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Speaker 1: David Vase.
Speaker 2: Last day, we are live at Rodgers Center in Toronto,
Speaker 2: after the Dodgers defeat the Blue Jays fourteen to two
Speaker 2: in the first of three games back in Canada. Welcome
Speaker 2: the Dodger Talk David Vasse with you until eight thirty tonight.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. The Dodger offense has come to life
Speaker 2: on this road trip. The Dodgers, in their four game
Speaker 2: winning streak to beg in this road trip, have scored
Speaker 2: a combined forty five runs and have scored double digits
Speaker 2: in three of the four games during this road trip.
Speaker 2: During this four game winning streak and certainly tonight, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers brought out the bats and homerd their way to
Speaker 2: fourteen runs. To a certain extent, it was set up
Speaker 2: by walks, it was set up by good base running,
Speaker 2: as Jose Moto was mentioning, and also there were some
Speaker 2: sacrifice fly situational hitting. It just seemed like the entire
Speaker 2: lineup was flowing tonight and not really getting stagnant and
Speaker 2: trying to do too much Taskar Hernandez and Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: each had two run home runs early in the game,
Speaker 2: Shoho Tani, once the game was out of hand, hit
Speaker 2: a solo home run, and Dalton Rushing hit two home
Speaker 2: runs tonight. He was four for four by far the
Speaker 2: game of his major league career, his very short sample
Speaker 2: size major league career, starting back to back games for
Speaker 2: the first time in his career behind the plate, and
Speaker 2: also starting his third game of the season. Pretty nice
Speaker 2: night for Dalton Rushing, who had a smile from ear
Speaker 2: to ear and is super confident that he is a
Speaker 2: starting major league catcher. The only issue is the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have a guy by the name of Will Smith. But
Speaker 2: the if Dalton Rushing can live up to the hype
Speaker 2: of his minor league career, he certainly is going to
Speaker 2: have a spot in the lineup. He could play catcher,
Speaker 2: he could play first base, and that's only going to
Speaker 2: be better for the Dodgers as they go through the
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two game marathon. Let's head downstairs
Speaker 2: right now to hear from young Dalton rushing on sports
Speaker 2: and at LA.
Speaker 4: How much did it help to be able to kind
Speaker 4: of carry over what you found yesterday into starting today?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was riding a good wave right now and
Speaker 5: the heis are great. So sadly, like I said on
Speaker 5: the field, it's only downhill from here. But but I'm
Speaker 5: gonna ride this wave as long as I possibly can
Speaker 5: and just glad I could help the same one.
Speaker 2: How much research to give you just to sort of
Speaker 2: see results at this level, especially have hot stretch of this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously he was a player, you know what you're
Speaker 5: capable of. But yeah, to your point, to be able
Speaker 5: to do it and uh embrace the moment of it,
Speaker 5: feel it physically, emotionally, it felt very good, and uh yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll see how we can carry.
Speaker 6: It over.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 3: That's that.
Speaker 5: That was It was good. I wouldn't say it was
Speaker 5: Game six or Game seven, but uh no, it was.
Speaker 5: It was good. These fans sadly didn't want to see
Speaker 5: us come to town, and uh, rightfully so after what we
Speaker 5: did tonight. But yeah, I think we all just look
Speaker 5: forward to carrying it over tomorrow and leave our mark
Speaker 5: in Toronto once again.
Speaker 3: The adjustments that.
Speaker 5: You've made kind of tear setup have helped you like
Speaker 5: stay ready, as you said, like no matter.
