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Speaker 2: Last day, the Dodgers victorious on opening night, defeating the
Speaker 2: Arizona Diamondbacks by a final score of eight to two.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vase with you for the
Speaker 2: next hour right here on a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: We do have phone lines open on this opening night
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Speaker 2: is going to join us later in the show. Plus,
Speaker 2: I was eavesdropping on the NBC broadcast tonight just to
Speaker 2: hear how Clayton Kershaw's broadcasting debut went, and he passed
Speaker 2: with flying colors. I hate to say it, and honestly
Speaker 2: the reason why I hate to say it is the
Speaker 2: guy's a Hall of Fame pitcher. He wasn't a good
Speaker 2: hitter when he first started, then he made himself into
Speaker 2: a good hitting pitcher, and now his first first fora
Speaker 2: into broadcasting, and he's really good. Dang it. This guy's
Speaker 2: good at everything. So yeah, if he wasn't and I'm
Speaker 2: not just saying that because I covered the guy for
Speaker 2: his entire career, especially closely the last fourteen, if he
Speaker 2: wasn't good, I probably would ignore it. But he was
Speaker 2: really good. In fact, I would venture to say that
Speaker 2: he's probably just as good as any other baseball analyst
Speaker 2: out there. I thought it was a good broadcast tonight.
Speaker 2: By the way, when I tuned in for different innings
Speaker 2: between Jason Bennetti, Oral Hersheiser, Luis Gonzalez, and Kershaw. Kershaw
Speaker 2: was sitting where I usually sit and Kirsten Watson usually
Speaker 2: sit right next to the Dodger dugout. That's usually where
Speaker 2: the sideline reporter sits. He was an analyst, but they
Speaker 2: put him right next to the Dodger dugout, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure that wasn't easy for him, considering he was just
Speaker 2: on the team last year. And he just retired and
Speaker 2: he's right next to the dugout that he spent nineteen
Speaker 2: years in. So that's not easy. It's not easy for
Speaker 2: players that just finished playing to go into broadcasting because
Speaker 2: they know these guys, they know their teammates, and it's
Speaker 2: hard to criticize them. There really wasn't any moment in
Speaker 2: the game that required criticism or constructive criticism. But Kershaw,
Speaker 2: I mean the dude. The dude did a good job tonight.
Speaker 2: And when we saw him in his suit and tie pregame,
Speaker 2: he had this like sun Tan glow. Where was this
Speaker 2: guy Fiji before he showed up at Dodger Stadium for
Speaker 2: Opening Night? So all around, a successful night for Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 2: A successful night here on Dodgers Radio with Rick Monday,
Speaker 2: Charlie Steiner and Steven Nelson as well, and we're with
Speaker 2: you until ten o'clock tonight on Dodger Talk. Eight six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Look,
Speaker 2: I said this yesterday, I said this again today multiple
Speaker 2: times with Petro some money, and you might have thought
Speaker 2: again I was being a homer. I wasn't. I actually
Speaker 2: believe the Dodgers are going to score at least eight runs.
Speaker 2: And that's the reality of this lineup against very ordinary
Speaker 2: pitchers like Zach Gallen. I hate to break it to you.
Speaker 2: Zach Gallen, I would say is above average starting pitcher,
Speaker 2: but he's a right handed starter, and the Diamondbacks bullpen
Speaker 2: is not very good. They don't have a left handed reliever.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers' best hitters are left handed Otani Tucker, Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 2: Max Munsey, to name a few. There was nowhere to
Speaker 2: hide for anybody. And look, Gallen did well through the
Speaker 2: first three four innings, but the Dodgers were chipping away.
Speaker 2: That's why I asked Will Smith if he saw any
Speaker 2: cracks in the armor in Gallen in the first few
Speaker 2: innings before the Dodgers got to him. And I feel
Speaker 2: like Gallen got flustered and frustrated when ta Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: beat out an infield single on a ground ball that
Speaker 2: was hit to the left side of the pitchers mound.
Speaker 2: I felt like he let that frustration carry over into
Speaker 2: him facing Andy Pajez. But I also I believe the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were getting to him because Max Munsey before his
Speaker 2: leadoff single, almost hit a home run down the right
Speaker 2: field line instead it was foul. So look, it's just
Speaker 2: a matter of time. And the Dodgers, like Dave Roberts said,
Speaker 2: were so disciplined tonight, and that's something we saw all
Speaker 2: spring training long, from veterans like ti Oscar Hernandez to
Speaker 2: rookies like James Tibbs. The Dodgers are very disciplined, which
Speaker 2: forces these pitchers to come into the strike zone. Also,
Speaker 2: don't discount the abs. This is going to force pitchers
Speaker 2: that nibble into the middle of the strike zone or
Speaker 2: a bigger part of the strike zone, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were able to take advantage of that in the fifth
Speaker 2: inning with a four run fifth Andy pat has not
Speaker 2: missing a hanging curveball, a go ahead three run home run.
Speaker 2: Gallin left the game after his implosion, throwing twenty five
Speaker 2: pitches without recording and out and the Dodger hitters had
Speaker 2: seven two strike hits tonight. That's indicative of grinding out
Speaker 2: at bat. So all in all, this is just an
Speaker 2: appetizer of things to come for the Dodgers this season
Speaker 2: with this offense, if they stay healthy. Tonight's game was
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Speaker 2: And listen to tomorrow's broadcast to hear the word of
Speaker 2: the day from our guy Andre Ethier. Kyle Tucker, he
Speaker 2: had a few first as a Dodger tonight. In the
Speaker 2: seventh inning, he got his first hit, drove in his
Speaker 2: first run, and had his first extra base hit. He
Speaker 2: drove in sho he Otani all the way from first
Speaker 2: base was in motion on a double in between or
Speaker 2: to the left center field gap, and then Tucker scored
Speaker 2: his first run when Mookie Bets drove him in. So,
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker a huge part of this Dodger offense hitting
Speaker 2: second between Otani and Mookie Bets, and Freddie Freeman was
Speaker 2: robbed of extra bases by Jordan Lawler as well in
Speaker 2: this game. So I'm telling you, I'm telling you this
Speaker 2: Dodger offense is the best lineup they have had in
Speaker 2: at least the last ten years. And I kind of
Speaker 2: felt like today's Opening Day was going to resemble Opening
Speaker 2: Day from twenty nineteen Dodgers Diamondbacks Zach Grinki on the mound.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers hit eight home runs that day against the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks and beat them twelve to three. I wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: go so far to say double digits tonight, but I'm
Speaker 2: on the record go back to the tape as saying
Speaker 2: I believe the Dodgers were going to score at least
Speaker 2: eight runs tonight, and they did, beating Arizona eight to two,
Speaker 2: eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number would love to hear from you if
Speaker 2: you were at Opening Day tonight. What a great experience. Tristan,
Speaker 2: who was here tonight? Tristan, you're on Dodger Talk. How
Speaker 2: you doing good?
Speaker 4: David?
Speaker 2: How you doing phenomenal? How can it be bad when
Speaker 2: you got the back to back champions and uh, they're
Speaker 2: they're this good going for the three pet.
Speaker 4: I know it was.
Speaker 5: It was a great game tonight. I mean the only
Speaker 5: thing terrible about it right now is trying to get
Speaker 5: out of Dodger Stadium with the traffic.
