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Speaker 2: Am five to seventy LA Sports. After the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: the Mets their six straight loss with a four to
Speaker 2: nothing shout out win behind a great pitch game by
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski, who did not get the double digit strikeouts,
Speaker 2: but he did throw strikes and he did not walk anybody.
Speaker 2: Two strikeouts, no walks, and he kept his infield and aged.
Speaker 2: And that was the recipe for success, to be efficient
Speaker 2: and to last eight innings in tonight's game throwing only
Speaker 2: ninety pitches. After what we saw yesterday compared to what
Speaker 2: we saw today, that's the difference between a guy that
Speaker 2: belongs in the major leagues and a guy that is
Speaker 2: still trying to develop. And I think it speaks for
Speaker 2: itself the difference we saw from yesterday starting pitcher compared
Speaker 2: to tonight's starting pitcher, and everybody obviously can see that.
Speaker 2: But it was great to have a well pitched game
Speaker 2: by Justin Robleski after an off day for the Dodgers' staff.
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki not a great day pitching, has not thrown
Speaker 2: strikes all season long, and Robleski maybe showed them, you know,
Speaker 2: how to attack the strike zone. Robleski certainly was a
Speaker 2: breath of fresh air tonight for the Dodgers after going
Speaker 2: eight scoreless innings and something that you know, he's never
Speaker 2: done before in his professional career, majors or minor leagues,
Speaker 2: because if you look at Robleski's career, he had not
Speaker 2: gone more than seven innings in his minor or six
Speaker 2: innings in his minor league career, and he hadn't gone
Speaker 2: more than seven innings before in his career either. Six
Speaker 2: innings in his major league career was his high. Seven
Speaker 2: innings in his minor league career was his high. He
Speaker 2: did that twice. So doing what he did tonight, he
Speaker 2: had never done before, so certainly, certainly a career night
Speaker 2: for Justin Robleski. And like I mentioned during the Clubhouse Show,
Speaker 2: this guy's been really good for the Dodgers ever since
Speaker 2: he got called back up from the minor leagues halfway
Speaker 2: through last season. He came back throwing strikes. If you
Speaker 2: watch him, he's not really out of a wind up.
Speaker 2: It seems like he's straddling the pitching mound there, and
Speaker 2: it's short, it's compact to the plate, it's deceptive, and
Speaker 2: that's part of the success.
Speaker 3: And he attacks the strike zone.
Speaker 2: He misses barrels, and he got a lot of ground
Speaker 2: balls tonight, a lot of ground ball outs.
Speaker 3: A lot of double plays.
Speaker 2: Rojas was spectacular at shortstop months he made two or
Speaker 2: three really good plays at third base. Santiago Espinal had
Speaker 2: a nice double play to end the fifth inning.
Speaker 3: And really the Dodger.
Speaker 2: Infield helped out Robleski tonight, and he helped them out
Speaker 2: by keeping the pace up after a laborious day yesterday
Speaker 2: where the Dodger pitching staff combined to throw one hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety nine pitches and walk ten batters. So that's
Speaker 2: not going to keep your outfield and infield engaged, but
Speaker 2: certainly a great night for Justin Robleski. Let's head downstairs
Speaker 2: to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from tonight's winning pitcher.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think a big water emphasis for me is
Speaker 5: just trying to keep it as simple as I can.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they've got a really good lineup and and kind
Speaker 5: of looking through this skuying report, they got a lot
Speaker 5: of good guys in that lineup, mainly those I think
Speaker 5: it was four or five, six wherever that like with
Speaker 5: Polanco and all those guys that laying they hit left
Speaker 5: these pretty well. So it's just being cognizant of that
Speaker 5: and knowing where we're at. But I think without runners
Speaker 5: on base, I think for me it's let's just attack
Speaker 5: and see where we're at. Yeah, Like the game plan
Speaker 5: was just go out there as always and throw a
Speaker 5: lot of strikes and kind of keep them off balanced
Speaker 5: by using my stuff. And that's that's where we were.
Speaker 6: One of the number of thoth games we'll ever have
Speaker 6: is a big League released.
Speaker 3: H what's the feeling, like, what are you feeling right now?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I feel good, you know, I'm hoping there's there's plenty
Speaker 5: of other opportunities like that, to to get a complete game.
Speaker 5: That's kind of something that I think is really cool,
Speaker 5: and you know, not a lot of people do it
Speaker 5: anymore so, and I think, you know, that's the most
Speaker 5: ups I've ever had in a game. So you know,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna try to keep building and get myself on
Speaker 5: the spot where hopefully, hopefully I can complete some of those,
Speaker 5: and that's that's kind of the goal for me. And
Speaker 5: that's something I think is really cool. When you are
Speaker 5: getting clouts, I think the key is just to keep
Speaker 5: attacking doing the same stuff. I don't think there's any
Speaker 5: like secret to it. I think, you know, again, I
Speaker 5: think a lot of it's a lot of being a
Speaker 5: good picture and preventing runs is kind of knowing where
Speaker 5: you're at in the game or where you're in the lineup.
