Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Here we go again. Wegeta running back to get in on.
Speaker 1: The show called eight six six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 1: five seventy, and be sure to follow Dodger Talk wherever
Speaker 1: you catch your podcasts. Here's your host, David Vasse.
Speaker 3: Last thing, welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vasse with you until eleven thirty tonight after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to the Giants nine to three in Game
Speaker 2: one of this four game series. We have phone lines
Speaker 2: open at eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota will join us in about fifteen to twenty
Speaker 2: minutes to get his perspective on what we saw tonight
Speaker 2: and what we've been seeing recently from this Dodger offense
Speaker 2: with all of a sudden now has scored three or
Speaker 2: less runs in what is it now three or less
Speaker 2: runs and thirteen of their last twenty two games since
Speaker 2: winning fifteen of their first nineteen games to begin the season.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are nine and thirteen since.
Speaker 2: April eighteenth, So this is not just a one or
Speaker 2: two game issue. This is an issue since April eighteenth,
Speaker 2: where the Dodgers are four games under five hundred and
Speaker 2: now have lost three in a row and for the
Speaker 2: first time since two thousand and eight, the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: lost three in a row by five or more runs.
Speaker 2: That is shocking and that's the reality right now. And
Speaker 2: for me, the Dodgers are very fortunate to be in
Speaker 2: just second place right now coming into the game tonight,
Speaker 2: tied for first place, but for me, very fortunate to
Speaker 2: be where they're at in the standings with the way
Speaker 2: their offense has gone recently. And for me, I know
Speaker 2: the Dogs have this self confidence that is going to
Speaker 2: prove to help them throughout the year and as they
Speaker 2: get into October, because they're going to be there.
Speaker 3: But for me, right now on May eleventh.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have got to show a little more urgency.
Speaker 2: There just doesn't seem to be a lot of urgency
Speaker 2: right now from a lot of guys, and the feeling
Speaker 2: that we'll just get out of this okay, yeah, probably,
Speaker 2: but will you if there's no urgency? I mean, I've
Speaker 2: heard a lot of teams that on paper look fantastic
Speaker 2: and they keep saying tomorrow, wait until tomorrow, we'll get
Speaker 2: out of this. And the Dodgers, you know, finished the
Speaker 2: second half of last year in a slump. They hit
Speaker 2: two oh three in the World Series. They homer their
Speaker 2: way to a Game seven championship, and the pitching and
Speaker 2: the defense and the key hits proved to help them
Speaker 2: in the NLDN When ta Oscar Hernandez hit a big
Speaker 2: three run home run in the eighth inning of Game
Speaker 2: one against Christopher Sanchez, Oh, I know you forgot about
Speaker 2: that because you're too busy bearing ta Oscar Hernandez. But
Speaker 2: if it wasn't for Tioscar Hernandez in the NLDS, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers don't even get to the NLCS.
Speaker 3: So let's not forget that.
Speaker 2: And let's not forget what Taoscar Hernandez did for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in twenty four as well.
Speaker 3: And I like that Dave Roberts sent a message. He
Speaker 3: sent a.
Speaker 2: Message by where he hit Taoscar Hernandez tonight hitting eighth,
Speaker 2: and I like that. Ta Oscar Hernandez responded to the challenge.
Speaker 2: He didn't sulk. He didn't dog it. He actually took
Speaker 2: his game to the next level tonight. On the very
Speaker 2: first batter of the game, Jung Hu Lee sent what
Speaker 2: would have been extra bases to left field and Taoscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez robbed him. And also later in the game, ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez was able to make a diving stop. He
Speaker 2: trapped the ball, but he made a diving stop of
Speaker 2: what would have been extra bases. So kudos to Taoscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez for responding to the challenge of hitting eighth tonight,
Speaker 2: and he doubled. And he's been in a slump as well.
