WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (7-3-26) 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.000 The quest for the free peat has begun. 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:07.320 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:12.080 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:13.240 the fifth. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.880 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.040 Here we go again. We're here running back. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.280 To get in on the show called eight six six, 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.079 not eighty seven, two five seven days and be sure 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.240 to follow Dodger Talk wherever you get your podcasts. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.480 Here's your host, David Vase. 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.360 It's been an exciting first two nights of this ten 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.040 game homestand going into the All Star break as the 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.640 Dodgers come from behind again against the Padres to beat 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.280 San Diego. 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.640 Four to three. Welcome the Dodger Talk. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:52.040 David Vase say with you until eleven o'clock tonight on 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.160 this third of July. I hope you're being safe out 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.600 there wherever you may be. We have phone lines open 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.440 at eight sixty six nine, eight seven, two five seventy. 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.679 We'll hear from show hal Tani coming up in a 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.959 little bit. We'll also let you hear from Teoscar Hernandez again. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.160 Jose Moto will check in, and I also have an 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.440 update on Kei y Hernandez and. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.000 Also Alex Call. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:21.240 Yeah, Alex Call noticed he hasn't played in a while, 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:25.240 but isn't on the IL. I'll share with you what's 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:29.360 going on with Alex Call as well. Eight six six 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.679 nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.560 the Dodgers tonight with their fifty eighth win of the season. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:41.760 They're on pace for one hundred and six wins this year. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.000 They dropped the Padres below five hundred for the first 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:50.200 time since April seventh. They have a fourteen game lead 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.960 on San Diego, who's now in third place in the 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:58.600 NL West, and the Arizona Diamondbacks, who lost tonight to 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:02.480 the Brewers, are thirteen and a half games back of 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:07.400 the Dodgers in the NL West. The Dodgers certainly got 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.919 a good start from Otani and Rushing, just as far 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.200 as the fact that there was so much drama and 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.040 talk and soap opera being made out of them not 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.560 being on the same page in the first couple of 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.440 innings in Otani's last start in Minneapolis. Well, tonight, there 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:31.280 was no shaking off. There was no challenge disputed by anybody. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.160 In fact, there wasn't even a challenge in play that 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:39.239 Rushing or Otani wanted tonight with Trip Gibson behind the plate, 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.000 so there was none of that. You saw a lot 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.640 of head nodding like they were on the same page. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.799 There was a lot of embrace coming off the mound. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.720 But the one thing that Dalton Rushing had nothing to 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.640 do with was the fact that Otani was laboring through 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.639 those six innings tonight. He threw one hundred and ten 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.520 pitch in six innings. If that's not laboring, I don't 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.520 know what is. He gave up a home run on 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.080 a ninety nine fastball two to zero ninety nine fastball 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.440 to Jackson Merrill in the fourth inning with two outs. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.480 He walked a couple of batters in the first. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:22.000 Innings, so it just seemed like maybe eight days of rest. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.600 He was a little rusty, and who knows how the 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.919 right bicep was feeling. Who knows how that left knee 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.560 was feeling. Who knows how his overall body was feeling 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.840 on the mound. Because we are seeing something that is unprecedented, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.160 I know, we take it for granted and now it's 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.360 just a kind of normal thing to see Otani pitch 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:50.720 every week and do marvelous things every day as the 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:55.160 leadoff hitter and DH for the Dodgers. But don't take 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.480 this for granted. This is not the norm. And playing 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.160 at this level, just as a hitter, just as a 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.800 hitter in the middle of July July third, you're going 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.960 to have your body not feeling great. Just as a hitter. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.840 Now think about this, just as a pitcher start to start, 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.919 it may take a little bit more recovery time to 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.120 get ready every fourth or fifth day. Now we're talking 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.960 about a guy that is playing every day, doing things 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:29.159 on the basis hitting home runs and then having to 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:33.760 pitch every week. You combine those two things. How many 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.240 starts I would love to know at the end of 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:41.520 this year if Otani would ever answer this question, how 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:46.200 many times this season did his body feel ninety percent? 