Speaker 1: The quest for the three pete has begne.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are the favorites to become the fifth.
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Speaker 3: And now your host, here's Tim kakes Well.
Speaker 2: Communication is a very important thing no matter what you're doing,
Speaker 2: what you're involved with. In relationships, you gotta be able
Speaker 2: to communicate.
Speaker 4: You gotta be able to talk it out.
Speaker 2: You gotta be on the same page, whether with your
Speaker 2: spouse or with a friend, or with the sibling, or
Speaker 2: with your picture. And tonight's in the second inning, we
Speaker 2: saw Dalton Rushing and Showy Otani appear not to be
Speaker 2: on the same page. Fortunately, the Dodgers able to overcome
Speaker 2: that and the Dodgers get a four to three win
Speaker 2: over the Minnesota TWINSI everybody, welcome to Dodger Talk here
Speaker 2: on an five seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 2: We appreciate you being with us on this Wednesday night,
Speaker 2: as the Dodgers celebrate his sweep at Target Field in Minneapolis.
Speaker 2: They finish off the three games sweep with a four
Speaker 2: to three victory and game in which Mookie Betts clubbed
Speaker 2: his three hundredth career home run, joining a well elite
Speaker 2: group of thirty Major leaguers all time that have hit
Speaker 2: at least three hundred home runs, four hundred doubles, and
Speaker 2: a one hundred and fifty stolen basis. So congratulations to
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts. He gave the Dodgers the early one nine lead.
Speaker 2: The second inding is something we're gonna probably be talking
Speaker 2: a lot about tonight here on Dodger Talk. Eight sixty
Speaker 2: sixth ninet eighty seven two five seventy two of the
Speaker 2: first three batters showy Otani faces got on base with
Speaker 2: basits the third straight bashit made the base loaded, and
Speaker 2: then a pass ball scored Victor Krantini from third base.
Speaker 2: On a ball in which Dalton rushing appeared to be
Speaker 2: not on the same page with shoe Heotani, it skips
Speaker 2: off his glove, goes over into the Dodgers dugout. It
Speaker 2: brings him the tying run for the Minnesota Twins. Then
Speaker 2: Ryan Clyde Kreidler with a two run single made it
Speaker 2: a three run inning for the Minnesota Twins as shoe
Speaker 2: Heyotani had to throw twenty two pitches finally got out
Speaker 2: of it out with a strikeout.
Speaker 4: But during that inning, not only was there.
Speaker 2: The pass ball, a couple of challenges early in this
Speaker 2: game in which Dalton Rushing didn't want to be challenging
Speaker 2: the automated ball strike system the ABS. Sho Heo Tani
Speaker 2: clearly wanted to struggle to challenge the call ball and
Speaker 2: made the gesture to challenge it and was right even
Speaker 2: though Dalton Rushing was shaking him off.
Speaker 4: Don't challenge it. Don't challenge it.
Speaker 2: The two of them just didn't seem like they were
Speaker 2: on the same page together in that second inning, whether
Speaker 2: it was challenging pitches or calling pitches. And we heard
Speaker 2: from Dalton Rushing and shoey Otani in the Club Hour
Speaker 2: show and both said, you know, they figured out the communication.
Speaker 2: They were able to move past it. Dalton Rushing was
Speaker 2: pretty distraught after the game. We might bring that back
Speaker 2: here in just a little bit. He was very distraught,
Speaker 2: said it was embarrassing the way he's playing right now
Speaker 2: behind the plate and at the plate. He was over
Speaker 2: four tonite with three strikeouts. But I think he's a
Speaker 2: little hard on himself for calling it embarrassing. Okay, you
Speaker 2: know what, you get the challenges right, you get the
Speaker 2: challenges wrong. You know, we were learning now in this
Speaker 2: first real you know, go around of the abs, when
Speaker 2: you're supposed to challenge, when you're not supposed to challenge.
Speaker 4: Is it good to challenge early in the game, the
Speaker 4: first inning, the second inning.
