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Speaker 2: AM five to seventy LA Sports. After the Dodgers end
Speaker 2: the Cubs ten game winning streak with a twelve to
Speaker 2: four victory, we have lines open at eight six six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy. Coming up on the show,
Speaker 2: we'll check in with Jose Mota. Also, Andrew Friedman shared
Speaker 2: some very candid things regarding sho Heo Tani, the Otani rule,
Speaker 2: and how the Dodgers may not gate the rest of
Speaker 2: the season on the days that Otani is pitching, so
Speaker 2: you don't want to miss that. And also we'll share
Speaker 2: with you Vin Sculli's call fifty years ago today when
Speaker 2: Rick Monday made that great play saving the American flag,
Speaker 2: and it was a great night here at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: Rick rightfully so celebrated before, during, and after tonight's game,
Speaker 2: and it was great to see him and his family
Speaker 2: together here in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium. His great
Speaker 2: wife Barbara Lee, his stepdaughter Ashley, his brother in law
Speaker 2: was in the house. And of course the American flag.
Speaker 2: And in case you don't know this, it was mentioned
Speaker 2: during the game and before the game, and Rica and
Speaker 2: Josh Rawitch, the president of the Baseball Hall of Fame,
Speaker 2: joined Joe Davis during the fifth inning and shared the
Speaker 2: news that the flag is on its way to Cooperstown
Speaker 2: to be part of the celebration of the two hundred
Speaker 2: and fiftieth year of our great country. So a lot
Speaker 2: of celebration this year, and certainly a celebration for not
Speaker 2: only one of the monumental moments in baseball history, but
Speaker 2: certainly in recent American history. I mean, that was a
Speaker 2: significant moment and that flag certainly represents a lot. So
Speaker 2: great to have Rick Monday celebrated out here at Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium fifty years ago today when he made that great
Speaker 2: play and the Dodgers did him justice, and I know
Speaker 2: he and his wife were thrilled with the way things
Speaker 2: went tonight. So a great job by the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: celebrating a great moment in not only Dodgers stadium history,
Speaker 2: but baseball history and American history. Eight six six, nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Well, it was good to see.
Speaker 2: A couple of Dodgers that were scuffling breakout tonight. Ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez was a big part of the sixth run
Speaker 2: inning in the fourth and the four run inning in
Speaker 2: the sixth. So is Andy Pajez, who started the season
Speaker 2: so hot but started to cool off towards the end
Speaker 2: of the last homestand and it was good to see
Speaker 2: him have a couple of hits and three RBIs. And
Speaker 2: it was also good to see Shoe Aotani take two walks,
Speaker 2: score twice, and get his first hit in thirteen at
Speaker 2: bats by going to left field, so that also was
Speaker 2: a positive, and Taoscar Hernandez going the opposite way. All
Speaker 2: the coaches Dave Roberts say that's when Taoscar Hernandez is
Speaker 2: at his best, when he's using the big part of
Speaker 2: the field. So all of these things were good, but
Speaker 2: maybe none better than Roki Sasaki. Look, it's been a
Speaker 2: work in progress, and I'm not saying it was, you know,
Speaker 2: a flying success, but considering we're talking about this picture
Speaker 2: in that context, it was a big one. And he
Speaker 2: was throwing strikes, something that he has struggled to do.
Speaker 2: Coming into the game tonight, Sasaki had only thrown forty
Speaker 2: percent of his pitches in the strike zone. Tonight it
Speaker 2: was a season high forty nine percent of his pitches
Speaker 2: were in the strike zone. He also threw twenty of
Speaker 2: twenty three first pitch strikes. That's part of the reason
Speaker 2: why he only walked one batter. So, I mean, all
Speaker 2: of these things were departure from what we have seen
Speaker 2: from Sasaki to begin this year and going back to
Speaker 2: last year as a starting pitcher. And it's hard to
Speaker 2: ignore the fact that his split fingered pitch was much
Speaker 2: different than what we have seen in the past because
Speaker 2: there was more spin rate on it. It didn't look
Speaker 2: like a knuckleball, and it was more of a pitch
Speaker 2: that dove down in the strike zone, and maybe that's
Speaker 2: why he threw it so much. He threw it forty
Speaker 2: three times. That's more than he's thrown it all year long,
Speaker 2: and the most in his career. Thirty for thirty of
Speaker 2: those forty three split fingered pitches were a strike. I mean,
Speaker 2: he doesn't land it at that high of a rate
Speaker 2: fifty percent. So my suspicion is Connor McGinnis the best
Speaker 2: kept secret in baseball, one of the Dodger pitching coaches,
Speaker 2: probably work with Sasaki in between starts to come up
Speaker 2: with this different version of the splitter. So you know,
Speaker 2: I'll ask Connor about it tomorrow. He doesn't like to
Speaker 2: take too much credit, but uh, that's my first suspicion.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. The Dodgers in the Cubs winning streak
Speaker 2: at ten by scoring double digits for the fifth time
Speaker 2: this season. That's the most by any team in baseball.