Speaker 2: It's not just Otani. There's other guys in this lineup,
Speaker 2: like Kyle Tucker and Taoscar Hernandez, and you know, there's
Speaker 2: a few others, but those are the first two that
Speaker 2: come to mind. Will Smith is getting his hits, but
Speaker 2: he's not really driving the ball. So there's been guys
Speaker 2: outside of Otani. But Taioscar Hernandez got his first extra
Speaker 2: base hit tonight for the first time since April twenty first,
Speaker 2: when the Dodgers were playing the Giants in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: That's how long it's been since the power hitting Taoscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez has had an extra base hit. So the Dodgers
Speaker 2: to me, just need to play with more urgency. They're
Speaker 2: putting in the work. I mean, you see the guys
Speaker 2: out here, they're putting in the work defensively in the cage,
Speaker 2: out here, in the cage, no doubt, but it just
Speaker 2: feels like there's got to.
Speaker 3: Be a little more urgency.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Max Monsey has been, to me, the
Speaker 2: best player the Dodgers have had from opening Day to
Speaker 2: where we're at May eleventh, defensively and offensively, and tonight
Speaker 2: he drove in two of the three Dodger runs after
Speaker 2: hitting his eleventh home run of the year to tie
Speaker 2: the game leading off the sixth inning, played magnificent defense
Speaker 2: again and hit his twenty seventh career home run against
Speaker 2: the Giants tonight. He's got to be public enemy number
Speaker 2: one in San Francisco since he's put on a Dodger
Speaker 2: uniform because Muncie has the third most home runs against
Speaker 2: the Giants of any other active player. The only two
Speaker 2: active players that have hit more home runs against the
Speaker 2: Giants are Paul Goldschmidt, and Nolan Aernauto Aeronauto with thirty
Speaker 2: four gold Schmid with thirty two, months Sy with twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Let's head downstairs right now to hear from Monthsy on
Speaker 2: sports and at LA.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like we said, actually we're in a funk right
Speaker 4: now and it's it's a team white thing. You need
Speaker 4: to try to find the positives out of it for
Speaker 4: you know, for that situation we are. We are creating
Speaker 4: situations where we can have good things happen. We're it's
Speaker 4: not getting you know, a hit here or there, so
Speaker 4: you know, you try to like I said, you try
Speaker 4: that with positives. We are creating situations. We just weren't
Speaker 4: a funk at cash.
Speaker 5: On Men, do you guys as a group or just
Speaker 5: maybe the veterans of this clubhouse, do you guys come
Speaker 5: together in a time like this right now to kind
Speaker 5: of figure things out or just obviously you are so
Speaker 5: talented and you know who you are. But are there
Speaker 5: conversations happening behind closed doors amongst you all?
Speaker 4: There's a lot of conversations happening. Yeah, you know where
Speaker 4: You're not taking this lightly right now, but you know,
Speaker 4: we also understand it is one sixty two and you know,
Speaker 4: we've gone through stretches like this in the past, and
Speaker 4: we've also gone through good stretches, and so it's just
Speaker 4: you know, we're we're having a lot of conversations, but
Speaker 4: it's also trying not to overreact to something.
Speaker 6: Still early in May, like you said, you guys kind
Speaker 6: of had a stretch that this last year and said,
Speaker 6: how did you guys have to break out of that
Speaker 6: and what sort of a sort of taken that possible
Speaker 6: to bring into this situation?
Speaker 4: MEA, I just have to keep your head clear, you know.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's easy to dwell on the negative things
Speaker 4: that are happening, especially in baseball. This is a very
Speaker 4: hard support and there are gonna be a lot of
Speaker 4: bad things that happen, but you you just have to
Speaker 4: show up each day and keep moving on. And you know,
Speaker 4: g have to trust who you are, trusting, trusting the team,
Speaker 4: trusting the process. And uh, you know, it's something that
Speaker 4: we've harped on a lot over the years, and you
Speaker 4: know we're gonna keep doing that and not fully understand
Speaker 4: we are going to come out of this.
Speaker 7: Is there been any disconnected you know, creating.
Speaker 5: The opportunities versus then coming to the plate like in
Speaker 5: those situations that you've noticed.
Speaker 3: You know, the.
