
Speaker 12: just a week and a half ago. Speaking as a hitter,
Speaker 12: you you kind of have a better idea of what
Speaker 12: guys are trying to do to you over a course
Speaker 12: of facing a guy twice in a week. But I
Speaker 12: thought he threw the ball really well. I thought he
Speaker 12: gave us a chance to win. King was throwing the
Speaker 12: ball really well tonight. Made it tough for us to
Speaker 12: put up runs. Luckily, we got a big swing out
Speaker 12: of Taoe and it was enough to do it. But
Speaker 12: I thought show I threw the ball really well.
Speaker 10: Tonight, everyone and even yourself talked about how you know
Speaker 10: you could use last week as a learning experience. How
Speaker 10: did you find just now coming out of this outing
Speaker 10: and kind of how you two were able to kind
Speaker 10: of communicate with each other at work with each other
Speaker 10: and also just like get back on track together.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's kind of like a booster confidence. You feel
Speaker 12: as if you guys are on the same page throughout
Speaker 12: the whole night. And like I said, obviously you take
Speaker 12: those two walks in the first out of it, and
Speaker 12: I think he had a very quality start. He gives
Speaker 12: a chance to win, and that's all we ask out
Speaker 12: of our starting pictures every time.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 9: Well, Connie said last time and when he started calling
Speaker 9: his own pitches that he kind of wanted to show
Speaker 9: you what he likes to do.
Speaker 5: How much better do you feel you understand what he
Speaker 5: likes to do now?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I thought tonight I had a good idea of
Speaker 12: what he was trying to do. I thought we were
Speaker 12: on the same page a lot tonight. And uh, obviously
Speaker 12: that once again has a boost of confidence moving forward.
Speaker 12: It's not an easy guy to call for it, but also,
Speaker 12: he's who he is for a reason, you know. So,
Speaker 12: uh yeah, I'm glad we were on the same page
Speaker 12: for most of the night and look forward to his
Speaker 12: next one.
Speaker 3: What makes him challenging?
Speaker 12: Call forward, there's a lot of pitches that are really good,
Speaker 12: a lot of options. Yeah, I think that's the best
Speaker 12: way to put it, just just to bok while you
Speaker 12: over the pitches tonight.
Speaker 10: The majority Yes, Yes, How tough is it sort of
Speaker 10: game plan anting by anying with him, especially because like
Speaker 10: unlike a traditional picture, like you're not really like sitting
Speaker 10: with him and the.
Speaker 1: Dugout, like you don't really have this time between eatings.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's tough. It kind of we have to lean
Speaker 12: on Mark a little bit for translation obviously, well helping
Speaker 12: out with translation, but Mark just kind of communicated between
Speaker 12: the two of us. It makes it a little tougher obviously,
Speaker 12: but I think he does a great job with it.
Speaker 12: And like I said, I thought we were on the
Speaker 12: same page lot tonight.
Speaker 2: After what happened last Wednesday in Minneapolis, I tapped into
Speaker 2: a few former catchers that I respect and they said
Speaker 2: the same thing that Dalton Rushing just alluded to, that
Speaker 2: it's not as easy to get on the same page
Speaker 2: with some pitchers, especially a guy like show Hey Otani
Speaker 2: who has a bunch of really good pitches. Not to
Speaker 2: mention players sometimes sees things, see their stuff different than
Speaker 2: other guys do in the middle of the game, so
Speaker 2: all of that sometimes contributes to pitchers and catchers not
Speaker 2: being on the same page. But as you saw tonight,
Speaker 2: after Otani led the way from the third inning on
Speaker 2: last week and just getting on the same page communication wise,
Speaker 2: it was a lot more smoother tonight as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: beat the Padres four to three. Otawanni go six innings tonight,
Speaker 2: throws one hundred and ten pitches, more pitches than he's
Speaker 2: ever thrown in a Dodger uniform. Alex Call was in
Speaker 2: the dugout. He was ready to go tonight, but not
Speaker 2: sure if you notice this, especially in Sacramento where the
Speaker 2: as started. Two lefties engaged Jump and Jeff's Springs, and
Speaker 2: there have been some lefty relievers in between all that
Speaker 2: as well, and no Alex Call. Alex Calls had a
Speaker 2: really good year and really good defensive player for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: He played a lot in the Minneapolis series and also
Speaker 2: a little bit in the San Diego series, but he
Speaker 2: was not available in that Sacramento series, so not many
Speaker 2: people know that, but Alex was dealing with back spasms
Speaker 2: and was not available, and the Dodgers did a great
Speaker 2: job of not tipping their hand to give Mark Kottse
Speaker 2: any sort of competitive advantage. But talking to Alex today,
Speaker 2: he told me he was ready to go. So that
Speaker 2: is behind him and he is available moving forward the
Speaker 2: rest of this homestand so that's good news for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: All right, let's check in with Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Moda, let's I know everybody wants to
Speaker 2: talk about the Otani rushing drama Otani's right bicep, but
Speaker 2: come on, we got to give Taoscar Hernandez some love first.