Speaker 5: And I think for me, we had we had a
Speaker 5: four and lead, we we you know, we're hitting the
Speaker 5: ball well, so just kind of being like, all right,
Speaker 5: now we got this four and lead, let's attack. And
Speaker 5: I think that's again, like always a goal for me.
Speaker 5: You didn't give up to the first hit up of
Speaker 5: the fifth inning, No hit or perfect game across your
Speaker 5: mind at.
Speaker 6: All, I knew.
Speaker 5: I knew it was happening. Like I think for me,
Speaker 5: you know, I get through that fourth or whatever, and
Speaker 5: I'm there, and but again I think, like for me,
Speaker 5: I've just just had down keep doing the same stuff.
Speaker 5: I'm not, you know, actively going out there and trying
Speaker 5: to throw no hitter, you know what I mean. I think,
Speaker 5: you know that's something that just happened if you execute,
Speaker 5: and yeah, I think you know, he got that hit,
Speaker 5: And then I don't think there was any different feelings
Speaker 5: or like, oh man, I lost, Like I'm not thinking
Speaker 5: about stuff like that. I'm just thinking about how can
Speaker 5: I get these hitters out because they're a really good team.
Speaker 2: That and it was Jorge Polanco one out single in
Speaker 2: the fifth inning, and he was erased by a double
Speaker 2: play hit by Francisco Alvarez to in the fifth inning.
Speaker 2: So going into the eighth inning, Robleski had only given
Speaker 2: up one hit and then gave up another one in
Speaker 2: the eighth inning too, Francisco Alvarez ironically. But yeah, there
Speaker 2: was a lot of talk about, man, I wish he
Speaker 2: could have had that Jorge Polanco hit back, considering where
Speaker 2: he was and who knows how he attacks the rest
Speaker 2: of the night after that, or the eighth inning at
Speaker 2: least east after that. But certainly there was talk about
Speaker 2: at that point in the sixth seventh inning that you know,
Speaker 2: that was only the only hit against Robleski tonight, And
Speaker 2: quite honestly, hits have not been very easy to come
Speaker 2: for for this Mets lineup, that is, without Jan Soto
Speaker 2: for at least two more weeks with a cap strain.
Speaker 2: The Mets are eight for their last sixty four and
Speaker 2: have not scored a run in their last twenty innings. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Mets, with a half a billion dollar payroll, are
Speaker 2: eight for their last sixty four and haven't scored a
Speaker 2: run in their last sixty haven't scored a run in
Speaker 2: their last twenty innings. They've lost six in a row
Speaker 2: and are now seven and ten. So there was a
Speaker 2: lot of talk coming into tonight's game with us some
Speaker 2: articles out there talking about how this is the most
Speaker 2: expensive series a pay round that Baseball has ever seen,
Speaker 2: which is true, over a billion dollars worth of payroll
Speaker 2: in this series between the Dodgers and Mets. But you
Speaker 2: look at this Mets lineup and you wonder where did
Speaker 2: their half billion dollars go? Did it go to Mark Vientos, Oh,
Speaker 2: that's right. They signed Francisco Lindor to a big contract.
Speaker 3: Did it go.
Speaker 2: To Tommy Fam They just had to call up thirty
Speaker 2: eight year old Tommy Fam. They traded Brandon Nimmo for
Speaker 2: Marcus Simeon two exchanges for contracts, and Neimo's a better
Speaker 2: offensive player than Simeon. I'm trying to find out where
Speaker 2: all that money went. And you look at the Dodgers lineup,
Speaker 2: It's an all star lineup o Tani, Tucker Smith, ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez, Freddie Freeman, Pajz Muncie Rojas. You're missing Mookie Betts.
Speaker 2: And you had a kid that you drafted and developed,
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski on the mound, who pitched five different games
Speaker 2: in the World Series last year and didn't give up
Speaker 2: a run. My point is, I'm so tired of hearing
Speaker 2: about payrolls. Payrolls do not translate to wins. You have
Speaker 2: to spend it on the right players. And when you
Speaker 2: do spend it on players that you found or drafted
Speaker 2: or developed, you keep them and you spend money on
Speaker 2: them as well. Yamamoto a twelve year contract worth over
Speaker 2: three hundred and something million dollars money well spent. Otani
Speaker 2: money well spent obviously. I mean, the Dodgers have probably
Speaker 2: more than likely already made up the money that they're
Speaker 2: going to end up giving Otani after ten years, and
Speaker 2: he's the greatest player in baseball. Will Smith drafted, developed,
Speaker 2: rewarded with an extension. Oscar Hernandez. Anybody could have had
Speaker 2: him two years ago in free agency. The Dodgers signed
Speaker 2: him to a one year prove it contract. He proved it,
Speaker 2: and they gave him another contract.
