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Speaker 3: Oh good night to be a Dodger fan.
Speaker 5: As they come back and beat the Phillies in Philadelphia
Speaker 5: by a final of nine to five. The Dodgers scored
Speaker 5: nine runs on eleven hits, a couple of home runs,
Speaker 5: a triple, couple of doubles, and on a night with
Speaker 5: showy Otani hit the ball hard but nothing to show
Speaker 5: for it, oh for four with a walk. It was
Speaker 5: an intentional walk that O'tani received.
Speaker 3: But the Dodgers get a three hit night.
Speaker 5: From Freddie Freeman, a three hit night from Tommy Edmon
Speaker 5: and daal And rushing in the nine spot homers and
Speaker 5: had a two run double as the Dodgers come back
Speaker 5: and win it nine to five to take two to
Speaker 5: three at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. John haman are
Speaker 5: good friend at the MLB Network put it out there
Speaker 5: earlier tonight, and I think Hayman does a really good
Speaker 5: job covering baseball as a whole. Of course, he was
Speaker 5: here in southern California for a long time covering baseball
Speaker 5: and does it nationally now for the New York Post,
Speaker 5: California Post and MLB Network.
Speaker 3: He tweeted out an hour.
Speaker 5: Ago or so, going at John Hayman on X there's
Speaker 5: an obvious gap between the Dodgers and Brewers and everyone else.
Speaker 5: Twenty eight teams have significant work to do. That's from
Speaker 5: John Hayman of the MLB Network, and I think he
Speaker 5: put it perfectly. The cream rises to the top, and
Speaker 5: right now you are seeing hands and shoulders above everybody else.
Speaker 5: The Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers are the
Speaker 5: two best teams in Major League Baseball, hands down, and
Speaker 5: I fully expect these two teams, if it lines up
Speaker 5: the way it should be, to be playing in the
Speaker 5: NLCS for the right to go to the World Series.
Speaker 5: Because the way these two teams are built. We'll see
Speaker 5: what they do with the trade line deadline in Milwaukee
Speaker 5: certainly have been a lot of talk about what the
Speaker 5: Dodgers may or may not do at the August third
Speaker 5: trade deadline. We can get into that as well, and
Speaker 5: I'm sure we'll be talking about it in the next
Speaker 5: couple of weeks leading up to the trade deadline on
Speaker 5: that Monday, August third. But these two teams are only
Speaker 5: to get better, and I know as a Dodger fan,
Speaker 5: this team is tremendously going to get better with the
Speaker 5: additions of Edwin Diaz, Key k Hernandez coming back from injuries,
Speaker 5: Tyler Glass now at some point, Blake Snell at some point,
Speaker 5: and hopefully on the horizon down the road before this
Speaker 5: season is over, Will Smith can get healthy and get
Speaker 5: right and come back and help this team.
Speaker 3: So again, you talk about.
Speaker 5: A team that's got injuries that when they come back,
Speaker 5: is probably better than any trade that you can make in.
Speaker 3: Baseball outside of terrek'schooble.
Speaker 5: I will go toe to toe argue with anybody who
Speaker 5: wants to argue that right now, outside of Trek's scooble,
Speaker 5: there's not a player in baseball that is better than
Speaker 5: a Blake Snell, a Tyler Glass, now, Will Smith and
Speaker 5: Edwin Diaz at their positions and even off the bench
Speaker 5: at Key Hernandez. If you're looking for a bat off
Speaker 5: the bench and a guy who can play multiple positions
Speaker 5: than those guys I just mentioned, you can go out
Speaker 5: the trade deadline right now and try to find guys
Speaker 5: to fill those needs. But they're not going to be
Speaker 5: there outside of terror Schooble, because you're gonna get these
Speaker 5: guys back at different points here in the next two
Speaker 5: months from their injuries, and looks like Edwin Diaz Keiky
Speaker 5: Hernandez could be the first two up on the next
Speaker 5: homestand when the Dodgers come back next Tuesday. And then
Speaker 5: down the road, Blake Snell, who's made one appearance in
Speaker 5: Triple A's gonna make a second one coming up even
Speaker 5: behind him, Tyler Glass now who's trending in the right direction,
Speaker 5: and let's hope cross that Will Smith can get right
Speaker 5: and get back and help out this Dodgers team eight
Speaker 5: six six nine eight seven two five to seventy. In
Speaker 5: his absence, Dalton Rushing has played good and tonight, Dalton
Speaker 5: Rushing provided the Pop with a home run, his eleventh
Speaker 5: of the season, and then a two run double to
Speaker 5: give the Dodgers the lead in the fifth as he
Speaker 5: goes two for four, three ribies, a home run in
Speaker 5: the ninth spot.