Speaker 3: What the playing time is.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, I've I've simplified a few things and uh
Speaker 5: realized I don't have to be perfect to see results
Speaker 5: sea power results, uh sea slug and like you said,
Speaker 5: it's it showed tonight, but it's only one of one
Speaker 5: to sixty two, you know. So you're finding that balance
Speaker 5: mentally of being ready to go but not putting too
Speaker 5: much pressure on on each of day. Yeah. I Uh,
Speaker 5: I would say, I guess I learned a lot from
Speaker 5: last year. Last year mentally, I was in a tough
Speaker 5: spot playing the role that I was and just kind
Speaker 5: of kind of trying to figure out how you play
Speaker 5: that role. Uh, And this year I have a little
Speaker 5: better understanding. It's you're you're not going to show up
Speaker 5: and have the game like I had tonight. You're not
Speaker 5: going to show up and get two hits every game,
Speaker 5: whether you're playing every day or you're playing every three days,
Speaker 5: and that was something maybe maybe it was just a
Speaker 5: pill I had to swallow a little bit. And uh,
Speaker 5: once again, I'm just glad I could see results tonight.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Dalton rushing after a four for four
Speaker 2: night with two home runs as the Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Blue Jays fourteen to two, eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number coming up
Speaker 2: after eight o'clock tonight. You'll hear my pregame conversation with
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas as we were standing between home plate and
Speaker 2: the Dodger dugout as he was celebrated a hero keeping
Speaker 2: the Dodgers alive with his game tying home run in
Speaker 2: the ninth inning of Game seven, with the Dodgers down
Speaker 2: to their final two out. So we'll share with you
Speaker 2: that conversation before we say good night. Also, we'll give
Speaker 2: you an update on Mooki Betts and his oblique. You'll
Speaker 2: hear from Mooki and Dave Roberts thought thoughts on how
Speaker 2: Mooky injured his oblique. So we'll get to that in
Speaker 2: a moment, but first just want to share with you
Speaker 2: you know, being back here in Toronto brings back a
Speaker 2: lot of memories for all of us part of the
Speaker 2: broadcast team, not only just the players I know, speaking
Speaker 2: for myself, just the weather coming through the same airport.
Speaker 2: We didn't come through the same terminal this time, we
Speaker 2: went through a private terminal with private customs. But today
Speaker 2: this morning, waking up and coming outside of the team hotel,
Speaker 2: the weather was frigid like it was before Games one
Speaker 2: and Games two, and Game six and Game seven. So
Speaker 2: the feel in the air was that October World Series
Speaker 2: feel in the air. And since we're staying at the
Speaker 2: same hotel as we stayed at during the World Series,
Speaker 2: it was kind of the same routine, if you will.
Speaker 2: And you remember the hotel lobby. When I walked out,
Speaker 2: I walked down the same streets I did before Games one, two, six,
Speaker 2: and seven here in Toronto, So all of that was
Speaker 2: the same. And I was freezing my butt off then
Speaker 2: and I was freezing my butt off today as well.
Speaker 2: So maybe that's part of the reason why there was
Speaker 2: so many feelings and hype around this series, even though
Speaker 2: we all realized that these two teams at this point
Speaker 2: in time in the season are going in completely different directions.
Speaker 2: The Blue Jays have lost five in a row. Now
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' offense is in a humming rhythm. After scoring
Speaker 2: fourteen more runs tonight, The Dodgers have won all four
Speaker 2: games on this road trip. They have basically their entire
Speaker 2: lineup inttag from last year's Game seven, with the exception
Speaker 2: of Mookie bats being on the il. For the Blue Jays,
Speaker 2: their catcher, the guy that grounded into the World Series
Speaker 2: ending double play, Alejandro Kirk, just had surgery on his
Speaker 2: left thumb today. There without trey Ya Savage, who had
Speaker 2: some shoulder issue in spring training. He's making rehab starts.
Speaker 2: Barger who Addison Barger, who has doubled off second base
Speaker 2: to end Game six, hurt his ankle yesterday in Chicago.