Speaker 2: Is it better to save these challenges for the middle
Speaker 2: of the second half of the game. Is it better
Speaker 2: that the catcher just challenges it and the pitch sure
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with it because they think everything
Speaker 2: they throws a strike. We're figuring out what the percentages
Speaker 2: are saying. And I think when this season's over, we're
Speaker 2: gonna have all the stats and we're gonna dive all
Speaker 2: you know, we baseball people and teams certainly with the analytics,
Speaker 2: will dive into it and we're gonna get percentages and
Speaker 2: by next season we're gonna see all of the different
Speaker 2: strategies really implemented across Major League Baseball. Is to win
Speaker 2: not to challenge winning a game, to challenge when not
Speaker 2: in the game, to challenge winning counts, to challenge whining
Speaker 2: at bats scenarios. All that's gonna be dissecting, like everything
Speaker 2: is in the world of baseball now with the analytics
Speaker 2: and the numbers. But for tonight it was interesting to
Speaker 2: see with the you know, the abs and show Hey
Speaker 2: clearly frustrated with a non strike call, and Dalton Rush
Speaker 2: and shaking has said don't challenge it, and show Hey
Speaker 2: adamantly patting the top of his head that he wanted
Speaker 2: to challenge, and he was right. The two of them
Speaker 2: not on the same page there. And if you're Dalton Rushing,
Speaker 2: you could very nicely say hey in between innings, in
Speaker 2: between a bats, like, hey, I don't think that was
Speaker 2: right as far as you know, challenging it. I didn't
Speaker 2: think it was a strike. I didn't think it was
Speaker 2: a ball, whatever the situation is. But visibly shaking your
Speaker 2: head and telling your picture no to me, you don't
Speaker 2: do that. And I don't care if it's show Hey
Speaker 2: Otani or if it's Kyle Hurt out on the mount,
Speaker 2: you're showing up your picture. I think at that point,
Speaker 2: by by doing that, and you know you could say
Speaker 2: something at another time, maybe you want to yell out
Speaker 2: something underneath your mask out to your picture, but to
Speaker 2: visibly shaking your head back and forth, like no, don't, don't,
Speaker 2: don't do it. I mean, unless you are one hundred
Speaker 2: percent convinced and it is like the end of the
Speaker 2: game and the final call and the game, you know
Speaker 2: is writing on this one call, you don't need to
Speaker 2: do that. And especially if it's show hey Otani out there,
Speaker 2: who doesn't challenge pitches, for all of a sudden him
Speaker 2: to want to start tapping his hat because he's not
Speaker 2: happy at the calls. I got to figure that he
Speaker 2: knows what he's doing, and it's not just him thinking, well,
Speaker 2: I'm a pitcher. Everything that throws a strike, I think
Speaker 2: he's got a pretty good idea of the strike zone.
Speaker 2: And we've seen him turn his head. I mean, I
Speaker 2: go back a couple of starts to Dodger Stadium. There
Speaker 2: was a called pitch that was a ball and he
Speaker 2: thought it was a strike, and I remember they zoomed
Speaker 2: in on him on Sports in LA.
Speaker 4: He kind of cocked his.
Speaker 2: Head to the side like huh, really, I was okay,
Speaker 2: it wasn't a strike. He could have challenged it, but
Speaker 2: he didn't.
Speaker 4: Tonight.
Speaker 2: I think you saw him obviously frustrated that he wasn't
Speaker 2: getting the called strikes and they were clearly strikes because
Speaker 2: he was right about that and challenging him. But also
Speaker 2: it is interesting that you could be on a different
Speaker 2: page now with the whole you know, calling pitches and
Speaker 2: it's verbalized the PitchCom How is it that we're out
Speaker 2: on the same page. I mean, show Hay and Dalton
Speaker 2: said that there was two pitches called. Dalton thought it
Speaker 2: was an off speed pitch a curveball, and show Hey
Speaker 2: thought it was a fastball. Well, if there's any miscommunication,
Speaker 2: you got to call time. But clearly one thought it
Speaker 2: was one pitch, one thought it was the other. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure how that happens when you're literally punching in
Speaker 2: a code and it's gonna audibilize what the pitch is,
Speaker 2: and not only did the catcher and the pitcher hear it,
Speaker 2: but any other infielders that have the pitch com in
Speaker 2: their hats are gonna hear it as well. I mean,
Speaker 2: let's be honest, how many times are we seeing pitchers
Speaker 2: and catchers now we have PitchCom not on the same page.
Speaker 4: It's not happened very often.
Speaker 2: In fact, I can't think of another time that it's
Speaker 2: happened that bad that we saw tonight in the second inning.
Speaker 2: That all being said that second inning, the miscommunication, the
Speaker 2: frustration from show Hey Otani.
Speaker 4: Clearly what happened.
Speaker 2: In the third inning, the Dodgers and show Hey put
Speaker 2: up a three spot o Tani let it off with
Speaker 2: an RBI single the scoring They score three runs.
Speaker 4: He comes back in the bottom of the.
Speaker 2: Third, strikeout, strikeout, strikeout, and as David Vassi tweeted out
Speaker 2: on social media, shoey Otani was then calling his own
Speaker 2: pitches that PitchCom device on his left bicep.
Speaker 4: He was in charge again. And we've seen.
Speaker 2: Show Hey being the one calling pitches when he's out
Speaker 2: there pitching. Tonight, it looked like Dalton Rushing was the
Speaker 2: one calling pitches until that second inning. The miscommunication, the frustration,
Speaker 2: and show Hey, you know, took the bull by the horn,
Speaker 2: so to speak, and took control of what he wanted
Speaker 2: to pitch. And we heard from him in the postgame
Speaker 2: show in the clubhouse and he talked about it. There's
Speaker 2: a game plan going in on how they're going to
Speaker 2: go after hitters. Okay, that is mapped out. That's the
Speaker 2: game plan that they go over with Mark Pryor and
Speaker 2: Conor McGuinness, the catchers and pitchers all get together. That
Speaker 2: is the game plan how they're going to attack the hitters.
