Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
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Speaker 3: David vasselas Day.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk. David vasse with you until eleven
Speaker 2: thirty tonight, taking your phone calls at eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy. After the Dodgers blow
Speaker 2: out the Rockies fifteen to six, and it wasn't even
Speaker 2: that close. I'll keep saying that because it wasn't. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers allowed five runs in the ninth inning because Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas was on the mound. I'm not even going to
Speaker 2: say he was pitching, because he was on the mound
Speaker 2: trying not to get hurt. And you know, I'll just
Speaker 2: say this this is under the category of kind of nitpicking,
Speaker 2: but kind of you know, one of those things that
Speaker 2: you know could have been avoided. Why not Jonathan Hernandez
Speaker 2: going back out there. Why not Paul Gervas just coming in.
Speaker 2: There's an off day on Thursday. You don't need to
Speaker 2: put a guy that you almost took out of the
Speaker 2: game yesterday because he was hit by the pitch on
Speaker 2: his left leg and was limping around kind of today
Speaker 2: and limping around a little bit playing tonight. No need
Speaker 2: to put him on the mound, even if he is
Speaker 2: just soft tossing. You have the lead fifteen to one.
Speaker 2: I understand saving the bullpen, but Jonathan Hernandez can't go
Speaker 2: back out there against the Rockies to throw twenty pitches
Speaker 2: at the worst. You already had to get Paul Gervas up,
Speaker 2: So why not just have Paul Gervas pitch the ninth inning.
Speaker 2: That's better than just warming up in the bullpen and
Speaker 2: never coming into the game. So I'll just say that
Speaker 2: and leave it there, because it was a great night
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers in a lot of ways, but in
Speaker 2: some other ways it wasn't so great because two guys
Speaker 2: kind of got hurt. One definitely got hurt, another one
Speaker 2: that is your starting pitcher and the best player on
Speaker 2: the planet. Got hit on his pitching hand tonight and
Speaker 2: that show, Hey Otani. Otani got hit on the right
Speaker 2: hand in the fourth inning. Luckily it wasn't a fastball,
Speaker 2: it was an eighty five change up. And Otani wears
Speaker 2: a handguard on his pitching hand when he's hitting. And
Speaker 2: the reason why it sounded so loud here at Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium is because it hit that And obviously even though
Speaker 2: it hits it there, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt
Speaker 2: or couldn't bruise it. But if it's going to hit anywhere,
Speaker 2: that's the place that you wanted to hit. And that's
Speaker 2: the good news for the Dodgers. And we'll get to
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts and what he had to say about taking
Speaker 2: Otani out. He is going to pitch tomorrow, but we'll
Speaker 2: let Dave Roberts explain that as well. Eric Lower the
Speaker 2: good news makes his first start as a Dodger go
Speaker 2: six innings, allows just one earn run, through a lot
Speaker 2: of fastballs and through more curveballs than he ever has
Speaker 2: in a start or game this year. Threw nineteen curveballs.
Speaker 2: And if you were listening to the show last night,
Speaker 2: Mark Pryor explained to us, that's what the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: looking to tweak his pitch mix off his fastball, and
Speaker 2: obviously the answer tonight was throwing more curveballs. And he
Speaker 2: threw more curveballs tonight than he had all season long,
Speaker 2: nineteen curveballs. So that was good. But obviously the bad
Speaker 2: news is Keith a Hernandez, who just returned last night,
Speaker 2: looked great, look energized, had two hits last night, had
Speaker 2: two hits tonight, including a home run in the third
Speaker 2: inning and in the fourth inning, and that's where we
Speaker 2: really saw the win sing from key K. Turns out
Speaker 2: he has a left oblique string. FABI and Ar Daya
Speaker 2: of the Athletic was among the reporters asking key K questions,
Speaker 2: and we appreciate him sending us this audio.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I tweaked at the MVP yesterday and.
Speaker 5: That was pretty embarrassed about it.
Speaker 4: I had to talk to you guys right after I
Speaker 4: hit and tell you guys that I was paying free.
Speaker 4: At the time, I thought it was just weird tightness.
Speaker 4: Never done oblique before, so I didn't really know what
Speaker 4: I was feeling. Kim in today, I wasn't feeling great.
Speaker 4: I got treatment, but I thought I could play homer
Speaker 4: swing felt awful, and then next to that I went
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 5: I swung miss on the first pitch and.
Speaker 4: Of grade, and after that I went into survival mode,
Speaker 4: and uh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, doesn't feel great.
Speaker 4: I don't I've never done in a league, like I said,
Speaker 4: so I don't really know how bad it is, so
Speaker 4: we'll find out more.
Speaker 6: I would imagine it's pretty disappointing, especially it's probably right back,
Speaker 6: but how what sort of the emotion has been like
Speaker 6: the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: Or.
Speaker 4: Frustrating to say the least, you know, just to be
Speaker 4: able to.
Speaker 5: You know, not just because I missed time, but you know,
Speaker 5: me coming back, got somebody off the roster.
Speaker 4: And those type of things, and I was only able
Speaker 4: to give the team four bats.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tough prove.
Speaker 4: I feel pretty defeated right now, and hopefully we get somewhat.
Speaker 7: Good news after everything you've been through. Is it car
Speaker 7: to kind of turn off that survival mode when you
Speaker 7: feel something like that, to stop yourself and going wait now,
Speaker 7: I just I need to step back here for a second.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, that's kind of what I did today.
Speaker 4: Any other any other year, I would have at least
Speaker 4: try to finish the game.
Speaker 5: But I knew that, you know what I did.
Speaker 4: I've done in the past when I was with the
Speaker 4: Red Saux going through my core injury last year with
Speaker 4: my elbow, I just I keep going through the things
Speaker 4: and I make things a lot worse. So today it
Speaker 4: was one of those games that I felt like, if
Speaker 4: I kept going, I was probably gonna really really put
Speaker 4: myself in danger of missing the rest.