Speaker 2: Well, that means you get more time to listen to me.
Speaker 2: I'll be on until ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 5: Hey, David, I just wanted to ask you you think
Speaker 5: that Yamamoto is a cy Young candidate. I mean, I
Speaker 5: know that Skemes didn't do very good today, and I
Speaker 5: I mean, I think that's really the only person that
Speaker 5: we have to be worried about besides maybe Otani.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say, uh, Yamamoto, Skeens, Christopher's Sanchez with
Speaker 2: the Phillies, Otani, and look if Blake Snell comes back
Speaker 2: at the end of May and he makes twenty three
Speaker 2: to twenty five starts, he's in that conversation. You know,
Speaker 2: when Snell pitches close to a full season. He's won
Speaker 2: two cy Young Awards. So I would say the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have at least three of the five candidates to win
Speaker 2: the cy Young this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree completely. I mean I think I think
Speaker 5: Yamamoto is probably best suited for it. But uh, I
Speaker 5: know that Otani's probably wanted to get cy Young as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he made that clear. And when he said
Speaker 2: says himself to goals, he's achieved them. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: would expect a big pitching year from Otani as well.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, Tristan. Appreciate it. Eight sixty six,
Speaker 2: nine to eighty seven, two five seventy. Noah was in
Speaker 2: the house tonight. Hi, Noah, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Look how you doing?
Speaker 2: Do it went great? How was your experience at the
Speaker 2: stadium tonight?
Speaker 6: It was awesome. It was my first opening day. I'm nineteen.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. That's awesome. Who'd you come to the game with?
Speaker 7: I came with with with my best friend Marlon.
Speaker 4: He's right here. What's up, man?
Speaker 2: Hey? How you doing? Who did you?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Did you buy the Dodger Dog since your guy Noah
Speaker 2: got the tickets?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I bought them a Dodger Dogs.
Speaker 2: All right, Noah, what do you want to say about
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker's debut?
Speaker 6: He just looked really really patient at the plate, and
Speaker 6: he just looked really confident.
Speaker 2: That's a really good player. He's a really good player.
Speaker 2: I would expect him to get on base this year
Speaker 2: at a four hundred clip, and that's gonna make a
Speaker 2: lot of traffic on the basis for Mookie Beds, Freddie Freeman, Willson,
Speaker 2: there's just nowhere to exhale in this lineup. Thanks for
Speaker 2: the phone call, Noah, appreciate it. I remember my first
Speaker 2: first opening Day that I got to come to. It
Speaker 2: was nineteen ninety two. Darryl Strawberry and Eric Davis were
Speaker 2: supposed to be in the same outfield. It was the
Speaker 2: opening day where Rodney King was their special guest, and
Speaker 2: I almost ran into the mob that was following Rodney
Speaker 2: King on the field level there. So that was my
Speaker 2: memorable opening day at Dodgers Stadium. But Opening Day is
Speaker 2: so special. It's such a great event. And what's special
Speaker 2: about what's taking place with the Dodgers right now. It's
Speaker 2: not just about Opening Day. It's Opening weekend. So tomorrow
Speaker 2: you got the ring ceremony, and that's going to have
Speaker 2: that Opening Day feel with a little extra something special
Speaker 2: because the Dodgers, instead of just being introduced, are going
Speaker 2: to get their rings. And that was special last year
Speaker 2: and we're lucky enough to have it again this year
Speaker 2: after back to back championships and the best World Series
Speaker 2: Baseball has seen in a very long time. If ever
Speaker 2: eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number, Joe Sella, You're on Dodger Talk. How
Speaker 2: you doing? Did I pronounce your name correctly?
Speaker 8: Hey Dave, It's Josella and Zoonie and we're sitting here
Speaker 8: in the Dodger Stadium parking lot waiting for traffic to
Speaker 8: die down. But other than that, opening Day's game was great.
Speaker 2: Is this your first Opening Day?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 8: No, I've been to several Opening Day Dodger games. Actually,
Speaker 8: my boyfriend zooming here has been to several Opening day
Speaker 8: Dodger games with my dad since nineteen ninety ninety one
Speaker 8: ninety two.
Speaker 2: Did you try anything you eats at Dodger Stadium tonight
Speaker 2: or did you just go with the Dodger Dogs.
Speaker 8: No, we bring in our own food. We bring in
Speaker 8: our own yeah, holders, yes, Jimmy Johns, Jimmy Johnson, and
Speaker 8: then we just get some nachos Minnesota and chill out
Speaker 8: the game starts.
Speaker 2: All right. Well, thanks a lot for coming tonight, and
Speaker 2: we look forward to seeing you be patient out there
Speaker 2: in the parking lot. Be safe getting home tonight. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Dodgers beat Arizona eight to two. And I
Speaker 2: know it's scary to think the Dodgers won the World
Speaker 2: Series last year, and they won ninety three games, a
Speaker 2: lot of the games that they could have won, were
Speaker 2: blown late by their bullpen. They signed Edwin Diaz for
Speaker 2: close games and save situations. We didn't get to see
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz come out of those bullpen gates after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers made it a sixth run lead in the seventh inning.
Speaker 2: So that's something else to look forward to. A first
Speaker 2: we saw Kyle Tucker's first game, first hit, first extra
Speaker 2: base hit, first ARBI, and first run scored. So everybody
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium, that's coming tomorrow night. You might see
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz make his Dodger debut and Timmy trumpet and
Speaker 2: everything that comes with it tomorrow night. If the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are in a safe situation, I have to say this.
Speaker 2: I don't believe they're going to be in a safe
Speaker 2: situation tomorrow night either. I think the Dodgers win tomorrow
Speaker 2: Night's game by at least four or five runs. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Stuart. Who is that Opening night? How
Speaker 2: you doing, Stuart? You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Hey David, I'm great, man.
Speaker 11: How are you great?
Speaker 9: To have your voice?
Speaker 8: What a time to be alive.
Speaker 2: We are living history right now when it comes to
Speaker 2: Dodger baseball.
Speaker 12: I agree, man, I took my three year old daughter
Speaker 12: and my eight month old son to his first game today,
Speaker 12: and I'm hoping that they're appreciative because I waited my
Speaker 12: whole life for this.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I bet, I bet, and you got to see a
Speaker 2: really good team, and arguably twenty years from now, Stuart,
Speaker 2: you could say, yeah, I saw the best offense in Dodgers'
Speaker 2: history on Opening Night.
Speaker 7: Well, that's what I.
Speaker 12: Wanted to talk about, David. I was gonna talk to
Speaker 12: you about Pahes that you mentioned on the Clubhouse Show,
Speaker 12: but you mentioned maybe the best lineup you've seen for
Speaker 12: the Dodgers in ten years. I would love to hear
Speaker 12: what lineup you have from ten years ago that comes
Speaker 12: anywhere close to this, David, because I think A j
Speaker 12: Ellis was hitting in that lineup that you're talking about
Speaker 12: ten years ago.
Speaker 2: I would say, the only other lineups that I could
Speaker 2: tell you I believe would match this is the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty or twenty twenty one Dodgers. And the reason why
Speaker 2: I say twenty twenty one is because that was the
Speaker 2: one season they had Trey Turner and Corey Seger together
Speaker 2: along with AJ Pollock, along with Mookie and Cody Bellinger.