Speaker 3: Just unbelievable.
Speaker 5: What he did tonight along with Tommy Edmonton, the eight
Speaker 5: to nine hitters a combined five for nine with a double,
Speaker 5: a triple, a home run, and drove in six of
Speaker 5: the Dodgers' nine runs tonight and they're winning over the Phillies.
Speaker 5: Max Munsey with a milestone night. He hit a home
Speaker 5: run tonight, two run shot in the sixth inning, number
Speaker 5: two hundred and twenty nine as a Dodger, passing Ron
Speaker 5: Say and now only trailing Eric Carrows as the all
Speaker 5: time LA Dodgers home run leader. That is pretty amazing.
Speaker 5: And you look at the franchise list for the LA
Speaker 5: Dodgers and where he now falls. He is now fifth
Speaker 5: all time, Duke Snyder, Gil Hodges, Eric Carrolls, Roy Campanella
Speaker 5: top four.
Speaker 3: Max Munsey now number.
Speaker 5: Five on the all time Dodgers home run lists, and
Speaker 5: he is trailing Roy Campanella, who's at two hundred and
Speaker 5: forty two in his Hall of Fame career.
Speaker 3: Wasn't a math major. I'm gonna do it real quick
Speaker 3: that carried the one that's a three, that's.
Speaker 5: Thirteen home runs away from Tyne Roy Campanell. He can
Speaker 5: get there, You kidding me? Absolutely, Max Munsey can get there.
Speaker 3: It's gonna take.
Speaker 5: A little streak and a little hot hitting, but he
Speaker 5: can get there this year with thirteen home run shive
Speaker 5: of Tyan Roy Campanella.
Speaker 3: But at Milestone Night you heard from him on.
Speaker 5: The Club Out Show with David Vasse on the field
Speaker 5: and Colin, you and I were talking about it during
Speaker 5: the break.
Speaker 3: Is he the greatest Dodger third basement of all time?
Speaker 3: Max Munsey?
Speaker 5: I mean, he's now second all time home run hitter
Speaker 5: in La Dodger history, passing Ron Say number five all
Speaker 5: time in Dodger franchise history. Is he the greatest Dodger
Speaker 5: third baseman of all time? And we were thinking about
Speaker 5: it during the break, And if you want to weigh
Speaker 5: in eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two, five seventy,
Speaker 5: you can make a case it's not gonna last, but
Speaker 5: you can make a case for Max Munsey. I think
Speaker 5: when it's all said and done, when he decides to
Speaker 5: hang him up, he could be the greatest Dodger third
Speaker 5: basement of all time. But Ron Say, what he did
Speaker 5: for as long as he did in a Dodger uniform
Speaker 5: is pretty remarkable. And I know Max Mounsey just passed
Speaker 5: him on the home run list for all time Dodger
Speaker 5: LA Dodger home runs, but still pretty remarkable. The career
Speaker 5: that Ron Say had as a member of the Dodgers
Speaker 5: two sixty four average, three to fifty nine on base percentage,
Speaker 5: six time All Star. I mean, the guy was unreal
Speaker 5: and you could I mean right there along with Mike Schmidt,
Speaker 5: George Brett for his era of great third basemen should
Speaker 5: be in the Hall of Fame. By the way, then
Speaker 5: where just Justin Turner fit in at the conversation, Let's
Speaker 5: not forget old Red turn two for what he did
Speaker 5: in a Dodger uniform, multiple time All Star, helped bring
Speaker 5: a World Series championship back, help get the Dodgers over
Speaker 5: the hump of getting back to a World Series in
Speaker 5: twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: You think about his story and with the Dodgers were
Speaker 3: able to unlock with.
Speaker 5: Him and becoming a real revelation in twenty fourteen, the
Speaker 5: way he did taking back over the third base spot
Speaker 5: with the Dodgers, I mean that home run in against
Speaker 5: the Cubs in the NLCS.
