Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
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Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
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Speaker 4: David Vasselas.
Speaker 3: Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David vasse with you after the Dodgers hold on for
Speaker 2: a six to three win over the Rangers, winning the
Speaker 2: first two games of this series and looking for the
Speaker 2: sweep tomorrow afternoon here at Uniclo Field.
Speaker 3: At Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are.
Speaker 2: Are writing high right now without their big guns really
Speaker 2: hitting on all cylinders. I know we spoke to show
Speaker 2: Hey Otani earlier tonight. I know he's got that on
Speaker 2: bass streak forty five games, but he admittedly said in
Speaker 2: Toronto that he hasn't really felt the feeling of Otani yet,
Speaker 2: and he feels like May again is going to be
Speaker 2: a big year for him. Last year, he hit more
Speaker 2: home runs in the month of May than he ever
Speaker 2: hit in any other month last season. He hit fifteen
Speaker 2: home runs last year in the month of May. He
Speaker 2: hit seven home runs in April last year and had
Speaker 2: an ops of over nine hundred. It was nine to
Speaker 2: forty nine to be exact. And for Otani this year,
Speaker 2: he has four home runs and nine RBIs and he's
Speaker 2: hitting two eighty three tonight in the first inning. That
Speaker 2: lead off home run in the bottom of the first
Speaker 2: inning was his first extra base hit at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: Albeit it was only six seven games, but you know
Speaker 2: that's not something that you're used to from the best
Speaker 2: player in the game, So it was significant for him
Speaker 2: to have his first extra base it in the form
Speaker 2: of a game tying home run in the first inning.
Speaker 2: And then ta Oscar Hernandez having what I predicted to
Speaker 2: be a resurgent year after the work he put in
Speaker 2: during the offseason, came up big like he did so
Speaker 2: many times in the first half of last year and
Speaker 2: all of twenty twenty four, came up with a huge
Speaker 2: three run home run with two outs in the bottom
Speaker 2: of the first inning to allow Ema Chiin to ease
Speaker 2: back into the game and really start attacking the strike
Speaker 2: zone because he had a four to one lead going
Speaker 2: into the top of the second inning. So to me,
Speaker 2: that was a real difference maker, not only to tie
Speaker 2: the game that was big in itself, but also for
Speaker 2: ti Oscar to not squander having two runners on and
Speaker 2: being able to come up with a big swing. And
Speaker 2: what's incredible is, you know, I went to go sit
Speaker 2: down with a friend in the loads section right below
Speaker 2: actually the radio broadcast booth, and just once one level
Speaker 2: lower behind home plate, you can see the top spin
Speaker 2: of excuse me, the backspin of ta Oscar Hernandez's home run.
Speaker 2: To me, it was a no doubter or you could
Speaker 2: just see it continuing to have that backspin and continuing
Speaker 2: to carry into the right field pavilions over the home
Speaker 2: run seats out there.
Speaker 3: So that was huge.
Speaker 2: And I can't say enough about the Dodger defense and
Speaker 2: the fifth inning by those two young kids who are
Speaker 2: doing different things to help the Dodgers win in different ways,
Speaker 2: and Alex Frielan and Hayesan Kim, those two had a
Speaker 2: really nice inning ending double play in the fifth inning.
Speaker 2: So a good night for the Dodgers and a better
Speaker 2: night for Emi Shean specifically, because it's been a little
Speaker 2: bit of a of a struggle for Emit Shean. You know,
Speaker 2: I brought it up to him in Arizona on March
Speaker 2: fifteenth that the fastball velocity was not where it was
Speaker 2: all of last year, and to start this year it
Speaker 2: hadn't been either. His fastball velocity was ninety three miles
Speaker 2: an hour on average this year. Tonight it was back
Speaker 2: to where Emmit Sheen has it ninety five miles an hour,
Speaker 2: and his slider was even a tick a tick sharper,
Speaker 2: the spin rate was better. He only made two mistakes,
Speaker 2: one both to Brandon Nimo won in the first inning
Speaker 2: and then a slider to Nimo in the sixth inning.
Speaker 2: Outside of that, he was really good. But this looked
Speaker 2: like Emmit Sheen. We had not seen this version of
Speaker 2: Emmit Sheen yet this season, and I'm talking about spring
Speaker 2: training as well. So it's a big sigh relief to
Speaker 2: get this type of start out of she and tonight
Speaker 2: to go six innings, especially with Roki Sasaki pitching tomorrow,
Speaker 2: because quite frankly, you don't know what you're gonna get tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and the Dodger is going to have to be on
Speaker 2: high alert tomorrow, in particular benk Asparius, because Justin Robleski
Speaker 2: now is part of this six man rotation. So just
Speaker 2: huge in a lot of different ways to get this
Speaker 2: type of outing from Emmitt Sheehan, it's head downstairs to
Speaker 2: the Dodger clubhouse to hear from tonight's winning picture on
Speaker 2: Sports at LA.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, I think, you know, obviously there's some pitches
Speaker 5: I wanted to have back there, but delivery wise, throw wise,
Speaker 5: everything felt a lot better. Stuff was playing and I
Speaker 5: was executing a lot better today, So definitely stuff in
Speaker 5: the right direction.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you look at just kind of the bullpen
Speaker 4: and the work that you were able to do between
Speaker 4: this one and your last outing, what do you think
Speaker 4: has been the biggest difference for you?
Speaker 5: I think it's just a couple simple things with the
Speaker 5: delivery that were different. Connor and Mark have been great about,
Speaker 5: you know, trying to get me on the right track,
Speaker 5: and I think it just took a couple outings for
Speaker 5: it all to click.
