Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begune.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk. Here we go again.
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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vase.
Speaker 2: We are live at Chase Field until ten thirty tonight,
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk on the air. After the Dodgers fall to
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks tonight by a final score of four to one,
Speaker 2: we have phone lines open at eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy. The only run the Dodgers
Speaker 2: scored was by Shoho Tani in the third inning on
Speaker 2: a groundout by Freddie Freeman, and that was all that
Speaker 2: was heard from the Dodger offense. But they had their
Speaker 2: opportunities tonight, especially in the second inning. They really had
Speaker 2: opportunities in the second and third inning. That was basically
Speaker 2: the only two innings they were threatening to score runs
Speaker 2: against Eduardo Rodriguez, and they had gotten Rodriguez's pitch count
Speaker 2: up to forty after the second inning and couldn't score
Speaker 2: a run, and they only scored one all night long,
Speaker 2: and were just two for eight with runners in scoring
Speaker 2: position the first three innings of the game and never
Speaker 2: had a runner reached second base the rest of the
Speaker 2: game after the third inning, and a couple of little
Speaker 2: things that we saw win the World Series for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers kind of cost them tonight at third base as
Speaker 2: far as the secondary leads go. You know, we dissected
Speaker 2: and we tried to point the finger at Isaiah Kanna Fileffa,
Speaker 2: the third base coach of the Blue Jays. Obviously, this
Speaker 2: game here in Arizona is not as do or die
Speaker 2: as Game seven of the World Series. But in the
Speaker 2: second inning, when Mookie Batts was at third base and
Speaker 2: the contact play was on, he was so close to
Speaker 2: third base, even though you know the Dodgers had Nolan
Speaker 2: Arenado or the Diamondbacks had Nolan Arenado playing way off
Speaker 2: the bag, MOOKI had to get a bigger secondary lead.
Speaker 2: He had to get off third base a little bit
Speaker 2: more than what he was, especially with the contact play on.
Speaker 1: And if he is.
Speaker 2: That plays a lot closer at the plate than it was.
Speaker 2: And there is also a chance that he forces an
Speaker 2: even worse throw from the first baseman that the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: had in there, del Mio Vargas, who yeah, kind of
Speaker 2: out of position. So that was a mistake. Tucker as well.
Speaker 2: In the same inning. Rick Monday observed it. Jose observed
Speaker 2: it bad secondary leads off the third base. And when
Speaker 2: you have two guys like Mookie Betts and Kyle Tucker
Speaker 2: struggling at the plate the way they are, you better
Speaker 2: do something else to try to help the team win
Speaker 2: and not doing good base running things that are you know,
Speaker 2: five Beta Kappa, It's it's not good. It's just compounding
Speaker 2: the fact that Mooki's hitting one ninety six and Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker is sitting two thirty eight. Muki had one hit tonight,
Speaker 2: Tucker was hitless again, zero for three with a walk.
Speaker 2: He's sitting two thirty eight with an ops of seven
Speaker 2: twenty two.
Speaker 1: Uh, Mookie's playing solid shortstop.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker u is still considered an average right fielder,
Speaker 2: even though the Dodgers have tried to challenge him to
Speaker 2: be better than that. But offensively, he just seems out
Speaker 2: of sorts again. But like I said in the second inning,
Speaker 2: you gotta be a better base runner. You've got to
Speaker 2: find a way to help your team if you're not
Speaker 2: helping them with the bat and tonight at third base
Speaker 2: in the second inning, Mookie Bets and Kyle Tucker did
Speaker 2: not have good secondary leads. They were not engaged, obviously,
Speaker 2: and that was a problem. I'm not saying that's winning
Speaker 2: or losing the game, but certainly the Dodgers could have
Speaker 2: scored at least one run in that second inning, and
Speaker 2: they did not. The Diamondbacks, by the way, hit three
Speaker 2: home runs tonight. I mentioned this during the Clubhouse Show.
