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Speaker 1: Last thing.
Speaker 2: You are live at Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium on
Speaker 2: the fourth of July after the Dodgers shut out the
Speaker 2: Padres tonight three to nothing. Welcome the Dodger Talk David
Speaker 2: Vass with you until the top of the hour. We
Speaker 2: have phone lines open at eight sixty six nine eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. If you are one of the
Speaker 2: fifty two thousand plus of this sellout crowd who stuck
Speaker 2: around for the fireworks, give us a call. Love to
Speaker 2: hear your experience. It's at Dodgers Stadium tonight. It's always
Speaker 2: seemingly an event, and tonight, like I said last night,
Speaker 2: one of the premiere places to be on the fourth
Speaker 2: of July. Right here at Dodgers Stadium for one of
Speaker 2: the best fireworks shows out there. And I think you
Speaker 2: got that tonight if he stuck around for the fireworks.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers handed the Padres their eighth straight loss,
Speaker 2: Yamamoto phenomenal again. Seven scoreless innings, ten strikeouts, only two walks.
Speaker 2: Think about this, Yamamoto in his last eight starts has
Speaker 2: taken it to another level. Five times. During that eight
Speaker 2: start run He's pitched seven innings. Twice he's gotten into
Speaker 2: the eighth inning, and in six of those eight starts,
Speaker 2: Yamamoto has allowed one or less earned run. Just remarkable,
Speaker 2: and he was named to the All Star team tonight,
Speaker 2: as was Andy Pajz, Max Muncy, Freddie Free and of
Speaker 2: course Shoho Tani already locked in as the leading vote
Speaker 2: getter in all of Major League Baseball. Paz looking forward
Speaker 2: to being reunited with one of his brothers, Miguel Vargas,
Speaker 2: his baseball brother, because they played together in Cuba and
Speaker 2: they came up through the Dodger farm system together. Miguel
Speaker 2: Vargas is going to be an American League reserve. He
Speaker 2: has arguably had one of the best seasons of any
Speaker 2: third baseman this side of Max Munsey, who is very
Speaker 2: deserving to be the starter at the hot corner this
Speaker 2: year for the National League. He becomes the first Dodger
Speaker 2: third baseman to start in the All Star Game since
Speaker 2: the Penguin Ron Say back in nineteen seventy seven. So
Speaker 2: congratulations to Max Munsey, who put in a lot of
Speaker 2: work during the offseason and it certainly has paid off
Speaker 2: with seventeen home runs and being one of the best
Speaker 2: defensive third basemen in all of baseball. Six seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Freddie Freeman named to
Speaker 2: the All Star Team for the tenth time in his career.
Speaker 2: It'll be the sixth time that he is a starter
Speaker 2: and the fifth time he'll be wearing a Dodger uniform.
Speaker 2: So I love Freddie Freeman getting the fan vote because
Speaker 2: he is deserving, and also he's one of those guys
Speaker 2: that really wants to be an All Star. And when
Speaker 2: you get players that really embrace it, they do the
Speaker 2: best job of being an ambassador and promoting the game,
Speaker 2: and Freddie has done a great job of that throughout
Speaker 2: his entire career. But one of those guys that really
Speaker 2: still values being selected as a starter to the All
Speaker 2: Star team, and very happy for Freddie, happy that his
Speaker 2: pops was sitting behind home played again with his step
Speaker 2: mom Alma, and Freddie hitting that home run, coming back
Speaker 2: and pointing to his dad is always a special site.
Speaker 2: And him getting an RBI single off of Mason Miller
Speaker 2: in the eighth inning was impressive as well. So Uncle
Speaker 2: Freddy showing everybody he's feeling young young again. He keeps
Speaker 2: on saying that his bat was a little sleepy earlier
Speaker 2: in the year. I haven't seen that in a while.
Speaker 2: Let's head downstairs to hear from Freddy Freeman on sports
Speaker 2: net LA tenth.
Speaker 4: All start selection.
Speaker 1: What does that mean to you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean every also game is special. So I
Speaker 5: just want to say I got I said a cures
Speaker 5: in the field. Thank you to the fans for voting.
Speaker 5: Everyone is special. So looking forward to next.
Speaker 4: Week when you look at just kind of like the
Speaker 4: ups and downs at the start of the season, to
Speaker 4: kind of have the consistent success over the last couple
Speaker 4: months now, like what's gone into that and what is
Speaker 4: it just kind of been like kind of writing this
Speaker 4: this wave here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wish I could give you I've been doing
Speaker 5: the same thing all season. Just right now, it's been
Speaker 5: going well. There is no magical switch that I flipped,
Speaker 5: and you know, just kind of just things started to
Speaker 5: go north in the in all the categories. So keep
Speaker 5: it going. I feel good. So maybe that's just a
Speaker 5: key factor. Maybe I'm just healthy.
