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Speaker 2: thirty tonight. We have one line open at eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy. A lot of
Speaker 2: Dodger fans fired up after Edwin Diaz blows the save
Speaker 2: again tonight to the Brewers as Milwaukee scores three runs.
Speaker 2: All of their hits came on singles. In fact, all
Speaker 2: five runs on ten hits were on singles. The Brewers
Speaker 2: did not have an extra base hit tonight. It's the
Speaker 2: first time they have had ten hits in a game
Speaker 2: all singles, in four years, so certainly they are staying
Speaker 2: true to their identity. They're a team that really doesn't
Speaker 2: have a big bopper in their lineup. I guess if
Speaker 2: you had to pick one, it would be Jake Bowers
Speaker 2: to hit a seeing I single through the right side
Speaker 2: of the infield in the ninth inning to drive in
Speaker 2: the go ahead run. Tonight out of the starting lineup
Speaker 2: for the Brewers, he had the most home runs this
Speaker 2: season twenty one, Churio had seventeen. They're not known for
Speaker 2: their power, and coming into this game they had just
Speaker 2: gotten swept by the Padres because they were not swinging
Speaker 2: the bat that well. And quite honestly, the Dodgers should
Speaker 2: have won this game if not for Edwin Diaz still
Speaker 2: not having the consistent feel and execution for his slider.
Speaker 2: And I think we all know by now if DZ
Speaker 2: does not have his slider, hitters can just sit on
Speaker 2: his fastball. But I will say this, his fastball has
Speaker 2: been really good, So I guess at this point in time,
Speaker 2: I know, you got to get a feel for that pitch.
Speaker 2: And Jose Mota, who's gonna join us at eleven point fifteen,
Speaker 2: has observed over the years that as a catcher, you
Speaker 2: gotta get DZ throwing that slider early in count so
Speaker 2: he gets a feel for it. Don't wait for it
Speaker 2: later in counts, And that may have been the case tonight,
Speaker 2: but nonetheless, Diaz has got to figure it out because
Speaker 2: the Dodgers need him. And you heard from Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: earlier tonight on the Clubhouse Show. Well share with you
Speaker 2: what he had to say when reporters were asking him
Speaker 2: what about taking Daz out of that high leverage closer spot,
Speaker 2: And he just threw it back at the reporters and said, Okay,
Speaker 2: who who's the alternative? Who you got at Gardo Enriquez,
Speaker 2: Jonathan Hernandez, Evan Phillips, Kyle Hurt, Alex Vesia, Jack Dreyer,
Speaker 2: Who's going to close games? Tanner Scott? All of you
Speaker 2: were calling last year saying Tanner Scott should never see
Speaker 2: the mound again. Now all of a sudden, everybody loves
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott. And look, he's had a great year. But
Speaker 2: I feel like he's had a great year because of
Speaker 2: the role he's in. He's back to that comfortable role
Speaker 2: that he was in with the Padres and the Marlins
Speaker 2: to a lesser extent. So I would love to know
Speaker 2: who your alternative is. I like the idea that Diaz
Speaker 2: should be placed into a lower leverage spot. But who
Speaker 2: is going to close out and get you the final
Speaker 2: three outs of a game and a final six outs?
Speaker 2: Because honestly, who's been really pitching that great out of
Speaker 2: the Dodger bullpen recently? I can't say there's one guy
Speaker 2: that says, yeah, that's the guy ride that hot hand.
Speaker 2: I really can't say that Tanner Scott would be the
Speaker 2: only guy. So you know, it's fine when you criticize
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, so you say he shouldn't have done this
Speaker 2: or shouldn't have done that. But like I always tell you,
Speaker 2: all right, tell me an alternative, and that's what he
Speaker 2: was saying tonight as well. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's head
Speaker 2: to the Dodger Clubhouse right now to hear from Edwin
Speaker 2: Diaz on sports net LA.
Speaker 4: I think the inconsistency. I think I was inconsistency. I
Speaker 4: was throwing my fast but right in the middle. And
Speaker 4: when you miss rying the meddle, you get paid.
Speaker 2: So that's what I did today.
Speaker 5: When you, as you're working through this, what for you
Speaker 5: is just the biggest focus as you're looking to get
Speaker 5: that consistency back with your delivery.
Speaker 4: Try to make pitches. You know, I'm trying to make
Speaker 4: pitche and I'm trying to compete.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: At the end of the day, you know, I just
Speaker 4: tried to compete and go I'll have fun. But you
Speaker 4: know I haven't got the results. So I have one
Speaker 4: good day then back game.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying.
Speaker 4: I gotta find the way to keep pitching better.
Speaker 7: Just commanding the fast ball and throwing it where you
Speaker 7: want in the zone. Been kind of a struggle since
Speaker 7: you've come back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think my father Commando it was I was throng stribble,
Speaker 4: you know, right in the middle, and every big here
Speaker 4: I can hit far, but Rund the Americ can throw
Speaker 4: through on the masks and I went on the way here.
Speaker 4: So I gotta get better on that. Are you close, say,
Speaker 4: secutively and stretches in the passive?
Speaker 8: What have you usually done to be able to get
Speaker 8: out of it?
Speaker 9: Is there usually sort of tell is it usually the
Speaker 9: basketball command that let but usually sort of leads these stretches.
Speaker 4: I just gotta find the way to get pitch better.
Speaker 4: I think I've been in this position before and and
Speaker 4: be able to find a way to get better. I
Speaker 4: just gotta sit down with the pitching coat to see
Speaker 4: what I'm what I'm amazing, and what they say, to
Speaker 4: see if we can U fix and keep keep working hard.
Speaker 4: How they pointed out anything that's sort of they wanted
Speaker 4: you to work on between nowadays or anything like that
Speaker 4: or is that one of the things word how you
Speaker 4: kind of have to sit down with it. I always
Speaker 4: try to. So we tried to sit down with them,
Speaker 4: you know, because my last couple of gay I was
Speaker 4: feeling really good. But today, and you know, my father
Speaker 4: was I think the words signed I get here. I
Speaker 4: gotta find the way to pitch better.
