Speaker 1: For the back to back World champions of baseball.
Speaker 2: One of the greatest runs in the history of baseball.
Speaker 1: Immortality is within their reach.
Speaker 3: Incredible and while others make excuses.
Speaker 4: The only reason the Dodgers are doing this because they can.
Speaker 2: They printing money.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers just can't continue. It's not fair are making
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Speaker 5: It's a singular focus on controlling what they can control.
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Speaker 6: Hi everybody, and welcome to another year of Dodgers Baseball.
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Speaker 6: show the back to back World champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 6: It's been one hundred and forty five days since the
Speaker 6: Dodgers celebrated a Game seven win over the Toronto Blue
Speaker 6: Jays in the World Series. They start the process all
Speaker 6: over again as they go for a third straight World
Speaker 6: Series championship. It's the twenty twenty six season opener as
Speaker 6: your Los Angeles Dodgers take on the Arizona Diamondbacks. Yoshinobu
Speaker 6: Yabo Moto on the mound first pitch from Uniclo Field.
Speaker 6: That Dodgers Stadium is coming up at five thirty. Between
Speaker 6: then and now, we got a lot to get to
Speaker 6: over the next ninety minutes. Here on Morongo Casino, Dodgers
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Speaker 6: Dave Roberts, what are his thoughts going in to this
Speaker 6: twenty twenty six season. We'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup.
Speaker 6: David Vast will join us throughout the hour. He'll go
Speaker 6: one on one with Freddie Freeman. Coming up in about
Speaker 6: an hour, we got your Dodgers magical moment you're not
Speaker 6: gonna want to miss.
Speaker 4: Shortly we'll visit with Kirsten.
Speaker 6: Watson from Sports at LA and in just a few
Speaker 6: minutes we'll head over to the galvin Ford broadcast booth
Speaker 6: with Charlie Steiner and Rick Monday on the call to
Speaker 6: start the game. Stephen Nelson will join us throughout the
Speaker 6: broadcast as well well. After winning back to back World
Speaker 6: Series championships, if you're the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: What do you do next?
Speaker 6: How do you add to what is already the best
Speaker 6: lineup in baseball? You go out, you sign one of
Speaker 6: the top free agents on the market an outfielder Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 7: This organization from the top down is you know, first
Speaker 7: class and the team that you know, these guys put
Speaker 7: together and assembled to you know, give a great product
Speaker 7: for the fan base in the city. To go out
Speaker 7: there and compete for a championship kind of speaks for itself.
Speaker 7: So just kind of taking everything into account, wanting to
Speaker 7: be a part of.
Speaker 1: That, I think is very special.
Speaker 7: You don't really get that very often, So it's it'll
Speaker 7: be a lot of fun playing with these guys and
Speaker 7: you know, competing for another you know, hopefully a three
Speaker 7: pet here.
Speaker 6: Kyle Tucker, a Gold Glove outfielder who could hit for power.
Speaker 6: He takes over and right field for the Dodgers, meaning
Speaker 6: tay Oscar Hernandez will slide over to left field. Andy Pajas, Yep,
Speaker 6: he's back in center fe.
Speaker 2: And it hits one high and deep to left field.
Speaker 2: It is carrying well. It is con a hum run
Speaker 2: for Randy Piez. You got a breaking ball and he
Speaker 2: got all of it.
Speaker 8: Frandy pie has He's at the confidence that he has
Speaker 8: gained now in understanding his swing much much better. He's
Speaker 8: got some power, plenty of power.
Speaker 4: Andy pie is flexing his muscles.
Speaker 6: Solid spring hit three p forty one, the home run,
Speaker 6: three doubles a triple, anchoring now center field for the
Speaker 6: Dodgers for a second straight season. The Dodgers infield with
Speaker 6: a pair of future Hall of Famers and Mookie Bets
Speaker 6: and Freddie Freeman Bets coming off a Gold Gloves season,
Speaker 6: and shortstop Freddie Freeman. He's finally healthy. He's got that
Speaker 6: ankle injury behind him. He's injury free, and he's already
Speaker 6: in mid season form.
Speaker 9: And he hits this one well in the left faield
Speaker 9: and is heading back toward the law.
Speaker 2: It is up the wall, Okay.
Speaker 9: Already around third, he'll score Trony around second, he'll stop,
Speaker 9: and he'll settle with an Harbi double.
Speaker 2: And Freddie rips this one high and deep to right center.
Speaker 2: Fad Gone his first home run in the spring.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Freddy Freeman is ready to go here in twenty
Speaker 6: twenty six. That's the top tier play of the game,
Speaker 6: rought to by Arco quality, top tier gas for less.
Speaker 6: He drove in ten runs over in the Cactus League.
Speaker 6: Hit four nineteen over in Arizona. Max Munsey primed for
Speaker 6: a big twenty twenty six at third base, while second
Speaker 6: base is gonna be a couple of different guys getting
Speaker 6: time there. With the injury to Tommy Edmond, newcomer Santiago
Speaker 6: Espinal made the roster. He'll play at second base, as
Speaker 6: will World Series hero Maguel Rojas.
Speaker 4: Rojas hits it in the air left field. This post
Speaker 4: got some carry.
Speaker 10: It is gone.
Speaker 11: It's gone. In game seven, He's tied Miguerojas off the
Speaker 11: bench in game six on the board in Game seven.
Speaker 8: This crowd, well, we talked about it in another series.
Speaker 8: This has turned into a library here. Miguel Rojas. He
Speaker 8: took the two to two pitch the slider upstairs, and
Speaker 8: he took the next pitch out of the ballpark.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 8: This Dodgers first base dugout has exploded.
Speaker 6: Come on, Miguel Rojas, who will forget that ninth inning
Speaker 6: home run Game seven of the World Series in Toronto
Speaker 6: last October. Miguel Rojas in the line of tonight about
Speaker 6: the ninth at second base. That's hide the game back
Speaker 6: in game seven, send it.
Speaker 4: To extra ning.
Speaker 6: Speaking of heroes, Will Smith back behind the plate this
Speaker 6: year for the Dodgers. He had to go home, go
Speaker 6: ahead home run in Game seven last year in the
Speaker 6: World Series. You know what, let's relive it, the too
Speaker 6: old Smith with a smash in the air to t Pliftfield.
Speaker 10: This bowl is.
Speaker 12: Smith lets it fly and breaks the tie in Game seven,
Speaker 12: as number sixteen stays.
Speaker 4: Clutch, that never gets all.
Speaker 6: Come on, Will Smith the go ahead home run as
Speaker 6: the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Go on and beat the Blue Jays.
Speaker 6: Americas catcher already has had a busy spring. Will Smith's
Speaker 6: played for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic for
Speaker 6: two weeks already this spring.
Speaker 4: He's been busy doing that.
Speaker 6: Came back to Camelback Ranch, played all three games of
Speaker 6: the Freeway Series. Look at this Dodgers lineup one through nine.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers are loaded. There's no real break for opposing pitchers.