Speaker 2: The home room was a big one to give you
Speaker 2: that extra run, cause you when I've told.
Speaker 1: Me about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just got a two sweeper in the heart
Speaker 5: of the plan and it will putt a good swing
Speaker 5: on it. You know, I failed in my previous set bat,
Speaker 5: so I wanted to make up for.
Speaker 2: It, make a great all season on But probably what
Speaker 2: was it like?
Speaker 5: Washington out there two and great his whole Dodger career,
Speaker 5: his whole Japanese career. He's just a great pitcher, he
Speaker 5: really is. He's special. When you have that kind of
Speaker 5: velossit on your heater splitters at ninety three and eighty four,
Speaker 5: and you can put the ball wherever you want to
Speaker 5: strike zone. It doesn't matter how hard you throw. If
Speaker 5: you hit spots, hitters can't hit it. He's a special pitcher,
Speaker 5: and glad he's on our side.
Speaker 6: Barely halfway past, you know, just past the halfway more
Speaker 6: and you have the fifteen game league.
Speaker 2: I mean that sounds absurd.
Speaker 7: What's appeal like?
Speaker 5: Just we've got a good team and we're playing really
Speaker 5: good baseball. That's what happens.
Speaker 2: Andy to heat his first Yeah, special is that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, this should be a second. I think you should
Speaker 5: have had it last year. And he's been great for
Speaker 5: a couple of years now, so I'm glad he's getting
Speaker 5: the recognition. So I'm glad the fans are gonna get
Speaker 5: the seam in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Freddy Freeman talking about the All Star
Speaker 2: nod and nobody even asked him about is well. I
Speaker 2: guess he touched on it a little bit, but he
Speaker 2: had a good game as the Dodgers shut out the
Speaker 2: Padres tonight three to nothing. They have now played ninety
Speaker 2: games to begin this season with fifty nine wins, best
Speaker 2: record in baseball, but also have started the season not
Speaker 2: playing a single extra inning game, and the two thousand
Speaker 2: and five Red Sox, if you remember us sharing that
Speaker 2: story with you, has the record of ninety eight games
Speaker 2: to open the season without playing extras. The Dodgers have
Speaker 2: played ninety without playing extra innings. Offense, pitching in defense,
Speaker 2: and also the bullpen. The back end of the bullpen
Speaker 2: has been phenomenal even without Edwin Diaz, and they're going
Speaker 2: to get a boost starting tomorrow night because Evan Phillips
Speaker 2: is going to be activated before the game. We'll hear
Speaker 2: from Evan a little bit later. But let's go out
Speaker 2: to the phones tonight. Jony, was that Dodger Stadium on
Speaker 2: the fourth of July. How you doing, Joni, You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hi, David.
Speaker 6: My sister and I were at the game last night,
Speaker 6: which was awesome, and we also were at tonight's game,
Speaker 6: and I have a question for you. The bottom of
Speaker 6: the seventh inning, Alex Friedland was up to bat and
Speaker 6: he struck out and his bat flew into the netting
Speaker 6: behind home plate. There was a fan in the front
Speaker 6: row who grabbed the bat and pulled it through the netting.
Speaker 6: So I was wondering, does he get to keep it?
Speaker 6: Because the ushers came down and they took him up
Speaker 6: to the whatever walkway and they they were talking and
Speaker 6: then and then they took the bat. Of course we
Speaker 6: bowed them, and yes, they booed the usher because he
Speaker 6: took They took the bat from the fan. So I
Speaker 6: was wondering, does the bat, I mean, does the fan
Speaker 6: get to keep the bat? Do they compensate him or
Speaker 6: does he get bub kiss.
Speaker 2: Gets bupkiss. I think I've heard of this before. The
Speaker 2: bat is property of the Dodgers and the player. And
Speaker 2: let's say the player really likes swinging that bat. He's
Speaker 2: not giving that up to a fan. It's not a baseball.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well we kind of thought that, but we thought, well,
Speaker 6: you know, well, you know.
Speaker 2: May sometimes that happens. I've heard that. I heard your
Speaker 2: friend in the background. Sometimes it does happen where the
Speaker 2: player will exchange a bat that he doesn't want to
Speaker 2: use anymore to the fan for the actual bat that
Speaker 2: they caught that goes into the stands, but that that
Speaker 2: fan ripped it from the netting. I don't know. That's
Speaker 2: a different circumstance, especially with the netting now, a lot
Speaker 2: of bats are not getting through there.
Speaker 8: Right right, Okay, okay, So that was my first thing.
Speaker 6: And then also I wanted to ask you.
Speaker 8: Could you do me a favor?