Speaker 2: Muncie will Smith. I mean, justin Turner to me that
Speaker 2: that offense Rivals, that was the best Dodger offense offensive
Speaker 2: lineup we had seen, uh until this year. I believe
Speaker 2: just the depth of the lineup.
Speaker 12: You you have a great point every day. Trey really
Speaker 12: did kind of round it out beautifully. But uh, one
Speaker 12: last point, that's a great call, David, the uh the
Speaker 12: Paez call though, talk about underrated man twenty five years old,
Speaker 12: the arm power. I know he disappeared in the playoffs
Speaker 12: last year, but any other franchise in the BIGS would
Speaker 12: absolutely be trueling to have this guy, David, and we're
Speaker 12: hitting him eighth, ninth. He's like a complete throwaway, and
Speaker 12: that to me speaks to the strength of this team
Speaker 12: and this organization more than anything. That a guy like
Speaker 12: Andy Paez can get completely lost in the shuffle is
Speaker 12: just incredible.
Speaker 2: And I think that's where he took advantage of the
Speaker 2: fact Zach Gallan tried to sneak a curveball by him
Speaker 2: and he hung it and Paes didn't miss it. So
Speaker 2: one through nine and think about this, Stuart Tonight. Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas got the start on his final opening day of
Speaker 2: his playing career. But when Tommy Edman returns, Tommy Edman's
Speaker 2: hitting ninth for the Dodgers. That's why I believe. I mean,
Speaker 2: this offense has the potential of scoring the most runs,
Speaker 2: maybe doing a lot of different record setting things if
Speaker 2: they stayed disciplined the way they were tonight and the
Speaker 2: way they were all spring training. There's just nowhere to
Speaker 2: turn for any picture out there.
Speaker 13: I can't wait, David, I can't wait.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 12: Thanks for having us and great to have you back.
Speaker 2: All right, Stuart, thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would say the nineteen or twenty one Dodgers, probably
Speaker 2: right now because they did it, are the two best
Speaker 2: Dodger offensive lineups I can remember in the last ten years.
Speaker 2: But certainly this one on paper. I mean, like I said,
Speaker 2: you got a twenty seven home run guy. That's not
Speaker 2: a two point thirty hitter. He's a two sixty to
Speaker 2: two seventy hitter last year hitting eighth for you, and
Speaker 2: you're going to have Tommy Edman hitting ninth. Eight six
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Speaker 2: we'll share that with you as well. So we got
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Speaker 14: Trying a battle behind one and two.
Speaker 1: Another offering from Gallon Paz lifts it in the air.
Speaker 15: Left field in deep it has gone. Andy Parez flips
Speaker 15: the scoreboard with the first Dodger home run of twenty
Speaker 15: twenty six.
Speaker 2: Andy Piz gave the Dodgers the lead in the fifth
Speaker 2: inning off of Zach Gallon after they were trailing to
Speaker 2: nothing when Heraldo Pernomo hit a two run home run
Speaker 2: off a Yama Moto. The Dodgers would go on to
Speaker 2: beat Arizona tonight eight to two on opening Day. Eight
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Speaker 2: Own the Dream. One thing we didn't see from the
Speaker 2: Dodgers tonight was an ABS challenge, right. That's something that
Speaker 2: we missed tonight from the Dodgers. They did not challenge
Speaker 2: a pitch, a ball or strike from a hitter or
Speaker 2: Will Smith never challenged home played umpire Andy Fletcher. Corbin
Speaker 2: Carrol did use the ABS SIB system in the fourth inning,
Speaker 2: or excuse me, in the first inning, and he uh,
Speaker 2: he was right. It was a ball that was high
Speaker 2: in the strike zone. And that was the only ABS
Speaker 2: challenge that we saw tonight from either team. So that
Speaker 2: is going to be part of Major League Baseball this year,
Speaker 2: but tonight it certainly wasn't intruding on the game. Eight six, six, nine, seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat Arizona
Speaker 2: tonight on Opening Day eight to two. Emit Sheen will
Speaker 2: be on the mound for the Dodgers tomorrow night. Tyler
Speaker 2: Glass now in the series finale on Saturday. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: have a rare Sunday off, and then we'll be back
Speaker 2: at it right here with the Guardians coming to town
Speaker 2: for a three game series before the Dodgers head out
Speaker 2: on their first road trip, which will take them to
Speaker 2: our nation's capital and the scene of last year's World
Speaker 2: Series Game six and seven, Toronto. Yeah, that's right, a
Speaker 2: rematch of last year's World Series won't take long. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers will be in Toronto on their first road trip
Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks. Wanted to get to Kershaw
Speaker 2: on NBC because he did a phenomenal job. He was
Speaker 2: sitting right next to the Dodger dougout as a third
Speaker 2: analyst orl Herscheizer, and Luis Gonzalez was in the booth.
Speaker 2: And just in case you don't know how they're working
Speaker 2: it on NBC and Sunday Night Baseball, it's not going
Speaker 2: to be Oral Herscheizer, Luis Gonzalez, and Clayton Kershaw every
Speaker 2: single Sunday night. It's going to be Jason Bennetti, the
Speaker 2: play by play guy, along with a analyst from one
Speaker 2: team and an analyst from the other team that are
Speaker 2: playing each other. So tonight it was Arizona Dodgers. They
Speaker 2: got Luis Gonzalez from the Arizona side orl Hersheiser, who
Speaker 2: is no stranger to national broadcasts for the Dodger side,
Speaker 2: and they added their newest hire, Clayton Kershaw, who I
Speaker 2: don't think he's doing every Sunday Night baseball is what
Speaker 2: I'm gathering, but he'll be there for enough and Tonight
Speaker 2: was one of the broadcasts that he's going to be
Speaker 2: part of for NBC and Peacock, and here he was
Speaker 2: really breaking down Yamamoto early in the game.
Speaker 16: He is an absolute machine. That's a great way to
Speaker 16: describe him. It's his routine, it's how he goes about
Speaker 16: his business. And the ball just comes out of his
Speaker 16: hand like a piece of art. It really is amazing.
Speaker 16: When I tell my kids to watch people pitch, Yama's
Speaker 16: right at the top of the list. I'm excited to
Speaker 16: watch this game today, and it's a weird thing, but
Speaker 16: it's pretty awesome to do here.
Speaker 4: Where do your.
Speaker 9: Eyes go as you watch him, as you tell your
Speaker 9: kids about him?
Speaker 1: What do you watch?
Speaker 2: It's just so fluid, like.
Speaker 16: It takes so much athleticism to be that fluid out there.
Speaker 16: He's so consistent with his delivery. He can make changes,
Speaker 16: he can make edits when he's missing by a little bit.
Speaker 16: And this the repertoire is unbelievable. And it starts with
Speaker 16: a split finger. So I'm excited to watch his split tonight.
