WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (5-17-26) 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.120 The quest for the three peat has begne. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:07.280 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:12.040 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:13.240 the fifth. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.840 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.000 Here we go again. We get a running back. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.280 To get him on the show called eight six six 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.159 eighty seven two five seven days and be sure to 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.240 follow Dodger Talk wherever you catch short podcasts. And now 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.040 your host, here's Tim Kakes. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.040 Ah Light that halo up Dodger Blue. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:39.440 Because the Dodgers came in and took over the Big 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:44.920 A and Anaheim this weekend with a three game dominating 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:49.680 series against the Angels, outscoring them thirty one to three 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.720 over the last three days, including a ten to one 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:58.360 win this afternoon in Anaheim. Hi, everybody, and welcome to 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:04.080 Dodger Talk on the gloomy Sunday afternoon here in Southern California. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.559 Appreciate you being with us. If you're at the game 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:08.760 heading home and you're just kicking back and enjoying your 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.039 Sunday afternoon, we appreciate you taking us along for the ride. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.240 Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:19.080 six six nine, eight seventy two, five seventy is the 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:20.600 number A lot to get. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:21.880 To, including your phone calls. 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.080 We'll here from the manager Dave Roberts, coming up shortly 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:30.400 as the Dodgers today. After putting up fifteen runs last 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.920 night in a fifteen to two win over the Angels, 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.920 the Dodgers came back today and put a ten spot 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.080 up on the scoreboard with a ten to one win 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.240 with plenty of off friends from shoey Otani, who had 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.960 three hits and drove in two runs. Kyle Tucker had 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.520 three hits. He had a two run single in the 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.000 fourth and then a two run. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:53.600 Double in the ninth inning. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.960 As the Dodgers today just got so much offense and 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:02.040 took advantage of opportunities when they were there. From the 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.400 Angels pitching staff, which has struggled over the last three days, 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.400 and quite frankly, the Angels are just not a very good. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:08.799 Team this year. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.240 And I feel bad for Curtis azukis really one of 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.160 the good guys in baseball, and Mike Maddocks, they're pitching coach. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.800 It's a good coaching staff, a veteran group of former 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:21.480 players and baseball lifers. You feel for them because the 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.840 talent is not just is just not there, and they 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.200 go into a series against the Dodgers. Was certainly a 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.120 lot of hope after sweeping the Dodgers last year at 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:34.079 all six games, and it was the pitchers dual early. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.200 The Dodgers, though, win the game six to nothing. Last night, 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.000 their ace and arguably one of the top two pitchers 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.160 in the American League, Jose Soriano, goes. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:42.720 Last night. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.919 It was back and forth in a one nothing game 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.400 for the first five innings, and then the wheels fell 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.760 off Soriano and the Dodgers unloaded for fourteen runs after 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.280 the sixth inning on their way to a fifteen to 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.000 two win. And then today again the second time through 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.720 the lineup. It got turned over from role Kim in 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.720 the second the Dodgers in the fourth inning explode with 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.960 the two run single from Otani, Pat has a two 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.519 run single Kyle Tucker and RBI single, and all of 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.520 a sudden, they put a five spot up on the board. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.720 And when you're the Dodgers and you're just scoring runs 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.040 in bunches, it doesn't matter what really happens on the 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.679 other side of the field. But then you add in 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:23.040 Rokie Susaki shutting down the Angels today and what could 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.800 be his coming out party here in the big leagues. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:30.519 Seven strong innings, he allowed just one run, only four hits, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:35.440 eight strikeouts. I mean, Rokie Susaki was a question mark 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.080 for a lot of you Dodger fans. Was a question 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.320 mark the last three or four times out there. And 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.480 we had this conversation, as the kids like to say, 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.000 I'm old enough to remember when we were talking about 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.880 it here on Dodger Talk a month ago. Who's out 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.680 of the rotation when Blake Snell comes back? 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.640 Willip be Susaki? Will it b Robleski? 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.360 Who is the odd man out when the music stops? 