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Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasey live at Uniclo Field
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium. After the Dodgers defeat the Phillies tonight
Speaker 2: by a final score of four to two. We have
Speaker 2: phone lines open at eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. It was a great sellout, almost sellout
Speaker 2: crowd fifty thousand, eight hundred and thirty four at Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium tonight on alex Vesia Bobblehead Night. And actually came
Speaker 2: into the game with two outs in the eighth inning
Speaker 2: to be able to strike out Kyle Schwarber for the
Speaker 2: final out of that inning. So he was fired up
Speaker 2: and hey, great job bringing him into the game on
Speaker 2: his bobblehead night. Incredible stuff by Alex Vesia and still
Speaker 2: going strong somehow, some way to get guys like Kyle
Speaker 2: Schwarber out. But tonight it was all about Justin Robleski,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers starting left hander who outdueled Zach Wheeler tonight.
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski had a no hitter with two outs in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning before Kyle Schwarber got the first hit,
Speaker 2: and it was a mammoth shot to center field home
Speaker 2: run for Kyle Schwarber to break up the no hitter
Speaker 2: and the shutout. But Robleski hung in there for seven innings,
Speaker 2: did not give up another run. He had nine strikeouts
Speaker 2: and did not walk a single batter. Robleski struck out
Speaker 2: Trey Turner twice tonight and was able to keep Bryce
Speaker 2: Harper off the bases as well. He struck out Harper
Speaker 2: twice tonight as well. Justin Robleski got sixteen swings and
Speaker 2: misses tonight. He was fantastic and the Dodger offense had
Speaker 2: got six hits tonight. Four of them were sole home
Speaker 2: runs off of Zach Wheeler, Freeman in the first, Monseie
Speaker 2: in the second, Otani in the third, and Will Smith
Speaker 2: for good measure. In the fifth inning tonight, Freeman and
Speaker 2: Munsei got Kershaw karma because both were surprised to see
Speaker 2: Kershaw sitting front row in those owner seats right by
Speaker 2: the on deck circle. Freeman and Munseie acknowledged him before
Speaker 2: they hit their home runs, and when they came back
Speaker 2: to the dugout, they certainly had a big smile for Kershaw,
Speaker 2: who was sitting right next to Dodger Talk listener Brad
Speaker 2: Paisley tonight at Dodger State. So a really fun night
Speaker 2: here at Dodgers Stadium, and certainly fun to have Kershaw
Speaker 2: front row when another left hander like Justin Robleski was
Speaker 2: doing what he was doing tonight against a formidable Phillies lineup.
Speaker 5: Let's hear from Justin Robleski.
Speaker 2: He caught up with Heidi Watney on Apple TV after
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Justin, you came out firing tonight. You took a
Speaker 6: note hitter into the sixth inning, a career high nine case.
Speaker 5: What was working for you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I just think, you know, eternal Scotting.
Speaker 7: I think we did a really good job of kind
Speaker 7: of creating a game plan through today and we went
Speaker 7: out there and executed. I think we said on the
Speaker 7: attack pretty well, we'll obviously call the great game and
Speaker 7: kind a great game heading too. So yeah, it's just
Speaker 7: a whole lot of support and just just a good.
Speaker 3: Outing at general.
Speaker 6: Hey, velosity was up tonight average more than a mile
Speaker 6: prour faster. You touched ninety seven a couple of times.
Speaker 1: What's behind that increase?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I think something click for me today.
Speaker 7: I don't know if I can't tell you exactly what
Speaker 7: it is, but I fell it back to myself today
Speaker 7: as opposed to kind of the way i've man I've
Speaker 7: kind of insearched it a little bit just for that
Speaker 7: that extra tick that I usually have. So I was
Speaker 7: encouraging tonight to kind of see that and kind of
Speaker 7: see the fastball play like I know it can play.
Speaker 6: You've been trending that way the last couple of starts.
Speaker 6: Is there something you've been working on to increase the VEEO?
Speaker 7: Not, not anything in particular, just kind of getting back
Speaker 7: to me and me getting back to just the normal
Speaker 7: stuff that allows me to throw hard and yeah, just
Speaker 7: I think also too, it's just part of a long season.
Speaker 7: I have ups and downs. I usually throw harder in June,
Speaker 7: and that's just kind of the way it's been for me.
Speaker 7: So we're almost at June, and maybe that's just what's.
Speaker 8: Happening on with you.
Speaker 6: You talked about the offense behind you. Homer's in the first,
Speaker 6: in the second, and the third again in the fifth.
