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Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse live at Nationals Park.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers spoiled the home opener in our nation's
Speaker 2: capital with a resounding thirteen to six win. We are
Speaker 2: with you until three o'clock from Nationals Park. We have
Speaker 2: phone lines open at eight six six nine eight seven
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Speaker 3: Hope you're being safe on this spring break.
Speaker 2: I know many of you had your final day of
Speaker 2: school and many of you been out of school this
Speaker 2: entire week because traffic has been so good, and obviously
Speaker 2: a lot of Holy holidays this week and into the weekend.
Speaker 2: So we wish all of you a great holiday weekend
Speaker 2: with your family and friends and tune on Dodgers baseball,
Speaker 2: Because for all of you that were a little concerned
Speaker 2: about the Dodger offense, we all said, let the season
Speaker 2: breathe a little bit, and you have to tip your
Speaker 2: cap to the opposing pitchers against were for the Cleveland Guardians,
Speaker 2: because that's how they came from behind to win the
Speaker 2: Al Central last year with their pitching and defense and
Speaker 2: timely hitting. So it's not always just about the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to acknowledge the other team has a
Speaker 2: good pitching too, and that's what Cleveland had. But tonight
Speaker 2: or today, the Nationals did not have good starting pitching
Speaker 2: on the mound and Mile Michaelas, who the Dodgers racked
Speaker 2: for eleven runs.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: They hit four home runs off of Miles Michaelas. And
Speaker 2: if you remember, before last year started, Miles Michaelis said
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were playing check book baseball. Well, they cashed
Speaker 2: the checks on Miles Michaelas today hitting four home runs,
Speaker 2: and he was his own worst enemy. He got flustered
Speaker 2: in that five run third inning when Taoscar Hernandez hit
Speaker 2: a little dribbler up the third base line and his
Speaker 2: third baseman, former Dodger minor leaguer, your bit Vivas couldn't
Speaker 2: come up with it cleanly, and Tioscar, who is a
Speaker 2: lot more limber this year, beat that infield hit out,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden the wheels started to come
Speaker 2: off in that third inning for Miles Michaelis that infield
Speaker 2: single by Taoscar Paz walked, so you had runners at
Speaker 2: first and second with nobody out. Alex Friedland, who got
Speaker 2: the started second base, struck out looking and then you
Speaker 2: kind of felt like, okay, O'tani does not have an
Speaker 2: extra basit Otani does not have a home run yet
Speaker 2: this year. You kind of felt like he was not
Speaker 2: just doe, but he was overdue and he did a
Speaker 2: lot of damage, tying the game with a three run
Speaker 2: home run after CJ. Abrams gave the Nats an early
Speaker 2: three to nothing lead. And like I mentioned in the Clubhouse,
Speaker 2: show hard to believe that the opponent has taken the
Speaker 2: lead six of the first seven games and the Dodger
Speaker 2: offensive has come back, and come back they did in
Speaker 2: a big way with five runs in that third inning.
Speaker 2: It was show Hey Otani with a game tying three
Speaker 2: run home run, and it was Mookie Betts with the
Speaker 2: go ahead two run home run in that third inning,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, the momentum was back on
Speaker 2: the Dodgers side. And more importantly, there was a lot
Speaker 2: of doubt in that national's dugout because they were feeling
Speaker 2: good about themselves after Abrams took Image Sheehan deep. So
Speaker 2: that was a big difference in the game for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers to not only score a couple of runs in
Speaker 2: that third inning, but tie the game in a big
Speaker 2: way with Otani's first home run, a game tying shot,
Speaker 2: and then Mooki with a go ahead two run home run,
Speaker 2: and instead of being down three nothing, they were ahead
Speaker 2: five to three going into the bottom of the third inning.
Speaker 2: Had a chance to catch up with Mookie Betts after
Speaker 2: the final out today. Here's what he had to say
Speaker 2: about what he did and what the team did putting
Speaker 2: up thirteen runs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, I think we kind of felt it
Speaker 4: when Showey ate his homer. We knew we could do it,
Speaker 4: and we obviously know we haven't been swinging it very
Speaker 4: well the first week of the season, but we know
Speaker 4: it's a long season and where we got some good
Speaker 4: ball players in here, so you know, it's good to know.
Speaker 3: It's good to have some results, should I say, no doubt.
Speaker 3: It feels good to go over the fence, right MOOKI Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 5: It's just kind of neat.
Speaker 4: I like you, So we'll see if we can do
Speaker 4: it some more.
Speaker 2: Mookie, what can you say about the bottom of the
Speaker 2: order tail licking out two infield heads? PA has doing
Speaker 2: this thing? How much does that affect you where you're
Speaker 2: hitting in the lineup?
Speaker 4: I mean effects all of us, you know. I mean
Speaker 4: those guys have been getting this kickstarted, you know, every game,
Speaker 4: it seems like, and so if we can kind of
Speaker 4: match their energy, then we'll we'll be really good at
Speaker 4: that point.
Speaker 3: Hey, your energies.
Speaker 2: I love the Mookie vibe so far in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm trying to start selling over. You know, we
Speaker 4: had a rough one last year, so we're trying to
Speaker 4: turn it around and not be better, just to be myself.
Speaker 4: That's all I want to do.
Speaker 3: We love you, We love the real MOOKI.
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: I love you guys too, Thanks Mookie, thanks for stopping you. Sarah.
Speaker 3: Of course, vast there.
Speaker 2: Is Mookie Betts, who certainly had a smile on his
Speaker 2: face today playing really good shortstop to start the year.
Speaker 2: The throws have been more accurate from shortstop this year
Speaker 2: and offensively, He's said it. Last year he was twenty
Speaker 2: pounds down, got sick at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 2: never felt like he had his true bat speed, and
Speaker 2: is in a really good spot, not only with his swing,
Speaker 2: but more importantly with where his head is at.
Speaker 3: And that is huge.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Mookie Bets hitting third today in
Speaker 2: front of Behind Otani and Kyle Tucker. Those three guys
Speaker 2: really came alive today. They were combined seven for seventeen.
Speaker 2: Each one of them homered, and combined they drove in
Speaker 2: eight runs and scored five times. If those three get going,
Speaker 2: this Dodger offense certainly is going to reach its potential.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to downtown Many. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: Live from Washington, d C.
Speaker 7: How you doing Many, hid be Friday, DV. I hope
Speaker 7: you're enjoying the nation's capital out there. Look what happens
Speaker 7: when the Dodgers top of the lineup actually responds, you know,
Speaker 7: back at the homestand they go four and two and
Speaker 7: top of the lineup was almost not a existent And
Speaker 7: this is what we're gonna be seeing a lot this year.
Speaker 7: When the when the top of the lineup is hitting,
Speaker 7: they're gonna be oozing with all kinds of offense. So
Speaker 7: I'm gonna to my cap off to the players of
Speaker 7: the game. Uh. The pitcher for the Washington Nationals, mccallish,
Speaker 7: little did he know?
Speaker 1: He just.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he set the Uh, he set the switch off.
Speaker 7: So now the Dodgers are they're clicking, which is which
Speaker 7: is awesome. And I wanted to shout you out for
Speaker 7: going down to my hometown and Boyle Heights last week
Speaker 7: with Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 7: Boyle Heights is an incredible community and uh, we're so
Speaker 7: glad to have players or anyone from the organization come
Speaker 7: down and represent us. So thanks for doing that. And
Speaker 7: a quick question, dv uh with Freeland kind of going
Speaker 7: up and down a little bit and he's just getting
Speaker 7: the taste of the MLB, how soon do you think
Speaker 7: we might get a Heights on Kim Siding?
Speaker 3: I don't Uh, I don't know. That's a great question.
Speaker 2: Many it feels like Alex Freeland is going to get
Speaker 2: this opportunity until Tommy Edmund returns and from that point
Speaker 2: on everything will be reassessed. But it feels like he's
Speaker 2: getting this chance until Edmund comes back at the end
Speaker 2: of May. Unless he really tail spins h he's gonna
Speaker 2: get this chance. So right now it's Alex Friedland and
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas at second base. So I think the Dodgers
Speaker 2: will reassess, especially as we get to the middle of April.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, looking forward to more offense in the next
Speaker 7: couple of games and kick back and enjoy the rest
Speaker 7: of the season. See you at Dodger Stadium next home.