Speaker 6: Could you talk to Miguel Rojas and ask him to
Speaker 6: teach the younger players had a bunch because Migail Rojas
Speaker 6: is an awesome bunter. And I was at a game
Speaker 6: last week or the week before where Alex Friedlan was
Speaker 6: trying to bunt and he bunted it like right back
Speaker 6: to the to the picture, and it was like, I.
Speaker 2: Remember that Tony. Miguel Rojas is a really good bunter.
Speaker 2: But I will say this. The day after that, even
Speaker 2: some of the coaches, veteran coaches were saying, that was
Speaker 2: a nasty pitch trying to bunt. It's not as easy
Speaker 2: as Joni coming back from the game thinks, or David
Speaker 2: vassay thanks to lay down a bunt with ninety five
Speaker 2: sink in diving down. It's not as easy as you think.
Speaker 6: Right, Well, I know that that's true, but I mean,
Speaker 6: Miguel Rojas is a phenomenal bunter, and he says and
Speaker 6: he makes it look easy. That's why I think that,
Speaker 6: you know, he makes it look easy. So I know
Speaker 6: it's not easy, but Miguel makes it look easy.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jony, thanks for the phone call, Call back anytime.
Speaker 2: Good questions. By the way, got good news from Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas before the game today. He told me that his
Speaker 2: wife and kids, who were in Venezuela when those twin
Speaker 2: earthquakes hit. Arrived in Miami today, so they were able
Speaker 2: to get to the United States in Miami their home here,
Speaker 2: and Miguel certainly has a weight off his shoulders knowing
Speaker 2: that his wife and kids are here safely in Florida
Speaker 2: and then they'll be heading here to La to be
Speaker 2: with their pops. So definitely a scary time for Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas and we're very, very thankful that they were able
Speaker 2: to get here safely. So that's great news regarding Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Maddie, who was also at the
Speaker 2: Fourth of July party. How you doing, Maddie.
Speaker 8: I'm good. How are you tonight?
Speaker 2: Doing great?
Speaker 8: I'm glad.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 8: First, I just want to say happy Fourth of July
Speaker 8: to everybody. That's great news about Rojas's family. That's you know,
Speaker 8: super stressful for him. I just want to pull in
Speaker 8: and give some some cheers and praise to the pitching
Speaker 8: staff tonight, Yama looked stone dialed in. It was actually
Speaker 8: insane to see. I think that's the first time I've
Speaker 8: seen him in person and that was just really awesome
Speaker 8: to see. And then pitchingstaff came in Bessie a client
Speaker 8: at the end. That was so good to see. I
Speaker 8: just loved it. I have to give some praise out
Speaker 8: to them. I hope somehow this gets back to them.
Speaker 8: They did so awesome shutting out the Padres.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to ask you a question. I think
Speaker 2: you've heard me before, Maddie say, with my life on
Speaker 2: the line, if I needed to pick a current player
Speaker 2: to get a hit with my life on the line,
Speaker 2: there is no doubt it would be Freddy Freeman. If
Speaker 2: your life is on the line and you needed a
Speaker 2: starting pitcher for one game, don't you think it would
Speaker 2: be Yamamoto. I don't Otani, Blake Snell, all these guys.
Speaker 2: It's Yamamoto for me right now. If my life was
Speaker 2: on the line, if I needed to win one game,
Speaker 2: Yamamoto's my guy.
Speaker 8: I think, honestly, they're all so good. But I have
Speaker 8: to agree with you. I think right now he's so
Speaker 8: locked in and so dialed in, I just don't think
Speaker 8: there's another option at this point.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 8: I mean, every time he goes out, he's so lights
Speaker 8: out pitching, and you know, I see players from all
Speaker 8: other teams kind of swinging out of their shoes, and
Speaker 8: he's just so fun to watch play and pitch in
Speaker 8: some of the plays he's made up the mound, and honestly,
Speaker 8: I have to agree with that because they're all great.
Speaker 8: Like I said, but he's he's so dialed in right now.
Speaker 2: No doubt he's been dialed in ever since the second
Speaker 2: half of twenty twenty four. Thanks for the phone call,
Speaker 2: Maddy appreciated. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: He is the reigning World Series MVP and he has
Speaker 2: not let up Game one starter the ACE. It's Yamamoto
Speaker 2: of this staff and there's no doubt about that. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Speaking of show, Hey O Taani. He was
Speaker 2: not in the starting lineup tonight. The Dodgers, if you
Speaker 2: were listening, said that they were going to give him
Speaker 2: the day off, which they did. Tommy Edmund was in
Speaker 2: center field tonight leading off Andy Pajz, the newest All
Speaker 2: Star was the DH and Dave Roberts said, it's basically
Speaker 2: day to day and there are some that believe that
Speaker 2: the Dodgers should skip Otani's final start before the All
Speaker 2: Star Game, which would be next Friday, and that's hard
Speaker 2: to argue. I think I would agree with that. How
Speaker 2: about just skip one more start, It's just one more
Speaker 2: how about if we just skip next Friday. I think
Speaker 2: that makes sense for everybody involved, especially the team trying
Speaker 2: to get Otani not worn out and run down by
Speaker 2: the finish line of the regular season. Not to mention,
Speaker 2: the lead the Dodgers have is ridiculous, the largest division
Speaker 2: lead in all of baseball. With your Dodgers leading the
Speaker 2: West by fourteen games, the Padres are two games under
Speaker 2: five hundred now. They're not even in second place anymore.
