Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
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 fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Here we go again. We're running back.
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Speaker 3: Dodger Talk wherever you get your podcasts. Here's your host,
Speaker 3: David Vasselas Day.
Speaker 2: A fun night at Dodgers Stadium that ends with Max
Speaker 2: Monsey's third home run of the game, a walk off
Speaker 2: shot to give the Dodgers an eight to seven win
Speaker 2: over the Rangers in Game one of this three game series.
Speaker 2: David Vase Dodger Talk with you until eleven thirty tonight
Speaker 2: right here on a five to seventy LA Sports. Coming
Speaker 2: up later in the show, we'll check in with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: You'll hear from Teoscar Hernandez and also well from Muncie
Speaker 2: again and also Tyler Glass Noow who started this game
Speaker 2: and made just two mistakes. The biggest one was with
Speaker 2: two outs to Corey Seger in the third inning, he
Speaker 2: threw a fastball right down the heart of the plate,
Speaker 2: and we all know if you remember Seeger playing here,
Speaker 2: he doesn't miss fastballs, especially right down Broadway. A go
Speaker 2: ahead three run home run by Seeger in the top
Speaker 2: of the third inning. It went four hundred plus feet
Speaker 2: and he hit it almost one hundred and ten miles
Speaker 2: an hour. So uh, that was the big hit for
Speaker 2: the Rangers from Corey Seger Tyler Glass now when six innings,
Speaker 2: had seven strikeouts and gave up four earned runs, three
Speaker 2: on that one swing by Seeger. The other a solo
Speaker 2: home run by Wyatt Langford in the fifth inning. And
Speaker 2: I mentioned this during the Clubhouse Show. The Rangers have
Speaker 2: taken on the identity of their manager, Skip Schumacher just
Speaker 2: by watching this game tonight. The Rangers offense can put
Speaker 2: up some runs. They're pitching's a little thin. It goes
Speaker 2: back to the old saying the game is a little
Speaker 2: bit too long when you're playing the Dodgers for other teams.
Speaker 2: And it was evident by who Skip Schumacher had pitching
Speaker 2: in the ninth inning. I mean, it didn't seem like
Speaker 2: Jacob Latz had a lot behind his sliders tonight, and
Speaker 2: Max Munsey jumped all over them when he was at bat.
Speaker 2: I mean, he just missed one on the first pitch
Speaker 2: and eventually would hit the go ahead, walk off home
Speaker 2: run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give
Speaker 2: the Dodgers the win and oh, by the way, his
Speaker 2: third home run of the night. And he now has
Speaker 2: two hundred and thirteen home runs as a Dodger, the
Speaker 2: third most in La Dodger history Karros with two hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy, Say with two hundred and twenty eight, and
Speaker 2: now Muncie after three home runs tonight, two hundred and thirteen,
Speaker 2: passing Steve Gard. But going back to the Rangers and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers game tonight, the Rangers hung in there. They
Speaker 2: weren't conceding anything to the big bad Dodgers. Seeger is
Speaker 2: a really good player. He's a two time World Series MVP.
Speaker 2: He won the World Series with the Dodgers in twenty
Speaker 2: and then led the Rangers in twenty three. He wasn't
Speaker 2: coming in here to be intimidated. And like I mentioned
Speaker 2: about Skip Schumacher, when he played, he was one of
Speaker 2: those players on the opponent's team that was super pesky,
Speaker 2: super annoying and never back down from anybody. And that's
Speaker 2: how the Rangers played tonight. Even in the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: Skip Schumacher wasn't conceding anything, even being down, you know,
Speaker 2: three runs going into the ninth inning, he was still
Speaker 2: managing to try to win that game, to pull off
Speaker 2: a miracle against Edwin Diaz. And Diaz's fastball velocity was
Speaker 2: down tonight. It was around ninety four to ninety five tonight.
Speaker 2: He's usually around ninety five ninety six, and it was
Speaker 2: pretty apparent that he wasn't that sharp. He's been getting
Speaker 2: out to the outfield in recent outings, but tonight one
Speaker 2: went over the wall. That really changed the complexion of
Speaker 2: this game. That was Evan Carter's two run home run.
Speaker 2: But pinch hitting Jock Peterson for Andrew McCutcheon was the
Speaker 2: first sign that the Rangers were not just gonna say, okay,
Speaker 2: DS is out there, We're just gonna wave the white flag.
Speaker 2: Jock Peterson came off the bench, he was down to
Speaker 2: his final strike and he almost struck out, but challenged
Speaker 2: with the abs and he was right. So he had
Speaker 2: a second life and he used it the very next pitch,
Speaker 2: a base it up the middle, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the Rangers got a runner on base, and then there's
Speaker 2: a C and I. You know, that C and I
Speaker 2: single by Jock Peterson led to what was a two
Speaker 2: run home run that got the Rangers close and cut
Speaker 2: it to a a one run lead, and that was
Speaker 2: by Evan Carter. And then you know, you feel like
Speaker 2: DZ gets two outs, all right, I mean he's Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 2: He's gonna get the final out.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: A two out single and a stolen base by Josh
Speaker 2: Young and a game tying base hit by Ezekiel Duran
Speaker 2: and the pesky Rangers, who were not intimidated or conceding anything,
Speaker 2: tied the game against the Dodgers after the Dodgers took
Speaker 2: the lead in a big way thanks to Andy Pajez
Speaker 2: and then got a couple of insurance runs in the
Speaker 2: eighth inning. So you know, this was a very entertaining
Speaker 2: baseball game from start to finish from both sides. And look,
Speaker 2: the Rangers are in first place in the AL West.