Speaker 16: That's his outpitch. That's what he's gonna need against these
Speaker 16: left handed backs. So the top of the lineup and
Speaker 16: it's pretty nasty, so we'll see how they do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was pretty good. Good for his opening hit.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I'm out of a job. Honestly,
Speaker 2: when Kirsten takes days off, I think they're gonna hire Krushawn. Now,
Speaker 2: I'll just be honest with you. But look, the guy
Speaker 2: knows the game. He's really good, and he has such
Speaker 2: a high baseball IQ. And that's part of the reason
Speaker 2: why he was so good, because he's confident in what
Speaker 2: he's saying and the descriptive adjectives that he used to
Speaker 2: describe Yamamoto from a work of art. He's an artist basically,
Speaker 2: and he's very fluid in his motion. And the game
Speaker 2: plan that he gave came to play out because Yamamoto's
Speaker 2: fastball was the pitch that those left handed diamondbacks were
Speaker 2: really teeing off on, and he did have to use
Speaker 2: his split fingered fastball. So you learned something in that
Speaker 2: opening hit about the Dodgers starting pitcher. Whether a Dodger
Speaker 2: fan or not, you learned something about Yamamoto, and you
Speaker 2: got high praise from a future Hall of Famer. All Right.
Speaker 2: The other one that stood out to me, and this
Speaker 2: was the one thing that I was curious about the
Speaker 2: fact that not only is Krushaw making his broadcasting debut,
Speaker 2: it's not like he was up in the broadcast booth
Speaker 2: here in the press box. He was right there next
Speaker 2: to the Dodger dugout. That had to be a little
Speaker 2: uncomfortable early on.
Speaker 16: You know, I've gotten a few fist bumps like old times.
Speaker 16: You know, I'm in the kind of I'm in the
Speaker 16: twilight zone over here, you know, I'm kind of in
Speaker 16: the dugout kind of not so it's I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2: Lie to you guys.
Speaker 16: This is a pretty weird feeling.
Speaker 2: But it's also still baseball, and.
Speaker 16: I've watched a lot of games from this side of
Speaker 16: the field, so I'm having a blast.
Speaker 1: They can look right through We're looking at you right now.
Speaker 2: They can look right through sort of the wiring right
Speaker 2: at you. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm in the dugout.
Speaker 16: Basically, I'm just back just.
Speaker 2: Not getting paid the same just renting. Okay, that was
Speaker 2: a nice little job at the end right there, and
Speaker 2: not getting paid the same, no doubt, Kurshaw, welcome to
Speaker 2: the media. You're not going to get paid the same
Speaker 2: as you did when you were pitching, and I was
Speaker 2: down there for the eighth and ninth innings, and by
Speaker 2: that time he was an old pro. And during that
Speaker 2: period of time, the seventh inning, it was great to
Speaker 2: see Blake Trening come out and throw ninety seven. Andy
Speaker 2: Po has made a great catch on the first batter
Speaker 2: that he was facing, the catcher Gabriel Moreno, and Po
Speaker 2: has made a great diving catch to rob Moreno of
Speaker 2: what would have been a leadoff bleeder in the seventh inning,
Speaker 2: and that allowed trying to to just relax, and he
Speaker 2: was thrown ninety seven, and it seemed like he had
Speaker 2: some of the same type of movement on his sweeper tonight,
Speaker 2: which was encouraging as well. But forget about little old me.
Speaker 2: We had analysts Clayton Kershaw breaking that down on NBC.
Speaker 16: Blake looks healthy right now. I think that's the biggest
Speaker 16: thing for him. His arm angle looks a little bit lower,
Speaker 16: which is good for him. That means a sinker is
Speaker 16: gonna sink. And you can already see the below. It's
Speaker 16: ninety six, ninety seven, which I don't remember him at
Speaker 16: a time last year being that high, So that's huge.
Speaker 16: And then you know with the sinker. That ball was
Speaker 16: a little bit up to aeron auto right there. But
Speaker 16: when he's throwing that right with his sweeper like that
Speaker 16: one right there, like you said, it's it's almost unheittable
Speaker 16: as a righty and you know lefty, he's going to
Speaker 16: work in a cutter a little bit too at times.
Speaker 16: And they really need this guy at the back end
Speaker 16: this year and I expect a big.
Speaker 2: Year from him. Hey, very good succinct and a great
Speaker 2: a great analysis there from Kershaw. So he did a
Speaker 2: great job, and I'm I'm interested to see how he
Speaker 2: does when he's calling teams that are not named the
Speaker 2: Dodgers or anybody in the NL West. I would love
Speaker 2: to hear him and whether or not he has the
Speaker 2: same type of insights for other teams as he does
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. Eight six six seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Let's go out to Bruce and
Speaker 2: Culver City. Hi, Bruce, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hey David, thanks for taking my call and looking forward
Speaker 7: to another great team for the Dodgers. Listen to you
Speaker 7: with the Dodgers, dug got Thank you?
Speaker 2: What else?
Speaker 7: And I really appreciate you playing those clips of Kershaw.
Speaker 4: But what I think you may have not.
Speaker 7: Heard because you didn't listen or watch the entire game
Speaker 7: like I did on NBC is oral. Hirsheiser is just
Speaker 7: a class act because he was.
Speaker 4: Most of the time.
Speaker 7: Orl would start to make a comment and immediately throw
Speaker 7: it to Kersh for his input. So he made it
Speaker 7: seamless for Kersh to be part of the conversation. And
Speaker 7: I can't say enough about what a great guy Earl
Speaker 7: Hersheiser is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he was a very unselfish broadcast partner tonight.
Speaker 2: You're right he did a good job of teeing up Kershaw,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. Yeah, no doubt about it. Bruce Orl
Speaker 2: Hirschei's is a pro. He's been doing this a while.
Speaker 2: He has nothing to prove as a broadcaster. He's one
Speaker 2: of the best out there. Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to k dubb kW.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing.
Speaker 17: Man, I'm so happy to be here. Pumped up the party.
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Speaker 17: The best lineup in Major League Baseball history is what
Speaker 17: I say. You said ten years we had a better lineup. No,
Speaker 17: this is the best lineup I've ever seen. And Dodger
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Speaker 17: that road to three Pete David Oh, I love it.
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Speaker 2: How you doing David?
Speaker 13: I'm doing great. How are you?
Speaker 17: David?
Speaker 13: Also a first time, long time? But where is Superior Grocers? Anyways?
Speaker 7: I grew up in LA.
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Speaker 13: Okay, well that's cool. Anyways, what I mean it was
Speaker 13: great to see Tanner Scott it's well tonight.
Speaker 9: What do you think of his outing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a low leverage situation. It was a
Speaker 2: great situation to bring him in to gain some confidence
Speaker 2: and you know, get guys out. So I like what
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts did right there. I thought it was a
Speaker 2: perfect situation. A six run lead, low pressure, get him
Speaker 2: in there, get him feeling good about himself to start
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I thought it was good. The other thing I
Speaker 13: was going to ask, is you know with Evan, she
Speaker 13: didn't going tomorrow night. I think he has a chance
Speaker 13: to get at least fifteen wins this year. He looked
Speaker 13: so good at the n of last year coming back
Speaker 13: from that injury. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with this offense, I think a lot of Dodger
Speaker 2: pitchers have a chance to get fifteen wins if they
Speaker 2: stay healthy. Yeah, no doubt about it. Yeah, I love
Speaker 2: Emmett agree. I mean he's got great stuff. He's up
Speaker 2: there if you look at the advanced metrics and Chase
Speaker 2: rate with rate, he's up there with names like Trek Scoobel.