Speaker 6: But yeah, what.
Speaker 2: Happened to be having the seven days between starts to
Speaker 2: benefit you.
Speaker 5: I don't know, it definitely felt like a long time.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I felt good. I've felt good
Speaker 5: the past three so I don't like how arm wise,
Speaker 5: I don't think it really made that much of a difference.
Speaker 2: In the delivery where you'll kind of figure out.
Speaker 5: I mean one of the big things this week was
Speaker 5: like the glove tap, just timing everything up. Before that,
Speaker 5: I feel like I was getting in good positions. I
Speaker 5: just wasn't timing everything up the right way. So I
Speaker 5: think that that helped a lot.
Speaker 7: How big with the polition do you think there was
Speaker 7: between that, like the velocity where you kind of wanted
Speaker 7: to be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a big correlation. What was it
Speaker 5: just about your week of work here with the extra game,
Speaker 5: what you guys were doing. I mean we got to
Speaker 5: throw two bullpens, which is nice. Maybe you know, step
Speaker 5: on it a little more in the bullpen, try to
Speaker 5: throw it a little harder and get it a little
Speaker 5: closer to game speed, which which always helps the law
Speaker 5: super Just like the way the slider was playing, kind
Speaker 5: of the bigger thing tonight to do. I don't know,
Speaker 5: I think they kind of go hand in hand, just
Speaker 5: like execution tied end with just being confident in the stuff.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I think it kind of goes in and in,
Speaker 5: like you know.
Speaker 3: What's babe, rob with your delivery, timing wise and field.
Speaker 3: Actually it that it actually get the changes to be
Speaker 3: consistentcy like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it can definitely be tough sometimes past like month
Speaker 5: and a half, we've been trying to work on it,
Speaker 5: and you know, it felt like at times it wasn't,
Speaker 5: you know, progressing the way it should. But yeah, stuck with.
Speaker 3: It all right.
Speaker 2: There's Emma Sheen on Sports at LA. A couple of
Speaker 2: things that I took away from what he said is
Speaker 2: something that I observed in his first couple of starts.
Speaker 2: It felt like in the last two starts, Shean was
Speaker 2: kind of easing into his starts, meaning that he wasn't
Speaker 2: attacking right away, wasn't going all out right away, just
Speaker 2: kind of easing into that first inning and the first
Speaker 2: couple of innings, and that's where he would get into trouble.
Speaker 2: For example, in his last start against the Nationals in Washington, DC,
Speaker 2: that's the way it went. It was a rocky first
Speaker 2: three innings and then it seemed like his fastball and
Speaker 2: sliders started to play up in the final two innings
Speaker 2: that he was out there for. So you heard him
Speaker 2: say they kind of had him step on it in
Speaker 2: the bullpen warming up before coming out for the first inning.
Speaker 2: And he keeps insisting to all of us, and now
Speaker 2: you got to believe him that the reason why the
Speaker 2: fastball velocity was down was because his mechanics weren't lined up.
Speaker 2: And he kept on insisting he wasn't hurt. And look,
Speaker 2: it kind of made sense even before tonight. I never
Speaker 2: thought he was hurt. It just never seemed like it
Speaker 2: was on track. And he made it clear to me
Speaker 2: the day after his start that he wasn't hurt. And
Speaker 2: he's kind of pointing the finger at me for pointing
Speaker 2: out that his fastball velocity was down back on March fifteenth.
Speaker 2: There's there's something to know about Emmit. Shean long memory.
Speaker 2: He doesn't forget things. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Rangers tonight, six to three. Let's go out to Diamond Bar. Jeff,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 8: Jeff, Hey, David, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 8: I just I wanted to mention that. I think Dave
Speaker 8: Roberts over the years, I think people have always just
Speaker 8: said he's got a loaded team, and he's just kind of,
Speaker 8: you know, calling the shot. He pulls out his binder
Speaker 8: and just goes and it tells him what to do.
Speaker 8: I really think tonight and this whole season so far,
Speaker 8: he's kind of really proven to me and to others
Speaker 8: at least well to me for sure, that that he
Speaker 8: really can understand the situation of what's going to happen
Speaker 8: on his own and be able to take control. When
Speaker 8: he was able to see Trident the way that it
Speaker 8: was going and knowing what that would do, but still
Speaker 8: pulling it and saying, you know what, let's bring in
Speaker 8: Let's bring in Bessia right now, and being able to
Speaker 8: shut down that inning. I think that was just a
Speaker 8: huge decision, a very tough decision. I think bringing Tanner
Speaker 8: Scott back has been a very tough decision, and he's
Speaker 8: able to to go that and trust his gut and trust.
Speaker 1: In him to do it.