Speaker 18: Let's do that. Let's do that task. Hernandez came back
Speaker 18: in Sacramento, went back to play some games against Reno,
Speaker 18: and Reno he wanted to really get the at bats
Speaker 18: on Rehap that he needed and he wanted to play
Speaker 18: actually at a higher level. So Tayo had the option
Speaker 18: of playing close to here or not. He goes, I
Speaker 18: want to play at the higher levels. When I come back,
Speaker 18: I want to make sure that I have seen some
Speaker 18: better pitching, more various pitching. Goes down there and does
Speaker 18: a fine job getting the bats, getting the rest left field,
Speaker 18: making sure that leg is, you know, at about one
Speaker 18: hundred percent. And here he is. And one thing too,
Speaker 18: And I was talking about this with Lewis and the brockass.
Speaker 18: Think about this, Dave. You've had Moki out, You've had
Speaker 18: obviously Tommy Edman out. You have to osk her out right.
Speaker 18: None of these guys have to feel like they have
Speaker 18: to carry the team when they come back. All they
Speaker 18: have to do is do their jobs. And for Tail,
Speaker 18: when he's batting seventh, there's no ego involved. He knows
Speaker 18: what he needs to do. Is not like, let me
Speaker 18: make this a fight to you know, move up in
Speaker 18: the order.
Speaker 1: Not at all.
Speaker 18: But what I liked about Tale today was the fact
Speaker 18: that he put away the first couple of up bats
Speaker 18: who was a little bit out of sync coming back,
Speaker 18: and then he just says, somebody's got to provide the power.
Speaker 18: It's going to be the got on the mount, the
Speaker 18: shortest one he could take right path to the baseball
Speaker 18: and there you have it, and I think, as he
Speaker 18: was telling you during the interview, which I really you know,
Speaker 18: caught my ear, you got to think small sometimes to
Speaker 18: make bigger things happen. And that's why that momentum right
Speaker 18: there was carried by the swing and his mentality of thinking,
Speaker 18: if I do a little bit too much, I'm gonna
Speaker 18: pop it up. But you'd think small and have the
Speaker 18: big results because of that love it.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers come from
Speaker 2: behind again to beat the Padres four to three.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: O'tani said that he felt this discomfort in his right
Speaker 2: bicep two months ago. Two months ago, Otani was not
Speaker 2: hitting the ball really well. So how concerning is this
Speaker 2: right bicep issue?