Speaker 2: Sent can't wait, Manny, and thank you for the kind words.
Speaker 2: Love being down in Boyle Heights with Miguel Rojas. He
Speaker 2: certainly enjoyed it as well, and you could feel the
Speaker 2: energy and the true passion that people in Boyle Heights
Speaker 2: have for the Dodgers and obviously been there from day one.
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Speaker 2: The mark of a Fighter eight six six seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. David Vasse with you
Speaker 2: until three o'clock live from Nationals Park, So we have
Speaker 2: phone lines open if you want to call in and
Speaker 2: talk about the Dodgers. I'm sure you don't have many
Speaker 2: complaints today after they put up thirteen runs to beat
Speaker 2: the Nationals thirteen to six. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: they were wearing their brand new blue jerseys. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers announced yesterday they are going to rotate in There's
Speaker 2: blue road jerseys, so they're one to zero in these
Speaker 2: blue new jerseys. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Yankees jerseys, but I don't mind an alternate jersey.
Speaker 2: I do mind five alternate jerseys like some of these
Speaker 2: teams have, and you can't do that with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: But I actually do like these blue jerseys. The one
Speaker 2: thing that I would love to see one day. You know,
Speaker 2: obviously this is a marketing thing, the blue jerseys with
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles script. I love the border on the
Speaker 2: outside of the lettering. One day, I hope. You know,
Speaker 2: when you talk about throwbacks, you don't have to throw
Speaker 2: back that far to the nineteen fifties or the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 2: How about throwback to the eighties Dodgers rode jerseys when
Speaker 2: they had the big lettering Dodgers across their chest. But
Speaker 2: it wasn't just the blue writing. They had the white borders,
Speaker 2: like when Oral Herscheiser was playing or Rick Monday was playing.
Speaker 2: I would love one day, one year for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: to rotate that jersey in as a throwback.
Speaker 3: You know, Mitchell Andes is huge.
Speaker 2: They got a few of these old Dodger jerseys that
Speaker 2: they sell. I would love to see the Dodgers one
Speaker 2: day rotate that type of jersey into the mix as well.
Speaker 3: But the blue tops, I like them. You know. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers did this, by the way.
Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety nine, the second year Fox owned them,
Speaker 2: and I didn't like it as much. It was like
Speaker 2: the Eric Harrow's, Kevin Brown Carlos Perez era. These are
Speaker 2: a little bit more classy. I like these a lot more.
Speaker 2: The way they they came across. Those in ninety nine
Speaker 2: felt like batting practice jerseys. And in fact, back then
Speaker 2: the Dodgers would wear a blue batting practice jersey when
Speaker 2: they were taking BP, so that's maybe why I felt
Speaker 2: like it was batting practice ish. The Dodgers don't do
Speaker 2: that anymore, so I kind of like these. I'm all in.
Speaker 2: I'm all in with these jerseys. Eight six six nine,
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Speaker 9: The A one now bets lists one in the air
Speaker 9: to left field. This one struck pretty well on the
Speaker 9: warning track at the wall.
Speaker 5: Its gone.
Speaker 9: Mookie Betts goes into the Dodger bullpen, his second of
Speaker 9: the year and the Dodgers second of this inning. They
Speaker 9: now lead five to three.
Speaker 2: And they would not look back as the Dodgers roll
Speaker 2: to a thirteen to six win over the Nationals. Welcome
Speaker 2: back to Dodger Talk David Vasse live at Nationals Park
Speaker 2: until three o'clock. The Dodgers hit five home runs today,
Speaker 2: the two biggest in that third inning, a game tying
Speaker 2: three run home run by show Heo Tani and a
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Speaker 2: Own the Dream. Eight six, six, nine to eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number on the flip
Speaker 2: side here. Pitching wise, I mentioned that the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: down early again. They've been down in six of the
Speaker 2: first seven games this season. That's not something that you
Speaker 2: want to continue. And the reason why was that Emid
Speaker 2: Shean really was laboring. It seemed like he was trying
Speaker 2: to ease into the game today. He gave up a
Speaker 2: three run home run to CJ Abrams, who is one
Speaker 2: of the two better players on this Nationals team. The
Speaker 2: innings started when James Woods sent a ball to straightaway
Speaker 2: center field that Andy Pa has had in his glove
Speaker 2: and then didn't have in his glove, and it led
Speaker 2: to a three run home run, and the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: down three to nothing. And what was more concerning as
Speaker 2: well was the fact that she seemed to be shying
Speaker 2: away from throwing his fastball in that first couple of
Speaker 2: innings because maybe he thought that he didn't have enough
Speaker 2: giddy up on that pitch because it was in the
Speaker 2: low nineties. I know he touched ninety four a couple
Speaker 2: of times, but a lot of sliders in that first
Speaker 2: couple of innings. And then he has to throw a
Speaker 2: fastball to CJ. Abrams and he hits it for a
Speaker 2: three run home run. And then he dialed up ninety
Speaker 2: five because he was probably upset to Nasim Nuniez. But
Speaker 2: as the game went on, Emmett Sheen seemed to get
Speaker 2: into more of a rhythm. Maybe he got his mechanics
Speaker 2: in a rhythm to get the velocity where we're used
Speaker 2: to seeing it about ninety five miles an hour. And look,
Speaker 2: I was mocked by other writers and by image she
Speaker 2: and himself during spring training when his fastball velocity against
Speaker 2: the Cubs in Mesa on March fifteen, sixteenth issue was
Speaker 2: a Sunday split squad game that I was in Mesa
Speaker 2: and his fastball was like ninety ninety one ninety two,
Speaker 2: and I said, Okay, I know it's a spring training game,
Speaker 2: but I feel like I got to ask what's going
Speaker 2: on here? And he didn't like me asking about it.
Speaker 2: And here we are now his second start of the season,
Speaker 2: and the fastball velocity to start the game was not great.
Speaker 2: It got better, but he says, it's about pitching mechanics.
Speaker 2: The one thing I'll say about Sheen, and we could
Speaker 2: talk more about this as the hour goes on. The
Speaker 2: one thing that I liked about she H today is
Speaker 2: a the Dodger offfense got him back into the game
Speaker 2: and gave him second life. That's a huge factor in
Speaker 2: him lasting five and two thirds innings and settling in
Speaker 2: make no mistake about it.
Speaker 3: But also there.
Speaker 2: Are going to be days when you don't have your
Speaker 2: best stuff or your best fastball, and you got to
Speaker 2: figure out a way to compete and hang in there.
Speaker 2: Because Dave Roberts said before the game, it's not sustainable
Speaker 2: to have two pitchers like Shean and Sasak going four innings,
Speaker 2: four plus innings. You can't just keep on carrying guys
Speaker 2: like Casparius and Robleski and keeping them in a holding
Speaker 2: pattern just in case that's not a way to live.
Speaker 2: So for him to hang in there and with a
Speaker 2: big lead, hang in there for five and two thirds
Speaker 2: innings was just as big as the Dodger scoring thirteen
Speaker 2: runs and some of their key players starting to show
Speaker 2: some signs of life. Let's head downstairs right now to
Speaker 2: hear from Emma Sheehan on Sports at LA.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely a little bit of a grind. Obviously, it's
Speaker 6: not how you want to sorry game at all. But
Speaker 6: I think you know, after that, Will did a great
Speaker 6: job of keeping them off balanced with the Pius calling,
Speaker 6: and then yeah we got through it.
Speaker 10: So how much pride do you take and just then
Speaker 10: how you were able to finish it, continuing your build
Speaker 10: up and getting deeper into this game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean with our offense, it's just, you know,
Speaker 6: try to give them a chance and they picked me
Speaker 6: up immediately after that, and then trying to just keep
Speaker 6: it where it is, try to not let it let
Speaker 6: it spiral. So I was happy with that part for sure, just.
Speaker 10: Describing kind of your mechanical adjustments is mostly directional. How
Speaker 10: did that feel over the course of the start?