Speaker 6: Does that take some pressure off of you seeing those
Speaker 6: guys go do that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 7: I mean when you know you have an offense like
Speaker 7: we have, I mean, obviously it gives you commudists to
Speaker 7: go out there and just attack and try to get
Speaker 7: him back in the dugout. And then for me, just
Speaker 7: just going against the guy like Zach Wheeler, I know,
Speaker 7: you know, he's a study's someone I've watched forever and
Speaker 7: you know, super cool to kind of get to go
Speaker 7: against the guy like that, so I know he's gonna
Speaker 7: put up zero, So I got I gotta do the same,
Speaker 7: and yeah, see if we can win lugging.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Justin Robleski on Apple TV. After going
Speaker 2: seven innings tonight only throwing eighty eight pitches, Robleski threw
Speaker 2: his four seen fastball, averaging about ninety five miles an
Speaker 2: hour tonight. On the season, it had only been averaging
Speaker 2: ninety four miles an hour, so he did have a
Speaker 2: little extra giddy up on the fastball tonight. He also
Speaker 2: mixed in his slider, his changeup, and his sinker to
Speaker 2: be able to keep this Phillies lineup off balance. And
Speaker 2: he set the tone in the very first inning, striking
Speaker 2: out the side in order. He struck out Schwarber's swinging.
Speaker 2: He got Trey Turner looking, and he struck out Harper
Speaker 2: swinging to start the first innings. So you're thinking, okay,
Speaker 2: this is gonna work tonight against this lineup. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to the calls for the first time tonight.
Speaker 2: Felix in San Diego. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Felix? Okay,
Speaker 2: you go ahead and punch him up. Colin, Hi, Felix, Hey.
Speaker 9: What's going on man? Good evening, Thanks for taking my call. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 9: I actually just wanted to give her Billspius Roses. Thank
Speaker 9: god this guy is still on the team. I don't
Speaker 9: know if you remember, but at the beginning of the
Speaker 9: season there were talks about the whole stew ball potentially coming.
Speaker 10: To us and him being part of that package.
Speaker 3: I don't hear anybodyalore at Channel five.
Speaker 5: I don't see scoopl here on the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: Well, I don't hear anybody right now in Blue Cruel
Speaker 9: Country talking about we want.
Speaker 10: Schoovil and you can have her bluff you right, But no.
Speaker 9: You know the other thing I was gonna mention to
Speaker 9: you is I'm a man, and I'll let me when
Speaker 9: I'm wrong.
Speaker 10: I'm I used to call him he who shall not
Speaker 10: be named.
Speaker 9: I wanted nowhere near the postseason Atlanta. I'll tell you what, man,
Speaker 9: this year he's looking, he's looking on point, and good on.
Speaker 10: Him for you know, redemption season.
Speaker 9: Last thing I have for you, man, if you can
Speaker 9: do me a favor and hit us up on with
Speaker 9: you know, I tried looking.
Speaker 10: Into it, but I can figure it out. What's the
Speaker 10: story with Tibbs man?
Speaker 9: We really need him, especially right now that I both
Speaker 9: Kik and Tale are out.
Speaker 5: What did you say? Who? What's up with who?
Speaker 10: Tips? Tips?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: James Tibbs the Third, Yeah, James Tibbs the Third hasn't
Speaker 2: been playing the outfield in the minor leagues. He's got
Speaker 2: some left fore arm issue going on. The Dodgers called
Speaker 2: up Ryan Ward, who has paid his dues Felix and
Speaker 2: was the Triple A Player of the Year last year.
Speaker 2: So he's on the forty man roster and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are going to give him an opportunity. He's earned it,
Speaker 2: and him and Alex Call are going to split time
Speaker 2: in left field.
Speaker 9: Okay, all right, well here, well, hey, I'll say Ward,
Speaker 9: I've seen him on the in the minor show.
Speaker 3: Good good, good, but hey.
Speaker 10: Man, great show, keep it up and let's go Dodgers.
Speaker 2: All right, Felix, thank you for the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers called up Ryan Ward today. So the plan
Speaker 2: is Dave Roberts joined us on the pregame show that
Speaker 2: Call and Ward will not have a strict platoon. They
Speaker 2: are going to split time in left field and Alex
Speaker 2: Call got the start tonight against Zach Wheeler. He'll be
Speaker 2: in there again tomorrow night against the lefty. Heyesus, Lozardo.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Fresno. Manuel, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Manuel, David?
Speaker 8: What a pleasure? Greetings from Fresno.
Speaker 5: I guess the only other person I know from Fresno
Speaker 5: is Derek Carr.
Speaker 2: How about that Manuel you and Derek Carr and David Carr.
Speaker 3: There you go, buddy, he.
Speaker 8: David Carr.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know he's a legend in Fresno too. I'm
Speaker 5: just messing around, yes, Fresno.
