WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (6-10-26) 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.840 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.880 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:11.400 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:12.559 the fifth fifth. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.040 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:15.840 Here we go again. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.279 Brgaray running back to get in on the show called 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:21.520 eight six six eighty seven two five seven and be 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.880 sure to follow Dodger Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:31.600 Here's your host, David Vasse. Welcome the Dodger Talk. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.400 David Vasse with you until eight o'clock tonight at eight 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.880 six six nine eight seven two five seventy. The Pirates 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.559 score four runs in the eighth inning to beat the 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:46.160 Dodgers tonight by a final score of nine to eight. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:46.800 Show Hey. 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.159 Otani was allowed to go into the seventh inning, and 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.640 he did get the first two outs of the seventh, 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.280 but three runs scored in that seventh inning and Otani 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.960 did not finish. And look, Utan has made it very 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.880 clear about his intentions and the purpose and the goal 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.039 of pitching this year. And the reality is it's going 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.840 to be a challenge for Otani to a qualify for 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.480 the era title. He's going to need one hundred and 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.600 sixty two innings to be able to qualify for that 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.400 ra title. By the end of the year, you got 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:25.440 Christopher Sanchez and Jacob Mizarowski pitching every fourth or fifth day. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.240 Sanchez has the longest scoreless inning streak by a left 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.480 hander this year. He's likely going to be the National 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:38.280 League All Star starter in Philadelphia. It's an uphill battle. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:42.319 And if you really do take a step back and 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.640 examine Otani's pitching season, it's been good and what he's 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:51.880 done is remarkable, no doubt, slam dunk MVP and possibly 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.320 one of the greatest seasons we have ever seen by 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.280 any player in baseball history. But if you're just solely 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.920 judging him on pitching and winning the Cy Young Award, 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.480 maybe in another down year he may If it was 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.720 between him and Mason Miller, I would say yes, his 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.160 chances would it would be much greater than what they 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.160 are right now when you have two outstanding starters like 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:21.000 Sanchez and Misowski doing what they're doing. So my point 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.560 is he was going into the seventh inning tonight, so 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.800 he could qualify for being one of the r leaders, 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.520 maybe the er leader, but. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:31.440 For only one night. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.080 Because that qualification would have gone away by the next 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.000 time he started a game, so his pitch count was 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:39.480 in check. 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:40.200 Don't get me. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.640 Wrong, he was in the low eighties when he started 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.119 that seventh inning. But the reality is he's dealing with 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.840 a blister on his right middle finger that a trainer 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.760 came out and checked on in the inning before. So 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.520 why is he going back out there for the seventh inning? 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.679 Is it solely about trying to qualify for the ERA leaders. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.760 I mean, there's no I just I didn't see what 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.320 good could have come out of him going out for 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.760 the seventh inning, except for the mere fact that you know, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.280 we saw the implosion of Kyle Hurt and Jack Dryer, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.799 who you know, Jack Dryer has not been as good 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.000 as he was a year ago, and Kyle Hurt was 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.960 completely off his game. So it's hard to argue against 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.160 maybe a sixty or seventy percent Otani going out there 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.520 for the seventh inning. And Max Munsey's error in that 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.240 seventh inning to allow that ground ball to go under 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:38.600 his glove was a huge mistake, allowing another run to score, 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:44.040 especially when incredibly, after Orotani throws one hundred and two pitches, 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.880 he hits a two run home run in the ninth 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.000 inning to bring the Dodgers within one run in the 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.960 ninth inning off of Gregory Soto, who's been very shaky 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:58.120 of late for Pittsburgh as their closer. I mean, that 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.360 was a big run that much allowed to come in, 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.800 and Munsey has been outstanding defensively at third base. That 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.320 was just that was a big mistake, I'll just put 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:13.520 it that way. Obviously, bigger mistakes by Kyle Hurt walking 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.080 the first two batters in the eighth inning. It just 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.240 was one of those nights for Kyle Hurt, and he 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:20.160 just couldn't. 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:21.440 Get out of his own way. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.160 Tyler Callahan hitting a go ahead, three run home run 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.960 and all of that put a damper on Ryan Ward 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.560 hitting his first career Grand Slam in. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.160 The sixth inning with two outs. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:37.480 Ironically, it's Ryan Ward who's been waiting for his opportunity, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.840 a twenty eight year old rookie, finally getting his opportunity 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.560 because of the injury to ta Oscar Hernandez, who comes 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.400 up with the big hit of the game. After Kyle Tucker, 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.400 the high priced free agent signing, strikes out again in 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:54.880 a big spot. 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:55.880 With the bases loaded. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.640 It was Ryan Ward that picked up Tucker and the 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.760 dog in the sixth inning, because that would have been 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:07.080 a huge missed opportunity. Bases loaded one out and you 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.120 don't score a run. If it wasn't for Ryan Ward's 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.279 grand slam in that sixth inning, I think we'd be 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.640 a little bit more frustrated and upset talking about this 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.240 game tonight. So it was Ryan Ward, the twenty eight 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.800 year old rookie picking up the guy that's making sixty 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.320 million this year, who struck out with the bases loaded 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.360 ahead of him. Let's head downstairs right now to hear 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.000 from manager Dave Roberts on sports and at LA. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.200 I think I'm seeing I think I'm seeing more walks 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.279 than when we were going really well. And I think 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.840 that you know, when we're on the attack and kind 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.080 of imposing our will on those offenses were as good 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:48.919 as anyone. And I think when you or I know, 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.120 when you give free passes, it sort of builds momentum 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.480 for the other team, And you know, takes one hit 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.560 to score a run instead of a couple of hits 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.839 to build an inning. So I think right now we're 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.000 doing a little so inflicted damage. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.480 Things really shifted tonight in the seventh anny, whether it 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.120 was how show how his work ended. And then of course, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:07.560 as you just talked about with the bullpen, what were 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.159 you seeing just there in that moment, just as he 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.320 got deep into his outing. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.880 You know, I thought he still had enough in there 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.880 to keep going. You know, there was a walk in there, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.400 there was some soft contact that that kind of the 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.680 squibber off that bat that infield hit gets a strikeout, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.240 and then with the with the low at bat or 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.920 lou at bat got behind and then he went after 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:35.359 him and then he. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:35.919 Hit a double. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.560 Uh So I still felt, you know, we we you know, 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.479 unfortunately we got it. We got out of that inning, 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.760 gave up another one, but got out of that inning, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.680 and you know, I still felt we had the game 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:46.040 in hand. 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.560 Calls in Steven, especially when it's low that he thought 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.600 about challenging, but you just to put the abs. Now, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.040 how do you guys kind of evaluate the situations like that, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.239 especially with how that didn't played out. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.159 I know, And that's one of those things that you 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.320 know from the side and the dugout, you put it 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.760 in the hands of the players. And I think both catches, 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.600 both of our catches have been very good, and I 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.400 guess I hadn't looked back, but I did hear that 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.200 a couple of those pitches to allow were strikes and 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.160 it would have obviously flipped the count. And you never know, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.200 but you know, I thought Dalton's done a good job 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.840 with all of our pitchers, and so it just probably 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.280 in his opinion that it wasn't worth the challenge. But 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.120 it's not an exact science. And I think we had 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.240 one challenge left right there, so that might have been 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.920 something that caused a little bit of pause. But yeah, 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.720 you know, it's just it's a game of baseballs. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.560 Like you mentioned that a couple of games have gotten 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:43.560 away late, just kind of. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.600 Comes back, all right. That was Dave Roberts on Sports 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.480 and at LA. I just want to get to the 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.360 avat that he was talking about. In the seventh inning, 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.360 Otani looked like he was about to try to tap 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.240 his cap to challenge all three of those pitches to 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.040 Brandon Law because he was right. The first pitch was 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.520 ball one, but if you look back at it, it 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.760 was a strike, and then ball three to allow was 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.520 a strike as well. But rushing was wrong on a 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:15.120 recent ABS challenge, so he was a little trigger shy 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:19.400 to go to UH to challenge that, and earlier in 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.040 the game it was Otani that tapped his cap and 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.880 was right. It wasn't rushing, so Otani had great instincts 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.960 about what was right what was wrong to challenge as 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.160 far as the abs goes, eight six, six nine, eight 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:36.400 seven two five seventy is the phone number also in 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.880 this game that gets lost in the shuffle. Otani should 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.439 have had two home runs tonight because Brian Reynolds made 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.720 an incredible catch in the top of the third inning 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.840 that would have made it two nothing Dodgers in the 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.960 top of the third inning. Otani should have had a 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.160 pair of two run home runs. He hit that one 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.640 in the ninth inning, which to me, I don't think 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.920 people really can wrap their heads around what he did. 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.439 After throwing one hundred and two pitches, he has enough 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.560 in the tank to hit a two run home run 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.520 to try to will the Dodgers to at least. 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:12.080 Time that game. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.200 In the ninth but he should have had another two 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.360 run home run. But there is a short wall in 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:23.360 left field. Brian Reynolds tied time did perfectly, had enough 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.839 hangtime to be able to make that catch and it 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.040 was at least two rows back of that wall. That 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:34.319 short wall in left field also another play that could 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.240 have changed things a little bit. Top of the second inning, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.920 Mookie Bets, who's hitting a buck eighty five. You gotta 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.640 do more things until you come out of this. And 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.040 in the top of the second inning, there was an 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.200 error in center field on what Mooky thought was going 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.240 to be an out. But Mooky wasn't running hard out 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.960 of the box in that top of the second inning. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.360 He should have been standing at second base when that 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:04.160 ball d by Magnum in that second inning, because the 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:08.440 very next batter grounded into a double play. In that 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.400 second inning, Max Muncy grounded into a double play and 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:16.520 then Kyle Tucker struck out, So if Mookie Betts is 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.920 standing at second base, there is no double play. And 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.640 who knows that the Dodgers get an early lead for Otani. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.400 But you just want to see the game played the 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.640 right way, and Mooki was feeling sorry for himself instead 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.400 of running, and you never know. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:33.920 What could happen like it did. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.720 Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.000 the phone number. The Pirates come from behind and beat 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.920 the Dodgers. Tonight nine to eight. Let's go out to 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.400 Dave and Aliso. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Dave? 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.360 Yes, hello, thank you for taking my call. You know, 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.480 I know every team goes through this. Every team blowsags. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:02.640 It's common in baseball. But the way the Dodgers blow saves, 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.840 they blow saves in a very demoralizing way with home 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.319 runs Like Tennis Scott, I'm gonna make the team's work 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.040 for blowing to save, you gotta give. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.920 Well, there was no blown save tonight. It was just 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.680 a well Kyle Hurt blew the save in the eighth inning. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.240 But it wasn't a walk off home run type of thing. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.760 But I look, when it's that late in the game, Dave, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.280 and you give up a lead, it's not gonna feel 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.839 good no matter what team it is, no matter what 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.720 picture it is, right. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.960 The next picture, like Draya, when you when your two 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.920 picture gives up a devastating home run like that, your 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.079 responsibility has come in. You need to shut the team down. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.480 That's what That's what loses penance in the end of 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.920 September by one game or home field advantage in the 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.760 World Series. You can't give away games like this. You 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.280 have to make teams work to beat you with, you 0:11:58.320 --> 0:11:58.800 know base. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:03.120 It didn't make them work to be they did, they did, Dave, Dave, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:04.600 let's not overreact. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.280 Was it a great ending to the game? No? Was 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:09.000 it two. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:13.280 Guys that are probably not the highest leverage relievers? Yes, 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.880 Kyle Hurt and Jack Dryer are not going to be 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.600 in high leverage spots. And how about this, If the 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.200 Dodgers lose the NLS by one game, I will buy 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.080 you tickets to a playoff game, Dave, because I don't 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.000 believe that's going to be the case. They're seven and 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.360 a half games ahead of the Podres, they are eight 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.559 and a half games ahead of the Diamondbacks. It wasn't 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.960 a good night, but I just feel like it's a 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.880 little bit of an overreaction by you. And come on, 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.440 Jack Dryer, you're telling me he doesn't want to come 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.400 in and shut down the pirates. Of course he does, 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.920 but there were other moments in this game that caused 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.120 the Dodgers to lose. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.040 I see, okay, all right, Dave, thank you. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:57.800 For the phone call. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.160 Eight six six, seven seventy af the Dodgers lose the 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.240 nl WEST by one game. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:05.880 Uh call, me back. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.920 I'll buy you tickets to a playoff game. We're gonna 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:10.800 take a time out when we come back. More of 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.080 your phone calls. We have phone lines open at eight 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:17.040 sixty six nine, eight seven two five seventy. We'll get 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.400 you an update on Will Smith and we'll hear from 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.880 Shoho Tani as well as the Pirates score five runs 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.960 in the eighth inning and beat the Dodgers nine to 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.079 eight on AM five to seventy LA Sports. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.760 Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy LA sports 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:38.360 dot com. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.400 Hand on the iHeartRadio app. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:45.320 Back to more Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Basse. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.400 Which to Ward, these wings hitch a drive to right field, 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:53.120 toward the wall. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.040 It is done. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:59.640 It's a grand slam, the first career grand slam for 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:00.640 r Ward. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:02.400 A line drive over of. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:07.920 The Clementi Wall in Wright, a frozen rop for Ryan Ward. 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.200 His third career home. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.720 Run is a grand slam. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:14.160 Gotta love it. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:18.280 A guy that has persevered in his professional baseball career 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.720 finally getting an opportunity, twenty eight year old Ryan Ward, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.640 and he delivered in a big way with a two 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.880 out grand slam in the sixth inning. Unfortunately, after the 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.040 Dodgers went up six to one, they gave up eight 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.320 runs in the seventh and eighth innings tonight and they 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.520 fall to Pittsburgh nine to eight at PNC Park. Daniels 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.560 Jewelers presents the home Run Forecast. For your chance to 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:47.200 win a fifty dollars Daniels Jewelers gift card, visit a 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.440 five to seventy LA sports dot Com, use the keyword 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.680 home run, enter your name and you could win. Daniels 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.720 Jewelers own the Dream. Eight six, six nine, eight seven 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.880 two five seventy is the phone number. Let's head back 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.400 to Pittsburgh to hear from show Heo Tani. I'm curious 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.680 about the abs challenges that were not called in the 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.840 seventh inning and more importantly, how that right middle finger 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.160 and blister affected him tonight. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.280 Dave Roberts has shared with us that if you look 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.480 at your last few outings, you've been dealing with the blister. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.640 We saw it was bothering you today. Just what is 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.040 it like kind of managing that and clearly you're making 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:24.760 your starts, but just how does that feel at the moment? 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:51.200 Yeah, yeah, no issues with the blisters. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.800 I don't think it's been affecting my performance. Just the 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.080 last you know, a couple at bats where you know, 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.160 I was just hoping. I wish I got some call 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.120 my way, but just didn't turn out that way. And 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.120 that's the part that I wish I could have been 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:07.320 able to change a little. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:11.040 Bit and want challenge a couple of weeks. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:14.440 And just say too much. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:17.760 Skill that. 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.800 Uh hosting give out in the day. I got a 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.680 night you skill my station all day. I might have 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:28.040 to move. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.120 I'll say a bunch of counts because I really got 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.760 close to you know, doing one. Usually let the catchers 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.880 make that determination. But looking back, I think situationally how 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.280 important it was that at bad Looking back, I think 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.640 I could have done a few challenges. 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:49.640 Pitched into the seventh a ton this year. Just how 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.480 did you feel about the execution of your stuff that ending? 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.840 Was there any fatigue that played into kind of how 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:55.600 that played out? 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.560 And I tell you I can just get a must 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:29.040 you about puff once sage. 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.560 You're going into that inning. The pitch can was pretty 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.480 relatively low, So I don't think so. But you know, 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.399 after the two hitters two hours felt pretty good. It 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.800 was just the mis execution and that three zero pitch. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:31.840 Kill. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.200 And did you think that one the third inning was out. 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:36.840 No home out? 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:37.679 I don't know. 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:56.639 To your height stand to ski, Yeah, I felt good 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.000 off the bat. I thought it was going to be 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.760 a homer. Looking back at the video, it was a homer, 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.200 but the left field and made a fantastic catch and 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:05.920 got it. Tip my cap on that one. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.400 Yeah, that was Brian Reynolds. It was a home run. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.760 That's what most players will say when they're asked that 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.159 type of question. It was a home run. He just 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.399 brought it back and that was Brian Reynolds. In the 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.960 top of the third inning. That would have been Otani 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.120 helping his own cause with a two run home run 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.240 early in that game. Now you heard O'tani answer the 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.040 question about the blister on his right middle finger. That's 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.720 what we wanted to know about because if you look 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.200 at the pitches he threw tonight, he's not going to 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:41.400 show any vulnerability or that that affected him. But it's 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.840 hard to ignore the fact that O'tani threw just about 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.600 fifty percent of his pitches for fastballs, and the pitch 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.600 that he threw the second most was his sweeper. The 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:57.760 two pitches that really, you know, start to affect your 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.560 right middle finger when you're trying to throw, when you're 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.760 trying to throw it and you have a blister. Is 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.960 his curveball and his split fingered fastball. Mark Goobazaw told 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.720 me that in twenty eighteen it was his splitter. It 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.080 was his slider that created the blister on his right 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.600 middle finger. And of course, as you know, a curveball 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.760 is going to be right there as well, resting on 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.840 that right middle finger as well. So he only threw 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.480 the curveball eight times tonight. His splitter, he only threw 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.400 it four times. You can't tell me that was because 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.480 he just didn't feel like throwing those pitches. You would 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.800 have to believe he was trying to navigate this start 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.639 without having to throw those too much and aggravating his 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.440 blister on his right middle finger, which needed to be 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:49.600 tended to in the sixth inning anyway. So that's something 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.600 to keep an eye on moving forward. Let's go back 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:55.720 out to the phones, Andy and Lake elsinor you're on 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.840 Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:02.920 Andy, how you doing. I just wanted to talk about 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.400 three real things, three things real quick. That's on my mind, 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:11.880 and number one is Mookie Bets. Yeah, he's struggling. Obviously, 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.080 he's been low the uker line, but you know he 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.720 took on the role for shortstop, and you know that 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.200 we already discussed this a lot of times, and you 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.520 know his offense is gonna suffer and all of that, 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:28.600 but he's as much if he was he was to retire, 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:30.600 if he was to retire today, he'd be a Hall 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:30.920 of Famer. 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:33.600 I don't know about that, Andy, I don't know about 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.840 that at all. He's a really good player, and if 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.879 this was the NBA or NFL, he would be because 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.680 of winning four World Series probably a fifth, if not 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.880 this year, then another year. But I wouldn't say that's 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.000 a that's a slam dunk right now. 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.920 He was on the peer of the league. Plus he 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.520 was on the peer of the World Series. I think 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:55.880 he's that was in one year. 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:57.920 What about the rest of I'm not going to bash 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.560 Mookie Bets. All I'm gonna say is that he's not 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.440 a slam dunk Hall of Famer right now. And when 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.600 you say shortstop is taken away from his offense, sure, 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.440 but it shouldn't be taken away so much where he's 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:11.600 hitting a buck eighty five. 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:14.920 Why, he just came back from the league. 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:15.720 He's got one. 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.199 Hundred and fifty at bats now, Andy, He's got one 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.600 hundred and fifty at bats now, Andy. And I'll say this, 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:25.040 and I've said this, even though Mookie Bets is hitting 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.720 one eighty five, his swings and his at bats look 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:30.120 better than Kyle Tucker's. 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.320 Well, the thing is is that he's playing shortstop ninety 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:37.200 he's got one hundred and fifty at bats. So maybe 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.160 if he was playing second base or right field, maybe 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.480 those hundred and fifty bats would have been you know, 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.280 a lot. Maybe he'd be batting to fifty at least 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:48.639 by now. And the other thing that I want to 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.119