Speaker 6: I think it was a little better today. Obviously it's
Speaker 6: still work in progress.
Speaker 11: The stuff is.
Speaker 6: Not really where it should be at I think right
Speaker 6: now there's more in the tank, but uh, yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: still working on it.
Speaker 11: For sure.
Speaker 12: Your velocity kind of dipped a little bit kind of
Speaker 12: in the early innings that it kind of picked up
Speaker 12: the most at the end.
Speaker 5: What was the cause of the head do you think?
Speaker 6: I think just you know, being a little quicker through
Speaker 6: my delivery, trying to trying to get some burthen back. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I don't know. I think I felt a few things
Speaker 6: later in the outing that that helped for sure. Hopefully
Speaker 6: I can carry that into the next one.
Speaker 10: Are you finding your slider having today, because the best
Speaker 10: kind of inconsistent. No.
Speaker 6: I think that was just you know, trying to keep
Speaker 6: them off balance.
Speaker 8: In general.
Speaker 6: We probably threw a little bit more curveballs than usual too,
Speaker 6: But yeah, scattering report and then you know what willis
Speaker 6: was putting down whatever you thought back there.
Speaker 10: Do you look at just kind of those mechanical things
Speaker 10: you're working through the directional aspect is what's leading to
Speaker 10: some of that just drop off in the velocity that
Speaker 10: there is.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, yeah, that's what we're trying to fix. Just
Speaker 6: for the record, health wives, you're fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's good. Yes, we want to hear that
Speaker 2: on the record. And you know, he Shehan does not
Speaker 2: want to talk about the lack of fastball velocity or
Speaker 2: the inconsistency of it, but it's hard to ignore. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's a powerful, physical guy on the mound and you
Speaker 2: expect to see that. For him to only have a
Speaker 2: couple of strike strikeouts today it stands out. But like
Speaker 2: I said, there are going to be days when your
Speaker 2: delivery's not syncd up your fastball velocity. It's not its best,
Speaker 2: but you have to find a way, especially when the
Speaker 2: Dodger offense gets you back into the game. When you
Speaker 2: give up a three run home run before the seats
Speaker 2: are warm for the opposing team's home opener. So for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to come back with five runs, Sheen gives
Speaker 2: back one, Okay, not great, but you can live with it.
Speaker 2: And then in the next two innings they score a
Speaker 2: combined six more runs. So that was big for him
Speaker 2: to kind of stabilize the outing with the way he
Speaker 2: pitched after giving up that three run home run to CJ.
Speaker 3: Abrams. Eight sixty six.
Speaker 2: Nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number,
Speaker 2: David Vassey, live at Nationals Park on this beautiful Friday.
Speaker 2: We're with you until three o'clock. That's when we hand
Speaker 2: things over to Petro some money. Let's go out to Eugene, Oregon.
Speaker 2: Tom listening on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 11: How you doing, Tom, I'm doing awesome, David, Thank you.
Speaker 13: E June Oregon, sunny and a nice Chris fifty two degrees.
Speaker 13: I just wanted to say that I was really impressed
Speaker 13: with Shean hanging in there today, even after getting you know,
Speaker 13: rocked early. Showed a lot of maturity and I don't
Speaker 13: know if that would have happened last year.
Speaker 2: I agree, And you know, obviously he's more experienced now.
Speaker 2: And like I said, the run support after getting him
Speaker 2: back into the game in the third inning was a
Speaker 2: huge factor in all this.
Speaker 1: Tom was nice.
Speaker 13: See Otani, Muki and everybody else go, you know, with
Speaker 13: the home runs, just as you've been telling us to
Speaker 13: relax the whole time, that this would turn around. No
Speaker 13: one's going to hold this team down for long.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 13: It was really good to see everybody break out.
Speaker 3: All right, Tom, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: I will say this, It's understandable why you were getting frustrated.
Speaker 2: I was getting a little frustrated with the way the
Speaker 2: offense was going in the last four or five games
Speaker 2: because the last time we saw the Dodgers, for the
Speaker 2: majority of the same players that were in this lineup
Speaker 2: outside of what Kyle Tucker uh, they were slumping since July.
Speaker 2: And you're wondering, oh, no, is this gonna happen again,
Speaker 2: Because the Dodger offense last year from fourth of July
Speaker 2: till the end of September was only hitting two thirty
Speaker 2: four and they weren't really scoring that many runs. And
Speaker 2: in the World Series they hit two oh three and
Speaker 2: somehow still won a seven game World Series by this much.
Speaker 2: So I can understand why there was some cause for concern.
Speaker 2: Let's see if there's some consistency now from this point forward,
Speaker 2: because you don't just want to put up thirteen runs
Speaker 2: today and then show up tomorrow and only get one
Speaker 2: or two runs. So let's see if there can be
Speaker 2: more consistency between what we saw today and what we
Speaker 2: see moving forward on this road trip. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Forton, Luis. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 3: Louise, Hey, DV.
Speaker 11: How you doing, I do greats.
Speaker 14: Coming to this city, awesome, Thank you for being out there.
Speaker 14: I just wanted to say. I wanted to highlight a
Speaker 14: few things. I'm really happy that the Dodgers won by
Speaker 14: a commanding lead today, showing some really good offense. But
Speaker 14: I wanted to say, even throughout the beginning of the
Speaker 14: year that the defense was still playing really, really well.
Speaker 14: Our starting pitchers were playing well, and I was happy
Speaker 14: to see that. I know that there's definitely a lot
Speaker 14: of pictures like Paul Schemes that would have loved to
Speaker 14: have an outfit like the Dodgers to protect them. Our
Speaker 14: defense has just been good, and I wanted to say
Speaker 14: as well.
Speaker 11: We were talking.
Speaker 14: About the blue jerseys earlier, I wanted.
Speaker 11: To say I ordered two of those.
Speaker 14: I'm actually really excited to get those in. But I
Speaker 14: was actually upset that I won't be getting him to pass.
Speaker 14: April twenty fourth, I was kind of excited to wear
Speaker 14: them on the first day, but they didn't come by,
Speaker 14: So about.
Speaker 2: That, yeah, I mean, I guess they just released it,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure there's a lot of demands. So I
Speaker 2: don't know what to say about the production of them.
Speaker 2: But I do like them. I do like them. I'm
Speaker 2: a traditionalist with the Dodgers and Yankees type of uniforms,
Speaker 2: but I like what they did here, I really do.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, Luis. Can't wait to see
Speaker 2: your new jerseys whenever they arrive. And the Dodgers, let's
Speaker 2: see if they wear them again on this road trip,
Speaker 2: right because they score thirteen runs? Are they going to
Speaker 2: break them out again tomorrow? Let's see that happened. You know,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers clubhouse manager Alex Torres, there are gray road
Speaker 2: jerseys that say Los Angeles and Dodgers, and if the
Speaker 2: offense is humming, if the team is winning, they keep
Speaker 2: rolling with the same jerseys until they lose or things
Speaker 2: go sideways. So let's see if they wear the blue
Speaker 2: jerseys tomorrow. Let's go out to Corona. Jason, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk with Dave.
Speaker 15: Say hi, Jason, what's up, mister Davids say, nice talking
Speaker 15: to you, buddy, longtime listener. Here two things, two things
Speaker 15: that I'm glad to see the Dodgers Bats finally wake up.
Speaker 15: That first week they were they were quiet and understandably,
Speaker 15: you know, they got their championship rings and a lot
Speaker 15: of emotions over there at Dodger Stadium. But I had
Speaker 15: a feeling they'd break out today and they did. And
Speaker 15: then also another thing, on that walkout song from Edwin Diez,
Speaker 15: I love the trumpets, I was wondering, I.
Speaker 8: I know, like a couple of the the first night
Speaker 8: was live. It was like, you know, the live trumpets,
Speaker 8: and then they I think had an audio as well.