Speaker 2: So he has the stuff to do it. And I
Speaker 2: expect the Dodgers to win by at least four or
Speaker 2: five runs tomorrow. Thanks for the phone call, David, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight six six ninety seven two five seventy. Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: Arizona tonight eight to two behind Yamamoto, who went six
Speaker 2: innings tonight through ninety five pitches. Wasn't his sharpest, but
Speaker 2: he did have his split fingered fastball working, he did
Speaker 2: have his cutter working, and he found a way. He
Speaker 2: competed and got the job done. And it's a lot
Speaker 2: easier to pitch when you have this type of offense
Speaker 2: behind you. Trust me. Let's go out to Brad who
Speaker 2: is at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi Brad, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: Hey Dave, how's it going man? Happy Opening Day?
Speaker 2: Same to you, Happy Opening Day. I feel like I'm getting,
Speaker 2: by the way to the point of a Larry David.
Speaker 2: There's a certain limit on people saying Happy Opening Day
Speaker 2: to me, like a Happy New Year. I feel like
Speaker 2: we're at that point now. You can't say Happy Opening
Speaker 2: Day at nine at night, Altimore.
Speaker 9: I'll go ahead and rescind that.
Speaker 4: Then.
Speaker 9: I'm extremely sorry. My family and I were there for
Speaker 9: the second straight year. Last year we obviously walked it
Speaker 9: off against the Tigers and Scooball, which was awesome. But
Speaker 9: this year to takeaways two oh yeah, oh yeah, two
Speaker 9: biggest takeaways this year we have Andy pajez A thirty
Speaker 9: homer bat batting eighth that is absolutely absurd like this,
Speaker 9: He is the catalyst of the offense tonight. And I mean,
Speaker 9: I just I've never seen anything with like a lineup
Speaker 9: like this that has a batter like that in the
Speaker 9: eighth spot. I did see in the WBC Venezuela was
Speaker 9: batting Curio in the ninth spot, So I think I
Speaker 9: think the low part of the lineup this year is
Speaker 9: like teams are going to start putting better, better players
Speaker 9: down there.
Speaker 2: But well that was the world base on Classic. These
Speaker 2: are real games.
Speaker 9: Well, well, I you know, I can't argue.
Speaker 2: With that, but I will say this about Andy pa
Speaker 2: Has hitting eighth. You're right, no team. I mean, he
Speaker 2: would be hitting cleanup, hitting third, hitting second on at
Speaker 2: least twenty five other teams. And what he's going to
Speaker 2: benefit from is pictures thinking they can ex sale and
Speaker 2: him and bushing them like he did in that fifth inning.
Speaker 2: He's going to benefit from that.
Speaker 9: You're exactly right. He's he's gonna he's gonna put up
Speaker 9: thirty Holmers this year. I I I'm with no doubt
Speaker 9: in my mind. The second the second takeaway I had
Speaker 9: from tonight low obviously with the last color mentioned Tanner
Speaker 9: Scott low low leverage situation. I don't think I saw
Speaker 9: Tanner Scott one single time last year through three the
Speaker 9: first pitch strikes the three straight batters like he did tonight.
Speaker 4: I am, I am. That's got me fired up, Dave, Yeah,
Speaker 4: not often.
Speaker 2: I mean, Tanner Scott is set up for success with
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz being the closer. Now he can go back
Speaker 2: to just being that setup guy and not feel the
Speaker 2: weight of the world coming in in the ninth inning
Speaker 2: for the world champion Dodgers. So I think he's done
Speaker 2: a great job of trying to flush last year and
Speaker 2: is in a better spot in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, Brad appreciated. Happy New Year.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Uh yeah, everybody's like, hey, happy opening Day,
Speaker 2: Happy Opening Day. It's like, yeah, yeah, happy Opening Day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's only been the fiftieth person to tell me that.
Speaker 13: Ish.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing Ish.
Speaker 16: DV?
Speaker 6: What's going on? Man?
Speaker 2: How are you doing living the good life ish with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers haters gonna hate?
Speaker 6: I feel you, I feel you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, we're stoked.
Speaker 6: We just got back here with my brother Isaac, my
Speaker 6: sister Kanya, and we came to the opening day and
Speaker 6: it was amazing, dude, everything from top to bottom. We
Speaker 6: had an amazing time. And uh, did you like, Yeah,
Speaker 6: we did the fighter pilots that they are the fighter planes.
Speaker 13: That was pretty cool, man.
Speaker 6: We like feel it in your chest up, you know,
Speaker 6: flying over and all the music of course, seeing the
Speaker 6: team come out the blue carpet was pretty awesome. But
Speaker 6: you know, a lot of us too, we have a question,
Speaker 6: you know, in the pavilions as far as like the
Speaker 6: scoreboard that goes around the stadium, like you know, what's
Speaker 6: up with that is? Are they going to bring that back?
Speaker 2: Or you know, yeah, like bos the strikes, there was
Speaker 2: a shipping issue. Yeah, I guess the LED boards are
Speaker 2: are stuck on a ship in the Long Beach Port.
Speaker 2: There's like there was like a mother nature issue. There's
Speaker 2: a big storm, I guess. So yeah, the LEDs will
Speaker 2: be here. But yeah, they're coming back. They're just a
Speaker 2: little delayed thanks to mother nature.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, no, no, no, good good, Yeah, we'll be there.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you, DV.
Speaker 2: That's the big Hey, when you guys said you had
Speaker 2: a consensus question, that was it, like, hey, what's going
Speaker 2: on with the video boards around the stadium? That was
Speaker 2: the big think tank question amongst all of you.
Speaker 6: Yes, it was because like you know, you're you're there,
Speaker 6: you're having a good time, you're chatting it up, and
Speaker 6: you lose track of a ball strike here and there.
Speaker 6: So yeahund hey, that's legit.
Speaker 2: You guys are locked in. I appreciate that. Thanks for
Speaker 2: the phone call. Ish eight sixty six seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's when somebody your friend comes up
Speaker 2: to you and says, hey, I got something to tell you,
Speaker 2: and you're thinking, oh boy, this guy like crashed my
Speaker 2: car or this guy stole my money, and then all
Speaker 2: he tells you is, yeah, I forgot I forgot the
Speaker 2: six pack of modello back at home. You're like, that's it,
Speaker 2: that's all the problem is. That's what Ish was doing
Speaker 2: right there. I thought there was a real issue. Eight
Speaker 2: six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Levi. Hi, Levi, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: How you doing, Hey David, thank you so much for
Speaker 6: having us on.
Speaker 2: What a lot of group calls tonight? How you doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Well, those those are my boys, we Sam and Hank.
Speaker 10: It was their first opening day, so it's definitely a
Speaker 10: special night for our family.
Speaker 2: Take care of your dad, Take care of your dad
Speaker 2: for bringing you to opening day.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you. So we were dieiastic in that car.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 10: We're always having a good time. And we were very
Speaker 10: happy with for k W because he was a very
Speaker 10: a great caller and had great vibes.
Speaker 2: So we we like that, so try to do.
Speaker 9: I don't.
Speaker 10: I don't have that kind of energy. I'm an old Yeah, okay,
Speaker 10: we're working on we go. Okay, so pay I'm on
Speaker 10: the pa Hees bandwagon. We loved watching his kind of
Speaker 10: breakout season last year. We think back to the World
Speaker 10: Series with some regularity, with that catch in Game seven
Speaker 10: where he took out Kik. He's just an awesome player
Speaker 10: and we hope that this year is the year that
Speaker 10: he really gets a consistent year. Throughout the year, wondering
Speaker 10: what the what the scouting report is on him and
Speaker 10: what it's going to take to get him to stay
Speaker 10: consistent through the end of the year. Yeah, we don't
Speaker 10: want him to flame out.
