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Speaker 2: up twelve runs and beat the Astros twelve to two.
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Speaker 2: one today, taking two out of three from Houston by
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Speaker 2: this again for the third straight year. Eight six to six,
Speaker 2: nine to eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: As you know, last night was a disappointing loss for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, especially with the way Otani pitched seven strong innings,
Speaker 2: gave up just two solo home runs, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: lost two to one after scoring eight runs in the
Speaker 2: first two in the first game of this series. So
Speaker 2: they score eight runs in the first game in Houston,
Speaker 2: they scored twelve games in the last game in Houston
Speaker 2: and beat the Astros twelve to two. The only concerning
Speaker 2: part is we're starting to get back to a boom
Speaker 2: or bust Dodger offense, and that's kind of their identity, right.
Speaker 2: That's why we shine such a light on the fact
Speaker 2: that they went six straight games without a home run,
Speaker 2: because if they don't homer, the chances of this offense
Speaker 2: scoring and winning are not very good. I mean, you
Speaker 2: look back, nobody has acknowledged this. It's not like the
Speaker 2: Dodgers strung together a lot of hits in Game seven
Speaker 2: of last year's World Series. It was three solo home
Speaker 2: runs that produced all three runs to beat the Blue
Speaker 2: Jays in Game seven of last year's World Series. So
Speaker 2: agree with it, disagree with it. The Dodgers are a
Speaker 2: slugging team, but the way they they slug is in
Speaker 2: the process of swinging at pitches in the strike zone,
Speaker 2: taking a lot of walks, and that's something we haven't
Speaker 2: seen consistently from the Dodgers the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: But today Andy PAHs, who I believe in the last
Speaker 2: four games has gone back to being Andy pa has
Speaker 2: ignoring too much information and just knowing his strike zone,
Speaker 2: being aggressive and decisive with his swing on where he
Speaker 2: knows he can do damage. And that's exactly what he
Speaker 2: did today, hitting three home runs for the first time
Speaker 2: in his major league career, driving in six RBIs. I
Speaker 2: know the last one was against a position player, but
Speaker 2: that third inning three run home run with two outs
Speaker 2: really stood out to me to a guy that has
Speaker 2: gone back to being aggressive, knowing his strike zone and
Speaker 2: not trying to guess what the pitcher is going to
Speaker 2: throw in a certain count. You know, I had the
Speaker 2: privilege of talking to one of the all time great
Speaker 2: hitting coaches and hitting minds and former Dodger Reggie Smith
Speaker 2: this morning. Reggie just reminded me that you've got to
Speaker 2: watch the game. And Lance mccullors junior is a guy
Speaker 2: that has a lot of pitches in his back pocket.
Speaker 2: He wasn't really executing any of those secondary pitches, so
Speaker 2: you start to discard some of those pitches that you
Speaker 2: know the guy can't throw for a strike. And that's
Speaker 2: exactly what Andy poh has did today, and that's part
Speaker 2: of the reason why he was so successful in that
Speaker 2: at bat, hitting a three run home run with two outs,
Speaker 2: and it's the first time in a while that Andy
Speaker 2: Poh has has had multi I hit games back to back.
Speaker 2: He had three hits last night. He had two three
Speaker 2: hits today. So that's a great sign. And let's not
Speaker 2: move him up and down the order. When Andy pa
Speaker 2: has started the season red hot, he was in the
Speaker 2: seven to seventh spot. Let's just leave him there. Every
Speaker 2: time the Dodgers try to move him up, it seems
Speaker 2: like he puts, he changes, and there's no need to change.
Speaker 2: So Paz is so vital to that six, seven, eight
Speaker 2: nine part of the Dodgers order, and that's where he
Speaker 2: was hitting today. Now I understand why Dave Roberts has
Speaker 2: tried to move Paz up. It's because he's not getting
Speaker 2: a lot from his right handed hitters so far. You
Speaker 2: look at the right handed hitters in particular, Taioscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: and Will Smith against left handed pitching this year, they
Speaker 2: don't have a home run Taioskar or Smith against the
Speaker 2: lefty and the group of right handed hitters the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have have only had a seven forty ops against lefties
Speaker 2: and only have two home runs. Those two home runs
Speaker 2: came from Pahz and Rojas. So the Dodgers. If you remember,
Speaker 2: in the off season of twenty three going into twenty four,
Speaker 2: wanted to sign Taoscar Hernandez because he was really good
Speaker 2: against left handed pitching. The last two years he has
Speaker 2: not been and Taoscar is in a big slump. He
Speaker 2: was hitting third today he was hitless again, So the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have hopefully can get him a day off more
Speaker 2: often than they have to start the year, because you
Speaker 2: need to get Taoscar off your feet. Dave Roberts talked
Speaker 2: about that in spring training and they haven't done it.
