Speaker 1: The quest for the three feat has begne.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
Speaker 3: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vaseast.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase live at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers walk it off against the Royals five
Speaker 2: to four in ten innings. We have phone lines open
Speaker 2: at eight six, six, nine, eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Jose Moto will check in at eleven fifteen. In a moment,
Speaker 2: we'll head downstairs to hear from Blake Snell, who had
Speaker 2: a dominant return. That's the best way to describe been
Speaker 2: a dominant return to the mound after not pitching since
Speaker 2: undergoing that nanoscope procedure from doctor Elatrogh. He comes back
Speaker 2: six innings, ten strikeouts, one earn run. We'll also get
Speaker 2: to the Dodgers' bullpen. Trust tree. Where's your trust tree
Speaker 2: at right now? Eight six six nine, eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy plus you'll hear from Dalton Rushing. We had
Speaker 2: a chance to catch up with Rushing for the first
Speaker 2: time since going on the il with that strained UCL.
Speaker 2: But hey, before we get to all that, I just
Speaker 2: gotta ask you. I know we hear about the NBA
Speaker 2: and team's tanking. Tonight was the royal seventy second loss
Speaker 2: of the year. And I understand there's one out in
Speaker 2: the bottom of the tenth inning and the winning run
Speaker 2: is ninety feet away in sho Hao Tani. But if
Speaker 2: I had to choose between pitching to Kyle Tucker or
Speaker 2: Mac Monsey with the game on the line, the winning
Speaker 2: run ninety feet away, I'm going Monsey nine out of
Speaker 2: the ten times. And there were some questionable managing decisions
Speaker 2: from the Royals dugout this side, and I think that
Speaker 2: was the most questionable. And I know people are tweeting
Speaker 2: out me. There was one no you could go to
Speaker 2: four so tot any base or double play. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: get it, I get it. But Max Monsey in that situation,
Speaker 2: I don't care what he's hitting. I'm taking Max Munsey,
Speaker 2: He's been in that situation countless times.
Speaker 1: I think he can get.
Speaker 2: The ball in the air to score Otani. It doesn't
Speaker 2: need to be a grand Slam, it doesn't need to
Speaker 2: be a base hit. He was going to get the
Speaker 2: ball in the air to score Otani, and I felt
Speaker 2: like in the beginning part of that at bat, Monsey
Speaker 2: was trying to hit a grand Slam, and then he
Speaker 2: recalibrated and on a two to two pitch was able
Speaker 2: to hit the ball over a drawn in outfield, and
Speaker 2: that was the right call.
Speaker 1: That was their only chance to.
Speaker 2: Try to throw out Otani in a bang bang type
Speaker 2: of play. But yeah, I mean, I was shocked that
Speaker 2: you would intentionally walk Kyle Tucker to face, maximunth. See,
Speaker 2: I don't care what the situation is. I'm pitching a
Speaker 2: Tucker all day long, and the Royals paid for it.
Speaker 2: They lose five to four tonight in ten innings. And
Speaker 2: Seth Halverson, who's a very interesting arm the Dodgers acquired
Speaker 2: from the Rockies, was throwing one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2: He has a big arm, but obviously needs some refinement.
Speaker 2: He told me before today's game. Connor McGinnis the Dodgers
Speaker 2: pitching coach alongside Mark Pryor. But Connor McGinnis already had
Speaker 2: started to show salth Haverson some different things, and he
Speaker 2: said he's been trying it in the bullpens and off
Speaker 2: a flat ground and it already felt great. And that
Speaker 2: translated when it counted the most in the ten thinning.
Speaker 2: So congratulations to Seth Halverson putting the pressure cooker in
Speaker 2: the tenth thinning and delivers a scoreless inning to pick
Speaker 2: up his first win as a Dodger in extra innings
Speaker 2: five to four. The Dodgers win it in ten. It's
Speaker 2: their sixth walkoff win of the year. Max Smuntsey has
Speaker 2: two of those walkoff hits. Dalton Rushing has two of
Speaker 2: those walkoff hits as well. Eight six, six, nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number? All right,
Speaker 2: before we hear from Blake Snell, I'll just ask you
Speaker 2: this question. Coming into this homestand in the first two
Speaker 2: games of this series, if I asked you who is
Speaker 2: going to pitch better and who was going to dominate,
Speaker 2: was it going to be Ter Skooble or was it
Speaker 2: going to.
Speaker 1: Be Blake Snell.
Speaker 2: Well, it turned out that Blake Snell was the one
Speaker 2: that dominated and look he he's It's incredible what he
Speaker 2: did tonight. But it just shows again how talented Blake
Speaker 2: Snell is and at his best there is nobody better,
Speaker 2: including Trek Scuble. We saw that in October last year.
Speaker 2: Trek Scuoble has two and a half really good pitches,
Speaker 2: and he's a great competitor, and he's available or has
Speaker 2: been available more than Blake Snell. The only challenge for
Speaker 2: Snell in his career is his availability, which is number one.