Speaker 4: Hard thing about when you're going through a fune click
Speaker 4: bus as a team is you know, you get these
Speaker 4: situations and you want to do something big instead of
Speaker 4: just keeping it simple. And I think all of us
Speaker 4: up and down are kind of in that spot right now,
Speaker 4: and we just need to simplify things and not trying
Speaker 4: to do too much when it's I want to talk
Speaker 4: turning the box.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Max Munsey after the Dodgers fall to
Speaker 2: the Giants tonight nine to three, And just to put
Speaker 2: it into perspective, the Giants have been spiraling downwards with
Speaker 2: the way their season has gone, with the inexperienced college
Speaker 2: coach Tony Vaytello making the transition into major league baseball
Speaker 2: having issues even making pitching changes. The Giants offense has
Speaker 2: been well below major league average and some of the
Speaker 2: biggest categories you have to have their last and runs scored,
Speaker 2: their lasting home runs hit. Even with Raphael Dever hitting
Speaker 2: his fifth home run of the year, they've only hit
Speaker 2: twenty six home runs this year and their OPS is
Speaker 2: six point fifty three, which is twenty ninth out of
Speaker 2: thirty teams and then they come into La game one
Speaker 2: of this four game series and score nine runs, and
Speaker 2: it was uncharacteristic. You're not gonna see many nights, if
Speaker 2: anymore this year where Alex Vesia loads the bases and
Speaker 2: then forces in a run. So you're not really gonna
Speaker 2: see that. That was so uncharacteristic of Vessia, but nonetheless
Speaker 2: it happened.
Speaker 3: And Roki Sasaki tonight.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this in the Clubhouse show, but I'll say this,
Speaker 2: his last two starts have probably been his two best
Speaker 2: starts of the season. But there's good, bad, and ugly
Speaker 2: and a lot of these starts, and I think it
Speaker 2: says something that in five of the Sasaki starts they've been.
Speaker 3: Over three hours.
Speaker 2: Five out of rokie seven starts this year, the game
Speaker 2: teams have taken over three hours. In a league where
Speaker 2: the average is just about two thirty eight. That means
Speaker 2: he's not thrown a lot of strikes, He's thrown a
Speaker 2: lot of pitches and short amount of innings. Tonight five
Speaker 2: plus innings and he threw ninety one pitches. So that's
Speaker 2: just an indication of you know, yes, he teases you
Speaker 2: to believe that it's gonna go in the right direction
Speaker 2: the next start. But then you know there's things that
Speaker 2: happened that unravel like they did in the sixth Inning.
Speaker 2: But his stuff was really good tonight, There's no doubt
Speaker 2: about that. Eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the Giants tonight,
Speaker 2: nine to three. Let's go out to the phones. Noah
Speaker 2: in Downy, one of my favorite cities. Now Noah hundaiy Downy,
Speaker 2: Downy Hyundai, and now Noah in Downey.
Speaker 3: Colin.
Speaker 7: Yees, sir, he, I just want to come in here
Speaker 7: and say all the these like I know what you're
Speaker 7: saying about, all the people talking about Tay Oscar and
Speaker 7: the offensive struggles, but there would be no Ti Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 8: I mean, there would be no back to back World
Speaker 8: Series champions without the Oscar Hernandez. And there is no
Speaker 8: back to back World Series without Max Munsey and all
Speaker 8: these guys like they're gonna come through. And championships aren't
Speaker 8: won in May, they're one in October. So I just
Speaker 8: want to come in here and say that, all.
Speaker 2: Right, thank you for reminding us of that, Noah, championships
Speaker 2: are not one in May, You're right, they're not as
Speaker 2: far as Monthsy goes. He's a three time World Series champion,
Speaker 2: and nobody's taking shots at months anymore, even though at
Speaker 2: this time last year there were a lot of monthsI
Speaker 2: haters out there. Andy Paez, by the way, along with
Speaker 2: Max Munsey, have been the two best players in my
Speaker 2: estimation to begin this year offensively and defensively. But when
Speaker 2: the Dodgers had a rally in the fourth inning, bases
Speaker 2: loaded and nobody out, Andy pie has did what baseball
Speaker 2: players will do from time to time, broke his bat
Speaker 2: and grounded into a double play. Yes, a run score,
Speaker 2: but it kind of took the steam out of that inning,
Speaker 2: and quite frankly, over the course of the last ten games,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are grounding into way too many double plays.