Speaker 5: Of the season. So I just told him that I
Speaker 5: couldn't go anywhere.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Keith k Hernandez, and certainly you could
Speaker 2: understand the disappointment, the frustration and as he described it,
Speaker 2: defeated after restraining his left oblique, having to leave the
Speaker 2: game after just returning to the Dodgers yesterday, and he
Speaker 2: was referencing Santiago Espinal being designated for assignment after making
Speaker 2: the opening day roster because of key K still coming
Speaker 2: back from that left elbow surgery. So the Dodgers now
Speaker 2: have ten days to I guess hope that Espinal clears
Speaker 2: waivers and hopefully they can get him back and he
Speaker 2: can be part of the roster again. In the meantime,
Speaker 2: who takes key K spot on the roster probably Alex
Speaker 2: Friedland at this point in time, that would be my
Speaker 2: first guest. But really the story is the disappointment we
Speaker 2: all have for keyk Hernandez that after coming back and
Speaker 2: being four for four to start the season, he has
Speaker 2: to leave the game with a left oblique string. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. We'll get to Mookie Betts, we'll get to
Speaker 2: Andy Pajez. Jose Moto will check in at eleven fifteen.
Speaker 2: You'll also hear from Evan Phillips, who has taking another
Speaker 2: bit step to returning to the Dodger bullpen. So we'll
Speaker 2: hear from Evan Phillips as well. But like I said,
Speaker 2: show hey O'tani also taken out of this game early
Speaker 2: as a precautionary measure considering he is starting tomorrow's game,
Speaker 2: and he was hit on his right pitching hand where
Speaker 2: that right protector is eighty five change up. So all
Speaker 2: things considered, the Dodgers may have dodged a bullet right there.
Speaker 2: But let's hear from manager Dave Roberts about Otani. It's good.
Speaker 8: I think a little bit it got him on the
Speaker 8: hand or the pad, but I think it clipped his
Speaker 8: pinky a little bit, but I think we're in a
Speaker 8: good spot. I think for me, I just wanted to,
Speaker 8: you know, we had a good lead, get Dalton some
Speaker 8: couple of bats, and then get show Hey off his
Speaker 8: feet to get ready for tomorrow's start. He is going
Speaker 8: to start tomorrow. I just haven't decided yet if he's
Speaker 8: going to hit. I just want to kind of make
Speaker 8: sure how he comes in and physically I feels, because
Speaker 8: you know, want to make sure he feels really good,
Speaker 8: you know, on the pitching side of things.
Speaker 5: Did he get any change.
Speaker 8: Us sure, Hey, No, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 7: Is there anything that you'll need to check with the
Speaker 7: hand tomorrow?
Speaker 8: No, I think it graised the hand. I think it
Speaker 8: hit more on the pad, but I know he was
Speaker 8: shaking his pinky. But I don't think we need X rays.
Speaker 8: We didn't get X rays, so I think he'll be
Speaker 8: good to go as far as the hand.
Speaker 2: All right, there's manager Dave Roberts, so obviously a big
Speaker 2: sigh of relief that Otani did not get hurt as
Speaker 2: he was hit by an eighty five change up on
Speaker 2: that right hand padding eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Last night we
Speaker 2: talked about Mookie Betts and how I said Kenny Landro,
Speaker 2: the former Dodger center fielder and a guy that played
Speaker 2: a long time in the big leagues, reminded me that
Speaker 2: you got to get Mookie Bets at least one hundred
Speaker 2: to one hundred and fifty at bats to judge his
Speaker 2: season and whether or not he needs to make some
Speaker 2: serious adjustments. I will say this, and I said this
Speaker 2: last night. It's tough to do that hitting seconds. So
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts moved him down in the order to the
Speaker 2: cleanup spot. That's where Mooki hit by the way in
Speaker 2: Game six and Game seven of last year's World Series.
Speaker 2: So it's not like this is the first time in
Speaker 2: a long time where he's been hitting fourth. And in
Speaker 2: this day and age of baseball, your cleanup hitter is
Speaker 2: not your traditional cleanup hitter. It's not Dave Parker, it's
Speaker 2: not Dave Winfield. You could have guys like Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: hitting fourth. And Andy Pajez was moved up to the
Speaker 2: second spot, and he delivered four hits. He had two
Speaker 2: doubles and a home run, one of five home runs
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. Mookie two home runs, five RBIs and look,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm not gonna say this was you know, Zach
Speaker 2: Wheeler that Mookie Bets was facing or Trek Skouball tonight.
Speaker 2: But it's still gives him confidence and he still got
Speaker 2: the results. You can't take that away from him. And
Speaker 2: that's the biggest thing for Mookie Bets. He needs to
Speaker 2: get back into baseball shape, but he also has to
Speaker 2: keep his confidence up when he sees that batting average
Speaker 2: up on every scoreboard that he goes to these days.
Speaker 2: So for me, that's the biggest thing to take away
Speaker 2: from tonight's game. For Mookie Bets, it's just another part
Speaker 2: of the process of him getting into baseball shape tonight.
Speaker 2: And two home runs and five RBIs is certainly going
Speaker 2: to help the confidence and we'll see where it goes
Speaker 2: from here. But like I said, get the guy at
Speaker 2: least one hundred to one hundred and fifty at bats
Speaker 2: before you start, you know, going and saying that this
Speaker 2: guy's on the decline, his his career's over. There's six
Speaker 2: more years left, one hundred and eighty million dollars left
Speaker 2: of this A one ninety hitter, I mean he only has.
Speaker 2: Even with tonight at bats, he deserves the benefit of
Speaker 2: the doubt. He had a great spring training. He missed
Speaker 2: almost five weeks with a strained rhyd o league strain,
Speaker 2: So come on, give this guy a break right here,
Speaker 2: and tonight was a good way to remind people how
Speaker 2: good he is. And he was this close in the
Speaker 2: seventh inning in hitting his third home run. And in
Speaker 2: case you don't know this, Mookie Beds is tied with
Speaker 2: Sammy Sosa, and uh, who's the other guy, Dwayne Johnny Mice?