Speaker 8: Is there any like anything in the works of you know,
Speaker 8: just making that darn thing live all the time because
Speaker 8: it sounds bitch and live. And also, is Timmy Trumpet
Speaker 8: Timmy Trumpet's ever gonna make an appearance at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you will. I think you will. But
Speaker 2: the thing, yeah, with Timmy Trumpet, he's on tour. He's
Speaker 2: a DJ, and he's on a tour right now. So
Speaker 2: I know he was at Dodger Stadium a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago because he filmed something. If you remember that
Speaker 2: rainy night at Dodger Stadium when Edwin Diaz came in
Speaker 2: the game in a non safe situation, it was a
Speaker 2: four run lead. That was what I was looking for
Speaker 2: from night one. You got Timmy Trumpet on the big
Speaker 2: board playing the trumpet as Edwin Diaz is coming out.
Speaker 2: To me, that was special. It was in black and white,
Speaker 2: there was something. There was something to that. And now
Speaker 2: that the ribbon boards are all installed, there'll be more
Speaker 2: of a light show.
Speaker 3: So I'm in favor. I like that version of it.
Speaker 2: And Tatiana Tait who was the live trumpet player for
Speaker 2: the two saves that he came in on the Homestand
Speaker 2: I'm sure she's got a life. She's got to do
Speaker 2: things with her. I don't know if you call it
Speaker 2: a symphony or what, but she's got a life. So
Speaker 2: I'm not sure she could be there every night just
Speaker 2: in case.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm sure she'll make a few more appearances throughout
Speaker 8: the year. She was great as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I loved it. I loved her style for sure.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone call, Jason.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When Timmy trumpet, I just it's Timmy Trumpet, right, and
Speaker 2: that's the song Narco and Timmy Trumpet is such a
Speaker 2: big part of Edwin Diaz his walk in, and I
Speaker 2: did like that the Dodgers got Timmy Trumpet in the
Speaker 2: house to do something for Dodger vision when Edwin Diaz
Speaker 2: walks in.
Speaker 3: So I'm all in with that.
Speaker 2: One eight six six nine seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Nationals today thirteen to
Speaker 2: six to open up their six game road trip and
Speaker 2: spoil the Nationals home opener today. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Roy who was here at Nationals Park? Roy, were you
Speaker 2: were you here today?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 16: Third, just like a couple of years ago, I called
Speaker 16: you after a show. I hate that, MISSI will you
Speaker 16: remember that?
Speaker 3: How could I forget? That's right?
Speaker 11: Second?
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, but uh, I tell you what. Last year
Speaker 16: we were here and it was like thirty degrees you've
Speaker 16: ever had, David, And uh today it was cold. Got
Speaker 16: the shorts on and the jersey and uh just like
Speaker 16: the temperature. The Thank god, the Dodgers bat started to
Speaker 16: eat up and my son and my son and I
Speaker 16: looked at, you know, each other, man. You know, we'd
Speaker 16: only had a couple of beers to this point. It
Speaker 16: was early, David, and uh down three nothing and we're like,
Speaker 16: here we go. But but hey, you know, I mean
Speaker 16: six games in five games, and let's get it going.
Speaker 16: And finally we saw we saw some bats heat up, man.
Speaker 16: So that's really all I got, David. Uh, just love
Speaker 16: the show man. I tell you what, Uh you know,
Speaker 16: being out here, the ten o'clock games are hard to
Speaker 16: uh are hard to watch. But I wake up early
Speaker 16: to go to work. And I listened to Dodger Dog
Speaker 16: Brother and you're a you're a lifesaver and and thanks
Speaker 16: for what you do, man, I really appreciate you. And
Speaker 16: uh and go Dodgers man.
Speaker 3: All right, Roy, that means a lot to me. Before
Speaker 3: you go.
Speaker 2: For Dodger fans in LA that want to come see
Speaker 2: different stadiums, where would you rate Nationals Park?
Speaker 16: So Nationals Park like it's a great, small stadium. It
Speaker 16: doesn't have as great of a scenic view as like Pittsburgh.
Speaker 16: Like we go to Pittsburgh every year. We were fortunate
Speaker 16: enough last year with Baltimore. Baltimore is another great stadium.
Speaker 16: But you know, top ten, top ten, it's a great
Speaker 16: it's a great area. Of course, you can always find
Speaker 16: a bad area. We know about how LA is as well,
Speaker 16: but it's a great park.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 16: You guys come out when you get a chance. I
Speaker 16: met a lot of people off from Riverside just live
Speaker 16: out in Virginia now because of a ninety four north
Speaker 16: Ridge quake brought me out this way. But yeah, if
Speaker 16: you guys can get out this way, NAT's Park is
Speaker 16: wonderful and make it the East Coast trip and see
Speaker 16: some parks out here on the East Coast. It's wonderful.
Speaker 16: Of course, it ain't Dodger Stadium, but to see the
Speaker 16: Dodgers anywhere as a blessing for sure.
Speaker 2: Man, no, no doubt. Roy great to hear that review.
Speaker 2: And I remember you live in Virginia. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Nationals today thirteen to six, and coming
Speaker 2: back here, I gotta say, you know, this being my
Speaker 2: fifteenth season, there were a lot of trips back and
Speaker 2: forth from Washington, d C. To LA because when the
Speaker 2: Nationals were good with Bryce Harper and then with Juan
Speaker 2: Sota in twenty nineteen, it always seemed like the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and Nats were playing in the NLDS and the pulling
Speaker 2: into the team hotel last night.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: The one thing that I remember the most, and some
Speaker 2: of the visions I have that, you know, really pop
Speaker 2: in my mind when I come back to Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: First and foremost, Uh, the one that sticks out the
Speaker 2: most was Kenley Janssen and Clayton Kershaw teaming up in
Speaker 2: Game five of the NLDS here at Nationals Park, where
Speaker 2: Kenley Jansen came in and really shouldered the middle innings
Speaker 2: of relief. That was the plan the Dodgers had to
Speaker 2: win Game five here and Nationals Park in advance to
Speaker 2: the NLCS in twenty sixteen, and Clayton Krushaw coming in
Speaker 2: after Kenley Jansen to pitch the ninth inning and get
Speaker 2: the final two outs. Remember Kennley Jansen came in and
Speaker 2: pitched two and a third scoreless innings and through fifty
Speaker 2: one pitches before handing the ball to Krushaw, who closed
Speaker 2: it out. I'll remember that celebration like it was yesterday
Speaker 2: for the rest of my life because of that, these
Speaker 2: two guys that had herculean efforts to pitch the Dodgers
Speaker 2: to the NLCS in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: I believe it was the first time.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers had been there since twenty thirteen, but the
Speaker 2: way they did it in an elimination game and going
Speaker 2: outside of their comfort zone and Kershaw closing the game
Speaker 2: and getting the final two outs. I believe he struck
Speaker 2: out Daniel Murphy to end the game and the series.
Speaker 3: I could be wrong. I forgot who it was.
Speaker 2: It could have been Harper, but that's something that sticks
Speaker 2: out to me, and I remember the next morning. There
Speaker 2: was no rest for the weary because the series went
Speaker 2: five games in twenty sixteen and the Dodgers did not
Speaker 2: have home field advantage in the NLCS. We boarded a
Speaker 2: bus the very next morning and went to Chicago for
Speaker 2: the workout against the Cubs at Wrigley Field in Game
Speaker 2: one of the NLCS. Was two days after the Dodgers
Speaker 2: won the NLDS in Game five, and obviously that was
Speaker 2: the Cubs year. Everybody thought that was going to be
Speaker 2: the dynasty. What happened to the Cubs dynasty? It actually
Speaker 2: turned out to be a Dodgers dynasty since twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: when they got their payback on the Cubs and beating
Speaker 2: them in a five game NLCS. Key Key Hernandez with
Speaker 2: three home runs. But yeah, that is the one memory
Speaker 2: that sticks out the most as far as Dodgers Nationals
Speaker 2: here in Washington, DC at Nationals Park. And also I
Speaker 2: remember my first or second year Don Mattingley was the manager.
Speaker 3: It was the regular.
Speaker 2: Season, and there always seems to be rain in the
Speaker 2: forecast here when the Dodgers come to NAT's Park, and
Speaker 2: that night they were forecasting a big time rain and
Speaker 2: we came to the ballpark and they called it off.
Speaker 2: They called it off before first pitch, about an hour
Speaker 2: or two before first pitch, which rarely happens.
Speaker 3: And you know what happened the rest of the night.