Speaker 3: I mean, you.
Speaker 5: Talk about one of the club Dodger third basement of
Speaker 5: all time. Justin Turner's right there as well. Adrian Beltray.
Speaker 5: Certainly we remember him for what he did in Seattle,
Speaker 5: what he did in Boston. He went on to have
Speaker 5: a Hall of Fame career, no.
Speaker 3: Doubt about it. But what he did with the Dodgers
Speaker 3: is pretty amazing.
Speaker 5: In fact, you know, he in twenty two thousand and
Speaker 5: four drove in over one hundred and twenty runs, forty
Speaker 5: eight home runs, hit three thirty four, finished second the.
Speaker 3: MVP voting that year.
Speaker 5: I mean that was a contract year for him, by
Speaker 5: the way, And you can make a case that Beltray
Speaker 5: only had good years in contract years.
Speaker 3: That's what some say.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: Pedro Guerrero at third base as a four time All
Speaker 5: Star three h nine average, a guy who could hit
Speaker 5: for power, hit three twenty and nineteen eighty five before
Speaker 5: blowing out his knee in spring training in nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 5: came back in eighty seven, hit over three hundred. You know,
Speaker 5: had the power, hitting thirty plus home runs three times.
Speaker 3: I mean, the.
Speaker 5: List of Dodger great third basemens it's it's not lengthy,
Speaker 5: but it is certainly pretty impressive when you think about it,
Speaker 5: with Beltray, Turner, Munsey, Pedro Guerrero, Ron say, pretty impressive, guys.
Speaker 5: And that's in the last fifty plus years of Dodger
Speaker 5: baseball eight six, six.
Speaker 3: Nine, eight seven, two, five seventy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've had some good ones play at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 5: We's had some really good ones. And again, Max Munsey,
Speaker 5: when it's all said and done, could go down as
Speaker 5: the greatest Dodger third basement of all time. But as
Speaker 5: Colin he brought up during the break, when you look
Speaker 5: at what he did before he took over a third base,
Speaker 5: he was the second baseman for the Dodgers. He played
Speaker 5: first base until the Dodgers went out and got Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3: Max Munsey was the everyday.
Speaker 5: First baseman for the Dodgers until Freddie Freeman got here,
Speaker 5: and then he went over to third base and since
Speaker 5: then twenty twenty two, eighty star or eighty four games
Speaker 5: at third base, twenty twenty three, one hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: four games at third base, twenty twenty four, seventy two
Speaker 5: games at third base. He was banged up twenty twenty five,
Speaker 5: ninety seven games at third base, and already this year
Speaker 5: ninety four games at third base.
Speaker 3: He has developed.
Speaker 5: In to a really good third baseman offensively and defensively.
Speaker 5: Great play tonight going to the third base foul line
Speaker 5: and then making a one handed or a one headed
Speaker 5: stop turn throws and one hops at to Freddie Freeman
Speaker 5: for a.
Speaker 3: Putout at first base.
Speaker 5: He has developed into a really good third baseman after
Speaker 5: playing first base and second base for the most part
Speaker 5: of his early part of his career.
Speaker 3: Then you get to Ron say, you get to Justin Turner.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's a pretty impressive little list there at
Speaker 5: the top five great Dodger third baseman, and you gotta
Speaker 5: put Max Monts in that list. But I don't think
Speaker 5: he is the greatest of all time. Eight sixty six,
Speaker 5: nine eighty seven, two five seventy Dodgers Baseball brought to
Speaker 5: by Midello Medello the mark of a final. We'll take
Speaker 5: a quick time out, we'll come back, we'll hear from
Speaker 5: Eric Lower, and we'll get to your phone calls.
Speaker 3: How about Eric Lower?
Speaker 5: What he has been in a Dodger uniform now four
Speaker 5: to oh as a Dodger starter, He was one in
Speaker 5: five and the Toronto Blue Jays gave.
Speaker 3: Up on him, traded him away.
Speaker 5: Dodgers took him, tinkered with him, and look at him
Speaker 5: now four and oh is. A Dodger left hander, gets
Speaker 5: the win tonight, pitching into the sixth inning, gets some
Speaker 5: run support thanks to Dalton rushing, Max Monty, Tommy Edmon,
Speaker 5: and the Dodgers beat the Phillies nine to five, eight six, six,
Speaker 5: nine eighty seven two five seventy. More of your phone
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Speaker 4: Max Monsey with his third go ahead homer of the
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Speaker 5: Dream, Mark and Seami Valley is on Dodger Talk here
Speaker 5: after the Dodgers beat the Phillies nine to five.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Mark good?