Speaker 3: To reward him.
Speaker 2: Munsey's taken a discount to stay with the Dodgers. Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts was traded to the Dodgers. They extended him. Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman was allowed to walk away and the Dodgers signed him.
Speaker 2: The Mets decided to prioritize Devin Williams over Edwin Diaz,
Speaker 2: and Edwin Diaz now is the Dodgers closer. And by
Speaker 2: the way, Dave Roberts said that Diaz would have been
Speaker 2: available if there was a safe situation here. So my
Speaker 2: point is everybody focuses on the money, and look, the
Speaker 2: money is a huge part of the Dodgers' success. There's
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. But not just with the player payroll.
Speaker 2: The one thing a salary cap wouldn't stop is the
Speaker 2: infrastructure and the staffing. The right staffing, the right infrastructure
Speaker 2: that the Dodger have built. That's not going to change
Speaker 2: with a salary cap. But my point is the Mets
Speaker 2: have thrown over a billion dollars of payroll the last
Speaker 2: three years and what has it gotten them a loss
Speaker 2: to the Dodgers that wasn't even close in the NLCS.
Speaker 2: So you can have money, but you have to have
Speaker 2: a culture. And this is not just an overnight thing
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. Andrew Freeman has built this since twenty fifteen,
Speaker 2: and Neck Kletti laid the foundation with the resources that
Speaker 2: he finally had from Guggenheim when they bought the team
Speaker 2: in twenty twelve. So this is not something that just
Speaker 2: happened overnight. This has been a thirteen year, fourteen year
Speaker 2: process and it's gone to a different level the last
Speaker 2: two years thanks to Otani and Yamamoto, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have maximized the two, specifically Otani and his marketing power
Speaker 2: to be able to take this to another level. Juan
Speaker 2: Soto is not moving the needle. Marketing wise for the Mets,
Speaker 2: he's not. And last year you heard about infighting between
Speaker 2: Lindor and Soto and Jeff McNeil. Have you ever heard
Speaker 2: anything close to that in the last ten years with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. I mean, the Puig years were tumultuous at times,
Speaker 2: I'll give you that, But since Puig left the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: it's been calm waters. You don't hear about Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: and Mookie Bets fighting with each other. You hear about
Speaker 2: them trying to help each other lift each other up.
Speaker 2: The thing is, Andrew Freeman has brought in the right guys.
Speaker 2: When you bring in a lot of high priced players,
Speaker 2: the egos can get in the way. But if you
Speaker 2: bring in winning players, the only thing that matters is winning,
Speaker 2: and that's obvious by what we've seen here with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: So just to set the record straight on all of
Speaker 2: that payroll stuff, there's a huge difference in what the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are doing and what the Mets are doing.
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Speaker 2: The mark of a Fighter eight six six two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Had a chance to catch
Speaker 2: up with Miguel Rojas after a spectacular night three hits
Speaker 2: and dazzling play at shortstop for the thirty seven year old, Yeah.
Speaker 3: All that create the role.
Speaker 7: To be honest with you, do you know how how
Speaker 7: much PRI on my defense. That's why it got me
Speaker 7: here when I was younger. And I feel pretty pretty
Speaker 7: like pretty.
Speaker 3: Good right now.
Speaker 7: My body's healthy and I can, I guess feel like
Speaker 7: I can play short So uh, that's that's something that
Speaker 7: I always gonna be good for when you put me
Speaker 7: on the field, you always can't count on good defense.
Speaker 3: And that's why, Uh, every time.
Speaker 7: I take the field, I trying to be a defensive,
Speaker 7: fair guy. And obviously to hey, he got three hits,
Speaker 7: but I mean all the clay to roll today, attacking
Speaker 7: the strike zone and and putting.
Speaker 3: The ball in play for us to be active. There
Speaker 3: is never you.
Speaker 7: Never have so much fun when like someone is a
Speaker 7: throwing strikes and like the innings are quick and then
Speaker 7: we feed.
Speaker 3: Off of that. That was a pretty good game, Miguel.
Speaker 2: When you're hitting ninth and you're doing your thing, getting
Speaker 2: three heads playing defense, what feeds off the other is
Speaker 2: the defense that feeds off the offense.
Speaker 3: So the offense feeds off the defense.