Speaker 2: They only hit eighteen the entire month of May. That
Speaker 2: was the fewest in baseball, and the Dodgers got hurt
Speaker 2: by a number nine hitter again. Emmit Sheen had retired
Speaker 2: fifteen in a row after Corbin Carroll's went out double
Speaker 2: in the first inning. He had retired fifteen in a
Speaker 2: row until the sixth inning when Tommy Troy, the number
Speaker 2: nine hitter, hit his first major league home run to
Speaker 2: tie the game. That's not something you see too often,
Speaker 2: and I guess we're seeing it more than we would
Speaker 2: like to. When the Dodgers were going through that two
Speaker 2: week stretch of just not being up for the games.
Speaker 2: They were getting beat by the eight to nine hitters
Speaker 2: of the opposing teams. And the one thing that Mark
Speaker 2: Pryor told me that stood out tonight especially is you're
Speaker 2: see more hitters this year hit home runs on the
Speaker 2: first pitch of at bats, or even jumping and being
Speaker 2: aggressive up one to zero in account. That's what we
Speaker 2: saw from Tommy Troy, That's what we saw from Nolan
Speaker 2: Arenado later in the game against Emmit Sheen in the
Speaker 2: seventh inning. And Emma Sheen pitched really well tonight but
Speaker 2: unfortunately only got one run of support tonight and loses
Speaker 2: the game despite going six and a third and allowing
Speaker 2: just two solo home runs. Let's head downstairs right now
Speaker 2: to hear from Image and on Sports and at LA.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's definitely some positives to take. We've
Speaker 4: been working really hard on the delivery, so I think
Speaker 4: that showed.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: Was execution probably wasn't as good as as it should
Speaker 4: have been, but I think the stuff being a little
Speaker 4: better helped me get through that. But yeah, other than
Speaker 4: the two homers, a couple I want to back after.
Speaker 3: Your last outing, you had said that you had felt
Speaker 3: that you found kind of either some cues or things
Speaker 3: you're working through that would lead to the velocity getting
Speaker 3: back to where you want it to be. What do
Speaker 3: you think that was that's now led to the results
Speaker 3: that you had today.
Speaker 4: I think it's honestly, just trying to relax early and
Speaker 4: you know they're harder later in my delivery. I think,
Speaker 4: you know, before I was getting all too tense, and yeah,
Speaker 4: I think that's something the coach has mentioned to me,
Speaker 4: and it's a bunch of other things too, But yeah,
Speaker 4: we've been working hard on it. What are you doing right?
Speaker 6: When you were we've set down fifteen out of sixteen?
Speaker 1: Sorry you sit down fifteen out of sixteen at one point?
Speaker 1: What were you doing right?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think just and Moth bounced. Will was calling
Speaker 4: a great game out there. Yeah, defense made some great
Speaker 4: plays behind me too, obviously, wasn't you know, punching out everybody?
Speaker 4: But yeah, trying to keep my balance for sure.
Speaker 7: Do you think what the mechanical changes you've made in
Speaker 7: your delivery now it's been something you've been working towards.
Speaker 7: Do you think that unlocking the ble feel sustainable?
Speaker 4: I think so definitely. Yeah, No, I feel like we know,
Speaker 4: you know what to work on now, and we know
Speaker 4: what works and what doesn't a little better, So it's
Speaker 4: it's good to know.
Speaker 2: You know, it's hilarious that we're still talking about Ima
Speaker 2: Shean's fastball velocity because I noticed in spring training that
Speaker 2: his velocity was not where it was last year, and
Speaker 2: it was erratic. It would be at ninety five and
Speaker 2: then it would drop down to nineteen ninety one. And
Speaker 2: I can remember being in Mesa for a split squad
Speaker 2: game against the Cubs this spring and I requested to
Speaker 2: speak to Imi Shean.
Speaker 1: He came out of the trainer's room.
Speaker 2: I asked him what was going on with his fast
Speaker 2: ball velocity and he gave me a one word answer
Speaker 2: and was very annoyed with me. And those questions now
Speaker 2: all of a sudden have been asked ever since then.
Speaker 2: He's even been asked whether or not he's hurt. And
Speaker 2: it's kind of a running joke in the clubhouse with
Speaker 2: me and a few other guys that are next to Shean.
Speaker 2: They keep telling me to ask Shean about his fastball velocity.