Speaker 2: And show Hayes said they needed to and he was
Speaker 2: adjusting to the hitters, and you know clearly he was
Speaker 2: frustrated that Dalton Rushing wasn't adjusting with him. They were
Speaker 2: on the same page. They weren't in sync as far
Speaker 2: as what they wanted to do. You can talk about
Speaker 2: it between Indians, but outside of show ay calling time
Speaker 2: bringing Dalton out there and saying, Okay, we're gonna switch
Speaker 2: it up, We're gonna do this, in the moment, they
Speaker 2: just weren't on the same page. The miscommunication, the adjustments
Speaker 2: that show he wanted to make wasn't in sync again
Speaker 2: with Dalton Rushing, and that's why you had a pass ball.
Speaker 2: That's why you saw the frustration from shoe Hey Otani.
Speaker 2: But he took control of the situation. And again let's
Speaker 2: hear from Dalton Rushing briefly calling if we can postgame
Speaker 2: very frustrated. He used the word embarrassing a couple of
Speaker 2: different times, but listen to his tone. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's just him being upset with his production or lacked
Speaker 2: of at the plate and what happened in the second inning.
Speaker 2: I think he truly is kind of embarrassed as a
Speaker 2: young catcher to have this miscommunication with this pitcher.
Speaker 5: Felton, I know, was you frustrating the second inning when
Speaker 5: you look at how.
Speaker 6: Just you as well, showing you were able to reset
Speaker 6: and get back on time.
Speaker 5: How would you just describe handling that for yourself personally?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought he did a good job. I didn't
Speaker 7: do a great job. Uh start to finish, Uh it
Speaker 7: was it pretty embarrassing. Thankfully he's as good as he is,
Speaker 7: and uh he could take control of the game. Uh yeah,
Speaker 7: it's pretty embarrassing.
Speaker 5: You have so much support though, I mean, to have
Speaker 5: the conversations whatever I saw Freddy come up to you,
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts, I mean, I know that, as you said, say,
Speaker 5: may have felt embarrassing, But to their support in that conversation,
Speaker 5: what is that just mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 7: I mean they always have my back.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 7: Once again, it's embarrassing that I need support like that.
Speaker 7: I'm a ground man, and uh yeah, it's a pretty
Speaker 7: tough total swallow both sides of the ball. It was,
Speaker 7: uh not a great showing and hasn't been great as
Speaker 7: of late. And I'm gonna be all right.
Speaker 2: There's Dalton Rushing and as he said, pretty embarrassing. Thankfully
Speaker 2: he took control of the game. He being show Hey Otani.
Speaker 2: So I feel for Dalton Rushing. You know that that's
Speaker 2: in a situation that doesn't make you look good. Certainly
Speaker 2: when you've got the unicorn out in the mound, one
Speaker 2: of the best players ever to play the game, and
Speaker 2: he's showing his frustration, and a lot of that frustration
Speaker 2: is with you, the Dodger catcher.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Certainly, when they got back on the same page moving
Speaker 2: forward in the third inning and on, it was much better.
Speaker 2: But obviously the dynamic change with showy Otani now calling
Speaker 2: the pitches and that kind of got took out of
Speaker 2: the hands of Dalton Rushing. So I can see where
Speaker 2: he's frustrated and embarrassed about his performance tonight and the
Speaker 2: way he's not been performing at the plate certainly kind
Speaker 2: of piles on. But uh, I feel bad for him.
Speaker 2: I feel like he's really piling on himself. It's bad
Speaker 2: enough when when people want to get on him, but
Speaker 2: tonight it's just not a great night for Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 4: But you feel for him.
Speaker 2: He turns the page day off tomorrow and enjoyed the
Speaker 2: sun and San Diego and then get ready for a
Speaker 2: big three game weekend against the Pacas. Let's face it,
Speaker 2: they need Dalton Rushing to be a rock behind the plate.
Speaker 2: You know, CHUCKI Robbins is the backup catcher right now,
Speaker 2: but Dalton Rushing this is his time with Will Smith out,
Speaker 2: and David Vassi told us in the Clubhouse show, doesn't
Speaker 2: seem like there's a real timetable for Will Smith to return.
Speaker 2: With that being said, Dalton Rushing's got a long runway
Speaker 2: here and he has for a few weeks to be
Speaker 2: the everyday catcher. He's certainly not happy with his offensive results,
Speaker 2: but I kind of feel up until tonight, he's done
Speaker 2: a really good job with this rotation. I mean, you
Speaker 2: can kind of nitpick, all right, some challenges here or there,
Speaker 2: but I thought he's done a pretty good job with
Speaker 2: the challenges on the abs. I feel like he's won
Speaker 2: a lot more than he's lost on these challenges, and
Speaker 2: he's doing them at the right time. Certainly, he's an
Speaker 2: emotional player, and I think the emotions get to him
Speaker 2: a little bit. And we certainly are not used to
Speaker 2: seeing the emotions on baseball players, right. They always say,
Speaker 2: don't let your emotions be shown, you know, don't show them.
Speaker 2: Don't whatever you do, go in the clubhouts, go underneath
Speaker 2: in the tunnel, and let your emotions out there, but
Speaker 2: do not let anybody see your emotions out on the field.
Speaker 2: But we're certainly seeing a lot of the emotions of
Speaker 2: a Dulton rushing recently. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the number. All right, Ish and
Speaker 2: Riverside start things off here on Dodge Talk after a
Speaker 2: four to three Dodgers win over the Twins.