Speaker 2: I believe Rick Monday quoted the stat of about twelve
Speaker 2: double plays the Dodgers have grounded into in the last week.
Speaker 2: That is not going to sustain rallies. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Mission Viejo. Bill, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing.
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 9: He just mentioned what I was going to bring up
Speaker 9: about the double play ball. It only scored the run
Speaker 9: on the double play and then the one run before that.
Speaker 9: I was also going to mention that this is the
Speaker 9: same Giant pitching staff that gave up thirteen runs to
Speaker 9: the Pirates two days ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: That's why it's even more confounding that the Dodgers got
Speaker 2: beat nine to three tonight.
Speaker 9: Right, And I just hopefully that you know, they'll saw
Speaker 9: Hawser will be a breakthrough them. He's zero and four.
Speaker 9: I hope he's he might be like another.
Speaker 2: One Bill coming into this series. You know, on paper,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers should sweep the Giants. Maybe the only game
Speaker 2: the Giants should win in this series is the one
Speaker 2: that Robbie rays starting on Wednesday night. But he's going
Speaker 2: up against Otani, so you know, I know Howser is winless.
Speaker 2: I know his ERA is almost seven. But let's see
Speaker 2: these guys do it tomorrow night.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that would be great.
Speaker 3: All right, Bill, thank you for the phone call. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The guy the Dodgers are facing tomorrow Adriane Hawser, a
Speaker 2: right hander the Dodgers should do some damage against. He's
Speaker 2: owing four with an ERA of six nineteen and Yamamoto's
Speaker 2: on the mound for the Dodgers tomorrow night. So on paper,
Speaker 2: like tonight, the Dodgers should have won, and Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: said after the game tonight that Otani may or may
Speaker 2: not hit on Wednesday night. He's not going to hit
Speaker 2: either Wednesday or the day after his start on Thursday.
Speaker 2: And when the Dodgers lined up Otani starts for Wednesday.
Speaker 2: The first six weeks of the season, Thursday was an
Speaker 2: off day. But this is the middle of thirteen in
Speaker 2: a row. This is a four game series, so Thursday
Speaker 2: is not an off day now. If it's up to me,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have tried this by not allowing Otani to
Speaker 2: hit on the days that he's pitching. I'm going with Otani.
Speaker 2: I'm going outside the box here. I'm going Otani hits
Speaker 2: on Wednesday night. I would have Mookie Bets leadoff. I
Speaker 2: would have show Aotani hitting cleanup, and then on Thursday,
Speaker 2: I would give Otani the recovery day and not allow
Speaker 2: him to DH and have Mooki in the leadoff spot again.
Speaker 2: And now that Mookie's back, the Dodgers have one of
Speaker 2: the best leadoff hitters over the course of the last
Speaker 2: thirty years back in their lineup. So he hit second tonight.
Speaker 2: He's hit lead off the majority of his career. I
Speaker 2: think that for me would be the direction to go.
Speaker 2: But I'm not the manager. But that's my hot take tonight.
Speaker 2: That's as hot as it's getting. Let's go out to Shamsey.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David Vasse.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Shamsy.
Speaker 10: I'm doing all right, Dave? How are you?
Speaker 9: I mean.
Speaker 3: I've been better.
Speaker 2: I mean the Lakers got swept by the thunder tonight
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers lost to the Giants. So LA Sports
Speaker 2: has been in a better state of affairs on a
Speaker 2: night like tonight.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Absolutely. I was at the game, and you know, it
Speaker 10: was fun till it wasn't. I just I agree completely
Speaker 10: with your assession of lack of urgency. I was like,
Speaker 10: I felt like they didn't care that we were playing
Speaker 10: our biggest rival, even if they're in a spiral. It's
Speaker 10: the Giants. You gotta show up, show out. That's the
Speaker 10: whole point.