Speaker 2: But when he's available and he's on the mound, I
Speaker 2: would take him as the best lefty and all of baseball,
Speaker 2: and that includes Tarrek Scuble, And that's nothing to take
Speaker 2: away from Schooble. Just s Nell is has four elite pitches,
Speaker 2: and tonight he came out firing ninety six, was sitting
Speaker 2: ninety six, was using his curveball. And I had told
Speaker 2: you that That's the one thing Snell expressed to me
Speaker 2: the most, the range of motion he now has after
Speaker 2: undergoing that nanoscope on his left elbow. It's given him
Speaker 2: more range of motion to be able to snap his
Speaker 2: curveball and to get it where he wants it. He'd
Speaker 2: been always searching for the curveball the last year and
Speaker 2: a half and he couldn't understand why until he realized
Speaker 2: after surgery, A, I can feel my fingertips again, and
Speaker 2: B I have more range of motion than I ever
Speaker 2: had before. And you saw that on display tonight. The fastball,
Speaker 2: the curveball played off that ninety six and the Royals
Speaker 2: were talking to themselves going back to the dugout and
Speaker 2: that's never a good sign for an offense, but a
Speaker 2: great sign for the pitcher.
Speaker 1: And look, Blake, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Saying I was coming into this game tonight thinking Snell
Speaker 2: was going to strike out ten and six innings, But
Speaker 2: that's a great sign for the Dodgers moving forward. Let's
Speaker 2: head downstairs right now to hear from Snell Zilla on
Speaker 2: sports and at LA.
Speaker 1: That was good.
Speaker 5: I felt like Atlanta helped me a lot, just with
Speaker 5: how it fell, the results. Pretty frustrating to have that
Speaker 5: as my only start and then I have to rehab
Speaker 5: go through all that to come back. So yeah, I
Speaker 5: just had a lot of information from that game that
Speaker 5: helped me with this one on what I want to
Speaker 5: do differently and how I wanted to start so I'm
Speaker 5: definitely happy that I was more aggressive, more in the zone,
Speaker 5: and more just in control of my emotions for being
Speaker 5: the first one back you just.
Speaker 4: Seeing how you were able to execute your pitches, though,
Speaker 4: I mean, you told me the other day how good
Speaker 4: the elbow in your shoulder feel right now? Was it
Speaker 4: telling to you about just seeing the shape of your pitches,
Speaker 4: how they were coming out, how you're executing, just being
Speaker 4: with I imagine a little bit extra adrenaline today.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was more calm than I thought I was
Speaker 5: going to be, so that was good. But the curve
Speaker 5: ball is like finally coming back to how like I
Speaker 5: remember it being. It was always a pitch that was
Speaker 5: a wipeout I could throw it, but now I'm finally
Speaker 5: releasing it where I need to release it, and I'm
Speaker 5: kind of releasing everything in the same slot out in front.
Speaker 5: So I'm happy with it. Just got to get ahead
Speaker 5: on Bobby. What if I get ahead there? I like
Speaker 5: my odds and that it bad, but I mean overalled it.
Speaker 5: There was a lot of weak contact and commanded his
Speaker 5: own Yeah, really well.
Speaker 2: But you're located a fastball as a lot of early
Speaker 2: What does that do with that open everything? Else up
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the reason why I'm good is the fastball.
Speaker 5: That's really good characteristics and I'm able to locate it
Speaker 5: where I want.
Speaker 1: And when I'm able to do.
Speaker 5: That makes everything a lot a lot better. And then
Speaker 5: you know, not being predictable helps as well. But being
Speaker 5: able to locate the fastball, I thought I did pretty good.
Speaker 5: I think I could be a lot better, but yeah,
Speaker 5: definitely for game one, I'm I'm happy with that.
Speaker 6: You talked about how good you've been feeling coming back
Speaker 6: and how excited you were to try to pitch really
Speaker 6: well the rest of the way. I mean could come
Speaker 6: out and strike out the side of the first and
Speaker 6: then just put together back kind of start like a
Speaker 6: validating that kind of how you were feeling coming into this,
Speaker 6: both kind of physically inventory.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the biggest thing was just being aggressive,
Speaker 5: being his own attack. I know how good my stuff is,
Speaker 5: so I didn't want to just be nibbling and then
Speaker 5: you know, complaining like, oh, let's just starting that. I
Speaker 5: didn't want to do any of that again like I
Speaker 5: did in Atlanta, so or reverse Atlanta, and then yeah,
Speaker 5: to strike out the side is good, but it's just
Speaker 5: keeping the pace, keeping the VLO where I needed to be,
Speaker 5: feeling strong, Like, those things mattered a lot to me.
Speaker 5: So to be able to do that for six innings
Speaker 5: and feel like I had more left, I'm excited about that.
Speaker 7: And I was earlier rehab that you felt good, But
Speaker 7: it's impossible to replicate a major league environment in those settings.
Speaker 7: Being back at Dodger Stadium, how much more did that help?
Speaker 7: With the execution, with being aggressive and all those.