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.599 Not even one hundred percent? I would venture to say 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.599 that on July third and moving forward, the body's not 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.360 going to feel great, even though he gets more sleep 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.760 than anybody, even though he's on the cut edge of 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.000 how to get his body to recover. So there are 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.320 going to be nights like tonight where he does labor 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.640 on the mound and he is zero for three. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:10.080 At the plate. 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.719 That's just being human, and I don't think there's anything 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.359 wrong with that. I thought the biggest thing though tonight 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.240 was that him and Dalton Rushing were on the same page. 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.599 Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.320 the phone number. Tonight's game brought to you by Modello 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:32.680 Modelo the mark of a fighter. All right, ta Oscar Hernandez. Uh, 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.680 you know how much I'm in Taoscar Hernandez's corner. If 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.120 you were listening during the off season, there were some 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.480 of you that wanted to trade Teoscar Hernandez. There were 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.080 some of you that wanted to trade Teoscar Hernandez last 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.360 year when he was fighting through a groin injury. And 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.359 I'll say this. I have said this the last two postseasons. 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:59.240 I'll say it again. You can't spell October without Teoscar Hernandez. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.240 Without Tayo, you can't spell October. And this guy is 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.080 one of the most clutch hitters the Dodgers have on 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.159 their team. And he was hitting the ball, crushing the 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.240 ball before he heard his hamstring. And he was crushing 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.240 the ball in Oklahoma City. And now he got his 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.200 feet underneath him, getting that rhythm again. After coming back 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:26.400 off the il in Sacramento, and he smelled blood. When 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:31.480 Adrian Morejone threw that Frisbee ninety slider right down the 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.000 middle of the plate, there was no chance Oscar Hernandez 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.200 was missing that and that was the go ahead Grand Slam. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.920 First Grand Slam for Tioscar Hernandez since he did it 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:46.040 at Yankee Stadium wearing a Dodger uniform in twenty twenty 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.960 four back in June. Remember that series in June. That 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:55.320 was the Yamamoto Taoscar Hernandez series. And for Tiascar Hernandez 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:59.120 his sixth career Grand Slam. Two of them have been 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.800 against left Let's hear from Tail again. We caught up 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:04.320 with him after the game. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.719 I mean it was a big situations, you know, big 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.760 moment of the game. We were losing. I wasn't trying 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.320 to drive all forwards, but it was a good swing 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:15.560 and then thank god I hit. 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.480 It up after the air by Croninworth. Obviously the stadium 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.840 feels it. You're a big moment type of player. Do 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.720 you feel the momentum? Do you feel like Mora Home 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.440 feels like he has to make a perfect pitch to you. 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.200 I don't think so. He knows he's a good pitcher. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.720 He just like it happens. Sometimes you just right to 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.400 make a really good pitch and you left it over 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:37.800 the play. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.440 But you know, I just better go swing on that pitch. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.080 Obviously he didn't want it to throw it there, but 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.720 you know, we just trying to keep the momentum. But 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.440 I wasn't trying to drive all four runs, but just 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.520 trying to have a good as good contact and just 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:56.040 write one. 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.080 The emotions you showed after you hit that Grand Slam 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.040 reminded me of the Grand Slam you hit in San 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.640 Diego in the NLDS. Did it feel the same even 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.480 though it's not October. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.160 It's always feel the same, especially when we play at home. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:15.720 These fans are unbelievable. They bring the energy every single day, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:21.200 the support. They always there supporting the team, supporting. I 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.480 was even when we were down, and that was a 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.280 big moment of the game. So I have to slow 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.800 my body down, slow the game down, and just trying 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.520 to give them a good show. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.880 I'll self report, I got caught up. I didn't see 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.520 who brought you the sunflower seats when you got back 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:37.240 to the dugout. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.439 It was Andy, Andy at only a lot, a lot 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.520 of the like the rest of this heats, the are 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.079 in the bottom of the bag. It was all over 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.400 my face. But you know, it's one of those moments 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.400 as a hitter you take anything. 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.600 Way to go, Tail, Great to have you back, great 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.240 to see the smile, Great to see the slam six 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:55.920 in your career. 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:57.080 Now Tail, there you go. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:57.679 Thank you. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.960 Hey, I'm keeping the receipts for ta Oscar Hernandez sixth 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:03.200 career Grand Slams. 