Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begune.
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.
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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vasselas.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David vasse with you live from Uniclo Field at Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium as the kids are running the bases on this
Speaker 2: beautiful Sunday afternoon that saw the Dodgers shut out the
Speaker 2: Cubs today six to nothing and take two out of
Speaker 2: three from Chicago. After blowing a four to nothing lead
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning of the first game of this series,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers very well could have swept the Cubs, who
Speaker 2: came in red hot winners of nine in a row.
Speaker 2: Then they come back and beat the Dodgers on Friday
Speaker 2: night six to four. So yesterday the Dodgers snapped the
Speaker 2: Cub's ten game winning streak in a big way, scoring
Speaker 2: twelve runs. It was a twelve to four final, and
Speaker 2: then today come back and shut them out six to nothing.
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers outscore the Cubs the last two games
Speaker 2: of this series eighteen to four and send the Cubs
Speaker 2: off back to Chicago with a two game losing streak.
Speaker 2: We have phone lines open at eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy. We will hear from Justin Robleski in a moment,
Speaker 2: but coming up later in the show, we'll let you
Speaker 2: know where Blake Snow will be pitching next and when.
Speaker 2: Also had a chance to catch up with Michael Conforto,
Speaker 2: who received his World Series ring by his teammates the
Speaker 2: first day of this series, and say whatever you will.
Speaker 2: I know, honestly, I didn't like the booze for Confordo
Speaker 2: from Dodger fans last night when he came off the bench.
Speaker 3: I know he didn't perform well, but.
Speaker 2: He was a great teammate and played through it all
Speaker 2: during the regular season, never was activated for any of
Speaker 2: the October series. But for those of us that got
Speaker 2: to know Michael Conforto, the booze were a little cringe.
Speaker 2: But hey, you don't know Michael Conforto on a personal level.
Speaker 2: You only know him as a baseball player, and things
Speaker 2: did not go well for Michael Conforto and left field
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers last year. But anyway, we will share
Speaker 2: my conversation with Confordo and also Jose Moto will check in.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number, you know. I know people talk about
Speaker 2: the recent rivalry, and rightfully so between the Dodgers and Padres.
Speaker 2: A lot of unlikable characters in that rivalry. On the
Speaker 2: San Diego side, I know the historical rivalry between the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Giant. It's got turned up a little bit
Speaker 2: with Dalton Rushing and Logan Webb in the last series.
Speaker 2: But the Cubs are a very unlikable group of guys
Speaker 2: if you're a Dodger fan. There's a lot of history
Speaker 2: where they are not lovable in any way. But they
Speaker 2: did lose again to the Dodgers. That seems to be
Speaker 2: a trend since twenty sixteen. But nonetheless, you got Alex Bregman,
Speaker 2: who was unapologetic about the sign stealing of the Astros
Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen. You got Pi Crow Armstrong, who I
Speaker 2: personally like, but if you're a Dodger fan, I can
Speaker 2: understand why you boot them as much as you booed
Speaker 2: Alex Bregman. And then you got a mister I take
Speaker 2: myself way too seriously. Manager Craig Counsel, who was the
Speaker 2: MVP of the twenty eighteen NLCS when the Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: his Brewers in the Championship Series that year. And he's
Speaker 2: the guy that out of nowhere last week brought up
Speaker 2: the Otani rule. So the Cubs are a very unlike
Speaker 2: Pika Bowl group. If you're a Dodger fan, and nobody
Speaker 2: is sad to see them go home losing the last
Speaker 2: two and two out of three, and I can't wait.
Speaker 2: I hope the Dodgers play the Cubs in the postseason
Speaker 2: this year because that would be that would be on
Speaker 2: another level from what we have seen in years past.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two, five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Great job by Justin Robleski today not
Speaker 2: his best. I mean, this guy has been in the
Speaker 2: strike zone more than any other Dodger pitcher this year,
Speaker 2: but today, especially in the first two innings, he was
Speaker 2: missing and he put on a lot of base runners.
Speaker 2: In fact, he stranded eight base runners during his six
Speaker 2: innings of work. And I mentioned this during the Clubhouse show,
Speaker 2: and I actually really do believe this. Obviously, what glass
Speaker 2: Now did that final day in San Francisco was great
Speaker 2: to watch, eight scoreless innings, allowed just one hit. I mean,
Speaker 2: he had no hit stuff that day. What Otani did
Speaker 2: in San francis amazing to watch. Those are one of
Speaker 2: those games where you say I was there when he
Speaker 2: pitched that. Well, But what Justin Robleski did today, and
Speaker 2: he's Justin Robleski. Let's not forget that. He's not Otani,
Speaker 2: he's not Kershaw, but you know what he is. He's
Speaker 2: a hell of a competitor and he showed that today.