Speaker 2: What do you feel like you're slighter right now?
Speaker 4: I think what's better today? I think maybe good ones.
Speaker 4: You know I got paid. You know when you may
Speaker 4: see your father go in the middle, they come see
Speaker 4: better pitches. So I think my story was good today,
Speaker 4: just you know, didn't have good commandments fast.
Speaker 2: Well does that make it more frustrated when it's kind
Speaker 2: of a new thing each day?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's frustrating because I know that, uh that
Speaker 4: I know my ability. I know what I can do
Speaker 4: in the mall and don't be able to do you
Speaker 4: know it sucks. You know, I just gotta come tomorrow
Speaker 4: and try to keep getting better.
Speaker 7: You talked about being appreciative of still being in the
Speaker 7: ninth ending as you work through this, you feel like
Speaker 7: continuing a pitch in the ninth right now, you can
Speaker 7: kind of still get to where you want to be, you.
Speaker 4: Know, as now, I gotta see what they want to do.
Speaker 4: You know, I know I'm struggling, so I want to
Speaker 4: do the best thing for our team. You know, at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, you know, they give me
Speaker 4: the ball in the nile, we try to do my
Speaker 4: job's they give me the one in another inn, and
Speaker 4: we try to do my job. Just gotta get better,
Speaker 4: be consistent. If I do, would be fine.
Speaker 2: All right. There's Edwin Diaz obviously saying everything that we're
Speaker 2: seeing and he understands that he's got to be better,
Speaker 2: and talking to him this past Sunday, I kind of
Speaker 2: felt like he had turned the corner and just like
Speaker 2: letting it grip and rip and not thinking about what
Speaker 2: could possibly happen. As far as just getting over that
Speaker 2: final mental hurdle when you come back from surgery. It's
Speaker 2: not just an injury. He did have surgery earlier this year,
Speaker 2: and sometimes for some pitchers it takes a little longer
Speaker 2: to get over that mental hurdle to know that, hey,
Speaker 2: when I throw this pitch and throw this baseball as
Speaker 2: hard as I can and spin this baseball the way
Speaker 2: it should be spun, that I'm not going to re
Speaker 2: injure my arm. And I feel like he's gotten over
Speaker 2: that mental hurdle. And when he talks about his fastball
Speaker 2: being right down the middle, the only one that really
Speaker 2: was down the middle tonight was to David Hamilton. I
Speaker 2: know he wasn't really commanding it really well. The slider
Speaker 2: got hit tonight for singles, and nothing really hit that hard.
Speaker 2: But obviously a disappointing night for Edwin Diaz and the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: After Max Munsey hit a pinch hit, three run home
Speaker 2: run with two outs in the sixth inning off of
Speaker 2: Antonio Senzateela, he felt like the Dodgers were on their
Speaker 2: way to handing the Brewers their fourth straight loss and
Speaker 2: closing the gap on them. And right now, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: lose tonight, so they're two games back of the Brewers
Speaker 2: for the top seed in the National League. And the
Speaker 2: Braves won again so the Dodgers are the Wildcard Division
Speaker 2: winner right now as it stands, eight six six seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Thomas in West Covina. Lead us off on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk tonight. Hi Thomas, Hey David.
Speaker 10: How are you?
Speaker 2: Ah? You know, I'm happy to be back at the ballpark, Thomas.
Speaker 2: So I can't say I'm bad.
Speaker 6: Uh, you know, just a little bit frustrating looking at
Speaker 6: Edwin Diaz pitch and as you mentioned, he's blown three saves.
Speaker 6: I'm just kind of.
Speaker 2: This week but just this week is three.
Speaker 6: Right, So haven't have have an idea just when he
Speaker 6: was pitching, he just doesn't have that confidence. It just
Speaker 6: reminds me sort of like when Rookie was struggling, he
Speaker 6: didn't have that confidence. Just wondering as to why he wasn't.
Speaker 6: I was, you're looking at the game with my kids,
Speaker 6: we watched, we watched every single game, and when he
Speaker 6: was pitching, he just he just looked off. I was
Speaker 6: just wondering as to why they let him battle.
Speaker 2: His last game where he was able to uh to
Speaker 2: get the save and uh, you know, for for whatever
Speaker 2: you were seeing tonight was the guy that's saying, dang,
Speaker 2: fastball is not the way I wanted to be. Dang,
Speaker 2: my slider is not the way I want it to be.
Speaker 2: So when you don't have your two pitches, obviously you
Speaker 2: know there's a little lack of confidence. So I think
Speaker 2: that's what you were seeing tonight. And you know, Canor
Speaker 2: McGuinness is the best in the business when it comes
Speaker 2: to helping pitchers get back on track, So I would
Speaker 2: imagine that him and Edwin Diaz are talking right now.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if they they're waiting for tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't give up on Edwin Diaz. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: need him, Thomas, There's no way around it. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Milo, who's coming back from the game tonight. Hi, Milo,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: Hey David, how you doing.
Speaker 2: I think we've established I'm doing good. Milo. You're not
Speaker 2: gonna bring me down. You're not gonna bring me down.
Speaker 11: Oh I'm not down. I have full confidence to this team.
Speaker 11: But in terms of tonight, I just don't understand why
Speaker 11: Tennor Scott didn't put back out there for the ninth
Speaker 11: inning after facing one datter, especially if Edwin Diaz had
Speaker 11: two blown saves already this week.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well, I'll say this because you know that's
Speaker 2: easy to say, But the Dodgers are in the middle
Speaker 2: of thirteen in a row. This is a four game
Speaker 2: series with no days off, and then the Dodgers keep
Speaker 2: playing after that, they go to Denver and you're gonna
Speaker 2: have to use your bullpen in Denver. So for Dave Roberts,
Speaker 2: you know, it's not just about winning today. He's got
Speaker 2: to think about the tomorrow. He's got to think about
Speaker 2: the rest of the series. He's got to think about
Speaker 2: how he's going to close out the thirteen in a row.