Speaker 2: They're not the Dodgers, who have the best record in
Speaker 2: baseball in ten and three, but they're not conceding anything
Speaker 2: in this series, and it's a going to be a
Speaker 2: good three game series, like we saw tonight, eight six,
Speaker 2: six seven two five seventy is the phone number. You know,
Speaker 2: the Andy Paie Has show continues. He had a huge
Speaker 2: go ahead double in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Speaker 2: It was a six pitch at bat as well. That's
Speaker 2: part of the whole thing that is happening with Andy
Speaker 2: pa Has this year. He was on base four times tonight,
Speaker 2: drove in four runs. Max Munsey hit three home runs tonight.
Speaker 2: He had four hits and scored five times. Between these
Speaker 2: two guys, they provided the offense for, you know, the
Speaker 2: top of the order, which is kind of struggling right now.
Speaker 2: Otani was one for four, Tucker was one for four.
Speaker 2: Smith is one for five. Freeman is kind of underwater
Speaker 2: right now. He's only hitting two fifty five after going
Speaker 2: hitless tonight with two strikeouts. So you know, what Andy
Speaker 2: paie Has and the rest of the bottom of the
Speaker 2: order from six to nine are doing is helping the
Speaker 2: Dodgers find ways to win along with their pitching. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's go out to Jesse. Who is that
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium tonight? Hi Jesse, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hey, Dave what are you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Everybody's believing in Max Munsey. Now, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 6: But every time I go to the bathroom and that's
Speaker 6: when he hits a home run.
Speaker 2: Perfect, you should go, you should stay in there.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 6: I think that's what I'm want to start doing.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like me when I watch hockey. I watch,
Speaker 2: I watch, I watch, nothing happens, and then I leave
Speaker 2: to get, you know, some food or a beer or
Speaker 2: go to the bathroom like you, Jesse, and they score
Speaker 2: a goal. I feel like that's that's the luck you got.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: Huh, all right, thank you for sharing all that. Jesse
Speaker 2: eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Not sure how much more I could
Speaker 2: do with that that Jesse went to the bathroom and
Speaker 2: months he hit his home run. And isn't it interesting?
Speaker 2: Max Mounsey hits three home runs. He has a big
Speaker 2: postseason last year, defensively, offensively in the World Series, same thing.
Speaker 2: He now has thirteen postseason home runs. That's the most
Speaker 2: in Dodger history. He now has two hundred and thirteen
Speaker 2: home runs, the third most in LA Dodger history, and
Speaker 2: at this time last year, you were filling up the
Speaker 2: phone line saying, get rid of Max Munsey, get rid
Speaker 2: of this guy. This guy's washed, he's done, And here
Speaker 2: we are, everybody's celebrating Max Munsey. It just goes back
Speaker 2: to what I tried to say last year, and I
Speaker 2: was proven to be right. The resume means something. This
Speaker 2: guy's a really good player. He cares. He came into
Speaker 2: camp a lot slimmer, and he's healthy. He had a
Speaker 2: healthy offseason, had a healthy spring training, and he's moving
Speaker 2: pretty well around the bases as well, along with hitting
Speaker 2: three home runs tonight. Here was Munsey moments after the
Speaker 2: Gatorade ice bath from Alex call. Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, I thought I saw the first one pretty good.
Speaker 7: He made a good pitch. On the second one, I
Speaker 7: checked swung. At that point, you're down two strikes, he's
Speaker 7: trying to battle, You're trying to get on base with
Speaker 7: the guy behind you, and you know he's he left
Speaker 7: one up on the zone and I was able to take.
Speaker 2: Advantage of it. In Toronto, you told me you were close.
Speaker 2: Did you find it tonight? Yeah?
Speaker 7: You know, the last day in Toronto I thought was
Speaker 7: really good. I know the results weren't there, But like
Speaker 7: the way my swing fell, I was able to get it,
Speaker 7: you know, get some good swings.
Speaker 2: Off on some good pitches.
Speaker 7: I felt really really close, and you know, today there's
Speaker 7: some results behind it. The unfortunate part about this game
Speaker 7: is you can't chase the results even though it is
Speaker 7: a result, you know, a results based game. But just
Speaker 7: trying to stick with the process. And you know, I
Speaker 7: felt really good tonight.
Speaker 2: I hopefully can carry it over tomorrow and all part
Speaker 2: of this three home run night. You passed Steve Garvey
Speaker 2: for the third most home runs a LA Dodger history.
Speaker 2: What does that mean to you? It means a lot.
Speaker 2: Garvey is an unbelievable player.
Speaker 7: You look at what he did, you know, in his
Speaker 7: time here in LA, and that's.
Speaker 2: Kind of the standard.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: You look at how consistent he was forever many years
Speaker 7: he was here? Was it ten and plus you know,
Speaker 7: ten straight All Star games, the gold Gloves. You know,
Speaker 7: he's kind of a just a Dodger icon. And so
Speaker 7: you know, it means a lot to be able to
Speaker 7: pass him, and you know, hopefully I can keep moving forward.