Speaker 6: Speaking of pitching, the Dodgers pitching staff no longer with
Speaker 6: number twenty two in it. Clayton Kershaw has retired. He'll
Speaker 6: be a Hall of Famer in a few years. Yoshinobu
Speaker 6: Yamamoto now anchors a Dodgers staff that features show Hey Otani,
Speaker 6: Tyler Glass, now Blake Snell, who's hurt, Rookie Sasaki, immit
Speaker 6: she and he's earned himself a spot in the rotation.
Speaker 6: After a great spring, the Dodgers bullpen now has a
Speaker 6: lockdown closer in it with Edwin Diz, the right hander
Speaker 6: signed as a free agent this offseason. He had twenty
Speaker 6: eight saves with the New York Mets last year one
Speaker 6: sixty three era, he was dominant. The Mets didn't have
Speaker 6: a very good team. The Dodgers fans hoping to hear
Speaker 6: a lot of this this year. Timmy trumpets, Kimmy on
Speaker 6: and blasting here at Uniclove Field at Dodgers Stadium here
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty six, So ready or not, here we go,
Speaker 6: Dodger fans. The Dodgers looking to defend their World Series.
Speaker 4: Championship tonight, game.
Speaker 6: One of a long one hundred and sixty two game season,
Speaker 6: and then all begins against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Pregame festivities
Speaker 6: still to come, with introductions down the first base line
Speaker 6: and the third base line. Dodger fans starting to file
Speaker 6: in long line of cars making their way into the
Speaker 6: Ravine Dodger Stadium, expecting a sellout crowd. Yet again, four
Speaker 6: million straw and came through the turnstiles in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6: No doubt that same number in twenty twenty six, if
Speaker 6: not more, and with more, let's head over to the
Speaker 6: gallopin Ford broadcast booth as we welcome in Charlie Steiner
Speaker 6: and Rick Monday.
Speaker 8: Guys, Thank you Tim. There's something special about Opening Day.
Speaker 8: Doesn't matter your age, it doesn't matter how many times
Speaker 8: you've come to the ballpark to.
Speaker 10: See opening day.
Speaker 8: World Series ended, by the way, one hundred and forty
Speaker 8: five days ago. Oh, there's adrenaline, there's expectations, and for us,
Speaker 8: it's really an opportunity to see the Dodgers there, defending
Speaker 8: the two time defending world champions open up the twenty
Speaker 8: twenty six season. It's always special, and for us it's
Speaker 8: a little bit special too because by longtime broadcast partner
Speaker 8: is here and raring to go talking about Charlie Steiner
Speaker 8: and first of all, one hundred and forty five days ago,
Speaker 8: the Dodgers clinched their World Series, their second in a row.
Speaker 8: It was a I guess, a short off season. It
Speaker 8: was a delightful lost season, and it's delightful to come
Speaker 8: in and see you here today.
Speaker 13: You don't know what you got until you've been gone,
Speaker 13: and so I'm thrilled to be back. That's good to
Speaker 13: see you and Dwayne and David and here are the
Speaker 13: defending world champion Dodgers trying to do something no National
Speaker 13: League team has ever done before, win three World Series.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Earlier today, Dave robertson's asses said, you know, if you
Speaker 8: reflect back in your very first year as the manager
Speaker 8: of the Los Angeles Dodgers, he said, would you give
Speaker 8: yourself a little bit of advice? He said, first of all,
Speaker 8: don't take things personally. And the second thing is learn
Speaker 8: to trust your players. And that really kind of exemplifies
Speaker 8: what Dave roberts has set the tone, because I remember
Speaker 8: that first spring training meeting that he had. He goes, hey, look,
Speaker 8: you guys can play better than you have been playing.
Speaker 8: The question is in twenty six how good can these
Speaker 8: guys play for one hundred and sixty two?
Speaker 13: What's fascinating to me watching this team and watching the
Speaker 13: lineup today, and go on ahead, you look at the
Speaker 13: other teams around Major League Baseball Again, this if we're
Speaker 13: not just blowing smoke, this is as good a team
Speaker 13: as at Dodgers we have seen in all the years
Speaker 13: we've been here, and from top to bottom hitting, pitching, defense,
Speaker 13: they're loaded.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And I think if we look at Spring twenty two, Charlie,
Speaker 8: I know that you were watching and listening from the
Speaker 8: Arizona portion of it. I think that I has checked
Speaker 8: off all the boxes and checked them off very strongly.
Speaker 8: From an offense defense, the hitting aspect of it. The
Speaker 8: pitching is still trying to work on the back end
Speaker 8: of the bullpen itself right now. But your impressions of
Speaker 8: this team, We've got a new facing Kyle Tucker. He's
Speaker 8: batting second in his starting lineup, and a guy that
Speaker 8: if he doesn't hit a home run with went out
Speaker 8: in the top of the ninth inning, the Dodgers will
Speaker 8: look at the Toronto Blue Jays at the World Series
Speaker 8: champions because Miguel Rojas, who hit that gigantic home run
Speaker 8: to Tide and the ninth is starting batting ninth and
Speaker 8: playing at second base.
Speaker 13: We remember when he first came up and he was
Speaker 13: an iffy kind of guy. Eventually we traded the Marlins
Speaker 13: and then come back and watching him grow and watching
Speaker 13: him become one of the team leaders, and of course
Speaker 13: the legendary home run that he hit back in October.
Speaker 2: Here's back.
Speaker 13: He says, it's going to be his last year. Maybe
Speaker 13: maybe not, but again, just watching him grow as a
Speaker 13: man as a player has been wonderful.
Speaker 8: You and I have been privileged enough to be participants
Speaker 8: of a lot of different aspects of Opening Days throughout
Speaker 8: all the years. There's something special about even going to
Speaker 8: sleep last night. I don't know what your drenaline level was,
Speaker 8: but the something special aut opening days and this morning,
Speaker 8: I'm not certain that many of us even needed an
Speaker 8: alarm clock to wake up.
Speaker 13: I couldn't wait to get here for many, many reasons,
Speaker 13: and it's just wonderful to be back at Uniclok Field
Speaker 13: at Dodger Stadium as the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks opened
Speaker 13: this one hundred and sixty two game championship season. We
Speaker 13: got a lot to go before the first pitch, dem.
Speaker 6: Charlie, great to hear your voice as we cut you
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Speaker 6: will check in with the David Vassa throughout the hour.
Speaker 6: We'll break down this pitch matchup.
Speaker 4: Butt up.
Speaker 6: Next, you're o Tawi rewind and we visit with Kirston
Speaker 6: Watson from Sports and at LA get her thoughts on the.
Speaker 4: Start of this season.
Speaker 6: That's all coming up as we lead you up to
Speaker 6: Dodgers and Diamondbacks. Let's start of the twenty twenty six season.
Speaker 6: First pitch coming up at five thirty. Thanks for being
Speaker 6: with us. I'm Tim Kats and this is the back
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Speaker 6: It's the Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Happy Opening Day
Speaker 6: Dodger Fans, twenty twenty six. Yoshinobu, you have a moto
Speaker 6: Zach gallim the pitching matchup. First pitch coming up at
Speaker 6: five thirty.