Speaker 2: But it has been an issue. I mean, it is
Speaker 2: part of his game. It is what makes his slider
Speaker 2: really good as well. He needs ninety five at this
Speaker 2: stage of his career. And even some of his former
Speaker 2: teammates have text me or said, Hey, what's going on
Speaker 2: with Sheen in the middle of the game. How the
Speaker 2: fastball velocity drips or drops? And he's working with one
Speaker 2: of the Dodger trainers in between innings to try to
Speaker 2: trigger some cues to be able to keep his mechanics
Speaker 2: in line. So hopefully, and we've seen that now in
Speaker 2: two straight starts, so hopefully that continues.
Speaker 1: Eight sixty six.
Speaker 2: Nine eight seven two five seven is the phone number
Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to the Diamondbacks tonight, four to one. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to the phones, Dave and Laguna Neguel. You're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Dave?
Speaker 5: Yes, Dave, thank you, thanks for taking my call. Well,
Speaker 5: you know, Dave Robbis should have quit while he was
Speaker 5: ahead and taking Shean out. He gave him six goods
Speaker 5: and hims. Give the bullpen chance to start with a
Speaker 5: cleaner in that. In my opinion, Dave, that's one of
Speaker 5: David Robbins's greatest faults. He leaves the start is in
Speaker 5: too long, especially the fourth, you know.
Speaker 2: And what's funny is you say he leaves the starters
Speaker 2: in too long, and he was getting criticized the majority
Speaker 2: of his managerial career that he was taking them out
Speaker 2: too soon. Look, I think it was the right move
Speaker 2: to go batter to batter with Shean in the seventh
Speaker 2: inning because he was pitching his best game of the year.
Speaker 2: His pitch count was in the high eighties. Uh, there's
Speaker 2: no reason to take him out of that game, especially
Speaker 2: when he's facing string of right handed hitters and you
Speaker 2: had Alex Vesia warming up at that point.
Speaker 1: So, uh, I had no issues with that.
Speaker 5: You know, I can see if he was leaving by
Speaker 5: three to one, you know, but he's a home run
Speaker 5: giving up pitcher. There's a tie game. You already gave
Speaker 5: up a home run to tide the game up, So
Speaker 5: why don't you quit while you're ahead? And you know,
Speaker 5: six innings is great? You know, and and let it
Speaker 5: let the bullet have a clean.
Speaker 1: Is six innings great? Now? Is that what we've come to?
Speaker 1: Six innings is great?
Speaker 5: Wasn't wasn't she a fighting pitcher at one time?
Speaker 2: I mean, he can go six to seven innings when
Speaker 2: he's on his game. But you know what, Dave, I'm
Speaker 2: a proponent of starters going deeper into games, and when
Speaker 2: you're pitching as well as Emi Shean was, there was
Speaker 2: no reason to take him out. But I I like
Speaker 2: and I'm an advocate going batter to batter in that
Speaker 2: seventh inning. Unfortunately it was a home run and that
Speaker 2: was a mistake pitched by Amed Sheen. If Nolan Aeronado
Speaker 2: gets a single, he's coming out of that game. Going
Speaker 2: batter to batter is something I like to see. And
Speaker 2: by the way, the Dodgers starters not only have the
Speaker 2: lowest el ray in the National League, but they have
Speaker 2: pitched the most innings in the National League as well.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the phone call. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: That's the easy second guess when it's a go ahead
Speaker 2: home run by Nolan Aeronado. But I have no issues
Speaker 2: with what Dave Roberts was thinking there in the seventh inning.
Speaker 2: With the way Shean was pitching, the pitch count was low,
Speaker 2: the velocity was maintaining high. No issues going batter to
Speaker 2: batter there. Let's go out to mission Viejo. Bill, You're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk Live from Chase Field. How you doing, Bill,
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 6: Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I totally agree with
Speaker 6: you about the number eight to nine hitters. It's even
Speaker 6: Swanson from the Cubs, who's not a bad hitter. He
Speaker 6: was number ninety. He hit him, but they just got
Speaker 6: to clear, you know, clean that up a little bit.