Speaker 2: They're fifteen games back after losing their eighth in a row.
Speaker 2: The Diamondbacks are fourteen back. They're a five hundred team
Speaker 2: right now. And like I said at the beginning of
Speaker 2: this series, where the Dodgers and Padres were going to
Speaker 2: hook up seven times in the last ten days that
Speaker 2: concludes tomorrow, this was the only chance for the Padres
Speaker 2: to have any semblance of hope they could close the
Speaker 2: gap between them and the Dodgers, and the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: the team that sent them into this eight game losing streak.
Speaker 2: Spiral started last Saturday night, and the Padres the emotional
Speaker 2: team they are have not been able to come out
Speaker 2: of it, and they were so emotionally high coming into
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium with a six to nothing lead after inning
Speaker 2: and a half that they were stunned, shell shocked after
Speaker 2: losing twenty three to three in Chicago Go that the
Speaker 2: Dodgers came back to beat them twelve to seven. Uh
Speaker 2: Ta Oscar Hernandez after an error by Jake Cronenworth last
Speaker 2: night in the seventh inning, gave the Dodgers the lead
Speaker 2: for good with a Grand Slam. So the Padres are
Speaker 2: in a complete spiral right now and only have really
Speaker 2: two reliable starting pitchers in Michael King and Walker Buehler.
Speaker 2: So this is not looking good for San Diego. Eight
Speaker 2: six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Speaking of not looking good for the Padres, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are looking to sweep this four game series. They got
Speaker 2: Emedd Sheen on the mount tomorrow and they're getting back
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips, who had Tommy John surgery last June. He
Speaker 2: pitched last night in Oklahoma City to complete his rehab appearance,
Speaker 2: and Dave Roberts said earlier today Phillips will be activated
Speaker 2: tomorrow and the super reliever was our guest on the
Speaker 2: pregame show earlier today.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I think it'll be interesting to see,
Speaker 9: like how my body responds to all this again.
Speaker 3: I think that's that's the last.
Speaker 9: Layer that all rehab guys I've ever talked to, you know,
Speaker 9: talk about at the end of this thing is you
Speaker 9: can't simulate major league environments. You can't simulate the workload
Speaker 9: that we're gonna have to have. So we tried our best.
Speaker 9: You really overdo it with the tolerance there and in
Speaker 9: Triple A, and that's why I feel like I threw in,
Speaker 9: you know, a handful of games more than maybe I
Speaker 9: needed to. But we're really trying to make sure when
Speaker 9: when I do get back, that I'm fully ready to
Speaker 9: go and ready to help this team win.
Speaker 2: All Right, there was Evan Phillips on the pregame show.
Speaker 2: He'll be back in active in that Dodger bullpen for
Speaker 2: tomorrow night's finale of this four game series. So you
Speaker 2: got Tanner Scott, you got Evan Phillips, you got Brock Stewart,
Speaker 2: you got Will Klein, who saved his second game of
Speaker 2: the year. You got Alex Vesia and then you're getting
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz back after the All Star break. This Dodger
Speaker 2: bullpen is looking nastier and deeper than ever be, honestly
Speaker 2: since twenty twenty four. Quite honestly, that's how good they've
Speaker 2: been so far. And that's how much better they're going
Speaker 2: to be with Evan Phillips and Edwin Diaz on their
Speaker 2: way back. And like I mentioned last night, it got
Speaker 2: to fifty five and zero now when the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: the lead after eight innings and they're getting Evan Phillips
Speaker 2: back pretty good. All right, we're gonna take a time
Speaker 2: out here on Dodger Talk. When we continue more of
Speaker 2: your phone calls, we'll check in with Jose Mota and
Speaker 2: you'll hear from Alisi or Alfonso, the twenty six year
Speaker 2: old catcher was called up today. The Dodgers option Chucky
Speaker 2: Robinson down and called up Alfonso, who is has some
Speaker 2: mixed emotions these days, his dad and his family and
Speaker 2: Venezuela still dealing with the earthquake. And we'll let him
Speaker 2: share his story with you when we continue on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers shut out the Padres three to nothing
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Speaker 1: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassen. Two ball, no
Speaker 1: strike pitch to Freddy Freeman is swings hits a drive,
Speaker 1: d flight, center pail way back.