Speaker 2: And Bob Baschett, who was such a big part of
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays offense last year, was allowed to sign
Speaker 2: with the Mets. So for those reasons, among others, this
Speaker 2: when these two teams go between the lines, it's not
Speaker 2: the same head to head tail of the tape matchup
Speaker 2: from the World Series a year ago. But being here
Speaker 2: and being with the Dodgers this early in the season
Speaker 2: brings back all those memories. I mean, when you walk
Speaker 2: through the Dodger Clubhouse, the first thing I did was
Speaker 2: look to my right where their batting cage is all
Speaker 2: set up. The last time I saw that place, keiy
Speaker 2: A Hernandez was telling the world about my nipples. So
Speaker 2: that was the last time I saw that. And you
Speaker 2: have those memories as well. And I remember standing in
Speaker 2: front of the Dodger dugout around the same time of
Speaker 2: day before Game six and Game seven, and Max Munsey
Speaker 2: calmly and confidently telling me the Dodgers were going to
Speaker 2: win both games. Before each and every one of those games,
Speaker 2: one player today that was a key part of the
Speaker 2: Dodgers winning Game seven. As I asked him, did you
Speaker 2: look out to left field? Well, all right, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you who it was, Will Smith. As I asked Will
Speaker 2: Smith when I said, did you look out to left
Speaker 2: field today? He said no, turn the page, David. So uh,
Speaker 2: that was one train of thought. Yamamoto was a little
Speaker 2: bit more reflective. Max Munsey, who coming into this series
Speaker 2: is in a bit of a slump, but tonight started
Speaker 2: to come out of it. He was not in a
Speaker 2: great mood to talk about last year because he's trying
Speaker 2: to figure out this year and today Munsey was two
Speaker 2: for six with three strikeouts. Miguel Rojas, you'll hear from
Speaker 2: in the next hour, was all in the moment and
Speaker 2: will always be in the moment because this is his
Speaker 2: last season in the big leagues, and he said he
Speaker 2: wants to take it all in. So different guys have
Speaker 2: different mentalities. Ta Oscar Hernandez a four RBI game tonight,
Speaker 2: you know, played here, has a lot of fun playing here,
Speaker 2: has a lot of tight friendship still, namely with Vladimir
Speaker 2: Guerrero Junior. So for different guys, they have different feelings
Speaker 2: about you know, how much they want to look back.
Speaker 2: And Andy pa Has who you know, made one of
Speaker 2: the more memorable catches in World Series history, knocking over
Speaker 2: keik A Hernandez to make an incredible catch in left field.
Speaker 2: He joined us on Instagram and you could see that
Speaker 2: at AM five to seventy LA Sports and at official
Speaker 2: Lyve Assay he talked about how he when he stepped
Speaker 2: on the field earlier this afternoon, looked out there and
Speaker 2: thought about that catch. So different guys have different feelings.
Speaker 2: Some guys are more about the here and the now
Speaker 2: and won't even allow themselves to think about last year.
Speaker 2: But I can't wait for Will Smith and Miguel Rojas
Speaker 2: to come to the plate, hopefully tomorrow in game two
Speaker 2: of this series and really feel the love from these
Speaker 2: Blue Jays fans. Eight six six seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays
Speaker 2: tonight fourteen to two. When we continue from Rogers Center,
Speaker 2: we'll get to your phone calls, and also you hear
Speaker 2: from Miguel Rojas, will give you an update on Mookie bets,
Speaker 2: and you'll hear from Freddie Freeman. So a lot to
Speaker 2: get to between now and a thirty after the Dodgers
Speaker 2: keep it rolling fourteen to two, the final score over
Speaker 2: the reeling Blue Jays on the back to back world
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Speaker 7: Man toply delivers a two to one and old Tani
Speaker 7: blisters of all left center fuel, pushing Barshall back on
Speaker 7: the warning track. He turns and watches it fly show. Hey,
Speaker 7: Old Tony with his third home run of this road trip,
Speaker 7: a solo shot to off the six.
Speaker 1: Show.
Speaker 2: Hey Otani pouring it on for the Dodgers as they
Speaker 2: defeat the Blue Jays tonight fourteen to two. Dalton rushing
Speaker 2: homer twice for the Dodgers, ti Oscar Hernandez and Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman each had two run home runs as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: had not only scored fourteen runs, not only had five
Speaker 2: home runs, but they collected seventeen hits. That's right, seventeen hits.
Speaker 2: Hay Song Kim got his first start since being called
Speaker 2: up at shortstop. He was two for four with the
Speaker 2: run score in the ninth spot. The only Dodgers starter
Speaker 2: that did not have a hit tonight was Alex Friedland,
Speaker 2: who was zero for five starting at second base. Daniels
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Speaker 2: seven is the phone number. Let's head back downstairs to
Speaker 2: the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from Freddie Freeman, who certainly
Speaker 2: is loved by Canada but very resented by Canada these days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, obviously results are going to make you
Speaker 4: feel better about yourself. Just trying to do the same
Speaker 4: work routine that I've been doing the last few days
Speaker 4: before the game, before the games and before practice, and
Speaker 4: things have been you know, starting to fall a little
Speaker 4: bit more and there's still one didn't fall. But it's
Speaker 4: okay with better results lately, with.