Speaker 3: This is the Otani rewhy the two one now Otani.
Speaker 10: Lights it up. It is good.
Speaker 11: Old Tony Tokoon is on fire.
Speaker 2: Payoff pitch swung on him.
Speaker 9: This strike three A fastball at ninety six, strikes out
Speaker 9: three more of this inning, eleven of the game. Otani
Speaker 9: has been sensational show.
Speaker 6: Hey, Otani already has had a very busy spring.
Speaker 1: What has he done?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: Playing the World Baseball Classic over in Tokyo. You heard
Speaker 6: the Grand Slam there, played for Team Japan. Unfortunately they
Speaker 6: were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the WBC. Comes back
Speaker 6: to Camplback Ranch gets a start in Arizona, and just
Speaker 6: the other night here at Dodger Stadium, struck out eleven
Speaker 6: in his last outing, his last tune up before the
Speaker 6: start of the twenty twenty six regular season. He will
Speaker 6: be your designated hitter tonight for the Dodgers as they
Speaker 6: open up twenty twenty six here at home against the Snakes.
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Speaker 6: A little different start time five point thirty pm. And
Speaker 6: because it's a little later in the afternoon, currisen a
Speaker 6: chance to kind of look around southern California, the city
Speaker 6: of Angels and see how excited people are.
Speaker 14: When I tell you, just driving in, driving down Sunset,
Speaker 14: seeing so many people in Dodger shirts, use in Dodger blue,
Speaker 14: it felt like all of the bars, there are lines
Speaker 14: out the door.
Speaker 15: It's it's so early in the afternoon.
Speaker 14: I mean, the fact that it just really reminds you
Speaker 14: how special this team and this sport is to the
Speaker 14: city of Los Angeles. You know, obviously Opening Day is
Speaker 14: huge for so many things, and the baseball season is
Speaker 14: truly a marathon and not a sprint. But to see
Speaker 14: how much joy these players bring to this city, to
Speaker 14: the fans, for all of them to be up early,
Speaker 14: already excited for Opening Day and for one sixty two,
Speaker 14: it just puts things in perspective.
Speaker 15: And so.
Speaker 14: It's already been an exciting year. Obviously we've come we're
Speaker 14: back in Los Angeles from being in Arizona for about
Speaker 14: six weeks and seeing this team grind and get things going.
Speaker 14: Of course, there was the World Baseball Classics, so that
Speaker 14: added a different layer of excitement.
Speaker 15: But now it's time for meaningful.
Speaker 14: Baseball games and this team set a very big goal
Speaker 14: to make some history, have a three peat, and it
Speaker 14: begins today.
Speaker 6: I think it's interesting the last couple of years the
Speaker 6: Dodgers have been in Korea, and they've been in Japan
Speaker 6: for Opening Day and now true opening day around baseball
Speaker 6: here at Dodgers Stadium for the defending World Series champs,
Speaker 6: and tonight Yoshinobu Yamamoto for the second straight year. He
Speaker 6: got his start last year in Tokyo Opening day starter tonight.
Speaker 14: Yeah, but you know what he did say when he
Speaker 14: was asked about just being named opening day starter, and
Speaker 14: he said, look, first and foremost, it's an honor for
Speaker 14: your team to see you as that guy is the
Speaker 14: ace of this group. To set the tone in game one,
Speaker 14: that is huge. But for him to be able to
Speaker 14: do it here at uniqueo feel at Dodger Stadium, it's
Speaker 14: going to be an exciting one, it said. He talked
Speaker 14: about just being able to be in front of these fans. Obviously,
Speaker 14: coming off of being the World Series MVP, he has
Speaker 14: had so much success already in this league, but still
Speaker 14: has his eyes and goals on you know, being the
Speaker 14: National League. Say Young, there are some other guys on
Speaker 14: this team who also want that. So this is just
Speaker 14: this is the beginning of It's funny. It kind of
Speaker 14: feels like it's the beginning of an exciting new year
Speaker 14: for him, but it also feels like the carryover of
Speaker 14: last year because of what he did in the world he.
Speaker 6: Help, he carries it over what he did last year,
Speaker 6: the thirty starts, and certainly what he did in October.
Speaker 6: It's funny talking to people earlier today, they said, well,
Speaker 6: how does this team stay motivated for a third championship? Well,
Speaker 6: it's like, well, it hasn't been done in almost thirty years. Yeah,
Speaker 6: with the New York Yankees. And I said, the Dodgers
Speaker 6: do so such a great job, and guys are hungry
Speaker 6: to win, and they bring in one or two, three,
Speaker 6: four different guys And when Diaz, Kyle Tucker, guys who
Speaker 6: haven't won with this squad. Now you bring a little
Speaker 6: hunger in with these new guys, you do.
Speaker 14: But you know what all so it's like there's something
Speaker 14: about the makeup of these guys.
Speaker 15: They have just in who they are.
Speaker 14: They're such competitors and they want to be the best.
Speaker 14: They understand, Yes, to win a World Series championship takes
Speaker 14: a lot, and now they have learned what it took
Speaker 14: the last two years and even I mean, and you
Speaker 14: talk it to guys when they look at how last
Speaker 14: year ended outside of the postseason, let's look at the
Speaker 14: regular season. They weren't playing their best per se. I mean,
Speaker 14: we know what happened in Baltimore. It felt like we
Speaker 14: were gonna see Yoshinobu Ammoto throw a complete game, but
Speaker 14: no hitter, and things went sideways relatively quickly. I mean,
Speaker 14: there were more moments like that than we probably would
Speaker 14: have liked to close out the regular season last year.
Speaker 14: But they switched gears, they got ready for October. They
Speaker 14: became closer than I think we've ever seen before. So
Speaker 14: now you have a group, as you mentioned, there is
Speaker 14: some added fire because you have a player like Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 14: This team officially has a closer, which they haven't had
Speaker 14: since Kenley Jansen. Now you've got Kyle Tucker, who I
Speaker 14: swear to you it feels like with Kyle he is
Speaker 14: someone who just wakes up and is so talented and
Speaker 14: what he does, it's just it's who he is as
Speaker 14: a baseball player. You know, he even listening to h me.
Speaker 14: He doesn't doesn't take much for him to get going.
Speaker 14: And so you now add that to a group in
Speaker 14: which you have others who you know, do to do,
Speaker 14: have to do a lot to get going and want
Speaker 14: Mookie Bets is out there for hours pre game.
Speaker 15: Things like that.
Speaker 14: But you have such a large group of individuals who
Speaker 14: are such highly successful and high performative athletes, and they
Speaker 14: want to be the best and whatever that means, they're
Speaker 14: going to find ways to do that.
Speaker 15: So this is what we're seeing right now.