Speaker 3: You don't remember.
Speaker 10: And my phone from my friends up in the bay.
Speaker 8: So that's not fun.
Speaker 2: No, that's not fun at all for your personal life.
Speaker 2: Of course, the Dodgers have to keep that in mind.
Speaker 2: Champsy's gonna get some trash talk now. And don't forget
Speaker 2: last year the Angels beat the Dodgers all six times
Speaker 2: they faced each other. So these teams, like the Giants
Speaker 2: and Angels are getting up for the Dodgers, and there's
Speaker 2: gotta be a little bit more urgency. I know they
Speaker 2: want to play it cool. Were the back to back champs.
Speaker 2: This doesn't mean as much to us as it means
Speaker 2: to you, but still a little bit more urgency would
Speaker 2: be nice.
Speaker 10: Yeah, especially next monthly. I felt like, because he's just
Speaker 10: got that in his heart of never hate the Giants,
Speaker 10: you know, he plays with that. But the other guys,
Speaker 10: I don't know, maybe they should catch some of his anger.
Speaker 3: Hey, Tao had it tonight. Tao had it tonight.
Speaker 10: Tao absolutely hatty. I was so proud of him.
Speaker 8: I was really proud of Tao.
Speaker 10: I hopefully they'll they'll take.
Speaker 8: It back up the rest of the series.
Speaker 10: It's the first game of so we'll see how it goes,
Speaker 10: all right.
Speaker 2: I demand, I demand the Dodgers to turn this three
Speaker 2: game losing streak into a three game winning streak to
Speaker 2: close out this homestand and I demand them to sweep
Speaker 2: the Angels.
Speaker 3: How about that? Shams I am.
Speaker 2: Demanding a six game winning streak starting tomorrow night.
Speaker 10: I think that's a great I think that's that's a
Speaker 10: perfectly reasonable demand.
Speaker 8: I think you're totally in the rail.
Speaker 2: No, lest I appreciate that I am the most reasonable
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Speaker 3: When we continue on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: We'll check in with Jose Mota as the Dodgers fall
Speaker 2: to the Giants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can you believe it? Believe this?
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Speaker 3: Two pitch slatted high in the year to left field.
Speaker 3: This ball is.
Speaker 11: Back and it has gone Max Monsey tie is the
Speaker 11: game of a solo home run leading off the sixth
Speaker 11: Here is eleventh of the year, and once again we
Speaker 11: got a new ballgame.
Speaker 2: Things were looking good right there with Max Munsey delivering
Speaker 2: his team leading eleventh home run of the year, but
Speaker 2: the Dodgers we give up three runs in the seventh
Speaker 2: inning and three more in the ninth inning, and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to the Giants tonight, nine to three. Williadomas
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Speaker 2: hits just his fifth home run of the season that
Speaker 2: was leading off the second inning off of Roki Sasaki,
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with host.
Speaker 3: All right, Jose Mota, where do you want to start?
Speaker 3: Do you want to start?
Speaker 2: In that fourth inning, it felt like the Dodgers had
Speaker 2: something cooking for the first time in a while, and
Speaker 2: then that double play put some cold water on it.
Speaker 2: Do you want to start with Roki Sasaki? Or do
Speaker 2: you want to start with the Giants all of a
Speaker 2: sudden deciding to play baseball?
Speaker 6: Let's start work, rookie. What do you have?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I feel like there's the good, the bad, and the
Speaker 2: ugly with him more than most pitchers. But I do
Speaker 2: believe that this was an outing where he had pretty
Speaker 2: good stuff, and the last two starts have been encouraging.
Speaker 3: Do you feel the same way.
Speaker 6: I feel the same way. Encouraging, yes, But nonetheless, at
Speaker 6: the big league level, there's gotta be that one pitch
Speaker 6: that you make. There's got to be this one sequence day.