Speaker 6: Hopefully it won't be continue much of the season, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what it is. Bill. Sometimes you exal.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you think you can throw a get me over fastball,
Speaker 2: even at ninety five, and a lot of guys are
Speaker 2: gonna be aggressive, oh oh one oh and try to
Speaker 2: ambush you. And that's what happened with Tommy Troy tonight,
Speaker 2: ambushing Emmit Sheen, the number nine hitter after he retired
Speaker 2: fifteen in a row thanks to the phone call.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number.
Speaker 1: Emmitt Sheen was.
Speaker 2: Not the problem tonight. The problem was the Dodger offense,
Speaker 2: which only scored one run. When we continue live from
Speaker 2: Chase Field, we're gonna go back downstairs to hear from
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker because he's got some splaining to do. He's
Speaker 2: only hitting two thirty six after going oh for three,
Speaker 2: and we'll get into Kyle Tucker. When we continue, you'll
Speaker 2: hear from Joey Vado and also Freddie Freeman, who went
Speaker 2: viral this last homestand multiple times for the right reasons.
Speaker 2: You'll hear from Freddy about those viral moments, including yesterday's
Speaker 2: kicking dirt at JT Realmudo in an ABS challenge sequence.
Speaker 2: So a lot more Dodger Talk to get to between
Speaker 2: now and ten thirty live from Chase Field. Your phone
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Speaker 1: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassan.
Speaker 2: We are live at Chase Field after Game one of
Speaker 2: a four game series at Chase Field tonight. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: fault to the Diamondbacks by a final score of four
Speaker 2: to one. David Bassey Dodger Talk with you until ten
Speaker 2: thirty tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers, coming off a very successful homestand sweeping the
Speaker 2: Rockies and taking two out of three from a hotter
Speaker 2: Phillies team, and then tonight dropped the first game of
Speaker 2: this four game series to Arizona. So the Dodgers record
Speaker 2: now is thirty eight and twenty two. The Diamondbacks are
Speaker 2: in third place in the NL West, five and a
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Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. It's been
Speaker 2: a struggle all season long for Kyle Tucker. Yes, there's
Speaker 2: been moment, but for the majority of the year it
Speaker 2: hasn't been pretty for him at the plate and defensively,
Speaker 2: teams are very aware that they could take advantage of
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker in right field. I'm not saying that the
Speaker 2: Dodger outfield defense is worse than last year.
Speaker 1: It's actually pretty good.
Speaker 2: A lot of that has to do with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: great research and development to be able to position the
Speaker 2: outfielders in the right spots and that helps them not
Speaker 2: have to cover as much ground. But the reality is
Speaker 2: the Dodgers need Tucker to hit. He's zero for three
Speaker 2: tonight with a walk. He did not have a good
Speaker 2: base running moment in the second inning when he was
Speaker 2: just not aware of the bigger lead he should have got.
Speaker 2: He's hitting two thirty eight on the year with an
Speaker 2: ops of seven twenty two. Hopefully he starts to figure
Speaker 2: this out. He's getting a grace period here because the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are in first place, five games ahead of the Padres,
Speaker 2: and things are starting to go really well for a
Speaker 2: lot of these other players in the lineup, but Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker is still lagging behind. Let's head downstairs right now.
Speaker 2: Do you hear from Tucker on sports at l A.
Speaker 8: I mean, he's just hitting some spots.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 8: Overall, I thought we had some good at bats and
Speaker 8: browed up some balls, but they made some nice plays
Speaker 8: and we just weren't able to get the runs across
Speaker 8: so just kind of how it goes sometimes for.
Speaker 5: You kind of have where's the swing?
Speaker 4: Felt the last couple of days, like coming off the
Speaker 4: VP session and yesterday's game, I mean.
Speaker 1: It was fine.
Speaker 8: I mean, first of bet just decent bat like a
Speaker 8: pitchwalk went from other to to walk, So that's fine.
Speaker 8: Next Bets on the first pitch hit it well, just
Speaker 8: on the ground, need to get there in there, and
Speaker 8: the other ones just they made some good pitches and
Speaker 8: tough at bats, but she got to hang with him
Speaker 8: on those.
Speaker 7: What you can do on field before game? What are
Speaker 7: things that you look for in games when you're trying
Speaker 7: to search for your swing that show you're turning in
Speaker 7: the right.