Speaker 2: How gont I forget Johnny Mice. He's tied with Sammy
Speaker 2: Sosa and Johnny Mize for the most three homer games
Speaker 2: in Major league history. And in Anaheim, I told Mookie
Speaker 2: until he hits another or has another three homer game,
Speaker 2: I'm not retiring. I'm still holding out hope. David Price says,
Speaker 2: you have one more three homer game you and I'm
Speaker 2: still I'm not retiring until you get it. Mookie, all right,
Speaker 2: I won't either.
Speaker 5: I'll make sure we give me one more.
Speaker 2: And tonight he almost gave me that one more. He's
Speaker 2: Sammy Sosa and of course Johnny Maize with six three
Speaker 2: homer games in their major league careers. One more of
Speaker 2: those games, maybe ten more feet from Mookie beds tonight,
Speaker 2: he would have had seven three home run games in
Speaker 2: his career. So if Mookie would have hit that third
Speaker 2: home run tonight, I wouldn't be here tomorrow. So he
Speaker 2: wants me back tomorrow. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Lewis and east Vale. You're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 2: David vasse Hi Lewis.
Speaker 9: Hey, what's up dvday?
Speaker 2: Man, I'm doing good. Can't be bad when you know
Speaker 2: you see the Rockies and then you see the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I mean I could be doing Rocky Talk and that
Speaker 2: would not make my life good.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, that would be a role right now. But
Speaker 9: like you said with Mooky, hey, maybe secured advice and
Speaker 9: talk to Reggie Smith, because man, he was looking great today.
Speaker 2: I hope he did talk to Reggie Smith. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure he did, but he's got so many resources and
Speaker 2: the hitting coaches are great, but sometimes somebody else that
Speaker 2: you respect, that have has done it at a high
Speaker 2: level before can help you out too. I mean, Nomar
Speaker 2: was here again during batting practice. If I'm Mookie Beds
Speaker 2: and I'm not feeling great, you know, I'm tapping into Nomar.
Speaker 2: You know. No mar can can help you out too
Speaker 2: if you're any Dodger. But there's so many great resources
Speaker 2: when you play for the Dodgers. That's what makes it
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, the guys that are around batting practice every day,
Speaker 2: the guys that come through like Reggie Smith last night.
Speaker 2: That's that's the advantage of being a Dodger if you
Speaker 2: tap into it.
Speaker 9: Right and also too, on top of that lowerd knowing prior.
Speaker 9: So that's pretty cool that I have that kind of
Speaker 9: relationship as well. But yeah, the Dodgers organization is just
Speaker 9: top tier from top to bottom, coaches and staff and everybody.
Speaker 2: But no doubt, yeah, Dodgers do. I'm not just saying this.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are head and shoulders above everybody else in
Speaker 2: every category in Major League Baseball. And you just look
Speaker 2: at these other teams and what they're running out there
Speaker 2: and how they handle things. I mean, it's it's evident
Speaker 2: why there's so much jealous and envy out there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's located right, Like you said, you could be
Speaker 9: doing a Rockies talk right now, but that's not you.
Speaker 2: Fortunately, don't give them ideas. They might send me over there,
Speaker 2: Lewis if they don't like what I say.
Speaker 9: No, yeah, but I digress man. Yeah, this is definitely
Speaker 9: a get right game for the whole team. You know,
Speaker 9: the good lookie Will Paez, the bad obviously with Keik
Speaker 9: and the big strains, so you know he might be
Speaker 9: out for a little while maybe, but you know that's
Speaker 9: I mean, probably need Keiky Moore in October than anything else.
Speaker 9: But yeah, and then the ugly like you said, I
Speaker 9: kind of didn't like Rojas as you know, closing pitcher,
Speaker 9: sort of say that was uncalled for. But at least
Speaker 9: a er Carro's got to see his son home run
Speaker 9: on off of him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's seen that a few times. Kyle Caro says,
Speaker 2: three career home runs, they're all against the Dodgers. So
Speaker 2: there you go, Lewis, And thanks for being a loyal listener.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Rockies fifteen
Speaker 2: to six. The Padres lost again, so with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: winning eleven of their last thirteen, including four in a row.
Speaker 2: They now have a three and a half game lead
Speaker 2: over San Diego in the NL West. Tonight's game brought
Speaker 2: to you by Modello Modello the Mark of a Fighter.
Speaker 2: By the way, we do have a pair of tickets
Speaker 2: to give away for this Friday Nights game, which is
Speaker 2: Alex Vesia Bobblehead Nights. So we'll give away those pair
Speaker 2: of tickets between now and eleven thirty. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Oceanside. Steve, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 10: Steve, Hey, David, excuse me, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 10: A lifelong Dodger fan, longtime listener, first time caller. What
Speaker 10: I wanted to ask you about is the concept the
Speaker 10: theory of using a position player in a ballout game
Speaker 10: like this to pitch. I get the idea of saving
Speaker 10: the arms and the bullpen. That makes total sense. But
Speaker 10: why the slow motion lobbing. I mean, these guys throw
Speaker 10: harder to each other in warm ups before the game.
Speaker 10: What is the advantage or the purpose of that?
Speaker 2: Well. Number one, Miguel Rojas is thirty seven years old.
Speaker 2: He was hit by a pitch yesterday and stayed in
Speaker 2: the game. Gutted it out because he was hurting pretty bad,
Speaker 2: and this afternoon and during the game, you know, he
Speaker 2: wasn't walking around pain free. I'm sure today. So that's
Speaker 2: my whole point of tonight on two fronts. Why even
Speaker 2: put Rojas in that situation considering just his age, the
Speaker 2: miles and also the fact that you almost took him
Speaker 2: out of the game last night because he got hit
Speaker 2: by a pitch. And then you know, you just have
Speaker 2: Jonathan Hernandez. You're telling me Jonathan Hernandez can't go back
Speaker 2: out there for another inning. I mean, it's the Rockies.
Speaker 2: And then you had to warm up Paul Gervais, so
Speaker 2: that defeated the whole purpose of having Rojas out there,
Speaker 2: and it almost turned into a fifteen to ten game.