Speaker 7: Like I said, today was about all about Robleski taking
Speaker 7: the ball knowing that he needs to attack hitters. He
Speaker 7: really wants to be a starter, you know. And and
Speaker 7: the guy showed up today that he can be on
Speaker 7: the rotation, that he can help us anyway possible. He
Speaker 7: was used for us last year in the world years,
Speaker 7: and uh, all the clay for him today because I mean,
Speaker 7: when you do something like that, you scored early, you
Speaker 7: scored one wrong. I know we have a lot of
Speaker 7: opportunities to score more runs. But the often he's been good.
Speaker 7: You know, we've been having good at bats. I mean,
Speaker 7: obviously pas been he's been great for us. But to
Speaker 7: your point, like the bottom, the bottom of the of
Speaker 7: the order is being amazing this uh the first three
Speaker 7: or four weeks, and uh we looking forward to continue
Speaker 7: to row.
Speaker 2: Before I let you go the cleats paying love to
Speaker 2: your dad and your mom.
Speaker 3: How special is that? It's really special.
Speaker 7: The guys who are working with right now, they really
Speaker 7: pay attention to details. And as soon as that happened,
Speaker 7: I didn't know that I was gonna receive this. And
Speaker 7: now I don't want to take them off, you know.
Speaker 7: I feel like obviously my family is really important to
Speaker 7: me and that's why I have a tattoo it on
Speaker 7: my body. Then nobody eleven means family for me. And uh,
Speaker 7: now that I don't have my parents, I I just
Speaker 7: feel like I gotta.
Speaker 3: Find a way to keep honoring.
Speaker 7: Until like I played my last game, because that's what.
Speaker 3: They always want me to do.
Speaker 7: So that's why I didn't take any days because uh,
Speaker 7: I know I'm gonna be more productive here then then
Speaker 7: not being with them, They're not They're not with me
Speaker 7: anymore right here in this uh in this earth. So
Speaker 7: I know I got a couple of angels up there
Speaker 7: that that are looking down for me, and they're helping
Speaker 7: me and gave me staying that I need.
Speaker 3: To no doubt product their son. Thanks Miguel, Thank you.
Speaker 2: There he goes Miguel Rojas a spectacular game and he
Speaker 2: has come out looking younger than ever. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is his last season in the big leagues, but he's
Speaker 2: not playing like it.
Speaker 3: And his cleats are really special.
Speaker 2: You can see them up close on MLB's Instagram account.
Speaker 2: He's got a picture and the name of his mom
Speaker 2: on his left foot, on his left shoe and on
Speaker 2: his right Shoe is his father, who passed away while
Speaker 2: the team was in Toronto eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventies. The phone number Dodgers shut out
Speaker 2: the Mets tonight foard to nothing. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Ronnie and Echo Park. You're on Dodger Talk with David
Speaker 2: vasse Hi.
Speaker 3: Ronnie.
Speaker 8: Hey, David, I really appreciate you putting to sleep this
Speaker 8: lazy narrative about the Dodgers and their payrolls, but you
Speaker 8: broke it down, I mean, just perfectly in my opinion.
Speaker 8: Also wanted to add a little bit to your point.
Speaker 8: We also got to acknowledge a Dodger fan, year in
Speaker 8: year out, we go, we attend, and that helps keep
Speaker 8: the Dodgers relevant, and I just think we should also
Speaker 8: make that as an add on to your point.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I agree with you, Ronnie.
Speaker 2: I mean, all the players always say that it's easy
Speaker 2: to get up for a game when fifty thousand plus
Speaker 2: are cheering you on, and tonight no different. A sellout
Speaker 2: tonight fifty two thousand, eight hundred and thirty eight on
Speaker 2: Hello Kitty, Hoodie night or sweatshirt night, whatever you call it,
Speaker 2: a big night for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Either way, We're.
Speaker 2: Going to take a time out here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: When we come back, more of your phone calls at
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Speaker 2: check in with Jose Mota and you also hear part
Speaker 2: of my conversation with Alex Bessia. First time we've sat
Speaker 2: down for an extended conversation this year. So excited to
Speaker 2: share that with you as well. We're going to eleven
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Speaker 2: Dodgers led David Peterson off the hook in the first inning.
Speaker 2: They loaded the bases with nobody out. They had one
Speaker 2: run in, but so many more available to them, but
Speaker 2: they struck out looking or excuse me, struck He struck
Speaker 2: out the side freeman looking, and then Pa haz and
Speaker 2: months he's swinging, and they stranded the bases loaded. They
Speaker 2: only got one run they should have had more. So
Speaker 2: that two out, three run home run by Andy pi
Speaker 2: Has certainly made up for that and kind of made
Speaker 2: you feel a little bit easier. With the way Robleski
Speaker 2: was pitching tonight, he goes eight shutout innings to pay
Speaker 2: up the win and the Dodgers shut out the Mets
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota, the story was justin Roblesky. What
Speaker 2: a difference from yesterday today as far as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: starting picture goes.
