WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (4-6-26) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.000 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:07.280 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:12.000 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:13.160 the fifth fifth. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.840 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.000 Here we go again. We're running back. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.280 To get him on the show called eight six six, 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.159 nine eighty seven two five seven, and be sure to 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.960 follow Dodger Talk wherever you get your podcasts. Here's your host, 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:29.400 David Vase. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.800 Last day, we are live at Rodgers Center in Toronto, 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.680 after the Dodgers defeat the Blue Jays fourteen to two 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.720 in the first of three games back in Canada. Welcome 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.559 the Dodger Talk David Vasse with you until eight thirty tonight. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.479 Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.320 the phone number. The Dodger offense has come to life 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.840 on this road trip. The Dodgers, in their four game 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.760 winning streak to beg in this road trip, have scored 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:06.640 a combined forty five runs and have scored double digits 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.080 in three of the four games during this road trip. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.160 During this four game winning streak and certainly tonight, the 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.280 Dodgers brought out the bats and homerd their way to 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.240 fourteen runs. To a certain extent, it was set up 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.000 by walks, it was set up by good base running, 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.080 as Jose Moto was mentioning, and also there were some 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.280 sacrifice fly situational hitting. It just seemed like the entire 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:36.480 lineup was flowing tonight and not really getting stagnant and 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.520 trying to do too much Taskar Hernandez and Freddie Freeman 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.920 each had two run home runs early in the game, 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.160 Shoho Tani, once the game was out of hand, hit 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.680 a solo home run, and Dalton Rushing hit two home 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.680 runs tonight. He was four for four by far the 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.600 game of his major league career, his very short sample 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.960 size major league career, starting back to back games for 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.920 the first time in his career behind the plate, and 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:10.320 also starting his third game of the season. Pretty nice 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.120 night for Dalton Rushing, who had a smile from ear 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.080 to ear and is super confident that he is a 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.639 starting major league catcher. The only issue is the Dodgers 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.680 have a guy by the name of Will Smith. But 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:27.560 the if Dalton Rushing can live up to the hype 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.040 of his minor league career, he certainly is going to 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.360 have a spot in the lineup. He could play catcher, 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.560 he could play first base, and that's only going to 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.560 be better for the Dodgers as they go through the 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.440 one hundred and sixty two game marathon. Let's head downstairs 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.040 right now to hear from young Dalton rushing on sports 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:46.600 and at LA. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:48.880 How much did it help to be able to kind 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.280 of carry over what you found yesterday into starting today? 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.880 Yeah, I was riding a good wave right now and 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.440 the heis are great. So sadly, like I said on 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.720 the field, it's only downhill from here. But but I'm 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.600 gonna ride this wave as long as I possibly can 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.200 and just glad I could help the same one. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.320 How much research to give you just to sort of 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.880 see results at this level, especially have hot stretch of this. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.359 Yeah, obviously he was a player, you know what you're 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.560 capable of. But yeah, to your point, to be able 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.160 to do it and uh embrace the moment of it, 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:29.679 feel it physically, emotionally, it felt very good, and uh yeah, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:30.960 we'll see how we can carry. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:31.200 It over. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:32.919 There. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:33.840 That's that. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.920 That was It was good. I wouldn't say it was 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.640 Game six or Game seven, but uh no, it was. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.040 It was good. These fans sadly didn't want to see 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.760 us come to town, and uh, rightfully so after what we 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.360 did tonight. But yeah, I think we all just look 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.480 forward to carrying it over tomorrow and leave our mark 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:52.440 in Toronto once again. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:54.160 The adjustments that. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.600 You've made kind of tear setup have helped you like 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.760 stay ready, as you said, like no matter. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:03:59.720 What the playing time is. 