Speaker 18: It is concerning. We cannot hide that. I mean, I'm
Speaker 18: not gonna say it's bad, but I'm saying it's got
Speaker 18: to be concerning because you think about connecting muscle right
Speaker 18: there to your shoulder into your elbow. That's connecting tissue
Speaker 18: right there.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 18: Even though he says he felt more on the swing,
Speaker 18: there's got to be concerned with a guy that has
Speaker 18: to put so much emphasis on his pitches, on his throwing,
Speaker 18: on his hitting that is his lead arm when he
Speaker 18: lets go. If you're a big swing, that's you know, bicep,
Speaker 18: tricyp elbow, we'll exposed. So I think the Dodgers will
Speaker 18: know the right thing for cushion wise and having him
Speaker 18: sit tomorrow. It's the right thing. But let's not take
Speaker 18: for granted the fact that he's had two major surgeries
Speaker 18: in his elbow, and when you have something so close
Speaker 18: to the elbow, you're gonna be as careful as possible
Speaker 18: to make sure that you don't overdo it. Either.
Speaker 2: And when you hear guys like Oral Herscheizer talk about
Speaker 2: the mechanics and the lower body, if you're compensating for
Speaker 2: let's say your landing leg, maybe that puts some stress
Speaker 2: on your right bicep.
Speaker 18: It could happen. You talk to orl many times about
Speaker 18: this and other pictures some when they have had something
Speaker 18: happen with the lower bodies, with the ankle. He surely
Speaker 18: has had issues with back in Japan obviously with the
Speaker 18: knee now. And he is so clean mechanically when he
Speaker 18: needs to be to clean things up and make sure
Speaker 18: he doesn't compensate or aggravate something that, Yeah, it's sometimes
Speaker 18: compromising the case hopefully is not that. But I did
Speaker 18: notice warming up before the game. Dave and I pointed
Speaker 18: this out. I said, he just does not look right mechanically.
Speaker 18: He was calling, you know, first couple of warm up
Speaker 18: pitch is before the game on throwing a couple of
Speaker 18: singers away to rushing and he yanked both of them
Speaker 18: on the inside part. And I'm like, that's kind of
Speaker 18: a strange to see that happening this early when he's
Speaker 18: just warming up. I mean, he battled. I mean what
Speaker 18: he got through tonight, it was all guts to get
Speaker 18: through that lineup. We just know the best hitting lineup.
Speaker 18: They made him work. There's a lot of hard contact.
Speaker 18: But to get through those innings and go one ten
Speaker 18: today was all. I'm pure gusty because I think mechanically
Speaker 18: he was a little bit out of whack.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's what the great pictures do, right, Jose. You
Speaker 2: may not feel your best, you may not have your
Speaker 2: best stuff, but you go out there and compete.
Speaker 18: You think about this, those guys don't look at the
Speaker 18: bullpener see come help me. They're like, hey, I'm here
Speaker 18: because you're counting on me. Guys, let me do my
Speaker 18: job and here's one thing too, learning from a great
Speaker 18: picture of the past and of the present. How many
Speaker 18: times you were talking about Otani earlier, the hit about
Speaker 18: his body hold maybe at ninety percent? How many times?
Speaker 18: How many pictures go out there for thirty thirty three
Speaker 18: starts and have their best stuff every single time? None? None,
Speaker 18: I don't care who you are. You may have it
Speaker 18: for twenty five, maybe twenty, but the other thirteen you're
Speaker 18: gonna go out there and just say, I'm gonna grind
Speaker 18: through this. Somehow. I got some help from the guys
Speaker 18: behind me, but your mental aspect and makeup has to
Speaker 18: get you all through that. In this case, also give
Speaker 18: some credit tonight to Dalton Russian and the fact that
Speaker 18: they're on the same page, and more has been made
Speaker 18: out of this than it should have been, maybe because
Speaker 18: of the close publicly great let's move on. But Rushing
Speaker 18: is a guy too that he's stubborn enough to go
Speaker 18: I believe this pitch is better for you tonight. And
Speaker 18: there's been times when he has convinced Showy to make
Speaker 18: a pitch. You know previous starts where Showy doesn't want
Speaker 18: to make it and gets out of it. But if
Speaker 18: you see showy tonight taking charge and saying my command
Speaker 18: is not there. The breaking ball was a little bit
Speaker 18: of a skullful and consistent of the release points. He went,
Speaker 18: just here's one hundred, here's.
Speaker 1: One on one.