Speaker 8: I think having Kim and his defense.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, he's not trusting his gut to go
Speaker 2: to Tanner Scott. Tanner Scott's on his team. He's got
Speaker 2: to use him. It's a new year. That's not trusting
Speaker 2: his gut. But I understand what you're saying, and quite frankly,
Speaker 2: Jeff Dave Roberts has managed really well the last two
Speaker 2: years in the World Series, in the postseason, and I
Speaker 2: go back to twenty twenty three, even when they were
Speaker 2: swept by the Diamondbacks that year in the NLDS. You know,
Speaker 2: he did not have a as loaded of a pitching
Speaker 2: staff as he has had the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: and he managed really well. But you got to give
Speaker 2: a lot of credit to his bench coach, Danny Lehman,
Speaker 2: the pitching coach Mark Pryor. They really are there next
Speaker 2: to him to help navigate all that. So it's not
Speaker 2: just Dave. He has a great support staff and that's
Speaker 2: what makes him a good manager. He leans on those guys,
Speaker 2: and you know, he's ultimately the decision maker, and we've
Speaker 2: seen in the World Series and postseason that he'll go
Speaker 2: a little bit on his own because he's seeing something
Speaker 2: that you know, tells him he wants to trust a
Speaker 2: guy to stay in there like he did with Trinan
Speaker 2: in the twenty four World Series, or do what he
Speaker 2: did you know with Yamamoto in the World Series last year,
Speaker 2: So you're right, yeah, he's pretty good. Eight six six,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: I am glad that you brought up the Dodger bullpen
Speaker 2: because I learned early in my career relievers don't appreciate
Speaker 2: when you go talk to them, only when they blow
Speaker 2: games or blow saves.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So Jack Dreyer did not have a great outing in
Speaker 2: Toronto in that final game a few days ago, and
Speaker 2: he stood in front of his locker, wasn't feeling great
Speaker 2: about himself, but he answered the questions. But tonight he
Speaker 2: comes back strikes out the side in the seventh inning,
Speaker 2: first time in his career that he struck out the side.
Speaker 2: And quite frankly, Jack Dryer looked like the Jack Dryer
Speaker 2: from last year. So we had two guys that found
Speaker 2: themselves again and Amid Sheehan and Jack Dryer tonight, and
Speaker 2: certainly that was that was a good sign that Dryer
Speaker 2: was able to have a short memory and come back
Speaker 2: and do his thing against a very good lineup. He
Speaker 2: struck out the side in the seventh inning. Who was
Speaker 2: Andrew McCutcheon, who came off the bench for Jock Peterson.
Speaker 2: He struck out Evan Carter, who's one of the better
Speaker 2: left handed hitters in their lineup, struck him out looking,
Speaker 2: and then was able to get Kyle Hhagawa for the
Speaker 2: final strikeout of that inning.
Speaker 3: So good night for Jack Dryer.
Speaker 2: Did anybody I'm not in the clubhouse tonight, did anybody
Speaker 2: go up to Jack Dryer tonight? If I was in there,
Speaker 2: I would have walked up to Jack Dryer, because that's
Speaker 2: the etiquette of a reliever. They are keeping score on
Speaker 2: you if you're in the clubhouse and only talk to
Speaker 2: them when they blow games. Did anybody talk to Tanner Scott?
Speaker 2: I felt like we were at his locker a lot
Speaker 2: last year. Do you know that Tanner Scott is off
Speaker 2: to a great start. Six and two thirds innings, has
Speaker 2: allowed just one earned run, has eight strikeouts and no walks.
Speaker 2: And Alex Vessi, who came in to get the last
Speaker 2: out tonight six and a third scour listenings to begin
Speaker 2: this year, So there's your bullpen roll call. And Blake
Speaker 2: Trining has certainly pitched really well this year as well,
Speaker 2: So just a little pulling the curtain for you on
Speaker 2: how relievers think and view the media. If you only
Speaker 2: talk to them when they blow games or give up runs,
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Speaker 2: out to James, who is at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Speaker 3: How you doing, James?
Speaker 9: Good? David, Hey, my dad and stepmom are still in
Speaker 9: the car. Haven't let him out since the last time
Speaker 9: we talked. I'm kidding.
Speaker 10: We were at the game. Had a great time.
Speaker 9: Question for you, A good question for you, David. Actually
Speaker 9: two one. Emmett looks so good, great pitch efficiency. I
Speaker 9: was with a friend of mine who's a diar Braves fan,
Speaker 9: and we looked at him a few innings in and
Speaker 9: where like he's doing a Maddox with his pitch efficiency.
Speaker 9: Why did Roberts pull him at seventy seven? As my
Speaker 9: first question on the pitch.
Speaker 2: Count, Well, the sixth inning was a little bit high stress,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure he just wanted to build off this start.
Speaker 2: Because of how the first couple have gone. So you
Speaker 2: get him out of that after six innings and he
Speaker 2: feels good about himself. After kind of a high stress
Speaker 2: sixth inning, you could see him starting to get a
Speaker 2: little frustrated and he wanted to match up the rest
Speaker 2: of the way for the final nine outs.
Speaker 9: That makes a lot of sense given the rocky start
Speaker 9: that he's had, David, I agree with you now after
Speaker 9: saying that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: And they had two lefties coming up, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts was trying to force Skip Schumacher's hand there
Speaker 2: to see whether or not he would pinch it for
Speaker 2: any one of the first two lefties that he was
Speaker 2: going to face in the seventh inning. So Jack Dryer,
Speaker 2: just like I mentioned before, you you called in Jack
Speaker 2: Dryer delivered struck out the side in order.
Speaker 3: So it obviously was the right move.
Speaker 9: That was tremendous to see. I mean, Dryer looks so good.
Speaker 9: I mean, he has so much poise from his rookie
Speaker 9: season on and just the fact that he can solve
Speaker 9: any Rubik's cube in twenty seconds or less.
Speaker 10: I mean, pitchers we know are the smartest in the game.
Speaker 9: Next to catchers, but it was great to see.
Speaker 1: Him have that.
Speaker 3: What's your second question?
Speaker 9: Second question is with Mookie Windeel Bleak looks like he's
Speaker 9: going to be back sooner rather than later. But when
Speaker 9: we look at our bench, I have just felt that
Speaker 9: Miggy Rowe, because of his defensive prowess, situational hitting and
Speaker 9: he sunk him with his speed and his defense, are
Speaker 9: by far our two best infield options compared to Espinol
Speaker 9: and Freeland, both of which are great players, great to have.