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing fantastic?
Speaker 5: Max Muncie the greatest Dodger third basement of all time?
Speaker 3: Where does he fall? Into the place.
Speaker 7: Do you think, Mark, God, he's got to be at
Speaker 7: least at least tied.
Speaker 3: For number one, okay with Ron, Say.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm thinking that. I'm thinking that. And on a
Speaker 7: personal note, what a great fantasy day for me having Freddie,
Speaker 7: Tommy and Max on my team, but also Max hitting
Speaker 7: that home run. You want to do some math for me?
Speaker 7: How many how many behind Harros is he now?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: Carrols is sitting at two hundred and seventy home runs,
Speaker 5: two hundred and seventy home runs, and he's sitting now
Speaker 5: at two hundred and twenty nine home runs. I wasn't
Speaker 5: a math major at UCLA, Marks, that's forty one.
Speaker 7: Okay, So two seasons maybe next season If.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that, I don't think maybe two
Speaker 3: and a half.
Speaker 5: Maybe we're looking at twenty twenty. Let's hope there's a
Speaker 5: season next year. Let's say twenty twenty eight is when
Speaker 5: he gets there.
Speaker 3: I mean, who knows.
Speaker 5: If they go on to run of the postseason and
Speaker 5: he hits four or five, maybe six in the postseason
Speaker 5: this October, he could get there at the end of
Speaker 5: twenty twenty seven, Mark, I appreciate the phone call. Thanks,
Speaker 5: for checking in. Yeah, I don't know, man, I don't
Speaker 5: want to forget about Justin Turner as one of the
Speaker 5: great Dodger third bases. I love old Red turn two.
Speaker 5: I don't want to get into recency bias. And you know,
Speaker 5: I know Beltray was great. I was at a lot
Speaker 5: of those Dodger games during Beltray's era. I also remember
Speaker 5: the down years Adrian Beltray had and then all of
Speaker 5: a sudden twenty and forty had breakout season and became
Speaker 5: a free agent and left with the Seattle I remember
Speaker 5: that it wasn't all glorious times every single year. Justin
Speaker 5: Turner was mister consistent ever since he got here in
Speaker 5: twenty fourteen. It was a Dodger put him over the
Speaker 5: hump in twenty seventeen, getting him back to the World Series,
Speaker 5: A leader honor off the field, And I know the
Speaker 5: numbers are what the numbers are, and we look at
Speaker 5: that and that's a big part of the rankings.
Speaker 3: But I like Justin Turner what.
Speaker 5: He does off the field, so that's gonna boost him
Speaker 5: up in my books. But you know what he did
Speaker 5: to get the Dodgers championships, to be a consistent bat,
Speaker 5: to be a guy you can rely on for a
Speaker 5: big hit when you need it.
Speaker 3: Not just home runs.
Speaker 5: He played a really good third base as well, just
Speaker 5: a team leader, clubhouse leader. I'm not gonna leave. I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna leave my guy Red Turn two out of
Speaker 5: the equation.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I think there's an argument, certainly that Max Munsey could
Speaker 5: be two or three on the list. I'm gonna go
Speaker 5: ahead and put him in Red Turn too. Justin Turner
Speaker 5: kind of neck and neck. That's number one is on
Speaker 5: say in my mind number two and three. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: say two A, two B. I'm gonna say Justin Turner
Speaker 5: and Max Munsey. Munsey could surpass him when it's all
Speaker 5: said and done, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: I think Adrian Beltra right there.
Speaker 5: But again, Adrian Beltray's overall body of work, you gotta
Speaker 5: include Seattle, you gotta include Boston, you gotta include what
Speaker 5: he did in Texas as well. That's what makes him
Speaker 5: the Hall of Famer. He started it in LA with
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, and we certainly love him for that.
Speaker 3: But did he go into the Hall of Fame as
Speaker 3: a Dodger? Did he?
Speaker 7: Did?