Speaker 18: But let's not try to be too fine with it.
Speaker 18: Ride down the middle. Let it ride, and that is
Speaker 18: what the big boys do, all right.
Speaker 3: Jose, thanks a lot for checking in.
Speaker 2: We will talk to you tomorrow night with Yamamoto on
Speaker 2: the mound on the fourth of July. Okay, there he
Speaker 2: goes Jose Mota, part of the Spanish radio broadcast. After
Speaker 2: the Dodgers come from behind again, down three nothing early
Speaker 2: and Taoscar Hernandez hit to go ahead three or grand
Speaker 2: slam after a Monseie and Mookie were at first and
Speaker 2: second and Jake Croninworth booted what was a tailor made
Speaker 2: double play from Kyle Tucker. Instead it was bases loaded,
Speaker 2: nobody out, and Taoscar Hernandez delivered on the first pitch.
Speaker 2: Hitting a grand slam is sixth of his career and
Speaker 2: tomorrow the Dodgers will be back at it.
Speaker 3: On the fourth of July.
Speaker 2: I hope you're gonna join us because they have the
Speaker 2: postgame fireworks show at Dodgers Stadium following tomorrow Night's game,
Speaker 2: game three of this four game series. And I'll say this,
Speaker 2: the Hollywood Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and Dodger Stadium the
Speaker 2: three best places to be on the fourth of July,
Speaker 2: hands down. And like I said, Dodger games are not
Speaker 2: just games anymore, their events, especially on the fourth of July.
Speaker 2: A sellout crowd is expected for the game and to
Speaker 2: stick around for the fireworks show. And just before we
Speaker 2: get you said for the pitching matchup tomorrow night, want
Speaker 2: to deliver on what I mentioned earlier. Keyk a Hernandez
Speaker 2: has been taking ground balls at third base and today
Speaker 2: hit batting practice on the field for the first time
Speaker 2: since going back on the il with a left oblique
Speaker 2: strain and all seem to go well, and that's a
Speaker 2: good sign. And Keyy is expected to come back sometime
Speaker 2: after the All Star break, so that was good to see.
Speaker 2: But he's been smart about it, not rushing to come back.
Speaker 2: Wants to make sure this oblique injury is behind him
Speaker 2: because it was a severe oblique strain and those things
Speaker 2: if you reaggravate it, you restrain it, it could cost
Speaker 2: him the season. And he obviously does not want that
Speaker 2: to happen. Yamamoto on the Mount tomorrow against Griffin Canning.
Speaker 2: Canning's one to five with the NRA of seven zero
Speaker 2: nine Yamamoto eight and five with an ERA of two
Speaker 2: sixty seven. Our coverage begins at six o'clock, with first
Speaker 2: pitch at seven ten. Thanks to Colin Ee back at
Speaker 2: our Burbank studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at
Speaker 2: Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you for listening.
Speaker 2: In case you missed any of the show, you can
Speaker 2: find it on the iHeartRadio app. That's also where you
Speaker 2: can hear our pregame conversation with Tommy Edman, who is
Speaker 2: off to a great start to his season on fire
Speaker 2: ever since coming off the IL. Also want to give
Speaker 2: a shout out to our friends at Downy Hyundai. Can't
Speaker 2: wait to get into my Ionic nine Dodger Blue on
Speaker 2: the way home, and hopefully not too many backyard fireworks
Speaker 2: going off on the way home. Be safe out there,
Speaker 2: and we can't wait to talk to you tomorrow on
Speaker 2: the fourth of July, the two hundred and fiftieth birthday
Speaker 2: of our great country. Look forward to it. Then, once
Speaker 2: again the final score. Tonight, the Dodgers come from behind
Speaker 2: beat the Padres four to three. And by the way,
Speaker 2: the Padres have lost seven in a row. They're looking
Speaker 2: to make it eight in a row on the fourth
Speaker 2: of July. Tomorrow night, see you.
Speaker 10: Stand.
Speaker 1: Let's just stand.