Speaker 2: So they're capable if they just stay within themselves and
Speaker 2: pass the baton like they did to like they did tonight,
Speaker 2: And it was evident not only by the twelve runs,
Speaker 2: but also the fact fact that they walked six times
Speaker 2: and only struck out seven times as a group. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to the phones for the first time tonight.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Tom who is out here at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: Hi, Tom, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hey, Dave, great game tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nice to come out and see that
Speaker 2: type of offensive output after a disappointing loss last night.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I appreciate the Dodgers winning on my sixty second birthday.
Speaker 3: Well, happy birthday, Tom, Thank you.
Speaker 5: So my question to you is this, I broke you
Speaker 5: through a lot of strikes, and you gotta like that.
Speaker 5: But what about the pitches he's missing on.
Speaker 3: As far as what.
Speaker 5: Giving up those home runs?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, part of the reason why he gave up
Speaker 2: those home runs was because he was more in the
Speaker 2: strike zone. So I'll take what we got tonight. I
Speaker 2: don't love the home runs either, Tom, but the way
Speaker 2: he was throwing strikes tonight was more more than what
Speaker 2: we have seen ever from Roki Sasaki.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was definitely throwing strikes and that's much appreciated
Speaker 5: from his last few games.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: And you know, certainly you got to give some credit
Speaker 2: to those hitters. The home runs he gave up were
Speaker 2: two really good hitters, and Saya Suzuki and nobody in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles knows this guy's name, but Michael Bush and
Speaker 2: Pete crow Armstrong told me their DH Moyses Balestros is
Speaker 2: one of the best hitters they have in their lineup.
Speaker 2: So he's a pure hitter and he gave up a
Speaker 2: home run to him. So you got to tip your
Speaker 2: caps sometimes to the opposing hitters as well, who came
Speaker 2: in with winning ten in a row. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Minneapolis. Bob listening on the iHeartRadio app. How you doing, Bob,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: I'm doing great and thanks for taking a call. Hey, listen,
Speaker 6: a great game tonight, especially after that tough one last night.
Speaker 7: I was calling tonight about Pete.
Speaker 6: Crow Armstrong and I'm originally from Chicago, and so just
Speaker 6: to give you some insights, I think his dad is
Speaker 6: from Naperville, which is a suburb west of Chicago by
Speaker 6: about forty miles, and I think his dad was a
Speaker 6: hardcore Cubs fan. So even though he went to Harvard Westlake,
Speaker 6: I think that's the reason why Pete row Armstrong is
Speaker 6: a Cubs fan.
Speaker 7: And then on top of that.
Speaker 6: Having gone to many many Cubs games, there is no
Speaker 6: fan base that during the summertime, where probably fifty percent
Speaker 6: of fans aren't from Chicago. They're tourists who are coming
Speaker 6: there and checking it off their list, like going to
Speaker 6: Sears Tower and the Bean. So when I go to
Speaker 6: Dodgers Stadium, the fans are all happy, they're excited. As
Speaker 6: you've said many times, it's an event. I love being there,
Speaker 6: and it is night and day from regularly, which again
Speaker 6: is a tourist fan base and usually empty when it's
Speaker 6: cold in April.
Speaker 7: So that's where I got.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when they're losing. When they're losing, they don't sell
Speaker 2: out Wrigley Field, so they love it when they win
Speaker 2: there too. They're the bandwagon city, not La. Thanks for
Speaker 2: the phone call, Bob, I appreciate it. Look I like
Speaker 2: pie Crow Armstrong, had a chance to talk to him,
Speaker 2: got to know him at one of Justin Turner's golf
Speaker 2: tournaments a couple of years ago. And look, he's the
Speaker 2: heel and he's that type of player that feeds off
Speaker 2: of that. So the more you boo him, the more
Speaker 2: he loves it. But he's not backing down from his comments.
Speaker 2: I don't agree with them, but I mean that's him.
Speaker 2: He's leaning into it and I appreciate that more than
Speaker 2: what Craig Council did yesterday, where he kind of shied
Speaker 2: away from the opportunity here at Dodger Stadium to double
Speaker 2: down or expand on his comments about changing the Otani rule.
Speaker 2: And you'll hear from Andrew Freeman about that in a
Speaker 2: moment as well. Let's go out to Chance. Who is
Speaker 2: at the game tonight, High Chance, you're on Dodger.
Speaker 5: Talk, Hey, David, how's going.
Speaker 2: It's going great when the Dodgers win and scored twelve
Speaker 2: runs and beat the lovable Losers, who, by the way,
Speaker 2: don't have many endearing characters on their team this year.
Speaker 2: Alex Bregman, Pete Crow, Armstrong, Craig Council, all of them
Speaker 2: are viewed as villains these days in La.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, No, it was great.