Speaker 6: What a performance and what a way of teaching us
Speaker 6: that swings and misses sometimes are totally overrated. How about
Speaker 6: learning about how a swing is constructed by a team.
Speaker 6: How the Mets approached the bats being so aggressive, which
Speaker 6: is going to minimize the amount of pitches you make.
Speaker 6: So Dave, I think, as you mentioned earlier, we go
Speaker 6: back to yesterday and today, and the difference is this
Speaker 6: guy is not afraid of contact. He loves contact. We
Speaker 6: love weed contact. Think about this today, the Mets swung
Speaker 6: at twenty nine fastballs, they missed one. Okay, they did
Speaker 6: not miss any curveballs, and they swung as seventeen fighters
Speaker 6: they missed three of them. Example of when you put
Speaker 6: the ball on good location, something good's gonna happen. It
Speaker 6: doesn't matter who's out there. And for Bletski, the other
Speaker 6: thing too, obviously the ground balls, which is huge. Keep
Speaker 6: those guys busy, Nighia Ross, what a great example, how
Speaker 6: that voluntary lap, Dave, to talk to a guy who's
Speaker 6: been around the game so long to understand and explain
Speaker 6: clearly why is a veteran infielder it is important to
Speaker 6: play behind somebody with a good pace who keeps you involved,
Speaker 6: keeps you busy, and understands what it is to go
Speaker 6: out there and work fast too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred and ninety nine combined pitches from Dodger
Speaker 2: pitchers yesterday with ten walks and today, I'm sure that
Speaker 2: was more of keeping the infielders engaged. And he went
Speaker 2: out of his way to say that Jose and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers really take pride in their defense. So much focus
Speaker 2: on the swings and misses, the offensive power, but the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are better than most teams to not have their
Speaker 2: infielders really have to cover that much ground.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what's important to here, Dave. It's a
Speaker 6: great point because you know, the outstanding play is going
Speaker 6: to be apploted through our baseball. It's going to make
Speaker 6: the highlights everywhere. But the play that gets into the
Speaker 6: most struggle is a routine play. If you don't make
Speaker 6: the routine place insistant league. It adds to the inning,
Speaker 6: it asks to the pitchers pitches, It puts guys on
Speaker 6: on their heels, and it just is not good baseball. Okay,
Speaker 6: we all will this strack out when it comes at
Speaker 6: a point where you need it great, Get destrike a
Speaker 6: butty and there's nothing better to be be in a
Speaker 6: rhythm with your pitcher, have your catchup put down the side.
Speaker 6: So it was like as an infielder, you start anticipating
Speaker 6: what sign is going to come down and you start
Speaker 6: moving in that direction. And for the Dodgers, all about
Speaker 6: positioning is that guys want to be coached. You know
Speaker 6: a lot of superstar players a lot of times have
Speaker 6: not been coached because the respect and the you know,
Speaker 6: the off factor sometimes from coaches. That it happens in baseball.
Speaker 6: Believe me and Mague baseball. These guys with the Dodgers
Speaker 6: come into a system where they're be going to be
Speaker 6: coached no matter what their name is, what their salary is,
Speaker 6: where the pitcher looks like because they welcome that. Because
Speaker 6: about positioning, it is not just hey, two steps this way, No,
Speaker 6: it is explaining to you why making you a better
Speaker 6: fielder more aware and teaching you at the same time
Speaker 6: how to read a hitter's tendencies, how to read a
Speaker 6: pitcher's tendencies. Somebody fastened my beyond today and he's gonna
Speaker 6: be a little bit late. You moved. But these guys
Speaker 6: entitle the players to learn and to put him in
Speaker 6: good spots. Mix Menzy was positioned today perfectly. Four times.
Speaker 6: Nothing was outstanding, but solid plays that if you don't
Speaker 6: make them, they hurt you. And that's a big example
Speaker 6: here tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he showed some hops too. He could get off
Speaker 3: the ground he did.
Speaker 6: I mean, they told about anticipation and when you start
Speaker 6: walking people and happens you know in games here and
Speaker 6: they're like yesterday, those plays a lot of times are
Speaker 6: not made because guys are just waiting and waiting for
Speaker 6: action and before you know it, it doesn't happen. What cod
Speaker 6: the Dodgers from the fifteen to five finish last year,
Speaker 6: all the way through the World Series, it was pitching,
Speaker 6: It was defense and everything that was involved with it.
Speaker 6: In run prevention, no doubt.
Speaker 2: They only hit two oh three in last year's World Series,
Speaker 2: So it was all of that, the base running, the
Speaker 2: little things that really helped the Dodgers win. Hey, tomorrow,
Speaker 2: I've been looking at this game for a while, Hose.