Speaker 2: So it's all good that you want to four out
Speaker 2: save do you want that tomorrow night too? Milo? Because
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz is on this roster and in that bullpen
Speaker 2: for a reason. And I think it's hilarious that you
Speaker 2: and others are calling for Tanner Scott when the whole
Speaker 2: point of the Dodgers signing Edwin Diaz was because Tanner
Speaker 2: Scott did not have a good year last year, and
Speaker 2: everybody was only for Tanner Scott's head last year at
Speaker 2: this time.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but I see that Yamamoto could go deep into
Speaker 11: the game tomorrow, and uh, the doctors are facing guy
Speaker 11: with a four ra so yeah, I think they could
Speaker 11: do better tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So who do you want to close? So you go
Speaker 2: four out save, you go four out saved tonight? You
Speaker 2: want Tanner Scott to what? Go for a four out
Speaker 2: saved tomorrow because it doesn't seem like anybody else is
Speaker 2: really pitching that great? And then what do you want
Speaker 2: to do if they have the lead against Misowski and
Speaker 2: the Brewers on Saturday?
Speaker 11: Well, I say the bullpen is rested at that point?
Speaker 2: Is it is Tanner Scott rested? I mean, who are
Speaker 2: you going to? Who Who's game on Saturday?
Speaker 11: You could go to? You could go to Tanner Scott.
Speaker 1: I mean, holy pitch three.
Speaker 2: In a row. After a four out saved tonight and
Speaker 2: tomorrow night, you know another four out safe, You're gonna
Speaker 2: go to Tanner Scott three three straight days. Look, I'm
Speaker 2: not opposed to Tanner Scott being the closer, but he
Speaker 2: can't pitch every night. At some point Edwin Diaz is
Speaker 2: going to have to pitch. And you know another thing
Speaker 2: that's compounding all of this is the Dodgers may have
Speaker 2: expected a little bit too much out of Evan Phillips
Speaker 2: after not pitching for two years, to throw him back
Speaker 2: into the fire in high leverage situations, because again, at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the year, I was questioning, who is
Speaker 2: going to be that right handed reliever that is going
Speaker 2: to get out a high leverage at bat like Fernando Tatis,
Speaker 2: Junior Manny Machado, Andrew Vaughan. Who's going to be that guy?
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers really haven't found that guy. Edgardo Enriquez
Speaker 2: has been that guy at certain points in time in
Speaker 2: the season. Brock Stewart's been on and off the il
Speaker 2: all season long, so and Edwin Diaz is struggling. So
Speaker 2: that's that's a huge question mark for this bullpen right now.
Speaker 2: Who is their high leverage right handed reliever? Raise your
Speaker 2: hand if you're that guy. Eight sixty six seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Justin was at Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium tonight, Hi, Justin, Do you want Tanner Scott to
Speaker 2: pitch the rest of the forty games?
Speaker 12: I don't want him pitching the rest of the forty games.
Speaker 12: I wanted him to definitely do the updown tonight. Here's
Speaker 12: the deal, here's my reasoning. Let's just look at straight
Speaker 12: up stats. This year, Tanner Scott six has sixteen saves,
Speaker 12: two blown saves. Edwin DZ yes he has had surgery,
Speaker 12: isn't in in the plus column for him? Six saves,
Speaker 12: three blown saves. Who has more blown saves of the two?
Speaker 12: I'd say that's DS. He doesn't. Tonight he pitched with
Speaker 12: zero confidence, no urgency, and no and there was nothing
Speaker 12: to that slider. It was so sloppily. He is not
Speaker 12: our closer, Tanner Scott. If I'm tan i am, I
Speaker 12: am bounding my fist on Dave's desk. He was a
Speaker 12: closer in in San Diego. That's why we signed him
Speaker 12: and he has been sustaining that job season until DS
Speaker 12: came back.
Speaker 2: He is urged, were you calling and screaming last year
Speaker 2: that Tanner Scott had to go? Because I think it's
Speaker 2: just hilarious now everybody's calling for Tanner Scott now after
Speaker 2: last year they were calling for his head.
Speaker 12: Let's talk about now you're like, well, do you want
Speaker 12: to save arms? Yeah, so let's do by that philosophy.
Speaker 12: Let's do another bullpen game so we can give ya
Speaker 12: momodo another day's rest. Well, doesn't make sense you.
Speaker 2: Know that the rotation is they don't have to do
Speaker 2: a bullpen game. And Blake Snell saved the bullpen when
Speaker 2: he pitched the other night, so that was a that
Speaker 2: was a big boost for the bullpen. But my point is,
Speaker 2: I'm not opposed to Tanner Scott closing out the game
Speaker 2: from here on out until Diz gets back on track.
Speaker 2: I'm not opposed to that. But how are you going
Speaker 2: to get to Tanner Scott if nobody's really throwing the
Speaker 2: baseball that well, and if you're going to have to
Speaker 2: use Daz in the seventh inning, he could blow the
Speaker 2: game in the seventh inning too.
Speaker 12: Gives me a shot to get back in the game.
Speaker 12: And we're gonna overlook Vessia's contribution.
Speaker 10: I guess too, right, And it's like us a lot.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of miles on that on that arm,
Speaker 2: and you know, I, you know, I I get. Do
Speaker 2: you want Vessie to close?
Speaker 12: I know I want Tanner Scotts my closer, the guy
Speaker 12: that's his job.
Speaker 2: Well, he's the only other option. If you had to say,
Speaker 2: like Dave Roberts was saying, who's the option, Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: would be that guy.