Speaker 8: Hey listen. So going into tonight, I was hoping that
Speaker 8: that Robo would show up. I go, I hope it's
Speaker 8: just that a nice story for the first half of
Speaker 8: the season. But you know, he got rushed up by
Speaker 8: the Braves, he got rushed up by the Brewers, and
Speaker 8: he only had a good outing against the Angel So
Speaker 8: I was hoping for him.
Speaker 5: Dude, That's not true.
Speaker 2: That's not the only good outing he's had this year
Speaker 2: against the Angels.
Speaker 8: I'm talking about the last three, the last three starts.
Speaker 8: So I was hoping for the best. I'm not a
Speaker 8: negative guy, dude. I can honestly say this guy not
Speaker 8: only belongs, he should be pitching in the playoffs. I know,
Speaker 8: I know it's a long way to go, but that's
Speaker 8: the kind of moxie this guy has.
Speaker 2: And well, you're talking about a guy that pitched five
Speaker 2: times in the World Series last year and didn't give
Speaker 2: up a run. People forget about how big he was
Speaker 2: coming out of the bullpen. And remember he kept his
Speaker 2: poise in Game seven when Andre some Menez leaned into
Speaker 2: a pitch and started, you know, a pushing match with
Speaker 2: the benches clearing. Robleski was the guy on the mountain
Speaker 2: when all that happened.
Speaker 8: I know he's a stud. I'm not questioning that.
Speaker 2: That sounded like you were questioning it, Manuel, and you
Speaker 2: have seen the light of Robleski.
Speaker 8: Now, no way, no way. All that was all I
Speaker 8: was hoping.
Speaker 2: It sounded like you were about to deny Robleski three
Speaker 2: times before the All Star break.
Speaker 8: Manuel, I'm not judas man.
Speaker 11: I was.
Speaker 8: Maybe I was hoping the best, But now I know
Speaker 8: I'm convince I'm a believer. David go blae right, Manuel,
Speaker 8: your FANSNAS nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2: Buddy, okay, Manuel, thank you for calling in. Believe in Robleski.
Speaker 2: He's the truth. Justin Robleski now has pitched the second
Speaker 2: most innings of any other Dodger this year. Ya'm amoto
Speaker 2: in ten starts, has sixty four innings of work. Justin
Speaker 2: robl In nine starts, one out of the bullpen, so
Speaker 2: ten games, nine starts, sixty two and two thirds innings
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers, and he has a lower era than Yamamoto.
Speaker 2: Robleski's era to eighty seven with a record of seven
Speaker 2: and two. By the way, wins and losses do matter
Speaker 2: if you're a starting pitcher, and Fernando Vealezuela told me
Speaker 2: this many times. Fernando told me wins and losses do
Speaker 2: mean a lot for a pitcher because that means you're
Speaker 2: staying in the game longer. You're going deeper into the
Speaker 2: game to control whether or not you and the team
Speaker 2: win that game. When you hand the ball to the bullpen,
Speaker 2: that's when you don't get wins. But Robleski obviously has
Speaker 2: hung in there for a lot of these starts, deep
Speaker 2: into the game, and that's the reason why he leads
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Speaker 5: Let's go out to te Luca Lake. Dave, You're on
Speaker 5: Dodger Talk. How you doing, Dave.
Speaker 12: DV Always a pleasure to talk to you, sir. Hey
Speaker 12: just want to get your take on the concern that
Speaker 12: maybe the Dodgers and the fans should have about complacency.
Speaker 12: You know, I know in the past when they were
Speaker 12: really boat racing all the other teams and had one
Speaker 12: hundred plus wins and they kind of went in the
Speaker 12: playoffs and got punched in the mouth and didn't get
Speaker 12: the chip. So I guess my question, has has it
Speaker 12: been talked about and what's your feeling on that. My
Speaker 12: second question would be, what's the name of the fella
Speaker 12: who's considered a top prospect for the Dodgers that just
Speaker 12: got injured. He tripped over a ball dog or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kendall George's Yeah, Kendall George. Earlier this week he
Speaker 2: scored on an RBI single by hoz Way Depaula while
Speaker 2: playing for Double A Tulsa. And I guess in the
Speaker 2: minor leagues they have dogs that are instead of bat boys,
Speaker 2: they're bat dogs. And the dog cut in front of
Speaker 2: George at the last minute and he landed awkwardly on
Speaker 2: his left leg and he got injured. I actually got
Speaker 2: a chance to catch up with Dodger GM Brandon Gomes
Speaker 2: and asked him about what's the status of Kendall George.