Speaker 2: I feel like this is the game that you want
Speaker 2: to be at tomorrow. I'm so excited to see this
Speaker 2: pitching match up between two mid twenty pitchers, obviously Yama
Speaker 2: Moto more decorated Yama Moto versus Nolan McClain.
Speaker 3: If you're Yama Moto going on, going.
Speaker 2: Up against a slumping Mets team that only has six
Speaker 2: hits in their last sixty at bats, how do you
Speaker 2: what do you do? Do you attack them? I mean,
Speaker 2: what are we going to see tomorrow night? It doesn't
Speaker 2: get much easier for the Mets.
Speaker 6: I mean attacking spartly though, because when the team is
Speaker 6: scuffling and a guy that Galla motop does a lot
Speaker 6: of strikes, they're going to look to go out through
Speaker 6: and just ambush you. So be smart about where you
Speaker 6: play the first pitch and start spinning the ball in
Speaker 6: counts where they're anticipating fastballs. But nonetheless, you know what,
Speaker 6: he's also a very good ground ball pitcher, even though
Speaker 6: he's a power pitcher. And what he saw today is
Speaker 6: one more example saying well I'm not by myself, maybe
Speaker 6: I'm not chessing caves, but against a team like the Mets,
Speaker 6: then you have a chance to get ahead and counts
Speaker 6: and spread this on because now anxiety builds up and
Speaker 6: you're able to play into more of those holes.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, we'll see out here tomorrow night for
Speaker 2: that marquee pitching matchup.
Speaker 3: It should be awesome.
Speaker 6: Hey, taco monitis tomorrow, baby, be ready?
Speaker 3: All right? You bringing them?
Speaker 6: Uh yes, all around the station?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, I'll look forward to that. Takes
Speaker 2: a lot, Jose. There he goes, Jose Motor, part of
Speaker 2: the Spanish radio broadcast. There, good PSA to let us
Speaker 2: know that there'll be some taco tuesdays around the stadium.
Speaker 3: I'll be sure to go look in aisle. Eighteen eight six.
Speaker 2: Six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers shut out the Mets four to nothing. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Buena Park, Sam, he was out here tonight.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Sam?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm doing great, Dave, especially since I came in
Speaker 10: the clutch and got one of the last Hello Kitty
Speaker 10: twitters and normally going through the field level, but I
Speaker 10: saw people running, dude towards the reserve bottle, so power
Speaker 10: walk through the escalators and even even though Usher at
Speaker 10: one of the lines at reserve level was saying, don't
Speaker 10: go on this line that we're we're out of sweaters.
Speaker 2: So I, uh, what was uh what was more coveted?
Speaker 2: The Yoshi bobblehead or this Hello Kitty sweater?
Speaker 10: I think I think I think it was about the
Speaker 10: same because I got to I got the Yoshi you know, uh,
Speaker 10: the Yoshi bubblehead.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I think it's Hello Kitty, to be honest, because the
Speaker 10: Yoshi bubblehead. I got to the gates at like five
Speaker 10: fifty forty five and today I got to the gates
Speaker 10: that like six ten.
Speaker 2: So all right, so I want to ask you this question.
Speaker 2: Do you come for the game or you coming for
Speaker 2: the giveaway?
Speaker 10: Oh? I come for both? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, So you do what I did when I was
Speaker 2: a kid, and you you select the games that you
Speaker 2: come to with the giveaways that you really like.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Otherwise, man, our team, I'm looking at a four
Speaker 10: P dave. We have we have all the level starting pitching, offense,
Speaker 10: best de one of the best defenses. We have the
Speaker 10: second fewest errors in the MLB. I mean we could
Speaker 10: be first in a few days. But man, thanks for
Speaker 10: taking my call and let's go for that three peat.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Sam, Yeah, let's go for the three peet
Speaker 2: before you start talking about the four peed for sure.
Speaker 3: But love the enthusiasm.
Speaker 2: Glad you got your Hello Kiddie hoodie, because uh, certainly
Speaker 2: I felt the buzz. I mean, I take the steps.
Speaker 2: I don't take the escalator. I gotta get this skinny,
Speaker 2: fat body moving, so I take the steps from the
Speaker 2: field level all the way up to the press box level.
Speaker 2: And yeah, there was that type of energy that we
Speaker 2: saw for the U she bobblehead. So I'm glad you
Speaker 2: got yours. Glad you got yours. I'm glad I got
Speaker 2: my Downy Hunday by the way, got me here on time.
Speaker 2: What I took a picture I posted on my Instagram.
Speaker 2: I'm getting a lot of reactions, more reactions than I
Speaker 2: thought I would. They might be having some fomo because
Speaker 2: my guy at Downy Hunday, Sam hooked me up, so
Speaker 2: check him out.