Speaker 2: It never rained and Don Mattingley was really hot and
Speaker 2: they had to play a header the next day. But yeah,
Speaker 2: those are the two memories that stick out to me
Speaker 2: the most traveling with the team since twenty twelve, coming
Speaker 2: to a National Spark.
Speaker 3: And I was right.
Speaker 2: It was Daniel Murphy that made the last dow Kershaw
Speaker 2: struck him out in Game five of the twenty sixteen NLDS.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Long Beach. Nick, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Hope you enjoyed that history lesson, Nick of David Vassey's
Speaker 2: Diary of Coming to Washington, DC.
Speaker 17: Loved it, Dave, And actually, I think all Dodger fans
Speaker 17: need to remember all of those times we didn't win,
Speaker 17: because it definitely feels like we're the rich kid who
Speaker 17: grew up, you know, where mom and dad were working
Speaker 17: two jobs and now we're living the good life.
Speaker 5: So, yes, the history lesson was well received.
Speaker 3: And you don't have to go that far anymore.
Speaker 2: Nick, There's so much that has happened in the last
Speaker 2: fifteen years where you know, what the Dodgers have done
Speaker 2: the last two years just seems so far out of reach,
Speaker 2: trying to climb that mountain and coming up short for
Speaker 2: the longest of times. With a lot of guys that
Speaker 2: came up through the system the Dodgers found, like Justin Turner.
Speaker 3: It just that made it more rewarding.
Speaker 2: When they did make it to the World Series in
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, we all know that they probably are the
Speaker 2: World Champions of twenty seventeen, and then in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: those same group of players got to win it, but
Speaker 2: none of us were there to enjoy it with them.
Speaker 2: So that's what the last two years, I think people
Speaker 2: outside of LA failed to realize why nobody's apologizing for anything.
Speaker 16: You're You're absolutely right.
Speaker 17: For those of us, I'm in my I'll.
Speaker 5: Be forty this year.
Speaker 17: The two thousand and eight, the two thousand and nine teams,
Speaker 17: you know that two thousand and six class, your camps,
Speaker 17: der Andres, your Kershaws. You know, for those of us
Speaker 17: had gone through it, to have twenty seventeen stolen, to
Speaker 17: have twenty twenty essentially in enjoy it, but kind of
Speaker 17: enjoy it being at home, scared.
Speaker 16: About the world.
Speaker 17: This last run has been unbelievable, so much so that
Speaker 17: I think next week's series against the Blue Jays is
Speaker 17: going to be absolutely electric for all the reasons you said.
Speaker 17: The people outside of LA don't know why this feels
Speaker 17: the way it does for us, especially those of us
Speaker 17: that you know saw our boys get very close many years,
Speaker 17: but always seem to be a runner up, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Nick, Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Appreciated And I know you know, in the NFL or
Speaker 2: the NBA, you could say, oh, this is a trap
Speaker 2: game or a trap series. Look the Dodgers, I saw
Speaker 2: them earlier today. It was an early game. They had
Speaker 2: a day off yesterday, but they came out again three
Speaker 2: hours before first pitch, and they took infield practice. All
Speaker 2: of the stars, from Freddie Freeman to Miguel Rojas to
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts and Max Munsey, they were all out here,
Speaker 2: and when they came out on the field, there was
Speaker 2: more of a focus today. There was a little little
Speaker 2: bit more urgency. I think they all understood we can't
Speaker 2: let this get too much into a spiral offensively, and
Speaker 2: you saw that tonight obviously or today. Obviously, Miles Michaelis
Speaker 2: helps all that, and his reputation around the league is
Speaker 2: not very popular, so I'm sure the Dodgers took a
Speaker 2: little extra joy beating him down today with an eleven
Speaker 2: run barrage and hitting four home runs and knocking him out.
Speaker 2: But there was a focus to the Dodgers to really,
Speaker 2: you know, put up a win and put together good
Speaker 2: at bats, and we saw that today. They did strike
Speaker 2: out eight times, but they also walked five times, and
Speaker 2: in the previous four or five games a lot more
Speaker 2: strikeouts than walks. Today the Dodgers hit five home runs
Speaker 2: all in all, Miles Michaelis was out of there with
Speaker 2: four and a third and eleven charged Otani, Betts, Pajz again,
Speaker 2: Freeman and Tucker all homered and Andy PAHs to me
Speaker 2: right now, the first seven games MVP of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: hands down. I know it's early, but I do harken
Speaker 2: back to last year. Dodger hitting coach Rob van Zoyak
Speaker 2: predicted Andy Paiz would be an All Star in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six. He told me that I was reminded of
Speaker 2: that today, not by Rob, but by somebody else that
Speaker 2: was in that conversation, and he's he's looking pretty good
Speaker 2: right now. Andy Piez has had a tremendous start to
Speaker 2: the season. He's twelve for twenty five with two home runs,
Speaker 2: seven RBIs and at twelve sixty ops. Andy Paiez today
Speaker 2: three for four with a two run home run as
Speaker 2: the Dodgers beat the Nationals thirteen to six, eight six six, nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five. Seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Pete and San Gacito. How you doing, Pete?
Speaker 11: Good?
Speaker 8: How you doing? David?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great?
Speaker 16: Hey, Hey, I have.
Speaker 11: Just a history for you. Also, I was a.
Speaker 3: Are you are you doing a Steve Hartman to try
Speaker 3: to one up me?
Speaker 11: No, no, don't, don't, not at all.
Speaker 3: Okay, but my uh my.
Speaker 11: Cousin took me out to my first ballgame in nineteen
Speaker 11: sixty nine.
Speaker 18: And guess where that was played at the coliseum, Yes, sir, Yeah,
Speaker 18: the Wally Moon shot and everything else.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that we played against the Giants at that time. Yeah,
Speaker 11: that was a great feeling. And have been a Dodger
Speaker 11: fan ever since, and neverget I.
Speaker 10: Was.
Speaker 2: I was lucky enough to meet Wally Moon. He was
Speaker 2: doing a book signing at Brent's Delhi in Northridge, and
Speaker 2: I went out there and I met him, and uh,
Speaker 2: what a great guy. And for those that don't know
Speaker 2: what a moonshot was, it was Wally Moon who was a.
Speaker 3: Dodger in nineteen fifty nine.
Speaker 2: The call a scene was configured as a baseball field,
Speaker 2: and it was kind of weird the the.
Speaker 3: Dimensions down.
Speaker 2: The left field line was two hundred and fifty feet
Speaker 2: away from home plate and to compensate for that, to
Speaker 2: try to balance out the short distance, they erected a
Speaker 2: forty foot high screen and Wally Moon perfected, getting it
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty two feet and over that forty
Speaker 2: foot fence in left field. So did you ever witness
Speaker 2: a moonshot, Pete?
Speaker 11: No, I did not out of the games I went there. No,
Speaker 11: I never witness set, but you know I saw some
Speaker 11: great players. Duke Snyder, Hodges.
Speaker 3: Jill Hodges made it to LA two.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, they were Sandy kofax Don Drysdale. You know
Speaker 11: you're talking about all the great I got a chance
Speaker 11: to see them, you know, which was really nice. And
Speaker 11: then all the other teams are with their great players,
Speaker 11: you know.
Speaker 3: No doubt.
Speaker 2: Great memories, Pete, great memories. Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: And in nineteen fifty nine, it was only the Dodgers
Speaker 2: second year in LA and they won the World Series,
Speaker 2: beating the White Sox in a seven game series. So
Speaker 2: that's a way to welcome yourself to a city. And
Speaker 2: the passion for Dodger baseball grew from there, and Vince
Speaker 2: Scully obviously had a big part in that. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, there's a microphone
Speaker 2: button on the app. You can press it and talk
Speaker 2: to me. That way, you can record a message if
Speaker 2: you're a little shy to call in live. So you
Speaker 2: could press that microphone button listening to Dodger Talk and
Speaker 2: we'll get the message. We already have gotten a couple
Speaker 2: of messages, but they're very negative towards other play by
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Speaker 2: can rip me and I'll play that. I have no
Speaker 2: problem with you ripping me and us playing it, but
Speaker 2: if you rip somebody else on the broadcast, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: feel right about that. To Eric and Colin, e uh
Speaker 2: deleting all those type of messages, nobody will ever ever
Speaker 2: hear them. But if you want to press the microphone
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Speaker 13: Eric.