Speaker 2: All right, He's not going to flame out. I feel
Speaker 2: like everybody's just holding on to him. Only having four
Speaker 2: hits in the postseason last year, but his regular season
Speaker 2: was really good for a rookie year. That's got him
Speaker 2: starting in center field for the World champions. His defense
Speaker 2: shaky the first couple of weeks of the season, but
Speaker 2: he put in a lot of work, got into a routine,
Speaker 2: and his offense took off once his defense settled in.
Speaker 2: So I don't believe Andy Paiez had a bad year
Speaker 2: last season. He just had, like many rookies, a struggle
Speaker 2: in the postseason. He only drew one walk last year
Speaker 2: during the postseason, only had four hits. But if you
Speaker 2: look at his regular season last year, it was really good.
Speaker 2: Twenty seven home runs, eighty six RBIs he hit two
Speaker 2: seventy two. The only thing you would love to see
Speaker 2: is for him to have a little bit more plate discipline.
Speaker 2: I mean, he did cost Emmanual class A and all
Speaker 2: those gamblers a lot of money with a ball that
Speaker 2: was way outside the strike zone in Cleveland that he
Speaker 2: swung at. Even his teammates give him a hard time
Speaker 2: for that. So I would say that's the only thing
Speaker 2: you would want out of Andy Paiez. But you don't
Speaker 2: want to take away the aggressiveness because that's what we
Speaker 2: say saw in the fifth inning tonight when he hit
Speaker 2: that hanging curveball from Zach Gallen. Dodgers beat Arizona tonight
Speaker 2: eight to two, a four run fifth inning, a four
Speaker 2: run seventh inning. Miguel Rojas got the start tonight at
Speaker 2: second base, his final opening day in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: He is retiring after the season ends, whether or not
Speaker 2: the Dodgers three pete or not, he is calling it
Speaker 2: a career. So it was great that Dave Roberts gave
Speaker 2: him the opening day start. And speaking of Miguel Rojas,
Speaker 2: he is going to join us this Saturday at the
Speaker 2: WSS and Boyle Heights from noon to one o'clock. I'll
Speaker 2: be hosting Dodger Talk from eleven to one this Saturday
Speaker 2: at WSS and Boyle Heights. The address is two seven
Speaker 2: one one East Olympic Boulevard. We'll have Dodger Talk from
Speaker 2: eleven to one. Miguel Rojas, World Series Hero will be
Speaker 2: taking photos from noon to one at the ws A
Speaker 2: Spoil Heights this Saturday. So we look forward to seeing
Speaker 2: you out there.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll get back to your phone calls in
Speaker 2: a moment, but we want to check in with Jose Mota,
Speaker 2: who called the game tonight on Dodgers Spanish Radio with
Speaker 2: Luis Cochito Cruz. I'm not going to say happy Opening Day, Jose.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to say it was a great night
Speaker 2: start to finish on opening night for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Dave, Happy Opening day to you, my friends. Stop it
Speaker 4: questioning you that. I'm not gonna stop it. I mean
Speaker 4: it's special, man, Come on, and you've been a part
Speaker 4: of it. No, I mean old joking, Happy opening Day.
Speaker 4: One thing that you noticed today, David, is this that
Speaker 4: Yo should know. We have a multun control, a deep lineup,
Speaker 4: and that is why as a starting picture for the Dodgers. Now,
Speaker 4: if you have a start first three innings, you want
Speaker 4: to be in the game as long as posble yes
Speaker 4: or no.
Speaker 2: Without a doubt with this offense, because you know they
Speaker 2: can come back and score.
Speaker 4: For you exactly anything. Yama malto. He take the fact
Speaker 4: that he threw twenty one pitches in the first inning
Speaker 4: and a couple of very interesting plays to me, and
Speaker 4: I'm before we talk about the offense. But Yamamoto has
Speaker 4: had a tendency going back to two years ago where
Speaker 4: he was not aware of runners at first base breaking early.
Speaker 4: He gave up seven stolen bases two years ago, and
Speaker 4: guys that broke before he even started going home. He
Speaker 4: was not aware. He was not aware of the game,
Speaker 4: the speed of the game in that respect where people
Speaker 4: are saying, hey, stamp by off throw the second base.
Speaker 4: He's out last year, halfway through the season. He got
Speaker 4: better today, Dave. In the first inning, he stepped off
Speaker 4: and got Predomant. That's an inning changer. Number two, Kyle
Speaker 4: Tucker defense again. That ball Predoma hits in that first
Speaker 4: inning down that line, that's double last year, maybe a
Speaker 4: triple for Perdomo. Kyle Tucker gets the line as he did,
Speaker 4: and he saw him sprink training and fires away. He's
Speaker 4: got the reputation, guys have told me when he goes
Speaker 4: to his left, guys really respect the fact that he
Speaker 4: can spin it, throw with the West and baseball, and
Speaker 4: that's how it all started. That's why run prevention becomes
Speaker 4: so important. We had the tough offense because obviously the
Speaker 4: offen is gonna come back, but keep those guys where
Speaker 4: they're at, and that's how the game got started.
Speaker 2: That's a great point. And even Dave Roberts when the
Speaker 2: Dodgers signed Kyle Tucker and had the press conference here
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium that day one, he challenged him to
Speaker 2: be a better outfielder, go back to being the outfield
Speaker 2: where we saw him in Houston, and Tucker in spring training,
Speaker 2: Jose even admitted, I gotta be better at jumping on
Speaker 2: those balls down the line and not let a single
Speaker 2: turn into a double. So that was a great example
Speaker 2: of that right away.
Speaker 4: I saw this guy make his debut against the angel
Speaker 4: for you know, for three or four years he just
Speaker 4: tortured Angels, picking on the outfield, playing that short fence,
Speaker 4: in the short wall and assistants in Houston. He played
Speaker 4: everything as good as anybody. Then you saw playing Anaheim,
Speaker 4: they played the same way. So uh, just be aware
Speaker 4: that this guy, as he mentioned, came with the objective
Speaker 4: getting better known. That not every eyesight is on him
Speaker 4: because the super start, but nonetheless there's that itch in
Speaker 4: that draft become great and I think he's in the
Speaker 4: white group, and today was a good start for him.
Speaker 2: When you look at this Dodger offense, what stood out
Speaker 2: to you the most about how they scored their eight
Speaker 2: runs tonight, I'm going to.
Speaker 4: Go to the fact that they put the ball in
Speaker 4: play a lot. Dodger struck out of told what four
Speaker 4: times today, That's number one. The deepest fact that we
Speaker 4: saw from the very first game in spring training against
Speaker 4: the Andels and Tempe and talking to tay oscar about this.
Speaker 4: Nave Roberts and pa is a member of that first game,
Speaker 4: and in Tempe they're like, that's part of what we
Speaker 4: want to do. It's not just the knowing that we
Speaker 4: all were power team, but we need to be better
Speaker 4: with two strikes. We need to be better with two outs.