Speaker 3: They took care of me. Dwayne.
Speaker 2: Maybe you could get a new sweater at Uniclo and
Speaker 2: then go to Downy Hunday and get yourself a new
Speaker 2: car too. Anyway, I had a chance to Hey, PSA
Speaker 2: for you, Dwayne, there you go. Anyway, had a chance
Speaker 2: to catch up with Alex Vesia. We all love Alex Vessio.
Speaker 2: We all know what he went through last year. First
Speaker 2: time we had a chance to catch up with him,
Speaker 2: and here was part of our conversation about pitching and
Speaker 2: just about the talk about his velocity. The last time
Speaker 2: he pitched, he recorded the save, got the outs, the
Speaker 2: talk about Edwin Diaz, his velocity and what the all
Speaker 2: means in the first two three weeks of the season.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that every year is always different.
Speaker 11: I'm I'm, I would say, predominantly a slower starter, right, Yet.
Speaker 9: I don't I don't throw very hard.
Speaker 11: I'm not a you know, I don't blow up the
Speaker 11: radar gun by by no means, right.
Speaker 9: But I also I also think the way I throw.
Speaker 11: How I throw the vert and the metrics on my
Speaker 11: fastball is what makes me unique.
Speaker 9: You know. I've feel like I've thrown.
Speaker 11: A fastball at eighty eight this year and I've thrown
Speaker 11: a fastball at ninety three this year. It's just, you know,
Speaker 11: for myself, I just try to go out and compete
Speaker 11: with the best stuff that I have for that day.
Speaker 9: And know that it is early.
Speaker 11: You know what people don't understand is going on road
Speaker 11: trips where we fly to DC and there's time changes in.
Speaker 9: Toronto and.
Speaker 11: All that stuff affects the body differently, and guys bounce
Speaker 11: back differently.
Speaker 9: It's it's never the same, you know.
Speaker 11: I wish it was super dry and simple, but it's not.
Speaker 11: You know, and you know, we we do our best
Speaker 11: day in and day out. And you know, Diaz is
Speaker 11: a is a veteran. He's done it for many years,
Speaker 11: and you know there's not a single doubt in any
Speaker 11: of our minds that when he goes back out there,
Speaker 11: whether it's tonight or tomorrow, that.
Speaker 9: He'll be him.
Speaker 3: Is there such a thing still in Baseball.
Speaker 9: Of dead arm?
Speaker 3: I used to hear dead arm a lot.
Speaker 9: So there. I've heard that term this year. One time.
Speaker 11: I think it was with an Angels an him Angels picture.
Speaker 11: I don't really know, I've never I don't know if
Speaker 11: I've really ever witnessed that. I know that, you know,
Speaker 11: there's like body fatigue and arm fatigue, and I understand that,
Speaker 11: but I don't know really what like dead arm symptoms
Speaker 11: would be I know what what having a.
Speaker 9: Very fatigued body feels like, you know, and.
Speaker 11: A couple of red bulls and some adrenaline from fifty
Speaker 11: thousand at Daughter Stadium.
Speaker 9: That that seems to do the trick.
Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of that, when you first started, you heard
Speaker 2: the roars for Kennley Jansen when he would come in.
Speaker 2: But now the roars are equal for Alex Vesia. What
Speaker 2: does that mean to you with everything that's happened in
Speaker 2: the last six months to get fans on their feet
Speaker 2: every night here when you come in.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean I I feel it, I hear it,
Speaker 11: I see it. You know, when we're in the bullpen,
Speaker 11: there's a lot of people have you know, said their
Speaker 11: condolences and you know, saying that they're rooting for me,
Speaker 11: and and you know that that's really nice.
Speaker 9: It's and honestly it is a it's a breath of
Speaker 9: fresh air.
Speaker 11: And you know, there's a lot of love that that's
Speaker 11: been been spread around the last you know, a few months,
Speaker 11: and you know, for myself, I just try to, you know,
Speaker 11: have that fuel the.
Speaker 9: Fire and you know, really.
Speaker 11: Really really you know, let it, let it show out
Speaker 11: on the mound and you know, do my best and
Speaker 11: you know, just to put up zeros and and get
Speaker 11: the guys back in the dugout so they can hit.
Speaker 9: You know, we can win some ball games.
Speaker 11: And you know, it's just it's really nice to be
Speaker 11: back Excuse me, it's nice to.
Speaker 9: Be back out on the baseball field. Yeah.
Speaker 11: On obviously with everything, it's it's been tough, but having
Speaker 11: a goal and having.
Speaker 9: The you know, the the.