Speaker 12: You're getting and you know you're getting glass now back,
Speaker 12: you're getting these guys like are like, look at what
Speaker 12: that rotation is going to be when it's one hundred percent,
Speaker 12: which is coming in the next two or three weeks.
Speaker 12: So like, let's plan for that. Players with the put
Speaker 12: the guy in the position who is getting it up,
Speaker 12: getting it done seventeen safe fact, Edwin Diaz blowing saves
Speaker 12: fact at a fifty clip. That's your guy. And I
Speaker 12: think it's really bad for Gave to come out there
Speaker 12: and say, like, well, who do you think it should be?
Speaker 12: Canner's earned that job, and I really think he owes
Speaker 12: him to give him some credit for what he's done.
Speaker 2: All right, justin thank you for the phone call. Eight
Speaker 2: sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone number. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this was Dave Roberts earlier tonight when he was asked
Speaker 2: about who he may go to if it's not Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 13: Give me another option. I mean, I think that you've
Speaker 13: got to You can't just you can't just I can't
Speaker 13: just say change in low leverage. I have to have
Speaker 13: other options. And you know, to be quite honest, none
Speaker 13: of those guys really are throwing the baseball great, So
Speaker 13: you know you, I mean, that's just kind of the
Speaker 13: way it is.
Speaker 12: This doesn't necessarily solid.
Speaker 9: But could you go to more of the closer mind
Speaker 9: committee type thing more?
Speaker 2: Do you still think it's.
Speaker 13: Just going with him?
Speaker 9: Is the better?
Speaker 13: You know, we got to get other guys on track
Speaker 13: to even have that to be a I mean even
Speaker 13: a valid conversation, to be honest with you.
Speaker 8: Playing the manager can do that.
Speaker 13: Who's the other option?
Speaker 9: Bill?
Speaker 13: I mean, you know, you look back at the last
Speaker 13: week and guys have struggled, and then I'm not going
Speaker 13: to sit here and play carousel and chase my tail
Speaker 13: and say when a guy's struggling and then when he
Speaker 13: doesn't pitch, well, then it's like why are you pitching him?
Speaker 13: So I don't do that. You know, everyone's got a role.
Speaker 13: They all have jobs to do, and they all have
Speaker 13: to do their job.
Speaker 2: That's it, all right. That was Dave Roberts earlier tonight
Speaker 2: asking the question, if not Edwin Diaz, then who Obviously
Speaker 2: there's been some passionate fans that are stating the obvious. Yes,
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott would be that guy. So we'll see, we'll
Speaker 2: see where it goes from here. But Obviously, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: paid Edwin Diaz to be their closer, it just hasn't
Speaker 2: happened so far consistently since coming back from elbow surgery
Speaker 2: or having those loose bodies removed from his right pitching arm.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Tustin, Doug. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Doug?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, Dave.
Speaker 9: How you doing?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 2: Feeling good?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 9: Well, love the passion, Well, I appreciate you. I wanted
Speaker 9: to start off on a positive note, man, because we
Speaker 9: can all get down on the Dodgers for this and that,
Speaker 9: but I just do. I want to start off with
Speaker 9: my guy Maggie and Maxie. They they helped me watch
Speaker 9: the game every night. I love these I love Meggy's leadership,
Speaker 9: Maxie's always coming in clutch. But I just want to
Speaker 9: talk about it. I'm not impressed by scooball for sure.
Speaker 9: We're paying all this money for school, Ole Diaz and
Speaker 9: all these guys come over. I'm not super impressed by him.
Speaker 1: Diaz.
Speaker 9: I mean, I heard I heard his uh what he
Speaker 9: was saying on in the interview afterwards. I feel for him,
Speaker 9: but you know, he's he's still got to like, you know,
Speaker 9: handle business. Blake Snell is literally the only picture I
Speaker 9: feel confident and that can go out there and handle business.
Speaker 9: When he starts, you know, he starts getting off on
Speaker 9: his game.
Speaker 6: I can see him.
Speaker 9: He's got the confidence and it to to to change
Speaker 9: it up. I don't feel that. Like, honestly, I know
Speaker 9: you were talking about how Diaz did have the confidence
Speaker 9: the other day with with his with his save, but honestly,
Speaker 9: I felt like it wasn't confident. It was it was
Speaker 9: more like he was like, you know, like it was
Speaker 9: luck in a sense.
Speaker 2: Uh No, I mean I don't think that. Maybe in
Speaker 2: that ninth inning when he stranded Corb and Carrol, I
Speaker 2: feel like he kind of just started to say, you
Speaker 2: know what, I'm just gonna let it rip here, go
Speaker 2: with my fastball and compete my way through it. And
Speaker 2: then he was able to come back after that and
Speaker 2: save a game and it looked a lot better. So
Speaker 2: I can understand why Dave Roberts felt good enough to
Speaker 2: go with him in a two run game in the
Speaker 2: ninth inning. But look, I I will concede if there
Speaker 2: was one obvious choice other than Edwin Diaz, it would
Speaker 2: be Tanner Scott at this point, Thank you.
Speaker 9: Thank you. And I wasn't one of the guys that
Speaker 9: called in talking about Tanner Scott last year. It is
Speaker 9: what it is, but you know, it was just it
Speaker 9: was crazy how like Rick Monday read my mind tonight
Speaker 9: and I was just thinking, Man, Tanner Scott's got that.
Speaker 9: And this is something about about having the confidence when
Speaker 9: you walk on the mound, and I feel like Tanner
Speaker 9: Scott does have that. So if you if you want
Speaker 9: to hear what I said, I'd say closers. So let
Speaker 9: me ask you this, I guess let me start off
Speaker 9: with this, David. I appreciate all of your knowledge and
Speaker 9: loyalty to to the to the Dodgers who've actually helped
Speaker 9: me become like the most avid Dodger fan because of
Speaker 9: listening to you and all the knowledge that you have.
Speaker 9: You and Oral Horscheiser.