Speaker 4: And they were great with two outs last year. But
Speaker 4: you think about all the pitches that they were able
Speaker 4: to spoil today, how they ran counts, why they're counts,
Speaker 4: and it all adds up to this deep lineup laid
Speaker 4: being able to guide you and kind of gauge you
Speaker 4: as a picture. I mean, as good as Gallon was going,
Speaker 4: you thought, well, at some point when they figure them out,
Speaker 4: it's going to happen. And there it was exactly what happened.
Speaker 4: But I gotta go give it to the guy who
Speaker 4: two strikes using the big part of the middle put
Speaker 4: the field going the other way too.
Speaker 2: I mean, we talk about some of these guys, and
Speaker 2: even Freddie Freeman said it before the game, so many
Speaker 2: of these Dodger hitters could hit third. You got Will
Speaker 2: Smith hitting fifty at three RBIs tonight, Pie Has who
Speaker 2: hit twenty seven home runs, hitting eighth how do pitchers
Speaker 2: navigate this offense? So say there's nowhere to exhale.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's the point in which you want to make.
Speaker 4: As a pictuer said, I'm going to be aggressive and
Speaker 4: get ahead of you. But the Dodgers are a team
Speaker 4: that if you if you noticed when things are going
Speaker 4: well and not necessarily discret which we haven't seen you
Speaker 4: know long enough, you have the big samplifize. But it's
Speaker 4: preaching that if you had number three hitter on your
Speaker 4: be the number three hitter in that spot, whatever it takes.
Speaker 4: But remember there's somebody behind and do the same. Don't
Speaker 4: carry it all on you. For pitchers and navigates for
Speaker 4: this day, the best thing is the quality for a
Speaker 4: strike is going to be imperative to neutralize them a
Speaker 4: little bit. Pitching inside is going to be very important
Speaker 4: to get him on their heels a little bit more.
Speaker 4: But it's same pitching inside nowadays is a has been lost.
Speaker 4: Guys can repeat inside. And these guys are so smart
Speaker 4: the patterns, what everything they see on the reports that
Speaker 4: sooner or later, as we saw today, they're going to
Speaker 4: make adjustments and lay off that tough bricket ball from
Speaker 4: both sides of the battle's box and be able to
Speaker 4: play the smallest baseball that eventually turns into bigger at
Speaker 4: bats as a different pie is here.
Speaker 2: Tonight when you look at the Diamondbacks bullpen construction, how
Speaker 2: do they not have a left handed, high leverage reliever
Speaker 2: when they play in the same division as the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: That is a glaring hole in their roster and their
Speaker 2: bullpen tonight.
Speaker 7: Is hard to believe.
Speaker 4: There's many lefties they could help them, guys that were
Speaker 4: label available. I'm gonna just say that perhaps Brian Kaplan believes,
Speaker 4: and my occasion obviously is a prisoner on baseball operations
Speaker 4: and the manager that they have enough bright handed pitchers
Speaker 4: they can go out and have, you know, split against
Speaker 4: right lefties. So we'll see how the players out. That
Speaker 4: was a big issue for the Dbacks. There was so
Speaker 4: many leaves last year and that was they probably there
Speaker 4: are only three games out of the wildcard last year,
Speaker 4: but the open was the biggest issue for them. So
Speaker 4: let's see how it all works all day. But they
Speaker 4: do you want to at least have the presence and
Speaker 4: give something to the other manager thinking about if you
Speaker 4: have a lefty, it doesn't have to be a super
Speaker 4: lefty that some of the leaf can come out there
Speaker 4: and just turn the lineup around and see what happens
Speaker 4: about fill the Dodgers, I don't think they care very
Speaker 4: much about who's available who's not, because considerable they probably
Speaker 4: are doing. How he's going to struct the lineup with
Speaker 4: consecutive lefties. It's like, this is what we have, and
Speaker 4: we have guys that can handle left as anieties, and
Speaker 4: whoever they have on the other side, they will make adjustments.
Speaker 2: All right, before I let you go, who's speaking of
Speaker 2: the bullpen? I know it was somewhat low leverage situations,
Speaker 2: but how big was it to get Blake Trining and
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott in this game tonight and for them to
Speaker 2: feel good about themselves when they went back to the dugout?
Speaker 4: Oh they don't. That's big. I mean for Tanner Scott
Speaker 4: to have the wipeout slider today, not just to put
Speaker 4: away guys, but for strike one on the weak swings
Speaker 4: that we saw, especially from a guy like Cordman Carroll.
Speaker 4: I was able to bury somebody on Perdomo and then
Speaker 4: get moreno to fly out. That's that's big. But strike one,
Speaker 4: don't get lazy, don't get like a basical with your
Speaker 4: finishing release, stay on top. And for you know, for
Speaker 4: Tenner Scott tonight, David, this is a safe situation. This
Speaker 4: is the mentality he told me he's going to have
Speaker 4: coming into the season. It doesn't matter what the score is,
Speaker 4: it's a safe situation. Glutton, just startle over again. And
Speaker 4: for Blake trying and it's curs set so nicely. Yes,
Speaker 4: lower am angled ninety seven which rutralizes guys diving into
Speaker 4: the Look for that sweeper on the right side and
Speaker 4: then that same ninety think on the outside middle out
Speaker 4: to lefty. It's gonna be one that's gonna douce a
Speaker 4: lot of soft contact, big starts for them, and they're
Speaker 4: gonna be very important for this ball time.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in. Can't
Speaker 2: wait to see you tomorrow night at the stadium for
Speaker 2: a ring ceremony night. That'll be special as well. So
Speaker 2: we'll check in with you after the game tomorrow as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, then go happy opener there he goes.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast and
Speaker 2: part of Opening Day for the Dodger players. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: social media team had both World Series trophies set up
Speaker 2: on their way into the dug into the clubhouse before
Speaker 2: the game. And how about this, sho Hey Otani gifted
Speaker 2: every player on the team valued four thousand dollars sake
Speaker 2: go watch with a note inside that said, let's three peete.
Speaker 2: A few players showed me theirs, and Miguel Rojas talked
Speaker 2: about it on the field, and Dave Roberts I guess
Speaker 2: also gifted a bottle of whiskey to his players as well.
Speaker 2: But how about Otani not only gifting the watch but
Speaker 2: also writing a note Let's go for the three peat.
Speaker 2: And that's what makes him so special. Not only does
Speaker 2: he continually push himself, but he's continually pushing his teammates
Speaker 2: with little messages like that and by his work ethic
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers certainly need that type of leader in
Speaker 2: that way to set the tone. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 2: beat Arizona tonight eight to two on Opening Night. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Jose who is at Opening Night tonight?
Speaker 2: How you doing, Jose, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Doing great.
Speaker 11: Thank you for having us first time long time, trying
Speaker 11: to keep the energy here as we still in the
Speaker 11: parking lot, trying to get out of the stadium. Nothing
Speaker 11: like first day, opening day at Dodger Stadium for civity.
Speaker 4: So just trying to keep the energy here in the
Speaker 4: car right everybody?
Speaker 2: Wow, another group phone call? How many? How many people
Speaker 2: you got in the car tonight? Hose. That's an expensive
Speaker 2: bill with all those people in your car.
Speaker 11: Oh, you have no idea and they like to see
Speaker 11: you too, so if but if we'll work it. We
Speaker 11: got to pay those that o' TNI contract out, so
Speaker 11: we don't mind doing our share.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is a special time to be
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium. They're not just games there events and
Speaker 2: today was certainly an event, definitely.