Speaker 2: He went out without his best stuff, without his best command,
Speaker 2: and did not give up a single run, especially when
Speaker 2: he had the bases loaded and nobody out.
Speaker 3: In that second inning.
Speaker 2: He put up a zero, did not give up an
Speaker 2: earn run even though there was a lot of traffic
Speaker 2: against him.
Speaker 3: Today, some of these.
Speaker 2: Type of starts are even more impressive than what he
Speaker 2: did against the Mets, where he allowed just two hits
Speaker 2: and eight scoreless. To me, this showed you what Justin
Speaker 2: Robleski is all about. He's one of those tough competitors
Speaker 2: in this rotation, and he was so stubborn today. He
Speaker 2: would not give in, and he competed his butt off.
Speaker 2: And the one thing you hear a lot from the
Speaker 2: best pitchers is when you're on that mound, you gotta
Speaker 2: find a way to compete and get guys out when
Speaker 2: you're not feeling your best, when you don't have your
Speaker 2: best stuff. And that's exactly what he did. And he
Speaker 2: threw one hundred and nine pitches. No other Dodger has
Speaker 2: thrown that many pitches in any start this year, one
Speaker 2: hundred and nine pitches and six scoreless innings.
Speaker 3: The other Dodger.
Speaker 2: That threw close to that was Glass Now this past
Speaker 2: Wednesday or this past Thursday against the Giants, he threw
Speaker 2: one hundred and five pitches in eight innings of work.
Speaker 2: And the Cubs today thoroughly frustrated because they were oh
Speaker 2: for nineteen with men on base today.
Speaker 3: That's the worst over.
Speaker 2: With men on base against the Dodgers since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: And hat tipped to our guy Rick Krajuski for sharing
Speaker 2: that note with us. Eight nine seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Let's head downstairs to the Dodger
Speaker 2: club House to hear from Justin Robleski on sports and
Speaker 2: at LA.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think, you know, first off, I
Speaker 5: think Rush did a good job back there, kind of
Speaker 5: keeping me in the rails. He did a good job
Speaker 5: just kind of I think to collectively we did a
Speaker 5: good job just kind of you know, finding that attack
Speaker 5: there and like the third inning and kind of moving forward.
Speaker 5: But yeah, we did a good job. And at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, it doesn't really mattter like runners
Speaker 5: on base, nobody on base, Like you're still trying to
Speaker 5: make pitches, and you know, I think more times than not,
Speaker 5: if you make good pitches, you're gonna get these hitters out.
Speaker 5: And that's kind of what was a game plan. And yeah,
Speaker 5: we did a good job of it.
Speaker 6: Can you just tell me kind of the shift if
Speaker 6: there was a shift in mindset, our feeling, especially after
Speaker 6: those first two innings and the pitch cow got up,
Speaker 6: and how you were able to just find ways to
Speaker 6: be a bit more efficient to allow yourself the opportunity
Speaker 6: to get deeper into the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it was just attack a little more.
Speaker 5: I think there was a little bit too much careful
Speaker 5: those first two innings and we just kind of got
Speaker 5: back to what I do best moving forward there. And yeah,
Speaker 5: we did.
Speaker 3: Like I said, Rush did a.
Speaker 5: Great job calling the game from from there, and yeah,
Speaker 5: to get me through six was was a big deal.
Speaker 5: And obviously it's always good to get through six and
Speaker 5: get deep into the game. But I think, you know,
Speaker 5: had those first two winnings that happen, we probably could
Speaker 5: have got a little deeper. So that's a little frustrating
Speaker 5: at the same time, managing you know, that adversity that
Speaker 5: we had today, it was good and it was good
Speaker 5: to kind of get through those innings clean.
Speaker 7: I feel like another growth moment for you and not
Speaker 7: only get through those first couple of innings, but then
Speaker 7: kind of find a rhythm after that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's just again, like like I said,
Speaker 5: it's it's just making pitches when you need them, and
Speaker 5: today I made the pitches when I needed to make them,
Speaker 5: and so that helped us get through those those innings.
Speaker 5: And yeah, obviously you're not always gonna to do that.
Speaker 5: Even when you make the pitches, sometimes guys are gonna
Speaker 5: hit them. This is the big leagues. Is the best
Speaker 5: hitters in the world, so sometimes guys hit him and
Speaker 5: sometimes they don't. So I think at the end of
Speaker 5: the day, it's just whether you're in the mindset of
Speaker 5: attacking or not attacking. I think that's kind of the
Speaker 5: big thing.