Speaker 14: They have this goal and opportunity to do win it
Speaker 14: three times in a row, and if they could do that,
Speaker 14: it'll be incredible. And they're but like, it's crazy to
Speaker 14: me that they were having this conversation when they want
Speaker 14: back to back, Like we I felt like we got
Speaker 14: to the parade and it wasn't even about like, wow,
Speaker 14: we just made history and being back to back. It
Speaker 14: was like, so repeat, So what we're gonna do is
Speaker 14: we're gonna do this again. So I love the celebration
Speaker 14: we're having right now. You know, year one, it was
Speaker 14: finally getting the prey that the guys in twenty twenty
Speaker 14: weren't able to have due to COVID.
Speaker 15: Then it was okay, now let's do back to back.
Speaker 15: They achieved back to back.
Speaker 14: And immediately it was it's time for a three P
Speaker 14: And I think that's a perfect way and a perfect
Speaker 14: example of describing who these guys are to their core
Speaker 14: real quick.
Speaker 6: You look at the lineup one through eight. Every day
Speaker 6: it's stacked. Second base is going to be back and forth.
Speaker 6: Maybe a platoon situation, yep, but you look who's getting
Speaker 6: the start tonight's Mister World series hero Miguel Rohas.
Speaker 15: I'm so excited.
Speaker 14: You know, we we found out that it was going
Speaker 14: to be more of a platoon kind of recently actually
Speaker 14: during the Freeway series when Dave Roberts announced that Alex
Speaker 14: Freelan was going to be breaking camp, being on the
Speaker 14: opening day roster, and they said that Alex is going
Speaker 14: to primarily face righty's and then Miguel Rojas is going
Speaker 14: to say face lefties. But with a riting and Zach
Speaker 14: Gallon on the mound today, you know, with a being
Speaker 14: opening day and what Miguel was able to do in
Speaker 14: the World Series and games it's really six and seven.
Speaker 14: And Dave Roberts made it so clear he said he
Speaker 14: was going to die on the hill that he wanted
Speaker 14: Miggy Roe to be in those games when the team
Speaker 14: was facing elimination because of who he is as a
Speaker 14: leader in this clubhouse, the obviously plus defensive athlete that
Speaker 14: he is. He has really improved his bat skills in
Speaker 14: regard to, you know, understanding his role as someone whether
Speaker 14: off the bench or kind of with living an opportunity
Speaker 14: and finding ways to get his bat going. So for
Speaker 14: him to be out there in just we saw the
Speaker 14: force out at home. Of course, we saw the home
Speaker 14: run that tied the game. There were so many moments
Speaker 14: that he came to clutch for this team that it just,
Speaker 14: I don't know, it felt so fitting for him. Even
Speaker 14: though there's a writing on the mound today and that
Speaker 14: probably should be more of Alex freelaneral for Miggie to
Speaker 14: be out there. He's had an amazing spring and honestly,
Speaker 14: I just I don't think anyone other than him deserve He's.
Speaker 4: Going to get a loud over on that third baseline here.
Speaker 6: Just in a couple of minutes. Kirsten appreciate it. Game
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Speaker 6: Dodgers on Deck will dive deeper into this pitching matchup.
Speaker 6: David Basse goes one on one with Freddie Freeman. But
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Speaker 6: the manager himself.
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts.
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Speaker 6: first pitch at five thirty. I'm Tim Keats's the back
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Speaker 6: of guys on the injured list, including Tommy Edmund starting
Speaker 6: the year on the IL recovering.
Speaker 4: From offseason ankles surgery.
Speaker 6: Keiky Hernandez on the sixty day IL after having an
Speaker 6: off season elbow surgery on his non throwing elbow. Bruce
Speaker 6: dark Rattorol on the IL to start the year. They
Speaker 6: saw shoulder. Brock Stewart on the IL working his way
Speaker 6: back off of off season shoulder surgery.
Speaker 4: He is throwing, so that is good news.
Speaker 6: Blake Snell starting the season on the IL as well.
Speaker 6: Evan Phillips through a bullpen session to a catcher just
Speaker 6: a couple of days ago, so he is trending in
Speaker 6: the right direction, but starting the year on this sixty
Speaker 6: day IL. Bobby Miller starting the year on this sixty
Speaker 6: day IL. His shoulder is still barking and landing. Next,
Speaker 6: sort of a surprise, starting the year on the fifteen
Speaker 6: day IL due to an intercostal strain. He joins Gavin Stone,
Speaker 6: of course, also on the IL, recovering from a shoulder injury.
Speaker 6: So a lot of arms on the IL to start
Speaker 6: the season for the Dodgers, but no doubt we'll see
Speaker 6: them once they all get healthy. It's head back downstairs
Speaker 6: and check out with the Dodgers kipper.
Speaker 10: Anything else.
Speaker 2: Questions for Dan Dave? Can you just du Can you
Speaker 2: talk about the pressure.
Speaker 1: In the dugouts with Dave Roberts?
Speaker 8: What is your level of anxiety, anxiousness, all those other
Speaker 8: descriptive iages that will be thrown out as you try
Speaker 8: to do something to very few teams have.
Speaker 16: Done at this moment, very minimal. I'm just more excitement
Speaker 16: today to get going. Our players are excited. Yeah, so
Speaker 16: hopefully we can keep that, you know, to a minimum
Speaker 16: throughout the season. But yeah, there's obviously going to be
Speaker 16: a lot of talk about it, but you know, I
Speaker 16: think our guys are pretty you know, trained to just
Speaker 16: think about winning a game today.
Speaker 5: If Biggie Roll gets to start at second base, normally
Speaker 5: wouldn't given the handacipys a catcher, but clearly this opening
Speaker 5: day will mean a lot to have considerance his last
Speaker 5: what was that conversation, Like.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I was on the bench the other night against
Speaker 16: the Angels here and I just was checking in on
Speaker 16: him during the game and he was not playing and
Speaker 16: I just let him know that, you know, I planned
Speaker 16: on starting him on opening day, and he was pretty emotional,
Speaker 16: pretty excited and reflective. And I think that obviously you
Speaker 16: know what he's done for us. I'm not sure how
Speaker 16: many opening days he's had, but of recent recency, he
Speaker 16: hasn't And so this this means a lot to him,
Speaker 16: his family, and to the Dodger fans and so and
Speaker 16: also most importantly, I think he's a great option for today.
Speaker 16: So all in all in it was the right decision.
Speaker 16: I talked to Alex and he completely understood, and he'll
Speaker 16: be in there tomorrow.
Speaker 14: You obviously didn't see a lot of Yoshinovu in person
Speaker 14: in the spring, But what are you expecting out of
Speaker 14: him today?
Speaker 16: Just do what he does. I think that get ahead,
Speaker 16: use his entire pitch mix, put us in a position
Speaker 16: to win and go out there and compete. And yeah,
Speaker 16: we haven't seen him much, but I think that we've
Speaker 16: got enough.
Speaker 17: Of a sample of him to know that he's ready
Speaker 17: to go.
Speaker 6: I'll let you guys breathing conversations that, well, the guys
Speaker 6: here is supposedly that tonight is more realized that and
Speaker 6: sort to ascitate.
Speaker 16: Over I think it'll probably go in waves, you know.
Speaker 16: I think people will just start kind of focusing on
Speaker 16: this season and then they'll start to ramp up again.