Speaker 2: You found your family up there, huh. Absolutely. The newborn
Speaker 2: was smiling at me. Thanks a lot for stopping Congratulations
Speaker 2: on a big night. Thank you appreciate it. There is
Speaker 2: Max Muntsey with a big three homer game, his second
Speaker 2: career three homer game. The last time he did it
Speaker 2: was actually back in twenty twenty four, May fourth, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, and the last Dodger to hit three home
Speaker 2: runs in a regular season game. Skip Schumacher was there
Speaker 2: for that one too in Miami when Showe Hey Otani
Speaker 2: became the first fifty to fifty player in baseball history.
Speaker 2: What's ironic about that is that Skip Schoemacher didn't do
Speaker 2: what many people thought he would, and that's walk O'tani.
Speaker 2: He respected the game and certainly didn't want to take
Speaker 2: away from going head to head with Otani to see
Speaker 2: what he could do that game as he was chasing
Speaker 2: his fiftieth home run. But tonight, in the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: with first base open, he did walk O tany in
Speaker 2: the ninth inning. That goes back to Schumacher not conceding anything,
Speaker 2: even being down three runs at that point. Eight six six, nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven, two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 2: outlast the Rangers tonight, eight to seven. Let's go to
Speaker 2: Trey who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hope you have
Speaker 2: a better story for me, Trey than our guy Jesse.
Speaker 8: Wow, what was wrong? I didn't hatter Jesse's story? Was
Speaker 8: it bad? I'm sorry. I'm coming from the road. We
Speaker 8: were at the game, beautiful game tonight. I just want
Speaker 8: to say hello for the first night of the year.
Speaker 8: I haven't talked to you in a while. And what
Speaker 8: a heck of a game next month he with three
Speaker 8: home runs and a walkoff. I don't have a lot
Speaker 8: to add. I just want to say hi, David, because
Speaker 8: we haven't talked in a while, and what a great
Speaker 8: game for the Dodgers to win. Were number one, and
Speaker 8: what a hell of a game.
Speaker 2: So the reason why, the reason why I took your
Speaker 2: call is our guy Colin, who is an intrepid screener,
Speaker 2: said that you were in the pavilion tonight, So, uh
Speaker 2: is sitting any cloat? Were you in the Were you
Speaker 2: in the right field pavilion, left field pavilion? Where were you?
Speaker 8: We were a little bit right center, yes.
Speaker 2: Sir, okay, so you had a pretty good view of
Speaker 2: Monthsey's a walk off home run and all three of
Speaker 2: his home runs.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we did, and it was beautiful and it was
Speaker 8: a great night to be there at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks for the phone call, Thanks for saying hi, Trey,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. How about this? We got
Speaker 2: this from OPAH Stats. Max Munsey of the Dodgers becomes
Speaker 2: the first player in baseball history to have a game
Speaker 2: with five or more runs scored, four or more hits,
Speaker 2: and three or more home runs and a walk off
Speaker 2: home run. So he makes history tonight. I mean, this
Speaker 2: was an incredible game. The three home runs in itself
Speaker 2: is special, but for him to be four for five
Speaker 2: tonight with five runs scored, that is a dominating game.
Speaker 2: Him and Poe has I'm sure our household names tonight
Speaker 2: in Arlington, Texas. Let's go out to Texas. Jeremy, you're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: How you doing, Jeremy, Hey, I'm doing great? Man? How
Speaker 9: are you?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 2: Great? Are you a Ranger fan or a Dodger fan
Speaker 2: living out in Texas?
Speaker 9: Oh? I'm a massive Dodger fan. I got to tell you.
Speaker 2: The thing.
Speaker 9: I moved from La to Texas about five years ago,
Speaker 9: and the thing that I miss the most is about
Speaker 9: being at Dodger Stadium and feeling that vibe. But I
Speaker 9: think tonight was an excellent example of the fact that
Speaker 9: the Dodgers are an incredible team constructed well right, Like,
Speaker 9: they picked up Diez.
Speaker 1: He had a.
Speaker 9: Tough night, and I was listening to the broadcast and
Speaker 9: I'm sitting here thinking like, oh man, this dude. I
Speaker 9: hear the trumpets and I just wish I was a
Speaker 9: Dodger Stadium man. But uh, a fantastic he end the
Speaker 9: Dodgers because yeah, exactly. But guess what, he's human and
Speaker 9: the rest of his teammates are going to pick him up.
Speaker 9: So when everybody talks about the Dodgers being this big
Speaker 9: behemoth of a team, Dude, those guys still fight for
Speaker 9: each other. They're not sitting there worried about salaries and
Speaker 9: stuff like that. It's the best organization on the planet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody's thinking about their salary as the game is
Speaker 2: going on, Jeremy, that's for sure. And the biggest thing
Speaker 2: is the Dodgers have put together so much talent, and
Speaker 2: all these guys over the last three, four or five
Speaker 2: years have checked their egos at the door. You don't
Speaker 2: have these many big, big time players without vetting who
Speaker 2: they are, character is and make sure they're the right fit.