Speaker 13: I mean, he had a Beteller injury. We're still working
Speaker 13: through the different options of you know, how we're gonna proceed,
Speaker 13: but definite like definite injury, going to miss some time
Speaker 13: and how much kind of we'll be decided over the
Speaker 13: next week or so as we see different medical personnel.
Speaker 2: All right, So there's the latest update. It is an injury.
Speaker 2: He is going to miss time, but you hope that
Speaker 2: it's not too severe. So our thoughts go out to
Speaker 2: Kendall George. Such a freak accident. And Jacks of the
Speaker 2: California Post has reported that the Tulsa Ballpark has suspended
Speaker 2: using batdogs for the time being. So I think that's
Speaker 2: a that's a smart deal because things like this accidentally
Speaker 2: can happen. And like I said earlier in the week,
Speaker 2: the stakes are way too high now in professional baseball
Speaker 2: to have any of this, any of this happening, because
Speaker 2: he's a top prospect. We're talking about millions of dollars
Speaker 2: for him, we're talking about the future for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and you just can't have that happen. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 2: I want to share something with you from earlier today,
Speaker 2: our conversation with Dave Roberts and show hey Otani homeward
Speaker 2: for the second straight game. If you follow a few
Speaker 2: different MLB Twitter accounts, there's a great photo from Wednesday
Speaker 2: Night's game. After Otani let off the bottom of the
Speaker 2: first inning with a home run, it was Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: that greeted O'ti with the sunflowers seed celebration. Tomorrow night
Speaker 2: is Taoscar Hernandez bobblehead night with him and the arm
Speaker 2: action of the sunflower seeds. Taoscar Hernandez was not coming
Speaker 2: up until later in the bottom of the first inning,
Speaker 2: if at all, on Wednesday night, and it was Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts being the one that was shown throwing the sunflower
Speaker 2: seeds at Shoho Tani. So in our pregame conversation today
Speaker 2: brought to us by Downy Hunday, I asked Dave Roberts,
Speaker 2: what was that all about? Is that the first time
Speaker 2: you've ever been the guy throwing the sunflower seeds?
Speaker 11: I think I've done it before, but this situation, Paul
Speaker 11: Hayes was hitting two, so he was on deck getting
Speaker 11: ready to hit. Tao was in the cage he was,
Speaker 11: I don't know where he was. And then so for me,
Speaker 11: it was a big hit homer from Show Hey, and
Speaker 11: I'm looking around the dugout saying, who's got the seeds?
Speaker 11: No one had the seeds, So then I had to
Speaker 11: take initiative, Dave, get the seeds and greet show Hey
Speaker 11: with some seeds. And you know what's funny is I
Speaker 11: saw a little smirk out of them, even on a
Speaker 11: bitching day, so I think I surprised him.
Speaker 5: How about that?
Speaker 2: That's the story behind Dave Roberts being the guy greeting
Speaker 2: Sho Heo Tani after his leadoff home run in the
Speaker 2: bottom of the first inning on Wednesday night with the
Speaker 2: sunflower seeds. So we've how many managers would be on
Speaker 2: their toes for the celebration like that? Where's the rest
Speaker 2: of the group? You can't leave that up to Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. We're gonna take a time out here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk when we come back, more of your
Speaker 2: phone calls at eight sixty six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy. We'll check in with Jose Mota as well,
Speaker 2: we'll update you on Teoscar Hernandez and also the Dodger
Speaker 2: plans in left field, So a lot to get to
Speaker 2: as we roll on from you and a glow field
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Speaker 14: Smith, the right handed hitter by Paul right field, and
Speaker 14: deep at.
Speaker 5: The Waltana home run.
Speaker 14: The Dodgers just keep hitting home run after home run
Speaker 14: Freeman in the first, Monthly in the second, O'tani in
Speaker 14: the third, and Smith leads off with a home run.
Speaker 5: On the fifth and the Dodgers league four to another.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers homered four times tonight off of Zach Wheeler
Speaker 2: to beat the Phillies four to two. Rick Monday and
Speaker 2: Charlie Stunner on the call to begin the game. Rick
Speaker 2: Monday and Steven Nelson closed out the game tonight as
Speaker 2: the Dodgers closed out the Phillies, and Tanner Scott no drama.
Speaker 2: Scott this year with a fifth save of the season,
Speaker 2: shutting down the Phillies in order. In the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski goes seventh strong with his seventh win of
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota, Let's start with the man of
Speaker 2: the hour, Justin Robleski, who looked like Justin Robleski again tonight.