Speaker 5: I was telling my dad tonight.
Speaker 7: You know, you know, Rokies got a channel his man
Speaker 7: or near his biblehead night energy. And I think Tony
Speaker 7: was huge with his confidence and have some good offensive
Speaker 7: firepower behind him and hopefully, you know, he takes this
Speaker 7: win and kind.
Speaker 5: Of builds off of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this split finger pitch that we saw tonight. Chance,
Speaker 2: if he can build upon the way he pitched it tonight,
Speaker 2: then he may have something. And if he has fastball
Speaker 2: command plus this pitch certainly interesting moving forward.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for the phone call. Appreciated.
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Speaker 2: Let's go out to Chris, who is at the ballpark today. Hi, Chris,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hey David, this is me Chris, the one that you
Speaker 8: saw early in the morning, early at the beginning of
Speaker 8: the game.
Speaker 7: Thank you for the shoutout on IG.
Speaker 8: I appreciate it, brother, appreciate all that you do.
Speaker 2: Man, Hey Chris, I'm glad somebody's listening. I was just
Speaker 2: excited to meet somebody that listens.
Speaker 8: Most definitely, man, and I wanted to talk, you know,
Speaker 8: real quick like.
Speaker 5: Games like this are amazing because you.
Speaker 8: Know, you talk about you know, MLB one and the
Speaker 8: implement payroll, all our big names. You know, you got Mookie,
Speaker 8: you got Okani, you got Tucker, But I want to
Speaker 8: talk about the others.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 8: Alex Freelan good ball in the bat, he saw, He's
Speaker 8: on Kim whenever he plays, like I love when he plays.
Speaker 7: He's amazing man.
Speaker 8: But I want to talk about the others, Like I
Speaker 8: really love games like this where we're able to, you know,
Speaker 8: not depend on such a big start, but you know,
Speaker 8: these guys come up touch and you know, put backs
Speaker 8: on the ball.
Speaker 7: We're in the.
Speaker 8: Bases very efficiently. But all in all, a good night,
Speaker 8: a good game tonight.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 8: Like I said, appreciate the shout out.
Speaker 9: Brother.
Speaker 2: You do what you're doing, all right, Chris, thanks a
Speaker 2: lot for the love. Appreciate it. Thanks for being a
Speaker 2: loyal Dodger fan. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number I see Jed Hoyer
Speaker 2: the Cubs GM talking to Dave Roberts. They go back
Speaker 2: to their days in San Diego together. But yesterday, if
Speaker 2: you were listening to the show before the game, I
Speaker 2: went into Craig Council's pregame media session and try to
Speaker 2: ask him to expand or clarify why he believes the
Speaker 2: Otani rules should be changed. He wouldn't and in fact
Speaker 2: kind of shot me down, and you can hear that
Speaker 2: on our and five seventy LA Sports social media pages
Speaker 2: and also on last night's Dodger Talk. But today we
Speaker 2: had Andrew Friedman as our pregame guest. And Andrew was
Speaker 2: very can with us about a couple of topics surrounding Otani. First,
Speaker 2: about Otani and whether or not he will continue to
Speaker 2: lead off in DH on the days that he pitches
Speaker 2: the rest of the year, and then listen for his
Speaker 2: answer about all the talk about the Otani rule all
Speaker 2: of a sudden the last week out of nowhere, considering
Speaker 2: this rule has been put in place back in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, a lot of talk about him not being
Speaker 2: as good of a hitter to day that he pitches.
Speaker 2: How do you look at that conversation about looking at it,
Speaker 2: evaluating where he hits in the lineup, whether or not
Speaker 2: he does it when he pitches.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think it's all part of the
Speaker 10: rest and what makes the most sense. You know, it
Speaker 10: doesn't make sense for him to go wire to wire
Speaker 10: pitch your hit or playing every day, pitching every week.
Speaker 10: That's hard, and so we do need to mix some
Speaker 10: rest in there. Whether we do it on the day
Speaker 10: starts and then therefore he can't hit late in the game,
Speaker 10: or if we do it around it the day before,
Speaker 10: the day after, we at least have the silver bullet
Speaker 10: off the bench and the ninth inning in a tight
Speaker 10: game to be able to pin shit. You know, all
Speaker 10: those are questions, and I think, you know, getting with
Speaker 10: him and from our standpoint, if there's a clear answer
Speaker 10: whatever it is, we're great with it. If there's not
Speaker 10: a clear answer, it's just going to require a lot
Speaker 10: of conversation and some trial and error to kind of
Speaker 10: feel it out.