Speaker 4: How you doing Ish?
Speaker 8: Pretty good man? That's some talk to he does. Sorry
Speaker 8: have been super busy, but hey man, really really good game,
Speaker 8: big picture obviously first place. We are also just swept
Speaker 8: the Twins, so I mean, super super awesome. I know
Speaker 8: you've been tracking on rushing. Dbie's been tracking on rushing
Speaker 8: through the farm report all the way back when so you.
Speaker 8: You you wore the tools case, you know, so we
Speaker 8: trust you guys, you know as far as like, you know,
Speaker 8: backing up rushing.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: For me, I kind of look at it, you know,
Speaker 8: with the concussion and stuff like that happened just a
Speaker 8: couple of games ago. To me, kind of familiar with
Speaker 8: some of these things, Like, it looks like he's still
Speaker 8: dealing with some of that stuff. The part of the
Speaker 8: brain that basically got hit is really really responsible for
Speaker 8: a lot of that strategic you know, the planning and
Speaker 8: the executive functions they call it. So I think that
Speaker 8: he's still kind of lingering for that. So I guess
Speaker 8: my concern was, like, well, why did they put him
Speaker 8: in to day? You know, we what twelve to two
Speaker 8: yesterday against the Twins with Chucky in there. Why couldn't
Speaker 8: Chucky gone back in there? But I would say for him,
Speaker 8: don't beat yourself up again. It's to me, it looks
Speaker 8: like he's still kind of dealing with some of that,
Speaker 8: you know, post concussion kind of symptoms. But you know,
Speaker 8: he's been great. You know, let's not forget that last
Speaker 8: year in the playoffs. You know, he and werd D
Speaker 8: got us pretty much to the World Series, right because
Speaker 8: Will Smith was out, and then even this last week,
Speaker 8: you know, he goes in with y'all know, a big
Speaker 8: game planet and they take a perfect game what was
Speaker 8: it into Thea's then turn into a no hitter. So
Speaker 8: again I think he should just cut himself a little
Speaker 8: bit snack, but also taking responsibility for some of those
Speaker 8: actions on the field. But also I really think that
Speaker 8: they should take another look man, to see if he's
Speaker 8: kind of struggled with some of these postconcussion systems. Anyway,
Speaker 8: that's all I got, Man, Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 8: Talk to you guys soon, all right.
Speaker 4: I just appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You know what, concussions are nothing to overlook anymore, and
Speaker 2: we know about the damages and concussions from football and
Speaker 2: CTE and being a catcher you get absolutely banged up
Speaker 2: back there. And we saw Will Smith deal with this
Speaker 2: was it last year?
Speaker 4: Two years ago?
Speaker 2: Got hit a couple of times in the head with
Speaker 2: foul balls off the mask and the helmet and went
Speaker 2: on the concussion lists and hey, as a catcher you
Speaker 2: get absolutely throttled with foul balls and balls that hit
Speaker 2: you in different spots that you think are protected, but
Speaker 2: they're not, and all of a sudden, a ball hitching
Speaker 2: the mask and you get your cage rattles, so to speak,
Speaker 2: and you think you're okay, but it lingers feel a
Speaker 2: little foggy. If he wasn't good to go, Let's be
Speaker 2: completely honest. If Dalton Rushing was not good to get
Speaker 2: behind the plate, there's no way they're putting him back there.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: He can't say all the right things because he's a
Speaker 2: guy who wants to be out there playing and this
Speaker 2: is his opportunity, and he's a big leaguer and all
Speaker 2: these guys will tell the trainers and whatnot.
Speaker 4: I want to be out there.
Speaker 2: But listen, they have their player's best interest all the time.
Speaker 2: And to think that they're just gonna throw him back
Speaker 2: out there if they feel like there's any lingering issues
Speaker 2: from him taking a foul ball off the face mask,
Speaker 2: you're crazy. There's no way they would let him back
Speaker 2: out there. They would never let him go out there,
Speaker 2: even if he said he was fine. But they saw something,
Speaker 2: or they saw some signals, or they saw something that
Speaker 2: didn't look right. But I have to believe that he's okay,
Speaker 2: And that's not what happened. The second editting than getting
Speaker 2: crossed up.
Speaker 4: I mean shoe.
Speaker 2: Otani said he heard two different pitches. He thought it
Speaker 2: was one, Dalton Rushing thought it was the other. That
Speaker 2: was the misqueue on the pass ball playing and simple.
Speaker 2: Now the challenges again, Dalton Rushing as a catcher is
Speaker 2: usually the one challenge in the pitches. How many pitchers
Speaker 2: in baseball are we seen challenging the abs? Not a lot,
Speaker 2: so only with the Dodgers. How many times have we
Speaker 2: seen a Dodger pitcher tap the top of their head?
Speaker 4: I mean a few.