Speaker 3: He did, you know, the main thing was clearly the
Speaker 3: fastball usage. First twenty four pitches, sixteen fastballs. I think
Speaker 3: that was pretty much an indicator. And truly day before
Speaker 3: he found velocity, he found that he had confidence. He
Speaker 3: was reading swings. He knew that lefties actually have just
Speaker 3: had a little bit more success than rights against them,
Speaker 3: which sometimes justified, sometimes not. But I'm glad that you
Speaker 3: know these are not just any lefties. I'll talk about
Speaker 3: Shwarber obviously, you know, guys like Bryce Harper can do
Speaker 3: a lot of damage and walk you and make I
Speaker 3: should say they make you walk them because they were counts.
Speaker 3: But he was so affected with that fastball. You think
Speaker 3: about this, twenty four swings thirteen were missing a fastball
Speaker 3: and was up in the zone, down to the zone,
Speaker 3: and he worked very fast. The little twig that he
Speaker 3: met it to his delivery started back at Milwaukee. I
Speaker 3: noticed that the middle of the game where he was
Speaker 3: loading up a little bit more, not chasing velocity, but
Speaker 3: knowing that more left in the fastball is going to
Speaker 3: make everything else more effective. And it truly paid off
Speaker 3: here tonight.
Speaker 2: When you talk about confidence, how much more confidence can
Speaker 2: you get if you're justin Robleski and you strike out
Speaker 2: the side in order of Kyle Schwarber, Tree Turner and
Speaker 2: Bryce Harper.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a big ward, it's a beginning. It's also
Speaker 3: a big lift for him knowing that he doesn't have
Speaker 3: to go out there and try to be pretty in
Speaker 3: setting up hitters. You know a lot of times young
Speaker 3: pitchers like him, who was very smart, you know, I
Speaker 3: got to really sometimes he'll tell me, I overthink it.
Speaker 3: I got to get out of my own way sometimes.
Speaker 3: But if it's working, it's like, well, what's there to
Speaker 3: think about. You go out there and just make sure
Speaker 3: that they get to it. And Will Smith, as he
Speaker 3: mentioned in the interview with you that you played, he
Speaker 3: pretty much went, I want I'm not going to say
Speaker 3: against the card or against the report, but just saying
Speaker 3: the game plan was this, Let's find out what happened
Speaker 3: to the first inning, Let's see how he feels, and
Speaker 3: then go from there. Because when he missed with breaking
Speaker 3: balls that were just low enough out of the zone
Speaker 3: enough where he could have gotten some chases. But the
Speaker 3: main thing to me is just go out there and
Speaker 3: use number one. I was looking at his chart before
Speaker 3: the game with Louis Cruz and the Spiders rockcyesterday. I'm saying,
Speaker 3: there's like six pitches spread out here. A team like
Speaker 3: the Phillies, especially he's powerful to lefty guys. They want
Speaker 3: you to go out there and start twinkering and throwing
Speaker 3: all the kinds of things because eventually you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to give in in the zone. But he reduce it
Speaker 3: to three. I said, you got to reduce that to three.
Speaker 3: Three pitches one for velocity, one to separate one that
Speaker 3: they have to respect, another one just fading away with
Speaker 3: your change up, but the other one with some spin
Speaker 3: on the back for the rightings, which you just sold
Speaker 3: well against guys like Garcia to make sure and Alec
Speaker 3: Bam they were not getting good swings, and especially Day one,
Speaker 3: thing that really happened some broken bass against lefties. That
Speaker 3: means that fastball was rising up and in without him trying,
Speaker 3: which is also a nice weapon.
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott has made believers in a lot of Dodger fans. Jose,
Speaker 2: it just seems like he has a little something extra
Speaker 2: on his pitches this year, similar to the Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: we saw two years ago. Can you put your finger
Speaker 2: on why there's been such a drastic improvement this year.
Speaker 3: I think mentally he's in a good spot. Number two
Speaker 3: is that he had to himself make some adjustments with
Speaker 3: his delivery. Quite clear that he's not lagging with his
Speaker 3: arm with a breaking ball when lefties are here, you
Speaker 3: as well as they did last year against them, they're
Speaker 3: seeing the ball well and with two strikes you're not
Speaker 3: able to put them away. Go out there to look
Speaker 3: what the armslot is and if the guy that has
Speaker 3: the battles his delivery because Conner Scott is they got
Speaker 3: to push us off and drags. He's not a push
Speaker 3: off and drive down top of guy as a lefty.
Speaker 3: So when he dragged his arm and this is you know,
Speaker 3: explained to me by Connor mcguinnis it's hard to get
Speaker 3: on top of a slider, to just get behind the slader.
Speaker 3: And Kersh was there today and he can tell you
Speaker 3: he was not able to rip it down to the zone.