Speaker 5: Exaltly helped a lot, because that was difficulty. Like you're
Speaker 5: throwing the ball and you're like curveball and it's like
Speaker 5: change up, and you're like change up as a slider.
Speaker 5: You're like, I don't even know what I'm doing. So
Speaker 5: to have that start and be that frustrated pitching knowing
Speaker 5: that I can't throw anything that I want with any shape,
Speaker 5: to be able to come here and just pitch and
Speaker 5: know like I could throw a curveball where I want,
Speaker 5: whenever I want, and a fastball and I felt way better.
Speaker 5: But Salt Lake was so difficult. Oh my god. If
Speaker 5: I played in Salt Lake growing up, I don't know
Speaker 5: if I'd be here today, I promise you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That was his last rehab start.
Speaker 2: A lot of pitchers have said Salt Lake City is
Speaker 2: not the ideal place to pitch. So take notice, major
Speaker 2: League Baseball, if you're thinking about expansion out there. Eight
Speaker 2: six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: You heard what Snell said. He told you what he's
Speaker 2: been telling me about the curveball, about the extension. And
Speaker 2: it played out tonight. And I loved when he was
Speaker 2: on the attack from pitch one. And can you believe
Speaker 2: that was the first time in what I guess two
Speaker 2: years is for Blake SNeW first time he has struck
Speaker 2: out the side as a Dodger. That's pretty impressive. And
Speaker 2: he went out there through the fastball up in the
Speaker 2: strike zone and retied the first nine batters that he faced.
Speaker 2: In fact, he retired the first ten batters that he faced.
Speaker 2: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers walk it off against the Royals five to four
Speaker 2: in ten innings. Let's go out to the phones. Josh
Speaker 2: in Ontario, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: How you doing, Josh, Hey, Dave, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 8: I thought a week ago and I asked you if
Speaker 8: you could tell MOOKI about the high Socks, and today
Speaker 8: he rocked the high Socks and hit a homer and
Speaker 8: the RBI single. So I just hear know, just for
Speaker 8: my personal ego, did you tell him anything?
Speaker 2: I I never had a chance to, Josh. I want
Speaker 2: to take credit for that, so I let it played out.
Speaker 2: But he played. He played really well tonight, and I
Speaker 2: guess the high Socks will stay there, Josh.
Speaker 8: I hope so too, Dave.
Speaker 9: Are you getting to that all right?
Speaker 1: Josh?
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, Yeah, MOOKI was nice to
Speaker 2: see first home run Mookie Betts says hit at Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium since June nineteenth. Tonight in the second inning, he
Speaker 2: had three hits, an RBI double.
Speaker 1: I loved his game, tying double.
Speaker 2: You just need to go up the middle there or
Speaker 2: the other way, and we haven't seen Mookie do a
Speaker 2: lot of that this year.
Speaker 1: A lot of his hits are to the left side.
Speaker 2: That was impressive that he was able to shoot it
Speaker 2: to right field right there to score the tying run.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to La pent Day. No, you're on
Speaker 1: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing David's noe? You pronounced the Dave?
Speaker 4: No, we.
Speaker 3: There we go. What's up, Dave, Dave, good night obviously
Speaker 3: for Mookie Bets Patty from the sixth spot. Dave, he's
Speaker 3: seven for nine, like it. I feel like it just
Speaker 3: woke him up.
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's the high socks and hitting six, batting.
Speaker 3: Six, Dave Roberts has should keep him in the sixth
Speaker 3: from now on until he until he starts slacking off.
Speaker 3: But for the most part, Mookie bet seven for ninety,
Speaker 3: was three for four with the with the Cubs, four
Speaker 3: for five with the Cubs, three for four tonight. There's
Speaker 3: no need to move them anywhere else in the lineup.
Speaker 3: Keep them in the sixth spot.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm not opposed to that. I mean, let's give
Speaker 2: him a little bit more of a runway to see
Speaker 2: what he could do. Yeah, the sixth spot, to me
Speaker 2: is a little bit better than the fifth spot. That
Speaker 2: seems to fit him better. So he seemed happy tonight, no,
Speaker 2: he So let's keep it rolling. Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Dodgers walk it off in ten innings against
Speaker 2: the Royals five to four, despite a little rockiness from
Speaker 2: the outfield defense tonight. I mean in the fifth inning,
Speaker 2: when Snell was out there and needed some help, Tyler
Speaker 2: Tolbert hit a busted broken bat flair in shallow right field.
Speaker 1: Down by the line.
Speaker 2: No, it was going to be a hit, but I
Speaker 2: would have loved to have seen Kyle Tucker run a
Speaker 2: little harder to try to prevent Tolbert for going for two.