Speaker 2: But you're a sick man to put me in the
Speaker 2: same sentence as Oral Herscheiser. But go ahead, Doug. You
Speaker 2: already hurt your credibility, So go ahead. What do you got?
Speaker 9: I didn't mean it, I didn't mean like that or
Speaker 9: I'm super impressed.
Speaker 2: By I'm just kidding. What do you got, Doug? You
Speaker 2: could fire anything at me and then we'll end the call.
Speaker 2: What do you got?
Speaker 9: So why why why can't we use them?
Speaker 10: Because?
Speaker 9: I mean, you got way more baseball knowledge of me.
Speaker 9: I I'm like, a, I guess a recent baseball Like.
Speaker 2: We don't know that. Just ask the question. You don't
Speaker 2: have to preface it that way. Just ask the question,
Speaker 2: how come?
Speaker 9: How come we can't use like like pictures that that
Speaker 9: are are you know, starting pitchers, or pictures that that
Speaker 9: pitch in like the sixth and seventh inning that come
Speaker 9: in as closers. You know what I'm saying, So, like,
Speaker 9: why can't you use Uh, I don't know. Well no, no, no, dude,
Speaker 9: you're definitely not.
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking the reason why you can't use starting
Speaker 2: pictures is because they're creatures of habit. They just threw
Speaker 2: one hundred pitches in their last start and you can't
Speaker 2: go back to them as relievers. That's something you do
Speaker 2: in playoff time when every things at stake, and uh,
Speaker 2: you're not going for a marathon, you're going for a sprint.
Speaker 2: But hey, can we just agree that Tanner Scott's the
Speaker 2: the option if it's not Edwin Diaz In the short term, Doug.
Speaker 9: I would I would say I would say that that's it.
Speaker 9: I mean, I'm not going to get down on anybody.
Speaker 9: I hope, I hope we all just get back to
Speaker 9: to what we need to do. But you know, I
Speaker 9: would just say that that in the clubhouse, that's the
Speaker 9: leadership with the Mickey Rojas and Maxie and and all
Speaker 9: those all those clutch guys. I hope we just all
Speaker 9: kind of bring back together, help these pitchers get back
Speaker 9: into to what they need to be doing for us.
Speaker 2: But I mean, Key K will get to Edwin Ds too.
Speaker 2: He helped recruit Edwin DS to the Dodgers, so Key
Speaker 2: K and Edwin Diaz would have that connection, you know,
Speaker 2: to keep his spirits up. Let's go out to Calabasas. Mike.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Mike?
Speaker 10: I'm doing all right, Dave. Look, I knew this. This
Speaker 10: has been structural. Like we had Jansen he got benched
Speaker 10: for the World Series. We had to have a starter
Speaker 10: going to a closer role there. We had Tanner Scott
Speaker 10: bench last year, Walker Buehler had to close things. We
Speaker 10: had Yamamoto last year. Like there's just something that we're
Speaker 10: not evaluating correctly on closers and a lot of it.
Speaker 10: Nobody's scared of Tanner Scott, nobody scared of Dias. I
Speaker 10: mean they're throwing nine seven ninety eight. But you know,
Speaker 10: there's there's no Mason Miller, there's no Killed Smith from
Speaker 10: the Guardians or Johan Duran. We got to have somebody
Speaker 10: out there with some fire. I'm just curious who was
Speaker 10: evaluating this and making these decisions, because it's we've not
Speaker 10: had one for a decade.
Speaker 2: Well, the last true closer the Dodgers had was Kenneley Jansen,
Speaker 2: and now he has four hundred and ninety saves, so
Speaker 2: he's still going pretty strong and he's been very consistent
Speaker 2: over the last five years. So Kennelly Jansen was the
Speaker 2: last true closer the Dodgers had before Edwin Diaz. They
Speaker 2: thought they had their guy. He was guy, and look,
Speaker 2: they still believe he can be that guy. It's just
Speaker 2: been a rough season with him having to undergo surgery
Speaker 2: and then coming back. Look, Pep, these guys are human beings.
Speaker 2: It's not that easy to come back from having surgery
Speaker 2: on your pitching arm. It's really not as easy as
Speaker 2: you guys think. And there's a process to coming back
Speaker 2: and feeling like yourself. We talk about Evan Phillips. Everybody thinks, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: he went through the rehab process. Put him out there
Speaker 2: on the mound. He'll be fine, He'll be the same guy.
Speaker 2: Maybe myself included. We didn't take into account the guy
Speaker 2: hasn't pitched in two years, and it's gonna be tough
Speaker 2: for him to be that guy this year. Will he
Speaker 2: be that guy again next year? Yes, I would say
Speaker 2: there's a greater chance of that, but he's working through
Speaker 2: it edwhen Diaz is working through it and they're working
Speaker 2: through it in big league games, that manner in big spots.
Speaker 10: Yeah, No, it's more. Miller was available last year, Deron
Speaker 10: was available last year.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I mean the Padres overpaid for closer there, Mike.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're not gonna give away the number two
Speaker 2: prospect for a closer. That was just crazy? All right, Mike,
Speaker 2: thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it. Tonight's game
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Speaker 2: When we continue, more of your phone calls at eight
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Speaker 2: Moto will check in as well as the Dodgers blow
Speaker 2: the game in the ninth inning as the Brewers score
Speaker 2: three and the brew crew beats them five to four
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Speaker 11: Dodger fans, this is Max Mounsey. You're listening to the
Speaker 11: home of the back to back world champion Los Angeles
Speaker 11: Dodgers on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: Send to Tella, send it the chest. There go the runners.
Speaker 2: Here comes a pitch, a fly ball, and the deep
Speaker 2: right center field is way back firing.
Speaker 1: Hy three run, ten home run for Max Monthly.