Speaker 3: This time he can get on top of us at
Speaker 3: a little bit more, shortening his stride a little bit more, says,
Speaker 3: allowing him to land Ulver's right leg much better to
Speaker 3: effectively have more extension. And extension is a big word
Speaker 3: for him. He needs it to go other and look
Speaker 3: like everything looks like a fastball to the very end.
Speaker 3: And that's where you're seeing a lot of swings against
Speaker 3: that slider where people think it's a fast one to
Speaker 3: the very end, which is what he did for so
Speaker 3: many years against these values that couldn't touch him when
Speaker 3: he was in the other uniform.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, let's switch to the offense. Four home
Speaker 2: runs tonight, including show Hey Otani homering in the third inning.
Speaker 5: Not only just hom ering.
Speaker 2: That was one of three hits for Otani tonight, which
Speaker 2: kind of indicates that he kept on promising May was
Speaker 2: his month, and it feels like May is starting to
Speaker 2: become his month again.
Speaker 3: Well the end, the numbers are going to be there
Speaker 3: for the month of May. I'm hopeing he'll carry it
Speaker 3: into the summer when the ball starts trying a little
Speaker 3: bit more. For show Hay, the effectiveness has been that
Speaker 3: he's trying less day. There's a connection between try and
Speaker 3: less going out there and hitting vp on the field
Speaker 3: to see what the ball is doing, and using the
Speaker 3: big part of the field. I mean, sure, he's nothing
Speaker 3: wrong with him being late. Sometimes he can hit a
Speaker 3: ball out the label, hit the ball far away, but
Speaker 3: when he finds left center field, left field line. Even
Speaker 3: the foul balls from show Hey are not foul balls
Speaker 3: where he's rolling so much over the baseball and fouling
Speaker 3: them off to the right side to the other dugout.
Speaker 3: Now you see more foul balls that are going to
Speaker 3: the left side. If Freddie Freeman lives to do And
Speaker 3: on top of this is watch how calm he is
Speaker 3: right now. The way he takes pitches is the way
Speaker 3: he swings about. I learned that from a guy that
Speaker 3: you know very well and you respect him. Kevin Kennedy,
Speaker 3: as my manager in Double A, says, the way you
Speaker 3: take pitches dictates a lot of how you're swinging. And
Speaker 3: right now where we're seeing for the show is he's
Speaker 3: taking pitches calmly, not overswinging, and just allowing sometimes to
Speaker 3: tell velocity to go out there and dictate what he
Speaker 3: does with the swing, which path he wants to take,
Speaker 3: and it's paying off for quite nicely. Frams hopefully carry
Speaker 3: this and to try and let us a little bit
Speaker 3: better for show at this point and we see the
Speaker 3: results they're happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what most great hitters always say. It's not
Speaker 2: about the swings, it's about the takes. And Monthsy's like
Speaker 2: that as well. He always says, you can tell when
Speaker 2: I'm going great, not by the home runs, but the
Speaker 2: fact that I'm taking my walks, and it starts to
Speaker 2: reflect in show.
Speaker 5: Hao Tani now too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, David, think about this. Your eyes are
Speaker 3: such an important part that I think, to me, the
Speaker 3: eyes are not paid. There's so much mechanical talk and
Speaker 3: swings and paths and all this. How about your eyes?
Speaker 3: How are you seeing the ball? It's one of the
Speaker 3: things you know. A good coach will us are you
Speaker 3: seeing the ball well? Yes?
Speaker 4: Or no?
Speaker 3: You know, answer that question, and then you know. One
Speaker 3: of the drills people use for so many years was
Speaker 3: like twenty one will go and stem in the bullpen
Speaker 3: when got through bowling bullpens and just sit there and
Speaker 3: watch the bolt and track it in and telling himself,
Speaker 3: if I stay this quiet, look how nice the ball looks. Right.
Speaker 3: But it's hard to tell yourself that when you're competing
Speaker 3: the adrenaline you want to beat the Phillies or whoever
Speaker 3: it is, and you start jumping and not seeing the
Speaker 3: ball well. And with all this against a guy like Wheeler,
Speaker 3: you understand that he's going to give you something to hit,
Speaker 3: and the less you try, the better it is. And
Speaker 3: Wheeler saw the approach today started with Freddy his two
Speaker 3: seam fastball. The great game planning was don't look for
Speaker 3: it to sink, look for it to run. That's why
Speaker 3: you change your swing path in that direction, because you
Speaker 3: don't want to get under the ball. Get even with
Speaker 3: a baseball, and the results are happening. So game planning
Speaker 3: and all the instruction they got today on all the
Speaker 3: information gains a guy like Wheeler, well done. But the
Speaker 3: main thing is attacking Mrunley because with two strikes he's
Speaker 3: pretty much unheittable. Yeah, and the.