Speaker 2: Tolbert did, he got to third base, and Snell was
Speaker 2: able to strand him there, retiring the next three batters
Speaker 2: that he faced. And also the most obvious defensive issue tonight,
Speaker 2: Andy pie has catching a fly ball from Carter Jensen
Speaker 2: in center field and then as he was going to
Speaker 2: throw the ball back in, he muffed it. It went
Speaker 2: all the way back to the wall, so Jack Caglione
Speaker 2: went from second to third, third to home and that's
Speaker 2: how the Royals took the lead. So obviously not ideal
Speaker 2: defense right there, but luckily the Dodgers are able to
Speaker 2: overcome it against the team that has lost seventy two
Speaker 2: games on the year. Let's go out to bing in Washington.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing binging?
Speaker 9: Is good?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 9: Three things man. First of all, I've been a fan
Speaker 9: since the early sixties. Grew up in Socow. I used
Speaker 9: to sit in my dad's Dodge dark Wagon and listen
Speaker 9: to the game Fall Asleep, He come and get me in? Man,
Speaker 9: was the game different back then? You know, Maury Wills,
Speaker 9: Don Drysdale, Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 8: What a game.
Speaker 9: The second thing I want to talk about is, you
Speaker 9: know a lot of a lot I hear a lot
Speaker 9: on your podcast. Everybody's worried about what's going on with
Speaker 9: the Dodgers. It's just regression to the mean. Talent helps
Speaker 9: you be above the mean, and the Dodgers certainly have that,
Speaker 9: so they're they're going places three. Doc, I'm sure recognizes
Speaker 9: that there's stages of team development, and there's been a
Speaker 9: lot of players go out and new players go in,
Speaker 9: and that means that you're going back in the stage
Speaker 9: of the team development and you have to work through them.
Speaker 9: You know, they are forming, storming, g norming, and finally performing.
Speaker 9: So if Doc Man and I see he's doing it,
Speaker 9: del Bok, That's what I got to talk about, all right.
Speaker 2: Being thank you for the phone call, Thanks for listening
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Royals tonight five to four in ten innings. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: win a series for the first time since the last
Speaker 2: homestand the last time the Dodgers won a series was
Speaker 2: against the Mariners before being swept by the Red Sox,
Speaker 2: starting a seven game losing streak. But certainly the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are starting to show signs of life offensively, which is
Speaker 2: a good thing because after tomorrow night they're going to
Speaker 2: welcome in the Milwaukee Brewers, who lost again tonight to
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller and the San Diego Padres, so a big
Speaker 2: four game series between two of the best teams record
Speaker 2: wise in the National League. And look, the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: going to win the NLS. That is not a doubt
Speaker 2: in my mind. All the Dodgers need to do now,
Speaker 2: the goal should be is to be one of the
Speaker 2: top two seeds in the National League so they don't
Speaker 2: have to play a wildcard round like they did last
Speaker 2: year against the Cincinnati Reds and start the NLDS on
Speaker 2: the road. Right now, they have the same record as
Speaker 2: the Atlanta Braves Atlanta one again tonight, the Brewers, like
Speaker 2: I mentioned, lost Tuna road to San Diego they're two
Speaker 2: games ahead of the Dodgers in the lost column.
Speaker 1: And when we.
Speaker 2: Talk about the Dodgers' trust tree for the bullpen, Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts talks about it. Right now, I would say the
Speaker 2: two guys that I trust more than anybody are Tanner
Speaker 2: Scott and Edwin Diaz at Gardo and Riquez who came
Speaker 2: in and pitched a scoreless inning. He's up there, Alex
Speaker 2: Zavessi and Jack Dryer, and I think we all have
Speaker 2: to give Evan Phillips a little bit of grace. This
Speaker 2: guy has not pitched in nearly two years, and he
Speaker 2: was pitching hurt throughout the entire twenty four Playoffs, couldn't
Speaker 2: pitch in the World Series, had major surgery, and since
Speaker 2: he's come back, you know, he's been thrown into the
Speaker 2: fire in high leverage situations. That's a lot to ask
Speaker 2: of a guy that had major arms surgery who's working
Speaker 2: his way back. He's healthy, of course, but as he
Speaker 2: saw again tonight, the command of the fastballs just not there.
Speaker 2: The sweeper's not the same. So I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 2: I was I was expecting too much from Evan Phillips,
Speaker 2: And I have no doubts that you know, as time
Speaker 2: goes on, he's gonna resemble the Evan Phillips before this
Speaker 2: long road back. But do we have two high expectations
Speaker 2: to expect Evan Phillips to go back to being the
Speaker 2: super reliever that he was before surgery two years ago.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe that was wishful thinking. Eight sixty six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number Tonight's game
Speaker 2: brought to you by Modello Modello The Mark of a Fighter.
Speaker 2: I mentioned the Dodgers have six walkoff wins this season.
Speaker 2: Two of those hits came from Max Muncie, who homered
Speaker 2: against the Rangers for a walkoff win earlier in the year,
Speaker 2: back in April. Also, Freddie Freeman had a walk off
Speaker 2: home run against the Angels on June fifth. Kyle Tucker
Speaker 2: had a walk off base hit against the Marlins back
Speaker 2: in April as well. But Muncie and Dalton Rushing are
Speaker 2: the two Dodgers that have multiple walkoff hits this season.