Speaker 10: It does test Poston.
Speaker 2: Home run for Freddy.
Speaker 10: Home run number fifteen for Freeman, NX two Nothling Dodgers,
Speaker 10: Freddy Freeman with his showing everybody that he's still frisky
Speaker 10: Frisky Freddy fifteenth home run of the year.
Speaker 2: It was a leadoff home run in the sixth inning
Speaker 2: off of Kyle Hart, the Padres left handed reliever, after
Speaker 2: Griffin Canning came out of the game. He came into
Speaker 2: the game as the bulk innings pitcher after Wandy Peralta
Speaker 2: started the game, and Canning was doing a nice job.
Speaker 2: Don't really know why he was taken out of the
Speaker 2: game after only seventy three pitches and four innings, but
Speaker 2: obviously Craig Stamon knows his team better than I do.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers were very happy Canning was out because
Speaker 2: he was pitching better than I've seen Griffin Canning pitch
Speaker 2: in a long time. Canning's records one and six and
Speaker 2: his ERA is six seventy one, so that's not a feeling,
Speaker 2: that's a fact. Yamamoto nine and five after going seven
Speaker 2: shutout innings with ten strikeouts, and Will kleinb his second
Speaker 2: save of the season. Freddie Freeman, by the way, drove
Speaker 2: in two of the dodgers three runs. Andy pa has
Speaker 2: had an RBI single in the third inning. Freddy drove
Speaker 2: in Edmund in the eighth inning on one hundred mile
Speaker 2: an hour fastball from Mason Miller. The Dodgers, by the way,
Speaker 2: are looking for a four game sweep of the Padres
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the Horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota, Happy fourth of July. I hope you got
Speaker 2: to see the fireworks on the way out.
Speaker 7: Oh, it was great. People are playing it careful, so
Speaker 7: I hope that people continue, you know, be aware of
Speaker 7: other people too. But it's a nice celebration. I mean
Speaker 7: for this great country. What a great moment and what
Speaker 7: a great victory today for the boys in Blue.
Speaker 2: Nothing says America more than Yamamoto dominating tonight seven shutout innings.
Speaker 2: It was fun to watch. Even Dalton Rushing said he
Speaker 2: was having a great time catching those pitches from Yamamoto.
Speaker 7: I'm glad you say that, because talking to Rushing going
Speaker 7: back to last year about Yamamoto and what is like
Speaker 7: to catch him, he goes, I would want to hit
Speaker 7: against him because every time I put my glove on
Speaker 7: one spot, he hits it with authority and the termination.
Speaker 7: And I know one thing that Yoshi was telling me
Speaker 7: it's very training to day, was he wanted to really
Speaker 7: be more consistent against right handed batters bottom of the
Speaker 7: order and using his fastball. So let me give you
Speaker 7: a couple things about his fastball. Okay, opponents came into
Speaker 7: this game hitting one fifty seven against his fastball. Okay,
Speaker 7: it's ninety seven to ninety eight on the average. Right,
Speaker 7: But then how about lowering the fastball and not being
Speaker 7: so determined to miss bats upstairs against his low fastball,
Speaker 7: hitters are hitting zero ninety four. This guy knows how
Speaker 7: to figure it out. That's why, you know, kind by
Speaker 7: rushing makes so much sense. And the fact that he's
Speaker 7: so hard to hit. You can sit fastball, yes, but
Speaker 7: he has the ability to run it in so many
Speaker 7: directions and a lot of times his four seamer runs
Speaker 7: like a two seamer, fading in on rities and then
Speaker 7: pitching inside. It's been just a plus for him. When
Speaker 7: he is pitched inside, he has been unhittable, and that
Speaker 7: is one fact that separates him from the other guy.
Speaker 7: And think about this, to Dave, his usage of the
Speaker 7: split finger is not what we've seen in the last
Speaker 7: couple of seasons because he's been so effective getting guys
Speaker 7: out of the you know, off the plate that he's
Speaker 7: able to finish your all the fastballs away or using
Speaker 7: that slider, which is very good again here tonight, it kind.
Speaker 2: Of felt like tonight was the best we've seen Yamamoto
Speaker 2: splitter in a while. He'd been hanging them up in
Speaker 2: the zone and got hurt with home runs. It seems
Speaker 2: like tonight was the best we've seen.
Speaker 7: I think so too, because the finish and then think
Speaker 7: about that, it seems like it was really popping the glove.