Speaker 2: I mean, like you said, it's not normal. He's one
Speaker 2: of one and he's thirty one years old. Now, how
Speaker 2: much do we all take that for granted what he's
Speaker 2: doing is normal when it's not.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think most things that we encounter,
Speaker 10: we all have some kind of mental rolodex we can
Speaker 10: go back to and like, oh yeah, in my experience
Speaker 10: it's this. Oh hey, there is none of that, and
Speaker 10: we have no experience dealing with this, and so it
Speaker 10: definitely makes it trickier. That being said, I think as
Speaker 10: long as we're just staying connected consistently, I think we
Speaker 10: will get at feel our way through kind of what
Speaker 10: makes the most sense.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 2: So that brings me to the Otani rule. Great Council
Speaker 2: last week said he feels like the Otani rules an
Speaker 2: unfair rule as far as rosters and rosters when it
Speaker 2: relates to pictures. I want to ask him to clarify
Speaker 2: that yesterday, and he doubled down in a very tense way.
Speaker 3: Where is this all coming from?
Speaker 2: Do you feel like this is just a carryover from
Speaker 2: all the talk during the off season. Where do you
Speaker 2: think all this Otani rule talk is coming from now?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 10: It felt very random and strange to me that he
Speaker 10: felt the need to bring it up. And when Shoh
Speaker 10: was on the Angels and MLB was considering this, they
Speaker 10: reached out to a bunch of teams, US included, and
Speaker 10: I said, look, from a competitive standpoint, as the Dodgers,
Speaker 10: I don't love it, but wearing my industry hat and
Speaker 10: what's best for the Major League Baseball it is to
Speaker 10: do everything we can for Shoe or Tani to be
Speaker 10: in and stay in games. Yeah, and obviously with the
Speaker 10: thirteen pitcher rules, so that's the part of him being
Speaker 10: able to stay in the game when he pitches, and
Speaker 10: when he comes off the mound. You know, the old
Speaker 10: rule would have been then the hitter has to come
Speaker 10: out as well. But I was able to look at
Speaker 10: what is best for the industry and Shohy playing and
Speaker 10: playing more often and staying in games is what is
Speaker 10: best for this game and best for the fans and
Speaker 10: everything else. So that was when he was with the Angels.
Speaker 10: And as far as the thirteen picture rule, again, it
Speaker 10: is more that we have thirteen pictures. I had to
Speaker 10: clarify this with Jim Bowden who said that we have
Speaker 10: nine relievers. We don't have nine relievers. We have eight
Speaker 10: relievers just like everyone else. We have five starters like
Speaker 10: everyone else. It's just when show Hey is able and
Speaker 10: the rest makes sense, show Hay pitches. Also, it is
Speaker 10: not that we are carrying an extra reliever relative to others.
Speaker 10: So it's certainly an advantage, but it should be an advantage.
Speaker 10: What show Hey does and what he is capable of
Speaker 10: is so unique it should be rewarded, it should be celebrated.
Speaker 10: And everyone knew the show Hey rules and had an
Speaker 10: equal opportunity to sign him two years ago. So I'm
Speaker 10: not sure where the cups were in that process or
Speaker 10: what council's thoughts were on it then, But that seemed
Speaker 10: like more of the relevan to voice it then.
Speaker 3: Now, all right, there you go.
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman, the president of Baseball Operations for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: very candid about a couple of big topics surrounding show
Speaker 2: Heotani the last couple of weeks. First and foremost, they
Speaker 2: are looking at finding ways to get him some rest
Speaker 2: when he's pitching, whether it's the day before, the day after,
Speaker 2: or the day of, as far as doing both. Number two,
Speaker 2: how about that if you were listening a week ago tonight,
Speaker 2: I called out Jim Bowden, the failed GM who now
Speaker 2: has a national voice, about his crazy tweet about the
Speaker 2: Otani rule. And Andrew Freeman obviously took some exception with that,
Speaker 2: and he's right. The Dodgers only have eight relievers, they
Speaker 2: have five starters, and they have a two way player,
Speaker 2: and show, Heyotani, And how about this? Did you catch
Speaker 2: what Andrew Freeman said? When they implemented this new version
Speaker 2: of the Otani rule, they checked with the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: other Major League teams about implementing this Otani rule. So
Speaker 2: the Cubs or back then when Counsel was with the Brewers,
Speaker 2: you had a chance to voice an objection to the
Speaker 2: Otani rule. Obviously there wasn't enough or any and that's
Speaker 2: the rule.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: You can't change it just because he's a back to
Speaker 2: back World Series champion. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number to hear our
Speaker 2: full conversation with Andrew Freeman, including those topics. You can
Speaker 2: find it on the iHeartRadio app. Let's go out to Sean,
Speaker 2: who is at the ballpark tonight? Hi, Sean, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hey David, great game tonight, I was there. I just
Speaker 7: want to know, David, what do you think the pitching
Speaker 7: tonight and in how they could keep this out for
Speaker 7: much longer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just feel like Sasaki, if he can throw
Speaker 2: more strikes, he's gonna have a place in this rotation.