Speaker 2: If that ball that was hit to right field, Sullivan's
Speaker 2: ball is another twenty five feet, then we're talking about
Speaker 2: a Grand Slam. How does that make everybody feel in
Speaker 2: the stadium if that happens. I just when you have
Speaker 2: the lead, just put the final nail in the coffin,
Speaker 2: especially with a day off on Thursday, and Paul Gervas
Speaker 2: and Jonathan Hernandez are not your high leverage relievers.
Speaker 10: I mean, I was floating high. And then in the
Speaker 10: nineteen eighty I'm thinking, what is going on here? But
Speaker 10: didn't we see the same thing from the Rockies and
Speaker 10: a position player?
Speaker 2: Just yeah, the Rockies put in a position player because
Speaker 2: they're the Rockies. They should put in a position player.
Speaker 2: They were losing fifteen to one. I could understand that,
Speaker 2: But for me, uh, like I said, it's in the
Speaker 2: Nippick category. Ish, But I you know, the Dodgers won
Speaker 2: fifteen to six, So I'm not gonna harp on this, Steve,
Speaker 2: But yeah, I thought it was weird. I would not
Speaker 2: have done it. Thank you for the phone call. I
Speaker 2: don't know what to say. I'm not like, look, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to harp on this. I'm not. I've I've
Speaker 2: said my piece on it. Okay, that's it. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: won fifteen to six. This goes back to the category
Speaker 2: of realizing where you are. We are on this side
Speaker 2: of things. Back to back World Series champions. Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: won three World Series. The Dodgers have a three and
Speaker 2: a half game lead in the NL West. They are
Speaker 2: still not hitting on all cylinders. Like I said, we
Speaker 2: could be talking about the Rockies. We could be talking
Speaker 2: about I don't know even the Guardians. You think I
Speaker 2: want to do Cleveland Guardian Talk. No, this is the
Speaker 2: best show because this team is really good and has
Speaker 2: given back to back World Series championships. Just because I
Speaker 2: may question a move or disagree with the move doesn't
Speaker 2: mean that you know things are completely awful. And I
Speaker 2: think sometimes you're spoiled as well, especially a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago when the Dodgers were playing five hundred ball
Speaker 2: and everybody thought the sky was falling. I mean, really,
Speaker 2: look at the Dodgers now, they've won a les of
Speaker 2: their last thirteen. Everything is okay. It could be a
Speaker 2: lot worse, That's all I'm saying. I could be doing
Speaker 2: Mets Talk right now. I think that would be worse
Speaker 2: than doing Rockies Talk. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. We're gonna take
Speaker 2: a time out. When we come back, we'll we'll get
Speaker 2: to Jose Mota at eleven fifteen. You'll hear from Evan Phillips.
Speaker 2: We still have a pair of tickets to give away
Speaker 2: to Alex Vesia Bobblehead Night on Friday, and certainly want
Speaker 2: to talk about Andy po Has, who had another big
Speaker 2: game tonight. And speaking of the Padres, remember last Saturday
Speaker 2: night how the Dodgers beat Mason Miller and the Padres
Speaker 2: and then went on to beat them Sunday. Well, it
Speaker 2: all started with Alex Call at first base forcing an
Speaker 2: Aaron throw by Mason Miller. You'll hear from Alex Call
Speaker 2: and what he has to say a week later about
Speaker 2: that pivot play in San Diego eight sixty six nine
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Speaker 11: O two pitch who swung out, hitting the air at
Speaker 11: the center field and DP. He's got McCarthy turned around,
Speaker 11: he's back.
Speaker 2: To the wall.
Speaker 1: It's gone a hard run for Mokey Bets.
Speaker 11: He's dancing around second base, leaping and pumping his fist
Speaker 11: between second and third. Dodgers with a two nothing laid
Speaker 11: Mookie Bets home run number five.
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets a two out, two run home run and
Speaker 2: the first inning, he was feeling good. Eighty nine fastball
Speaker 2: from Kyle Freeland, who has had a nightmare of a
Speaker 2: season this year for the Rockies. Freeland takes his sixth
Speaker 2: loss of the year. His era now has balloon to
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Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Gotta give some love to
Speaker 2: Andy pa has four hits tonight, tiga career high. He
Speaker 2: drove in three runs, he scored three times, he had
Speaker 2: two doubles, and and he hit another home run. All
Speaker 2: in all, Andy Pahz is having an all star caliber
Speaker 2: first half. I don't see any way how Andy pah
Speaker 2: Haz shouldn't be starting in center field for the National
Speaker 2: League in Philadelphia this year. He now has forty nine
Speaker 2: RBIs And yes, that's a big stat because the name
Speaker 2: of the game is to score more runs than your opponent,
Speaker 2: and when you drive in runs like Andy pah Haz
Speaker 2: has from the seven hole, from the three hole, from
Speaker 2: the four hole, and tonight from the two hole, it
Speaker 2: matters forty nine RBIs, which leads the National League. So
Speaker 2: all of your favorite National League All Stars, they don't
Speaker 2: have forty nine RBIs. Andy Pahz has forty nine RBIs.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine, eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to ephrin in Long Beach.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, ephrin?
Speaker 10: How you doing?
Speaker 12: I want great Glenn, real quick, and I want to
Speaker 12: talk to you a little bit about our current starting
Speaker 12: pitching and see if there was any update on the
Speaker 12: glass now situation. I know he had some backspasms and
Speaker 12: tall guy problems and he calls it. So I was
Speaker 12: wondering when we're gonna be expecting him back, and do
Speaker 12: you foresee us who do you foresee us dropping from
Speaker 12: our current starting pitching rotation for.
Speaker 2: That, thanks geezy friend. That's a long ways away. I
Speaker 2: don't see him coming back anytime soon. He's just barely
Speaker 2: playing catch. And the longer that he was out, the
Speaker 2: longer it's going to take to build back up. Even
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts conceded he's going to have to go out
Speaker 2: on a rehab assignment before he even comes back. So,
Speaker 2: you know, everybody was freaking out when Snell was about
Speaker 2: to come back. Who's out of the rotation? Is it Chee?
Speaker 12: Hen?