Speaker 6: But you speak about so clearly pretty much in this
Speaker 6: show a lot that you gotta feel comfortable with, and
Speaker 6: it seems like if we talk about sequence scene with
Speaker 6: such hockey, it's like we don't know what is the
Speaker 6: sequence with him. And one thing that I texted you
Speaker 6: during the game was against Elliot Robbins. It is a
Speaker 6: perfect chance for you to have something going sideways. As
Speaker 6: a hitter in the big leagues, you have such an
Speaker 6: advantage where you know that nothing's gonna beat you going
Speaker 6: middle away or middle away down. And that's what Romo's knew.
Speaker 6: And I text you, I'm like, that would have been
Speaker 6: a perfect situation, just to have a slider that at
Speaker 6: least he can show off the play to get him
Speaker 6: the chase, and Ramos knows that he doesn't have that,
Speaker 6: and those sequences that those are things that you get
Speaker 6: to practice in your bullpens to bring into a game.
Speaker 6: Throw the confidence and practice enough to get tired of it.
Speaker 6: We can actually command it and throw it at the
Speaker 6: ball or throw it to strike one of the worst offenses.
Speaker 6: So they looked really good because they're able to sit
Speaker 6: on pitches and hit mistakes and stay in the group.
Speaker 6: Now by being selected to in Waukee, so many people
Speaker 6: that the transit, you know, traffic on the basis was
Speaker 6: pretty much NonStop throw the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: Sasaki was limiting damage twice with the bases loaded. Vesia
Speaker 2: walked in a run with the bases loaded. Will Klein
Speaker 2: couldn't get out of that bases loaded jam.
Speaker 3: You're right.
Speaker 2: There was just so much traffic out there tonight. And
Speaker 2: you know when you talk about having something that goes sideways,
Speaker 2: pitchers have told me with this abs, now you gotta
Speaker 2: have something that goes east to west.
Speaker 3: If you're a pitcher with this strike zone.
Speaker 6: It's a mousta. I mean going back to you know,
Speaker 6: Yoshinoma y Alamalta his first season with the Dodgers. You
Speaker 6: know he had to implement it, and that in fact,
Speaker 6: he was a little bit of afraid to throw it
Speaker 6: because of Japan. When he threw the slider, he actually
Speaker 6: got hurt, you know, for a little bit. But it's
Speaker 6: a pitch at a this level. If you're that polity pitcher,
Speaker 6: I don't care if you throw ninety seven ninety eight.
Speaker 6: If he have enough command, you can get away maybe
Speaker 6: with two and a half pictures. Tot's say, but you
Speaker 6: need three pitches from got On Tiksaki because he does
Speaker 6: not have the command. A lot of times he doesn't
Speaker 6: throw the bullet commction. It's part of the gold you know,
Speaker 6: growing up in the big leagues, But that's changed a
Speaker 6: whole lot, including the high fastball. And nonetheless, as you
Speaker 6: hear from pitchers, and I heard it from pictures going
Speaker 6: through the Model leagues and going through the system, yes,
Speaker 6: east to west, it's important to have those chases in
Speaker 6: those swings to get guys off the north south path
Speaker 6: because it's so much easier to hit that way.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers fall to
Speaker 2: the Giants ninety three in Game one of this four
Speaker 2: game series.
Speaker 3: Now, I know the offensive struggles.
Speaker 2: Are not all on show Heyo Tani, But as a
Speaker 2: caller said yesterday, Jose, he's the head of the snake.
Speaker 3: He's the leadoff hitter.
Speaker 2: He's the guy that changes the dynamics of the entire game.
Speaker 2: If he's not going, how does this Dodger offense get going.
Speaker 2: Does Mookie Bets hitting second kind of give you two
Speaker 2: leadoff hitters, what's the dynamic?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 6: I think with show hey, it wouldn't be a bast
Speaker 6: thing to move him down BOOKI is the very experienced
Speaker 6: leadoff guy. Discussed one batting title, MVP's batting first, Mookie's
Speaker 6: not even good to look at anything differently than just
Speaker 6: doing my job. Mookie is and for show here, you
Speaker 6: gotta do something different, you know, to help him out,
Speaker 6: to make sure that at least he can see more
Speaker 6: pitches before he goes up to the bad because right
Speaker 6: now things are happening so fast. When you see show, hey,
Speaker 6: where the foul balls are a good indicator, not even
Speaker 6: good foul balls? Rolling over so much, swinging and missing
Speaker 6: so much. He is helping pictures a whole lot. And
Speaker 6: this's a funk. I mean, there's something he's going through.