Speaker 2: Alex call is a great option until tom Yedman and
Speaker 2: keyk Hernandez come back. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Astros today twelve to two. We'll get to your phone
Speaker 2: calls in a moment, but we want to head back
Speaker 2: to Houston right now because Tyler Glass now just spoke
Speaker 2: to the media about what he was feeling as he
Speaker 2: was warming up for the second inning and had to
Speaker 2: leave because of lower back pain.
Speaker 3: Tyler, you've been having such an excellent season. Can you
Speaker 3: just describe what you felt going into that second inning
Speaker 3: of work and what led to just some of that
Speaker 3: lower back pain you're dealing with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just like a normal, well not normal, but
Speaker 4: like a spasm that kind of just gives out. I've
Speaker 4: gotten it since like high school, just like being tall.
Speaker 4: I guess I get it like a couple of times
Speaker 4: a year. It's just a warm up pitch and it
Speaker 4: gave out, and I try to throw another one and
Speaker 4: it just it was like too hard to bend over.
Speaker 5: But it's not too serious. I've had this a few times.
Speaker 4: It's just one of those things where it's thrown out
Speaker 4: and once it feels better, it feels better, and it
Speaker 4: shouldn't be too long.
Speaker 3: If I recall last year, I think when we were
Speaker 3: in Baltimore, you had missed a start due to this.
Speaker 3: Is it similar to that kind of and being able
Speaker 3: to likely post your next one?
Speaker 5: I don't really know.
Speaker 4: I can't comment on it now, I guess, but it's
Speaker 4: like the same type of thing, like just yeah, just
Speaker 4: like a spasm.
Speaker 5: You've had, delta, but this or just sort of just
Speaker 5: give you peace of mind. It's like this is sort
Speaker 5: of like a one off type of thing.
Speaker 4: I'm not like worried about it at all. It's more
Speaker 4: about just like I hope I can come back sooner
Speaker 4: than later. But it's it doesn't seem to feel too serious,
Speaker 4: so I'm not too worried about it.
Speaker 5: So you feel during the first thing and all it.
Speaker 4: Is, it's just like a random everything felt really good,
Speaker 4: and then I threw that warm up pitch and I
Speaker 4: could just feel it.
Speaker 6: I'll give out, which typically like dictates how quickly you
Speaker 6: come back from this kind of thing, just like how
Speaker 6: you feel like it.
Speaker 5: It's more like the next few days.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's longer and sometimes it's shorter, but it doesn't
Speaker 4: feel it too bad right now.
Speaker 5: It's never like too long.
Speaker 4: It's just more about like however much time I do
Speaker 4: take off, I have to build back up. But I'm
Speaker 4: trying to go as quick as possible, obviously not trying
Speaker 4: to make it any worse.
Speaker 5: But I'm not super worried about it. But we'll see.
Speaker 5: As I started feeling better since you first felt it today, Yeah,
Speaker 5: so it's hard to tell like day of, but it's not.
Speaker 4: It's not too bad, so hopefully it will be better
Speaker 4: the next couple of days.
Speaker 2: All right, So I guess the flight back to LA
Speaker 2: from Houston, that's not ideal for a bad back. Maybe
Speaker 2: he'll do the Larry and Tyler Glassnow will lay down
Speaker 2: in the center aisle of the Dodgers' number one plane,
Speaker 2: player's only plane, which is very spacious. I've ridden on
Speaker 2: that plane once before, so he should have enough room
Speaker 2: and be able to get the treatment he needs on
Speaker 2: the way back from Houston. If you're wondering, Okay, Tyler
Speaker 2: glass Now, let's put him on the IL miss a
Speaker 2: start and Blake Snell could just slide into his next
Speaker 2: start day. Well, it's a little bit more complicated because
Speaker 2: Blake Snell is going to make one more rehab start
Speaker 2: Saturday in Ontario. At least that was the plan before
Speaker 2: glass Now's injury. I don't see the Dodgers deviating from
Speaker 2: that plan. But all the talk and debate by people
Speaker 2: in the media about who's the odd man out when
Speaker 2: Blake Snell comes back all of a sudden is a
Speaker 2: moot point. When you have Glassnell dealing with a bad
Speaker 2: back that could land him on the IL all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, Sheehan, Roki Robleski. There's room for all of them,
Speaker 2: and the next start for glass Now would likely be Monday,
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Speaker 2: for the first time today. Let's go out to the LBC.
Speaker 2: Mike lead us off on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: I'd just like to say, it's a beautiful day here
Speaker 7: in southern California. So let's get Glass now out of
Speaker 7: the humidity, get him a massage. And it feels great
Speaker 7: to beat the brakes off the Astros, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: I mean anytime you get a win, right, I know
Speaker 2: what you're alluding to, the twenty seventeen Astros. Carlos Korea,
Speaker 2: by the way, out for months now with an angle injury. Yeah,
Speaker 2: nobody will ever get over the twenty seventeen World Series
Speaker 2: if they were wearing a Dodger uniform that day, Mike,
Speaker 2: or if you're a Dodger fan, So yeah, nobody will
Speaker 2: ever get over that, no matter how much they want
Speaker 2: to deny it publicly, some more than others. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the Dodgers beating up on Lance mccullors, who
Speaker 2: was part of that seventeen Astros team.