Speaker 2: Dodgers were able to get four good swings off of
Speaker 2: him tonight, four solo home runs off of Zach Wheeler
Speaker 2: to beat him in the Phillies. Jose, thanks a lot
Speaker 2: for the time. We'll talk to you tomorrow night. There
Speaker 2: he goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Phillies tonight four to two.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Alex who is at the ballpark tonight. Hi, Alex,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hey, how's it going, David?
Speaker 15: Thanks for Jack McCall my pleasure. Yeah, I just wanted
Speaker 15: to say you no, real, yeah, real. Robleski he's just
Speaker 15: a beast man. I think he had a couple of
Speaker 15: rough outings early, but we got to just realize that
Speaker 15: this is who he is and give him some slack
Speaker 15: when he gets when he gets roughed up once in
Speaker 15: a while, but I think we got to know that
Speaker 15: he's gonna bounce back and be out there and carry
Speaker 15: us when we need him too, and just just who
Speaker 15: he is. So good to see him have a strong
Speaker 15: outing and gets another good picture like Wheeler tonight. And
Speaker 15: I want to just ask you real quick, it sounds
Speaker 15: like James TIMPs has been tearing it up in the minors.
Speaker 15: I was just kind was thinking maybe he might be
Speaker 15: the one to come up for tail.
Speaker 8: Any thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandon gom So, we caught up with him earlier today.
Speaker 2: He was asked about that and he just said, yeah,
Speaker 2: he acknowledged that Tibbs have been playing well. But Ryan
Speaker 2: Ward has earned it. He's the PCL Player of the year.
Speaker 2: He's twenty eight years old, He's been waiting for his opportunity.
Speaker 2: He's on the forty man roster, so all those things
Speaker 2: factored into it. So you know, if you're not going
Speaker 2: to give Ryan Ward this opportunity, then you should just
Speaker 2: cut him loose. So the Dodgers are going to give
Speaker 2: him this opportunity. He's going to get an extended opportunity
Speaker 2: now with taoscar Hernandez out for at least three weeks,
Speaker 2: him and Alex call are going to split time in
Speaker 2: left field. But James Tibbs, he's done a fantastic job.
Speaker 2: Our understanding is he hasn't played the outfield the last
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, so maybe that factored a little bit
Speaker 2: into it. But really this comes down to right now,
Speaker 2: the dodd just need to hold down left field for
Speaker 2: the next three weeks, not have somebody take Tail's job
Speaker 2: for the rest of the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 15: I'm excited to see what Ryan Ward do too, So.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone call. It's amazing. Before Ryan
Speaker 2: Ward got his call up. When we were in Denver
Speaker 2: earlier this year, all I would hear about last year
Speaker 2: is why don't the Dodgers call O Brian Ward? Why
Speaker 2: aren't they calling O Brian Ward? And now they call
Speaker 2: up Ryan Ward And all I get is why didn't
Speaker 2: they call up James Tibbs. Why is James Tibbs still
Speaker 2: a triple A? It's like, come on, pick one, Okay,
Speaker 2: this is Ryan Ward's time. He's put in the work,
Speaker 2: he's earned it. Let's see what he and Alex call
Speaker 2: can do in left field.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: The reason why Ryan Ward is here is because te
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez sustained a Grade one left hamstring strain on
Speaker 2: Wednesday night that usually he takes about a month to
Speaker 2: come back from, and hamstrings are tricky. You don't want
Speaker 2: to push a thirty three year old with a history
Speaker 2: of growing and hamstring issues too fast either. I had
Speaker 2: a chance to catch up with Dodger GM Brandon Gomes
Speaker 2: earlier today. You heard what he had to say about
Speaker 2: Kendall George. I told you what he just said about
Speaker 2: the choice between Ward and Tibbs. And here's what he
Speaker 2: said about the injury to Taoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 13: Emri I read better than we had expected. So it's
Speaker 13: just tough, like the hamstrings are hit or miss. Like
Speaker 13: once he gets going or hoping it'll be a quick return,
Speaker 13: I'll try to get him some three habt bats last
Speaker 13: you know, when that happened last year. Probably rushed it
Speaker 13: a bit on that front. So we'll kind of get
Speaker 13: him treatment for the next however many days, and then
Speaker 13: as he starts getting into things, how he's responding, we'll see.
Speaker 13: But it's not as severe as we had thought initially.
Speaker 11: Much.
Speaker 2: You guys always built in the possibility for intries, but
Speaker 2: with an older team and the guys that have gotten
Speaker 2: hurt with ham strings and obliques are mid thirties. This
Speaker 2: is something that you felt like at some point this
Speaker 2: year you may have to deal with at a lesser extent,
Speaker 2: maybe more with some of these guys that are in
Speaker 2: their mid thirties.