Speaker 7: And you know the velocity that he had, which is
Speaker 7: really not anything over what he throws, but he has
Speaker 7: a lot of life behind it. He does some exercises
Speaker 7: between stars like only Yamamoto can that really allow him
Speaker 7: to get behind the ball and they to get the
Speaker 7: finish off his fingers to stay behind it. But happened
Speaker 7: without pushing the ball just have a little more drive
Speaker 7: as it gets into the zone. I mean, he was
Speaker 7: popping that glove. He was allowing guys to take a
Speaker 7: look at the fastball, try to calculate, but was coming
Speaker 7: and he just couldn't catch up with it. Phil And
Speaker 7: the other thing I didn't do to there was, you know,
Speaker 7: tinker with location so much. In other words, when he
Speaker 7: has got trouble and gets into deeper counts, he's trying
Speaker 7: to be too fine with the pitches just off the
Speaker 7: gray area, right. But it was like, you know what,
Speaker 7: I have enough life to know that if I throw
Speaker 7: it somewhere near the zone, you're gonna miss it, you know,
Speaker 7: not catch up with it and not catching up with
Speaker 7: it is one of the most important things he's learned
Speaker 7: here in the big leagues. Gus will hit you if
Speaker 7: you miss enough in the zone. But as Freddy Freeman
Speaker 7: even says, he's he is a dart thrower who just
Speaker 7: puts the ball what he wants. He's fun to watch,
Speaker 7: he has great pace, and he makes all his fielders also,
Speaker 7: Dave a little bit better.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us. After the Dodgers hand the
Speaker 2: Padres their eighth straight loss, shutting out San Diego three
Speaker 2: to nothing. Show hey Otani was not in the starting lineup,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said that would be the case. Edmund in
Speaker 2: center piez the d and there's even some that suggests
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers should skip Otani's last start next Friday.
Speaker 2: I kind of agree with that. Jose. Do you feel
Speaker 2: like that's what the Dodgers may do? And do you
Speaker 2: feel like there's better ways or different ways to manage
Speaker 2: Otani in the second half of the season to keep
Speaker 2: him fresh.
Speaker 7: Answer number one is I think will be ideal to
Speaker 7: have him not start again. You don't know how this
Speaker 7: BICICP situation is going to react to the bullpen that
Speaker 7: he has to still throw at full power. He's not
Speaker 7: going to throw a bullpen at seventy five percent. This
Speaker 7: just doesn't work for show. Hey, he wants to know
Speaker 7: that if he says I'm pitching, he's going to go
Speaker 7: out there and just let it fly. Do we want
Speaker 7: him to let a fly right now? I don't think
Speaker 7: there's any need for that. He has a feel for pitching.
Speaker 7: We know that he can go out there and compete
Speaker 7: a seventy five percent, but it's not necessarily right now.
Speaker 7: Imagine him in the second half of the season. I
Speaker 7: think there's been some notes being taken about what's happened
Speaker 7: in the first half, to keep him as fresh as possible,
Speaker 7: to protect him from himself, and to let him know
Speaker 7: that his stuff is not going to suffer. I know that,
Speaker 7: you know, the eight days off maybe got in the
Speaker 7: way of some things that Dodgers knew something that perhaps
Speaker 7: we knowing wanted to get more time. But I think
Speaker 7: you take notes with this guy and just explain it
Speaker 7: to him and let him know that it's all for
Speaker 7: the best and for the long run, and also for
Speaker 7: an additional month of baseball that you want to play.
Speaker 7: But I do them. I see them make an adjustments,
Speaker 7: you know, getting together with Show and his representatives to
Speaker 7: say this is the plan that we have going ahead.
Speaker 7: And I think is going to be beneficial to him.
Speaker 7: And I think he understands more because by the way,
Speaker 7: he's having a birthday tomorrow, and you know he's not
Speaker 7: getting any younger. He's thirty two now, poor guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you think he plays on his birthday?
Speaker 7: I think he will. I think he wants to test
Speaker 7: the armor at least from the batting side to say hey,
Speaker 7: I'm fine. He wants to be a part of it.
Speaker 7: I believe he will play, all right.
Speaker 2: Hose, We'll see you back out here tomorrow night for
Speaker 2: Sunday Night Baseball on the fifth of July.
Speaker 7: Fadi's Domingo to you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jose, great to have you on again, and
Speaker 2: we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Buy there he goes, Jose Mota part of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: Spanish radio broadcast with Luis Cochito Cruz, who is having
Speaker 2: a twenty twelve thirteen Dodger reunion before the game today
Speaker 2: with the shredder Nick Punto. That was a throwback right there,
Speaker 2: seeing Coachito with Nick Punto former Dodger teammates, and always
Speaker 2: great to have Nick Punto back at Dodgers Stadium. I
Speaker 2: always call that the Nick Punto trade right back in
Speaker 2: twenty twelve. Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, and Josh Beckett, they
Speaker 2: were all throw ins to acquire Punto in August of
Speaker 2: twenty twelve. And Punto is a coach with the Padres.