Speaker 5: Heh, yeah, it was.
Speaker 7: It was a good day.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 7: It was fun.
Speaker 2: Yes, we've established it's a good day. Mike, you live
Speaker 2: in Long Beach. Congratulations, we know it's beautiful. Stop rubbing
Speaker 2: it in our faces. Thanks for the phone call, Mike.
Speaker 2: Let's go out, geez, we know you live in a
Speaker 2: great area. Let's go out to Shane on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Shane? You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing?
Speaker 2: Is it a beautiful day where you live?
Speaker 8: To Shane, Actually it's kind of windy, so that it
Speaker 8: was not a great day. But I sure can get
Speaker 8: some good use. You know. I love the game today.
Speaker 8: We won. I like to talk about Otani a little bit.
Speaker 8: But if there's any way that I can get.
Speaker 2: The don't beg don't don't don't act.
Speaker 8: No. If there's any way that I can see that Otani,
Speaker 8: it seems that it seems like he he he goes
Speaker 8: after some of these pitches I mean, it looks like
Speaker 8: he looks silly sometimes when he's when he's going after it,
Speaker 8: especially when there's there's something like that are down the
Speaker 8: street or are down in the middle and you know,
Speaker 8: the little kerr balls and things like that. So I
Speaker 8: have a little concern with that because I think he's
Speaker 8: a better hitter. He seems the greatest hitter ever. But
Speaker 8: I would like to see him, you know, go after
Speaker 8: these sliders or whatever he's going to go after, you know,
Speaker 8: a little bit better instead of letting them and let
Speaker 8: him go a little bit instead of trying to, you know, uh,
Speaker 8: get a home run on it. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: No, But I'll give you tickets to will Smith. Netflix.
Speaker 2: Is a joke, Gayla Tomorrow. It seems like that's what
Speaker 2: you want, Shane.
Speaker 8: Well, I appreciate that, but I really wanted to talk
Speaker 8: about the autony thing.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 8: I just seems like when he's when he's when he's hitting.
Speaker 2: I'll just make it simpler for you, Shane. He's the
Speaker 2: greatest hitter player in the game right now. But I
Speaker 2: today he did look tired. I thought it was incredibly
Speaker 2: fortunate for him to be able to double in the
Speaker 2: third inning because he surrounded the baseball, and if you
Speaker 2: watch the replay, he's barely watching the ball hit the bat,
Speaker 2: And that just screams of a guy that was exhausted
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the game. But he's so great
Speaker 2: that he was able to double. So I understand what
Speaker 2: you're saying to a certain extent, but you trying to
Speaker 2: talk about certain pitches that he should hit shouldn't hit.
Speaker 2: Then we're all starting to go outside of our lanes.
Speaker 8: Okay, fair enough. I appreciate that. It just it makes
Speaker 8: a little sense.
Speaker 2: And where are you calling from, Shane? I don't know
Speaker 2: to do you want to go to the Will Smith
Speaker 2: comedy show tomorrow?
Speaker 8: Oh? I would love to can I Is that okay?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Is it okay?
Speaker 8: I would love to Yes, I will go.
Speaker 2: I would love to do. All right, hold on, Shane,
Speaker 2: we'll get your information. Congratulations. Shane seems like a guy
Speaker 2: that needs a laugh, and he'll be out there tomorrow
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Speaker 2: five seventy. By the way, you know, in a game
Speaker 2: like this where Pahez hits three home runs, drives in
Speaker 2: six runs, the Dodgers have seven extra base hits all
Speaker 2: in all, you might have forgotten how the Dodgers scored
Speaker 2: their first three runs. And for an offense that was
Speaker 2: kind of struggling, it was nice to get three freebies
Speaker 2: because the Dodgers scored their first three runs today on
Speaker 2: wild pitches by Lance mccullors junior. The last time that
Speaker 2: happened was August fourteenth, nineteen sixty nine, when the Phillies
Speaker 2: used three wild pitches from the Braves to score their
Speaker 2: first three runs. So that doesn't happen very often, and
Speaker 2: certainly obviously it hasn't happened since nineteen sixty nine. So
Speaker 2: thank you to the Elias Sports Bureau for looking that up,
Speaker 2: because that was very strange. Kyle Tucker was wild pitch
Speaker 2: home to tie the game at one, and then in
Speaker 2: the third inning while Freddie Freeman's standing there at the plate,
Speaker 2: two runs scored on wild pitches, first Alex Friedland and
Speaker 2: then when he scored, Otani moved up ninety feet and
Speaker 2: was at third base when mccullor's junior uncourked another one.