Speaker 2: And that's something that Andrew Freeman has done a great
Speaker 2: job of. Thanks for the phone call, appreciated. Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: the Rangers tonight and they grounded into as many double
Speaker 2: plays as Max Muntsey hit home runs. Tonight, they grounded
Speaker 2: into three double plays. And speaking of human when was
Speaker 2: the last time Will Smith came up with the basses
Speaker 2: loaded and less than one or less than two outs
Speaker 2: and grounded into an inning ending double play. Well, that's
Speaker 2: what happened. In the seventh inning. The Dodgers had the
Speaker 2: basses loaded and the right guy at the plate and
Speaker 2: Will Smith and he grounded into a double play that
Speaker 2: was actually Freddy Freeman. In the seventh inning, will Smith
Speaker 2: grounded into a double play. In the fifth inning, with
Speaker 2: the basses loaded and one out, the Dodgers had three
Speaker 2: three players ground into double plays. Santiago Espinal, coming off
Speaker 2: the bench in the sixth inning, grounded into a four
Speaker 2: to six to three double play to end the inning.
Speaker 2: So in the three consecutive innings of grounding into double plays.
Speaker 2: The fifth the sixth and the seventh by players at
Speaker 2: least Freeman and Smith that you wouldn't expect that from
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Los Phelis Bradley. You're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk with David vasse Hi Bradley.
Speaker 10: Hey, David, thanks for taking my call, my pleasure. I
Speaker 10: wanted to get your feedback on Glass now tonight. You know,
Speaker 10: he got a lot of strikeouts, but he also gave
Speaker 10: up some home runs. You know, were those just poor
Speaker 10: pitches or is this just kind of part of his
Speaker 10: style looking for strikeouts but sometimes giving up the long ball.
Speaker 2: No, No, it was poor, poor pitches. The one he
Speaker 2: threw to Seeger was ninety six right down the middle.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's interesting because he has been leaning
Speaker 2: a lot more on his curveball. He actually threw the
Speaker 2: curveball more than his fastball tonight, So he's been doing
Speaker 2: that ever since his last start of the bring against
Speaker 2: the Angels. So I wonder if there's something there. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you made two mistakes that players like Seeger and Evan
Speaker 2: Carter or White Langford can make you pay for. So
Speaker 2: that's how I felt speaking of Glass. Now, why don't
Speaker 2: we hear from him downstairs? He's on sports in at LA.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think just bad like location, not good game
Speaker 11: management on my part. I think to see you here,
Speaker 11: I geta get the heater up or just a different pitch,
Speaker 11: and then I think too many kurtballs on that second homer.
Speaker 11: I felt good, though, I just think it was just
Speaker 11: a couple bad sequences and like you said, not ten
Speaker 11: guys away.
Speaker 12: It's clear though we saw I mean obviously compete and
Speaker 12: kind of with how the stuff was playing. When you
Speaker 12: look at your outing as a whole, I mean how
Speaker 12: you finished it, I mean how I guess was there
Speaker 12: anything adjustment you made or like kind of positive takeaways
Speaker 12: you can take from this one.
Speaker 11: I think just incorporating the slider a little bit towards
Speaker 11: the end. I think just yeah, like I said, just
Speaker 11: pitch selection and stuff. I felt pretty consistent all night,
Speaker 11: but yeah, I just gotta have to do better, better
Speaker 11: job executing, especially on those homers.
Speaker 13: Well did you all of.
Speaker 2: Those two pitchers?
Speaker 13: It's again, what location.
Speaker 5: Did you one of those two?
Speaker 11: I think the heater up to Seger and two just
Speaker 11: don't be afraid to walk him. I think just putting
Speaker 11: like a heater middle is not a good spot. Right there,
Speaker 11: and then the curveball just too many in.
Speaker 1: A row, So I think he's imported.
Speaker 11: Is two bad pitches.
Speaker 13: I mean, even like the hit said before, Seeger's home runs.
Speaker 11: Kind of seemed like, yeah, I think I think like tonight,
Speaker 11: I think I executed relatively while I felt good and yeah,
Speaker 11: like I said, just a couple couple bat at bats.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Tyler Glass. Now you know, he just
Speaker 2: described himself some bad pitches maybe poor pitch sequence scen
Speaker 2: to why Langford that led to those four runs A
Speaker 2: one a three run home run by Corey Seeger. Eight
Speaker 2: six six seven two, five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: We're going to take a time out here on Dodgery
Speaker 2: Talk when we come back, more of your phone calls.
Speaker 2: We have three lines open at eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two. We're gonna hear from Taioscar Hernandez. Next.
Speaker 2: He's wearing a different colored, not Dodger blue, elbow guard,
Speaker 2: shin guard, and we're gonna share the story with you
Speaker 2: in case you missed our pregame conversation with Taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: really hits close to home for him, So don't go
Speaker 2: anywhere more Dodger Talk live from Uniclo Field at Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium after the Dodgers walk it off against the Rangers
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Speaker 2: Here's the old two. He's wings. HiT's a Hi drive
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Speaker 2: of that eye. Maxwell swinging the silver hammer his second
Speaker 2: career three home run game, AMMA. Dodgers victorious tonight eight
Speaker 2: to seventh. On a night the Dodgers were celebrating show
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Speaker 2: Max Mounsey steals the show with his own three home
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Speaker 2: Let's go out to Kate in Torrance. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Kate?
Speaker 14: Hello, thank you for taking my call. I just have
Speaker 14: to shout out to my bloring Max Monthly. I was
Speaker 14: wearing my Monthly shirt today and so I'm just glad
Speaker 14: it was him that could pass up Steve Garvey, who
Speaker 14: was also a great.
Speaker 5: Dot DA icon.