Speaker 9: But do you feel that those two Rojas and Kim
Speaker 9: should be our first two guys off the bench or
Speaker 9: to fill in to give guys like Monthy and Freeman
Speaker 9: a blow you know in later.
Speaker 10: In games it's a blowout kind of situation.
Speaker 2: Look, I agree with you, Miguel Rojas. He's made amazing
Speaker 2: plays even at thirty seven years old. But he's thirty
Speaker 2: seven years old, James and playing in his last major
Speaker 2: league season. You need him on his feed and feeling
Speaker 2: good at the end of the year, so you can't
Speaker 2: run him out there in April every single day.
Speaker 3: So I like what.
Speaker 2: We're seeing from Freeland and Kim and get them getting
Speaker 2: an opportunity so you find out what you have with
Speaker 2: these guys, and we all know what you got with
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas, and you got to keep them fresh for
Speaker 2: not just April and May, but you got to keep
Speaker 2: them fresh for October. So I'm all good with that.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call. Eight sixty six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Rangers tonight by a final score of six to three.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Taka, who is visiting Los Angeles
Speaker 2: from Japan. Hi, Taka, how are you?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 1: David?
Speaker 6: How about you? I'm great?
Speaker 3: Was this your first time to Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 6: Yeah, actually this is my first time to visit anyway
Speaker 6: to what's the game for the Dogess? You know, I
Speaker 6: couldn't even imagine that. Who held tany hit the home
Speaker 6: run just in front of me? You know that's so great?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Really you were in that section at Uniclo Field at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and were you close to catching it?
Speaker 6: No? Youso? You know features in the Dogess. It's an
Speaker 6: excellent you know, she had she handed a great job.
Speaker 2: And I tell you was was Dodger Stadium everything you
Speaker 2: thought it would be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's so so experienced.
Speaker 2: You know, what did you get to eat? Did you
Speaker 2: have a Dodger dog? Did you go for the all
Speaker 2: you can drink Otani cup?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I just gotta I didn't get a
Speaker 6: drink so from Otani.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, Well, I hope you come back soon to
Speaker 2: visit us. And uh, awesome for you to call in.
Speaker 2: Thank you for even being aware about this show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you so much, David. How was this night?
Speaker 2: Do you listen to Dodger Talk in Japan on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app? Yeah? All right, love it talking. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much. Thank you every day. I love it. See international.
Speaker 2: This is not a local show. It's an international show.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that. Thank you, Taka. Awesome for you
Speaker 2: to call in. Great to have you here in Los
Speaker 2: Angeles and had a Dodger game for the first time.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll check in with jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Take your phone calls and also hear from Blake Snell,
Speaker 2: who threw the hitters for the first time this year.
Speaker 2: And we'll also let you hear from a fan favorite
Speaker 2: that now has signed with the Tijuana Toros. We broke
Speaker 2: that story earlier this afternoon. We'll let you hear from
Speaker 2: that former Dodger as well. Tonight the Dodgers be Corey Seeger,
Speaker 2: Jock Peterson, Skip Schumacher and the rest of the Rangers
Speaker 2: six to three on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 1: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassan.
Speaker 11: Wind of the two to one pitch and Towash hit
Speaker 11: a drive deep to right field.
Speaker 1: This ball is gone.
Speaker 11: Oldtani ties it up with one mighty swing in the
Speaker 11: bottom of the first home run number four for sure. Hey,
Speaker 11: Old Tony, it's his first extravation hit at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 11: this year.
Speaker 2: I was sitting in the loaf section, section one oh
Speaker 2: five when Otani came to the plate. Everybody had their
Speaker 2: cell phones out, hoping to capture a moment, and he
Speaker 2: delivered in the bottom of the first inning a game
Speaker 2: tying home run, and everybody was checking out their videos.
Speaker 2: It's incredible. I've never seen you know, I remember when
Speaker 2: Mark McGuire or Barry Bonds would come to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: You see all the flashes.
Speaker 2: Back when people had actual cameras, they would see the
Speaker 2: flashes at night. But I've never seen a baseball player
Speaker 2: get this type of attention where you come to the
Speaker 2: game just to see him and you.
Speaker 3: Have your cell phones out.
Speaker 2: I actually screamed in the section, I said, get your
Speaker 2: phones out for tail? Where were your phones for tail?
Speaker 2: Three run, home run, go ahead shot. I really did
Speaker 2: say that. I said, hey, get your phones out for
Speaker 2: tail right here, three run home run coming. And he
Speaker 2: delivered with two outs and the Dodgers beat the Rangers
Speaker 2: six to three.
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Right, Jose, get your cameras out for taoscar Hernandez too,
Speaker 2: not just show.
Speaker 10: Hey the only person I get the camera out for
Speaker 10: is you yourself, David, You're the only person I do
Speaker 10: that for.
Speaker 3: You never know what could happen, that's for sure.
Speaker 10: With you, for sure, you're right, You're right.
Speaker 2: Jose Fernandez, he put in a He put in so
Speaker 2: much work this offseason, and I feel like we're seeing
Speaker 2: the fruits of that. He's beat out infield singles, He's
Speaker 2: played really good left field. He's having fun, he's hitting
Speaker 2: home runs again. It feels like Tao's back to his
Speaker 2: old self. And he told us yesterday he's as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: he has to remind himself to shrink the strike zone.