Speaker 1: He?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: For that reason, he's not top three eight six, six,
Speaker 5: nine eighty seven, two five seventy. My guy Blake checking
Speaker 5: in here on Dodger talking from Colorado. Blake, good evening
Speaker 5: to you, sir. What do you think, Blake? Is Max
Speaker 5: Munsey the greatest Dodger third baseman ever?
Speaker 8: I so, because we haven't had this for a long time.
Speaker 8: I mean you can argue with so high.
Speaker 5: Time well, Dodger third basement. What do you think as
Speaker 5: far as third base? You know we got Justin Turner
Speaker 5: who was right before Max Muncie. You know there was
Speaker 5: a year's that was just third basement after third baseman.
Speaker 5: The you know, Miguel Rojas was playing third base for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers at one point. Uh, you go back to
Speaker 5: when Tim and Wallach was wearing a Dodger uniform. I
Speaker 5: mean there was a run of a lot of Dodger
Speaker 5: third basements until Justin Turner put put his name there
Speaker 5: for for a good run in a Dodger uniform.
Speaker 3: What do you think, Blake?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Tommy take says.
Speaker 7: Is on a wall.
Speaker 8: Moncie and Tommy are doing amazing. Do you see Dodgers
Speaker 8: doing anything with Kyle Tucky? He seems to be really struggling.
Speaker 5: Well, Kyle Tucker is uh, if you're gonna, if you're
Speaker 5: gonna set the bar what he's being paid. Certainly he
Speaker 5: has not reached that level and what he should be
Speaker 5: doing offensively zero for three night did an RBI sack
Speaker 5: fly tonight to drive in a run, a big insurance
Speaker 5: run for the Dodgers in the eighth inning before your
Speaker 5: guy Tommy Imon had the basis clearing triple. But I
Speaker 5: still got confidence that Kyle Tucker will turn things around.
Speaker 3: I know the numbers aren't great.
Speaker 5: Certainly, the production is not what a sixty million dollars
Speaker 5: a year player should be doing. But I got confidence
Speaker 5: in him, Blake, I got confidence in the guy. Wait,
Speaker 5: what do you think about the Dodgers going back to
Speaker 5: New York for a three game set against the Mets?
Speaker 3: What a roach? Ip, it's been so farther Ford too.
Speaker 8: Yeah, hopefully sweep the Mets because they're not doing so
Speaker 8: well New York.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the New York Mets are struggling. All right, Blake,
Speaker 5: we'll talk to you in a couple of days. I'm
Speaker 5: back on Sunday. Okay, okay, alright, sounds good, my guy,
Speaker 5: Blake and Colorado. The Mets are forty three and sixty
Speaker 5: on this season, currently seventeen games back in the NL East.
Speaker 5: They have lost four of their They've lost six of
Speaker 5: their last ten, and you think, okay, that's all right.
Speaker 5: They're in the wildcard race, right I mean, the New
Speaker 5: York Mets gotta be right there. As far as not
Speaker 5: winning the division because Atlanta's running away with it, no
Speaker 5: they're not. They're not even sniffing the wildcard race right now.
Speaker 5: They're ten and a half games back. The New York
Speaker 5: Mets are struggling now.
Speaker 3: They had a.
Speaker 5: Tough go before the All Star Break and after the
Speaker 5: All Star Break as far as who was on their schedule.
Speaker 5: They had to play four games against the Braves, they
Speaker 5: ran into the hottest team in baseball, the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 5: They had the Phills for three and now they just
Speaker 5: finished off a three game series in Milwaukee against the Brewers.
Speaker 5: So they get some of baseball's better teams before the
Speaker 5: All Star Break and now after the All Star break,
Speaker 5: and now they're going to run into the Dodgers for
Speaker 5: a three game series over the weekend.
Speaker 3: So I'm not feeling.
Speaker 5: Sorry for the New York Mets, just looking at their schedule.
Speaker 5: They didn't have a very easy run leading into the
Speaker 5: All Star break, and it certainly has been a struggle
Speaker 5: bus since since the All Star break for the New
Speaker 5: York Mets, who are again seventeen games back last place
Speaker 5: in the NL East and ten and a half games
Speaker 5: back in the NL wild card race. Well, you talk
Speaker 5: about a guy who hasn't struggled since we're putting on
Speaker 5: a Dodger uniform, and that's Eric Lauer.