Speaker 13: Not so much on the age. I think it's always
Speaker 13: front of mine to be able to build depth, because
Speaker 13: things happen and sometimes they time out when they're on
Speaker 13: top of each other. I wish if the the injuries
Speaker 13: being spaced out would obviously be a lot better, but
Speaker 13: that's uh, that's not how it works out. But luckily
Speaker 13: having a really good group in Triple A of depth
Speaker 13: position players and you know, the arms that have held
Speaker 13: up well, so you know, depending on how things work out,
Speaker 13: you can either go to Triple A or get creative
Speaker 13: in other ways. But right now we feel, you know,
Speaker 13: knock on wood, that are our depth is in a
Speaker 13: decent spot. So hopefully we can start to add guys
Speaker 13: without also taking guys away.
Speaker 2: And that's what separates the Dodgers from other teams. It's
Speaker 2: not just the high payroll, but the depth of their organization,
Speaker 2: not only at the major league level, but also at
Speaker 2: Triple A. Quite honestly, the Dodgers have four minor league
Speaker 2: outfielders that could be major league outfielders right now, So
Speaker 2: that area is the deepest of the position player group.
Speaker 2: But then you're able to send down a Hayesan Kim
Speaker 2: and call back up and Alex Friedland, and you're able
Speaker 2: to withstand the blows of losing Key k Hernandez after
Speaker 2: just coming back for two games and Taoscar Hernandez out
Speaker 2: now for a month. Another way that Brandon Gohm said
Speaker 2: is you can go outside the organization. The Dodgers did
Speaker 2: that acquiring Eric Lauer, who is phenomenal in his first start,
Speaker 2: to replace guys like Snell and Glass now until they
Speaker 2: come back. So the Dodgers are more than just a.
Speaker 5: Payroll team.
Speaker 2: It's not throwing money at players. That's not the only
Speaker 2: dimension of why they've dominated since twenty thirteen, but certainly
Speaker 2: a big factor. But a lot other of those teams
Speaker 2: don't have the organizational depth the Dodgers have. And speaking
Speaker 2: of that depth, when the Dodgers did active a Key Hernandez,
Speaker 2: they defaced Santiago Espinal well, Espinal cleared waivers, elected for
Speaker 2: free agency, so the Dodgers had to rework a new
Speaker 2: contract with free agent Santiago Espinal, who was on the
Speaker 2: active roster tonight, and the Dodgers sent down Hayesan Kim
Speaker 2: because he's been slumping. His swing has gotten more like
Speaker 2: last year than it did at the beginning of this year.
Speaker 2: And Alex Frielan now is going to get an everyday
Speaker 2: opportunity again at second base with some Miguel Rojas in
Speaker 2: there against lefties like tomorrow with jesus Lozardo. To be
Speaker 2: able to make room again for Espinal on the forty
Speaker 2: man roster, the Dodgers transferred Blake Snell to the sixty
Speaker 2: day il Snell was in the dugout tonight. That was
Speaker 2: good to see, probably going to be back in two
Speaker 2: minds after undergoing the Nanusco procedure that Trek Skoubel underwent
Speaker 2: at the hands of doctor Neil Elatrosh. It was a
Speaker 2: lot of Dodger celebs in the house tonight, Kershaw, Brad Paisley,
Speaker 2: doctor Neil Elatrosh. You had Don Mattingley back here. You
Speaker 2: had his son, Preston Mattingley, who was in the same
Speaker 2: draft class as Kershaw. Now the GM of the Phillies,
Speaker 2: and you had Dylan Hernandez here. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 2: who else would you want here? Oh yeah, my guy,
Speaker 2: the Hood, the Hood was here as well. Justin was
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Speaker 2: it for us. Tonight, Coming up tomorrow, game two of
Speaker 2: this three game series between the Dodgers and Phillies. Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki will be on the mound with an ERA of
Speaker 2: four to ninety three a record of three and three,
Speaker 2: going up against left hander heyesus Lozardo, who is four
Speaker 2: and four this season with an ERA of four p
Speaker 2: thirty eight. Our coverage begins at six o'clock first pitch
Speaker 2: with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson at seven ten thanks
Speaker 2: to Colinie back at our Burbank studios. Thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 2: McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, who already as warming
Speaker 2: up the car as we speak. It was a two
Speaker 2: hour and three minute game. Dwayne pumped the brakes. That's right,
Speaker 2: two hours and three minutes tonight with Robleski dominating the Phillies.
Speaker 2: Final score tonight Dodgers beat Philadelphia four to two. Have
Speaker 2: a great rest of your night, Be safe, see you