Speaker 2: So that's on the iHeartRadio app. Let's go out to Monrovia. Frank,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 19: How you doing, Frank, I'm doing a great Dave, Thanks
Speaker 19: so much for taking my call. Just you know, you
Speaker 19: gotta love it. That is a fun park. Nationals Park
Speaker 19: is a fun park to be at. You know, being
Speaker 19: there on opening day it's gotta be a blessing because
Speaker 19: you know, even though they're you know, by all MLB accounts,
Speaker 19: they're a newer franchise in that area, they are a
Speaker 19: fun team to watch in a fund, It's a fun
Speaker 19: park to be at so you know, David, enjoy it
Speaker 19: while you're there.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Frank, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's one of the more underrated
Speaker 2: ballparks in baseball. Another memory here looking out to right
Speaker 2: field where they have a shake shack. I remember I
Speaker 2: was here in my first season with the Dodgers, traveling
Speaker 2: twenty twelve, trying to get my bearings, and my wife
Speaker 2: was pregnant with our daughter, our first child, and we
Speaker 2: didn't know the gender, and she went to a doctor's
Speaker 2: appointment alone and found out that it was going to
Speaker 2: be a girl. And as I ordered my shake shack
Speaker 2: and was putting it on the high top table out there,
Speaker 2: I remember getting the phone call and my wife telling
Speaker 2: us that we were going to have a baby girl.
Speaker 2: And my daughter just turned thirteen on opening day actually
Speaker 2: March twenty sixth, and thinking about that as well. Those
Speaker 2: are some of the memories that stick out baseball wise
Speaker 2: and personally. Coming back to National Spark, All right, we're
Speaker 2: gonna take a time out, our final timeout. As we
Speaker 2: lead you up to the top of the hour, that's
Speaker 2: where Petros and money will take over more of your
Speaker 2: phone calls. At eight sixty six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy and we'll here for manager Dave Roberts after
Speaker 2: the Dodger offense comes to life with thirteen runs to
Speaker 2: beat the Nationals thirteen to six on a five to
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: On air at AM five seventy, online at AM five
Speaker 1: seventy LA sports dot com, and available my podcast on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: This is Dodger Talk with David Bass.
Speaker 11: Sam.
Speaker 9: How about this portion of the middle four, five and
Speaker 9: six combined pull four to six, but Freddie Freeman launches
Speaker 9: to right field and it is gone into the second
Speaker 9: deck above the Dodger bullpen. Another home run for the Dodgers,
Speaker 9: and that's how the middle of the order gets involved.
Speaker 9: Freddie Freeman had a two run blast.
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman homers for the second straight game.
Speaker 2: This one comes in a win as the Dodgers blow
Speaker 2: out the Nationals thirteen to six. Miles Michaelas gave up
Speaker 2: four of the five Dodger home runs today. Michaelas has
Speaker 2: the distinction of giving up the most runs earned runs to.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers in quite a few years.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Dodgers were doing some things against Miles
Speaker 2: Michaelis and hopefully that gets them out of their slump.
Speaker 2: I'm finding that note that I shared earlier today. Michaelas's
Speaker 2: eleven earned runs today are the most a pitcher has
Speaker 2: allowed in a game in National Slash Expos history. Patrick
Speaker 2: Corbin remember him from the twenty nineteen championship team. He
Speaker 2: gave up eleven runs last or in twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: to the Diamondbacks, but only ten were earned and that's
Speaker 2: the first time the Dodgers have put up up ten
Speaker 2: or more runs on an individual pitcher since May twenty eighth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, against the Rays Josh Fleming.
Speaker 3: But the Dodgers lost that game. Today they win.
Speaker 2: So not only does o'tani hit his first home run
Speaker 2: of the season, Kyle Tucker hit his first home run
Speaker 2: as a Dodger, and I'm taking full credit for it
Speaker 2: since he was our pregame guest. I told him pregame
Speaker 2: karma right there. Three hits including a home run, and
Speaker 2: he was oh so close to hitting a second for
Speaker 2: a Grand Slam, and Taeoscar Hernandez legged out two in
Speaker 2: field hits. Today he had three hits and scored three times.
Speaker 2: So a big day up and down the lineup for
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Speaker 2: All right, let's hear from manager Dave Roberts, who spoke
Speaker 2: after the game with the reporters.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure is lead.
Speaker 2: He didn't have to answer questions like what's wrong with
Speaker 2: your offense?
Speaker 20: You know, yeah, I thought they were all good. Really,
Speaker 20: it was good to see those guys break out. The
Speaker 20: top four guys in our lineup all homeward. You know,
Speaker 20: Rome is and burning, you know, and but a lot
Speaker 20: of it. Andy, Andy is swinging the heck out of it.
Speaker 20: You know, He's just taking consistent at bats and getting
Speaker 20: on base, turning the lineup over and you know, it
Speaker 20: was just good to see those other guys catch up
Speaker 20: and do some have production today, And it was good.
Speaker 20: And also we got some guys that hadn't pitched much,
Speaker 20: got them some innings and then some work and so say,
Speaker 20: some other guys for the next two ball games.
Speaker 10: With Emmett today, it seemed like it was a little
Speaker 10: bit of a grind for him, but for him just
Speaker 10: to touch the sixth inning. What were you seeing there?
Speaker 20: You know, I thought it was a little bit of
Speaker 20: a grind, but I do think that, you know, in total,
Speaker 20: the alum was much better. His direction was much better.
Speaker 20: I thought he sequenced a lot better than he did
Speaker 20: in his previous outing. And Will did a really nice
Speaker 20: job with him. So you know, made that pitch uh
Speaker 20: to uh in the first inning to Abrams at fastball
Speaker 20: up when you had count leverage and got to a
Speaker 20: high heater. But aside from that, I thought he did
Speaker 20: a really nice job.
Speaker 11: What was different about those bets?
Speaker 6: So Tony Tucker, that's free minute top to want to know.
Speaker 20: You know, yeah, I think a little bit of it.
Speaker 20: As we've we've had a lot of history with Michaelis,
Speaker 20: so we've seen him know some of the tendencies, and yeah,
Speaker 20: outside of that, they were just you know, not missing
Speaker 20: today and we got some traffic, took some walks and
Speaker 20: throught a lot of hits.
Speaker 10: What did it like to kind of just start your offense?
Speaker 20: I think so, you know, and there was a lot
Speaker 20: of hooplog going on to that first home stand, so
Speaker 20: hopefully getting on the road, guys getting their rest. You know,
Speaker 20: we seem to swing the bats well here and so hopefully, yeah,
Speaker 20: this will spur something else, relief. I did you know
Speaker 20: he looked up to the skies too after, So that
Speaker 20: was so, you know, greater powers might have something to
Speaker 20: do with that one too. But yeah, it was good
Speaker 20: specifically what he did.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 20: I think the first thing is I thought he was
Speaker 20: using the big part of the field. You know, that's
Speaker 20: something that you know, it's right center to center field.
Speaker 20: Even on that last sackfly, even against the left of
Speaker 20: the O two, hitting the ball hard to the left fielder,
Speaker 20: I thought that was good. So I just thought he
Speaker 20: took much better at bats, be a little bit, I
Speaker 20: think a little bit he gets a little pool happy
Speaker 20: at times. Yeah, yeah, maybe, but you see those at
Speaker 20: Kyle today, Kyle. You know he he's aggressive. You know,
Speaker 20: he's a little bit more aggressive early in the count
Speaker 20: than I than I recall. But yeah, I think it
Speaker 20: was just good to see him square some balls up.
Speaker 20: So and actually I think his third a bat when
Speaker 20: he got the the base hit the line driver to
Speaker 20: right field. I thought the swings looked better. I think
Speaker 20: he's ended the ground better than he was previously, much
Speaker 20: more stable, and the swings looked much more syncd up.