Speaker 2: So that's how the Dodgers scored their first three runs today.
Speaker 2: They go on to beat the Astros twelve to two,
Speaker 2: take two out of three in Houston. Disappointing they couldn't
Speaker 2: win yesterday they only scored one run with Otani pitching
Speaker 2: seven innings, but they'll take a split on the road trip.
Speaker 2: Losing two out of three in Saint Louis and then
Speaker 2: coming back and taking care of business against the Astros.
Speaker 2: Let's go back out to the phones, Manny in downtown.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Manny?
Speaker 9: I can't complain in DV seventy seven degrees as live
Speaker 9: in one of the best cities in the world. My
Speaker 9: Dodgers just beat Houston, and that's always good. I'm one
Speaker 9: of those jaded fans from twenty seventeen. No matter how
Speaker 9: many titles we get, that one's always gonna have a
Speaker 9: bad taste in my mouth. But you know what, it's
Speaker 9: always a little bit better when they beat those guys.
Speaker 9: So shout out to my boys. Great job in Houston.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, man. The reason why we will
Speaker 2: never get over that is the narrative that Kershaw was
Speaker 2: not a good postseason pitcher. Could have been changed that
Speaker 2: year because Game five he was unbelievable. He pitched a
Speaker 2: great Game one of that World Series. And then you
Speaker 2: think about guys like Rich Hill and Andre e Thier,
Speaker 2: Logan Forsyth. They never got another chance to win a
Speaker 2: World Series. Not to mention Chase Utley's last major League game,
Speaker 2: was Game seven, so is andre Ethiers of the World
Speaker 2: Series that year. So it changed lives, make no mistake
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 9: Oh and I'm embracing the whole evil Empire thing from
Speaker 9: here on out fully, So I'm a fully evil Dodgers.
Speaker 9: However the other MLB fans want to call it, I
Speaker 9: love it, so I live for that. I do want
Speaker 9: to just mention, though, everyone not to panic about Glass. Now,
Speaker 9: he sounded pretty confident, but you know, it's never ideal
Speaker 9: when your pitcher goes out with the backspasm. But this
Speaker 9: team is built by Andrew Friedman just specifically for times
Speaker 9: like this. You know, they got the three guys, Robleski, Rokie, Shaheen,
Speaker 9: she and she and sheh He's having They're all having
Speaker 9: great years. Well, Rokie up and down. But you know,
Speaker 9: like you mentioned many times on Dodger Talk, the game
Speaker 9: finds people. And you know, all this talk about sending
Speaker 9: Roki down or blah blah blah, guess what, we can't
Speaker 9: afford to send him down.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 9: Now it's another chance for him to maybe get back
Speaker 9: on the whole, try to figure things out. And you know,
Speaker 9: I'm rooting for him because he has a lot of
Speaker 9: raw talent, so maybe this is another chance for him
Speaker 9: to go at it. And one last thing I'll say
Speaker 9: to the guy who won the tickets at the gala,
Speaker 9: have a great time, buddy, you deserve it. Don't stress
Speaker 9: about the greatest hitter ever. Maybe Will Smith will pull
Speaker 9: you aside and kind of show you some stuff why
Speaker 9: he's the best. So don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: All right, Manny, you could be there with the guy
Speaker 2: that won tickets, because I have a pair of tickets
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 9: Wow, I'm on, you know what, DV. Can I do
Speaker 9: something that's very rare these days? I like the passos
Speaker 9: tickets forward to the next caller, if that's okay. I
Speaker 9: have to work tomorrow, and I'm very solid at work,
Speaker 9: but I about the passos up to the next guy.
Speaker 5: All right, Maddie.
Speaker 2: I like that gratitude. I like that unselfishness. So hopefully
Speaker 2: we see you at Dodgers Stadium on this home stand.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, Manny. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 2: beat the Astros today twelve to two. Show. Hey O
Speaker 2: Tani got out of his slump. He had two It's today.
Speaker 2: He was zero for eighteen, coming into his at bat
Speaker 2: in the third inning when he doubled Alex Friedland to
Speaker 2: third base. And look, here's my idea for show, hey Otani,
Speaker 2: If there's any way the Dodgers can do this, I
Speaker 2: think it might benefit him as far as recovery time
Speaker 2: and just taking some of the load off being a
Speaker 2: two way player again. They had lined up his pitch
Speaker 2: days to be Wednesday because they had a lot of
Speaker 2: Thursdays off in the first six weeks of the season. Well,
Speaker 2: Thursdays are pretty much an off day in baseball, whether
Speaker 2: it's a travel day or just a true off day
Speaker 2: like tomorrow. But if the Dodgers were able to re
Speaker 2: establish when Otani pitches and starts games to a Sunday
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you could sit him on a
Speaker 2: Monday or there are Monday days off, And if you
Speaker 2: look at Sunday's their day games. So he's not starting
Speaker 2: at seven ten, he's starting at one ten. He could
Speaker 2: have the rest of Sunday into Monday to recover. His
Speaker 2: bullpen day wouldn't have to be until Wednesday, and since
Speaker 2: Wednesday is his start day still true to form, Thursdays
Speaker 2: are usually a travel day. Or an off day. If
Speaker 2: the Dodgers somehow Someway could reset his start days to Sunday,
Speaker 2: I feel like that would take a lot of the
Speaker 2: load off of him having to bounce back as quickly
Speaker 2: as he's being asked to bounce back right now. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure when they can do that, whether it's when
Speaker 2: Snell returns or not, but I think Sundays are are
Speaker 2: maybe the best day for Otani to start moving forward.