Speaker 2: No doubt Steve Garvey should be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: So to pass up a guy like that, that's a
Speaker 2: big deal, Kate for sure. So I'm glad you're on
Speaker 2: board with Monsey. I hope you were still on board
Speaker 2: with him last year when everybody else was jumping off
Speaker 2: the ship and the bandwagon.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, no, I called you last year to show
Speaker 14: my supportive Monthly. So yeah, all right, always.
Speaker 2: We'll go back to the tape and make sure that's true.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I believe you. Thank you, Kate, thank
Speaker 2: you for the phone call. Ta Oscar Hernandez. He was
Speaker 2: our pregame guest before tonight's game, returning back home, and
Speaker 2: I had noticed during the last road trip that he
Speaker 2: wasn't using the usual blue elbow guard and shin guard.
Speaker 2: In fact, he hadn't been using it for the beginning
Speaker 2: of this season, and I was wondering what that was
Speaker 2: all about. Tai Oscar tonight was one for four with
Speaker 2: the run scored. He's hitting two eighty nine with a
Speaker 2: seven point fifty seven ops. But that's not the point
Speaker 2: of the story. The point of the story is ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez sharing with us why he is wearing a
Speaker 2: different colored elbow guard and shin guard that we're not
Speaker 2: used to sing here was our part of our conversation
Speaker 2: with Taoscar and shared a story that is close to
Speaker 2: home and close to the heart. Ta Oscar, I noticed
Speaker 2: your elbow guard was different than it was last year.
Speaker 2: What is this new elbow guard? And who are you honoring?
Speaker 13: I did it for my kid, my older kid, he's
Speaker 13: in the spectrum for the autism this year. I tried
Speaker 13: to do something different, something for him. Uh and for
Speaker 13: the rest of the people around the world that are
Speaker 13: dealing with that. You know, a lot of things of
Speaker 13: our life. I think it gets a little hard sometimes,
Speaker 13: but I think the much that we talk about, the easier,
Speaker 13: uh it will be for those families and parents with
Speaker 13: kids under the spectrum. And it was something that I
Speaker 13: did for my boy and for the rest of the
Speaker 13: persons kids adults that are dealing with that too.
Speaker 2: I guess it makes people feel that they're not alone.
Speaker 2: The parents are not alone, and the kids are not alone.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, you're just trying to give a little
Speaker 13: bit of support from here to anywhere that people see it,
Speaker 13: and hopefully they can notice and know that I'm doing
Speaker 13: that for my son and for the rest of other people.
Speaker 2: I guess you have a guy in this clubhouse, Rjpete.
Speaker 2: That's a shining example of what you can do with
Speaker 2: your life, even being on the spectrum.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's you know, Rja is awesome. Everybody love him.
Speaker 13: I'm really glad that he's around us, around me, and
Speaker 13: so I can learn more about about it and I
Speaker 13: can help my kid to deal with it in life
Speaker 13: and help other people.
Speaker 2: So there's a reason why God chose the Hernandez family
Speaker 2: and Tioscar Hernandez. You're a special person and it's great
Speaker 2: that you're shining a light on autism awareness. So thank
Speaker 2: you for the time, and you know we all love
Speaker 2: you and your family.
Speaker 13: Thank you appreciated.
Speaker 2: Well sir, there he is ta Oscar Hernandez. Sharing want
Speaker 2: when you watch these games or you come to the
Speaker 2: game and you see he's wearing a different colored, little
Speaker 2: brighter colored elbowpad shin guard. That's the reason why he's
Speaker 2: trying to shine a light on autism awareness because his
Speaker 2: older son is on the spectrum. And certainly, ta Oscar
Speaker 2: is a great father. He's got a great wife that's
Speaker 2: a great mom, and they are the right people. And
Speaker 2: like I said, R. J. Pete is certainly the shining
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Speaker 2: slash events and look Taoskar is one of the greatest
Speaker 2: guys you'll ever meet. And I told him I wanted
Speaker 2: to ask him about the elbow guards. What that was about.
Speaker 2: I kind of had a hint it may have been
Speaker 2: on the topic or subject that he was speaking about,
Speaker 2: and he said, yeah, let's talk about it. And if
Speaker 2: you go to our AM five seventy LA sports Instagram
Speaker 2: page or on x we tweeted out some photos close
Speaker 2: up photos of taoscar shin guards and elbow guards that
Speaker 2: he's wearing, and you can see what he's trying to
Speaker 2: shine a light on and get a closer look at
Speaker 2: how he's trying to bring autism awareness to every at
Speaker 2: bat that he has this season. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Todd who is at Dodger Stadium. Hi, Todd, You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. How you doing?
Speaker 4: Don Joing? Well, thank you.
Speaker 8: You know, I just wanted to.
Speaker 4: Commend Andy Pajas him going to right field twice. Hard
Speaker 4: hit balls, both of them, especially that second one that
Speaker 4: drove in the run.
Speaker 8: That was a.
Speaker 4: Huge momentum swing in the game. But just for him
Speaker 4: going that way, I give him so much credit because
Speaker 4: of course he can, you know, hit the ball out
Speaker 4: of the ballpark. He usually pulls the ball left field.
Speaker 6: But for him to go that way, boy, he's really matured.