Speaker 20: I think his mechanics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, there's manager Dave Roberts. Thanks to Sports
Speaker 2: in at LA for bringing us the Dodger manager. After
Speaker 2: the Dodgers beat the Nats today thirteen to six and
Speaker 2: spoil their home opener. One thing that Rick Monday told
Speaker 2: me before the game regarding Kyle Tucker and his swing, Look,
Speaker 2: he's not trying to do too much. That's just not
Speaker 2: his personality. He's not allowing any of that to affect him.
Speaker 2: But the reality talking to some people around the team
Speaker 2: that know hitting a lot better than I do, they
Speaker 2: just said, right now, he's a little lost at the plate,
Speaker 2: and you could see that in his first at bat
Speaker 2: because Rick Monday pointed something out to me, a great
Speaker 2: visual I think you can all appreciate, is that he
Speaker 2: believed his was long and he was surrounding the baseball
Speaker 2: instead of being shorter to the point of contact. And
Speaker 2: then as the game went on, you started to see
Speaker 2: him surround the ball less and just be Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: And I think getting on the road for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: there was a lot going on this home stand for everybody.
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of celebration of the team coming
Speaker 2: off their back to back championships, and I just believe
Speaker 2: that getting away from home sometimes can be a blessing
Speaker 2: in disguise, especially if you're a hitter.
Speaker 3: And I think we saw that today.
Speaker 2: Now tomorrow they're facing Jake Irvin, who's the National's best pitcher.
Speaker 3: He's a right hander.
Speaker 2: But that's gonna be a tougher test than Miles Michaelis.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Huntington Beach. Paul, you're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk with David Vasse.
Speaker 5: How you doing, Paul hey Man, Good to check in
Speaker 5: with you here early in the season. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 5: I mean, one thing that's jumped out of me. Mookie
Speaker 5: bats looks so much more comfortable and so much better.
Speaker 5: Obviously easy to say that after he hits a home
Speaker 5: run today, but I mean just he doesn't look lost,
Speaker 5: he doesn't look overmatched. He looks almost like Mookie Bets
Speaker 5: of old. And what a great sign that is. I mean,
Speaker 5: the whole team, they really didn't play great baseball at home.
Speaker 5: You look up and the team's five and two. I mean,
Speaker 5: the talent alone is going to carry this group a
Speaker 5: long way. But all signs are pointing in the right direction.
Speaker 5: I'm fired up for where this thing can go.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 5: I mean, dare we say, you know, I don't want
Speaker 5: to say the three P thing, but let's say a
Speaker 5: three P It's a long way from that. But everything's
Speaker 5: looking really, really good. Man, good to talk to you.
Speaker 5: Hope you have a good trip.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Paul appreciate it. I'm not sure if
Speaker 2: you heard Mooki Betts when he talked to us after
Speaker 2: the game. He's just in a great headspace. And he
Speaker 2: was in spring training as well. That's a big part
Speaker 2: of it. And look, there are going to be times
Speaker 2: where things are not going great for Mookie and he's
Speaker 2: got to stay up. I think that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 2: It's incredible to hear former teammates, current teammates say sometimes
Speaker 2: he forgets how good he is. That your Mookie freaking
Speaker 2: bet So. I think that's the biggest thing for him.
Speaker 2: And I just love where his head is at. I
Speaker 2: think that's a big part of the way he sounded today,
Speaker 2: the way he's swinging the bat, and the way he's
Speaker 2: playing really good shortstop.
Speaker 3: All of that really matters.
Speaker 2: And I can't say enough about Andy pa has because
Speaker 2: if you remember on this very show. Around this time
Speaker 2: last year, everybody was calling for Andy po has to
Speaker 2: be sent down or to be benched because he had
Speaker 2: a rough first couple of weeks. Well, he put in
Speaker 2: the work defensively and you can see what's happening here offensively.
Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy when people come up to me
Speaker 2: and ask me, Man, Pahz is really having a good
Speaker 2: bounce back year, or do you think Andy Pajez is
Speaker 2: going to have a bounce back year? A bounce back year.
Speaker 2: The guy had twenty seven home runs as a rookie.
Speaker 2: I don't know what everybody's talking about as far as
Speaker 2: this bounce back year. Andy Poie has played great center
Speaker 2: field last year and hit twenty seven home runs, drove
Speaker 2: in eighty six runs. Hitting at the bottom of the
Speaker 2: Dodgers order. He hit two seventy two last year. A
Speaker 2: bounce back year. Oh, you're talking about the struggles in
Speaker 2: the postseason. Yeah, that happens to young players sometimes, especially
Speaker 2: aggressive hitters. He only walked once the entire postseason, but
Speaker 2: he did put the ball in play when it mattered
Speaker 2: the most in Game four of the NLDS against the Phillies.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You remember his son, Kim at third base, Oryan Keckering
Speaker 2: throwing the ball away that was actually Andy pie Has
Speaker 2: who hit that comebacker to him. But look, young players
Speaker 2: are going to struggle at times. I feel like, again
Speaker 2: we've been so spoiled by guys like Cody Bellinger and
Speaker 2: Keithy a Hernandez, just to name a few that were
Speaker 2: young players that succeeded in their first experience with the postseason.
Speaker 2: But if you go back to twenty fifteen the NLDS,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers lost to the Mets, Corey Seger started all
Speaker 2: five of those games, and he didn't do very well
Speaker 2: in his first experience in the postseason, but then he
Speaker 2: came back in a big way the rest of his
Speaker 2: Dodger career when the World Series MVP in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: when the World Series MVP with the Rangers in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three. So not every path for a young player
Speaker 2: in the postseason is linear. So let's not forget that.
Speaker 2: There have been some pretty good rookies that have struggled
Speaker 2: in October and Paz was one of those guys and
Speaker 2: it just seems like that has put an extra chip
Speaker 2: on his shoulder.
Speaker 3: It made him work more to try to be better to.
Speaker 2: Shore up some of those holes to be better ready
Speaker 2: for October now that he has that experience.
Speaker 3: But I'm just blown away. It's not just one.
Speaker 2: Person, it's multiple people that have come up to me
Speaker 2: and asked me, do you think he's going to have
Speaker 2: a bounce back year or now that they're seeing a
Speaker 2: good spring training and a good start to the season. Man,
Speaker 2: it's so great to see Andy Paie has bounce back,
Speaker 2: bounce back from a disappointing October. Sure, but he had
Speaker 2: a great season last year and the Dodgers don't win
Speaker 2: ninety three games without Andy pa Has. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Tony and Corona. You're on Dodger Talk Live from
Speaker 2: Nationals Park.
Speaker 21: Hi, Tony, Hi Green, thank you for the time. I
Speaker 21: am not a Dodger fan. My calendar is still up
Speaker 21: in my office from October of twenty twenty four, third week.
Speaker 12: Which was a disaster for my Yankees. However, however, I
Speaker 12: wanted to make a very positive comment about the broadcast team.
Speaker 12: Since I can't get my Yankees on the radio out here,
Speaker 12: I listen to every Dog game that I can, and
Speaker 12: I think that Steve Nilson and Rick Monday are two
Speaker 12: of the very, very finest broadcasters. They know the game
Speaker 12: better than anyone, and high praise for Dodger ownership and
Speaker 12: management to have people like you, David, as well as
Speaker 12: Steve and Rick to the calls. It's a pleasure to
Speaker 12: listen to them, even though I'm not even though I'm
Speaker 12: not a Dodger fan.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, Tony. Hey, since you are a Yankees fan.
Speaker 2: Former Dodger Cody Bellinger made a wild circus catch today
Speaker 2: in center field. It looked like at Yankee Stadium their
Speaker 2: home opener. You got to check out that highlight it was.
Speaker 2: It was incredible, incredible hand eye coordination. The ball pops
Speaker 2: out of his glove as he's going back to the wall,
Speaker 2: and somehow, some way, as he's running towards the wall,
Speaker 2: the ball has popped out of his glove and he
Speaker 2: flips the glove over and catches the ball on the run.
Speaker 3: You got to see this highlight play.
Speaker 12: Oh, I will, I will. He looks great in pinstripes.
Speaker 12: Thanks for letting me know about that play. Thank you, David.