Speaker 2: If that, I mean I can count of, maybe on
Speaker 2: my hand, how many times the pitcher has challenged a
Speaker 2: called strike or a ball called by the umpire. It's
Speaker 2: mostly up to the catcher, and we're seeing the batters
Speaker 2: do it obviously, but the catcher is the one doing it,
Speaker 2: and so just for him to shake off show Hey
Speaker 2: Otani again, I don't think it's anything to do with
Speaker 2: the concussion like symptoms that he may had a couple
Speaker 2: of days ago and they took him out for precautionary reasons. Again,
Speaker 2: I just don't believe that. I think it's just the
Speaker 2: communication issue in the second inning, because moving forward, they
Speaker 2: were great I mean you strike up.
Speaker 4: The side and the third.
Speaker 2: He retired seven straight batters at one point, uh he
Speaker 2: had a one two three sixth inning. Albeit twenty pitches,
Speaker 2: they were long pitch counts, but he struck out the
Speaker 2: first two batters and then he got a ground ball,
Speaker 2: great play by the way for Mookie Betts to end
Speaker 2: one of the innings in the fourth and then the sixth,
Speaker 2: so the pitch count got up. That's why we didn't
Speaker 2: see him go back out through the seventh. But again,
Speaker 2: that second inning was a blip. It was a hiccup
Speaker 2: between show Hay and Dalton Rushing, and once they got
Speaker 2: back on that same page, you saw what show Hay
Speaker 2: was able to do on the mound eight six, sixth,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven to two, five seventy. My man Blake
Speaker 2: and Colorado checks in on this Wednesday night.
Speaker 4: What's going on, Blake?
Speaker 1: How you doing.
Speaker 9: Really really good?
Speaker 8: How you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic. The Dodgers get the win tonight. Show
Speaker 2: Hey o'tani was like a superman out there doing it all,
Speaker 2: driving in runs to give the Dodgers part of that
Speaker 2: three run third inning, and then of course the sixth innings,
Speaker 2: pitch by show hey. I mean he looked he looked
Speaker 2: like angry, show hey, like a man on a mission.
Speaker 2: After that second Inny, he he let that frustration show
Speaker 2: as he went out there and just absolutely dominated Blake
Speaker 2: and put up Zero's the rest of the way.
Speaker 4: That was pretty impressive.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I feel bad about that.
Speaker 2: Crazy it was, but it was good to see them
Speaker 2: get back on the same page, Blake and they were
Speaker 2: both communicating better the rest of the way. And I
Speaker 2: think a lot of the frustration from Dalton Rushing is
Speaker 2: you know, he probably understands that was his mistake, and
Speaker 2: he as a catcher doesn't want to be the one
Speaker 2: to be out there and everybody's looking at him in
Speaker 2: the picture and you know, him and his picture are
Speaker 2: on the same page, and it's show a Otani of
Speaker 2: all pictures out there that he's not communicating with great
Speaker 2: and then what he's not doing at the plate producing
Speaker 2: it's just it's it's kind of it's a heavy weight
Speaker 2: on him right now.
Speaker 4: I believe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why the game by Mooviie I think, I like,
Speaker 3: I think this will get.
Speaker 10: Him back on track. I can go if Tago cannot go.
Speaker 10: What do you do if if if the Dodgers. What
Speaker 10: will you do with the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, with with Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's an interesting one if he's good to
Speaker 2: go in healthy, which I believe he will be in
Speaker 2: San Diego over the weekend.
Speaker 4: Blake, I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 2: I'm out with you for a few more days, but uh,
Speaker 2: we'll check in with you on next week after the
Speaker 2: Sacramento games.
Speaker 4: Okay, talk you again. All right, sounds good.
Speaker 2: That's my guy, Blake and Colorado checking in here on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. Kyle Tucker not in the line up again today.
Speaker 2: David Vesse told us on the pregame show that we
Speaker 2: did see Kyle Tucker grab a bat from the bat
Speaker 2: rack and go back underneath. So sounds like he was
Speaker 2: doing some hitting down off a tee or in the
Speaker 2: cage or something he was doing underneath in the Dodger area.
Speaker 2: So that is certainly a good sign. It's sounds like
Speaker 2: he'll be ready to go when they go to San Diego.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's Friday night, maybe it's Saturday
Speaker 2: when Walker buelers on the mound. We'll find out, but
Speaker 2: I gotta believe he'll be back this weekend. Against the Padres.
Speaker 2: A couple of days off to rest, built in day
Speaker 2: off tomorrow for travel, and they just kind of lounge
Speaker 2: around in San Diego, not think about baseball. Go hang
Speaker 2: out in Coronado, Go do some East some fish, tacos
Speaker 2: down in San Diego, enjoy that and then get ready
Speaker 2: for this three game series against the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 4: Who were nine games back in the division. They won again.
Speaker 2: The Arizona Diamonbacks won, so the Dodgers remain nine games
Speaker 2: up on San Diego and the NL West ten and
Speaker 2: a half games up on Arizona. The Padres getting a
Speaker 2: little steam going, a little momentum. They've won three in
Speaker 2: a row, six of their last ten. So the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and Padres will square off in which is always a
Speaker 2: thrilling series when these two teams get together, and they'll
Speaker 2: be doing it for three games this weekend at Petco Park.
Speaker 2: We'll take a quick break, we'll come back, get to
Speaker 2: your phone calls, and we'll hear for the manager, Dave Roberts,
Speaker 2: all that gonna squeeze in here before the top of
Speaker 2: the hour.