Speaker 2: Max Monsey coming up clutch again. Max Monsey with a
Speaker 2: pinchhit th re run home run to give the Dodgers
Speaker 2: the lead in the sixth inning. It would not turn
Speaker 2: out to be a win for the Dodgers, as the
Speaker 2: Brewers come back with three runs in the ninth inning
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Speaker 2: Not only did Max Monsey hit his first pinchhit home
Speaker 2: run since twenty eighteen, Max Monsey made history tonight with
Speaker 2: that home run because he passed Eric Carrows for the
Speaker 2: most home runs hit in the history of Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: This place has hosted games Major League games Dodger games
Speaker 2: since nineteen sixty two. Max Munsey, with one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty one home runs, now has the distinction of being
Speaker 2: that guy that has hit the most home runs in
Speaker 2: the history of this ballpark, the third oldest stadium in
Speaker 2: all of Major League Baseball. And think of some of
Speaker 2: the great players that have played here since nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 2: We're talking about Garvey, We're talking about Say, we're talking
Speaker 2: about Frank Howard, those type of power hitters, Mike Piazza
Speaker 2: and a. Max Monsey passed Eric Carros tonight, who had
Speaker 2: that distinction before tonight. They were tied at one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty home runs a piece. And Eric Carros was
Speaker 2: in the booth tonight with Joe Davis on Sportsnet LA
Speaker 2: when Monsey launched his one hundred and thirty first career
Speaker 2: home run at Dodger Stadium. And this is what Eric
Speaker 2: Carros said on the broadcast. You did it months, you
Speaker 2: did it now the all time home run leader at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 11: Max Muncie, congratulations, brother.
Speaker 2: That's what makes the Dodgers special, the players that have
Speaker 2: won the unif warn the uniform, and the first class
Speaker 2: people that have worn the uniform. And Eric Carros is
Speaker 2: as first class as they come. Not a guy that's
Speaker 2: salty that somebody broke his record, but happy and celebrating
Speaker 2: the guy that broke the record. And going back to
Speaker 2: Max Muncy, h he has been incredible since the All
Speaker 2: Star break. When it comes to clutch hits, think about this,
Speaker 2: going back to July seventeenth at Yankee Stadium, he hit
Speaker 2: a two run, go ahead home run off of Garrett Cole,
Speaker 2: and then on that same road trip he hits a
Speaker 2: two run, go ahead home run off of Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 2: Both those games were two to one wins for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And then how about just on this homestand he hits
Speaker 2: a three run basis clearing double against John Schreiber of
Speaker 2: the Royals. He hit that walk off tenth inning base
Speaker 2: hit off of Lucas Ersig and then tonight that pinchhit
Speaker 2: go ahead, three run home run off of Antonio Senzateela,
Speaker 2: which should have been the difference in the game, but
Speaker 2: and when Diaz blew the save and the Dodgers fall
Speaker 2: to the Brewers tonight five to four. All Right, we'll
Speaker 2: get back to the phone calls if we can, but
Speaker 2: first let's go out to Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All Right, Jose Mota, you've heard from Dave Roberts, You've
Speaker 2: heard from Edwin Diaz, you have heard from the passionate
Speaker 2: Dodger fans that are playing now incredibly for Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: to be the closer. How did the Dodgers figure out
Speaker 2: getting the final three outs of a game as soon
Speaker 2: as tomorrow night.
Speaker 8: Hey, I'm gonna give you some numbers here, Dave. Okay, uh,
Speaker 8: there's a guy they have that when it comes out
Speaker 8: to are you there, yeah, okay, okay, here's a guy
Speaker 8: on the mountain that when it comes down to the
Speaker 8: guy leading up an inning, he has allowed a two
Speaker 8: twenty seven on base percentage and an average of two
Speaker 8: twenty seven. The other thing is when he phrases, the
Speaker 8: first batter, it's pretty neutral. With two shrines, they're hitting
Speaker 8: one thirty against them. On first pace, they're hitting one
Speaker 8: thirty six against them. And then on top of that,
Speaker 8: if you look at the innings and the ninth inning,
Speaker 8: he has an ERA of two seventy four average against
Speaker 8: one ninety ops five twenty six. Eighth inning ERA two
Speaker 8: thirty three ohps six twenty five. His name's Tanner Scott.
Speaker 8: And to me, if you're looking for an answer right now,
Speaker 8: it's that guy.
Speaker 2: Why was Dave Roberts saying, give me an option to
Speaker 2: the reporters. Isn't the option pretty obvious? It's Tanner Scott.
Speaker 2: If it's not Edwin Diaz, we.
Speaker 8: Know very well Dave is very loyal to guys like this.
Speaker 8: You look what happened last year in September. It took
Speaker 8: five losses by Blake trying to finally say you know
Speaker 8: it's over. Then Blake trying gets the save buying tasaki
Speaker 8: against these Brewers basis load over Milwaukee. So but let
Speaker 8: me point something out too. In August, Tanner Scott coming
Speaker 8: into today one to eighty two average against ERA of
Speaker 8: zero and three in the third so there's options, But
Speaker 8: I understand what he's saying, and but I also worry more,
Speaker 8: Dave about the confidence for Edwin Diaz. I mean, I
Speaker 8: don't want this guy to get into even more important
Speaker 8: games if the standings get a little closer, and then
Speaker 8: not have the confidence or the stuff. It's about stuff
Speaker 8: in the big leagues. And if hitters are not fearing you,
Speaker 8: which they are not right now, that's an issue. So
Speaker 8: if you're going to worry about who's going to close
Speaker 8: to more of the next day, you worry about today.
Speaker 8: I mean, you gotta be worried about today. Edwins is
Speaker 8: a professional. You hear his words. He's not saying I'm
Speaker 8: the closer here. That's what I gotta do. It's like
Speaker 8: if they tell me to do something else, I'm gonna
Speaker 8: do it. And without contradicting day, but just making a
Speaker 8: point about if I am asked that question, and I'm
Speaker 8: going to say, here's a guy that even the most
Speaker 8: important stat which is first matter faith, it has not
Speaker 8: been an issue with him. And people can point to
Speaker 8: the pressure non pressure, but nonetheless, this guy's got sixteen
Speaker 8: saves and you've got to give him every chance to
Speaker 8: help you out as a team while he helps out
Speaker 8: Erwin Diaz get back on truck because you want Edwin
Speaker 8: Diaz to be the guy than every important victory and series.