Speaker 2: Is it Rokie? Where's Roki going? Well, it turned out
Speaker 2: Snell made one start and then glass Now got hurt
Speaker 2: as well, so the Dodgers never had to make that
Speaker 2: tough decision. So I'm not gonna sit here and say
Speaker 2: who's the odd man out when glass Now returns, because
Speaker 2: I think we've all found out that a lot can
Speaker 2: happen between now and then. Let's go out to Diego
Speaker 2: and Boil Heights. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse
Speaker 2: Hi Diego, Hey, Dave, can you hear me?
Speaker 13: I can, Hey, Dave, Thanks for taking Thanks for taking
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Speaker 13: you know, calm down a little bit, give the boy
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Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 13: We won three World Seriess in the last five years.
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Speaker 13: you said, you hit it on the head earlier. We
Speaker 13: could be angel fans, we could be mess fans, or
Speaker 13: we spend millions and millions of dollars and our team
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Speaker 14: Man.
Speaker 13: I played baseball and I understand it's a hard game.
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Speaker 13: after the game, they don't get worried. They just flipped
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Speaker 13: have when I'm watching them.
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Speaker 9: You, Dave.
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Speaker 2: Let's go out to see me Valley, Ben, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. How you doing Ben?
Speaker 15: Hey, David Banks for taking my call. Man, The vibes
Speaker 15: are high on the show tonight. Congrats to Diego for
Speaker 15: winning those tickets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, vibes are high. Ben, w what do you got
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 15: Yeah, man, uh, I was just wondering about Keith k Hernandez,
Speaker 15: you know, since he might be looking like he's gonna
Speaker 15: miss some time. I was wondering who who you think
Speaker 15: is gonna, uh, you know, take his spot on the
Speaker 15: on the roster.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be Alex Freeland. Alex Freeland is going to
Speaker 2: take his spot.
Speaker 15: Ben, Okay, Yeah, that's what I thought. I think that's
Speaker 15: a that's a good call, you know, good prospect in
Speaker 15: the system, and he needs some more opportunity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, right now, he's that guy. He's an infielder.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers need another infielder, and look, he may take
Speaker 2: some playing time away from Haysung Kim because Kim has
Speaker 2: not been hitting the ball that well. So he's insurance
Speaker 2: at third base. He could play short and second as well.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, Ben, appreciate it. Eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Rockies fifteen to six, and before the
Speaker 2: game I had a chance to interview Alex call. He
Speaker 2: was our pregame guest. To hear the full interview, you
Speaker 2: could find it on the Dodger Talk channel on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. But I'm I was curious a week later
Speaker 2: what Alex call was reflecting on as far as that
Speaker 2: key play last Saturday night against Mason Miller where he
Speaker 2: strayed a little too far off first base. You know,
Speaker 2: obviously he was going on first move, he saw something
Speaker 2: that told him to go, and then he froze. When
Speaker 2: Miller threw over to first space, Errantle and ty Frantz,
Speaker 2: the first baseman couldn't catch it, and Call and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were off to the races. Changed the complexion of
Speaker 2: the game. So here's what Alex call I had to
Speaker 2: say a week later about that sequence of events.
Speaker 6: I mean, I was obviously, you know, if he makes
Speaker 6: a good throw, I'm going to be in a pickle there.
Speaker 6: And the odds are never literally right, Yeah, the odds
Speaker 6: are never favorable.
Speaker 2: But here's the deal.
Speaker 6: You know, against you know, one of the best pitchers
Speaker 6: in the game who's been electric, had a ton of success,
Speaker 6: and nobody's really.
Speaker 2: Had success off of him.
Speaker 6: We got a guy on base with one out, and
Speaker 6: the bottom line is, how are we going to find
Speaker 6: a way to How are we going to find a
Speaker 6: way to score a run? So getting those extra ninety
Speaker 6: feet in a situation where we've had scouted looks, we
Speaker 6: know what he looks like, we know what he does,
Speaker 6: we know what his tendencies are. But that's just the information.
Speaker 6: The information is is the information. You trust it, but
Speaker 6: no information is one hundred percent. So I trusted my eyes,
Speaker 6: I trusted the read of what we had, and I
Speaker 6: went with it.
Speaker 2: And it didn't.
Speaker 6: You know, something happened that we weren't expecting. But hey,
Speaker 6: he would throw an air and throw and we were
Speaker 6: trying to, you know, not force the issue, but hey,
Speaker 6: we're trying to win the game. We're trying to win
Speaker 6: the game.
Speaker 2: We're trying to catch them off balance.
Speaker 6: And maybe that was just enough for him to get
Speaker 6: off balance and got over to third base and then
Speaker 6: Andy had a great at bat and be able to
Speaker 6: get the sackfly. So, you know, it's a calculated risk. Obviously,
Speaker 6: you never want to get picked off, but in a
Speaker 6: situation where hey, that ninety feet matters, we're gonna have
Speaker 6: a tough time putting a few hits together on this guy.
Speaker 2: Anyway, you know, let's go for it.
Speaker 6: And so then you just trust the data, trust your eyes,
Speaker 6: and Luckily it worked out.
Speaker 2: I love it Alex Call explain that whole sequence of
Speaker 2: events last Saturday night in San Diego when the Dodgers
Speaker 2: came from behind to beat Mason Miller and the Padres,
Speaker 2: And since then the Padres have been in somewhat of
Speaker 2: a tail spin, considering now they've lost three in a
Speaker 2: row after losing two out of three to the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and that game changed the complexion of that series. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Pandres were tied at four going into the
Speaker 2: ninth inning, with Mason Miller on the mound, Alex Call
Speaker 2: trying to force the issue. Obviously it wasn't the smoothest
Speaker 2: of plays, but certainly you just heard the line of
Speaker 2: thinking from Call right there. And we don't know what
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are seeing from pictures as far as what
Speaker 2: tips or keys they have when they believe they're going
Speaker 2: to the play or if they're coming over the first base.
Speaker 2: Obviously Alex Call thought he saw something. But Mason Miller
Speaker 2: threw over and he froze right there instead of going
Speaker 2: straight to second base, and I think Alex called freezing
Speaker 2: right there kind of threw Miller off and kind of
Speaker 2: threw a slider over to ty Franz who who couldn't
Speaker 2: really grab it. But yeah, that was a that's one
Speaker 2: of those games moments that you're going to remember. You know,
Speaker 2: all these regular season games in October don't mean as much.