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.640 Like, yeah, I've I've simplified a few things and uh 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.840 realized I don't have to be perfect to see results 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:12.200 sea power results, uh sea slug and like you said, 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.360 it's it showed tonight, but it's only one of one 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.840 to sixty two, you know. So you're finding that balance 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.159 mentally of being ready to go but not putting too 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.600 much pressure on on each of day. Yeah. I Uh, 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.200 I would say, I guess I learned a lot from 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.960 last year. Last year mentally, I was in a tough 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.960 spot playing the role that I was and just kind 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.719 of kind of trying to figure out how you play 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.800 that role. Uh, And this year I have a little 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.000 better understanding. It's you're you're not going to show up 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.039 and have the game like I had tonight. You're not 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:44.600 going to show up and get two hits every game, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.279 whether you're playing every day or you're playing every three days, 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:49.880 and that was something maybe maybe it was just a 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.159 pill I had to swallow a little bit. And uh, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.800 once again, I'm just glad I could see results tonight. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.440 All right, there's Dalton rushing after a four for four 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.400 night with two home runs as the Dodgers beat the 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.359 Blue Jays fourteen to two, eight six six nine eight 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.840 seven two five seventy is the phone number coming up 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.880 after eight o'clock tonight. You'll hear my pregame conversation with 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.680 Miguel Rojas as we were standing between home plate and 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.839 the Dodger dugout as he was celebrated a hero keeping 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.960 the Dodgers alive with his game tying home run in 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.279 the ninth inning of Game seven, with the Dodgers down 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.440 to their final two out. So we'll share with you 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.320 that conversation before we say good night. Also, we'll give 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.920 you an update on Mooki Betts and his oblique. You'll 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:40.080 hear from Mooki and Dave Roberts thought thoughts on how 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.560 Mooky injured his oblique. So we'll get to that in 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.320 a moment, but first just want to share with you 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.280 you know, being back here in Toronto brings back a 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.400 lot of memories for all of us part of the 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.839 broadcast team, not only just the players I know, speaking 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:59.440 for myself, just the weather coming through the same airport. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.600 We didn't come through the same terminal this time, we 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.839 went through a private terminal with private customs. But today 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.360 this morning, waking up and coming outside of the team hotel, 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.680 the weather was frigid like it was before Games one 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.400 and Games two, and Game six and Game seven. So 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.600 the feel in the air was that October World Series 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.880 feel in the air. And since we're staying at the 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.440 same hotel as we stayed at during the World Series, 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.240 it was kind of the same routine, if you will. 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.280 And you remember the hotel lobby. When I walked out, 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:40.880 I walked down the same streets I did before Games one, two, six, 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.919 and seven here in Toronto, So all of that was 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.800 the same. And I was freezing my butt off then 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.080 and I was freezing my butt off today as well. 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.840 So maybe that's part of the reason why there was 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.760 so many feelings and hype around this series, even though 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.680 we all realized that these two teams at this point 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:06.040 in time in the season are going in completely different directions. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.719 The Blue Jays have lost five in a row. Now 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:13.040 the Dodgers' offense is in a humming rhythm. After scoring 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.480 fourteen more runs tonight, The Dodgers have won all four 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.200 games on this road trip. They have basically their entire 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.760 lineup inttag from last year's Game seven, with the exception 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.320 of Mookie bats being on the il. For the Blue Jays, 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.120 their catcher, the guy that grounded into the World Series 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.200 ending double play, Alejandro Kirk, just had surgery on his 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.040 left thumb today. There without trey Ya Savage, who had 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.120 some shoulder issue in spring training. He's making rehab starts. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:50.200 Barger who Addison Barger, who has doubled off second base 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:54.360 to end Game six, hurt his ankle yesterday in Chicago. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.160 And Bob Baschett, who was such a big part of 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.640 the Blue Jays offense last year, was allowed to sign 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:06.080 with the Mets. So for those reasons, among others, this 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.480 when these two teams go between the lines, it's not 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:16.040 the same head to head tail of the tape matchup 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.679 from the World Series a year ago. But being here 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.160 and being with the Dodgers this early in the season 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.360 brings back all those memories. I mean, when you walk 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.840 through the Dodger Clubhouse, the first thing I did was 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.760 look to my right where their batting cage is all 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.160 set up. The last time I saw that place, keiy 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:38.600 A Hernandez was telling the world about my nipples. So 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.000 that was the last time I saw that. And you 