Speaker 2: We'll see if the Dodgers agree. Eight six six, nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Eric and Hollywood. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 10: Eric Dodger Day Shoo back to back chatis beating that
Speaker 10: asterix keyster v. He sorry, man, I am will never
Speaker 10: forget twenty seventeen. So as gracious as you want a
Speaker 10: CV as Dodger fans out there, I'm never ever gonna
Speaker 10: forget twenty seventeen. But I love team fas roping three
Speaker 10: homers against them. That made me feel good. Glad he's
Speaker 10: getting back on track. A man O'tani was punishing the
Speaker 10: cheeks throws today, just punishing him today, and I didn't.
Speaker 10: I didn't think he looked tired at all.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 10: I mean, he's a two way player, one of the
Speaker 10: greatest players I've ever seen, and of course he's gonna
Speaker 10: have swings and stuff, so I'm not really worried about it.
Speaker 10: It's one hundred and one hundred and fifty two to
Speaker 10: sixty two game season, you know what I mean, he's
Speaker 10: gonna be He's gonna have those. I'm just worried about
Speaker 10: the postseason. That's all I care about. But YODVI wanted
Speaker 10: us shared some good news with you.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 10: My son was born on three twenty five, twenty six,
Speaker 10: and he already hates the Astros bro alrighty.
Speaker 2: Alady dods, all right, all right, Eric, I see what
Speaker 2: you did there. That's great. Congratulations on the new addition
Speaker 2: to the family. Eight sixty six, nine seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's go out to Primo in South Central.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Primo?
Speaker 7: I'm doing pretty good, guys.
Speaker 11: I just wanted to drop in the fact that when
Speaker 11: we we, I'm like, I'm a Dodger fan. I do
Speaker 11: it post Dodger danger. But but it's we. We don't
Speaker 11: really mean we hate.
Speaker 12: A team that's a rival, because the teams that I
Speaker 12: that I rival against, I really like them because they're
Speaker 12: great teams. I know, because I hate the Giants naturally,
Speaker 12: and and I hate the Houston Astros, but.
Speaker 11: But they have great players. I love Al Tube. It's
Speaker 11: just like Boston and the Lakers. I would write, I
Speaker 11: hate the Celtics.
Speaker 7: But really I know everybody. I know mL Cars record.
Speaker 8: Uh uh uh just knowing it.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 7: The Killers against the Raiders.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we don't.
Speaker 7: Really hate them. We we just it's just a sporting
Speaker 7: of course. And well, I want to beat these Astros
Speaker 7: on Hey, a.
Speaker 2: A primo win a little bit too far. He doesn't
Speaker 2: want to hate any other teams, but he's gonna drop
Speaker 2: some a holes on the radio. You can't go that far, Primo.
Speaker 2: We get it. We get it when you say, hey,
Speaker 2: it's in a sporting fashion, thank you for the life lesson.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to uh, let's go out to uh Claremont,
Speaker 2: Gabby and Claremont. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Gabby.
Speaker 13: Hey, how's it going.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's a beautiful day in Claremont, Burbank and uh
Speaker 2: wherever you may.
Speaker 5: Be listening exactly.
Speaker 7: I just want to say, no one gives Roberts enough credit.
Speaker 7: He's a big a.
Speaker 3: At the end if he's losing, but when he's winning,
Speaker 3: nobody nobody gives him that hey high five.
Speaker 2: I actually feel like, uh, I actually feel like Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts has been getting a lot of credit and it's
Speaker 2: crazy that it took winning back to back championships to
Speaker 2: get that valid from the fan base. I agree with you, Gabby.
Speaker 2: I thought the fan base was a little too harsh
Speaker 2: on him. But the guy that I feel doesn't get
Speaker 2: enough love is Andrew Friedman. Without these players, without Andrew Freedman,
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman, the guy that puts it all together.
Speaker 5: Gabby, I know I'm kidding.
Speaker 2: I know exactly. See, oh joke, So you like jokes?
Speaker 2: You want to go to the joke then tomorrow?
Speaker 13: Oh yes, I would love to thank you.
Speaker 2: Well, if you see Andrew Friedman, you better be nice
Speaker 2: to him.
Speaker 6: I am.
Speaker 13: I have a gift for him.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what's that?