Speaker 10: Shrink the strike zone and at times, don't be tentative
Speaker 10: and don't be so pretty William mechanics just love to
Speaker 10: let it fly, man. I think for Tail is important
Speaker 10: to understand that sometimes pull awareness and pomote is a
Speaker 10: plus for him. And when you pull the baseball with
Speaker 10: that swing that he has, you're not pulling with your body,
Speaker 10: You're pulling with your hands. And for Tail, since last
Speaker 10: night that single of the sixth inning against Garcia, has
Speaker 10: been a different guy. He flew out later in the
Speaker 10: eighth inning to left field, and then you see that
Speaker 10: the barrel coming out is a big difference. We know
Speaker 10: the mechanics, so we see the approach. I mean, all
Speaker 10: throughout sprint training facing let's say it less we're pitching,
Speaker 10: he was square to the ball going the other way,
Speaker 10: just to make sure he establish everything mechanically and fundamentally.
Speaker 10: But now with bigger pitching and guys that have a
Speaker 10: pattern against him, it's important that he stays through the ball.
Speaker 10: But also understand sat his hands have to go out
Speaker 10: there and play. He's done a good job in pulling
Speaker 10: the ball as of played the last couple of days.
Speaker 2: What's the difference of achieving that. But also you hear
Speaker 2: about using the big part of the field when you
Speaker 2: go right center right field for Tao and other right
Speaker 2: handed hitters. Is that a something that he wants to
Speaker 2: do as well.
Speaker 10: Yes, Dave, here, let me explain it to you. The
Speaker 10: approached to the middle the field is a mentality. It's
Speaker 10: you telling yourself, hey, you got to stay thinking through
Speaker 10: the middle, so you stand the pitch is a little
Speaker 10: bit better, whether it's a fastball that you lay off
Speaker 10: of inside or outside, or the breaking ball, which is
Speaker 10: the pitch of really most guys get themselves out on
Speaker 10: out of his own and you tell yourself, hey, if
Speaker 10: I stay thinking middle, I'm going to allow myself to
Speaker 10: suit a little bit longer. But my hands have to
Speaker 10: do the work. Doesn't mean it's not that to pull
Speaker 10: the ball. It just means that you're gonna wait perhaps
Speaker 10: the last minute or even just cheat sometimes. And so
Speaker 10: I'm gonna stay scored. But if he if I see
Speaker 10: a fastball middle in, I have to rip it and
Speaker 10: just let it fly. And that's what mentality. If I
Speaker 10: go out through mentality and the polling side, and you
Speaker 10: know the opposent thinking I'm gonna pull the ball, your
Speaker 10: body starts going in one direction, your hands slow down,
Speaker 10: your vision changes because your eyes are not in the
Speaker 10: baseball at the right time, and the timing is off.
Speaker 10: So that's what it means when you think about middle
Speaker 10: of the field. But middle of the field also means
Speaker 10: then on pitches a little bit better in terms of
Speaker 10: spoiling pitches. Was pictures Pictures don't want you to do consistently.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us on Dodger Talk after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Rangers six to three. Jose, Emmit Shean
Speaker 2: finally look like Emmitt Sheen again. Uh, the fastball was up,
Speaker 2: the slider was up, and he said that there was
Speaker 2: a mentality in the bullpen to come out firing right away.
Speaker 2: How big of a difference was all that to his success.
Speaker 10: It's big for a guy like I remember this guy
Speaker 10: was on reha for a while, came back and pitched
Speaker 10: in June. Then he was starting relieving. Sometimes run over
Speaker 10: and or skipped in the rotation and go to the bullpen. Pressure,
Speaker 10: everything that you have to go through. One thing that
Speaker 10: I noticed, and I love his interview to talk about
Speaker 10: the two bullpens, Dave, that is so big. That is
Speaker 10: going back to the Alanto break of the Amazonian bullpens
Speaker 10: between stars y. I think there's a play catch type
Speaker 10: of bullpen, a touch and field type of bullpen. And
Speaker 10: when another one is she and said, you just let
Speaker 10: it go and put in game game mode and put
Speaker 10: yourself in a situation like that. And as I'd like
Speaker 10: to find pointers and especially for youngsters and for us
Speaker 10: to remember about not just mechanics and the shoulder and
Speaker 10: their footprint in the right direction. He mentioned his glove path,
Speaker 10: glove path, whether the glove he has to be going
Speaker 10: in the right direction, breaking the hands at the right time,
Speaker 10: which allows his arm to be in the right spot,
Speaker 10: which you and I talked about after his first start.
Speaker 10: I'm slot for him is so important because it allows
Speaker 10: everything else to come to place. And the new trend
Speaker 10: for Ama Chien it's ground balls and Washington twelve ground
Speaker 10: balls tonight nine ground balls. But the way he's doing
Speaker 10: it is under said like a yamamodo and showed it
Speaker 10: with a two seam and sinker today nine ground balls,
Speaker 10: second most of his career on fastballs, on sliders and
Speaker 10: on change if he take away vernon nemotre and is
Speaker 10: now standing out at which it is no matter what?
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, Before I'll let you go Tomorrow, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are looking for the sweep. They're facing Jacob de Gram,
Speaker 2: but they got Roki Sasaki on the mound. How will
Speaker 2: we know if things are gonna go good for Roky
Speaker 2: early in the game tomorrow.
Speaker 10: If we see more strikes down the middle early in
Speaker 10: counts and we don't see the trying to maneuver and
Speaker 10: be too fine around his own early incounts. He needs
Speaker 10: to get after people, allow people to go out there
Speaker 10: and just take their best swings. But also I'd like
Speaker 10: to see that slaughder being finished. Use it early in counts,
Speaker 10: allow yourself to actually get a little looser with your
Speaker 10: FASTBA which helps a lot of guys to find a
Speaker 10: release one. But don't be afraid to let the sloder go.
Speaker 10: He cannot live on fastile splits in this league, and
Speaker 10: he knows.