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.080 And you could hear the joy in his voice. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.160 He has great joy for this great game, and he 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.319 has great joy for life. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.080 Uh and uh. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:17.280 Anybody that's been around Taascar Hernandez feels the love from him. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.800 Eight sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.800 number we'll hear from Otani and Rushing coming up. But 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.840 first let's go out to the calls. Peter in mar Vista, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.480 you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.000 Peter, Hey, Dave, how are you doing. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.040 Hey, I'm feeling great. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.600 It's been a it's been an electric two nights here 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.360 at Dodgers Stadium. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.920 He sure has last night's and I've been fantastic. I 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.800 did before I get what I'm gonna say. How many 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.920 National League teams have won three World Series in a row? 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.520 None? No National League team has ever three peeded. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:59.920 The Dodgers be the first, right, Yes, okay, that's always 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.920 very curious. Back the Dodgers start of a team of 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.680 destiny as they're coming from behind so many times. He 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.280 says they've tied for the Braves and can the Diamondbacks 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.200 for most come from behind wins this year? 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.760 That's correct, twenty seven times they've come from behind. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.400 I think he hits Stale and Glassnow back this year. 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.440 Snell should be back by the end of July. Glass 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.640 Now was thrown out here, so I'm not sure. I'm 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.800 not sure when he's coming back. But yeah, think about that. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.719 No Snell, no Edwin dis no glass Now for the 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.360 last month plus. Will Smith has missed the last month 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.239 and is going to miss the rest of this homestand 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:47.400 and also Evan Phillips hasn't pitched this year. He's expected 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.000 to be back by the end of this home stand 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.760 as well. Evan Phillips tonight, by the way, pitched in 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:57.080 another rehab appearance. He pitched a scoreless eighth inning for 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:01.480 Oklahoma City only through twelve pitches, nine of them were strikes, 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.840 and he struck out two batters. So all in all, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.720 in ten innings of work, Evan Phillips in his rehab 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.240 appearances has allowed just to earned runs and has thirteen 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.160 strikeouts and five walks. That's gonna be a huge boost 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:16.840 to this Dodger bullpen. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:17.959 Let's go out to. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.760 Palmdale, Darryl, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:22.120 Darryl. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.840 Hi, David, what's going on with your better living the dream? 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:27.319 Daryl? 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.680 This Dodger team has to be the most complete team 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.959 up a scene in my life. I mean, but I've 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.120 got one question. I need that Field has come back. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:39.480 Who's going to be the closer? 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:41.599 Will be? 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.880 Hey, they're gonna move tennis back to setup. 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.520 They'll be using Tanner Scott in the eighth, the seventh. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.280 Maybe they used Diaz in the eighth and have Scott 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.120 match up. That's the beauty of having both those guys 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.600 lefties and rightis. But Diaz is the closer. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.000 That's what little to see. We have a poop hem, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.000 I mean, we have a poop him give up the 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.280 lead out seven. I love to see. I love what 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.720 to do him and I love with Dave Robinson. Still 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.680 the scene. This man is best. Whatever he touched terms 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.960 the goal, and I just want to say, BET's look Dodgers. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.079 Preefe all right, thank you for the phone call, Daryl. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.719 Darryl's not too far off. When the Dodgers do have 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.079 a lead late in the game, they usually win. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:30.040 How about this. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.800 If the Dodgers are leading after eight innings, they're fifty 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.679 four and oh, nobody has beaten them. When they have 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.640 a lead after eight innings, fifty four and oh, and 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.080 when they have a lead after seven innings, they're now 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.640 fifty and four. So Daryl was onto something. Let's go 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.800 out to Bob who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Bob, 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.120 you're on Dodger Talk. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:53.400 Uncle Dave, thanks for having me on. 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:59.720 Man, what an electric night at Dodgers Stadium. Man, Holy smoke, David, 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.559 like you always say, it's an event. First of all, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.160 you got show Hey pitching, which we were lucky enough 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:05.560 to see. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:06.559 That was a miracle. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.920 This guy was amazing. I know he was. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.559 Struggled a little bit through some of the innings, but 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.000 he still pitched grapes and I got us through six. 