Speaker 16: But I think hopefully in the clubhouse is just kind
Speaker 16: of staying present and just trying to, you know, win
Speaker 16: a game that night. But yeah, it's out there, but
Speaker 16: you got to kind of block it out and focus
Speaker 16: on playing. But understandably so we put ourselves in a
Speaker 16: good spot that people want to talk about.
Speaker 17: That's a good thing.
Speaker 8: For us.
Speaker 1: With his pertly sort of solid, we wanted.
Speaker 16: I did notice him, I didn't kind of, you know,
Speaker 16: spend too much time looking at him, but.
Speaker 17: It's, uh, I probably should.
Speaker 16: Have taken more time looking at them, but I just
Speaker 16: kind of walked by them.
Speaker 17: But it's it's it's.
Speaker 16: Hard to believe when you kind of start thinking about that.
Speaker 16: So when I start thinking about stuff like that, then
Speaker 16: I get nervous. So I don't like thinking about stuff
Speaker 16: like that. I want to think about just today.
Speaker 8: The spring that last year you almost felt like there
Speaker 8: was more pressure trying to repeat than you felt leaning up.
Speaker 14: To this year.
Speaker 10: Why do you pays?
Speaker 17: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 16: I just feel that two back to back is a
Speaker 16: lot more common than a three peat, so to kind of,
Speaker 16: you know, do it the next year. I felt the
Speaker 16: expectation was more for everyone where you know, to win
Speaker 16: three in a row, that's what's unprecedented in the National League,
Speaker 16: and so so that's where it's more like everyone's hopeful,
Speaker 16: excited about it on that potential, but it's not necessarily
Speaker 16: a pressure thing in my opinion.
Speaker 8: The Dust have a promo online of the the bad
Speaker 8: guys in baseball and kind of accepting that.
Speaker 18: What do you make of the organization?
Speaker 15: Sort of easy?
Speaker 17: Uh, the organization did that all right?
Speaker 16: Well, if they said that we're the bad guys, Uh,
Speaker 16: that's self proclaimed.
Speaker 17: So I guess I'm gonna embrace it. I don't know.
Speaker 16: I guess people like a villain. I guess that's a
Speaker 16: respect in some way. So I don't I don't know.
Speaker 16: I guess that's a good thing, do you know? Well,
Speaker 16: it depends who you ask, apparently, right.
Speaker 17: Yeah. I like to think I'm a nice guy except
Speaker 17: when I'm playing.
Speaker 16: We're playing than I I've got enough friends into the season.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's the best team I think in twenty one.
Speaker 16: It was a very talented team, very talented team. I
Speaker 16: think that was year we one hundred and six games. Maybe,
Speaker 16: but I think this team, as far as the talent,
Speaker 16: the complete buy in, like just it's this, this is
Speaker 16: this team is But again, like I've said it every
Speaker 16: single years, we still got to go out there and
Speaker 16: play regular season.
Speaker 8: Win totals aren't executive the top of the list objectives.
Speaker 1: But that said it, you guys were to stay in
Speaker 1: all of you this year.
Speaker 18: Do you think that one sixteen total is something you
Speaker 18: guys might be able to surress.
Speaker 16: It's possible, but but again, and you said it, that's
Speaker 16: not our ultimate goal is to see how many wins
Speaker 16: we can recruit during the during the regular season. I
Speaker 16: think anything is possible, certainly with this team, but that's
Speaker 16: certainly not our north star for this year.
Speaker 17: It's it's really not.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of talk around the country about telling fans,
Speaker 3: you know, enjoy this opening day because who knows that
Speaker 3: there's going.
Speaker 17: To be one next year.
Speaker 10: Do you understand that and do you agree with that?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 16: I understand that in the sense of this where the
Speaker 16: CBA is at as far as the expiration, and I
Speaker 16: do agree enjoy it because nothing is you know, guaranteed.
Speaker 16: So yeah, I mean it's gonna be a great year.
Speaker 16: And I hope everyone pours their their spirits and their
Speaker 16: joy into this season because it's gonna be a great
Speaker 16: one and you know, we'll figure out where it goes
Speaker 16: after that. But I hope people take heed to that advice.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that happens to Dodgers. Inevitably, we'll be blamed for it.
Speaker 16: That seems like it's always a case it recently, But
Speaker 16: I don't know.
Speaker 19: What gave you that sense of like the buy in
Speaker 19: from the group, like already, no group can't come into
Speaker 19: the year.
Speaker 17: I think that.
Speaker 16: I think the guys that we've had that I've had
Speaker 16: for for quite some time, and then the guys that
Speaker 16: we brought in just kind of seeing where their heads
Speaker 16: are at the conversations we've had and their actions have
Speaker 16: followed that. So I think for me, it's like, I
Speaker 16: just feel really confident with this team. I really I'm
Speaker 16: really excited about these guys.
Speaker 10: Was this the most bores retrain you had?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, so it's it's the most boring spring training
Speaker 16: we've had. Yes, that's a big compliment. So thank you.
Speaker 19: Okay, if you can go back to twenty sixteen, your
Speaker 19: first year managing er.
Speaker 10: What advice would you give yourself go into your first.
Speaker 17: Opening didn't it?
Speaker 16: I would say, uh, don't take things personal. I would say, uh, enjoy,
Speaker 16: enjoy it, Enjoy every moment, and trust your players.
Speaker 3: Okay, we saw you have a compensation as an OKI today.
Speaker 1: What what is your kind of decision heel?
Speaker 17: Is it a good.
Speaker 8: Pick up?
Speaker 17: More mental? Just check? It's a check in.
Speaker 16: I was just checking in on I'm making sure. I
Speaker 16: was checking to see how he was doing. And I
Speaker 16: was just watching him play catching. He looks great, He's
Speaker 16: in a good spot.
Speaker 2: Dig for all the pumping circumstance that comes with opening day?
Speaker 20: Is it your challengers are the same to you?
Speaker 17: Just think about today.
Speaker 16: You know what it's it's the same. I really believe that.
Speaker 16: I think you know, in theory and practice, we do it.
Speaker 16: We do it. It's it's it's a great day. There's
Speaker 16: a lot going on, but once that game starts, the
Speaker 16: first pitch, it's baseball and we're gonna lock in. And
Speaker 16: so I don't think it's any more challenging. You know,
Speaker 16: this year or any of the year, we've had these guys.
Speaker 1: You're these hats.
Speaker 17: Love these hats.
Speaker 16: The hats are great, the jersey is great, and I
Speaker 16: like gold.
Speaker 6: All right, there's the manager, Dave Roberts talking to the
Speaker 6: media just a few minutes ago down inside the media
Speaker 6: room here at Dodger Stadium, as the blue carpet is
Speaker 6: being rolled out from center field towards second base for
Speaker 6: pregame introductions, which we'll start here shortly. First pitch coming
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Speaker 18: I accept everybody for who they are.
Speaker 1: This is Dodger insider David Basset.
Speaker 4: All right, DV, Happy opening day, buddy. How you doing?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 10: Doing great?