Speaker 2: This offensive performance from the group, I mean, how do
Speaker 2: you just kind of put towards where this team is
Speaker 2: at and how you guys really feeding.
Speaker 4: Off of each other offensively. That's what I was about
Speaker 4: to say. We're feeding off each other. Tao getting big,
Speaker 4: you know, getting runs on board in the first inning,
Speaker 4: Andy staying hot. Let's not talk about it. Let's just
Speaker 4: let them keep going. Dalton, huge game, Everyone just you know,
Speaker 4: doing their part. Cho Kyle of working walks, getting on bass,
Speaker 4: sacrifies moving guys over getting them in. It's just a
Speaker 4: quality game on both sides of the ball today. Justin
Speaker 4: was great. Bopan came in, did the great job, played great, defense,
Speaker 4: and we obviously hit today crowd.
Speaker 2: Crowd was fired up before the game, a lot of booms.
Speaker 2: Did you feel like you just took them.
Speaker 3: Out of it?
Speaker 4: I mean, when you score a lot of runs, you're
Speaker 4: going to take a crowd out of it. This is
Speaker 4: kind of how it goes, you know. Obviously, I think
Speaker 4: the media and everyone else was a little bit more
Speaker 4: hyped up than because it's a new team, new year.
Speaker 4: We got different guys on our team too, but we
Speaker 4: obviously understand it's a World Series matchup. But you know,
Speaker 4: it's just nice that Tale was able to get us
Speaker 4: on the board just and settled down after the first
Speaker 4: inning and we just kept going on filing on runs.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: There's Freddy Freeman, who you know after the World Series.
Speaker 2: I mean, Freddie is such a great guy and is
Speaker 2: a big part of a children's hospital in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: and also children's hospital here in Toronto and Canada. And
Speaker 2: Ryan Reynolds, who's also a fellow Canadian, enlisted Freddie to
Speaker 2: be part of a great commercial with kids that actually
Speaker 2: are at children's hospital here Canada. I believe it was Toronto,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure you know which commercial I'm talking about,
Speaker 2: but Freddie did such a great job. The kids did
Speaker 2: such a great job, so that that is one of
Speaker 2: the highlights of the Blue Jays losing the World Series
Speaker 2: to have some comedic relief in a good way for
Speaker 2: a great cause, and Freddie Freeman doing a great job
Speaker 2: for the kids as always. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Bob in Malibu. You're on Dodger Talk Live
Speaker 2: from Rogers Center.
Speaker 6: Hi, Bob, Hey, thanks for having me on, and I man,
Speaker 6: what a way to come back in Toronto tonight. Man,
Speaker 6: that was an excellent win quick question for you. In
Speaker 6: Sunday's game in the DC Days, I noticed, and I
Speaker 6: don't know what the protocol is on the team, You'll
Speaker 6: have to explain it to us, but I noticed when
Speaker 6: Andy pa has who's Who's come out to a killer start,
Speaker 6: he tapped the helmet and made a call on a
Speaker 6: pitch that was pretty clear it was a strike. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but I almost feel like he made that call to
Speaker 6: see the pitch on the screen because he hit the
Speaker 6: same pitch to bring in the runs two pitches later.
Speaker 6: Is that something that they have the green light to
Speaker 6: do as hitters if they want to get a feel
Speaker 6: for a pitch, Dave, is that something that's in their
Speaker 6: repertoire to do.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. Andy was just wrong, flat out wrong on
Speaker 2: that pitch. And the Dodgers do have a strategy Max months.
Speaker 2: He touched on it last week in an interview and
Speaker 2: said that basically they want to give Will Smith and
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing as many opportunities to challenge behind the plate
Speaker 2: for their pitchers. But the Dodgers offensive group, I've talked
Speaker 2: to Aaron Bates about this, and it's about score, it's
Speaker 2: about inning, it's about leverage counts. Is it really going
Speaker 2: to flip the count in the hitters favor if they
Speaker 2: do challenge something borderline? So they have a thought process
Speaker 2: about it going into it. And yeah, there's a big strategy,
Speaker 2: more of a strategy than what they had in spring training.
Speaker 6: Understood that makes sense. I just didn't know if Andy
Speaker 6: was trying to see that pitch.
Speaker 3: No, he made up for it.
Speaker 2: He just made up for it. He just made up
Speaker 2: for Dee for wasting a challenge.