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.920 Who doesn't have a chair in this game of musical 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.520 chairs in the rotation? Well, it turns out it worked 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.280 itself out with Blake Snell going back on the injured 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.200 Listen Tyler's glass now getting hurt. We don't want to 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.880 see that, certainly, but it worked itself out where they. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.160 Didn't have to make a decision. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.200 And now you got Roki Sasaki who is starting to 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:24.360 string together good outings. And today I thought took that 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:29.120 next step forward in becoming a really good starting pitcher. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.640 He had command of all four of his pitches. He 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.360 had his slider working. He of course has got that 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.080 fourth ball splitter that is, you know, at times a 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:38.919 little erratic and out of the strike zone, but he 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.760 was getting swinging missus. He was throwing it for strikes, 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.719 and that's the key no matter who you are, but 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.839 certainly for Roki Sasaki. When he throws strikes and he 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.640 attacks the strike zone and he can get some swinging misses, 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.000 he's really good. And he was effective last year in 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.880 that role as a closer, getting an out, out, getting 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.839 an inning, whatever he was asked to do, because he 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:07.680 was attacking and just pumping strikes and attacking with his 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:08.599 offspeed pitches. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:10.320 I don't know if he felt like. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.279 He was getting too cute, he had to be too 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.360 perfect as a starting pitcher, but he's he's kind of 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.159 molded into now, this Rokie Sasaki where he's got a 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.279 tighter grip on the forkball and not necessarily looking forward 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.040 to dan to beware and have that complete bite up there, 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.559 as they say, when it comes out of his hand. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.840 But when he's got all four pitches working and he's 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.080 throwing them for strikes, he's really good. 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.359 And today he was on and I don't want to 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:38.920 hear it all. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.960 It was the Angels. They're the worst team in baseball. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.800 That's still a lineup with Celayer. That's still a lineup 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.160 with Nato zac Nato. That's still a lineup that's got 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.039 Mike Trout in it. I mean, that's a good lineup 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.440 still for Roki Sasaki. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:54.440 To attack like he did today. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.599 Nineteen of the twenty four batters that he faced, he 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.080 got strike one, a career high eight strikeout and the 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.919 zero walks is what's impressive. When you're attacking the strike 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.600 zone and when you're getting swinging missus and you're not 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.800 putting guys on base with free passes, you're not pitching 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.480 out of the stretch a lot, and today he wasn't 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.520 pitching out of the stretch very much. You give up 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.400 an RBI single to yaw On Mankata in the fourth inning, 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.200 but that was it as far as damage. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.560 And again when you get the run. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:28.440 Support that he got today, Yeah, the confidence is certainly there. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:33.280 And that's something with rookie Sasaki. It's all about confidence. 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.599 I truly believe, and I said it last year when 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.680 he was struggling, went on the injured list, and when 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.719 he came back and was trying to find a spot 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.440 right in September, and we were talking about it here 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.480 on Dodgers like, well, where does he fit in? Is 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.240 there a spot for him on the roster come October? 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.719 We just don't see it. You know, too many guys 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.040 have earned that spot on the twenty six man roster 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:54.760 come October? 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.240 Where does Sasaki fit in? 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.880 And he adapted that role and had confidence pitching out 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:03.719 the bullpen and looked like a completely different pitcher out 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.080 there between the years and on the mound, just oozing 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:12.559 with confidence and domination pitching came back as a starter. 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.679 This year, it's been up and down, losing control, pitching 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.400 with guys on base too many times, you know, walking 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.880 that tightrope and pitching himself out of trouble inning after 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.160 inning and putting himself in that situation with walks and 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:32.240 a lack of control. Well, that to me is also 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.680 again confidence. You start to lose it. You start to think, man, 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.600 I can't throw strikes. I'm not as good as people think. 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.040 Maybe I can't pitch here with the Dodgers in the 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.200 major leagues. And he's only twenty four. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.360 It's like he came over with the pedigree that Yamamoto 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.320 did or the experience that a show Aotani has. Now, 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.800 you know, having been in baseball since twenty seventeen, this 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.960 is a young pop still. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:56.480 Figuring it out. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.880 Was hurt a lot of last year, and now when 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.880 he gets some success, he can build on that. And 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.000 if for Roki, remember his first start last year in Japan, 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.520 Rick Monday talked about it during the game. He'd throw 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.520 a pitch and turn around and look at the radar 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.840 gun up on the jumbo tron at the Tokyo Dome. 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.480 Okay, how fast am I throwing? Ah, it's ninety eight 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:21.000 point six. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.680 He was more worried about that, And that to me 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.240 is confidence, and that's between the years and and going 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:33.200 out and pitching with affection. He has it now and 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:34.800 I think today is something. 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:35.280 He can build on. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.960 And it feels like if he can keep that confidence 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.040 going into his next start in Milwaukee, he'll have something 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.520 special going and we're gonna see more and more zeros 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.760 put up on the scoreboard. Eight six six nine eighty 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.240 seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:50.680 two five seventy is the number. 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.800 So how about you. I love what I'm seeing. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.199 Out of Roki Sasaki now, start after start, and today 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.439 he was able to really see the fruits of his 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.840 labor there with zeros on six of the seven innings 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.520 that he pitched today against the Angels. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.000 A career high strikeouts. It's his longest outing of the year. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.400 How many times we talked about Roki Sasaki struggling with 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.959 the pitch count that's already in the sixties after three innings, 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:20.640 struggling to get through four innings, and taxing the bullpen, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:25.360 putting strain on a bullpen because you can't go deep 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:29.040 into a game because you're laboring and putting the team 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.199 in a hole. And then all of a sudden, the 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.360 bullpens asked to do five or six plus. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:34.959 Innings of work. 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.320 When you can turn around and give them the seven 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.640 strong gettings like they did today, I mean that is 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.120 huge for the bullpen now going into the. 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:45.040 San Diego series. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.520 So I just think it again, it is the confidence 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.199 and he's got it now. He needs to just bottle 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.520 it up, keep that feeling of confidence that he had 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.160 pitching today against the Angels and take it with him, 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.240 put it in his bag and take it with him 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.600 to San Diego, watch this against the Padres, and then 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.760 take it with him to Milwaukee and that next start 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.960 out against the Brewers next weekend had that same confidence 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.960 out there and the command of his new four pitch 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.440 mix that he's got with the added slider. I mean, 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.640 he looked really, really good today eight sixty six nine, 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.040 eight seven two five seventy. And the confidence also comes 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.720 with the offense giving you support. If he was in 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.640 a pitchers duel and it's nottted up at zero after 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.280 the first, the second, the third, the fourth, you know, 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.480 maybe he starts losing confidence. But when the Dodgers put 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.160 a two spot up on the board in the second, 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.559 all right, all of a sudden, now he can settle 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.200 in feel a little bit more confident. 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:38.800 All Right, I'm feeling good about myself. 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:40.560 A two to nothing lead all of a sudden turns 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.520 into a seven nothing lead. When the Dodgers put a 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.320 five spot up on the board in the fourth inning, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.200 now you can really go out. You can take some 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.360 chances as far as pitchers are concerned. Maybe try to 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.640 get away with something over to the plate, Maybe try 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.360 to get a swing and miss. Challenge hitters a little 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.280 bit more than you would in a zero zero game 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.840 or a one nothing game where you can't take those 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.160 chances and fear the guy taking you deep, and all 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.319 of a sudden we're tied up at one. But when 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.720 you've got a big lead to work with, man that 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.040 confidence it gets even. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:11.480 Bigger for a pitcher out in the mound. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.200 So I love what I'm seeing with Roki Susaki, this 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.240 Dodgers offense. The Angels were just what they needed. It's 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.680 a get right game, It's a get right series for 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.040 the team as a whole. After winning two against San Francisco, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.160 the day is off for Shoeo Tani. The day he pitched, 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.040 he didn't hit, and then the day after he had 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.040 a complete day off to come back, and these next 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:36.680 four games really produce and be back to the show. Hey, 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.000 who's not hitting the home runs, but eight hits in 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.439 his last four games, driving in runs like he did 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.880 today with the two run single the right center field 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.400 in the fourth inning to pop the top off of 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.800 Grayson Rodriguez and chase him from the game eventually. I mean, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.600 that's that's what Shoeo Tani is all about. And then 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.880 Kyle Tucker starting to feel himself. All that being said, 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.760 this is a Dodger lineup today. The Daves get a 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.560 Dave off to Mookie Betts in a day off to 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:04.319 Will Smith. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:06.600 Both of them weren't needing. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:11.240 The lineup today, scheduled days off for both of them. Instead, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.839 we saw Dalton Rushing doing the catching and he did 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.920 a really good job. Rookie Sasaki was quick to really 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.280 quick to praise him after the game. And then we 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.079 saw Miguel Rojas at shortstop today who played really good 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.040 defensively and came through with a big sack fly in 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.520 the second inning to get the Dodgers on the board early. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.600 And it was part of the bottom of the lineup. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.120 Which again we'll take a quick breaker in a second, 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.760 but how many times do we see it today in 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:36.959 this series? The bottom of the lineup it and it 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.120 doesn't have to be a base hit, you know, to 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.840 keep the line moving. But the seven eight to nine hitters, 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:48.000 the heisun kims, the Miguel Rojas is turning the lineup over, 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:52.000 and we saw that really big in the fourth inning, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:56.800 turning the lineup over, bases loaded for Shoho Tani po 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.960 Hez Tucker, let the big guys drive in the row. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.559 Let the big bats do the damage. 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:03.559 Your job is to. 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.680 Get on base, continue that line moving, and the bottom 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.160 of the lineup has done that the last three nights 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:14.800 really well. And the Dodgers, it's not a coincidence, put 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:19.319 up six runs on Friday, fifteen runs last night, and 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.400 ten more today than a ten to one win. 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Come find me back to 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.920 Dodger Talk on AM five to seventy LA Sports. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.920 Him is at third, O'tani is at second. Freeman's at first, 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.800 pull one swing on hot shot in the left center 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.800 of base. Here here comes can under score Otani. Rounding third, 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.760 he will score. Andy pie Haz does it again with 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.360 runners and scoring possession, drives in two. It is six 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:28.480 to Ughlin Dodgers. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:33.560 Andy Piez continues to have a great twenty twenty six season. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.320 Drives in two more today part of a five run 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.600 at fourth Indian for the Dodgers. Andy Piez now with 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.440 forty one RBIs on this season as we have not 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.720 even gotten to Memorial Day weekend yet, and he is 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.040 having a great season offensively, and look at what he's 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.240 done defensively this year as well. If he continues on 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.400 the track that he's on, you're talking about a guy 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.120 who can make a case for a Gold Glove in 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.200 center field. And that is saying something for for the 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.800 last couple of years in his development. Could he be 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.120 an everyday center fielder? Is he more of a corner outfielder? 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.240 Can you trust him in center field while you know 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.760 he's a liability out there? Does he have the arm? 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.880 He's got all of it and he has fine tuned 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.480 all of it defensively, and a credit to Dino Eble 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.840 and that coaching staff are working with him and developing 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.520 him into a premier center fielder defensively, and it was 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:25.960 on full display this weekend. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:27.880 We mentioned it last night on Dodger Talk. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:32.240 Eleven pop flyouts to him in center field, one shive, 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:36.520 a major league record. Pretty impressive, Pretty impressive what he did, 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.760 including a diving catch in shallow right center field in 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.160 the fourth inning to save a one nothing lead for 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.880 Justin Robleski. His arm is a threat, so guys are 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:47.880 gonna be a little hesitant to run on him, whether 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.920 it's from first to third or whether it's from second 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.560 to home because of his arm strength. I mean, he 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.160 can cover a lot of ground as we see. I mean, 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.240 and then you throw up the offensive numbers. Randy pot 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.280 Has today drives in two more. He got off to 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.240 a blistering start, then he cooled down because he wasn't 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:05.360 going to continue to hit four to. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:06.360 Eighty like he was. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.760 But now still floating over three hundred on this season, 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:14.400 still slugging over five twenty. Just a really really fun 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.960 player to watch in Andy pie Has and what he 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.680 does for the Dodgers no matter where he's hitting in 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.440 this lineup, and that's what's great is Andy Piez is 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.480 a guy who you can pad fifth, sixth, seventh in 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.120 the lineup, and gosh, he's just a threat to do 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.480 it all, hit for power. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.640 And continue to move that line if necessary. 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.240 Celebrate ninety years of racing at Santa I need to 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.600 Park every Friday through Sunday with millions and payouts every 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.400 race day. For heart pounding action and new experiences, visit 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.880 Santa Anita dot com slash events. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:42.560 Don in the City of Industry. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.040 It's got the deepest pipes in sports talk radio and 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:46.680 has for the last twenty five years. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.800 He's so intimidating to talk to on the radio. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:53.160 Hi, Don, how are you doing, partner? Hey, it's always 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:54.200 great to talk to you. 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:55.040 Man. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.960 I'm so happy we knocked off those pesky Angels. You know, 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.920 it's I mean, the revenge tour, isn't it to you know? 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.800 Like my gosh, last season, didn't we lose every game to. 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.800 Him last year against the Dodgers. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.720 Yeah, very embarrassing, And so now this is the revenge 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.679 tour because these are like, you know, like in boxing, 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.680 these are like the tune up fights. You know, you 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.119 bang these guys around to get in shape for you know, 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.240 like games you really want to win and life comping 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.600 up on Monday and or whatever it is right Monday, 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:31.919 right with the Padres. And so I'm really glad for 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.160 Dave Roberts to finally get him the credit he's doing. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.960 He's a sly mongoose, you know, the way he's you know, 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.960 giving guys rest, pacing them, you know, getting them ready 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:44.040 for the postseason. So smart. You know, it's just it's 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.280 just fun to watch because naturally it's nerve wracking when 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.760 our guys have injuries. But the way he's able to manipulate, 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.080 it's so great that we have the depth. I mean, 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.720 there's that people are so down on the Dodgers because 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.080 of all the you know, hey, we got the money 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.080 they Don't's. The funny thing is it reminds me of 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:06.720 that there's old old British music hall song. I think 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.480 it's where the where the phrase jingoism comes from, because 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.760 it goes, now, we don't really want to fight, but 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.760 by jingo if we do, we've got the ships, we've 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.520 got the man, and we've got the money too. That's 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.080 sort of like the Dodgers Dotter, isn't it. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:25.520 Yeah, Hey, don you're a big boxing guy, and I've 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.159 known that for a long time, having talked to you 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.439 on the radio here on five seventy. Have you had 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.760 a chance to listen to our guy, Coliny and Sammue 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.440 Long Saturday mornings on the Not Quite Ringside Boxing show 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:36.880 covering boxing and UFC. 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:40.480 No, No, what time does it come? On? 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:41.159 Nine am? 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.320 Saturday mornings nine to ten our own colonye Sammy Long. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:46.679 They were in Vegas a couple of weekends ago for 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.960 the Big Fight in early May. 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:50.240 Theyre sink of a mile weekend. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.960 They host the Not Quite ring Side Boxing and UFC 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.400 show right here on AMFI sevn y LA Sports every 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:56.119 Saturday morning. 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.399 It's a great listen. You're a boxing guy. You should 0:18:58.400 --> 0:18:59.080 have get listened on. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.120 Hey man, I'm there, I'm there. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.240 Down all right. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.480 Great to hear from you, Don in the City of Industry. 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.879 He's been talking here on a f five seventy LA 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.160 Sports for many and many years. That shows you how 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.119 old I am and how long I've been working at 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.200 this radio station. I remember him calling in with Big 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.679 Joe McDonald and Vic the Brick and going back with 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.720 Ben and Dave back in the day on AM eleven 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.160 fifty when when the sports station was on the other 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.640 frequency and a big boxing fan, I know the don 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:25.919 from the. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:26.640