Speaker 2: And also if he does succeed, it could give them
Speaker 2: more options with a guy like Justin Robleski, who's been
Speaker 2: a swing guy as a reliever and a starter. So
Speaker 2: if Roki Sasaki can throw strikes and be effective, then
Speaker 2: that's going to give the Dodgers more options with guys
Speaker 2: like justin Robleski, and look, when Blake Snell comes back,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers aren't going to have to make a decision
Speaker 2: on Roki Sasaki. Let's go out to Gregory who is
Speaker 2: at the game. Gregory, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: So this is based on my two appearances Yesterday's game
Speaker 11: and today's game. I was forced to then date night
Speaker 11: and also days for Rookie Sazaki's bubble ahead. What is
Speaker 11: your take on the current state of the Dodgers bullpenhaus
Speaker 11: I saw the nastiness that I've seen for some of
Speaker 11: the players, but also the way we give away runs,
Speaker 11: especially for yesterday's game.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, you can't discount losing Edwin Diaz. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to try to downplay that. That's not a good thing.
Speaker 2: But they do have Tanner, Scott, Alex Vesia among others.
Speaker 2: You saw Will Klein come in in a bass loaded
Speaker 2: jaming with two outs and him and Jack Dryer figured
Speaker 2: it out without giving up a run. So there are
Speaker 2: going to be nights where the bullpen does give up runs.
Speaker 2: Every bullpen does, but the Dodgers have a lot of
Speaker 2: good arms down there to navigate this. And also when
Speaker 2: they get starts from sheh in from glass now where
Speaker 2: they're going into the seventh and eighth innings of games,
Speaker 2: means your bullpen doesn't have to get as many outs.
Speaker 2: And also, Gregory, the Dodgers should be getting back Brock
Speaker 2: Stewart in the next couple of weeks. That's going to
Speaker 2: be a huge boost. And Bruce star graderol texted me
Speaker 2: a week ago and said see you soon. So he
Speaker 2: threw to hitters today and he should be coming back soon.
Speaker 2: And then the second half of the season, you'll get
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips back and Edwin Diaz back, and the bullpen's
Speaker 2: looking much different, So I'm not that concerned about it.
Speaker 3: Good. Thank you all right, Gregory, thank you.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers snap the Cubs ten game winning
Speaker 2: streak with a twelve to four win. When we continue,
Speaker 2: we'll check in with Jose Mota and also take more
Speaker 2: of your phone calls at eight sixty six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. If you call and ask me
Speaker 2: what I think the Dodgers are gonna do this year,
Speaker 2: I'll just put you back on hold. I don't want
Speaker 2: to be accused of hanging up on anybody. Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: the Cubs twelve to four. Shoot It for the Moon
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota, before we get to Roki Sasaki,
Speaker 2: your thoughts on what you heard Andrew Friedman say as
Speaker 2: far as what the Dodgers may plan in the long
Speaker 2: term to try to keep Otani fresh on the days
Speaker 2: that he pitches. All right, we'll try to get a
Speaker 2: better connection with Jose Mota. Let's go out to Malibu. Bob,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Bob?
Speaker 12: Well, No, Jose Mota, Dave, but I'm happy to talk
Speaker 12: to you anyways.
Speaker 3: Man, you got a better connection than he does right now.
Speaker 12: Must be that cricket wireless plan I have, Dave. Yeah,
Speaker 12: maybe I want to talk about want to talk about
Speaker 12: Rick Monday, man, and just if Mo's listening, just throws
Speaker 12: some thanks out to mister Monday there for fifty years
Speaker 12: is quite an achievement there from his you know, epic
Speaker 12: grabbing of the flag off the field that day, and
Speaker 12: it was really nice to see the stadium and everybody
Speaker 12: celebrate him. And I know, you get to see him
Speaker 12: every day and then have that luxury of being around,
Speaker 12: you know, a guy of his character and hear his stories.
Speaker 12: But for all of us who listen every night, it
Speaker 12: was just a pleasure to hear him talk about that
Speaker 12: day and the events that you know, have happened since
Speaker 12: and all the people that have been in his life
Speaker 12: from that event. So just a huge thank you out
Speaker 12: to him tonight, Dave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was special, and the Dodgers certainly did him justice,
Speaker 2: and it was great to see the way he was honored,
Speaker 2: not only before the game but during the game. I
Speaker 2: thought Tom Rinaldi did a great piece on Rick and
Speaker 2: saving the American Flag on Fox Sports during their pregame show,
Speaker 2: and it was great to see Rick in the booth
Speaker 2: with Joe Davis and the president of the Baseball Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame, Josh Rawitch. And that flag is headed to
Speaker 2: Cooperstown right now and is going to be part of
Speaker 2: Cooperstown's celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
Speaker 2: our country, and certainly the fiftieth anniversary of Rick Monday
Speaker 2: saving that American flag. Hey, you want to hear the
Speaker 2: way it sounded that day. Vin Scully was on the
Speaker 2: call on radio, and in fact, you know, I wonder
Speaker 2: how this moment would have been looked at fifty years
Speaker 2: later if there was no video of Rick actually saving
Speaker 2: the flag, or even a photographer taking a photo. There
Speaker 2: was a random photographer that took a photo of it,
Speaker 2: and a fan in the stands had one of those
Speaker 2: old school video recorders, and without that, I wonder if
Speaker 2: it would resonate with people as much as it does
Speaker 2: after seeing it. Seeing it all, well, here was Vin
Speaker 2: Scully describing it on the Dodgers radio broadcast fifty years ago.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 9: Sizemore fouled out in the first inning.