Speaker 3: It all right. We'll look out for that. Thanks, Jose.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you after the game tomorrow and we'll
Speaker 2: see whether or not Sasaki pitches well and if the
Speaker 2: Dodger offense continues to do their thing one through.
Speaker 10: Nine another so that he got too for you, David.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, thank you, Jose, I appreciate it. There he
Speaker 2: goes Jose Mota. Part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast
Speaker 2: with Luis Corchito Cruz. Tonight's game brought to you by
Speaker 2: Modello Modello The Mark of a Fighter. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Rangers tonight six to three. Coming up in a moment,
Speaker 2: you'll hear from Blake Snell, who not only pitch to
Speaker 2: hitters today, but I asked him about that viral video
Speaker 2: of critics coming at him while he's playing video games.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you saw that on social media, so Blake
Speaker 2: had a good time with that. We'll let you hear
Speaker 2: from him in just a moment, but first, let's go
Speaker 2: out to Greg and Burdbank. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Greg, David.
Speaker 12: Bassey, I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 9: Listen.
Speaker 12: I am so pumped up about the Dodgers right now.
Speaker 12: I can't even what a great start we're having to
Speaker 12: this season.
Speaker 10: I'm so super fired up.
Speaker 12: But I'm calling in regards to what you guys are
Speaker 12: talking about earlier.
Speaker 8: I feel like when you.
Speaker 12: Mentioned Kim Freeland and Rojas, we are so fortunate to
Speaker 12: have those guys in our arsenal, But I think we're
Speaker 12: missing the boat with Santiago Espinal, who's had an incredible
Speaker 12: spring training. He's hot, and I think he's gonna be
Speaker 12: a young talent that's gonna be with us for a
Speaker 12: long time.
Speaker 9: What do you think.
Speaker 3: I don't know about a long time, Greg.
Speaker 2: He's a veteran, he's a former All Star, and I
Speaker 2: do believe he's a valuable guy to have on the bench,
Speaker 2: and certainly the Dodgers value him. But the way Max
Speaker 2: Munsey is swinging the bat right now, in the quality
Speaker 2: of at bats it's hard to get espinal in there.
Speaker 2: But going into the season, he was aware that is
Speaker 2: at bats were going to be far and few between,
Speaker 2: and he was going to be here for his defense.
Speaker 2: So you need players like that that embrace their role
Speaker 2: and understand that. What's interesting about tomorrow day game after
Speaker 2: a night game, usually Will Smith will get the day off,
Speaker 2: and tomorrow Dalton Rushing should be starting in the game,
Speaker 2: first time since hitting two home runs in a game
Speaker 2: in Toronto. So it's been almost a week since we
Speaker 2: saw Dalton Rushing start a game, and we should see
Speaker 2: him tomorrow. Nice all right, thank you for the phone call,
Speaker 2: Greg appreciated. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Earlier.
Speaker 2: Today, Blake Snell threw to hitters for the first time
Speaker 2: this season. Look Snell is in the mode where a
Speaker 2: pitcher would be at the beginning of spring training. He's
Speaker 2: throwing multiple bullpen sessions. And now, if you remember in
Speaker 2: spring training, after all that the first two weeks you
Speaker 2: start to face hitters, it's not an all out thing.
Speaker 2: It's minimal, and today was that day for Blake Snell.
Speaker 2: He threw fifteen pitches. Alex Call and Tommy Edmund were
Speaker 2: the two batters that got to stand in against him,
Speaker 2: and they didn't hit the ball hard. And you know,
Speaker 2: Snell was looking at fastball command when Edmund was standing
Speaker 2: from the left side of the batter's box. He used
Speaker 2: the first pitch curveball to Alex Call struck him out
Speaker 2: on three pitches, and he was happy with the way
Speaker 2: he was able to take this step, but he understands
Speaker 2: there's a lot more work to do, and it was
Speaker 2: just fifteen pitches today. He'll do it again before the
Speaker 2: end of this homestand so you're gonna probably see maybe
Speaker 2: three more four more of these as he builds up,
Speaker 2: and then he'll go out on a rehab assignment which
Speaker 2: will take us into May for when he's going to
Speaker 2: be ready to start in a major league game. But
Speaker 2: not sure if you saw this viral video. Snell is
Speaker 2: on that Twitch app where he streams and interacts with
Speaker 2: fans as he's playing video games, and one thing got
Speaker 2: into his chat and it kind of triggered him, questioning
Speaker 2: about his left shoulder injury, and Snell kind of snapped
Speaker 2: back at him, and I asked him about whether or
Speaker 2: not he saw that viral video and what his reaction
Speaker 2: is to a lot of critics out there that are
Speaker 2: that are on him for not starting the season on time.
Speaker 2: We've seen online that you've interacted with fans, some positive,
Speaker 2: some negative.
Speaker 3: You want to talk to my shoulder too.
Speaker 2: How do you block all that out and not try
Speaker 2: to rush yourself to get back hearing all that stuff
Speaker 2: when you're gaming?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I'm trying to game with my people.
Speaker 7: Them trolls when I get in there and I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I got something to say. I should watch my language
Speaker 7: a little bit. But outside of that, I mean that's
Speaker 7: pretty true. Yeah, I mean I'm gonna have fun. I'm
Speaker 7: gonna be myself. Yeah, I gotta watch my language. Though
Speaker 7: my mom sees that.
Speaker 2: Oh probably, I think everybody's seen it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got the call yet, but it's coming.
Speaker 2: How do you block all that noise out and just
Speaker 2: stake care process.