Speaker 2: In my mind, he really has. He's put in a
Speaker 2: lot of work. Todd, and I've mentioned this a few
Speaker 2: times when we've talked about Paez in spring training. He
Speaker 2: was really diving into just scene pitches and being a
Speaker 2: more disciplined hitter, and it certainly has paid off. And
Speaker 2: it doesn't translate necessarily. You're not trying to take away
Speaker 2: his aggressiveness. He's just seeing more pitches in at bats
Speaker 2: and not just being, you know, an indecisive swinger at
Speaker 2: the plate. Let's go out to Brandon who was at
Speaker 2: the game tonight. Hi, Brandon, you were treated to a
Speaker 2: great game. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: What's going on DV.
Speaker 15: Good to hear you, brother. Yeah, we we had great
Speaker 15: Seaton in the reserve and we had we have a
Speaker 15: great view of Monthy's home runs and it was interesting.
Speaker 15: You know, the crack of the bat was about the
Speaker 15: same on every home run except for that last one.
Speaker 15: And that last one it was just a little bit special.
Speaker 15: But just like Todd said, I I too want to
Speaker 15: you know, just want to show shed my love to
Speaker 15: to our boy Andy Poie has and and you can
Speaker 15: see the work that you put in in the off
Speaker 15: season and h right now, I know it's super early
Speaker 15: on in the season, but he's been the m v P.
Speaker 15: I feel like for this team, super consistent, especially when
Speaker 15: the big names like you mentioned at the beginning of
Speaker 15: your broadcast are kind of struggling going oh for or
Speaker 15: one for four, one for five. He's been so steady
Speaker 15: and to have a consistent bat where he is in
Speaker 15: the lineup. Uh, it's just been awesome and been money
Speaker 15: for the for this team and and I think the
Speaker 15: changes that he's made are are phenomenal and hopefully it continues.
Speaker 2: How about this, Brandon, I'm not sure if you caught this,
Speaker 2: but I did, and Pie has his first at bat.
Speaker 2: It was a Yankee stadium like roll call of Andy
Speaker 2: Pie has his name. I heard this echoing throughout the
Speaker 2: sellout crowd tonight, Andy Pie has Did you Uh? Did
Speaker 2: you catch that? And were you part of it? In
Speaker 2: your section?
Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely did.
Speaker 15: We were We were chanting and my wife and I
Speaker 15: we we affectionately call him Pages, and so we were like,
Speaker 15: you know, come on Pages, MVP, and we try to
Speaker 15: get the MVP chance like like they did in for
Speaker 15: Kobe and Staples back in the day. That didn't catch
Speaker 15: on maybe later.
Speaker 2: That's a little too early, Yeah, a little too early.
Speaker 2: I like I like the organic Andy Pie has chant
Speaker 2: that came out of the reserve section. That was that
Speaker 2: was pretty special.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, Dodger fans obviously are recognizing what this guy
Speaker 2: is doing. Tonight's game brought to you by Modello Modello
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Jose, did you catch that the Andy Pie has chance
Speaker 2: in his first couple of at bats? I mean you
Speaker 2: have arrived when Dodger Stadium starts chanting your name on
Speaker 2: a show hel tany bobblehead night.
Speaker 6: Dave, I did. I'm I actually brought up in the broadcast.
Speaker 6: I go, wait a minute, where are we the bronze
Speaker 6: or DoD your stadium. It was pretty cool. It was
Speaker 6: very cool. And Dave, congratulations. I want to command you
Speaker 6: on a great job with tels Me, Hernandez. I think
Speaker 6: that that side of an athlete, a highly paid player
Speaker 6: in person in this world, it is important their fans
Speaker 6: connect with what they go through on a single day.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yes, you know I was thinking about that
Speaker 2: as well. You know, the players are human beings. They
Speaker 2: bring a lot of baggage, some days more than others.
Speaker 2: But obviously ta Oscar has a great family. He supports
Speaker 2: his family, and I just think people need to realize
Speaker 2: that they're just like you. I mean, their life is
Speaker 2: not easy for everybody.
Speaker 6: No, And I think you know when these players are
Speaker 6: exposing going through a slump, and a lot of times
Speaker 6: you know there's something that just doesn't look right, but
Speaker 6: you don't want to ask at times you want to
Speaker 6: be judging. But something comes out at the end that
Speaker 6: you know a player was going through something, Freddie going
Speaker 6: through what he was going through a couple of years ago.
Speaker 6: Things like that matter a whole lot, and I think
Speaker 6: it just makes it actual with the fans, the player
Speaker 6: admitting it and knowing the dickenses platform to further send
Speaker 6: out the message and the projects out forward to get
Speaker 6: more people are involved, and I thinks remarkable. So a
Speaker 6: very nice job by Tarush and expecting himself and also
Speaker 6: by you and a five seventy team and getting that out.
Speaker 2: Thanks, So they appreciate that. Tonight it was a good
Speaker 2: night for Sunflower Seeds. I hope they had enough. I
Speaker 2: hope tay Oscar had enough for Monthsy's three home runs
Speaker 2: and Pie has this big night not only the big
Speaker 2: go ahead two run double, but also a two run
Speaker 2: home run.
Speaker 6: I mean, the Dodgers in the power is going to
Speaker 6: be there.
Speaker 5: I know that.
Speaker 6: You know. The thing that really sticks with me is
Speaker 6: the fact that for Max Monthsely, he is a believer
Speaker 6: in the process and I know that it's not always pretty.