Speaker 6: He sure did. Man.
Speaker 3: All right, Bob, thank you for the phone call.
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Speaker 3: Of a fighter.
Speaker 2: All Right, Haysung Kim, like I mentioned, got his first
Speaker 2: start since being called back up with the injury to
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts right oblique. Kim was two for four, played
Speaker 2: great shortstop today. Certainly is going to be out there
Speaker 2: a lot more until Mooki returns, and especially if he
Speaker 2: plays defense like that. He made an incredible catch in
Speaker 2: the middle of this game that was over the shoulder.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at my note seventh inning off Andres Jimenez.
Speaker 2: He was facing going out towards left field and made
Speaker 2: an incredible, like snap catch over the shoulder.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: He was really good tonight at shortstop, even turning an
Speaker 2: unassisted double play. So a great first started shortstop for
Speaker 2: Hasan Kim to start this season for him. And speaking
Speaker 2: of Mookie Betts, we had a chance to catch up
Speaker 2: with Mookie before the game just to get some clarity
Speaker 2: on how this injury happened. In the second game of
Speaker 2: the series in Washington, DC.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think when Freddie hit it, I just
Speaker 8: took off running and I felt a little grab I mean,
Speaker 8: I can still run into everything. Now it's just probably
Speaker 8: can't swing, you know, I can go throw to everything,
Speaker 8: just swinging out. I don't know it would be great.
Speaker 8: But I felt pretty normal. Yeah, after I walked, I
Speaker 8: went the first It was a perfectly normal day. So
Speaker 8: that's why I don't I don't know where it came
Speaker 8: from or how it happened to prepare or do everything.
Speaker 8: I've been doing it right. I'll give myself credit. I've
Speaker 8: been doing it right, and so I don't know where
Speaker 8: it came from other than just God send the message.
Speaker 3: Playing the web side at eighteen?
Speaker 2: Was it on a similar player?
Speaker 5: Was that a swing?
Speaker 8: That was a swing? I was a swing in the cage.
Speaker 8: That was a swing in the cage? Yeah, a day game,
Speaker 8: so remember I remember that, and uh that was before
Speaker 8: the game. So this is nothing, for real close to that.
Speaker 2: So this is probably less severe than that.
Speaker 3: Much less much much less severely.
Speaker 8: I'll be I should be back a little quicker than that.
Speaker 5: He won the MVP that year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so uh, we'll see.
Speaker 8: Uh, we'll see how I goes this time.
Speaker 6: HM.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: That was Mookie Bets earlier today when we were asking
Speaker 2: him about the right obleak injury. What's interesting is that
Speaker 2: he said he can do almost everything except swing the bat,
Speaker 2: and he's saying that he didn't injure his right oblique
Speaker 2: or feel the grab on a check swing during that
Speaker 2: at bat, despite you know, I had a former teammate
Speaker 2: of his text that they thought he did it on
Speaker 2: a two to two check swing. He had three check
Speaker 2: swings during that first inning at bat in the middle
Speaker 2: game of the series at Nationals Park, and if you
Speaker 2: go back and watch the replay, you could see him
Speaker 2: kind of grab something a little. You can seem kind
Speaker 2: of flinch with the check swing on the two to
Speaker 2: two count, but he's saying that he felt it running. Now,
Speaker 2: it's kind of weird that he can run, he can throw,
Speaker 2: but he can't swing the bat, even though he's saying
Speaker 2: that he didn't do it on a check swing, And
Speaker 2: even Dave Roberts thought that was kind of weird.
Speaker 9: I also think it's a good thing that he doesn't
Speaker 9: really know how he heard it. I would still argue
Speaker 9: that it's from the check swing, but I think he
Speaker 9: feels that he did it running, which is you know,
Speaker 9: when you look at the old leaks, that doesn't happen
Speaker 9: very often. So but so again, that there's no one point.
Speaker 9: I think that's a good thing. So, yeah, we're hopeful. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I think we're all hopeful.
Speaker 2: But the obliques are very tricky, and you don't want
Speaker 2: to come back too soon from an oblique injury because
Speaker 2: you can make it a lot worse. Mooki knows his
Speaker 2: body better than anybody, so for him to say that
Speaker 2: it's a lot less severe than when he felt it
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen on a swing, that's encouraging as well.