Speaker 2: All right, Tony, thank you for the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you want to talk about an October performer? How many
Speaker 2: guys can say that they played in the three biggest
Speaker 2: markets in their major league career and performed really well.
Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger, obviously home grown with the Dodgers, won the
Speaker 2: MVP in twenty nineteen. Came up with so many clutch hits,
Speaker 2: including the big one, the home run in Game seven
Speaker 2: of the twenty NLCS. He also came up with a
Speaker 2: big base hit to drive in the go ahead run
Speaker 2: in San Francisco during the twenty one NLDS. He played
Speaker 2: big for the Dodgers, goes to Chicago, plays his way
Speaker 2: into going to New York, and played great last year
Speaker 2: for the Yankees so much so they wanted him back
Speaker 2: so badly they paid him with a big contract, and
Speaker 2: now he's Him and Aaron Judge are going to be
Speaker 2: teammates probably the rest of his career. So awesome, awesome player,
Speaker 2: and not too many people and players can say that
Speaker 2: they played in LA, Chicago, and New York and played
Speaker 2: great in all. Three eight, six, six, seven, two, five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number? Hey, I mentioned that microphone
Speaker 2: in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: We got a message here.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to hear the first message that we
Speaker 2: play from the iHeartRadio app talkback on Dodger Talk, Colin,
Speaker 2: let's hear what this guy had to say.
Speaker 3: No one cares about your memories.
Speaker 1: Dave just gona Petrow some money.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, what play that again, Colin? No one
Speaker 3: cares about your memories.
Speaker 5: Dave just go to Petrow some money.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, we're gonna do that right now. Man,
Speaker 2: see vicious vicious Petro some money. Listeners, they they want
Speaker 2: to hear twenty minutes of a frogman sound effect. They
Speaker 2: want to hear dead guy, alive guy, I could tell
Speaker 2: you whose birthday it was. That's alive and dead. If
Speaker 2: you want, we can do that too here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, the Dodgers and Nationals will hook up for the
Speaker 2: second game of this three game series. Tyler Glass now
Speaker 2: will be making his second start of the year. I
Speaker 2: predict an All Star bid again for Tyler Glass Now.
Speaker 3: This year he has looked fantastic.
Speaker 2: He's going up against Jake Irvin of the Nationals, the
Speaker 2: best they have to offer.
Speaker 3: Marongo Casino.
Speaker 2: Dodgers on Deck begins at I was giving you Eastern
Speaker 2: Standard time.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: The game, our coverage begins at noon Pacific time. It's
Speaker 2: a three o'clock Marongo Casino, Dodgers on deck on the
Speaker 2: East coast, first pitch in La one oh five between
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and Nationals, and obviously everybody's anticipating the next
Speaker 2: stop on this road trip. The Dodgers will be going
Speaker 2: to Toronto, Canada, the site of where.
Speaker 3: They won the World Series a year ago.
Speaker 2: Everybody has had that series circled on their calendar since
Speaker 2: the schedule came out. You know, sometimes players try to
Speaker 2: play it cool and they say, you know what, we're
Speaker 2: just worried about the Nationals right now, or we're not
Speaker 2: looking ahead to that well, going back to the last
Speaker 2: homestand every player is very aware of where this road
Speaker 2: trip is taking them. It's taking them back to the
Speaker 2: scene of where they won Game six to force a
Speaker 2: Game seven and winning that thanks to Miguel Rojas and
Speaker 2: Will Smith and Yoshi Yamamoto. That is going to be
Speaker 2: a fun three game series in early April. You don't
Speaker 2: get these type of series early in April unless you're
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and the schedule makers certainly knew what they
Speaker 2: were doing scheduling the Dodgers and Blue Jays in the
Speaker 2: first couple of weeks of the regular season. You want
Speaker 2: to capitalize on the momentum of what many agree was
Speaker 2: the best World Series they have ever seen, one of
Speaker 2: the great World series they have ever witnessed in the
Speaker 2: history of the game, and one of, if not the
Speaker 2: greatest Game seven in any World series.
Speaker 3: The only other Game seven that could rival the one that.
Speaker 2: We saw last year was Game seven of the nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety one World Series, where and when extra innings and
Speaker 2: John Smoltz and Jack Morris were matching each other pitch
Speaker 2: for pitch. But it didn't have the swings and the
Speaker 2: plays that Game seven of last.
Speaker 3: Year's World Series had.
Speaker 2: So that's going to be fun, and certainly it's on
Speaker 2: everybody's radar for the Dodgers and Blue Jays to hook
Speaker 2: up starting Monday night in Canada. I'm curious to see
Speaker 2: because Rick Monday has told us so many stories about how,
Speaker 2: you know, he got put in a little extra room
Speaker 2: when he went back to Montreal after his big home
Speaker 2: run on Blue Monday in nineteen eighty one. How are
Speaker 2: they going to treat Miguel Rojas and Will Smith and
Speaker 2: Yamamoto as they go from Washington, DC to Toronto, Canada.
Speaker 2: So that'll be that'll be a fun time. And you know, look,
Speaker 2: it's the first week of April. It's not the World Series.
Speaker 2: I think we all have to keep that perspective. But
Speaker 2: it's gonna be fun, it's going to be electric, it's
Speaker 2: going to be epic. A rematch of two teams that
Speaker 2: gave us such a great World Series last year, this
Speaker 2: early in the season, I am very lucky to be
Speaker 2: on this trip with the Dodgers to go back there,
Speaker 2: and looking forward to see what the crowd reaction is
Speaker 2: there in Toronto.
Speaker 3: If you're going to make the long.
Speaker 2: Road trip with the Dodgers to go back to Toronto,
Speaker 2: I would love to hear from you tomorrow when we
Speaker 2: have postgame Dodger talks. So it's gonna be fun and
Speaker 2: hopefully these bats stay hot going into Canada, because the
Speaker 2: Dodgers certainly are going to face a very good Blue Jay.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this during the opening day Dodger Talk and
Speaker 2: I'm sticking with it. I don't see the Blue Jays
Speaker 2: making it back to the World Series. I'm predicting a
Speaker 2: rematch of the twenty twenty four World Series. I think
Speaker 2: it's Dodgers Yankees again this year, and if it's not
Speaker 2: Dodgers Yankees.
Speaker 3: It could be Dodgers Mariners.
Speaker 2: Remember the Mariners were one game away from going to
Speaker 2: the World Series last year as well. So I don't
Speaker 2: I don't feel like the Blue Jays have the pitching
Speaker 2: this year. They're missing Bobashett as well and Trey Yah Savage,
Speaker 2: who you know, really mowed down the Dodgers until Muncie's
Speaker 2: Game seven home run off of him. He's actually hurt
Speaker 2: right now, so the Dodgers won't see him just as
Speaker 2: a preview what's what's to come. So I'm I'm pretty
Speaker 2: confident that we may see Dodgers Yankees again and we'll
Speaker 2: see how that goes down. But that also would be
Speaker 2: great momentum again to see the Dodgers and Yankees in
Speaker 2: the world say all right, there's a long way to
Speaker 2: go before all that.
Speaker 3: But we do got Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Blue Jays starting Monday right here on A five seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports. And we have Dodgers Nationals tomorrow right here
Speaker 2: on AM five seventy LA Sports. Like I mentioned, our
Speaker 2: coverage begins at noon, first pitch at one five in
Speaker 2: Game two of this three game series in our nation's capital.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald hanging out late night here in Washington, DC.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Colin Yee back at our Burbank Studios, and
Speaker 2: thanks to you for listening. If you missed any of
Speaker 2: the show or our pregame Karma interview with Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 2: you can find it on the iHeart Radio app. Coming
Speaker 2: up next, Petrose and Money. Do you think either one
Speaker 2: of those guys A knows that it's Tim Kate's birthday?
Speaker 3: And B if they do know, do you believe that
Speaker 3: they got him a birthday gift?
Speaker 2: I got the under on both Petros and Money is
Speaker 2: next once again the final score from Nationals Park in.
Speaker 3: Washington, DC.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers defeat the Nationals in a big way thirteen
Speaker 2: to six.
Speaker 3: Have a great rest of your Friday.
Speaker 2: Petros and Money is next, see them