Speaker 13: He's over one and the first one outside, well one,
Speaker 13: and wait a minute, there's an animal loose, two.
Speaker 14: Of them all right. I'm not sure what he's doing
Speaker 14: out there.
Speaker 9: It looks like he's gonna burn a flag, and Rick
Speaker 9: Monday runs and takes it away from him.
Speaker 3: And so Monday, I think a.
Speaker 9: Guy was gonna set fire to the American flag. Can
Speaker 9: you imagine that? So they're going to lose him in
Speaker 9: a hurry, and Monday, when he realized what he was
Speaker 9: gonna do, raced over and took the flag away from him.
Speaker 14: And now the crowd is doing what they ought to
Speaker 14: do all the time. Who one of these characters for
Speaker 14: this guy was gonna try and perform the indignity of
Speaker 14: setting fire to the American flag.
Speaker 9: And Rick will get an ovation and properly.
Speaker 2: So, Yeah, that was the great Vin Scully doing it justice.
Speaker 2: Two animals, Oh, there's an them all on the field.
Speaker 3: No, there's two of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a father and son from Missouri that
Speaker 2: came onto the field with that American flag and was
Speaker 2: dousing lighter fluid on it and tried to light it.
Speaker 2: Rix told the story before that the wind kind of
Speaker 2: blew it out the first couple of times, and he
Speaker 2: was able to make the great play that he made
Speaker 2: fifty years ago today at Dodgers Stadium. And incredibly, nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy six was his best year with the Cubs and
Speaker 2: also his last year with the Cubs because he would
Speaker 2: come to the Dodgers and hit one of the biggest
Speaker 2: postseason home runs for the Dodgers in nineteen eighty one
Speaker 2: in Montreal. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: All right, let's check in with Jose Mota.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 3: All right, Jose, we got you this time.
Speaker 7: Hey, got you something going out of Dodger sevent or
Speaker 7: another route. So here we are ready to go. But
Speaker 7: I got your first question, Shohil Tani, right managing.
Speaker 2: Well, did you get a chance to hear what Andrew
Speaker 2: Freeman had to say about what the plan may be
Speaker 2: moving forward.
Speaker 3: On the day that he pitches.
Speaker 7: Yes, I did, Dave. I was listening to you, So
Speaker 7: I agree with him one hundred percent. Shohil Tani. The
Speaker 7: one thing that we learned is you got to protect
Speaker 7: Shora from show. Hey, he's always going to say yes.
Speaker 7: And the plan going forward at his age and the
Speaker 7: load now is a pitcher after two surgeries, is the
Speaker 7: right thing. And I think Dave, now the Dodgers are
Speaker 7: realizing you cannot ignore the numbers. The numbers do tell
Speaker 7: you something about what happens is that he pitches. There's
Speaker 7: a rush to get to the at bat leading off, especially,
Speaker 7: there's not a whole lot of time if he survives,
Speaker 7: gets dirty, then you know the protector and inside his
Speaker 7: right leg, all those things have to be taken into consideration.
Speaker 7: But no anything, it's knowing that you're not managing for
Speaker 7: six months. You're menaging a guy that you want to
Speaker 7: be available for you for seven months. Of it is
Speaker 7: the right thing, and the time is now.
Speaker 2: What did you think about is at bats tonight? He
Speaker 2: walked twice and his first hit was to left field.
Speaker 2: Did you see encouraging signs of that posture you were
Speaker 2: talking about last night?
Speaker 7: Yes, I sold a posture and I saw some adjustments
Speaker 7: from the show. I know he made some today inside
Speaker 7: in the cage. And when I saw the ball go
Speaker 7: to the left Hill, I said, that's a good indication
Speaker 7: just to start shoe Hill Totney. When he starts hitting
Speaker 7: the ball hard and hitting home runs, most of them
Speaker 7: roator center field, and that is just what he needs
Speaker 7: to do to stay in line with home plate, in
Speaker 7: line with the baseball. Because I did look back David.
Speaker 7: I saw his numbers after he got hit by that
Speaker 7: pitch by Deavid Peterson. He won seventy one zero home runs.
Speaker 7: So teams pay attention to that get him off the plate.
Speaker 7: Own the outer half, and he was pretty much off
Speaker 7: the outer half the entire trip going through Colorado San Francisco.