Speaker 3: That you don't have to set that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's opinions, you know, from people that
Speaker 7: I would never listen to for you know, a suggestion,
Speaker 7: So it doesn't matter. That doesn't mean I'm not gonna
Speaker 7: have fun with it and troll back. I'll do that,
Speaker 7: but I should wash my.
Speaker 3: Mouth anything you want to say to your left shoulder.
Speaker 7: Right now, I like where it's at, I like, where's at.
Speaker 4: All?
Speaker 3: Right? There he is. There's the response to the viral video.
Speaker 2: And look, he gets into that room, gets into that chair,
Speaker 2: puts on his headset, starts gaming. And look, it's a
Speaker 2: it's a different world in the gaming world.
Speaker 3: We all know that.
Speaker 2: And he likes to have fun, he likes to entertain,
Speaker 2: he likes to be a DJ in all of it.
Speaker 2: And that time he let he let one of those
Speaker 2: critics get to him. And nobody wants to be out
Speaker 2: there pitching tonight more than Blake Snell. That's obvious. And look,
Speaker 2: he's a he's in a good spot mentally and physically.
Speaker 2: He told me he hit ninety five during this session
Speaker 2: against call and Tommy Edmund, which is a good thing
Speaker 2: for the first time facing hitters.
Speaker 3: So he's on his way back.
Speaker 2: And I in spring training, I said, Sinko Demyo is
Speaker 2: the over under for me.
Speaker 3: Win Snell will.
Speaker 2: Return to the Dodger rotation and just looking at when
Speaker 2: Sinko Demayo is the Dodgers will be on a road
Speaker 2: trip in the middle of it. Towards the end of
Speaker 2: it in Houston, and then they'll come back home for
Speaker 2: a homestand against the Braves and Giants.
Speaker 3: I could see that happening.
Speaker 2: In that in that middle of May area, whether it's
Speaker 2: on the homestand the seven game homestand or on the
Speaker 2: West Coast road trip Angels Padres before they go to Milwauk.
Speaker 2: I could see all that, and maybe even the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have picked a date at the end of May. But
Speaker 2: he'll be ready to go mid May, for sure. And
Speaker 2: things are going in the right direction for blakesnew which
Speaker 2: is a good thing. Eight six six seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Rangers tonight
Speaker 2: six to three. They're looking for the sweep against the
Speaker 2: Rangers tomorrow afternoon. With Jacob de Gram on the mound,
Speaker 2: who's coming off an MRI on his right knee, I
Speaker 2: guess everything is well ish and he's going to make
Speaker 2: the start tomorrow. I wanted to let you know that
Speaker 2: I broke the news earlier this afternoon that former Dodger
Speaker 2: Justin Turner, forty one year old Justin Turner, who was
Speaker 2: looking to play this season in Major League Baseball but
Speaker 2: never got the call, has decided to sign in the
Speaker 2: Mexican League with the Tijuana Toros, and after I broke
Speaker 2: the news, I confirmed it with a couple of sources.
Speaker 3: Berner took to his.
Speaker 2: Social media page and sent out this message to his
Speaker 2: new fans in Tijuana, Mexico.
Speaker 3: Hey, Toro fans, jt here.
Speaker 9: I just want to let you know that I am
Speaker 9: fired up to join the team and to bring another
Speaker 9: championship back down to Serro Colorado, and also wanted.
Speaker 3: You guys not to worry.
Speaker 1: The beard is definitely on the way.
Speaker 8: Back Atoya mas Perme, Alquiporero Tro Campnaldo, the Rogasoo Colorado.
Speaker 1: You know Setro Copan, la Bara Regassara.
Speaker 2: Hey, how about that Espanola from Rohoaching Gone Justin Turner.
Speaker 2: That was pretty nice Justin Turner. I mean, he speaks
Speaker 2: better Spanish than Austin Barnes did, and he was on
Speaker 2: Team Mexico's team in the World Baseball Classic. He's going
Speaker 2: to fit in perfectly there, and you know that's going
Speaker 2: to generate a lot of interest for the Tijuana Toros.
Speaker 2: And I think from Justin's side of thing, he's a
Speaker 2: baseball rat. He loves the game. He wants to play,
Speaker 2: and he wants to probably prove to a lot of
Speaker 2: major league teams that he's got something left in the tank.
Speaker 2: So what do you think about Justin Turner signing with
Speaker 2: the Tijuana Torros. Do you know who the manager is,
Speaker 2: by the way, for the Tijuana Toros? None other than
Speaker 2: former Dodger, former Red, former Yankee, former Expo roberto'kelly. That's right,
Speaker 2: roberto'kelly who was traded for Henry Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: In the mid nineties. That's right.
Speaker 2: Can you believe the Dodgers traded O Henry Rodriguez for
Speaker 2: roberto'kelly and Henry Rodriguez turned into be a major sensation
Speaker 2: with the Expos, hitting forty plus home runs. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers did that. The Dodgers used to make a lot
Speaker 2: of bad trades back in the day. And uh, look,
Speaker 2: uh it's it's uh. When I heard when I saw
Speaker 2: Roberto Kelly, that's the first thing I thought of was
Speaker 2: the Dodgers traded Henry Rodriguez for Roberto Kelly. But Roberto
Speaker 2: Kelly's the manager, uh for Tijuana, And Justin Turner is
Speaker 2: gonna play for him, and we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 3: By the way. In case you're.
Speaker 2: Wondering about other former Dodgers from like twenty seventeen to
Speaker 2: twenty twenty that you may have lost track of. Austin
Speaker 2: Barnes was in camp with the Mets. He was on
Speaker 2: a non roster invite, did not make the team. Bad
Speaker 2: situation to make the team because the Mets are loaded
Speaker 2: at the catching position. Chris Taylor got a non roster
Speaker 2: invite with the Angels. He did not make the team
Speaker 2: out of out of camp and opening day, and I
Speaker 2: believe he's reported to Triple A Salt Lake City now.