Speaker 2: You know, people forget about what took place in May
Speaker 2: and June and even July. But a situation like that,
Speaker 2: I think we'll all remember that sequence of events when
Speaker 2: you look back on the regular season. And it changed.
Speaker 2: It made Mason Miller look human. The Dodgers were different
Speaker 2: against Mason Miller. They weren't chasing his sliders outside of
Speaker 2: the strike zone during that series in San Diego, and
Speaker 2: you know, it looked like Miller got a little flustered
Speaker 2: at times with the way the Dodgers were so patient
Speaker 2: and not chasing. And that's what makes them one of
Speaker 2: the best offenses top to bottom in the main in
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, not only the National League, but in
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. So that that was that was a
Speaker 2: play that I was curious about, and I certainly wanted
Speaker 2: to follow up with Alex call about it eight six
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota an eventful night here at Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium in a fifteen to six win. Let's start with
Speaker 2: kek Hernandez. Obviously disappointing not only that he hurt himself,
Speaker 2: but that he hurt himself in batting practice yesterday and
Speaker 2: never really said hey, I can't go, And obviously what
Speaker 2: happened the last two nights was the result of that.
Speaker 14: Yes, unfortunately, they've been there before and it's one of
Speaker 14: those times in which you feel bad number one for
Speaker 14: your team, number two because you miss so much time
Speaker 14: and returning, and number three because because of you you
Speaker 14: actually had some But he get you know, designateter for
Speaker 14: assignment in Santio Westpinal. So it's one of those things
Speaker 14: where you you're not rushing anything. Kick. It took his time,
Speaker 14: everything that needed to be done for him to get
Speaker 14: ready and to perform and to help the team was done.
Speaker 14: There's nothing you can say about that. In terms of
Speaker 14: your body, you know, getting a little bit older, more miles,
Speaker 14: things like that, tweaking something. The way you're swinging now
Speaker 14: and not having that freedom, I would say, to even
Speaker 14: swing about the way he did since last October, it's hard.
Speaker 14: I mean, there's nothing you can do. But I mean,
Speaker 14: for sure, a big loss and the way he's swinging
Speaker 14: about is he's going to be missed. But they would
Speaker 14: go once again, Dave conversation. Depths reigned with the Dodgers
Speaker 14: has been forever, and that's for another guy.
Speaker 2: At least. It was good to see Max Munsey out
Speaker 2: there in the ninth inning because yesterday he wasn't throwing
Speaker 2: across the diamond. Today he was. Today he took betting
Speaker 2: practice and he got a ground ball. I guess even
Speaker 2: in that situation, the game will find you. He got
Speaker 2: a ground ball and he made a pretty good throw
Speaker 2: at the first base.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you're right seeing Max out there earlier today, saw
Speaker 14: him throw yesterday, as you mentioned, limited today with more freedom.
Speaker 14: The bats swing was much better today too. And to
Speaker 14: be thrown out there because of the situation today, well,
Speaker 14: let's sometimes I'll baseball answer those questions. You just never
Speaker 14: know what's going to find you, or the ball or
Speaker 14: the situation to come in and say, you know, there's
Speaker 14: no time to think if I'm ready or not. If
Speaker 14: I pronounce myself that I don't need to go in
Speaker 14: the il and every image he showed that, then it's
Speaker 14: Maximunsey's time. So glad to know that. When we saw
Speaker 14: him get hit by Ashby and Milwaukee, we thought the
Speaker 14: worst right away. But to see him on the field
Speaker 14: again swinging about today the way he didn't vp and throwing,
Speaker 14: it's quite encouraging.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, what do you take away from Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets and the two home runs tonight?
Speaker 14: Jose, Hey, Mookie the pull ball hitter. That's what we
Speaker 14: want to see, Dave, isn't it. That's when we know
Speaker 14: that it's there. We know that when the barrel is
Speaker 14: not dropping and he goes right to the baseball, it's
Speaker 14: got a lot of carry. The Mookie Bets that uses
Speaker 14: the big out of the field to begin with, gets
Speaker 14: a lot of backspin. That ball that he hit the
Speaker 14: second one, he actually was upset. He thought he just
Speaker 14: didn't get enough of it. But if you want to
Speaker 14: swing and the replay from the side he was just
Speaker 14: threw the zone in and out so nicely that the
Speaker 14: ball got enough spin to get it out there and
Speaker 14: get it up, you know, out of the reach of
Speaker 14: the left fielder and centerfielder. But it's so encouraging in
Speaker 14: so many ways. As you know, Dave, his confidence is
Speaker 14: the main thing that you worry about Muki Bez. He's
Speaker 14: so honest and clear about when he's not helping the team,
Speaker 14: how bad he feels. He is working his tailoff. He's
Speaker 14: adjusted some things when even with his routines swinging more,
Speaker 14: swinging less, swinging less is better for him right now.
Speaker 14: But there's a guy that you think, if you think
Speaker 14: about two moves that Dave Roberts made today and he
Speaker 14: had done this before. He moves Booking at number four
Speaker 14: and he moves Pies the number two. It paid off nicely,
Speaker 14: and the one he'd done before actually paid off two
Speaker 14: when he moved Tucker down number four when he was scuffling,
Speaker 14: and you know, the situations found him and he was
Speaker 14: a better ball club, better team. But for Mookie, I mean,
Speaker 14: just get him going somehow, because when he does good
Speaker 14: things also great things happen for this ball club.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm glad you brought up Paz because a
Speaker 2: lot of times guys will move from seven to four
Speaker 2: to two and just because they're hitting second, they change things.
Speaker 2: How good was it to see Paz just be Piz
Speaker 2: even though he was hitting behind Otani tonight.
Speaker 14: It's a sign, Dave, and you've see Nandi developed through
Speaker 14: the good and bad. I mean, but it's a sign
Speaker 14: to me of just understanding that you're just who you are.