Speaker 2: And I feel like we are not respecting how much
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing meant to this lineup. And I know he
Speaker 2: went viral a couple of times because the camera was
Speaker 2: on him during those emotional outbursts in the first couple
Speaker 2: of months of the year, but he started to settle down. Obviously,
Speaker 2: still had a little bit of ways to go to
Speaker 2: control the emotions. But offensively this I had twelve home runs,
Speaker 2: had an eight hundred ops, hitting eighth or ninth for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. They missed that thump, They missed that threat
Speaker 2: at the bottom of their lineup, and I feel like
Speaker 2: we're all not appreciating that hole in the lineup. Obviously
Speaker 2: without Will Smith for the majority of the year, but
Speaker 2: without Dalton Rushing, now that's a big hole there. And
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are waiting on Will Smith probably coming back,
Speaker 2: if not, you know, if all goes well, probably the
Speaker 2: first week of September, but that's still a few weeks away.
Speaker 2: Until then, it's Ben Roetfitt and Hunter Fiducca. Roht Fitt
Speaker 2: did a nice job tonight catching, but you can't compare
Speaker 2: those two guys offensively to Dalton Rushing and Will Smith.
Speaker 2: Earlier today, we had a chance to catch up with
Speaker 2: Rushing for the first time since being a late scratch
Speaker 2: on Sunday Night Baseball before that last game against the
Speaker 2: Red Sox and the first time since officially going on
Speaker 2: the il with that strained UCL.
Speaker 10: I was throwing in the outfield, felt something didn't fill
Speaker 10: a pop or anything, but felt pretty serious. Is it
Speaker 10: kind of tightened up on me a little bit? Quinn
Speaker 10: got the imaging. Obviously, imaging said what it said. After
Speaker 10: getting opinions on opinions, we then come to an agreement
Speaker 10: that surgery is not necessary. So yeah, we're gonna rehab
Speaker 10: the muscle on the inside of my form. And the
Speaker 10: details as to the timeline, I don't really have any
Speaker 10: for you, But at the same time, I can say
Speaker 10: it feels ten times better than it did a week ago,
Speaker 10: and as soon as I can be throwing a baseball,
Speaker 10: I will be.
Speaker 2: How big of a relief was it to know that
Speaker 2: you're not gonna have to have surgery on your elbow?
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 10: I'm not a big fan of needles, knives or anything
Speaker 10: like that. So once we come to an agreement that
Speaker 10: it wasn't necessary right now then and it was obviously
Speaker 10: a good bit of relief. Now it's just let's get
Speaker 10: it right as quick as possible.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 10: Like I said, I don't make the decisions, but right
Speaker 10: now I don't. I don't think it'll be necessary obviously,
Speaker 10: planning that throwing goes of course, and everything goes great.
Speaker 10: Getting back throwing the ball. Whenever that is then yeah,
Speaker 10: well we'll stay away from surgery. But right now the
Speaker 10: plan surgery is not in the.
Speaker 1: Picture, all right, that's good news.
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing believes he has two months to try to
Speaker 2: get his arm to cooperate. He's going to strengthen the
Speaker 2: muscles around that right ucel and see where it goes
Speaker 2: from there. But he was pretty candid right there. He
Speaker 2: won't know until he starts throwing, and he doesn't know
Speaker 2: when that's going to be either. He's still swinging the bat.
Speaker 2: So we'll see where it goes with Dalton Rushing. But
Speaker 2: the latest on Will Smith, who incredibly now is ahead
Speaker 2: of Dalton Rushing as far as returning. Will Smith took
Speaker 2: BP in the cage yesterday. He played catch out on
Speaker 2: the field today and the plan is to have Will
Speaker 2: Smith take batting practice on the field before the end
Speaker 2: of the homestand and see where that goes. So fingers
Speaker 2: crossed Will Smith can return. So I saw Will Smith
Speaker 2: with my own eyes today and he wasn't running well,
Speaker 2: he did run away from me once in the clubhouse,
Speaker 2: but on the field he did not run away from me.
Speaker 2: So there was a Will Smith siding today eight six
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven, two five seventies the phone number
Speaker 2: Dodgers walk it off against the Royals and ten innings tonight,
Speaker 2: Max Munsey with the hit to score show Hey Otani.
Speaker 2: And in between Snell and Muncie's heroics, there were two
Speaker 2: outfielders that have had interesting last three weeks. Alex Call
Speaker 2: had not started in three weeks. He got the starting
Speaker 2: left field and actually drove in a run in in
Speaker 2: this game in the seventh inning for an RBI double.
Speaker 2: And Alex Call was a pregame guest earlier today he
Speaker 2: described just how he has stuck to his process and
Speaker 2: how there was nowhere else he'd rather be than with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and whenever his opportunities came about, he would
Speaker 2: be ready. And how about Taoscar Hernandez who was pinchit
Speaker 2: for last night. Tonight he was the pinch hitter and
Speaker 2: delivered an RBI double to score a call. So there
Speaker 2: you go, two guys that our our team, guys are
Speaker 2: accepting whatever their roles are going to be the rest
Speaker 2: of the season, delivering back to back RBI doubles in
Speaker 2: that seventh inning, so that was huge as well.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a time out.