Speaker 8: He's stunding on the mound getting that safe for you.
Speaker 8: But right now the way his pitching is not happening.
Speaker 2: So do you believe if Edwin Diaz is pitching in
Speaker 2: the seventh inning, the results for Edwin Diaz would be different?
Speaker 2: Or it just gives the Dodgers a little bit more
Speaker 2: room for error if he does give up a couple
Speaker 2: of runs to give the offense a chance to come
Speaker 2: back before before just three outs left in the.
Speaker 8: Game, that is the case, just a little more room
Speaker 8: for error. You want them to go out there and
Speaker 8: succeed and save that inning. As we recall you and I,
Speaker 8: we're here when David Price was here and he finally
Speaker 8: heard so many guys saying I should be closing. Why
Speaker 8: I'm up? David Price goes, hey, you're inning to close.
Speaker 8: It's the sixth inning. Go out there and close that inning.
Speaker 8: And Dave Roberts himself said, guys have to do their job.
Speaker 8: They have a job to do, so whatever they give you,
Speaker 8: you throw a zero. Before you know it. Things will
Speaker 8: just find their way in their roles and nobody's gonna
Speaker 8: complain because eventually it's about the team getting the job
Speaker 8: done with everybody contributing, and you just never know by
Speaker 8: the fault who's gonna end up saving a game, like
Speaker 8: the other day it was Jack Dryer. I mean, there's
Speaker 8: so many things that happened throughout the whole season, but
Speaker 8: in order to align, and to me, the psyche is
Speaker 8: a big part of this whole thing with Diaz and
Speaker 8: to find that slider day and you mentioned it earlier,
Speaker 8: every catcher he's had has told me in clinning Francisco overus,
Speaker 8: I have to find that slider early in an inning,
Speaker 8: in early a account to see what it's doing. Even
Speaker 8: the one where you got Controls out today that was
Speaker 8: not really a very good pitch. He doesn't want that
Speaker 8: slider to go there. And the reason Controls didn't hit
Speaker 8: it is because it was a front door slider, which
Speaker 8: you're not trying to do, but just spun back right
Speaker 8: like I said, that mixer, we you're not expecting, which
Speaker 8: is an indication that his arm is still not catching
Speaker 8: up what his legs are in the arm slide and
Speaker 8: not consistent to have command on two pitches, and that's
Speaker 8: dangerous for a closer.
Speaker 2: Jose Mode is joining us after the Brewers come from
Speaker 2: behind and score three runs in the ninth inning to
Speaker 2: beat the Dodgers tonight five to four. So is it
Speaker 2: more his psyche or is it more the mechanics or
Speaker 2: getting the feel for the slider or is it a
Speaker 2: combination of both, Which one would you say is weighing
Speaker 2: the other?
Speaker 8: I think now the mentality in the psyche is affecting
Speaker 8: everything else because he wants everything to be perfect right away,
Speaker 8: right So the mind is telling the body and the arm,
Speaker 8: I want you to get this out. How am I
Speaker 8: going to get that out? If I'm not right on
Speaker 8: the mechanical side and Edwin can find there's no doubt
Speaker 8: we've seen some glimpse of of it. We see some command,
Speaker 8: we've seen some velocity. But I think overall and I
Speaker 8: saw him work hard today. Early today he was spending
Speaker 8: time with kernermagainness they're trying to figure things out with
Speaker 8: release point, armslot, where the hands are, where the fingers are,
Speaker 8: to get it all done. But my concern is more
Speaker 8: about when Edwin Diaz really needs to step up here
Speaker 8: in the next few weeks, which is now, where's his mentality,
Speaker 8: where's his confidence? And we know that you would like
Speaker 8: to have an assigned closer because that's what he signed
Speaker 8: him for, right, But there's other guys that can lead
Speaker 8: you to that if they're allowed to just go out
Speaker 8: there and escalate, get a little bit better. And although
Speaker 8: the options might be a little limited. We know about
Speaker 8: Phillips obviously, and Riquez. It's a guy that has shown glimpses.
Speaker 8: He's not ready, but at some point he's got to
Speaker 8: go out there and say what's better for Diaz, what's
Speaker 8: better for the Dodgers, and go from there.
Speaker 2: Okay, how about tonight? I know, coming back up the stairs,
Speaker 2: there were fans saying, why didn't they bring back Tanner
Speaker 2: Scott for the ninth inning? We've had callers say this
Speaker 2: same thing, not being a Monday morning quarterback. But is
Speaker 2: it fair to second guess that. I mean, after the
Speaker 2: last time Diaz was out, would you have brought Tanner
Speaker 2: Scott back out for a four out save? At some
Speaker 2: point you got to pitch Diaz.
Speaker 8: I would not have done that. I would would brought
Speaker 8: Dias in. I would have done that. I mean, Tanner
Speaker 8: Scott did his job in getting that out, and you
Speaker 8: mentioned the last time of the bes pitch he looked
Speaker 8: a little bit better. So yeah, today would have been
Speaker 8: the day to say, here's your chance. He just did
Speaker 8: not execute it. It's an issue something else on Tanner Scott.
Speaker 8: Highest percentage a first restruct from a Dodger anybody Tanner
Speaker 8: Scott seventy three percent. So there's a lot of things
Speaker 8: that we can line up and say, well, the last
Speaker 8: four or five acercent I've been the same. But overall,
Speaker 8: the collective tells me that he's perhaps a very good
Speaker 8: candidate to say, anyone, let me give you a little
Speaker 8: break right here, I can take the ball go from there.