Speaker 2: But you think back to everything we talked about with
Speaker 2: Mooki during spring training. You know, he saw him with
Speaker 2: since a YadA on his shoulders. We've seen him throw darts,
Speaker 2: We've seen him do a lot of stuff, but not
Speaker 2: as much baseball stuff in spring training as much as
Speaker 2: if you had to like divide a pie of baseball
Speaker 2: versus you know, weight training and some of the stuff
Speaker 2: that he's incorporating through the Yamamoto and since a YadA training,
Speaker 2: and the fact that there was a lot of load management,
Speaker 2: as far as him getting into games later than usual,
Speaker 2: spring training being longer for him considering it was the
Speaker 2: first normal spring training he said in a long time.
Speaker 2: All those things, you know, you could second gas and
Speaker 2: ask questions about but the reality is he felt it,
Speaker 2: and he's thirty three years old playing the most demanding position.
Speaker 2: So those things, unfortunately do pop up after thirty years
Speaker 2: old if you're a professional athlete, and you just hope
Speaker 2: that they're minimal things and you just don't want to
Speaker 2: come back too soon because it can make it a
Speaker 2: lot worse. And think about this, how many teams could
Speaker 2: lose a player of Mookie BET's caliber and not miss
Speaker 2: a beat. Not many, But the Dodgers can, I mean,
Speaker 2: what are they down to now? Seven all stars in
Speaker 2: their starting lineup, Otani, Kyle Tucker, Freddie Freeman, tay Oscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez Pajez is the hottest hitter in baseball Moncie. They
Speaker 2: had their backup catcher going four for four with two
Speaker 2: home runs tonight. So the point is the Dodgers can
Speaker 2: absorb or this injury to Mookie Bets more than other
Speaker 2: teams could, So you don't want to rush anything back,
Speaker 2: and that's something the Dodgers don't do very often with
Speaker 2: pitchers or position players. Eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Blue Jays tonight fourteen to two on a night where
Speaker 2: fake tough guy Max Schurzer told the Blue Jays he
Speaker 2: was good enough to start this game even though he
Speaker 2: was dealing with right forearm tendonitis. And that's the diagnosis
Speaker 2: that Blue Jays manager John Schneider gave to the media
Speaker 2: after tonight's game. He said, the Blue Jays were very
Speaker 2: aware that Scherzer was dealing with this right forearm tendonitis,
Speaker 2: but they went ahead to start him knowing that it
Speaker 2: could be abbreviated, which it was. He only lasted two
Speaker 2: innings and only threw thirty six pitches. And there was
Speaker 2: some buzz around the Dodger dugout the Dodger Clubhouse that
Speaker 2: Schuzer may not have even made this start. So if
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays were trying to keep it a secret,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers kind of had an inkling something was going on.
Speaker 2: So it proved to be true. The Dodgers got to
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays bullpen in a big way. Schurezer did
Speaker 2: give up the two run home run to Taoscar Hernandez,
Speaker 2: but then reliever Josh Fleming was charged with what four runs.
Speaker 2: Then Joe Mantiply, former diamondback continuing his diamondback trend, gave
Speaker 2: up three earned runs, and then you had another reliever,
Speaker 2: Tommy Nance, give up a home run Adulton rushing. He
Speaker 2: was charged with four runs. So it just turned into
Speaker 2: a mess for the Blue Jays. Eight six six seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Miguel Rojas ended
Speaker 2: this game pitching. I would not have liked to have
Speaker 2: seen that. Just let Enriquez pitch. He only threw eleven
Speaker 2: pitches in that eighth inning. Just let him finish out
Speaker 2: the game. No need to risk any injury to a
Speaker 2: thirty seven year old guy who you kind of need
Speaker 2: with Mookie Betts being hurt. Now, I know that's kind
Speaker 2: of a gimmick. I wouldn't be surprised if Rojas said, yeah,
Speaker 2: come on, Dave, let me pitch. I just would have
Speaker 2: played it a little safer. But the Dodgers came out
Speaker 2: of it okay. Rojas came out of it okay. And
Speaker 2: Rojas obviously public enemy number one here in Toronto, and
Speaker 2: it was pretty cool to interview him on the field
Speaker 2: here at Rogers Center between home plate and the Dodger
Speaker 2: dug out, where he was celebrating with his team after
Speaker 2: hitting that game tying home run in the ninth inning
Speaker 2: of Game seven of the World Series. Here was our
Speaker 2: pregame conversation with the World Series hero.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a great feeling, a lot of emotions, of course,
Speaker 10: coming back here in such a short time. You know,
Speaker 10: it feels like it was a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 10: and we're back into the same series. To be honest
Speaker 10: with you, this is one of the things that you
Speaker 10: never kind of like prepare for. You just gotta leave it.