Speaker 3: Guy was one in.
Speaker 5: Five given up on by the Toronto Blue Jays after
Speaker 5: he was one of their better starters last year. Helped
Speaker 5: him get to the World Series and face the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers acquire him, tinker with him, get him back
Speaker 5: to where he was doing things right and feeling good
Speaker 5: at mechanically, and he is four and zero now as
Speaker 5: a Dodger. Got some run support tonight after giving up
Speaker 5: a two run home run to Alec Bowman, the first
Speaker 5: pitched into the sixth inning, gets the win, and afterwards
Speaker 5: caught up with the media in Philadelphia.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was definitely a little slow to start forming,
Speaker 9: but I mean my main goal was just to you know,
Speaker 9: be in the zone, really command the zone as well
Speaker 9: as I can. Being off for so long. But yeah,
Speaker 9: I felt like I was able to lock it in
Speaker 9: after that and you know, put together a few good
Speaker 9: innings and you know, keep the team minute to win.
Speaker 6: Damn.
Speaker 9: Roberts told us that you have very much killed him
Speaker 9: that when you were on the mound the team wins.
Speaker 3: That conversation like and how did you tell him that?
Speaker 7: Shoot?
Speaker 3: When was that?
Speaker 9: That was?
Speaker 3: That was? That was when?
Speaker 9: That was when we were discussing the opener that we
Speaker 9: used the one time, and I just I just mentioned
Speaker 9: to him. I was like, listen, we're four and oh
Speaker 9: when I start the game. So but no, I think
Speaker 9: it was more of a joke than anything. I think
Speaker 9: it was. It was more so just you know, like,
Speaker 9: let's keep this thing rolling. Like things are going well.
Speaker 9: You know, we're scoring runs, throwing the ball well, so
Speaker 9: making great defensive plays, and you know we're just playing
Speaker 9: good baseball. So uh, you know, just keep that going.
Speaker 2: Are there any cues that you used tonight that you've
Speaker 2: learned since being here to stay stay regroup kind of?
Speaker 2: And what are the cues that you've been helped with
Speaker 2: since getting here.
Speaker 9: I don't know if it's anything new. Necessarily, I've been
Speaker 9: working with a mental skills coach for a few years now,
Speaker 9: and you know, my main focus every pitch is just
Speaker 9: to execute the pitch. You know, control what I can control,
Speaker 9: you know, let the defense work behind me, and just
Speaker 9: make sure I'm putting everything into each pitch. And so
Speaker 9: it's it's nice to not you know, dwell on you know,
Speaker 9: a homer or something something that doesn't go my way,
Speaker 9: because ultimately, I can't control anything outside of how the
Speaker 9: ball leaves my hand. And you know, as long as
Speaker 9: I do that to the best of my ability, every
Speaker 9: time should theoretically, by baseball numbers, should work out for me.
Speaker 9: But it doesn't always. So you got to you gotta
Speaker 9: have a short memory on those and move forward and
Speaker 9: try to execute the next one.
Speaker 5: All right, there's Eric Lauer. This is a veteran. You
Speaker 5: can hear it in his voice, and you can hear
Speaker 5: the confidence he is pitching with right now and certainly
Speaker 5: and having the defense behind him and the offense that
Speaker 5: the Dodgers bring every single night. In tonight again, six
Speaker 5: hits mean, excuse me, five hits, six runs driven in
Speaker 5: by the eight to nine hitters of this Dodgers team,
Speaker 5: a night in which Mookie Betts goes oh for three
Speaker 5: with the strikeout, Kyle Tucker goes over three with the strikeout,
Speaker 5: and show Hel Tani goes over fourth an intentional walk.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers still get nine runs on eleven hits and
Speaker 5: it comes from behind win to beat the Phillies nine
Speaker 5: to five.
Speaker 3: Pretty darn impressive.
Speaker 5: Gil in Laguna Beach, man, I think the Sunsets really
Speaker 5: are brutal right now, down Laguna Beach.
Speaker 6: How you doing, Gil, Hey, hey, damn, how are you, buddy? Yeah,
Speaker 6: a couple of couple of thing. No disrespect to any
Speaker 6: other third baseman, but uh, you know, for some reason,
Speaker 6: we don't get our third baseman. Monthcy. He's not getting
Speaker 6: much asteck for hitting a homer before before at Rohause homer.