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.880 have those memories as well. And I remember standing in 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.920 front of the Dodger dugout around the same time of 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.800 day before Game six and Game seven, and Max Munsey 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.920 calmly and confidently telling me the Dodgers were going to 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.480 win both games. Before each and every one of those games, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.440 one player today that was a key part of the 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.400 Dodgers winning Game seven. As I asked him, did you 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.679 look out to left field? Well, all right, I'll tell 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.160 you who it was, Will Smith. As I asked Will 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.040 Smith when I said, did you look out to left 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.320 field today? He said no, turn the page, David. So uh, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:21.120 that was one train of thought. Yamamoto was a little 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:25.040 bit more reflective. Max Munsey, who coming into this series 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.720 is in a bit of a slump, but tonight started 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.640 to come out of it. He was not in a 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.280 great mood to talk about last year because he's trying 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.040 to figure out this year and today Munsey was two 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.840 for six with three strikeouts. Miguel Rojas, you'll hear from 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:43.720 in the next hour, was all in the moment and 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.880 will always be in the moment because this is his 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:48.960 last season in the big leagues, and he said he 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.320 wants to take it all in. So different guys have 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:57.040 different mentalities. Ta Oscar Hernandez a four RBI game tonight, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.800 you know, played here, has a lot of fun playing here, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.640 has a lot of tight friendship still, namely with Vladimir 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.679 Guerrero Junior. So for different guys, they have different feelings 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.600 about you know, how much they want to look back. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.079 And Andy pa Has who you know, made one of 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:18.720 the more memorable catches in World Series history, knocking over 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.200 keik A Hernandez to make an incredible catch in left field. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.840 He joined us on Instagram and you could see that 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.240 at AM five to seventy LA Sports and at official 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.160 Lyve Assay he talked about how he when he stepped 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.200 on the field earlier this afternoon, looked out there and 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:40.679 thought about that catch. So different guys have different feelings. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.000 Some guys are more about the here and the now 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.560 and won't even allow themselves to think about last year. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.040 But I can't wait for Will Smith and Miguel Rojas 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.360 to come to the plate, hopefully tomorrow in game two 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.600 of this series and really feel the love from these 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:00.760 Blue Jays fans. Eight six six seven two five seventy 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.720 is the phone number. The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:08.280 tonight fourteen to two. When we continue from Rogers Center, 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.600 we'll get to your phone calls, and also you hear 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.600 from Miguel Rojas, will give you an update on Mookie bets, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.880 and you'll hear from Freddie Freeman. So a lot to 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.040 get to between now and a thirty after the Dodgers 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.360 keep it rolling fourteen to two, the final score over 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.280 the reeling Blue Jays on the back to back world 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:30.360 champion Dodgers Audio Network. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:31.560 On five seventy. 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.959 Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy, LA sports 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:39.000 dot Com, hand on the iHeartRadio app. Back to more 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.880 Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David vasse. 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.120 Man toply delivers a two to one and old Tani 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.040 blisters of all left center fuel, pushing Barshall back on 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:53.640 the warning track. He turns and watches it fly show. Hey, 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.600 Old Tony with his third home run of this road trip, 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.319 a solo shot to off the six. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:02.840 Show. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.360 Hey Otani pouring it on for the Dodgers as they 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.520 defeat the Blue Jays tonight fourteen to two. Dalton rushing 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:14.040 homer twice for the Dodgers, ti Oscar Hernandez and Freddie 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.959 Freeman each had two run home runs as the Dodgers 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.760 had not only scored fourteen runs, not only had five 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:27.280 home runs, but they collected seventeen hits. That's right, seventeen hits. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.400 Hay Song Kim got his first start since being called 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.640 up at shortstop. He was two for four with the 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.440 run score in the ninth spot. 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Let's head back downstairs to 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.880 the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from Freddie Freeman, who certainly 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:12.000 is loved by Canada but very resented by Canada these days. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.079 Yeah, I mean, obviously results are going to make you 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.640 feel better about yourself. Just trying to do the same 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.520 work routine that I've been doing the last few days 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.960 before the game, before the games and before practice, and 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.200 things have been you know, starting to fall a little 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.040 bit more and there's still one didn't fall. But it's 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.160 okay with better results lately, with. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.560 This offensive performance from the group, I mean, how do 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.640 you just kind of put towards where this team is 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.120 at and how you guys really feeding. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.640 Off of each other offensively. That's what I was about 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.520 to say. We're feeding off each other. Tao getting big, 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.440 you know, getting runs on board in the first inning, 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.560 Andy staying hot. Let's not talk about it. Let's just 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.960 let them keep going. Dalton, huge game, Everyone just you know, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.800 doing their part. Cho Kyle of working walks, getting on bass, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.160 sacrifies moving guys over getting them in. It's just a 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.000 quality game on both sides of the ball today. Justin 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.920 was great. Bopan came in, did the great job, played great, defense, 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.400 and we obviously hit today crowd. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.600 Crowd was fired up before the game, a lot of booms. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.000 Did you feel like you just took them. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:09.280 Out of it? 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.640 I mean, when you score a lot of runs, you're 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:13.959 going to take a crowd out of it. This is 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.960 kind of how it goes, you know. Obviously, I think 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.480 the media and everyone else was a little bit more 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.320 hyped up than because it's a new team, new year. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.960 We got different guys on our team too, but we 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.760 obviously understand it's a World Series matchup. But you know, 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:31.280 it's just nice that Tale was able to get us 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.080 on the board just and settled down after the first 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.600 inning and we just kept going on filing on runs. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:36.440 All right. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.600 There's Freddy Freeman, who you know after the World Series. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.920 I mean, Freddie is such a great guy and is 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.680 a big part of a children's hospital in Los Angeles 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:50.120 and also children's hospital here in Toronto and Canada. And 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.440 Ryan Reynolds, who's also a fellow Canadian, enlisted Freddie to 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.440 be part of a great commercial with kids that actually 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:02.400 are at children's hospital here Canada. I believe it was Toronto, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.960 and I'm sure you know which commercial I'm talking about, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.160 but Freddie did such a great job. The kids did 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.720 such a great job, so that that is one of 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:15.560 the highlights of the Blue Jays losing the World Series 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.720 to have some comedic relief in a good way for 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.920 a great cause, and Freddie Freeman doing a great job 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.360 for the kids as always. Eight six six nine eight 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.280 seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.800 out to Bob in Malibu. You're on Dodger Talk Live 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:32.720 from Rogers Center. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.080 Hi, Bob, Hey, thanks for having me on, and I man, 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.680 what a way to come back in Toronto tonight. Man, 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.680 that was an excellent win quick question for you. In 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.440 Sunday's game in the DC Days, I noticed, and I 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.440 don't know what the protocol is on the team, You'll 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.720 have to explain it to us, but I noticed when 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.800 Andy pa has who's Who's come out to a killer start, 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.040 he tapped the helmet and made a call on a 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.440 pitch that was pretty clear it was a strike. Yeah, 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.240 but I almost feel like he made that call to 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.360 see the pitch on the screen because he hit the 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.520 same pitch to bring in the runs two pitches later. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.720 Is that something that they have the green light to 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.080 do as hitters if they want to get a feel 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.320 for a pitch, Dave, is that something that's in their 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:18.240 repertoire to do. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.680 Absolutely not. Andy was just wrong, flat out wrong on 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:27.240 that pitch. And the Dodgers do have a strategy Max months. 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.840 He touched on it last week in an interview and 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.720 said that basically they want to give Will Smith and 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.280 Dalton Rushing as many opportunities to challenge behind the plate 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.360 for their pitchers. But the Dodgers offensive group, I've talked 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:45.400 to Aaron Bates about this, and it's about score, it's 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.680 about inning, it's about leverage counts. Is it really going 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.000 to flip the count in the hitters favor if they 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.960 do challenge something borderline? So they have a thought process 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:59.239 about it going into it. And yeah, there's a big strategy, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.160 more of a strategy than what they had in spring training. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.560 Understood that makes sense. I just didn't know if Andy 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:06.840 was trying to see that pitch. 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:08.200 No, he made up for it. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:10.520 He just made up for it. He just made up 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.119 for Dee for wasting a challenge. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:14.600 He sure did. Man. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.560 All right, Bob, thank you for the phone call. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.240 Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:24.480 number Today's game brought to you by Modello Modello the mark. 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:25.120 Of a fighter. 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.920 All Right, Haysung Kim, like I mentioned, got his first 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.000 start since being called back up with the injury to 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.760 Mookie Betts right oblique. Kim was two for four, played 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.720 great shortstop today. Certainly is going to be out there 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.240 a lot more until Mooki returns, and especially if he 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.959 plays defense like that. He made an incredible catch in 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.360 the middle of this game that was over the shoulder. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.960 I'm looking at my note seventh inning off Andres Jimenez. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.480 He was facing going out towards left field and made 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.840 an incredible, like snap catch over the shoulder. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:17:59.439 Uh. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.399 He was really good tonight at shortstop, even turning an 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.439 unassisted double play. So a great first started shortstop for 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.800 Hasan Kim to start this season for him. And speaking 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.080 of Mookie Betts, we had a chance to catch up 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:17.359 with Mookie before the game just to get some clarity 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.560 on how this injury happened. In the second game of 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.280 the series in Washington, DC. 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:24.800 Yeah, I don't know. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.480 I mean, I think when Freddie hit it, I just 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.240 took off running and I felt a little grab I mean, 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.159 I can still run into everything. Now it's just probably 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.200 can't swing, you know, I can go throw to everything, 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.160 just swinging out. I don't know it would be great. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:45.879 But I felt pretty normal. Yeah, after I walked, I 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:49.320 went the first It was a perfectly normal day. So 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.840 that's why I don't I don't know where it came 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.360 from or how it happened to prepare or do everything. 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.879 I've been doing it right. I'll give myself credit. I've 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:00.640 been doing it right, and so I don't know where 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.680 it came from other than just God send the message. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.960 Playing the web side at eighteen? 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:07.680 Was it on a similar player? 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:08.520 Was that a swing? 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:10.600 That was a swing? I was a swing in the cage. 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:15.000 That was a swing in the cage? Yeah, a day game, 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.000 so remember I remember that, and uh that was before 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.240 the game. So this is nothing, for real close to that. 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:23.360 So this is probably less severe than that. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:25.479 Much less much much less severely. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.840 I'll be I should be back a little quicker than that. 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:31.679 He won the MVP that year. 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:33.920 Yeah, so uh, we'll see. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:35.480 Uh, we'll see how I goes this time. 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:35.919 HM. 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:37.000 All right. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.959 That was Mookie Bets earlier today when we were asking 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:44.160 him about the right obleak injury. What's interesting is that 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:49.560 he said he can do almost everything except swing the bat, 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.160 and he's saying that he didn't injure his right oblique 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.040 or feel the grab on a check swing during that 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.080 at bat, despite you know, I had a former teammate 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.520 of his text that they thought he did it on 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.359 a two to two check swing. He had three check 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.639 swings during that first inning at bat in the middle 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.480 game of the series at Nationals Park, and if you 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.600 go back and watch the replay, you could see him 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.680 kind of grab something a little. You can seem kind 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:20.240 of flinch with the check swing on the two to 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:24.400 two count, but he's saying that he felt it running. Now, 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.840 it's kind of weird that he can run, he can throw, 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:32.000 but he can't swing the bat, even though he's saying 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.320 that he didn't do it on a check swing, And 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.560 even Dave Roberts thought that was kind of weird. 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.040 I also think it's a good thing that he doesn't 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:44.760 really know how he heard it. I would still argue 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:46.920 that it's from the check swing, but I think he 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.560 feels that he did it running, which is you know, 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.200 when you look at the old leaks, that doesn't happen 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.000 very often. So but so again, that there's no one point. 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:01.800 I think that's a good thing. So, yeah, we're hopeful. Yeah, 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:02.960 I think we're all hopeful. 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.440 But the obliques are very tricky, and you don't want 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.920 to come back too soon from an oblique injury because 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.960 you can make it a lot worse. Mooki knows his 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.679