Speaker 10: And that's why my expectations this whole year are just
Speaker 10: gonna be to be in the moment, because I want
Speaker 10: to enjoy everything that happened last year.
Speaker 3: Obviously it's in the past already, but.
Speaker 10: I mean, we're gonna have some some things that we
Speaker 10: that we can remember and feel proud for, and this is.
Speaker 3: One of them.
Speaker 10: Coming back to this country and knowing what we have
Speaker 10: to come through to to be back to back champions,
Speaker 10: it means a lad and I'm looking forward to enjoy
Speaker 10: this year.
Speaker 2: Did you have any issues coming across the border. I
Speaker 2: was worried about that the Canadians might stop you.
Speaker 3: No, nothing, nothing happened.
Speaker 10: They were actually really nice over there last night when
Speaker 10: we got.
Speaker 3: Here long day yesterday.
Speaker 10: We have the way on the field and I'm really
Speaker 10: proud of the way the guys.
Speaker 3: Everybody in the in the team has been.
Speaker 10: Doing their part to uh to get w So it's
Speaker 10: been from the contributions up and down the line up,
Speaker 10: starting pitching, booping, it's been amazing.
Speaker 3: And I was talking to.
Speaker 10: The guys a little bit yesterday before we take a
Speaker 10: little shot for the sweep that it's really fun to
Speaker 10: watch to see everybody kind of like stepping in in
Speaker 10: the game, like guys like Alex Cole and Santiago Espinal
Speaker 10: yesterday getting the first hitting.
Speaker 3: A big time. It's really fun to be part of
Speaker 3: the Dodgers right now.
Speaker 2: Why does it always seem to happen when teams come
Speaker 2: together on road trips.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I just feel like we had a little, a little
Speaker 10: thing going that is like a family reunion every time
Speaker 10: we get to go on the road. We like enjoying
Speaker 10: time together on the plane. Bus rides with us are
Speaker 10: are really fun. Were always trying to keep it loose
Speaker 10: and trying to connect and get together because obviously spring
Speaker 10: training you're together for six months for six weeks. I'm sorry,
Speaker 10: but you're not really doing much together, so I feel
Speaker 10: like this is our time to kind of like get
Speaker 10: to know people, get to know personalities.
Speaker 3: And it's being really nice to.
Speaker 10: See Ed doing and Talker and Santiago and the guys
Speaker 10: who just got to the team feeling comfortable and starting
Speaker 10: to feel like how it is to be a Dodger.
Speaker 3: On and off the field.
Speaker 2: Speaking of bus rides, everybody's asked you about every single
Speaker 2: thing of Game seven, but one thing we've never heard.
Speaker 2: What was the bus ride like on the way to
Speaker 2: the stadium and what was the bus like after you
Speaker 2: had the trophy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, on the way to the stadium.
Speaker 10: When we landed, we were down three two, right and
Speaker 10: we have to win two games. And that was one
Speaker 10: of the most like outgoing fun loo a lot of
Speaker 10: music people were like really really lose, having a good time,
Speaker 10: knowing that we have the opportunity to come here and
Speaker 10: we're gonna play in front of a really, uh tough
Speaker 10: environment because these people right here in Canada, they know
Speaker 10: how to leave baseball, and obviously that creates a lot
Speaker 10: of anxiety and you kind of can be nervous. But
Speaker 10: that was right, kind of like gods like gardas going
Speaker 10: and being loose, and then all of a sudden, we
Speaker 10: show up to practice the next day.
Speaker 3: And Dog is in there in between seconds and they're
Speaker 3: right there. So I feel like there's a lot.