Speaker 8: Direction from those first swinging on good pitches and just
Speaker 8: trying to help put a good thing on it. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 8: if you're just doing those things right, you at least
Speaker 8: give yourself a chance. It's better than just chasing HI
Speaker 8: stuff all over the place. So I think you just
Speaker 8: gradually try and find the right back path and timing
Speaker 8: and everything. So so I goes small.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, one thing that Kyle Tucker hasn't really
Speaker 2: answered is why why is he swinging at the first
Speaker 2: pitch more this year than he ever has before in
Speaker 2: his career. If you even if you go back to
Speaker 2: last year and basically along his entire career, he's not
Speaker 2: really swinging more than thirty five percent of the time
Speaker 2: at the first pitch.
Speaker 1: This year, it's well over fifty percent.
Speaker 2: That's something I'd like to ask him and understand why
Speaker 2: that's happening. Is it because he's rushing to hit. Is
Speaker 2: it because he's he's just not himself right now to
Speaker 2: begin the year. But that's that's one of the things
Speaker 2: that obviously is a question of why that version of
Speaker 2: Tucker is with the Dodgers. As far as swinging at
Speaker 2: the first pitch, like he mentioned, his first at bat,
Speaker 2: you know, it was a good it was a good
Speaker 2: at bat, you know, eight pitch walk after being down
Speaker 2: with two strikes. But after that it seemed to really
Speaker 2: devolve as far as is at bats go. And I've
Speaker 2: heard players say this about other teammates sometimes that first
Speaker 2: at bat means everything to you, and he had a
Speaker 2: good at bat. I'm just not sure why it didn't
Speaker 2: go well the rest of the game, But certainly the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are still waiting for Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 1: To be Kyle Tucker this year.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Got to point out Jorge Borosa, the center
Speaker 2: fielder for the Diamondbacks. He was amazing tonight in a
Speaker 2: very big center field.
Speaker 1: This is a big.
Speaker 2: Outfield and he was covering a lot of ground out there.
Speaker 2: He robbed Will Smith in the fourth inning, he robbed
Speaker 2: Andy Pahez in the fifth inning. He made a really
Speaker 2: good catch covering a lot of ground on Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: leading off the sixth inning. Jorge Barosa had a lot
Speaker 2: to say about the outcome of tonight's game, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was very impressive. I had not seen him play before,
Speaker 2: but I can understand why he's out there because you
Speaker 2: need you need a guy that can cover a lot
Speaker 2: of ground out there in the.
Speaker 1: Chase Field center field.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. I wanted to share it with you
Speaker 2: what Joey Vado had to say on Dan Patrick's show
Speaker 2: last week. Because tonight Shoey Otani scored the only Dodger
Speaker 2: run O'tani has scored three hundred and eighteen runs in
Speaker 2: three hundred and seventy two games played as a Dodger,
Speaker 2: not to mention his first year fifty to fifty, not
Speaker 2: to mention how great he was last year, and now
Speaker 2: he's chasing the cy young he's one of the top
Speaker 2: three pitchers in baseball, and all of a sudden, now
Speaker 2: offensively he's starting to come to life. He's hitting two eighties,
Speaker 2: got ten home runs, thirty one RBIs.
Speaker 1: He had three hits tonight, and.
Speaker 2: Joey Vado may have put his season into greater context
Speaker 2: than any of us have done so far. Here's what
Speaker 2: Vado said to Dan Patrick last week about Otani's season.
Speaker 1: He hasn't even gotten hot.
Speaker 9: I know that he's had a really nice start to
Speaker 9: the pitching side of things, but offensively, I don't even
Speaker 9: sense that. And I was reading that he's still not satisfied.
Speaker 9: But I saw some stuff yesterday in his swings that
Speaker 9: tell me we really And I don't like using hyperbole.
Speaker 9: I think I'm going to try to in the course
Speaker 9: of my media career to be as tame as possible.