Speaker 4: As a Dodgers see Mookie Beds hit his.
Speaker 2: Three hundredth career home run, and then the Dodgers come
Speaker 2: back with three and the third to beat the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 2: They sweep Minnesota in this three game set, a four
Speaker 2: to three victory tonight on a target field right here
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Speaker 2: three runs in the third show. Aotani did the work
Speaker 2: the rest of the way, put it up zeros in
Speaker 2: the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth inning. Kyle Hurt pitched
Speaker 2: the score a seventh. Alex Vesia pitched the eighth and
Speaker 2: put up a zero than Tanner Scott at one two
Speaker 2: three ninth inning to get the save show Aotani now
Speaker 2: eight and two. Tanner Scott his eleventh save of the
Speaker 2: season as the Dodger improved to a major league best
Speaker 2: fifty two and twenty nine on the season. Ken in
Speaker 2: Newport Beach, Welcome Ken. How are you doing, my friend?
Speaker 8: All?
Speaker 9: I'm doing good today.
Speaker 11: This was a good game. By the way, if anybody
Speaker 11: knows catching it you I kind of think what happened
Speaker 11: to Otani is he got angry on that one misplay
Speaker 11: where tension was lost because the last three innings he
Speaker 11: was throwing harder, he was showing one hundred hundred and
Speaker 11: one and I just a look on his face was
Speaker 11: completely different. He was mulling down. So maybe that turned
Speaker 11: out to be a good thing. My real question, though.
Speaker 8: Is.
Speaker 9: Pages he's knownything one eighty two in his last fifteen games.
Speaker 9: Before the game, the two guys picked him as their hero.
Speaker 9: He's really really looking bad and he's got seventeen strikeouts
Speaker 9: in those fifteen games. Do you still feel that he
Speaker 9: deserves to be an All Star?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I can't think of anybody better right now.
Speaker 4: Overall, I know he has struggled.
Speaker 2: As you mentioned in the last couple of weeks, did
Speaker 2: Homer in the final game on Sunday and the blowout
Speaker 2: loss to the Baltimore Oriols.
Speaker 4: I get it. The strikeouts are starting to mount up.
Speaker 2: He's just in one of those downturns, and I'm convinced
Speaker 2: Ken that he'll get back into that upturn. He was
Speaker 2: never gonna hit for sixty five like he did blistering
Speaker 2: to start off the season, But I don't think he's
Speaker 2: going to be like this the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: I think he'll get back up into a cruising altitude
Speaker 2: very nicely the rest of the way.
Speaker 9: He was hitting three seventy. Is the guy that's been
Speaker 9: injured and he's back. Shouldn't he be playing batting second
Speaker 9: and maybe give out of a little rest and put
Speaker 9: him at the fifth or sixth spot because he's crushing
Speaker 9: the ball since he came back.
Speaker 2: He has, and he came in he didn't get it.
Speaker 2: Ran War got the starts, and I appreciate it. Can
Speaker 2: great the check in with you. Maybe Andy pie has
Speaker 2: drops out of the two spot, maybe Tommy Emmon goes
Speaker 2: up into the two spot. But then you got back
Speaker 2: to back to back lefties, you know, Tani. I mean
Speaker 2: Edmond can flip around. I guess as a right he
Speaker 2: as a switch hitter. But the idea is to have left, right, left,
Speaker 2: right left in your lineup the first five batters that
Speaker 2: can maybe be tweaked a little bit. I mean, we
Speaker 2: saw Mookie Betts bat different spots in the lineup to
Speaker 2: try to change things around, and all people wanted to
Speaker 2: do here was say, Mookie Bets is old, Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: looks past his prime. The short opposition is too much
Speaker 2: for Mookie. He can't he can't continue to be successful
Speaker 2: at the plate. Well, Mookie has found his rhythm.
Speaker 4: He has found his.
Speaker 2: Cruising altitude here in the month of June and three
Speaker 2: for four tonight, a triple away from a cycle, three
Speaker 2: hundredth home run in his career, and has found a
Speaker 2: nice little spot batting.
Speaker 4: What is he batting now? Fifth in the lineup?
Speaker 2: Fourth's betting cleanup now, But we saw him dip around
Speaker 2: in the lineup a little bit. There was a caller
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago that wanted Mookie Betts batting ninth
Speaker 2: in this Dave Roberts lineup. So things are fluid, Things
Speaker 2: are changed all the time. And I think right now
Speaker 2: you're just seeing Andy poe Has and one of those
Speaker 2: little things that he's going through offensively. But I'm pretty
Speaker 2: confident Andy poe Has should still be an All Star.
Speaker 2: Andeddy and Pacoima right here in the eight eight How
Speaker 2: you doing, Eddie? Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: What's up, Timmy?
Speaker 12: I wanted to state a couple of facts, and you
Speaker 12: stop me when you feel that it's necessary.
Speaker 1: Number one, I.
Speaker 12: Wanted to piggyback on Blake Kyle Tucker. I just want
Speaker 12: to tell Blake Kyle Tucker is gonna be fined if
Speaker 12: Kyle Tucker gets hot in October.