Speaker 6: How can we forget he's he's mister clutch in playoffs
Speaker 6: and regular seasons so far he's mister clutch. And uh,
Speaker 6: I think he's the best ever Dodger third basement based
Speaker 6: on his clutch hitting and what he did in the
Speaker 6: World Series. And he says, fine, he's one of the
Speaker 6: three people who got us, Vince smith Us and Muncy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, he hit that home run. They're making a
Speaker 3: four to three game, no doubt about it.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, before his him hitting home run, there was
Speaker 6: no ro House or Smith's.
Speaker 5: Right, that is correct. Well, what about all the great
Speaker 5: moments from Justin Turner? Justin Turner provided so many great
Speaker 5: memories and moments in a Dodger uniform. For what he
Speaker 5: got here, to the World Series championships, to the World
Speaker 5: Series in the bubble where they wouldn't let him celebrate
Speaker 5: with the team.
Speaker 3: Justin Turner, let's not forget about a rechard.
Speaker 6: That was so sad, That was so sad. But he
Speaker 6: didn't play with us that long. How many years people
Speaker 6: do with the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: I mean he was with the Dodgers since twenty fourteen,
Speaker 5: and Justin Turner was here until you know, twenty and
Speaker 5: twenty two is his last year.
Speaker 3: So he had a good rule. Twenty fourteen he.
Speaker 6: Was great too. Yeah, he was great too. Hey, second,
Speaker 6: and don't mean to make you laugh or anything. We
Speaker 6: still have a Canforda in.
Speaker 3: Center field, Michael Conforto.
Speaker 6: He's still in a center field. But the only difference
Speaker 6: is a salary.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 5: Oh, Kyle Tucker, I got it right, Yeah, I gotcha.
Speaker 3: They for the phone call. I got you.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, Confordo is not Kyle Tucker. Yeah, Michael Conforto signed
Speaker 5: that one year deal and wasn't not great last year
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers. But Kyle Tucker signed an even bigger
Speaker 5: deal for the Dodgers and has not lived up certainly
Speaker 5: to what the contract says he should be doing based
Speaker 5: on his pay. But certainly we got confidence in Kyle
Speaker 5: Tucker that he can turn things around, you know.
Speaker 3: And the numbers aren't gonna.
Speaker 5: I mean, you're not gonna look at Kyle Tucker's numbers
Speaker 5: at the end of the year and go, yep, he
Speaker 5: earned it.
Speaker 3: Sixty million dollars, that's right. Yeah, I feel like it was.
Speaker 5: Money well spent and every penny he earned with the
Speaker 5: fifty home runs and three hundred average and four forty
Speaker 5: on base, No, not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: But the best you can happen.
Speaker 5: Hope for him right now is to continue to play
Speaker 5: good defense and right field and figure it out offensively
Speaker 5: wherever they put him in the lineup. And how about
Speaker 5: tonight mix it up the lineup again with Tommy Edmond
Speaker 5: hitting eighth, Kyle Tucker hitting six, Tasker Hernandez hitting seventh.
Speaker 3: I mean they.
Speaker 5: Continue to shift the lineup around to find some sweet
Speaker 5: spots and to get guys back on track offensively. And
Speaker 5: Tommy Edmond, I don't care where you put him. And
Speaker 5: if Steven Nelson had the nugget, he has hit every
Speaker 5: spot in the lineup.
Speaker 3: Has set clean up this season.
Speaker 5: I mean, what else do you need the guy to
Speaker 5: do to tick out the trash, you know, do the
Speaker 5: laundry after the game. He's doing everything right now for
Speaker 5: this Dodger team.
Speaker 3: Since coming back.
Speaker 5: He goes three for four bases, clearing triple hitting three
Speaker 5: sixty on this season since coming back and now played
Speaker 5: in what twenty nine games? It's getting just over now
Speaker 5: ninety at bats. I mean, stay hot, Tommy Edmund. Is
Speaker 5: he Anaheim? Let's make you their final call the night
Speaker 5: here on Dodge Talk?
Speaker 3: Is he? Hi, Tim?
Speaker 8: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great?
Speaker 9: Is he?
Speaker 3: They just took two or three in Philadelphia?