Speaker 18: You're like the twentieth person to say that to me.
Speaker 4: Well, let me ask you the next question, but keeps asking.
Speaker 4: You think the Dodgers can.
Speaker 5: Three pat Yeah, yeah, I actually do. I actually believe,
Speaker 5: you know, talking to people around the team, actually, GM,
Speaker 5: Brandon Gomees, and Andrew Freeman, they believe this offense is
Speaker 5: the best lineup they have had since they have been
Speaker 5: running the team. And if you look at spring training,
Speaker 5: they scored more runs than any other team in baseball
Speaker 5: in spring. I know it's spring, but the reality is
Speaker 5: a lot of their players did not play all nine
Speaker 5: innings and they still outscored everybody else in the league.
Speaker 18: Think about this.
Speaker 5: Miguel Rojas, last year's World Series hero is hitting ninth,
Speaker 5: Will Smith is hitting fifth. What other lineup would they
Speaker 5: be hitting in those spots? Taoscar Hernandez is hitting seven. Wow,
Speaker 5: Max months he's hitting sixth. That is just an example
Speaker 5: of how deep this lineup is and where there is
Speaker 5: nowhere to turn. Tim I tweeted out this memory from
Speaker 5: opening Day twenty nineteen. Dodgers hit eight home runs that
Speaker 5: day against Zach Granky and the Diamondbacks. I have a
Speaker 5: feeling that today is going to be similar to that
Speaker 5: twelve run outburst on March twenty third, twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 6: All right, David, Looking on the field, I see like
Speaker 6: twenty five different producers and people all surrounding Bob Costas
Speaker 6: and the newest baseball analyst, Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Kershaw is all cleaned up. He looks like he
Speaker 5: went on a summer vacation. He's got that unless he
Speaker 5: went into a tanning spot. I don't know either way.
Speaker 5: But he's got that glow, he's got a sued on,
Speaker 5: he's got his hair combed and thank and what's going
Speaker 5: to be interesting is.
Speaker 18: Not only has he being thrown into.
Speaker 1: The fire with.
Speaker 5: This new broadcasting career, NBC has put him in a
Speaker 5: very uncomfortable spot.
Speaker 18: Tim, he is going to be sitting right.
Speaker 5: Next to the Dodger dougout, right where every sideline reporter sits.
Speaker 5: Kirsten myself Buster only sit right there up against the dugout.
Speaker 5: It's one thing to make your broadcasting debut and be
Speaker 5: calling the team that you just played for. It's another
Speaker 5: to be right next to that dugout. That is an
Speaker 5: uncomfortable spot. NBC has put him in.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 6: Yamamoto gets to start tonight, Dave. We expect him to
Speaker 6: hopefully have another dominating season like it in a year ago.
Speaker 6: Thirty starts October MVP of the World Series. How has
Speaker 6: Yamamoto felt leading though into tonight.
Speaker 5: He's been He hasn't missed a beat going to the
Speaker 5: World Baseball Classic, there were no issues there with his
Speaker 5: build up. He continued his bring training build up. Six
Speaker 5: starts split between the Cactus League, the Freeway Series, and
Speaker 5: the World Baseball Classic and who can doubt a guy?
Speaker 18: As the World Series MVP pitched.
Speaker 5: Back to back days, was warming up in the bullpen
Speaker 5: in the eighteenth inning of Game three. He is more
Speaker 5: than ready to take on today an opening day.
Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 6: currently a six horse race. Who do you like on Friday?
Speaker 5: Well, just looking at these names, you know, I'm just
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Speaker 18: I'm ouder here, honor here, we.
Speaker 4: Very fitting for baseball. I'm out of here, all right.
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Speaker 6: The bottom of the ninth inning, the Blue Jays, though threatened,
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Speaker 3: and World Series champion Dodger Rick Monday.
Speaker 5: Rick Monday is the perfect person on opening day to
Speaker 5: give us a preview of what fans may see in
Speaker 5: stadium today, Rick, and that is the ABS system, the
Speaker 5: automated strike zone system where both teams each start the
Speaker 5: game with two challenges, and the catcher. The Dodger side
Speaker 5: of things, Will Smith has made it clear he will
Speaker 5: be the one challenging, not the pitchers and hitters on
Speaker 5: each side obviously can chant David.
Speaker 8: We're finding out more and more of the ball clubs
Speaker 8: are saying to their pictures, look, you don't need to
Speaker 8: be doing that, and there's a couple of reasons for it.
Speaker 8: I've said this facetiously, but pictures from my standpoint, and
Speaker 8: this is from a former hitters you but pictures believe
Speaker 8: that the strength zone is the curvature of the earth.
Speaker 2: So that's how far.
Speaker 8: But the other part too is I mean, let's look
Speaker 8: at it. You've got a guy that's in a wind
Speaker 8: up to follow through and by the time the ball
Speaker 8: is released in the picture as a follow through, they're
Speaker 8: really kind of off center, They're not directly lined up,
Speaker 8: a lot of different movement. They don't get that great
Speaker 8: of a look even though they're looking from sixty feet
Speaker 8: six inches away. The catcher has a better look the
Speaker 8: hitter and of course the umpire too. Interesting comment that
Speaker 8: I happened to read, and it was from Aaron Judge
Speaker 8: who was talking about the ABS system, and here's the quote.
Speaker 8: He says, I think it's going to be a little
Speaker 8: weird because I'm not an umpire. I'm a hitter. I've
Speaker 8: never been in the box trying to think about it.
Speaker 8: Is this a ball? Is it a strike? I feel
Speaker 8: like I can hit it? If I feel like I
Speaker 8: can hit it, then I feel it's going to be
Speaker 8: a strength That was an interesting perspective, one of the
Speaker 8: many that I've read from a hitter standpoint who understands, look,
Speaker 8: I need to understand my strength zone. Do I feel
Speaker 8: I can hit that ball or not? That's his prerequisite
Speaker 8: in order to tap the top of his helmet and
Speaker 8: challenge a call. That's going to be happened. But I
Speaker 8: did find some other information on how it's going to
Speaker 8: be established. I found it interesting. I found it confusing
Speaker 8: and I'm not totally bought into it. And here's what
Speaker 8: I'm talking about, the strength zone itself. Well, the strength
Speaker 8: zones are personalized. Every single player was measured for their height. Okay,
Speaker 8: the top of the zone is set and here's where
Speaker 8: it really gets fuzzy. The top of the zone is
Speaker 8: set at fifty three point five percent of the player's
Speaker 8: height and the bottom of the zone is set at
Speaker 8: twenty seven percent of the player's height. So that's tested.
Speaker 8: It's been fine tuned. In the minor leagues, the width
Speaker 8: of the zone has not changed. At seventeen inches bliss
Speaker 8: a ball with on on both sides.
Speaker 2: But here's here's what happened.
Speaker 8: Happens if players are measured and they're measured standing.
Speaker 2: Straight up right, So you stand what.