Speaker 11: Every single player on this team, man, has been the
Speaker 11: world to me because it's nice for them to joke
Speaker 11: around and laugh and you know, we have such good
Speaker 11: personalities on this team that like, that's that's helped.
Speaker 9: Out a lot.
Speaker 2: How great was it to be back on the plane
Speaker 2: with the boys on that first road trip?
Speaker 9: That was that was awesome. Yeah, that was cool man.
Speaker 9: We we definitely had a good time.
Speaker 11: And you know, those are those are the memories that
Speaker 11: you know, I definitely don't take for granted.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I really look forward.
Speaker 11: To that and just it's it's fun to kind of
Speaker 11: just be yourself and just enjoy those moments. And you know,
Speaker 11: at the same time, you know, when you go into
Speaker 11: a game and everyone's rooting for you and you have success,
Speaker 11: it just makes that that much better.
Speaker 2: There's part of our conversation with Alex Vessie. You can
Speaker 2: hear the full conversation on the iHeartRadio app and uh.
Speaker 2: During the entire interview, the biggest smile he got was
Speaker 2: when he was thinking about that first road trip on
Speaker 2: the way to Washington, d C. And being on the team,
Speaker 2: playing with the players. Those are the things that players
Speaker 2: always say they missed the most when they retire, those
Speaker 2: type of moments, the clubhouse, the people, and we're so
Speaker 2: happy to have Alex Vesia back. You know, it's hard
Speaker 2: to imagine that. Here he is, six seasons in with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, has made three hundred and two appearances. He's
Speaker 2: a back to back World Series champion, and you know,
Speaker 2: you think back to when he was traded by the
Speaker 2: Marlins to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Nobody knew who this guy was.
Speaker 2: They traded Dylan Floro, who got one of the bigger
Speaker 2: strikeouts in the twenty twenty World Series, to Miami for
Speaker 2: an unknown Alex Vessia. And Alex didn't have a linear
Speaker 2: path to stick in the Dodger bullpen. There were some
Speaker 2: growing pains. He got sent down a couple of different
Speaker 2: times the first two years with the Dodgers and then
Speaker 2: figured it out, and here he is now teaching the
Speaker 2: rookies and the newer guys that come into that bullpen
Speaker 2: just how to approach things. It's just remarkable when you
Speaker 2: see a guy's career arc start to finish, and you know,
Speaker 2: I think we all forget where Alex Vessi has started.
Speaker 2: He wasn't a finished product when he got here, but
Speaker 2: here he is now a veteran, a leader in that
Speaker 2: bullpen along with Blake Trinan and now Edwin Diaz. Part
Speaker 2: of this bullpen just really special. And of course we
Speaker 2: all know what him and his wife Kayla went through,
Speaker 2: and our hearts go out to them even today. But
Speaker 2: he's come back with a great spirit, a great outlook,
Speaker 2: and he even has something written in his hat. I
Speaker 2: didn't want to pry too much about what that is.
Speaker 2: He can offer that when he wants to. He's got
Speaker 2: something in his locker that he showed me, that he
Speaker 2: that he put in there that reminds him. So you know,
Speaker 2: there's just so many things that inspire him to go on,
Speaker 2: move forward and be the best he can be. But
Speaker 2: six years in three hundred and two appearances and such
Speaker 2: a vital part of this Dodger bullpen. Really really happy
Speaker 2: to see him back and great to see him smiling
Speaker 2: again as well. Tomorrow night, game two of this three
Speaker 2: game series between the Dodgers and Mets, twenty seven year
Speaker 2: old Yoshi Yamamoto, the World Series MVP, will be back
Speaker 2: on the mound. He's two and one with an ERA
Speaker 2: of two point fifty. With rookie twenty four year old
Speaker 2: Nolan McClain on the mount for the Mets. He's one
Speaker 2: and one with an ERA of two seventy. He has
Speaker 2: twenty strikeouts in sixteen and two thirds innings.
Speaker 3: So far this season.
Speaker 2: It is when you hear guys say we miss having
Speaker 2: those marquee pitching matchups. Well you got one tomorrow night
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium, Dodgers Mets Yama Moto against Nolan McClain.
Speaker 2: Our coverage begins at six o'clock, first pitch at seven
Speaker 2: to ten from Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium. Thanks to
Speaker 2: calling you back at our Burdbank Studios, thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 2: McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you
Speaker 2: for listening. In case you missed any of the show,
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Speaker 2: five seventy LA Sports, your home of the back to
Speaker 2: back world champion Dodgers.
Speaker 3: We'll be back with you tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: Coming up next, Ben Mallor on Fox Sports Radio, Dodgers
Speaker 2: shut out the Mets four to nothing behind eight scoreless
Speaker 2: innings from Justin Robleski and a three run home run
Speaker 2: by Andy Pajes.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you tomorrow night. See you
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