Speaker 6: But as he was saying to all of us in Toronto,
Speaker 6: I'm feeling it like it's coming. Telling Dave Roberts that
Speaker 6: he feels like he hit three hundred, that's remarkable. I mean,
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts has one thing, one person behind them that
Speaker 6: embatting practice sometimes says, Hey, Max, I want you to
Speaker 6: go out there and get base hits in batting practice,
Speaker 6: get singles, you know, hit b all in the gaps
Speaker 6: and things like that, just to make sure that Minus
Speaker 6: transformed into being better and really taking this again to
Speaker 6: a new level and sometimes just pulling back and not
Speaker 6: playing Homer in derby and during VP. A good knight
Speaker 6: for him overall. Andy pyues, We'll see what he's doing
Speaker 6: and to come back from forced reikous it's not eat
Speaker 6: to day elemental side, but we don't want thing. Andy
Speaker 6: Pays loves hitting at home and there's nothing better than
Speaker 6: after force strikeout game to get back to now Unico
Speaker 6: Field Dogger Stadium to get the job done as a team.
Speaker 6: Very nice effort overall, Jose.
Speaker 2: You know, in that ninth inning at bat by Muncie,
Speaker 2: the young left hander Jacob Latz, he threw him three
Speaker 2: straight sliders that were luke warm at best. It felt
Speaker 2: like Muncie it was just a matter of time that
Speaker 2: he was going to hit it out with the swings
Speaker 2: he was taking in the first two pitches that he
Speaker 2: saw that turned out to be the all three, the
Speaker 2: same speed, the same location. He didn't miss it.
Speaker 6: Well, you have to do your homework. Think about last
Speaker 6: he made Will Smith look bad. He made Freddy Freema
Speaker 6: look bad too. So if you're Max Munsey, you're paying
Speaker 6: attention not only to the amount of pitches he's thrown,
Speaker 6: Say how many sliders, so many fast foals, where's he
Speaker 6: locating it? Almost so you gotta pay attention to but
Speaker 6: it's release point, how much tilt is it breaking down?
Speaker 6: Is the same flat and all those things you pay
Speaker 6: attention to and apply when you go out there and
Speaker 6: saying if he was doing this to Freddy and I
Speaker 6: saw it against the right handed bat or too, there's
Speaker 6: something that at least I can get to and anticipate,
Speaker 6: and it's you all go out there and save your
Speaker 6: best swing for something down the middle, which is what
Speaker 6: he did. But this kid through the years had very
Speaker 6: good numbers for the Rangers, and they just happen to
Speaker 6: catch a pitch with the right hitter up and two. Dave,
Speaker 6: let's also keep this clear Max months. He has started
Speaker 6: games this season against lefties, and it's very important as
Speaker 6: a manager. They don't get so cut up and left
Speaker 6: the right situations via espinal, but allow Max BUNSI to
Speaker 6: see some lefties. Look, there's numbers against lefties this season,
Speaker 6: and you'll see why. Even though the numbers are not
Speaker 6: going to look like that at the end of the season.
Speaker 6: It is important the guys like Kim are not buried
Speaker 6: only because there's a left on the mound. And this
Speaker 6: is all due to the staff Dave Roberts allowing him
Speaker 6: to see lefties, see spin, see the ball from the
Speaker 6: other side, and also a lefties sometimes you square up
Speaker 6: a little bit better because you've got to stay closed
Speaker 6: and that really aligns you to get your swing back
Speaker 6: where it needs to be.
Speaker 2: No doubt he can hit lefties and he still has
Speaker 2: that function in the lineup. When he's not hitting home runs,
Speaker 2: he's taking walks, he's seeing a lot of pitches, and
Speaker 2: that means a lot to the whole connective tissue of
Speaker 2: this batting order for the Dodgers that quite honestly, Jose
Speaker 2: has not gotten consistent production from their first four guys,
Speaker 2: and it's basically been guys from six to nine that's
Speaker 2: really making things happen for the offense.
Speaker 6: So far in a long season, this is going to
Speaker 6: show up. It's showing on Bernie right now. And the
Speaker 6: best thing is that now for the top of the lineup,
Speaker 6: it's not all about them carrying the little bit about
Speaker 6: having production with bats, but what these guys in the
Speaker 6: bottom are doing, you know, sixth on and seventh on
Speaker 6: is remarkable at this stage of the season because those
Speaker 6: are the guys that in other ball clubs, some of
Speaker 6: these guys are hitting three and four. They're not for
Speaker 6: the Dodgers because of who they are, but they're approaching
Speaker 6: each bat like they are hitting three and four by
Speaker 6: quality at bats, working counts, following off good pitches, and
Speaker 6: staying with the same consistent approach. Because that allow the
Speaker 6: top of the order eventually to get hot and carry
Speaker 6: the team.
Speaker 2: Also, all right, before I let you go, Edwin dis
Speaker 2: he's human. We're not used to seeing that, no matter
Speaker 2: if you're in New York or LA. It's rare sight
Speaker 2: that he blows the save. Did you feel like the
Speaker 2: fastball was playing down a little bit tonight? And did
Speaker 2: you see any signs of that in his previous two outings?
Speaker 2: And I guess with the Dodger offense, he's not pitching
Speaker 2: on a regular basis like he may have been with
Speaker 2: the Mets.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I you know, I talked about this before.