Speaker 2: When we continue, Jose Moda will join us and we'll
Speaker 2: take more of your phone calls at eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy. I know, I know
Speaker 2: you don't want to call in. Don't worry. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna rub it in your face. You doubt it, snail Zilla.
Speaker 1: It's cool. I will not do that to you.
Speaker 2: But he's back in a big ten strikeouts and six
Speaker 2: innings and the Dodgers beat the Royals five to four
Speaker 2: and ten on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 5: Am five seventy LA.
Speaker 11: Sports.
Speaker 2: Rookie stands in from the right side against Waka Swings,
Speaker 2: drives a deep to left field toward the corner.
Speaker 1: It is pack, it is god hold on.
Speaker 2: Mookie pecks his fourteenth and the Dodgers jump in front
Speaker 2: one nothing. Big night for Mookie Betts, Big night for
Speaker 2: Blake Snell in his return. Big night for Max Munsey,
Speaker 2: who walks it off in the tenth inning with an
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Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Royals tonight, five to four in ten innings.
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Speaker 4: It's time to go around the horn with Hosean Moses.
Speaker 2: All right, jose I was excited about snell Zilla day,
Speaker 2: and he exceeded my expectations. Were you expecting ten strikeouts
Speaker 2: and six innings tonight?
Speaker 11: No, by I'm happy it happened. Dave, you know what
Speaker 11: was so good about it?
Speaker 1: What are your expectations?
Speaker 11: I was, you know, based in my mind. If he
Speaker 11: goes five and gives you seventy five, great, But I
Speaker 11: know that Dave Roberts says something so important before the game,
Speaker 11: and he said, I'm I'm I won five seventy five,
Speaker 11: but I don't want to put a hard number on
Speaker 11: the pitches. Because and I'm thinking, well, it could be
Speaker 11: that SNeW goes through five at you know, six sixty
Speaker 11: five pitches, you can't take him out, which means he's
Speaker 11: thrown strikes, he's being efficient and he's doing his job. David,
Speaker 11: I had not seen Blake's noew this loose with a
Speaker 11: consistent release point and dotting balls in and out of
Speaker 11: the zone in a couple of years. And I'm telling
Speaker 11: you what we saw today was not even close to
Speaker 11: what we saw against Cincinnati, what we saw against Milwaukee.
Speaker 11: This was a guy that was in total control and
Speaker 11: not feeling for where he was. It was pretty much
Speaker 11: you know what this is, August. It is compete mode.
Speaker 11: And I love his mentality, his looseness on the mound,
Speaker 11: being relaxed as he mentioned, but the execution was absolutely
Speaker 11: off the charts. And so happy that he's back at
Speaker 11: this pace.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a great tone setter when he came
Speaker 2: out right away and was being aggressive with his fastball.
Speaker 2: Like he said, he wasn't nibbling like he did a
Speaker 2: lot of last year. He relied on his fastball and
Speaker 2: let the curve ball play off of it.
Speaker 11: When everything is you know, you trust your stuff you're
Speaker 11: not holding back to see if you're recoiling because your
Speaker 11: shoulder's gonna hurt, and you don't think about any of
Speaker 11: those restrictions.
Speaker 4: Dave.
Speaker 11: It's such a different mindset, such freedom to pitch like that.
Speaker 11: And with the guy that's had, he's got the harderware.
Speaker 11: I mean, he's got the word hard to reprove it,
Speaker 11: he's got the ring. But now as a matter of
Speaker 11: just being able to almost relearn some things. You know,
Speaker 11: you talk about Salt Lake City, he's joking, but you
Speaker 11: know what, he's learned some things that every time out
Speaker 11: good or bad, he's gonna say something about his performance.
Speaker 11: It's just gonna open your ears and go, well, this
Speaker 11: guy's really it thinking, really wants to do better, wants
Speaker 11: to be excellent. So you know, you go out there
Speaker 11: and throw eighty four pitches and you throw your fastball
Speaker 11: forty five times, and you're not chasing velocity, you're not
Speaker 11: chasing strikehouse. You're just allowing the hitter to dictate what
Speaker 11: you're gonna throw. But when we have that type of
Speaker 11: arm and the dotting of the fastball, which reminded me
Speaker 11: more like a Yemma multi type fastball, it's just remarkable
Speaker 11: and fun to watch because he gets into a rhythm
Speaker 11: and it's all very soon. If you look at vertical
Speaker 11: break and horizontal break today, with a change of horizonal
Speaker 11: and the breaking ball going down vertically, it was just
Speaker 11: a perfect combination for your hitters not to find anything
Speaker 11: in the zone on the plane with their swings to
Speaker 11: square it up, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Jose Mota, the Dodgers tonight come back and win
Speaker 2: it in ten innings. We saw mookie bets have three
Speaker 2: hits tonight. I know it's the Royals. I know they've
Speaker 2: lost seventy two games. I know they have the worst
Speaker 2: bullpen in baseball. With all that being said, with the
Speaker 2: Dodgers scoring six runs last night, winning this one five
Speaker 2: to four and ten innings, are you starting to see
Speaker 2: better at bad quality? Are you starting to see better
Speaker 2: signs from this offense before they get the Brewers on Thursday.