Speaker 7: But today a better indication, one thing perhaps is maybe
Speaker 7: get him closer to the place we can cover the
Speaker 7: other half a little bit better about today, for sure,
Speaker 7: I think it's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 2: How about Roki Sasaki, I mean that seems to be
Speaker 2: maybe his best start as a Dodger in Major League baseball.
Speaker 2: What do you make about the way he was adjusting
Speaker 2: his split fingered pitch. I don't even know what to
Speaker 2: call it. It was kind of a fork ball, but
Speaker 2: now it seems to have more spin on it.
Speaker 7: The positive side is that he didn't convinced that he
Speaker 7: understands command of the baseball. There's a couple of fastballs
Speaker 7: that there were good pitches that got hit, and it
Speaker 7: seems like when the fast fall gets hit, and that
Speaker 7: is the one pitches you know hitters are hitting over
Speaker 7: the fronder against he shies away from it. Then he
Speaker 7: tries to pinpoint it, but he could keep throwing. I
Speaker 7: mean just trusted now on the new size of pitching
Speaker 7: his splitter. As he mentioned throughout the show, Dave had
Speaker 7: a different shape to it. Today he was throwing it harder,
Speaker 7: it was spinning a little bit more. And part of
Speaker 7: that is that you have to get modern day hitters
Speaker 7: to commit when you see your arm velocity and your
Speaker 7: arm speed. Listen, Rookie Sasaki is a guy that has
Speaker 7: some of the best extension in all of baseball. What
Speaker 7: does that mean? He releases the ball at a point
Speaker 7: where there's a lot of stretching before the ball releases
Speaker 7: and actually gets home play, so it does not give
Speaker 7: the hitter a lot of times to react. But he's
Speaker 7: got to be better locating. And I always said that
Speaker 7: if he if he has that much extension, is I
Speaker 7: learned from Dave Duncan years ago and Buddy Black and
Speaker 7: those guys. You have to be able to snap the
Speaker 7: baseball out in front of you, so not roll it,
Speaker 7: don't aim it. And when he throws that splitter, you know,
Speaker 7: fourth Bowl so slow, he's ami it. He's try to misspats,
Speaker 7: but you know he's not fully anybody when it comes
Speaker 7: down to really committing somebody's swing. And I think today
Speaker 7: like Yama Moto Yo motor throws at ninety one ninety three.
Speaker 7: Today we saw some ninety one from the splitter, which
Speaker 7: we had not seen from him, and that's why you
Speaker 7: saw a little more confusion from the hitters. But I
Speaker 7: think the step of the right direction to me is
Speaker 7: the wats that we're not there, but certainly he needs
Speaker 7: to get better location. But let's take the win and
Speaker 7: know that what run support has bull been really picked him.
Speaker 7: My allot to applause Jack Dryer, it will climb too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was incredible how Dryer got himself into a
Speaker 2: basis loaded jam, was able to get the next two outs,
Speaker 2: and then Will Klein, with no margin for error, was
Speaker 2: able to get the Dodgers out of that type of jam.
Speaker 2: That that said something about Will Klein, who you know
Speaker 2: was an unknown and I know he's kind of a
Speaker 2: World series cult hero. But that was that was a
Speaker 2: pretty big deal right there in the sixth inning.
Speaker 7: It was especially a bullpen. They having up eighteen runs
Speaker 7: the last sixth in innings, including five on buns. That
Speaker 7: was a big pick up. So I should for a
Speaker 7: guy like Rookie who everybody's pulling for. Everybody want to
Speaker 7: see this guy succeed everybody and himself wants to be
Speaker 7: a part of this whole thing and give the values
Speaker 7: more options, as you explained so clearly with Robleskian company.
Speaker 7: But he needs to be a guy that takes the
Speaker 7: base ball and does not go out there and just
Speaker 7: hurt your bullpen every time he says the ball. So
Speaker 7: step number two up to this one is go out
Speaker 7: there and try to get through six or seven innings
Speaker 7: and continue to trust yourself a little bit better.
Speaker 2: All right, We'll see what Robleski does tomorrow against Shota Imanaga.
Speaker 2: It would be great for the Dodgers to uh to
Speaker 2: hand the Cubs a two game losing streak on the
Speaker 2: way out of LA after winning ten.
Speaker 3: In a row.
Speaker 7: I like what I've seen from the Dodgers. Dave against lefties,
Speaker 7: and mon I was a strike thrower. You got to
Speaker 7: really pick your spots with him and go hunting sometimes
Speaker 7: because he does neutralize both writers and lefties. But nonetheless, yeah,
Speaker 7: that's what I saw today, especially from the guys that
Speaker 7: need to really show up and tail and obviously Ca'm
Speaker 7: doing to find job at the bottom of the order.
Speaker 7: But Ody Pie is much better and the should turn
Speaker 7: out well against the lefty.