Speaker 6: I said, he's not a mechanical guy. He's not checking
Speaker 6: mechanics about this and that. But when he gets a
Speaker 6: little bit too fast, that slider does nothing. Look at
Speaker 6: these pitches today the ladder really maybe one good slider
Speaker 6: all day. One thing that happened with whe two is
Speaker 6: twenty three pitches Dave nineteen strikes. That's not like him.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's gonna get chases on and make balls
Speaker 6: look like strikes and get strike cuts. But I didn't
Speaker 6: see a whole lot of quality strikes. My main concern
Speaker 6: was a little bit too fast, way flat on that slider.
Speaker 6: But again, he is human and sometimes he's gonna falter.
Speaker 6: What I know one thing is if you have anybody
Speaker 6: that's been with him, with Seattle and with the Mets
Speaker 6: when he has outings like this, be careful because he
Speaker 6: finds a way to fix it and be truly energetic
Speaker 6: and impactful the rest of the season. So his one
Speaker 6: to learn from us, for sure. The Slider has to
Speaker 6: have better bites, all right.
Speaker 2: He's he's obviously done it on the biggest stage, so
Speaker 2: he knows what he's doingse thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 2: We'll check in with you tomorrow. There he goes. Jose Mota,
Speaker 2: part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast, checks in every
Speaker 2: night on Dodger Talk. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Tonight was a
Speaker 2: great game. We had a little bit of everything. Power,
Speaker 2: stolen bases, put in the ball and play first to third.
Speaker 2: Three double plays by the Dodgers. That's not something you
Speaker 2: see all the time. And you don't see a team
Speaker 2: run into three double plays, a couple of them with
Speaker 2: the bases loaded, in fact, all three of them with
Speaker 2: the bases loaded and still win the game. That's exactly
Speaker 2: what the Dodgers did, and in the ninth inning there
Speaker 2: were a couple of abs challenges that proved to be big.
Speaker 2: You felt like one that Jack Peterson called to get
Speaker 2: overturned really worked in the rangers favor that kept it alive.
Speaker 2: He got on base, and then you were looking at
Speaker 2: Will Smith trying to help Edward and Diaz get out
Speaker 2: of that jam. He was able to get a call
Speaker 2: third strike on why at Langford and you thought, okay,
Speaker 2: maybe this will change things. But unfortunately for Diaz and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, it took Max Munthsey's third home run of
Speaker 2: the night to walk it off instead of just winning
Speaker 2: it in eight and a half innings. But either way,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers will take it baseball's best record at ten
Speaker 2: and three. Before we say good night, I got to
Speaker 2: take a couple of more calls. Kevin, who was at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium tonight, is claiming he's the one that started
Speaker 2: the Indie Pie has chant. All right, Kevin, you want
Speaker 2: to take credit for this, I'll give you. I'll give
Speaker 2: you a chance.
Speaker 1: BV.
Speaker 5: So we were in the load section in section one
Speaker 5: twenty two, and I'll tell you why we started that
Speaker 5: chat was because my daughter and I went to a
Speaker 5: game last year in August where Pa Has had two
Speaker 5: hole runs in a double and we're sending center field
Speaker 5: started chanting that, he turned around gave us a wave.
Speaker 5: Ever since then, we're a huge Andy po Has fans,
Speaker 5: and so you know, when he was off and what
Speaker 5: he's been doing all season, we had to give him
Speaker 5: the props. We started the chat, and I was so
Speaker 5: pumped because the rest of the crowd totally jumped in
Speaker 5: and started standing with us, and I think from that
Speaker 5: point on, you know, it was on and the fans
Speaker 5: were all about it.
Speaker 2: All right, Kevin, I liked it. It was organic, it
Speaker 2: was organic. I really liked it, and it was a
Speaker 2: great salute to the start of the season for Andy
Speaker 2: pat Has. Thanks for the phone call, Kevin. All Right,
Speaker 2: you know, it takes more than a father and daughter
Speaker 2: to start a chant, but I like it. I like it.
Speaker 2: It was a nice story. So we'll go with that
Speaker 2: and end the show on that one. In case we
Speaker 2: didn't get to you tonight. Call back tomorrow after game
Speaker 2: two of this series. It'll be Jack Leider on the
Speaker 2: mound for the Rangers, who in two starts as an
Speaker 2: Era of two forty five with seventeen strikeouts in eleven innings,
Speaker 2: going up against Emmitt Shean, who's making his third start
Speaker 2: of the year. He's one to zero with an ERA
Speaker 2: of eight. Our coverage begins at five o'clock with Dodgers
Speaker 2: on deck. First pitch at six' ten With Rick monday
Speaker 2: And Tim. Neverett thanks to you for, listening thanks to
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Speaker 2: dwayne McDonald out here At Uniclo field At Dodgers. Stadium,
Speaker 2: hey case you missed any of the, show you can
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Speaker 2: conversation With Taioscar, hernandez who is certainly one of a,
Speaker 2: kind a great, guy a great, player and it was
Speaker 2: awesome that he shared something personal with us today and
Speaker 2: you can find that on The iHeartRadio. App you could
Speaker 2: see the photos of his elbow guard and shing guard
Speaker 2: to bring awareness to autism and all those that are
Speaker 2: a shining light for. It once. Again the final score
Speaker 2: tonight From Dodgers. Stadium The dodgers defeat The rangers eight to.
Speaker 2: Seven have a great rest of your. Night see. You i'm. Well,
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