Speaker 14: Don't get cut up and who's hitting in front of you,
Speaker 14: who's behind you. You only do that in situations. You
Speaker 14: only pike that, and you have to use baseball IRQ
Speaker 14: and baseball smarts in different situations, thinking along with your
Speaker 14: manager and with the other manager. But in terms of
Speaker 14: you yourself, you don't have to expand his own anymore.
Speaker 14: You don't have to try to carry a team. No,
Speaker 14: none of that matters. It's just you playing your game.
Speaker 14: And that's why Dave robert zinser the question earlier today
Speaker 14: about having guys that he can move around and the
Speaker 14: fact that guys are open to that because they understand
Speaker 14: that just because we get moved up or down, nothing
Speaker 14: differences being asked of you, but to be yourself a
Speaker 14: lot of time just to take load off of you,
Speaker 14: for you to see more hitters in front of you,
Speaker 14: to see more pitches in front of you, and to
Speaker 14: slow the game down. But for Pahes, it's just so
Speaker 14: good to see this kid who you and I go
Speaker 14: back to spring training and the simplicity aspect of what
Speaker 14: he wanted was be an issue to him. He's gone
Speaker 14: through some bad times also this season, going back to
Speaker 14: some bad habits, but it's amazing how quickly he can
Speaker 14: find that, how strong he is and how dedicated to
Speaker 14: us he is to getting better, and it's just fun
Speaker 14: to watch. He's leading all the major leagues in RBI
Speaker 14: right now with twenty nine, and there's way more. I
Speaker 14: think there's also another level for him in terms of
Speaker 14: just becoming an even better hitter.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us on Dodger Talk after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers blow out the Rockies tonight fifteen to six. If
Speaker 2: you go all the way back to the first inning,
Speaker 2: Eric Lauer made his Dodger debut. He went six innings tonight,
Speaker 2: allowed just one to earn run, and threw more balls
Speaker 2: and he had all season long. So I guess we
Speaker 2: found out what the Dodgers game plan was for him
Speaker 2: to play off his fastball.
Speaker 14: You're right, I mean lowers. The lower that we saw
Speaker 14: tonight is the lower that we saw against the Dodger
Speaker 14: so many times. Going hockey, you not figure this guy out.
Speaker 14: He's average in ninety miles an hour ninety one, maybe
Speaker 14: topped out of ninety two point four or something like
Speaker 14: that tonight. But this guy knows how to pitch. He
Speaker 14: had a terrific season for the Blue Jays last year.
Speaker 14: Not happy with his role this year, but he understood
Speaker 14: that you know what, it's a wipeout, it's gone. Dodgers
Speaker 14: found a guy that was big league ready to start,
Speaker 14: which is so hard to do in the month of May.
Speaker 14: Have a guy that can go out there and give
Speaker 14: you after an injury, five or six innings, get taken
Speaker 14: to eighty five ninety pitches. That's not either to do.
Speaker 14: So give it to, you know, Brandon Gummes and finding
Speaker 14: this guy and him being available for the Blue Jays
Speaker 14: at the right time when they were not happy with
Speaker 14: him either, but he pitched ay and he was able
Speaker 14: to get guys off the plate, Guys that are going
Speaker 14: to be diving and looking for your break the ball,
Speaker 14: looking for your change up. He has enough of a
Speaker 14: cut fastball and enough of that fastball to you know,
Speaker 14: keep you on your heels a little bit more. A
Speaker 14: great find. And as day Roberts said, if he can
Speaker 14: get me to eighty pitches, think this guy had in
Speaker 14: pitches May tenth. And the thing about how effective he was,
Speaker 14: not thrown overthrowed, not looking over his shoulder to see
Speaker 14: if the wipons ready or not. But you're saying, this
Speaker 14: is my job today. And the mentality as he mentioned,
Speaker 14: of the adjustments and tweaks for Mike Priory and Cinna
Speaker 14: McGinnis on using the curve ball a little bit more
Speaker 14: paid dividends.
Speaker 2: All right, hose, Before I'll let you go, Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: said that O'tani will start tomorrow, but he isn't sure
Speaker 2: if he's going to dh Otani. Do you still believe
Speaker 2: that Otani when he wakes up tomorrow, the hand is
Speaker 2: going to feel good enough to pitch six innings tomorrow
Speaker 2: night or do you feel like that is still in question?
Speaker 14: I think that's still in question. Let's see how he
Speaker 14: feels tomorrow. There's no need to jeopardize anything. With show Hey,
Speaker 14: you have a two way player who's just finding his
Speaker 14: way as a full time pitcher again and also as
Speaker 14: a hitter the last couple of weeks, So it all
Speaker 14: depends how it feels tomorrow. Maybe you know there's a
Speaker 14: bruise that is not showing there today after he sleeps
Speaker 14: and wakes up, and you don't want to just compromise
Speaker 14: anything that he's doing right now, because at this point
Speaker 14: of the season, there's no need to sacrifice anything going
Speaker 14: into August, September, and October. We'll see.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. Maybe that's why Miguel Rojas was pitching.
Speaker 2: Maybe Dave Roberts was trying to save his bullpen in
Speaker 2: case he needs to do a bullpen game tomorrow.
Speaker 14: Don't take me there, Dave Hey's pitching. You never know,
Speaker 14: You never know, but I agree with you that. I mean,
Speaker 14: I would have just seen her nanda this pitch a
Speaker 14: little bit more. Drvass. You had to warm it up
Speaker 14: and had a situation like that happened last year with
Speaker 14: Kik and he got a little clothes. So I'm just
Speaker 14: glad that be Gail's fine, he didn't get hurt anything
Speaker 14: like that.
Speaker 2: Same same we're on the same page tonight, Jose, thanks
Speaker 2: a lot for calling in great great landline tonight. Johnson.
Speaker 2: You know we'll be proud.
Speaker 14: We're finally on the same page tonight. Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 14: It took a while, about five years.