Speaker 11: Dave is happening, and it's happened at the right time,
Speaker 11: Royals or not. I mean, they're making a very tough
Speaker 11: on you to beat them. It took ten innings today.
Speaker 11: It took harder for yesterday. I'm going to go back
Speaker 11: yesterday to not bad by Migir Rojas and the second
Speaker 11: ending with Mooki Bets after the double. And Rojas is
Speaker 11: a guy that you mentioned and you talked about his
Speaker 11: message to the team. He put it in an effort
Speaker 11: within that bat and trying to get the guy over
Speaker 11: by being a good team player and showing guys what
Speaker 11: you're talking about. You can talk all you want and
Speaker 11: have meetings and text messages and all that, but until
Speaker 11: the players see you in that dugout with your efforts,
Speaker 11: the at beat he put together when he wants it's
Speaker 11: pretty much what you want to see. And that is
Speaker 11: the best way to applaud a veteran player that wants
Speaker 11: to see everybody perform at the highest level and just
Speaker 11: don't take it upon yourself. How do you keep the
Speaker 11: line moving by being unselfish? I mean there's tons of
Speaker 11: which you have to be selfish in this game, but
Speaker 11: there's tons of what you guys go to. You know what,
Speaker 11: I trust the guy behind me. Let me go back
Speaker 11: to that. Today we saw the adjustice by Wilkie Betts.
Speaker 11: We saw the adjustice by a guy like Max Munsey,
Speaker 11: and it's just good to see how they feed off
Speaker 11: for each other. Same thing going off the bench, guys
Speaker 11: Alex called the atbat he put together. I mean, those
Speaker 11: are the things that make the biggest difference this time
Speaker 11: of the year, because the players that have not had
Speaker 11: the experience or have been with the team are looking
Speaker 11: for a way. And the way you show up is
Speaker 11: by the veteran players showing the rest of the time.
Speaker 11: And they're not going to click in the same day,
Speaker 11: but they're showing the way in which you have to
Speaker 11: play baseball more urgency, the way they running the basis. Obviously,
Speaker 11: there's gonna be a couple of mistakes here in there,
Speaker 11: but you can overcome them because you have a lot
Speaker 11: of talent and you have termination too in the ball game.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: I was asking, I shared my bullpen trust tree. The
Speaker 2: tree's a little thin these.
Speaker 1: Days, Jose.
Speaker 2: When it comes to the trust tree. Where's the Dodger
Speaker 2: bullpen right now? Obviously in the postseason it's a different
Speaker 2: story when you can move starters into the bullpen. But
Speaker 2: the Dodgers still have to get through the next seven
Speaker 2: weeks of the regular season.
Speaker 11: And they will by finding guys that, as he talked about,
Speaker 11: Aaron Phillips, is still trying to find that point in
Speaker 11: which he has to trust this stuff. Number one. Location
Speaker 11: is an issue. Command is an issue. That's the last
Speaker 11: time to come in for surgery is your arm. I
Speaker 11: feel great, but lots of these is great. But just
Speaker 11: that command of the one pitch we need it to
Speaker 11: be an out is not there. It's happening to him.
Speaker 11: But the trust tree is where we start with Alex Vesh.
Speaker 11: He's a guy that you trust the most when men
Speaker 11: on base, when things are a little hot in the
Speaker 11: middle of the game or you know, six or seventh inning,
Speaker 11: and from there on, you know from guys like Dryer.
Speaker 11: Obviously you need an Arica's consistency and knowing that one
Speaker 11: good outing doesn't do it. This is just you know,
Speaker 11: forty two games to go every outing. You need some
Speaker 11: zeros and go out there and support when your office
Speaker 11: is not performing. What the guys are doing on the
Speaker 11: mound is starters. So in that case, you know, you
Speaker 11: got to go out there and believe that Edwin Diaz
Speaker 11: is back and you know what you're going to get
Speaker 11: from Tanner Scott who was so good before Diaz came back,
Speaker 11: and he's back to I think where he needs to be,
Speaker 11: and just continue to get answers as you go. But
Speaker 11: you know very well, David, that as a game progresses
Speaker 11: and the season progresses, a lot of times those answers
Speaker 11: come by default, would have told that Jack Dard is
Speaker 11: going to get a saved last year in Arizona. So
Speaker 11: whatever your time comes, just go out there and step
Speaker 11: up it and do the job. But mainly for relievers,
Speaker 11: it's about throwing strikes. If you look go back at
Speaker 11: games given up by relievers and games lost by relievers,
Speaker 11: there's also going to be a waker hit batsman involved
Speaker 11: on the wild pitch.