Speaker 6: Hitters go through this. It's not just such a show him,
Speaker 6: but he's a very important part of this whole deal
Speaker 6: because he's the leadoff guy and with him, the threat
Speaker 6: of power is there. Hitting a mistake is there. He's
Speaker 6: not hitting the strikes right now because everything is so offshot.
Speaker 6: But mentally, I think even watching him hit VP today
Speaker 6: on the field, it was like, Okay, what was the plan?
Speaker 6: I mean, was it putting on the show to hit
Speaker 6: on runs or was it something else?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: He pretty much just did not take very many good
Speaker 6: swings up throughout the game, and I think overall, when
Speaker 6: you can throw how big he is and you he
Speaker 6: had Mookie back, something's need to be considered.
Speaker 3: Where are you at with Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: It's starting to look like he's starting to hit the ball,
Speaker 2: getting hits, but the power still isn't there. What do
Speaker 2: you see from Kyle Tucker to make us believe that
Speaker 2: the guy the Dodgers thought they were getting is going
Speaker 2: to show up soon?
Speaker 6: I think the guy that we're seeing right now is
Speaker 6: a guy that's still to me, from what I see,
Speaker 6: he's trying to do a whole lot, wayful than he's
Speaker 6: supposed to be doing.
Speaker 11: That.
Speaker 6: Kyle Tucker that we saw in spring training was taking
Speaker 6: his walks, working counts and funding something good to hit
Speaker 6: and driving the baseball. We're not seeing that right now.
Speaker 6: It's still coming around the baseball a whole lot, which
Speaker 6: is his typical swing. But he's done that in his
Speaker 6: career because he knows his swing paths so well. Then
Speaker 6: now he recognizes with pictures he can do that with.
Speaker 6: But now it's like he's trying so much. He's going
Speaker 6: from the inside to the sinker away to the bricking
Speaker 6: balls down with the same swing and it's not productive.
Speaker 6: We've seeing that happen. You know, a lot of easy
Speaker 6: at bats. When I say easy at bats is when
Speaker 6: a guy streeting you up and you're buying in to
Speaker 6: his rhythm. You gotta control the batter's box a little
Speaker 6: bit better, and it goes for a whole team. Buff
Speaker 6: Tucker himself, we see the easy outs both off the
Speaker 6: end of that and the first pits that you sell
Speaker 6: you he's not swinging at the right pitch and you're thinking,
Speaker 6: I gotta go out there and do some bants. Usually
Speaker 6: it happens in the first pitch, and it's not happening
Speaker 6: because now pitchers know that zero zero. You don't have
Speaker 6: to make a good pitch to try to get him
Speaker 6: out because he's putting his own little bit too much
Speaker 6: either at the label or at the end of the bat.
Speaker 6: But we need to see him get back to his
Speaker 6: working counts because he's a much better headwind does that.
Speaker 2: It would be nice to see the Dodgers score first
Speaker 2: tomorrow night, because that has not been something that we've
Speaker 2: seen a lot of this year.
Speaker 3: Jose.
Speaker 2: When you look at the Dodgers, they are at the
Speaker 2: quarter way mark of the season, their forty first game
Speaker 2: of the year and they they haven't scored the first run.
Speaker 2: The opponent has scored the first run twenty three times
Speaker 2: this year. Hopefully they could change that trend, because I
Speaker 2: feel like that's put them behind the eight ball a
Speaker 2: few different times.
Speaker 6: Yes, David, and let's go back to the real basics.
Speaker 6: Is today, for example, you got a man at second base,
Speaker 6: nobody out hiss i' kim. You got to see the job.