Speaker 8: Six' three six two? Clubs, okay six to. Two, okay
Speaker 8: they're gonna measure you at six to. Two every person
Speaker 8: at six' to two has the same height on the
Speaker 8: strike zone AND the. Abs system what happens the guy
Speaker 8: that has a crouch in the Batting stance because the
Speaker 8: rule book says that the strength zone is basically established
Speaker 8: by the natural batting stance of the hitter has nothing
Speaker 8: to do with the fact that you stand six to
Speaker 8: two if you have more of a crouch than. Somebody else,
Speaker 8: For example, let's say, for example Let's Use cody bellinger as,
Speaker 8: an example very. Upright, stance okay he's going to have a.
Speaker 8: Strength zone if you happen to have a crouch in,
Speaker 8: your stance your, normal stance you're going to have a higher.
Speaker 8: Strength Zone the.
Speaker 5: Bellacher Howl, freddy freeman he's a tall guy and he
Speaker 5: crouches exactually quite.
Speaker 8: A bit i think that's that's where to me is kind.
Speaker 8: Of fuzzy so, you know two dimensional. Strength zone they
Speaker 8: actually tested a three dimensional strength zone WITH the abs
Speaker 8: at the minor. League level that created this kind of
Speaker 8: fuzzy area to. Begin with but it average on spring
Speaker 8: four and a half challenges between the two teams, this
Speaker 8: spring and it turned out that, the fielders which counted
Speaker 8: more majority of, the catchers they were more accurate than.
Speaker 2: The hitters in.
Speaker 8: Challenging pitches so the catcher has a pretty. Good chance
Speaker 8: only about one percent of all the pitches were challenged.
Speaker 8: This spring so it COMES down i can break it down,
Speaker 8: even more what.
Speaker 5: About, The, umpires rick can you talk about the hitters and.
Speaker 5: The pitchers i've seen former umpires quoted as saying umpires
Speaker 5: don't want to be embarrassed in front of forty or fifty.
Speaker 18: Thousand fans how does that play?
Speaker 8: Into THIS and i read another one from just Retired Umpire,
Speaker 8: richie garcia who said exactly that and the emphasis that
Speaker 8: is going to be placed upon umpires during. A ballgame
Speaker 8: we've heard some umpires in. The challenges they're very vocal
Speaker 8: when it supports. Their call some of them, have been,
Speaker 8: like you very quiet if the call has gone against
Speaker 8: what they. Have called but this is. THE system i
Speaker 8: think it's. VERY intriguing i think it can help the
Speaker 8: game if it is used the correct way by, ball
Speaker 8: clubs and if they just squandered, them early it's going
Speaker 8: to be costly in, the seventh eight to ninth any
Speaker 8: of an.
Speaker 10: Important game and here's my question.
Speaker 5: As well last night During The yankees, giants game after
Speaker 5: they lost a couple of, their challenges both sides were
Speaker 5: very gunshy to try to waste their last challenge.
Speaker 8: As, well, yeah exactly so that's the way it is going.
Speaker 8: To happen so, you know, the pitchers they did not
Speaker 8: have a very good success rate in the challenges as
Speaker 8: far as the percentage so that has been. Moved along some, people,
Speaker 8: say well it's kind of, ticky tacky you know if
Speaker 8: it misses by an eighth of binanche, of it but it, still,
Speaker 8: MISSES right, i mean, you know that's, like saying when
Speaker 8: do you run a? Red light, you know did you
Speaker 8: come to a full and complete stop and it stops?
Speaker 5: Sign Always and i've never ran a yellow or? Red,
Speaker 5: light rick that's For Sure opening day. For you you've
Speaker 5: been doing this a long time as a player and, A,
Speaker 5: broadcaster rick you seem to never age to all of,
Speaker 5: us listening how excited are you even on a daylight
Speaker 5: today after seeing so many and broadcasting.
Speaker 8: SO many i heard a great example of how it
Speaker 8: feels On, opening DAY and i heard it this morning
Speaker 8: By the Dodgers Historian mark langel who Said That opening
Speaker 8: day for HIM and i love THIS when i watched
Speaker 8: it on the news, this morning, he said it's like
Speaker 8: opening up a box a present to find out.
Speaker 17: What's inside.
Speaker 5: Mm, Hmm yeah i'm expecting eight runs From the Dodgers
Speaker 5: On opening, Day, today?
Speaker 10: Rick?
Speaker 2: Really, yes yeah similar.
Speaker 10: To twenty nineteen when they hit eight.
Speaker 5: Home runs i'm not looking for, that TODAY but i,
Speaker 5: feel like as you like, to say and made Famous rockets.
Speaker 2: Red, glare okay we'll see take.
Speaker 5: The, Over, rick well check that game, With you Charlie
Speaker 5: And steven nelson a little. Bit, later tim, all right
Speaker 5: thanks a LOT of dv great inside There From.
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Speaker 1: Dodger player it's an engagement. Of endearment this is high.
Speaker 5: And tight it's opening Day At, dodgers Stadium and i'm
Speaker 5: joined by a guy that embodies everything and means to
Speaker 5: be a professional, baseball player a man that is a
Speaker 5: Three Time world, series champion back to back champion With.
Speaker 5: The dodgers that is the one And Only. Freddie, freeman
Speaker 5: freddie thanks a lot for, the time and you made
Speaker 5: it to another.
Speaker 19: Opening day, Thank, You david thank you for those. Kind
Speaker 19: words it's good to be back and get this.
Speaker 5: Year going how does it feel after all, these seasons
Speaker 5: sixteen seasons entering, your seventeenth does opening days still mean
Speaker 5: the same?
Speaker 2: To?
Speaker 19: You yeah, it does just because of all the hard
Speaker 19: work that you put in. The offseason in, spring training
Speaker 19: you're excited to finally get the games to mean something
Speaker 19: and you start your goal of winning. Another championship and
Speaker 19: all the fans. Are excited they've been missing baseball for,
Speaker 19: five months so. Everyone's excited just like in The game's, Gonna.
Speaker 19: Say angels all the fans are there during those spring training,
Speaker 19: games too so it's. A Blast opening day is. Always
Speaker 19: fun that means it to start of a new year
Speaker 19: AND hopefully i start of a really championship.
Speaker 5: Seller Year, hey freddie it's one thing to, be hungry
Speaker 5: but after you went back to, back championships how impressive
Speaker 5: is it that not only yourself but everybody else on
Speaker 5: the team came day one to spring training hungry.
Speaker 19: As, EVER yeah i think the group that we, have
Speaker 19: here the environment, we've created, the chemistry, the desire, the
Speaker 19: want all. Of it it's a special place we have
Speaker 19: going on, around here and we want to win every.
Speaker 19: Single YEAR that's i think that's every professional athlete's goal
Speaker 19: is to win the championship of, The year and obviously
Speaker 19: when you win two in, a row you want to
Speaker 19: be those people that win three in. A row, you
Speaker 19: know you just want to keep. Doing it we had
Speaker 19: the same narrative last year it be the first team
Speaker 19: Since the yankees and went back, to back and now
Speaker 19: we get to be the same narrative going into this
Speaker 19: year to be the first first team Since the yankees
Speaker 19: to win three in. A row so we got a.
