WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (6-5-26) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.920 The quest for the three peat has begun. Only four 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:09.039 teams in Major League Baseball history have won three consecutive titles. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:13.160 The Dodgers are the favorites to become the fifth. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.800 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.040 Here we go again. We're going to running back to. 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:20.840 Get in on the show called eight six six eighty 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.960 seven two five seven, and be sure to follow Dodger 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:28.920 Talk wherever you get your podcasts. Here's your host, David 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.160 vaseas day. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:37.680 Freddie Freeman the hero tonight as he walks off the 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.680 Dodgers with a one nothing win against his former teammate 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.239 Kirby Yates and the Angels in Game one of the 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:50.040 Freeways series here in Los Angeles. Eight six six nine 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.240 eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. David 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:58.080 Vasse live at Dodger Stadium with you until eleven o'clock 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.880 after everybody went home, forty eight thousand plus stuck around 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.119 for Freddie Freeman to hit a walk off home run 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:10.800 against his former teammate Kirby Yates and the Dodgers get 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.360 the win after losing last night on a walk off 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.280 home run by Cotel Marte. Eight six six nine eight 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.119 seven two five seventy is the phone number. Just looking 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.399 at the great photos that John Sue who took as 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:30.440 Freddie Freeman was crossing home plate, you see Mookie Beds 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.800 in the front row. You see Keith Hernandez in the 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:38.960 front row. You see Dalton rushing, Maximuncy, Santiago Espinal and 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:43.000 shoj Otani all there as he is getting ready to 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.440 touch home plate after his walk off home run. And 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.680 just in case you missed it earlier, this was Freddy 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.920 Freeman's eighth career walk off home run. As you know, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:59.160 two for the Dodgers when he hit a walkoff Grand 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.360 Slam in twenty twenty four, and of course his walk 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.160 off home run and last year's eighteen inning affair. But 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:10.040 in the regular season, this was the first walk off 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.240 home run Freddie Freeman has hit in the one sixty 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:17.200 two Marathon wearing a Dodger uniform. He hit five of 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.760 those in the regular season for the Atlanta Braves. And 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.840 we had a chance to catch up with Freddy after 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.880 he was done with the in stadium interview and the 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.480 fans were still chanting Freddy's name. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.760 No, I mean I faced Kirvy in the past, but 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.520 I didn't face him. Then you know, I gave Kirby 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.000 a little smile, But then you gotta go to work 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.320 against Kirby with his fast one splitters. You gotta go. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:40.560 You gotta look up so you don't swing at the 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.160 switter down. So that's what I was trying to do. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.040 When I missed a three one fastball, I kind of 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:46.560 just kind of brought it closer, a little. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.200 Bit higher and was able to get a fish to 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.040 hit Freddie not only the walk off home run, but 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.080 you and Miguel Rojas teamed up for what maybe the 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.440 defensive play of the season in baseball when he robbed 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.520 Nick Madrigal and your Daddy Longe eggs were from first 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:02.799 base to shortstop. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.640 Yeah, I think obviously that was a good play. But overall, 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.040 just defensively all night, you got San Tago diving in 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:12.239 the whole, Mookie's making good plays at short all over 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.000 the place. When Roki's pitching the way you did, you 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:16.120 want to do the best you can to get all 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.639 the outs for him, And as a whole, the defense 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:19.880 played a really good game tonight. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:21.840 Before I let you go, you were doing an in 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:26.280 stadium interview just moments before, and this entire stadium, forty 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.280 eight thousand plus stuck around. 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.040 And chanted your name. How does that make you feel? 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.440 That's told curious and it's special. Ever since I got here, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.600 they've been doing it and it never gets old. It 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.200 really doesn't. It's an incredible feeling. So it makes you 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:42.800 want to come through when you get those some moments 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.280 and to be able to come through in front of them. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.480 They support us every night, so it's definitely special. It's 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.000 nice to get the first win of the series and 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:50.200 hopefully gets serried win month. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:51.720 Thanks a lot for stopping Freddie. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.120 Freddie Freeman a first class guy and a guy that's 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.160 on his way to the Hall of Fame. What a 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.920 clutch player won A great hitter he is and he 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.560 never lets the game get too fast. Freddie Freeman hits 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.480 a walkoff home run on the sixth pitch of the 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.120 at bat against Kirbyates, who earlier this year when the 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.520 Dodgers played in Anaheim had Freddie Freeman in the rest 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.640 of the Dodgers present him with his World Series ring 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.240 and Kirby Yates. Last year, during the postseason, even though 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.320 he wasn't active, he would throw as one of the 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.919 pitchers to keep the Dodgers sharp in between series, in 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.200 between games, and that's what I was asking Freddy about 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.160 whether or not he faced Kirby during those type of 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.840 nights in October. But obviously Kirby and Freddy have been 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.599 around a while and they have locked up many times 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.159 during the regular season. Eight six six nine eight seven 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.800 two five seventy is the phone number. Also, with Freddie 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.000 Freeman hitting that walk off home run in the bottom 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.040 of the ninth inning, the Dodgers now are still the 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.880 only team in Major League Baseball this season to not 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.640 have played in extra inning game. Tonight was the sixty 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.280 fourth game of the season that the Dodgers have played. 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.800 They are tied for the seventh longest streak of not 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.640 playing an extra innings game to open up the season. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.719 The nineteen ninety two Mariners also opened up the year 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:22.240 playing sixty four consecutive games without going extra innings. The 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.279 team that has the record for the most games to 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.880 start a season without going extra frames the two thousand 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.880 and five Boston Red Sox, which opened up the season 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:36.039 with ninety eight straight games without playing a tenth inning. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.359 Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:40.200 the phone number. 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.800 Roki Sasaki. We can't forget him. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:47.800 He was phenomenal tonight, career high ten strikeouts dominated the 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.359 Angels for the second time this season. Remember a couple 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.200 of weeks ago in Anaheim, he also went seven innings, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.800 allowed just one earn run. He had eight strikeouts that 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.320 day in Anaheim and the Dogs Rodgers did not make 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.880 it as dramatic. He got the win after a ten 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:08.119 to one blowout over the Angels, who last year beat 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.640 the Dodgers all six times they faced them. Well, the 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.440 Dodgers have returned the favors so far and won the 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.480 first four games of this head to head freeway series, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.000 with two more to go here at Dodgers Stadium. All right, 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.760 we have two lines open at eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.880 two five seventy. Jose Motor will check in in ten minutes. 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.640 But let's hear from the fans tonight. Let's go out 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.200 to Torrance. Kate, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Kate? 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.760 Oh great, that was an awesome win. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.279 It sure was my question. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.320 You know, you've talked to Freddy Freeman a lot. Have 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.400 you ever asked him how he does it with his 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:51.360 defense where he's practically doing the splits to make a play. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.919 I think he's just that flexible. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.480 He's just that flexible, and he's been doing it for 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.080 a long time. If you ever see Freddy right, that 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.120 was a perfect example. How you know his torso's a 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.960 little higher, he's a lot of legs. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.280 Yeah, yeah, all. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.240 Right, Kate, thank you for the phone call. Let's go 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.480 out to Nick in Long Beach. You're on Dodger Talk 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:15.760 with David vasse Hi. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:16.000 Nick. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.760 Hey, David, thanks for having me on. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.200 First off, I want to say shout out to pitching staff, 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.960 especially Peter Scott. Great night, tonight, Ellie, love you, Dodger 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:28.680 fans love you. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.239 Ignore the people so called fans that. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.640 Are negative Scott, great job. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:41.200 I wanted to ask with Sataki, fourth time. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:43.400 In a row. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:48.160 It's had a great start. Do you push him to 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.760 the pen with Snell and possibly Glass now coming back 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:52.440 off the shelf? 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:57.160 What did you say, push? Push Rokie to the pen. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.160 With snap with Snelling Glass now possibly coming back. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.840 They're not coming back anytime soon. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.400 Nick Snell just started playing catch for the first time 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:13.960 since his nano procedure, and Tyler Glass now is still 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.440 not picking up a baseball. So those guys are not 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.720 coming back for at least two months, So you're way 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.480 ahead of the game here. That's not a decision that's 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.840 even at the forefront of anybody's mind right now. Nick, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.600 I think you need to just sit back and enjoy Rokie. 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:34.199 Yeah, he looks great about Fitz. Consecutive start, he's like amazing. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:38.200 The slitter looks unbelievable. He's spawning it. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:42.120 Well, he's a lot stronger, He's a lot more athletic, 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.280 Dave Roberts said. Travis Smith, the Dodgers' strength coach, has 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.959 been working with him since he's signed with the Dodgers, 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.240 trying to get him bigger, stronger, more athletic. And we're 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.560 starting to see the fruits of all that labor that 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.880 Roki has put in, because he's put in a lot 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.480 of work and also he's going exclusively out of the stretch. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:04.000 That's something we saw in the postseason last year. He 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.839 hit one hundred miles an hour for the second straight start. 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.720 So the lower half is a lot more stable. I 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.360 know that's something that Oral Herscheizer has pointed out, but 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.160 the reality is, it feels like Roki Sasaki has gone 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.240 back to being true to himself and he has a 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.440 lot more confidence and a lot more round presence. And 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.920 I know his teammates, guys like Dalton Rushing have tried to, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.679 you know, get him fired up before they come out 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.800 of the bullpen gates for a start. So it really 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.360 has taken a village to get this version. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.359 Of Roki Sasaki. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.520 And this is development right before your eyes at the 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.599 major league level. That's not something you see often, especially 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.800 with the team like the Dodgers, but you have seen it. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:53.720 And I remember when Alexanthopolis left the Dodgers front office 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.800 to go to the Braves, and the one thing that 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.800 he answered when asked about what he learned from and 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.080 Freeman or the biggest takeaway working with Andrew Freeman, was 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:09.160 that Andrew Freeman believed he could get one percent better 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.240 out of a player. He can get one percent every 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.120 day better out of a player every day. He had 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.320 so much faith in even just getting a guy one 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:22.200 percent better every day, and certainly that was kind of 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.880 applied to Roki Sasaki at this level. You have to 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.720 give a lot of credit to the Dodgers pitching coaches 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:34.480 Mark Pryor, Connor McGinnis, Andrew Friedman, and Dave Roberts along 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.200 with Travis Smith and the rest of the Dodgers staff 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.199 that you know, never gave up on this guy. Yeah, 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.160 it might have been frustrating at times, but they kept 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.920 going and kept believing and understood that this is this 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.760 is the task at hand, and they should be very 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.839 proud of themselves for sticking behind him and working with him, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.280 and Rokie should also be very proud of himself. I 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.800 wonder also if something was unlocked in a conversation that 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.760 he had with you, Darvish in San Diego. I walked 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.640 by as I was entering the ballparking around one thirty 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.520 in San Diego, one of those days that the Dodgers 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.040 played down there, and I walked by a conversation of you, 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.800 Darvish and Roki Sasaki. You, Darvish is certainly one of 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:22.359 the most respected Japanese pitchers and a guy that Japanese 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.960 players pitchers still, you know, lean on for advice and 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.280 respect the heck out of I wonder if something mentally 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:33.480 click for Roki during that conversation as well with you, Darvish. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.600 Let's go out to Emma in Long Beach. You're on 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.080 Dodger Talk. How you doing, Emma? 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:43.280 Hey, David how you been feeling you better now all 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:44.040 I've been. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:45.800 Good the ball. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.880 No, I'm feeling good, Emma. I'm feeling good after playing 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.320 some tennis in Arizona. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.480 Awesome, David. I wanted to make a comment about what 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:02.520 you said about Roki. I think that young man is 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.920 an awesome player, and the best thing about it is 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:12.479 he is in an organization that is a family oriented. 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.280 They all, you know, back each other up and give 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.679 each other props and help each other out. And that's amazing. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:25.199 These guys are superstars and there is no ego working 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:29.760 at Los Angeles Dodgers. That is not happening there. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.480 Yeah, and I think that's on purpose, that's by design. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.520 The guys that Andrew Freeman has brought in character guys 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.480 that are superstars. And you're right, Emma. When you have 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.280 these many superstars and great players on one team, it 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.160 doesn't always come together this way, but they certainly have 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.600 come together since the beginning of last year. Let's go 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.720 out to Fallbrooks. Steve, You're on Dodger Talk with David 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:55.400 vasse Hi. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.920 Steve, Hey, David, thanks for taking my call. First one, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.240 I want to say, I think both starting pitchers did 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:07.480 a great job. My question is about umpires checking the 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.840 pitcher's glove. I understand why they do it and why 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:15.560 it's necessary, but my question is what triggers the Empire 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.440 to decide to do it when they do it. I 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.679 noticed it happened that after rookie fish first inning and 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.920 again in the seventh inning. What makes the Empire decide 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.520 does he suspect something foul? Does he suspect No, that's 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:30.960 not right. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.240 It's being checked after at the end of every inning. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.920 They check every picture that comes off the mound at 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.760 the end of every inning, and when a reliever is 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.040 coming into the game, before they hit the dirt, the 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.800 Empire will meet them out there and check the glove. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.600 And look, there was a few years ago some extra 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:54.120 substance that Major League Baseball wanted to eliminate in police 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:58.960 because Major League Baseball is very much advocate of more offense, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.760 and the spin rates astronomical because pictures were getting a 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.320 little extra something on the seams because of that stick. 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.280 And that's the reason why they have the umpires out there. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.640 Thanks for the phone call, Steve, appreciate it. 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We'll get you an update on 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.800 Blake's now and Tommy Edmond and more of your phone calls. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.160 At eight sixty six nine eight seven, two five seventy, 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.320 Freddie Freeman, a walkoff home run in the bottom of 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.640 the ninth inning beats the Angels one to nothing on 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.160 the back to back World champion Dodgers Audio Network. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:27.720 On air at. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.760 AM five seventy online at amfive seventy LA sports dot 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:36.200 Com and available by podcast on the iHeartRadio app. This 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:42.520 is Dodger Tom with David Bassinoky. 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:46.280 Bets on death. We'll count the payoff Freeman. That's one 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:46.960 fly in. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.960 The air, a deep pride Center Field. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:56.040 We're at the wall and we're going home. 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I mentioned that the Dodgers lost last night's 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.560 game because Cotel Marte hit a walkoff home run to 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.120 beat them in the bottom of the ninth inning at 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.680 Chase Field. Just to prove the point that certain teams 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.160 get up for the Dodgers more than any other series. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.920 This is a great example of that. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.840 The Diamondbacks were acting like they eliminated the Dodgers in 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.600 the postseason last night on ktel Marte's walk off home 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:07.800 run in the ninth inning. Do you know what the 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:12.080 Diamondbacks did tonight? They laid a complete egg. It is 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:17.000 a complete letdown in Arizona tonight as the Washington Nationals 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:22.800 beat Arizona fourteen to one. So there you go, these teams, 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:28.280 like the Angels, the Diamondbacks beating the Dodgers means everything. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.800 Earlier this year, I had a GM four boosts down 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.800 from the Dodgers radio booth, clapping, pounding the desk after 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:41.359 the Dodgers were behind in a game. That's the reality 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.719 of right now, and I just had to share that 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.040 with you. After the Diamondbacks walked it off against the 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:51.680 Dodgers last night. They come back tonight and completely let down. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.439 While the Dodgers, who should have been the team a 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:58.520 little deflated after a late night home after playing a 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.119 night game in Arizona to come back to play tonight, 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.840 they were the team that hits the walk off home 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:04.360 run to. 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.360 Beat the Angels. All right, let's get to Jose Moda. 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:13.200 It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota, all. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:14.160 Right, Jose Mota. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.840 Let's start with the starting pitcher who kind of got 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.800 lost in the shuffle with the greatness of Freddy Freeman 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.760 in the ninth inning, Rochi Sasaki seems to get better 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.800 and better by leaps and bounds every start. 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.560 Every single start. To go back to the last six starts, 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:31.960 it's been about controlling the strike zone, Dave, and also 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.600 about not using just one part of the strike zone. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.000 He used to be just a dominant arm side type 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.439 fastball pitcher, and we miss when he missed. He missed 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.320 a lot up in it against righties and leftives were 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.159 always leaning out against the plate because he was not 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.240 missing inside or even repeating pitches on the inside half. 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.440 You gotta respect velocity, which is my idle number two. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.640 Now he has one hundred in his pocket, but now 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.600 he doesn't force one hundred when he doesn't need to, 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.920 which is just a smart way of saying yourself up 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.800 to have some separation between your fastball, the books and slip. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.160 He can live at ninety seven, but now point number three, 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.440 the splitter, Dave. He threw three splitters in the first 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.960 thing at ninety three miles an hour. It's not his 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.240 old forkball that's still there, but it's just an example 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.080 of a guy that's just maturing with the patience of 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.760 the Dodgers with the absorbancy because they could absorb this 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:24.439 with him to develop them in the big leagues, as 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.680 you've said to the last couple of seasons, but also 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:30.680 applying himself to understanding that navigating a lineup at this 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.560 level is not easy. One through nine. My fourth point 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:35.360 is going to be this one. You and I talked 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.639 about this a lot. You got to pay attention to 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.479 seven eight nine, that lineup, and don't take it for granted. 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.160 Every single start for the last six he has really 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.200 done a good job taking care of seven eight nine, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.320 and those lineups are hurting him so much earlier in 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:47.760 the season. 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.159 What do you see from him just his mound presence. 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.680 Is it as simple as saying that he altered this splitter? 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.720 Is that the real key to his success because all 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:00.960 of a sudden, now, like we talked about earlier in 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.520 the year, when he wasn't as dominant, he didn't have 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.919 a lot of east west, he had a lot of 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.800 north south. What can you put your finger on one 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.720 pitch one thing that has changed his season? 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:17.960 To me, it has to be the slider. I mean, 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.000 you know, talking to Mike Trout over in Anaheimer for 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.360 the outing the other day just convinced me. I mean, 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:24.960 guy like seeing one thousands of sliders and he s goes, well, 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:28.880 the scouting report that got was he rolled the slider, 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:31.880 just rolled it. Now he's finishing it and at times 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.120 he gets caught sometimes a little short arm with that pitch. 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.360 But now it isn't the scouting report, Dave is part 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.040 of the book. It's part of your chart and your 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:41.920 car that you see he does have a slider that 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.760 it's not just showing. He's wopping people out with it 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.119 and using both sides of the play effectively. So if 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.760 there's anything go to point to, is this ladder. Because 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.040 guys have to be more aware of what's going side 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.719 to side, including left of the batters that were not 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:58.719 seeing anything on the inside half that was breaking against 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.879 them with Sasaki. Now they know it's there. And on 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.520 top of that is getting stronger. Velocity is there and 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.159 the separation, which is a key with the same arm 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.200 speed because he's always had good extension. It's really what 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.159 separates what's happening with the swings, with the approach, and 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.840 with his missus. He's he's missing near home plate now 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:18.520 where used to be all over the place, He's just 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.119 missing near the play. He kneels right back to getting 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.080 into counts by not just you know, counting on one pitch. 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:28.040 A lot of great defense behind Roki Society tonight. None 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:31.640 better than the play of the Year by Miguel Rojas 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.919 in the third inning, thirty seven year old Miguel Rojas 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:38.960 and thirty six year old Freddie Freeman on the other 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.920 end of it. Can you can you put into context 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.840 how great and how difficult of a play that was 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:46.320 to make? 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:49.239 Having played second base, I can tell how difficult it was. 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:52.600 At thirty seven, I wasn't playing second base. I was 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.360 already broadcasting. But here's what happens. You have a love 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.320 that you're starting from. You have Sasaki got Madrago was 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.560 a pretty pretty decent runner. But the ball deflex the day, 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:04.720