Speaker 9: But I really think we might be in the middle
Speaker 9: of one of, if not the greatest season in the
Speaker 9: history of baseball. And I say that because, first of all,
Speaker 9: most of the all time great seasons have asterisks that
Speaker 9: slash question marks and the other A few were before
Speaker 9: integration was even a part of the game, and so
Speaker 9: the extreme ends of greatness were mitigated because integrated, because
Speaker 9: integration was a part of the game. And he's playing
Speaker 9: against the very, very best in the world now, So
Speaker 9: to me, I think we're on We have a chance
Speaker 9: to see one of the great seasons of all time.
Speaker 2: That's amazing from a really good player in his day,
Speaker 2: Joey Vado and a guy that I thought had a
Speaker 2: future in media when he was playing with the Reds.
Speaker 1: He's on NBC now.
Speaker 2: But it's hard to argue, right, I mean, even if
Speaker 2: Otani hits quote only if we only say only thirty
Speaker 2: home runs and he hits two to eighty and drives
Speaker 2: in one hundred runs, and he can continues on this
Speaker 2: trajectory of what he's doing as a pitcher five and
Speaker 2: two with an ERA of zero eighty two and nine starts,
Speaker 2: he's thrown fifty five innings already, his strikeout to walk
Speaker 2: ratio sixty one to seventeen. Hitters are only hitting a
Speaker 2: buck forty seven against him. If he does that, who's
Speaker 2: to say, it's not the greatest season we have ever
Speaker 2: seen in baseball history, because certainly we've never seen a
Speaker 2: player do what a ton he's doing this high of
Speaker 2: a level on the pitching side and on the hitting side.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, we're so spoiled. Last year
Speaker 2: he hit fifty five home runs. The year before, he
Speaker 2: was a fifty to fifty player, first in baseball history.
Speaker 2: And he wasn't pitching full time in either of those
Speaker 2: first two years with the Dodgers. Now he's pitching full
Speaker 2: time at thirty one years old, doing what he's doing,
Speaker 2: and offensively not even really like Vado said, hot yet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he the last two weeks it's more like Otani, but
Speaker 2: he hasn't gotten red hot like we've seen him in
Speaker 2: previous years.
Speaker 1: So that's still to come.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Otani is going to hit and
Speaker 2: pitch on Wednesday when he takes the mound here at
Speaker 2: Chase Field.
Speaker 1: But think about that, is that.
Speaker 2: Really an overstatement by Joey Vado to say if Otani
Speaker 2: continues to do what he's doing pitching, and let's say
Speaker 2: he hits two seventy to two eighty with thirty home runs,
Speaker 2: ninety to one hundred runs driven in scores one hundred
Speaker 2: runs even Otani's best year with the Angels as a pitcher,
Speaker 2: This would he clips that. This one he clips what
Speaker 2: anybody has ever done in baseball history. So I know,
Speaker 2: when we're in it every day, it's hard to take
Speaker 2: that outside look on what's really happening here.
Speaker 1: But it's happening. We're seeing.
Speaker 2: We're in the in the middle of the beginning of
Speaker 2: what very well may be the greatest season any baseball
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Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. And you know, in
Speaker 2: the game of baseball, everybody begrudgingly gives accolades, whether it's
Speaker 2: players from the other team, whether it's your own teammates,
Speaker 2: whether it's broadcasters or media. For whatever reason, in baseball,
Speaker 2: it's really hard to get your roses, get your flowers
Speaker 2: in this game, even if you are show Heyo Tani,
Speaker 2: but a guy like Joey Vado. He had no problems
Speaker 2: ever doing that, and I feel like him saying that
Speaker 2: really caught the attention of a lot of us.
Speaker 1: And he's right.
Speaker 2: I like I said, in baseball, it's so different than
Speaker 2: the NFL or the NBA. They will overstate one single
Speaker 2: game by one guy and say, oh, that's that's as
Speaker 2: great as Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan. In baseball, what
Speaker 2: do you have to do to get some accolades and
Speaker 2: really get some acknowledgment of how great you are within
Speaker 2: the game. And I'm just surprised nobody has brought this up.
Speaker 2: And even I'm at fault. You know, I'm here every
Speaker 2: day with Otani, and sometimes when you're in it every day,
Speaker 2: you don't realize it. But yeah, I'm a little embarrassed
Speaker 2: and shamed that I haven't brought it up that this
Speaker 2: may be the greatest season we have ever seen by
Speaker 2: a Major League Baseball player. Eight six six seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Freddie Freeman has no
Speaker 2: problems giving other players their accolades or their shine. He
Speaker 2: is America's host at first base. I've never seen a
Speaker 2: first baseman greet the opponent as much as Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: does with such a great spirit, with such a great smile.