Speaker 2: They're lucky to have him. Maybe maybe Punto wants to
Speaker 2: go player coach, you know, I I think they might
Speaker 2: need that Punto fire leading off tomorrow night on Sunday
Speaker 2: Night Baseball eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. By the way, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: having four starters in this year's All Star Game is
Speaker 2: something that hasn't happened since nineteen eighty. That's when the
Speaker 2: All Star Game was here at Dodgers Stadium. Do you
Speaker 2: remember who the four starter were for the Dodgers that year, Well,
Speaker 2: three of them were infielders. Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Bill Russell,
Speaker 2: and Reggie Smith were nineteen eighty National League starters where
Speaker 2: the game was played right here at Dodgers Stadium. This
Speaker 2: year in Philadelphia it'll be Pajez, Muncie Freeman, and o'tani.
Speaker 2: Earlier today, the Dodgers called up Elisia Alfonso, a guy
Speaker 2: that had a great spring training, has been hitting over
Speaker 2: three hundred for Triple A Oklahoma City, and they sent
Speaker 2: down Chuckie Robinson. I know Dave Roberts is a big
Speaker 2: fan of Elizia Alfonso. Miguel Rojas played with his dad
Speaker 2: in Venezuela, who's a Venezuelan legend. His dad was an
Speaker 2: Elisia Alfonso senior who had you know, four or five
Speaker 2: years in the big leagues, but certainly one of the
Speaker 2: great players in Venezuelan history. And Elisia Alfonso was in
Speaker 2: the clubhouse earlier to day and I had a chance
Speaker 2: to catch up with him about the call up and
Speaker 2: also the mixed emotions because his dad is dealing with
Speaker 2: the earthquake in Venezuela, still looking for his wife, and
Speaker 2: also looking for Alisia Alfonso's younger sister, who's sixteen years old.
Speaker 2: Here's the story of Alisia Alfonso, who may make his
Speaker 2: major league debut tomorrow night on Sunday Night Baseball. So
Speaker 2: where were you when you got the call and what
Speaker 2: were the emotions like.
Speaker 11: Oh, I was at home with my girlfriend after the
Speaker 11: game last night. We were looking the tails homer last
Speaker 11: night in social media, and he was curious because I
Speaker 11: talked to her like, well, look at that monfre over there.
Speaker 11: I wish I could be there like soon. And then
Speaker 11: when we went to bed to rest, like half hour after,
Speaker 11: I looked like my phone is alied on. When I look,
Speaker 11: guy is Scott Hennessy calling to me last night? And
Speaker 11: I got the I got the promotion. It was super emotional.
Speaker 11: I went and grabbed my phone and called my family
Speaker 11: down there in Minnesota to let them know what's going on,
Speaker 11: because they were being expected for this like a long
Speaker 11: time ago, especially like all the difficults that we've been
Speaker 11: going through, especially with my family and my sister, my
Speaker 11: little sister, after the earthquake, staff and all that. I
Speaker 11: got to my dad, I let him know that I
Speaker 11: was coming here. It was really really, really special.
Speaker 2: Lizia, what is the status of your family? I know
Speaker 2: you're still looking for your stepmom and your sister. What's
Speaker 2: the situation there?
Speaker 1: Still the same?
Speaker 11: Like stand by, you know, like we haven't found them yet.
Speaker 11: My dad found my sister. Mascot yesterday she was alive,
Speaker 11: so that's a good good thing. So we were still
Speaker 11: expecting that to found them soon and hopefully they're they're
Speaker 11: alive because my sister, like three weeks ago, she she
Speaker 11: told me, like, brother, I have a beautiful dream with you.
Speaker 11: I'm not gonna tell you what was it because I want,
Speaker 11: I want, I want that dream to come through and
Speaker 11: then I will let you know what what what is it?
Speaker 11: And now she's over there, I don't know, hopefully I can,
Speaker 11: I can look at her again. I'm pretty sure the
Speaker 11: dream was something about this, about what's going on with
Speaker 11: me right now on my career, and I want her
Speaker 11: back that way she can watch me playing in the
Speaker 11: big leagues, because I'm pretty sure the dream that she
Speaker 11: was going to tell me about was something like like this,
Speaker 11: about this.
Speaker 2: No doubt, and the blessings will be there for you
Speaker 2: and your family for sure. Is it hard to keep
Speaker 2: your emotions focused on baseball with all.
Speaker 11: This last week? It was a little tough, but thankfully
Speaker 11: I got really good teammates. I feel like the organization
Speaker 11: was helping me a lot, from the bottom to the
Speaker 11: top and from top here to the bottom. They were
Speaker 11: always on my side. They're being supporting me a lot,
Speaker 11: texting me, asking about my family every day, taking care
Speaker 11: of me and my family, and I really appreciate that.