Speaker 8: In the big of the challenge we've seen from him
Speaker 8: when Aedlin is not here, there's no issues with Tanner Scott.
Speaker 8: There's a couple of little glitches here and there, but
Speaker 8: he ended up doing the job. So yeah, today would
Speaker 8: have been a one. You know, go back to your
Speaker 8: question where you have to bring Diaz in, No doubt
Speaker 8: about it, he's got to do a better job. Bottom line, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Jose, We'll see what happens tomorrow when the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have to get the final three outs if they have
Speaker 2: a lead, and I kind of feel like they will,
Speaker 2: so it'll be interesting to see who comes out of
Speaker 2: those bullpening gates tomorrow night. Thanks a lot for helping
Speaker 2: us break it down. I think it's staring us all
Speaker 2: in the face right now. Tanner Scott would be that guy,
Speaker 2: So thank you, Jose, better.
Speaker 8: Show David go out there and have fun with the fans.
Speaker 8: Let him taunt it.
Speaker 2: Why not? All right? Thanks a lot, Thanks a lot
Speaker 2: for checking in, Jose. There he goes Jose moda part
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast, And yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: you look at those deeper numbers when it comes to
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott that he shared with us, even before he
Speaker 2: shared that with us, he's the most obvious candidate to
Speaker 2: close for the Dodgers if it's not Edwin Diaz or
Speaker 2: until Diz gets back on track. But I just think
Speaker 2: it's hilarious now. Everybody wants Tanner Scott after last year,
Speaker 2: not believing that Tanner Scott could get the job done,
Speaker 2: and he had a He had a rocky first year,
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. But he certainly has put it
Speaker 2: together this season, and yeah, would be the guy. If
Speaker 2: it's not Diaz, Let's take one more phone call before
Speaker 2: we say goodnight, Manny and downtown walk us off tonight
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna walk it off with the Dodger fans who
Speaker 5: called in doubting my guy, Edwin Diaz. You know what
Speaker 5: I understand. Guys hasn't had a good week, just came
Speaker 5: back from a big time surgery, has not had the
Speaker 5: time under his belt. So Dodger fans take a chill pill.
Speaker 5: Let's let's let's let this guy kind of come into
Speaker 5: his own because I hate to say this, He's not
Speaker 5: going anywhere anytime soon. He's signed a very big contract,
Speaker 5: so he's gonna play and he needs to get this
Speaker 5: out of the system now. I'd rather have him do
Speaker 5: this now than in October, because he is gonna pitch
Speaker 5: an October. So shout out to Edwin Diez. He's gonna
Speaker 5: be Flye and Max Munsey. He's had such a hot,
Speaker 5: bad day. Like man, he's like the heartbeat of this
Speaker 5: team right now. Comes in there, he does his job,
Speaker 5: shows up on his big day the other day, I
Speaker 5: babblehead night. I mean, what more can you ask for
Speaker 5: from him? I mean, he's a class guy, you know,
Speaker 5: on and off the field. Max Bunsey, I'd love to
Speaker 5: meet that guy one day. Get an autographed would be
Speaker 5: a huge honor. And lastly, Freddie Freeman is probably the
Speaker 5: toughest guy team. I don't know how he got into
Speaker 5: a uniform tonight, but that shows a lot of heart
Speaker 5: and a lot of grit. This seem's gonna be okay.
Speaker 5: It's bilt for October, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Manny, thank you for the phone call. I have
Speaker 2: loved the way the fans have really made Max Munsey
Speaker 2: feel appreciated, because I know at times he hasn't felt that.
Speaker 2: And I do appreciate the fans letting Max Munsey hear
Speaker 2: their appreciation. Going back to that game against Kansas City
Speaker 2: a couple of nights ago where he had that big
Speaker 2: Basis clearing double, they were chanting his last name, month see, Month, see,
Speaker 2: and then tonight giving him the loud ovation after the
Speaker 2: home run. Trust me, he hears it. He appreciates it.
Speaker 2: And when a guy's been here this long, sometimes you
Speaker 2: take him for granted because everybody's looking for what's next,
Speaker 2: and who's that shiny new toy. It's great to hear
Speaker 2: Dodger fans have the loyalty and appreciation for a guy
Speaker 2: like Max Muncie who actually was struggling coming into this
Speaker 2: homestand but has turned it around. So he's been clutch
Speaker 2: his entire Dodger career, but especially on this homestand and
Speaker 2: ever since the All Star Break. All Right, tomorrow, Game
Speaker 2: two of this four game series against the Brewers. That's
Speaker 2: the beauty of baseball. You can't just sit around and
Speaker 2: feel sorry for yourself. You've got to pick yourself up,
Speaker 2: wake up tomorrow, and come back and play the same
Speaker 2: team that you're trying to run down for the best
Speaker 2: record in the National League. And what better pitcher to
Speaker 2: have on the mount tomorrow than Yoshi Yamamoto, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: the best pitcher in baseball. There is no other pitcher
Speaker 2: I would rather have on the mound in a big
Speaker 2: game than Yamamoto. Maybe snail Zilla, but Yamamoto. He's eleven
Speaker 2: and seven with an ERA of two sixty four two
Speaker 2: sixty five, going up against Robert Gasser, who's three and
Speaker 2: four with an ERA of four fifty seven. Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: is going to have a scheduled day off, and yes, incredible,
Speaker 2: he was in the starting lineup tonight. Our coverage begins
Speaker 2: at six o'clock, first pitch at seven ten. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Colin Ee back at our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 2: McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you
Speaker 2: for listening. In case you missed any of the show
Speaker 2: or our pregame conversation with manager Dave Roberts, part of
Speaker 2: the Manager's Meeting, presented by Downy Hundai. You can find
Speaker 2: it on the iHeartRadio app. Once again, the final score tonight,
Speaker 2: the Brewers come from behind and beat the Dodgers five
Speaker 2: to four. Have a great rest of your night. Ben
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