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller actually had a good start with the Padres
Speaker 2: last night, six scoreless innings his best start with the
Speaker 2: Padres last night. So those are the guys I keep
Speaker 2: track of. I mean, those guys came up with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: They kind of were part of the fabric of the
Speaker 2: organization from twenty fifteen to about twenty twenty two. I mean,
Speaker 2: in Bueller's case and Barnes's case twenty twenty four and
Speaker 2: Chris Taylor obviously had so many big moments for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: So all those guys, I get nostalgic when I see
Speaker 2: guys like Seeger and Jock Peterson, So you know, you
Speaker 2: got to keep track of those guys. They were good
Speaker 2: to me, they were good to the city, and they
Speaker 2: were great.
Speaker 3: On the field.
Speaker 2: As the Dodgers had so much success building this momentum
Speaker 2: to where it is now with Otani and everybody else,
Speaker 2: it's on a different level now. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Ray who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight?
Speaker 3: Hi? Ray, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Are you in there?
Speaker 8: We just want we just wanted to win.
Speaker 10: Kicking and mook Air coming back?
Speaker 3: Kick? Do you love me? Well?
Speaker 2: Keik is going to be back probably June July. He's
Speaker 2: looking good. I think he's healthy enough to probably if
Speaker 2: the Dodgers needed him to play in the next few weeks.
Speaker 2: But they don't need him to play in the next
Speaker 2: few weeks, so they're going to allow him to make
Speaker 2: sure he's at one hundred percent. And as far as
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets goes, he's not going to be activated when
Speaker 2: he's eligible off the tendil. I'm not sure exactly what's
Speaker 2: going on. I see him running with weights on his chest,
Speaker 2: so it seems like he's paying free, maybe just resetting
Speaker 2: in some ways, using this opportunity to reset, because he
Speaker 2: only had five hits in the first couple of weeks
Speaker 2: of the season. So that's where both those guys are
Speaker 2: at ray. And look, the Dodgers are in a great
Speaker 2: position of depth. They're doing this best record in baseball
Speaker 2: with eleven to three record without Tommy Edmond, without Mookie Betts,
Speaker 2: without Keik Hernandez, without Evan Phillips, without Brock Stewart in
Speaker 2: their bullpen, and without Blake Snelling their rotation. When they
Speaker 2: get all these guys back, I mean they're in a
Speaker 2: great position for the coming months. And when Evan Phillip
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips returns at the end of July mid July,
Speaker 2: that's like acquiring a relief pitcher. So they're in a
Speaker 2: good spot right now. And if Emmitt Sheen can continue
Speaker 2: to pitch the way he pitched tonight and be Emmic Sheen,
Speaker 2: then they're in a really good spot. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Rangers tonight six to three. Emmit Sheen
Speaker 2: went six innings tonight, allowed just three yearned runs. Ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez hid a big, two out, go ahead, three
Speaker 2: run home run, and Will Smith, you know, this guy
Speaker 2: goes under the radar because that's the way he likes it.
Speaker 2: But he caught a good game tonight and he was
Speaker 2: on base all four times and scored a couple of runs.
Speaker 2: So a really good night for Will Smith coming off
Speaker 2: a night where he hit into a double play last
Speaker 2: night in the fifth or sixth inning. It was a
Speaker 2: ground ball to third base, and uh it was bases loaded,
Speaker 2: one out, inning ending double play by Will Smith. If
Speaker 2: there was no out, that would have been a triple play.
Speaker 2: I mean the third baseman field it right near the bag,
Speaker 2: he would have stepped on third base, would have gone
Speaker 2: around the horn, and it would have been a triple plays.
Speaker 2: That's how that would have gone. So I guess in
Speaker 2: some ways it was good that Will only hit into
Speaker 2: a double play. But tomorrow's going to be interesting on
Speaker 2: a couple of different notes with his two starting pitchers, because,
Speaker 2: like I said earlier, Jacob Degram is on the mound
Speaker 2: for the Rangers, and he's coming off having some right
Speaker 2: knee discomfort. That's his push off leg, and I guess
Speaker 2: it felt so bad that he got an MRI on
Speaker 2: the right knee and it turned out okay. So that's
Speaker 2: something to keep an eye on tomorrow. And of course
Speaker 2: it's a crap shoot with Roki Sasaki these days. Let's
Speaker 2: see what the Dodgers get from Roki Sasaki tomorrow. Our
Speaker 2: coverage begins at noon with Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck.
Speaker 2: First pitch between the Dodgers and Rangers as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: looked for the sweep at one time. That'll do it
Speaker 2: for us tonight on Dodger Talk. Thanks to Colin Yee
Speaker 2: back at our Burbank Studios. A great job again, Colin,
Speaker 2: Thank you for your help. Thank you to Dwayne McDonald
Speaker 2: out here in his old man sweater smoking jacket sweater
Speaker 2: that he wears. Maybe you should try to shop at
Speaker 2: Uniclo and handle that. They got jackets. We're at Uniclo
Speaker 2: Field at Dodger Stadium. It's a great clothing company.
Speaker 3: I've seen it.
Speaker 2: You should get a jacket there, just the PSA. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: conversation with taoscar Hernandez yesterday, a great one that's gone
Speaker 2: a great response for Tao because he's a great guy,
Speaker 2: great smile, great player. And today Alex Freeland joined us.
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