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.000 You got Tao hitting a grand slam. The place went 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.080 bonkers when that happened. You could feel it in the air, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.280 when the bases were loaded right there with Tao coming up. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.480 It was just such a perfect moment. Then the guy, 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.319 my buddy, my best friend, Brant went out to the 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:30.520 game with caught a foul ball. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.520 I mean, does it get any better than this Dodgers win? 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.319 It would a knife Just I feel so lucky to 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.000 be a part of this team, be a fan out 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.319 there watching his team play, no doubt, Bob. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:41.959 Glad you were here. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.400 And certainly, not only could you feel it in the air, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.840 you could feel it in your feet because when ta 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.079 Oscar Hernandez hit that grand slam, the press box was 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:56.079 shaking because the sellout crowd of forty nine, five hundred 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.800 and seventy eight made it shake. And it was definitely 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.520 one of those postseason feelings, because when a big home 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.400 run is hit or a big play is made, the 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.160 press box shakes at Dodgers Stadium, and tonight it was 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.320 shaking when ta Oscar Hernandez hit that go ahead grand 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:17.920 slam off of Adrian Morohane in the seventh inning eight six, six, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.200 nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.800 All right, let's hear from show Hey, o Tani. We 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.720 want to hear from him about how the right bicep 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.400 was feeling, how he was feeling out there on the 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:30.800 mound for six innings. 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.640 Show Hey, First, just it's not typical. We see you 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.160 come out of the game late. Was there a reason 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.360 just that Miguel Rojas pinched it for you late in 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:37.680 the game? 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:51.640 A yeah, more precautionary reason. And I was a little 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.960 concerned with my biceps with the last at bat that 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:55.440 I took. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.400 When you look at just the stuff on the mound 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.720 right now, ultimately the numbers really have been excellent. But 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.920 I know, you know, you are someone who who wants 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.680 the best. How do you just assess a night when 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.400 you have the strikeouts but you do have some of 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:08.640 that hard contact there. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:35.800 So it's like, uh, yeah, I think I did the 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.800 bare minimum, which is to get through six, give the 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.920 team the chance to win, still keep the you know, 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:44.040 game in check. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.760 But there are some good and some bad in there. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:49.760 I think clearly, wasn't he right? 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:50.320 My SEPs? 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.600 And then did you sort of feel on the specific sway? 0:15:53.320 --> 0:16:10.240 Not media they consist my grandma, not on the schedule. Yeah, 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:11.359 it's my right biceps. 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.680 It's the same location that I, you know, felt. 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:18.000 A couple of months ago. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.120 And it relative it went away pretty relatively quickly, so 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:24.840 I expect that to happen again. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.920 All right, there's show Hey Otani on Sports Net LA. Look, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.920 I don't know, you know, Dave Roberts said it was benign. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.840 It wasn't even on his radar two months ago. That's 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.680 how minimal the discomfort was. And Otani's right bicep. Nobody 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.840 has really noticed it. We haven't seen him favoring anything 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.360 when he swings, but two months ago he wasn't really 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.040 swinging the bat that well, and maybe that was part 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.560 of the reason why. So, uh, he's not going to 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.840 be in the starting lineup tomorrow as the d H. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.920 That's the right move and we'll see where it goes 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:04.520 after that. But look, any sort of issue with Otani's 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:09.960 right bicep, his pitching arm that that raises a red flag. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.560 I'm sorry, it's it's something. It's something. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.080 Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.360 the phone number. When we continue on Dodger Talk more 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.080 of your phone calls. We'll also hear from Dalton Rushing. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.879 We'll check in with Jose Mota. We'll give you updates 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.480 on Keyke, Hernandez and Alex call and I'll get to this. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.920 This question about the Dodgers chalk line of the batter's box. 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.200 Somebody called in and wanted to know why it was 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.600 different at Dodgers Stadium than it was in other ballparks. 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.320 Well, it's all uniform. Now we'll fill you in why. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.000 After the Dodgers beat the Padres four to three on 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:49.440 a five to seventy LA Sports. 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.920 On air at AM five seventy online at AM five 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:02.119 seventy LA Sports dot com, in available by podcast on 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:03.560 the iHeartRadio app. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:08.879 This is Dodger Tongue with David Masson TAO against thee 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.720 leti hone. First pitch, here's Pabbard. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.320 This is way back then. It is gone. 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:17.800 Grand slam. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:39.520 Teoscar Hernandez tale on time in the Dodgers lead four 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:40.040 to three. 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.520 What a moment at Dodgers Stadium. 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:50.000 Ti Oscar Hernandez delivers the knockout blow and the seventh 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.359 inning a go ahead grand slam off of Adrian morahone 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.040 and that would be the final score tonight as the 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.240 Dodgers beat the Padres four to three, eight six six 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.720 nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:09.440 Tonight's four to three win is the dodgers fifteenth one 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.600 run victory this season. They're fifteen and eleven in one 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.560 run games. Daniel Jewelers presents the home run Forecast. For 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.960 your chance to win a fifty dollars Daniels Jeweler's gift card. 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.320 Visit AM five seventy LA sports dot com. Use the 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.280 keyword home run and to your name you could win. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:32.119 Daniels Jewelers own the dream. Let's go out to Tarzana. Kenny, 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.520 you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Kenny? 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:37.639 I dodn't know well tonight, David? How are you? 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:39.560 Couldn't be better? 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:41.719 King? Terrific? 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.680 So you had mentioned just a couple minutes ago the 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.720 Dodgers record referee eatings. I think he said it's fifty 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:54.159 four to oh right, yeah, it's terrific. So Canner Scott 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:58.600 Obviously all of us were not happy last year, but 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.600 he's got an amazing forty five k's to three walker 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.439 season and verty twelve out of thirteen saves. 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.560 What do you attribute the difference to why do we 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:09.400 have this one to eighty? 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.840 Well, Number one, I just think his head's in a 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:16.800 better spot. He's more comfortable. He's not really feeling the 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.600 weight of his contract and a new team and expectations. 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:25.040 He's just being himself. Number two. It's just different. The 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.240 fastball is different this year. The slider's different. I'm not 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.000 a pitching coach, and Tanner really hasn't been able to 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:35.200 explain it really well what the difference is. He just 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:39.359 said that he's thrown better pitches and his fastball has 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.840 more life. So those are the best answers I could 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:43.119 give you. 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:45.480 Well, I appreciate David. 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:46.760 All right, take care. 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:49.160 There, right, Kenny, thank you for the phone call. Yeah, 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:53.040 it's different. I mean that pitch that Fernando Tatists Junior 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.119 struck out on to end the game. It was an 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.600 eighty seven slider and it did catch the bigger part 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:02.359 of the plate. But I could read Dalton Rushing's lips. 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.480 Here we go again, reading lips. But he was Tanner 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.120 Scott wanted some feedback on a pitch, and I think 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.840 he was asking about that slider to Tattoos, and you 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.480 could read Rushing's lips at the end of the game, 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:18.280 saying it was nasty and that would explain why Tattoos 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.200 Junior didn't swing at a pitch that was eighty seven 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.600 and appear to have the bigger part of the strike zone. 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:27.800 Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:30.520 the phone number. Let's go out to Linda, who is 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.760 at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Linda, you're on Dodger Talk. 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:36.240 Oh, hey, David, how are you. 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:40.720 I think we've established I'm doing pretty good these days, Linda, 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:41.159 how are you? 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.200 I'm good? Thank you, just calling to you know, I 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.120 kind of wanted to chat. I was on hold while 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.560 I was listening, and Showy kind of answered my question. 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.080 But you know, we were at the game. It was great, 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:55.040 it was exciting, it was awesome. 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:55.639 We loved it. 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.320 We loved Tales Grand Slam. But I was sitting so 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:02.840 far away that I couldn't see whether Shohey was hanging 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:04.800 out in the dugout or all. But we didn't see him, 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.600 so we were just a little concerned, and so that 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:11.200 was the reason I called, and he kind of answered 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:14.240 my question. We kind of knew about the knee issue, 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.040 but I don't know if the bicep thing is new. 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:19.880 Well, he said he felt something like this two months 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:23.840 ago and it kind of went away pretty quickly. But Linda, 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:28.440 let's be transparent. If Otani's feeling something more than just 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:32.120 a little discomfort in his right bicep, he's not going 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:34.280 to say it. The Dodgers aren't going to say it. 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:36.840 But he came out of the game and they're admitting 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:39.440