Speaker 8: I think all Dodger fans are going to forget what
Speaker 8: happened during the season.
Speaker 1: Number two, How how.
Speaker 8: Did the Dalton rushing twenty three twenty four?
Speaker 4: Maybe Dalton rushing Dalton Rushing is twenty.
Speaker 12: Five twenty five. Okay, So I think that sho he
Speaker 12: Otani has forgot more baseball than Dalton Rushing knows to
Speaker 12: this date. So if sho he wants to shake him off,
Speaker 12: wants to challenge the pitch, I think Dalton should.
Speaker 9: You know, just go with it.
Speaker 12: I don't know what you think about that, but I mean,
Speaker 12: I think has earned the right to do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand what you're saying, Eddie.
Speaker 2: I think at a point where if show Hay is
Speaker 2: showing that he wants to challenge a pitch, which is
Speaker 2: kind of outside the norm, right, We're now not only
Speaker 2: do we not see pitchers challenging balls and strikes, but
Speaker 2: when was the last time you saw show hey o
Speaker 2: Tani tapped the top of his helmet pitching in a game.
Speaker 2: I know we saw him challenge a pitch already tonight
Speaker 2: and he kind of I don't know. I think he
Speaker 2: did a strategically just to get an extra breather when
Speaker 2: he was up there, because he was hitting and pitching tonight,
Speaker 2: but shotani the pitcher. How many times have we seen
Speaker 2: him challenge a pitch. I'm struggling to remember until tonight
Speaker 2: when he challenged the pitch. I mean, maybe it has happened,
Speaker 2: but I just can't think of it. And for him
Speaker 2: to visibly just pound the top of his hat in frustration,
Speaker 2: I think it's because he wanted to pitch challenge and
Speaker 2: was tired of seeing maybe some borderline pitches not be
Speaker 2: challenged now. Dalton Rushing may have had the edict being
Speaker 2: told to him, don't challenge pitches this early in the game.
Speaker 2: It was the second inning, a couple of base hits,
Speaker 2: you know, you're on the ropes a little bit. Show
Speaker 2: he needs some strikes, and Dalton Rushing maybe is also
Speaker 2: thinking I got two challenges. I can't use him here
Speaker 2: in the second inning on a pitch you know, I
Speaker 2: don't think it's a strike, but show hey did, and
Speaker 2: he wanted the challenge. The way I look at it
Speaker 2: is how did this, how did this happen? How do
Speaker 2: you fix it? And how did these guys come out afterwards? Okay,
Speaker 2: well there was miscommunication, there was some frustration, all right,
Speaker 2: So what happens in the moment? Back on the same page,
Speaker 2: Show Hey calls pitches. All right, there's the solution. Now
Speaker 2: it's embarrassing for Dalton rushing, Okay, but they have Freddy Freeman,
Speaker 2: Mark Pryor, you have Dave roberts All consoling Dalton rushing,
Speaker 2: calming him down, getting him dial back in and focus,
Speaker 2: realizing there are seven more innings to play in a
Speaker 2: baseball game. It was the second inning, and then you
Speaker 2: get show Hey Otani. As one of our callers alluded to,
Speaker 2: there was a little bit of an uptick in those
Speaker 2: fastballs he hit one hundred and one four different times.
Speaker 2: He had he had a little he had a little
Speaker 2: gidea up as they say, little guinea up in that fastball.
Speaker 4: After that. Now, is he pitching with aggression?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Is he pitching with conviction? Probably? Is he out there
Speaker 4: a little bit of frustration?
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe all of it, maybe all of it, But
Speaker 2: it's how he went about it. Moving forward in this game,
Speaker 2: tonight and they were both on the same page. He
Speaker 2: took control of calling the pitches, and the Dodger scored
Speaker 2: three form in the bottom or the top of the third,
Speaker 2: and they come back and get the win. All right,
Speaker 2: we move on. You got to move on. This is
Speaker 2: game eighty one, folks, in case you didn't know. Literally
Speaker 2: today was game eighty one of one hundred and sixty two.
Speaker 4: Sound the alarm hit the whistle. But we're at the
Speaker 4: halfway point.
Speaker 2: If this were the World Cup, we'd be at the
Speaker 2: half we'd be watching Rob Stone and Alexi Lallis and
Speaker 2: the crew break down the first half of the game.
Speaker 2: We're at the halfway point of the season. It's a
Speaker 2: lot of baseball to be played. He thought, this has
Speaker 2: been a long season. Dodgers have half a season to go.
Speaker 2: Can't sit here and pout. Can't sit here and be
Speaker 2: worried about hurt feelings. You gotta get on the flight tonight,
Speaker 2: have it off day tomorrow, and this Dodger team, all
Speaker 2: of them, Dalton Rushing included, gotta get back out there
Speaker 2: and get ready to play baseball on Friday night because
Speaker 2: there's a lot of games right right in front of
Speaker 2: their face. Moving forward, there's a lot of baseball still
Speaker 2: to be played. Dodters Baseball brought to by Midello Madelo,
Speaker 2: The Mark of Fire. Let's here for the manager, Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2: After everything that happened in the second inning, the way
Speaker 2: they bounce back, scored the three runs of the third, Hey,
Speaker 2: and they got the victory.