Speaker 10: I made him a Dodger T shirt.
Speaker 13: I make T shirts, so I made him one.
Speaker 7: Hopefully he's there, all right.
Speaker 2: Well, if you want to be serious about this thing,
Speaker 2: I think Dave Roberts gets more than enough credit. I
Speaker 2: don't feel like enough people talk about Andrew Friedman because
Speaker 2: he's put together a powerhouse going back to twenty fifteen.
Speaker 7: I agree, all right, it sure does.
Speaker 2: And if you're going to say Dave Roberts in one sentence,
Speaker 2: you better say Andrew Friedman in the same sentence. All right, Gabby,
Speaker 2: hold on, hold on.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't get Claremont humors, so hopefully you can learn
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Speaker 2: the way, I mentioned this during the Clubhouse Show. It
Speaker 2: was great to see Freddie Freeman bounce back on this
Speaker 2: road trip because the last homestand was ugly and I
Speaker 2: know Freddy got that illness that was going through the
Speaker 2: Dodger clubhouse, but he looked really lethargic, and it could
Speaker 2: have been because he was hit by it. He was
Speaker 2: just three for twenty five on the last home stand.
Speaker 2: On this road trip, Freddie hit three seventy five with
Speaker 2: two doubles and four RBIs. So that was good to see.
Speaker 2: And let's see him carry that over against his former team,
Speaker 2: the Atlanta Braves, the team with the best record in
Speaker 2: the National League. They're going to be at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: starting Friday night. So we hope to see you at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium over the weekend to really feel the event
Speaker 2: of being at a Dodger game, especially against the caliber
Speaker 2: of team like the Atlanta Braves. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Loch Rasenna. Mark, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Mark.
Speaker 13: Hey, David, how's it going.
Speaker 2: It's going great.
Speaker 13: I know we've talked about Pahes a little bit already today,
Speaker 13: but I just talk about.
Speaker 2: Him MOREZ keep talking.
Speaker 13: I was worried about him last year for the postseason
Speaker 13: and that he was going to slump this year, but
Speaker 13: he started out really strong and then he slumped a
Speaker 13: little bit again. I'm like, oh no, I hope he's
Speaker 13: not going through that again. And it looks like he's
Speaker 13: turning the corner again, and I'm hoping for positive going forward.
Speaker 13: Just a great guy. Three home runs today, You couldn't
Speaker 13: ask for anything better.
Speaker 2: Well, he just looks like a different guy, Mark, going
Speaker 2: back to spring training, he put a lot of work
Speaker 2: in to try to be a more selective hitter. He's
Speaker 2: put in the preparation during the offseason during spring training,
Speaker 2: and it wasn't a surprise that he was able to
Speaker 2: come out and hit the way he did to start
Speaker 2: the year. But the biggest thing for Pahes is to
Speaker 2: limit these type of slumps, and so far, I would
Speaker 2: say he's passed the first test of limiting the slump
Speaker 2: because he didn't let it extend to a one for
Speaker 2: thirty or an zero for twenty. He came out of
Speaker 2: it pretty well.
Speaker 14: Yeah he did.
Speaker 13: I mean, we all loved him hitting close to four
Speaker 13: hundred and would hope that that would continue for the season,
Speaker 13: but obviously reality sets in and that's likely going to
Speaker 13: be impossible. But still happy about him nonetheless.
Speaker 2: And he's playing great center field. Thanks for the phone call, Mark, appreciated. Paz,
Speaker 2: by the way, with the three home runs today has
Speaker 2: eight home runs. Max Munsey leads the team with nine.
Speaker 2: Paez is sitting three thirty six after having six hits
Speaker 2: in his last two games. Yeah, last night he had
Speaker 2: three hits as well. Tonight or today he homer three
Speaker 2: times and drove in six runs. So his average back
Speaker 2: up to three thirty six, his ops back up to
Speaker 2: nine forty five, and both of those are the best
Speaker 2: on the team for a guy that plays every day.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Eugene, Oregon. Tom listening on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. Hi, Tom, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 15: Hey, David, just real quickly. You know what, I gotta
Speaker 15: agree with Gaby and you. The Dodgers front office is
Speaker 15: just light years ahead of everybody else. I mean with
Speaker 15: the minor leagues. When they pull in these free agents
Speaker 15: and how they handle their team, it's just really, you know,
Speaker 15: a model for the rest of the league. So instead
Speaker 15: of everybody complaining about ooh, the dog evil Empire too
Speaker 15: much money, everybody should be trying to copy what the
Speaker 15: Dodgers are doing.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at Hayesong Kim. They signed him with
Speaker 2: international money for twelve million dollars and at the time
Speaker 2: that he he the Dodgers owned an option on him,
Speaker 2: so in twenty seven and twenty eight they could be
Speaker 2: paying him five million dollars for premier player that plays
Speaker 2: stellar defense. They traded Dustin Made to the Red Sox
Speaker 2: last year, or I shouldn't say they. Andrew Friedman traded
Speaker 2: Dustin May to the Red Sox last year. Dustin May
Speaker 2: made five starts for the Red Sox. They went nowhere,
Speaker 2: and he acquired Zach Earhart and James Tibbs, the third
Speaker 2: who was tearing up Triple A for five starts of
Speaker 2: Dustin May.