Speaker 11: And the other thing that I wanted to comment on
Speaker 11: is the actual game. It's nice to see the Dodgers
Speaker 11: put those crooked numbers out and then we're gonna have
Speaker 11: those those guns where it looked like they had a
Speaker 11: little bit of a slow start, but that's what I
Speaker 11: look forward to. At least on paper, it looks like we.
Speaker 4: Have that ability.
Speaker 11: I think you talked about it earlier, that long lineup
Speaker 11: having buckets at the bottom, of the lineup, I think
Speaker 11: is a luxury. So just being able to see this
Speaker 11: type of quality team and field on the on the
Speaker 11: product on the field is really nice to see and
Speaker 11: get behind. So it was good to see everybody come
Speaker 11: in pitch, just come in through their job and looking
Speaker 11: forward to a really good season and more of this
Speaker 11: to come.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt and ring ceremony tomorrow night. Jose, thanks
Speaker 2: a lot, and thanks to the family. They gotta treat
Speaker 2: you good the rest of the year. Thanks for the
Speaker 2: phone call. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. And opening days obviously stand
Speaker 2: out amongst other games during the regular season, and just
Speaker 2: this will be my fifteenth season hosting Dodger Talk, and
Speaker 2: there's two other opening days that really stand out amongst
Speaker 2: the others. I mean obviously starting the seasons in Korea
Speaker 2: and Tokyo or highlights, but here at Dodgers Stadium, going
Speaker 2: back to twenty thirteen Opening Day against at that time
Speaker 2: the defending San Francisco Giants. It was a scoreless time
Speaker 2: in the seventh or eighth inning and Clayton Kershaw was
Speaker 2: pitching a shutout and he hit a home run a
Speaker 2: straightaway center field, and this place exploded, and that was
Speaker 2: the difference in the game. They went on to score
Speaker 2: a few more runs in the later innings, but it
Speaker 2: was a scoreless tie, and he was pitching another Kershaw
Speaker 2: masterpiece with no run support, and he took it into
Speaker 2: his own hands with a home run to center field,
Speaker 2: which turned out to be his only career Major League
Speaker 2: home run. And the other one, like I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 2: was against these Diamondbacks back on March twenty ninth, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: I was looking at the highlights again this morning when
Speaker 2: I was at Blue Bottle and Woodland Hills. I was
Speaker 2: just trying to remember exactly how many home runs and
Speaker 2: how many runs they scored that day. They beat Arizona
Speaker 2: twelve to four. They beat Zach Grank, they hit eight
Speaker 2: home runs. Seeger hit one, Turner hit one, Keyky Hernandez
Speaker 2: and Jock Peterson each hit two. And I feel like
Speaker 2: this one is going to stand out as well. It
Speaker 2: was a memorable opening night here at the Let's go
Speaker 2: out to the mid Wiltshire area. Rob, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Rob?
Speaker 14: Excellent and kudos to Kersha, But really to talk about
Speaker 14: the three amigos, the Three Musketeers of radio. You gotta
Speaker 14: be gi him. A shout out to Rick Monday, Charlie Steiner,
Speaker 14: and Steve Nelson. I tell you Monday mo is just
Speaker 14: like a gem keeps coming back. Steiner he did just
Speaker 14: as good a job as he did last year in
Speaker 14: the opener. And I tell you Steve Nelson, I mean
Speaker 14: he paints with an acoustic paint brush, very vivid color
Speaker 14: of the game in radio. So you got a good
Speaker 14: team there, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Good team and great to have Charlie back. And when
Speaker 2: they say playing in pain, I don't think anybody played
Speaker 2: in more pain today than Charlie Steiner. And he still
Speaker 2: showed up and did a solid three innings today and
Speaker 2: it was great to have him back in the booth.
Speaker 2: And Rick Monday is the longest active tenured Dodger broadcaster.
Speaker 2: He took over in the booth the midway through the
Speaker 2: ninety three season and here he is in twenty twenty six. See,
Speaker 2: he definitely should be appreciated. And this year is the
Speaker 2: fiftieth anniversary of Rick Monday saving the American flag right
Speaker 2: here at Dodger Stadium. That anniversary is coming up at
Speaker 2: the end of April. Let's go out to Freddie. Who
Speaker 2: is that opening night? Hi Freddy? Is this a group
Speaker 2: call as well? Or is this just Freddy?
Speaker 11: Oh buddy, we're we'll home now now, but I will
Speaker 11: with My wife is from Japan and she loved it.
Speaker 4: That was my buddy Bruce and my buddy Rick. We're
Speaker 4: all retired to ups strivers and we love the game
Speaker 4: and there's nothing like being a Dodger stadium.
Speaker 9: And love all that you do.
Speaker 6: Dave and go Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for the phone call. Freddie will end
Speaker 2: it right there. It was a great hour of Dodger talk.
Speaker 2: Happy to be back. It's going to be a tremendous season,
Speaker 2: and more importantly, it's going to be an entertaining season.
Speaker 2: Tonight was just an opening act that is going to
Speaker 2: leave you wanting more each and every night. I truly
Speaker 2: believe that. And tomorrow Emmitt Shehan is going to be
Speaker 2: on the mound for the Dodgers going up against Ryan Nelson.
Speaker 2: Our coverage begins at six o'clock, first pitch at seven ten,
Speaker 2: and you can stream all the games on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: app if you're in the LA area. And also obviously
Speaker 2: listen right here on five to seventy LA Sports. Don't
Speaker 2: forget tomorrow. If you're coming to the game. Auto gates
Speaker 2: open at two point thirty because of the special pregame ceremony,
Speaker 2: the ring ceremony that has taking place before first pitch tomorrow,
Speaker 2: So it's kind of like Opening Day right with the
Speaker 2: pregame festivities and my guy, Brad Paisley is performing the
Speaker 2: national anthem. That's right, He's going to be out here,
Speaker 2: and Kershaw, we'll be back out here tomorrow, this time
Speaker 2: being celebrated as a member of the twenty five Dodgers,
Speaker 2: back to back World Series champion Dodgers, So we'll see
Speaker 2: him more in a casual attire than we saw him
Speaker 2: today in a suit and tie. I feel like the
Speaker 2: last time I saw him in a suit and tie, well,
Speaker 2: there were two other times, the White House trip last year,
Speaker 2: and when he first got drafted and he had a
Speaker 2: suit that was like two sizes too big. When he
Speaker 2: came out here with Logan White after he was drafted
Speaker 2: back back whatever year that was. Geez, it was so
Speaker 2: long ago. Anyway, it was great to see Kershaw, future
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. Awesome toess hopefully see him more around
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium this year because he means so much to
Speaker 2: this franchise, and I'm sure he's going to be around
Speaker 2: in some capacity or another. So kershaw Ring ceremony tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Brad Paisley performing the national anthem, and we'll have all
Speaker 2: of that coverage for you beginning beginning at six o'clock.
Speaker 2: Thanks to colling Ee back at our Burbank studios, Thanks
Speaker 2: to Dwayne McDonald out here at the ballpark, and thanks
Speaker 2: to you for listening. In case you missed any of
Speaker 2: the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 2: once again. The final score tonight the Dodgers on Opening
Speaker 2: Night defeat the Diamondbacks eight to two. Have a great
Speaker 2: rest of your night. Fox Sports Radio is next. See
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