Speaker 19: Good group we're really itching to get, going here and
Speaker 19: we're excited about.
Speaker 5: This Year freddie freeman is our guest On. Opening day,
Speaker 5: for you this was a more normal season and. Spring
Speaker 5: training do you Feel like? FREDDY again.
Speaker 10: I do i.
Speaker 19: FEEL good i don't have to get to the field
Speaker 19: three hours before games and stretches and to just get
Speaker 19: myself to be able to go out there and, play defense,
Speaker 19: you know during STRETCH. And vps it's been nice to
Speaker 19: just show up and do my routine and get ready for.
Speaker 19: The year it's definitely nice not having surgery and rehab.
Speaker 19: All OFFSEASON so i. FEEL good i feel ready. To
Speaker 19: go so hopefully we can stay healthy all year and
Speaker 19: have a.
Speaker 5: Great year you're a great guy to ask this, question
Speaker 5: too because you understand the. Game itself you're hitting in
Speaker 5: a different spot in the lineup, this year and you've
Speaker 5: got different guys hitting in front. Of you are you
Speaker 5: a believer every spot in the order has.
Speaker 19: A responsibility i think in a, typical, lineup yes, OUR
Speaker 19: lineup i feel like every guy can. Hit third it's
Speaker 19: a bunch of three hol hitters going up and down.
Speaker 19: Our lineup, so yeah this year it's gonna be a little.
Speaker 19: Bit DIFFERENT and i think. You're you we're gonna see
Speaker 19: it in the you saw it During the angels series
Speaker 19: where against a left, Handed starter i'm gonna hit fifth.
Speaker 19: This year and, You know DOC and i talked and
Speaker 19: we're trying to figure out the best way to Make
Speaker 19: the dodgers the best they can. Possibly be, and obviously
Speaker 19: against right, handed starters all, hit fourth and then we're
Speaker 19: gonna start with hitting me fifth against left, handed starters
Speaker 19: just so it's a lot harder to. Match up, and
Speaker 19: UH when DC and i had, A conversation, i'm good
Speaker 19: just hit me wherever you want to. HIT me I
Speaker 19: want i want to win. A championship make it harder
Speaker 19: for every other team to match up. AGAINST us i
Speaker 19: think it no matter where, we hit it's gonna be a.
Speaker 19: Hard matchup but that's what we we're gonna. Go with
Speaker 19: and typically one, through nine you're gonna have. Different, roles
Speaker 19: obviously in, our lineup if you're hitting eight, and nine
Speaker 19: you gotta know show who's, coming up and just sometimes
Speaker 19: the situation will determine what you. Gotta do but in
Speaker 19: our lineup and with, our guys it's more of a.
Speaker 19: Free reign go. For it you, know yourself you know
Speaker 19: the player, you are and just make sure you're doing
Speaker 19: the right thing in the. Right situations and our guys.
Speaker 19: Understand that and in, our lineup when you got a
Speaker 19: bunch of three hole hitters up, AND down i think
Speaker 19: and betteran guys they know what they need to do
Speaker 19: in this certain situations of. The game the game will
Speaker 19: tell you how to play, the GAME and i think
Speaker 19: that we have a good group of guys to understand
Speaker 19: that and go about our business the way we need.
Speaker 19: To do but in, our lineup it doesn't really matter where.
Speaker 19: YOU'RE hit i think you're gonna have guys on a
Speaker 19: lot more times, than not so just make sure you
Speaker 19: bring those.
Speaker 18: Guys in not too many teams can have a rabbit.
Speaker 10: HITTING fifth i kind of.
Speaker 19: Like That maybe i'll look like a rabbit again run
Speaker 19: around the basins.
Speaker 10: This YEAR before i let you Go tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Ring day it's your. Third ring where do you keep?
Speaker 5: These rings how much do you? Enjoy it where do you?
Speaker 19: PUT it i enjoy it when you get, a ring
Speaker 19: that means You want so if you don't Enjoy, ring
Speaker 19: DAY then i don't know what. You're Doing so. I'M
Speaker 19: excited i look forward. TO it i can't wait.
Speaker 17: To see him.
Speaker 19: In first i've only seen a picture, of Them so
Speaker 19: i'm really looking forward to. Seeing it they usually get
Speaker 19: put on for that day and then they go into
Speaker 19: the box and, goes away hitting into somewhere to or
Speaker 19: no one can, find it so they're usually so big
Speaker 19: it's hard to wear. Those THINGS but i heard we
Speaker 19: got a different one this year where we can wear.
Speaker 19: A band oh the band comes out of, the middle
Speaker 19: so we can actually wear like almost like a band with.
Speaker 19: The ring so that's kind. Of cool when you win
Speaker 19: a lot and win a few in, a row you
Speaker 19: gotta kind of come up with some, new ideas and
Speaker 19: they did it, this year so hopefully we can make
Speaker 19: them come up with a new idea for this.
Speaker 18: Year too, Love, it freddie thanks a lot for.
Speaker 10: The time you know how much you mean to.
Speaker 5: This city you are A legacy dodger and you're gonna keep.
Speaker 10: It Going and.
Speaker 5: I'm counting i'm counting every, single hit every, single double
Speaker 5: the rest of the way the next.
Speaker 10: Four years, LOVE it i.
Speaker 19: Love it i'm looking forward, to it and, you know
Speaker 19: hopefully those countdowns.
Speaker 3: Go.
Speaker 5: Quicker Now freddie freeman will enjoy his ring At a Vier's.
Speaker 18: In pasadena we'll.
Speaker 10: Send it back to.
Speaker 18: The studio Taps at, Thank.
Speaker 4: You freddy as he leads out to the.
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Speaker 6: looking for so he re signed right before spring training
Speaker 6: a one year deal With. The diamondbacks he is two
Speaker 6: and five WITH an era of three ninety ninety, nine
Speaker 6: strikeouts though in fifteen career appearances Against, the dodgers so.
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Speaker 6: Named The WORLD. Series Mvp Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 4: Zach gallon to get the.
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Speaker 13: Right tim first game of the year right around, the
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Speaker 10: Game one.
Speaker 13: Yamamoto twelve and eight, last year nobody better In The
Speaker 13: national league, This Year zach gallon making his fourth consecutive
Speaker 13: opening day Start.
Speaker 8: For arizona Well, for yamamoto what he did during the
Speaker 8: season begin with. Was amazing what he did during the
Speaker 8: postseason was absolutely. Jaw dropping and he gets to start
Speaker 8: a nine six career Starts. Against arizona it's a little
Speaker 8: bit Different to, arizona lineup no question. About that aeronato
Speaker 8: is now a member Of, the diamondbacks but three to
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Speaker 8: to Work To. Zach gallen they saw him a couple
Speaker 8: of times. Last year gallon a very good breaking, ball
Speaker 8: pitcher and he'll surprise you with the. Fast Balls the
Speaker 8: dodgers have to make some adjustments Earlier on.
Speaker 13: Game one right around. The corner lineup's the first pitch, Coming,
Speaker 13: Up tim.
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