Speaker 14: Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Tom, I love that validation. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: I think it's proven by the Mets record. They have
Speaker 2: spent almost as much as the Dodgers payroll this year.
Speaker 2: It proves that money and payroll does not guarantee a
Speaker 2: winning season or a championship. And the Mets, you look
Speaker 2: at their roster, where the heck did a half a
Speaker 2: billion dollars go? And around the industry, it seems like
Speaker 2: the shine is off. David Stearns for sure. Now part
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers genius is in this day and age
Speaker 2: of sho Hey Otani and the Otani era and Dodger
Speaker 2: baseball is to be able to go out and flix
Speaker 2: that financial might by signing Kyle Tucker and coming into
Speaker 2: last year signing Blake Snell, and Blake Snell is this
Speaker 2: close to returning and making his season debut. He's going
Speaker 2: to make his last rehab start Saturday in Ontario, So
Speaker 2: it will be a big Sabitol Higante Saturday in Ontario
Speaker 2: as that will be Snell's final tune up and you
Speaker 2: can do the math. He's lined up to pitching Anaheim
Speaker 2: when the Dodgers play there a week from Friday. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Astros today twelve to two, and today's
Speaker 2: game was brought to you by Modello Modello the mark
Speaker 2: of a fighter. Also great to see Brock Stewart back
Speaker 2: on the mound for the Dodgers. He went through elbow
Speaker 2: surgery last year after the Dodgers acquired him at the deadline.
Speaker 2: He did not start the year with the Dodgers, so
Speaker 2: today was a perfect day to get Stuart into the
Speaker 2: game for the first time this year. He was actually
Speaker 2: activated before the game, the Dodgers sent down Jake Eder
Speaker 2: and Brock Stuart was activated off the il and he
Speaker 2: pitched a scoreless ninth and had two strikeouts. So another
Speaker 2: weapon for Dave Roberts in the bullpen. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Culver City. Seth, you're on Dodger Talk. How you
Speaker 2: doing Seth today?
Speaker 14: I'm good, DV. Thanks for taking my call. I actually
Speaker 14: heard something on the broadcast today that Rick Monday said,
Speaker 14: and he said, we're twenty three percent done with the season.
Speaker 14: I was like, dang, you know, we're already at the
Speaker 14: quarter pole almost, And it made me kind of do
Speaker 14: a quick like reflection on the season, which is, aren't
Speaker 14: the Dodgers exactly where they want to be?
Speaker 11: I mean, we can we can.
Speaker 14: Always look at they don't quite have the best record
Speaker 14: in the NL right now, the Braves do. I know
Speaker 14: the Yankees might have a little better record, but they're
Speaker 14: sitting pretty in my opinion in terms of like they're
Speaker 14: relatively healthy. Yeah, I know, Mookie's gonna has been out
Speaker 14: for a little while. But if we can kind of
Speaker 14: look at it from that perspective, aren't we kind of
Speaker 14: like a race horse. You want to be sitting at
Speaker 14: the top, but not burning all your energy in the
Speaker 14: first quarter. You want to be saving some of that.
Speaker 14: What's your take on all that? If we kind of
Speaker 14: look back from the quarter pole of the season, now
Speaker 14: almost are we are? We kind of where we need
Speaker 14: to be. Yeah, I'm curious curious what you think about that.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, Seth. You're right. The Dodgers are where
Speaker 2: they need to be. They're in first place in the
Speaker 2: NL West, tied with the surprising Padres, who somehow with
Speaker 2: the team they have, are twenty two and fourteen. But
Speaker 2: like the Dodgers have talked about the last two years,
Speaker 2: you don't want to be a hot offensive team in
Speaker 2: May or June. You want to be hitting on all
Speaker 2: cylinders as an offense going into the postseason. So I
Speaker 2: guess that's the silver lining from what we've seen so far, Seth,
Speaker 2: that you would hope the best of the Dodger offense
Speaker 2: is yet to come, and you hope it's in October.
Speaker 2: So I'm with you on that level. But I will
Speaker 2: say this, Seth, it's shocking to me not more people
Speaker 2: have called in to ask when Mookie Betts is returning
Speaker 2: because Mookie Bets is very much needed right now in
Speaker 2: this lineup, and would I would go as far as
Speaker 2: to say, when Mookie Bets comes back, I would toy
Speaker 2: with the idea of putting him back in the leadoff spot.