Speaker 5: They get show heyl Tani throwing a bullpen session tonight
Speaker 5: thirty one pitches before the game left me maybe feeling better.
Speaker 3: Else he wouldn't be pitching, certainly, So things are going good.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well you know what they have said that, and
Speaker 8: I tend to agree with him. I think they are
Speaker 8: just waking. They just maybe the Dodger this one, or
Speaker 8: maybe so he just wants to work on his arms
Speaker 8: because you know, it take it takes these like a month,
Speaker 8: you know, when he does come back, you know, just
Speaker 8: get ready and they really can afford that. So anyway, well,
Speaker 8: I'm worry right now. So but and seriously, I'm worvy.
Speaker 8: I just got that worried right now. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 8: know why. I don't know. I just got with but
Speaker 8: but we listen, know, I'll take two ours three. You
Speaker 8: know you can win. You can win. You can't sweep
Speaker 8: baby game. So it's hot to sweep.
Speaker 3: Do we like to see it?
Speaker 8: But I don't know. I'm I've been having bad dream
Speaker 8: about this team the next couple nights and the Yeah, let's.
Speaker 5: Change those bad dreams into good dreams. Dizzy, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: We'll check in with you. There goes Izzy and Anaheim. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't think you should be worried right now. They
Speaker 5: have the best road record in baseball as we speak.
Speaker 5: Right now, they have the best record in baseball. Uh,
Speaker 5: They've got an eleven and a half game lead in
Speaker 5: the division. And yes they're closer. Uh, Edwin Diaz is
Speaker 5: coming back next home stand, Keithy Hernandez is scheduled probably
Speaker 5: to come back next homestand Blake Snell is going to
Speaker 5: make a second rehab start coming up in the next
Speaker 5: couple of days. Tyler Glass now Will Smith the next
Speaker 5: round of guys to follow after that coming back from injuries.
Speaker 5: I think it's pretty good to be a Dodger right now.
Speaker 5: While all of these other teams are trying to figure
Speaker 5: out their fourth and fifth starters, trying to find another
Speaker 5: at bat, trying to find another position player, trying to
Speaker 5: find a reliever, going to the trade market, going to
Speaker 5: overpay the trade deadline to get an arm, get a bat,
Speaker 5: get a different guy off the bench. They're all going
Speaker 5: to overpay. It is a seller's market right now. There
Speaker 5: are more buyers and sellers, so the price is gonna
Speaker 5: go up. And with that being said, the Dodgers technically
Speaker 5: don't have to do anything at the trade deadline because
Speaker 5: they got four guys coming back from injuries that it's
Speaker 5: almost like getting four trades at the deadline at this
Speaker 5: time of this season. And oh yeah again, best record
Speaker 5: in baseball eleven and a half game lead, best road record,
Speaker 5: in baseball and show hey Otani on on top of
Speaker 5: all that, hasn't pitched in two weeks through a bullpen
Speaker 5: session today, thirty one pitch is gonna throw again over
Speaker 5: the weekend.
Speaker 3: He is not in the rotation.
Speaker 5: All that being said, still pretty good to be a Dodger,
Speaker 5: all right, Thanks to Colin Ye. Thanks to all you
Speaker 5: for being a part of the show. Thank you for listening,
Speaker 5: thank you for podcasting.
Speaker 3: You know what day off tomorrow for.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers is a head to Washington, DC to meet
Speaker 5: the President and to go to the White House. We'll
Speaker 5: have a special off night Dodger Talk tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Night on Thursday night.
Speaker 5: Well, the very latest is David Masse heads to the
Speaker 5: White House with the team.
Speaker 3: We'll get a reaction from there.
Speaker 5: We'll also get you a farm report, as we were
Speaker 5: just a couple of weeks away from the trade deadline
Speaker 5: and they've shuffled around the top prospects in baseball overall
Speaker 5: rankings one through hundred, and the Dodgers have a ton
Speaker 5: of them in the top one hundred rankings.
Speaker 3: We'll get into that your phone calls, and then.
Speaker 5: Dodgers back at it on Friday at Cityfield in New
Speaker 5: York for.
Speaker 3: The beginning of a three game series against the Mets.
Speaker 5: Rookie Sasaki Shamanaya the pitching matchup on Friday, Morongos Casino,
Speaker 5: Dodgers on deck at three, first pitch and four to ten.
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