Speaker 10: Of things from getting out of the LA and losing
Speaker 10: that game game five, coming here and then everything changed
Speaker 10: just because we got together again. We connected, and we
Speaker 10: knew it was gonna be hard, but we we we
Speaker 10: we would lose. And we have to credit that to
Speaker 10: a lot of guys on our team, guys who've been
Speaker 10: here before in this situation, Freddie, Mookie and Kicking and
Speaker 10: the guys who were kind of playing every day. And
Speaker 10: I told something to the guys on the boss. I say, guys,
Speaker 10: I'm playing tomorrow and I have him played a month,
Speaker 10: So you guys better help me out.
Speaker 3: Because I don't wanna. I don't want to.
Speaker 10: Be the reason why we're losing this war series. So
Speaker 10: the guys, let me play. Let me play my part
Speaker 10: in game six and games seven, and and.
Speaker 3: I'm glad that we are.
Speaker 2: We got the word series such a big part. What
Speaker 2: was the bus ride like after game seven?
Speaker 10: Yeah, after saying it was more celebration and pure joy,
Speaker 10: you know, just like singing songs and and having.
Speaker 3: A good time.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you were singing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, me and Kick were doing a lot of the singing,
Speaker 10: but all of the guys in the on the balls
Speaker 10: were We're singing the song that we were playing, for sure.
Speaker 10: That's gotta I gotta keep that one to me and
Speaker 10: the boys.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was.
Speaker 10: It was a great boss ride and obviously an amazing
Speaker 10: time to be with the boys and kind of like
Speaker 10: celebrate the championship.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 2: It's truly a privilege to be on the field back
Speaker 2: in Toronto with you, so thank you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm really grateful that I'm back here, that I
Speaker 10: have another opportunity to play in this stadium. A lot
Speaker 10: of good memories, and I know my family was here too,
Speaker 10: and I will always remember that.
Speaker 3: The face of my kids when.
Speaker 10: I got out of the hotel, and then I see
Speaker 10: him around the field before we leave the trophy he
Speaker 10: wasn't pretty special, beautiful.
Speaker 2: Hey, the game rewards you and your wife had something
Speaker 2: to do with it too, So enjoy this time. You
Speaker 2: deserve it, and hopefully when you get in there tonight
Speaker 2: or tomorrow, the booze are as loud as they possibly can.
Speaker 10: Be I'm not expecting anything, to be honest with you,
Speaker 10: I'm okay with really big change that I had in LA.
Speaker 10: So I will live with that the rest of my life.
Speaker 10: And I would love my LA fans forever.
Speaker 2: Forever, and they will always love miguelas Thanks a lot
Speaker 2: for the time, Miguel appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas certainly will go down in Dodger history, baseball
Speaker 2: history for one of the greatest moments in World Series history,
Speaker 2: one of the greatest home runs in World Series history.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers down to their final two outs last year
Speaker 2: in Game seven, and let's not forget about the plays
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas made defensively. I think that gets overshadowed by
Speaker 2: the home run. I mean, he made a great pick
Speaker 2: of a throw that was short hopped by Kei a
Speaker 2: Hernandez to double off Addison Barger and force the Game seven,
Speaker 2: and then keeping the Dodgers hopes alive with the infield
Speaker 2: in and you know, a hard ground ball, he loses
Speaker 2: his balance and is able to throw a strike to
Speaker 2: Will Smith. And just so many times you look back
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers could have lost the World Series, but
Speaker 2: their execution was greater than the Blue Jays and games
Speaker 2: and Game seven, and to me, that was the difference
Speaker 2: in the Dodgers winning and losing that series. If you
Speaker 2: want to hear the full interview again, you can find
Speaker 2: it on the iHeartRadio app. Also, I have tweeted out
Speaker 2: the video of the interview at the Real Underscore DV
Speaker 2: with Miguel Rojas. And tomorrow we taped an interview with
Speaker 2: Yoshi Yamamoto that you will hear before tomorrow's game, before
Speaker 2: he makes the start the World Series. MVP Yama Moto
Speaker 2: will be on the mound for the Dodgers tomorrow, going
Speaker 2: up against Kevin Gossman. Our coverage begins at three o'clock,
Speaker 2: first pitch at four to seven. Thanks to Colin Ye
Speaker 2: back at our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out
Speaker 2: here at Rogers Center in Toronto, and thanks to you
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Speaker 2: The final score tonight from Toronto, Canada. The Dodgers blow
Speaker 2: out the Blue Jays fourteen to two. Have a great
Speaker 2: rest of your night. See you