Speaker 2: And I had a chance to catch up with Freddy
Speaker 2: after he did his infield work today to ask him
Speaker 2: about his two viral moments in a good way during
Speaker 2: this last Homestand when Kyle Carros got his first hit
Speaker 2: of the first game of the series at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: with his dad Eric in the booth, Freddie Freeman was
Speaker 2: trying to get him to look to his dad in
Speaker 2: the booth.
Speaker 1: And then yesterday GT.
Speaker 2: Real Mudo challenged a pitch abs pitch and Freddy knew
Speaker 2: it was going to be a strike, and he kicked
Speaker 2: some dirt at JT.
Speaker 1: Real Mudo.
Speaker 2: Remember they were in the same division for a long time,
Speaker 2: with real Mudo with the Marlins, Freddie with the Braves,
Speaker 2: real Mudo staying in the NL East with the Phillies.
Speaker 2: Here's what Freddy had to say about all of those
Speaker 2: things earlier today.
Speaker 10: I don't know, I don't know. I love playing the
Speaker 10: game in baseball. I know we're in a tense battle
Speaker 10: of competing each but during the game I like to
Speaker 10: find fun things. It's we're all having fun playing this game.
Speaker 10: We love it. But yeah, I knew Eric was doing
Speaker 10: the games, and I could see when Kyle got the hit.
Speaker 10: I could see him kind of like moving around in
Speaker 10: the in the booth, and I was like, oh, that's
Speaker 10: an excited dad. And I was like, hey, look your dad,
Speaker 10: your dad, your dad. And then obviously yesterday, uh yeah,
Speaker 10: I just got told that it was going all over
Speaker 10: the place. But yeah, so JT obviously in my first
Speaker 10: at bat, got eat the strikeout on the challenge call,
Speaker 10: and then next at bat, first pitch, he challenges again
Speaker 10: and gets it right. And then so that's where I've
Speaker 10: obviously know JT for a long time, and you know,
Speaker 10: I just love JT. So yeah, once he got it,
Speaker 10: I knew he was gonna get.
Speaker 1: It right too.
Speaker 10: So that's why I just kicked some dirt on him
Speaker 10: and he just started laughing.
Speaker 1: I said stop.
Speaker 10: He wanted to challenge the next one too, but thankfully
Speaker 10: I was like there, he.
Speaker 8: Was like, I don't know.
Speaker 10: I looked at it and I said, if that's the strike,
Speaker 10: I'm done here. You know, like, and you know, it's
Speaker 10: just fun. The game's fun. Baseball's fun. It's supposed to
Speaker 10: be fun, and you know, I try and enjoy it
Speaker 10: as much as I came on and play.
Speaker 2: And we certainly enjoy watching Freddie having as much joy
Speaker 2: as he does playing the game. And that was the
Speaker 2: inside story to yesterday's viral moment between Freddie Freeman and JT.
Speaker 2: Realmudo and also early in the homestand with Kyle Carro.
Speaker 1: So that was that was fun. That was uh, that
Speaker 1: is Freddie and that.
Speaker 2: You know, he is so talented, obviously, and he wants
Speaker 2: so much out of himself and so much out of
Speaker 2: his career, but he never loses the perspective that this
Speaker 2: is a kid's game and he has a lot of
Speaker 2: little kids still left in him. So that's what those
Speaker 2: moments bring out, all right. Tomorrow, Eric Lauer will be
Speaker 2: on the mound for the Dodgers for the second time.
Speaker 2: In his first start against the Rockies in a Dodger uniform,
Speaker 2: he went six innings, allowed just one earn run. He's
Speaker 2: going up against one of Freddy's X teammates, Michael Soroka.
Speaker 2: The former Brave is seven and two with an ERA
Speaker 2: of three twenty five. Our coverage begins tomorrow at five
Speaker 2: point thirty with first pitch from Chase Field with Rick
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