Speaker 6: You have to get the guy over. And Dave Roberts
Speaker 6: wasted no time in saying something to him and to
Speaker 6: talk about which is what needs to happen. You know what,
Speaker 6: at times like this day, guys hitting the cage and
Speaker 6: they hit way too much sometimes trying to get out
Speaker 6: of this fund right, it will not be a bad
Speaker 6: idea to say, you know what, everybody comes up to
Speaker 6: be p tomorrow. All they do is take the proper swings,
Speaker 6: play situational games. Everybody go inside. No more swinging, because
Speaker 6: swinging more in the cage you're not going to get
Speaker 6: it done. You're in the month of May. But I
Speaker 6: think we've just in the amount of swings and have
Speaker 6: more quality. I will say, even time, you know, out
Speaker 6: in the field to see the background, how the most traveling.
Speaker 6: It could be very productive, but you've got to make
Speaker 6: a little fun sometimes with the guy, just to break
Speaker 6: them all a little bit, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow night. And on demanding the
Speaker 2: beginning of a six game winning streak starting tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: so be ready.
Speaker 6: Make this a playoff series. Got to win the next three.
Speaker 6: About that.
Speaker 3: I love that, Jose. We'll check in with you tomorrow.
Speaker 6: You got it.
Speaker 2: There, he goes Jose Mota part of the Dodgers Spanish
Speaker 2: radio broadcast, and we want to send out our condolences,
Speaker 2: speaking of that, to the family of Renee Cottoness, who
Speaker 2: was part of the Dodgers Spanish booth with Jimi Haren
Speaker 2: in the eighties and was part of it as I
Speaker 2: was growing up in the eighties in the early nineties.
Speaker 2: So he passed away at the age of ninety six
Speaker 2: in his home in Houston. So we want to send
Speaker 2: out our condolences to the family of Renee Cottonas who
Speaker 2: was part of the Dodger family for a long time.
Speaker 2: So our thoughts are out there with him and his family.
Speaker 2: And you know, Jose brought up a good thing when
Speaker 2: it comes to the Dodgers offense, and it's something you've
Speaker 2: heard players talk about over the course of the last
Speaker 2: two weeks, situational hitting. Kim is the number nine hitter.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers decided to option Alex Freeland today and keep
Speaker 2: Kim here. They obviously thought Kim out played Freeland and
Speaker 2: they wanted Freeland to play every day. That's why Santiago
Speaker 2: Espinalo is still on the bench and probably will be
Speaker 2: until Keik Hernandez returns. But Kim's gotta be able to
Speaker 2: do the situational things because Alex Freeland was very capable
Speaker 2: of laying down a bunt when he saw the third
Speaker 2: basement back or if the Dodgers needed to advance runners
Speaker 2: into scoring position. Kim's gotta be that guy too. He's
Speaker 2: just got to be. If he's not, then the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have Alex Freeland at Triple A because that's still door.
Speaker 2: That door still is not closed just because Freeland was
Speaker 2: sent down this time. If Kim's not able to do
Speaker 2: the situational things hitting ninth, the Dodgers are are gonna
Speaker 2: look at Rojas to get more everyday playing time, or
Speaker 2: bringing back Alex Freeland. That's the bottom line eight six
Speaker 2: six nine seven two five seventies the phone number. Have
Speaker 2: no idea why I'm giving out the numbers since we're
Speaker 2: wrapping things up tomorrow.
Speaker 3: It's ice Cube Bobblehead night, and.
Speaker 2: Ice Cube is expected to join us tomorrow night on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk, so you will hear that conversation with yours
Speaker 2: truly and ice Cube, who is definitely an icon, not
Speaker 2: only in LA but across the country. Yamamoto is going
Speaker 2: to be on the mound for the Dodgers, going up
Speaker 2: against right hander Adrian Houser. Our coverage begins at six o'clock,
Speaker 2: first pitch at seven to ten, and Tomorrow night, the
Speaker 2: first game of a six game winning streak to close
Speaker 2: out this week before the Dodgers head to San Diego.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 2: Thanks to Colony back at our Burbank Studios, thanks to
Speaker 2: Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to
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Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to the Giants nine to three.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you tomorrow.
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