Speaker 2: All right, they got to keep it going tomorrow. We'll
Speaker 2: see at the ballpark. Tomorrow afternoon. Jose, Oh, heyse before
Speaker 2: I let you go, your dad, your dad was on
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in nineteen seventy six, and when Rick Monday
Speaker 2: was playing for the Cubs and save the American Flag
Speaker 2: fifty years ago. What were your thoughts on what we
Speaker 2: saw tonight and if there was any memories of that
Speaker 2: day since your dad was on the Dodgers back back
Speaker 2: in seventy six.
Speaker 7: Yes, I know that. Eleven years old, I didn't quite
Speaker 7: understand what was going on and I was back in
Speaker 7: school of America, but it was it made the news,
Speaker 7: I mean, all over the world of baseball. And asked
Speaker 7: my dad about this because I liked Rick Monday when
Speaker 7: he was a player with the Cubs, and I remember
Speaker 7: meeting him as a youngster. We're in the blue uniform
Speaker 7: on the other side, and my dad explained to me
Speaker 7: what was going on related to the troops and the
Speaker 7: war and protests and things like that. So it was
Speaker 7: nice to kind of put it all together today to
Speaker 7: see how much it means to the country, how much
Speaker 7: Rick does for you know, veterans and disabled veterans and
Speaker 7: the true marine, a guy that is you know, he
Speaker 7: goes by the rules, he's on time every single time.
Speaker 7: About to see him today, just a humblest showing up
Speaker 7: with his wife and stepdaughter and the family there today
Speaker 7: was quite special, knowing the meaning that it has because
Speaker 7: he's never know something like that, how far is going
Speaker 7: to go? But as a youngster, to me, it was
Speaker 7: somebody taking the flog. And then I understood the importance
Speaker 7: in the moment and what the country was living through
Speaker 7: and the role was going through. To really get a
Speaker 7: great grasp about how heroic and how big that was.
Speaker 7: I congratulate him a great colleague and a good friend.
Speaker 7: Rick Monday.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose well said, and we'll see at the
Speaker 2: ballpark tomorrow. You can say out to Rick Monday again tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Let's do that.
Speaker 2: I might run into him, Thanksjse There he goes Jose Mota,
Speaker 2: part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. And I had
Speaker 2: never seen the flag that Rick Monday saved up close.
Speaker 2: And they brought the flag not only in the broadcast
Speaker 2: booth for him and his wife Barbara Lee to hold
Speaker 2: up during God Bless America, but they brought in the
Speaker 2: American flag and the statue, the mini statue that was
Speaker 2: presented to Rick by the Marine Corps Toys for Tots
Speaker 2: and that was an incredible piece of art that they
Speaker 2: gave Rick Monday. And like I said, I had never
Speaker 2: seen the American flag. I've seen photos of him holding it.
Speaker 2: I've seen him on the field holding.
Speaker 3: It up, but he's never allowed me to get anywhere
Speaker 3: near it, of course.
Speaker 2: But they brought it up to the press box after
Speaker 2: the pregame ceremonies and laid it on the table for
Speaker 2: those of us that had never seen it or been
Speaker 2: that close to it to take a photograph of it.
Speaker 3: And it was pretty cool to see up close.
Speaker 2: It's been through a lot, but certainly, you know, to
Speaker 2: see it that up close and personal was really special.
Speaker 2: And also you'll be able to see it at Cooperstown
Speaker 2: and the Baseball Hall of Fame. It's going to be
Speaker 2: part of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
Speaker 2: Country's exhibit out there in Cooperstown. So awesome for them
Speaker 2: to be part of the celebration. And I guess online
Speaker 2: at the Baseball Hall of Fame's website, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of new memorabilia celebrating Rick Monday saving the flag, including
Speaker 2: a pretty cool homage t shirt I might have to
Speaker 2: dip into and make an impulse Instagram buy on. So
Speaker 2: that's all there. And if you're going out to the
Speaker 2: Baseball Hall of Fame this summer, I'm sure you'll see
Speaker 2: that exhibit.
Speaker 3: All right, that'll do it for us. Tonight on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: As the tarp is on the field here at Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium with rain expected overnight. Justin Robleski is on the
Speaker 2: mount tomorrow for the Dodgers. He's three and oh with
Speaker 2: an ERA of one eighty eight. He's on a hot
Speaker 2: streak right now. He's going up against left hander Shota Imanaga,
Speaker 2: who is two and one with an ERA of two seventeen.
Speaker 2: Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck begins at noon, first pitch
Speaker 2: at one ten. In case you missed any of the show,
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Speaker 2: calling E back at our Burbank studios, thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 2: McDonald out here at Dodger Stadium, and thanks to you
Speaker 2: for listening once again. The final score tonight, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: put up a twelve spot on the Cubs and snap
Speaker 2: their ten game winning streak with a twelve to four win.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow, see him