Speaker 4: Four to three years the manager.
Speaker 6: Dave, we were just talking with Dalton knits clear that
Speaker 6: he's very frustrated with how tonight has gone. And even
Speaker 6: I mean he kind of alluded to maybe the last
Speaker 6: few games have gone for him. When you have a
Speaker 6: young player, what is it like just helping him kind
Speaker 6: of manage these emotions and get through this time and
Speaker 6: get through a game like today.
Speaker 13: It's a work in progress. I mean, he's such a
Speaker 13: you know, he wants to do really well and expects
Speaker 13: a lot of himself, and so you know, when he's
Speaker 13: not doing what he expects that he gets frustrated. And
Speaker 13: I think the good thing is that he still understands
Speaker 13: his priority is to you know, serve the pitchers and
Speaker 13: be behind the plate. But yeah, you know, the last
Speaker 13: few games he's he's had a tough goal event and
Speaker 13: swinging through some fastballs, which is the strength of his
Speaker 13: and so yeah, I mean it's still tough to hit,
Speaker 13: and he's still having a really nice year for us
Speaker 13: and helping us win a lot of ball games.
Speaker 6: Did you see just kind of that second inning play out,
Speaker 6: and then he and show Hay, the two of them
Speaker 6: get back on track and kind of handle the rest
Speaker 6: of their adding.
Speaker 13: Yeah, they were just kind of out of sync early.
Speaker 13: You could tell. I think both guys were frustrated and
Speaker 13: trying to get on the same page. I thought Mark
Speaker 13: made a good visit and trying to settle some things down,
Speaker 13: get him on the same page. And then after that
Speaker 13: it went really well. So yeah, that third inning was
Speaker 13: kind of a tough one, but fortunately the offense came
Speaker 13: back and got us the lead and didn't relinquish it.
Speaker 13: But yeah, I think just trying to keep those guys
Speaker 13: in sync, which at times has been a little bit
Speaker 13: of a challenge.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's a manager, Dave Roberts keeping those guys
Speaker 2: in sync, talking about show hand Dalton Rushing. They got
Speaker 2: back in sync after that second inning, and that's what
Speaker 2: it's all about. Leadership, leadership, leadership.
Speaker 4: There's no way.
Speaker 2: This thing doesn't doesn't move, doesn't work the way it
Speaker 2: has the last decade without the leadership of Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: his coaching staff. He mentioned Mark Pryor going out there
Speaker 2: to the mound, get these guys on the same page,
Speaker 2: maybe calm some guys down a little bit on the
Speaker 2: mound as well. And then in between innings, Mark Pryor
Speaker 2: to Dave Roberts, Freddie Freeman. Those are the three that
Speaker 2: I saw sitting here at the Burbank studios. Obviously it
Speaker 2: could have been more, but watching the feed from Sports
Speaker 2: in La, those are the three people I saw sitting
Speaker 2: right next to Dalton rushing Dave Roberts, his left arm
Speaker 2: around him, talking to him, explaining to him what was
Speaker 2: happening in the process and explaining to him, I'm sure,
Speaker 2: telling him, hey, we need you. Whatever just happened, you
Speaker 2: got to put that in your rear view that you
Speaker 2: got to move forward, You gotta forget about you gotta
Speaker 2: be a goldfish.
Speaker 4: You gotta move on. That's the most important thing.
Speaker 2: And I thought show, hey, O Tani did a great
Speaker 2: job in doing that and taking control really in saying
Speaker 2: I call the pitches the rest of the way, And
Speaker 2: what did he do in the third inning, strikeout, strikeout, strikeout,
Speaker 2: thirteen pitches. He retired to a seven in a row at
Speaker 2: one point and put up zero's most importantly from the
Speaker 2: third inning on. So a good job by the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I think this is a blip on the radar. It's
Speaker 2: gonna get you know, it's gonna get blown up. You know,
Speaker 2: our boy, John Boy is gonna probably read the lips
Speaker 2: of the parties involved, because when it went on the mound,
Speaker 2: you can see show Hey talking saying something I think
Speaker 2: Mark pryor you can see Dalton rushing I think talked
Speaker 2: into his glover or his mask was on.
Speaker 4: I don't remember off the top of my head, but I'm.
Speaker 2: Sure this is gonna be dissected word for word what
Speaker 2: was said. But you know what, it happens. It happens
Speaker 2: in every game. Get a little frustration. See it in
Speaker 2: basketball all the time with a guy not playing defense.
Speaker 4: Hey gotta be better than that.
Speaker 2: Let's go and they get back out there and they're
Speaker 2: back the next time down the court. Happens in football,
Speaker 2: blown cover something like that. You have to move on.
Speaker 2: Guys make mistakes. Things happen. You're not on the same
Speaker 2: page blown coverage. Whatever things happen, it's how do you regroup?
Speaker 2: How do you not let that happen again? And the
Speaker 2: Dodgers did that tonight moving forward after that second evening.
Speaker 4: All right, is he real quick? Wrap things up here
Speaker 4: on Dodgers Talk?
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Speaker 4: Again. We're off tomorrow.
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