Speaker 2: We'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 14: See there it goes.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast A
Speaker 2: great line, great Landline tonight for Jose Mota. Hey, before
Speaker 2: we say goodnight, Evan Phillips and Brock Stewart had a
Speaker 2: live BP today. They were throwing a Haysan Kim and
Speaker 2: Alex Call and had a chance to talk to Evan
Speaker 2: Phillips because we haven't seen him since spring training. He's
Speaker 2: been in Arizona. He actually threw three live BPS in
Speaker 2: Arizona before he got here to Dodger Stadium to throw
Speaker 2: to Alex Call and Hayesan Kim under the watchful eyes
Speaker 2: of Mark Pryor, Connor McGinnis, Andrew Freeman and Brandon Gomes.
Speaker 2: And here's what Evan Phillips had to say about how
Speaker 2: he felt today and where he's at in his recovery.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I feel like today was probably one of my
Speaker 16: more sharp livevps I had a stretch where my bullpens
Speaker 16: were pretty dialed, and then you know, naturally baseball happens,
Speaker 16: pitching happens, and things got a little little wonky for
Speaker 16: a week or so, but we work hard to dial
Speaker 16: it back in, and I think with each live VP
Speaker 16: and then each game on the rehab assignment, I'll look
Speaker 16: to be more refined with each one. Last week, I
Speaker 16: was ninety four to ninety five, you know, in my
Speaker 16: first live vps, which is, you know, compared to my
Speaker 16: previous lives and previous spring trainings, it's a lot better
Speaker 16: in a pretty good spot by comparison. So not to
Speaker 16: you say there's more in there or anything like that,
Speaker 16: but I'm just very happy with how everything's coming out.
Speaker 16: My body feels good, I'm bouncing back well, so just
Speaker 16: trying to stack those good days.
Speaker 2: So here's the plan for Evan Phillips. And by the way,
Speaker 2: he told me he only threw five of his signature
Speaker 2: sweeper pitches today because he wants to continue to stay
Speaker 2: with the four seamers, stay with the two seamers, don't
Speaker 2: overextend anything right now by throwing too many of those sliders,
Speaker 2: which is a great plan. I think he understands his
Speaker 2: body better than I do or we do. So next
Speaker 2: week he's going back to Arizona throw the more hitters
Speaker 2: one more time, and then he's heading out to Oklahoma
Speaker 2: City for a rehab assignment, which means he's on track
Speaker 2: to get back here in July and maybe at the
Speaker 2: end of June. So I have to look at when
Speaker 2: he's eligible to come off the sixty DAYIL, but you know,
Speaker 2: I feel like he would be eligible to come back
Speaker 2: by the end of June. So that is great news.
Speaker 2: And the Dodger bullpen is coming off thirty eight consecutive
Speaker 2: scoreless innings without Evan Phillips, without Edwin Diaz, and without
Speaker 2: Brock Stewart, so there's more. There's more coming at the
Speaker 2: rest of the league in the second half of the season.
Speaker 2: So the Dodger bullpen in a good spot, especially with
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips and Brock Stewart doing what they were doing today.
Speaker 2: Jack Dryer through a bullpen session as well, So I
Speaker 2: would say the Dodgers are in a very good spot
Speaker 2: with their bullpen right now. Also, before we say goodnight,
Speaker 2: want to send out our best wishes to Dodgers outfield
Speaker 2: prospect Kendall George, who injured himself in a very weird way,
Speaker 2: a freak accident last night at DOUBA Tulsa. If you're
Speaker 2: a Dodger fan, I'm sure you've seen it on social media.
Speaker 2: He was scoring on an RBI single by host Wade
Speaker 2: Depaula last night in Tulsa and had to jump out
Speaker 2: of the way at the last minute because I guess
Speaker 2: in the minor leagues or some minor leagues, well at
Speaker 2: this one, they have bat dogs instead of bat boys.
Speaker 2: Bat dogs. The dogs are trained to go get the bats,
Speaker 2: and when I looked at the video, it looked like
Speaker 2: whoever lets the dogs out let that dog out too soon,
Speaker 2: and Kendall George tweaked his left knee and the athletic
Speaker 2: is saying the Dodgers are concerned that it may be
Speaker 2: a very serious left knee injury. So I had never
Speaker 2: heard that. I asked our Minor League resident expert Tim
Speaker 2: Neverett whether or not he heard about it. He's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're all over the place. I love dogs. Dogs are
Speaker 2: my thing, but I'm not sure I'm all in on
Speaker 2: bat dogs. Okay, let's just have let's have bat boys.
Speaker 2: You're telling me, some kid in Tulsa wouldn't died to
Speaker 2: be a bat boy in Tulsa. I mean, isn't there
Speaker 2: enough gimmicks in the minor leagues. The stakes are way
Speaker 2: too high to even chance something like this happening. And
Speaker 2: Kendall George was having a great year sitting like three
Speaker 2: twenty three, he finally started to hit, and it would
Speaker 2: be unfortunate if his season was cut short because of
Speaker 2: something like this. But I love dogs, but I'm not
Speaker 2: all in on bat dogs right now in the minor leagues,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that. And I'm sure the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: not that in on bat dogs after what they saw
Speaker 2: and Kendall George getting hurt. I'm not blaming the dog.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, dogs are great, but they shouldn't
Speaker 2: be going after the bats. I don't know. I never honestly,
Speaker 2: I'd never had heard of that in my life until
Speaker 2: I saw that unfortunate video. Anyway, tomorrow, ye we'll see
Speaker 2: if Otani's hand is feeling good enough to start tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Fingers crossed that it is, because he has the opportunity,
Speaker 2: for the first time in his major league career to
Speaker 2: go up against another Japanese starter. Yes, he's faced them
Speaker 2: as a hitter, but never has faced them as pitching probables.
Speaker 2: So Otani on the mount tomorrow with a four and
Speaker 2: two record with an ERA of zero seventy three, going
Speaker 2: up against Tomo Yuki Sugano, who is four and three
Speaker 2: with an ERA of three eighty six. Our coverage begins
Speaker 2: tomorrow at six o'clock. First pitch at seven ten. That'll
Speaker 2: do it for us tonight. Thanks to Colin Yee back
Speaker 2: at our Burbank Studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium, Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers route the Rockies fifteen to six. Ben Mallor
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio is next. Have a great rest
Speaker 2: of your night, Seal