Speaker 11: That makes me feel a little more comfortable, like because
Speaker 11: I feel like this is my other family, you know,
Speaker 11: this is the people that I expend the most of
Speaker 11: the time on my life.
Speaker 1: On the year.
Speaker 11: So having people like this is really important to me,
Speaker 11: and I feel that that makes everything feels a little
Speaker 11: better to me.
Speaker 2: And they put your locker right next to Chinon Venezuelan,
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas. How much having him next to you, how
Speaker 2: much does that mean?
Speaker 11: It makes allah? He welcomed me during spring training. I
Speaker 11: had a visa issue. I got laid to the camp
Speaker 11: first time with the team. I was like a little
Speaker 11: nervous getting late to the camp because of the visa.
Speaker 2: He was there.
Speaker 11: He's being there from the first day that I signed
Speaker 11: with the Doyer, which is really good. He texted me
Speaker 11: early today when he saw that I was coming here.
Speaker 11: When he found out, he takes me like, hey, brother,
Speaker 11: I'm waiting for you here. I know it's a tough
Speaker 11: moment that what's going on with your family right now,
Speaker 11: but I'm really grateful to have you here. I'm really
Speaker 11: happy for you that you're you're making your dream come true.
Speaker 11: Hopefully you made the debut soon with us. It's really
Speaker 11: special and having him with me is super special because
Speaker 11: he played with my dad at the end of his
Speaker 11: career and now I can play with him at at
Speaker 11: this point. So it means a lot to me, especially
Speaker 11: the time of person that he is. Who are rep
Speaker 11: send him for all the Venezuelan players, I'm not just
Speaker 11: a players, the human being that he is. You know
Speaker 11: that means a love for me, and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 11: for every Venezuelan player and every Venezuelan family that means a.
Speaker 2: Love for me. Well, I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: spoke highly of you in spring training. I know, Miguel Rojas,
Speaker 2: thanks the world of you, and we're keeping your family
Speaker 2: in our prayers. But we're so happy that you're here.
Speaker 2: You definitely earned it. So congratulations.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate you.
Speaker 11: I'm really excited about this opportunity that the team is
Speaker 11: given to me, and I'm gonna do my best to
Speaker 11: help the team to keep winning games and win another championship.
Speaker 2: How about that? Bigger than baseball? At least You're Alfonso.
Speaker 2: What a story, what a flood of emotions in that conversation,
Speaker 2: and we are keeping his family in our prayers, and
Speaker 2: we hope that they can find his step mom and
Speaker 2: his younger sister who's only sixty years old, out of
Speaker 2: the buildings that collapsed in the earthquakes in Venezuela. And
Speaker 2: what he was saying, and the way Rojas explained it
Speaker 2: to me earlier today, is that their dog, the sixteen
Speaker 2: year old sister's dog, was able to get out of
Speaker 2: the rubble, and they're hopeful. His dad is very hopeful
Speaker 2: that he is going to be able to find his
Speaker 2: family very soon, and we are keeping our fingers crossed
Speaker 2: for that to happen. So Alisia Alfonso getting the call
Speaker 2: up twenty six years old, may make his major league
Speaker 2: debut tomorrow night on Sunday Night Baseball. Dealing with all
Speaker 2: these emotions, but the good news is he has Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas right by his side, so really special. Wasn't expecting
Speaker 2: all that, but that was a lot of emotions right there,
Speaker 2: and happy you got to know Alisia Alfonso's story before
Speaker 2: he steps foot on the field for the first time
Speaker 2: wearing that Dodger uniform that'll do it for us. Tonight
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk Sunday Night Baseball, the Dodgers are looking
Speaker 2: for their sixtieth win of the year. Fifty nine and
Speaker 2: thirty is the best record the Dodgers have had through
Speaker 2: their first ninety games since twenty twenty two. They were
Speaker 2: sixty and thirty that season. They're looking for their sixtieth
Speaker 2: win tomorrow night with Emi Sheen on the mound. She's
Speaker 2: four and five with an ERA of five zero eight,
Speaker 2: going up against JP Sears, who is acquired from the
Speaker 2: A's with Mason Miller. Sears is won and one this
Speaker 2: season with an ERA of six ninety seven. Our coverage
Speaker 2: begins tomorrow at three o'clock with first pitch at four
Speaker 2: to twenty with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson on Sunday
Speaker 2: Night Baseball. Thanks to Colin Ye for all his help
Speaker 2: back at the Burbanks studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out
Speaker 2: here at the ballpark, and thanks to you for listening.
Speaker 2: Hope you were safe, Hope you're being safe. On this
Speaker 2: beautiful fourth of July. It was a great fireworks show
Speaker 2: here after the Dodgers shut out the Padres three to nothing.
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