Speaker 2: What makes a lot tougher, Yeah, no doubt, and that
Speaker 2: goes That makes it a lot harder for any pitcher,
Speaker 2: but especially a relief pitcher. All right, Jose, we'll see
Speaker 2: you back out here tomorrow night. Eric Lower on the
Speaker 2: mound as the Dodgers look to sweep the Royals. Oh hey, Jose,
Speaker 2: before I let you go, I had to throw this
Speaker 2: one at you. I am still dumbfounded how the Royals
Speaker 2: would walk Kyle Tucker in front of Max Munsey tonight.
Speaker 1: Even with one out.
Speaker 2: I understand trying to get a force play anywhere, but
Speaker 2: come on, you you do not want to see Max
Speaker 2: Munsey in that situation.
Speaker 11: That's the right guy for the Dodgers. And you know what,
Speaker 11: I'm glad it happened that way, Dave, So let mac
Speaker 11: Quatro figure it out.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 11: The Dodgers also figured out themselves with Max mostly there,
Speaker 11: everybody felt pretty good.
Speaker 1: Right, So you agree the Royals were tanking tonight.
Speaker 11: No, they went out to I'll never use that. They're
Speaker 11: playing percentage as you mentioned. Okay, So Kyle Tucker gets
Speaker 11: a basit base open, right, what is gonna hear about?
Speaker 11: Why did you? He could have got a ground ball?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 11: So it's like, but we know what the Dodgers have
Speaker 11: in Max Montcy, and we know what we've seen from
Speaker 11: Kyle Tucker. It's a lot easier to spread the zone.
Speaker 11: And had Kyle Tucker chase right that Max Moncie, look
Speaker 11: what happens. So let's stay with the results, Dave and
Speaker 11: take it. And you know what, you're stepping up like
Speaker 11: a veteran. So keep doing that, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in there, he
Speaker 2: goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast.
Speaker 2: I love putting him on the spot like that. He
Speaker 2: gets so uncomfortable eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number before we say good night.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the bullpen, shout out to the man that
Speaker 2: has the most saves and Dodger franchise history, ken Lee Jansen,
Speaker 2: who is closing in on a manumental milestone for any reliever,
Speaker 2: five hundred career saves. Ken Lee Jansen, who recorded three
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty saves in his Dodger career now after today,
Speaker 2: has four hundred and ninety saves in his career. He
Speaker 2: is just ten saves away from becoming just the third
Speaker 2: pitcher in baseball history to have five hundred saves in
Speaker 2: their careers. He would join Trevor Hoffman and Mariano Rivera.
Speaker 2: Think about that, ken Lee Jansen, Mariano Rivera, and Trevor
Speaker 2: Hoffman could be in the same sentence. If Kenley's able
Speaker 2: to secure ten more saves in his career, he would
Speaker 2: have five hundred and would be a lock for the
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. And I believe he's a lock already.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you could say if he came
Speaker 2: up seven saves short of five hundred that all of
Speaker 2: a sudden he's not a lock. I don't know why
Speaker 2: that would determine it, but yeah, he's ten away from
Speaker 2: five hundred in his career, and the Dodgers are going
Speaker 2: back to Detroit at the end of August, and Scooble
Speaker 2: might be facing his old team, Ken Lee might be
Speaker 2: in single digits getting closer to five hundred saves, and
Speaker 2: Jack Flair obviously still on the Tigers as well, So
Speaker 2: that'll be a fun trip to Motown at the end
Speaker 2: of August. And before the Dodgers get to Detroit on
Speaker 2: that road trip, they'll have a big series against the Braves,
Speaker 2: who they're fighting for a buye in the National League
Speaker 2: as well. Tomorrow, like I mentioned, Eric Lauer on the
Speaker 2: mound looking for the sweep going against Daniel Lynch. Our
Speaker 2: coverage begins at six o'clock tomorrow night, first pitch at
Speaker 2: seven ten Thanks to Dwayne McDonald. Dwayne, Dwayne left already.
Speaker 2: I guess you wasn't interested in Kenley Jansen updates all right, Colin,
Speaker 2: Ye back at our Burbank Studios. Thanks a lot for
Speaker 2: hanging in and can't wait to screen your phone calls
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Speaker 2: They take a lot of phone calls and you never
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Speaker 2: thank you Colin for everything you do back at the
Speaker 2: Burbank Studios, and thanks to you for listening. In case
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Speaker 2: our pregame conversation with Alex Call, who delivered an RBI
Speaker 2: double after not starting for the last three weeks in
Speaker 2: tonight's game. So Alex Call delivers and certainly happy he
Speaker 2: is still in Dodger Blue once again. The final score
Speaker 2: tonight the Dodgers defeat the Royals five to four.
Speaker 1: In ten innings.
Speaker 2: Ben Maller on Fox Sports Radio is next. Have a
Speaker 2: great rest of your night.
Speaker 1: See Um sholaying