Speaker 14: That you know what, I mean, You're right, and he's
Speaker 14: a huge presence in the lineup, and I think that
Speaker 14: just goes to the fact that nobody's been really asking
Speaker 14: about him more. How how deep the Dodgers are. We
Speaker 14: all know that, and I agree with you, But to
Speaker 14: have his presence in the one or the two hole,
Speaker 14: I mean, it just makes everybody else better around him,
Speaker 14: It really does. And so you're right, they're kind of
Speaker 14: That's what I mean. They're still they're still where they
Speaker 14: they're in first place, and they clearly aren't fully healthy.
Speaker 14: But yeah, I don't know, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 14: Here's a question, is show Hey okay coming out of
Speaker 14: the Is he okay coming out of the leadoff spot?
Speaker 14: I mean, I'd be good with putting Vets there, taking
Speaker 14: a little pressure off Show Hey, But is he good
Speaker 14: with that?
Speaker 1: And I know he did it.
Speaker 2: Last year mentality, he did it last year when they
Speaker 2: were trying to jumpstart Mookie. So in that situation when
Speaker 2: Mooki was trying to search for anything, the Dodgers even
Speaker 2: tried the leadoff spot to get him going, and know
Speaker 2: Tani was, uh, you know. The one thing about Otawi
Speaker 2: people don't seem to to really want to accept is
Speaker 2: that he's a good teammate. And that was proof last year.
Speaker 2: I gotta run, Seth. Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Great call. Yeah, Mookie Bets is supposed to take live
Speaker 2: BP tomorrow, So you're hoping that the Dodgers are going
Speaker 2: to get Mookie Bets back here in the next week
Speaker 2: or so. Like I said, and I'm not talking about
Speaker 2: the Mookie Bets from last year. I'm looking for the
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets of two years ago and the Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: we have known his entire career. That's the Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: the Dodgers need. Let's take one more phone call, Spencer
Speaker 2: in Duarte. You're on Dodgery Talk. How you doing, Spencer, Hey.
Speaker 5: Dave, quick question for you.
Speaker 6: A lot of thoughts this year has been about Ken
Speaker 6: Rokie Sasaki kind of get it all together, figure it out,
Speaker 6: be the starting pitcher that we need him to be.
Speaker 6: And at the same time, can Emmett she and Stan
Speaker 6: in the lineup. Do you think there would be any
Speaker 6: type of beneficial positivity to maybe having rookie start a game,
Speaker 6: maybe go four five innings, and then have Emmit she
Speaker 6: and take the back end or vice versa.
Speaker 2: I thought, actually that, Spencer, I think that may have
Speaker 2: been the plan before this injury to Glass now, because
Speaker 2: you can't take Robleski out of the rotation the way
Speaker 2: he's pitching to be that guy in that role, and
Speaker 2: you know, there's an argument to be made. The jury
Speaker 2: still out on whether or not Emmit Sheen is a
Speaker 2: starting pitcher or whether or not he's better as a reliever.
Speaker 2: So right now, if you just had to pick one
Speaker 2: man that was out, it would be Shehan out of
Speaker 2: those three. But now with the injury to Glass now
Speaker 2: and the uncertainty with whether or not he's going on
Speaker 2: the IL, that's kind of a moot point, Spencer. Wouldn't
Speaker 2: you say, Hey, pot him up, we need to hear
Speaker 2: stay there we go?
Speaker 5: Sorry?
Speaker 6: Sorry, Dave. It went back to I was a really
Speaker 6: big fan of Dustin May and the cat Man. I
Speaker 6: always thought they should have been a boy.
Speaker 2: Down down boy, Hey, I heard your dog working in
Speaker 2: the back, so I just want to calm him down.
Speaker 6: I always thought I always thought those two would have
Speaker 6: been a good duo when they were younger as well.
Speaker 13: So, but thanks for the thanks for their feedback.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at Dustin May. Couldn't stay healthy. He
Speaker 2: he had maybe the nastiest pitch, maybe the nastiest stuff
Speaker 2: on the Dodger staff, just couldn't put it together consistently. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: you know you can't just be a thrower. I think
Speaker 2: what we've learned is you have to be a pitcher.
Speaker 2: And Mark Pryor was our pregame guest. We shared that
Speaker 2: full conversation on Dodger Talk last night. I thought, if
Speaker 2: you go back to listen to what he said about
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski at some point, and it feels like even
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said this in Toronto. The industry is turning
Speaker 2: back to having starters being able to face the lineup
Speaker 2: three times if you're good enough, and Justin Robleski has
Speaker 2: proven you can do that without getting swing and miss.
Speaker 2: Now is that sustainable the whole year? I think it
Speaker 2: is no strikeouts in one start. That's not going to
Speaker 2: happen every time. You got to get a few swings
Speaker 2: and misses, but he has proven that there are other
Speaker 2: ways to get out and with the defense the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have and it's been the best in baseball this year.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with having a guy that induces a lot
Speaker 2: of contact? All right, that'll do it for us. On
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