Speaker 2: That's justin Robleski on sports net LA and he threw
Speaker 2: his fastball today, of course, more than any other pitch,
Speaker 2: and it was averaging around ninety three miles an hour.
Speaker 2: He got fifteen swings and swings on it, and he
Speaker 2: got fifteen called strikes on it. He threw a slider
Speaker 2: the second most, and then, like he said after his
Speaker 2: last start, he likes to show the curveball just to
Speaker 2: keep the batter off balance and maybe keep it in
Speaker 2: the back of their mind. But his issue today was
Speaker 2: a lack of fastball command. And then he, like you said,
Speaker 2: made the pitches when he needed to make it. And
Speaker 2: I'm not going to ask the question who is the
Speaker 2: Dodgers ace.
Speaker 3: I think it's pretty.
Speaker 2: Clear that it's Yamamoto being the World Series MVP and
Speaker 2: doing what he did last year during the postseason. But
Speaker 2: Robleski and Tyler Glass, now maybe the two starters that
Speaker 2: have surprised me the most glass Now has been. I
Speaker 2: think you can consider glass Now the workhorse of this
Speaker 2: rotation three and zero ERA of two forty five. He's
Speaker 2: thrown more innings than any other Dog Rogers starter at
Speaker 2: thirty three. Yama Moto second most, just you know, basically
Speaker 2: right there with him. But glass Now has only given
Speaker 2: up two home runs this year. His strikeout to walk
Speaker 2: Ratio's phenomenal. His whip is the lowest. Hitters are hitting
Speaker 2: only a buck forty three against him. Obviously, Otani wants
Speaker 2: to win the cy Young Award, and he's shooting to
Speaker 2: have his best year as a pitcher, and it's hard
Speaker 2: to argue that he's not going to after having an
Speaker 2: ERA of zero thirty eight with four starts. But I
Speaker 2: believe Yamamoto is still the ace of this staff. Tyler
Speaker 2: glass now is is the workhorse of this staff, and
Speaker 2: I believe the Dodgers very easily could have at least
Speaker 2: three starters on the All Star team this year and
Speaker 2: also a two way player in show. Hey Otani, If
Speaker 2: Robleski keeps on pitching this way, his eras one fifty
Speaker 2: with thirty innings pitched, how can you say he's not
Speaker 2: an All Star? I mean, I know it's April. There's
Speaker 2: a long ways to go between now and when all
Speaker 2: that's selected, but it's hard to find five starters that
Speaker 2: are better than what the Dodgers have in glass Now, Yamamoto, Robleski,
Speaker 2: Otani and Ima Shean's coming off his best start of
Speaker 2: the year. So I guess you know, if you want
Speaker 2: to ask the question, who's the Dodgers ace. When you
Speaker 2: ask that question, you want to know who you want
Speaker 2: on the mound when you're trying to stop a losing streak,
Speaker 2: when you're trying to save the bullpen, and also who
Speaker 2: would you want to start the biggest game of the postseason.
Speaker 2: Yamamoto is that guy now, he checks all those boxes.
Speaker 2: But glass now's the workhorse. Otani is, you know, the
Speaker 2: most unique guy out there but does have certain limitations.
Speaker 2: And Robleski is this swing guy that all of a
Speaker 2: sudden has become a real against lineups good or bad,
Speaker 2: and today, I mean the Cups lineup's pretty good and
Speaker 2: he shut him down. Eight six, six, two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Dodgers shut out the Cups today,
Speaker 2: six to nothing. Let's go out to Joe who is
Speaker 2: at Dodgers stadium today. Hi, Joe, you're on Dodger Talk, Dave.
Speaker 8: Long time this, sir, I haven't called in a minute.
Speaker 8: I'm here with my son Phoenix, and my son's sunny.
Speaker 8: What a great game I did, Owan Roubleski. I mean,
Speaker 8: this guy is shoving his consistent I feel like, what
Speaker 8: a contrast right with Roki being a little hot and cold.
Speaker 8: I think Robo has just been one game after another
Speaker 8: showing up.
Speaker 9: And you know, he showed us in the in the playoffs.
Speaker 9: He's there for the big time too, So I'm really
Speaker 9: liking the way he's pitching. And then two last notes,
Speaker 9: I called it O'tani today, I told my kids in
Speaker 9: the car, he's gonna he's gonna get three.
Speaker 8: It's one of them is going to be a home run.
Speaker 8: And I'm glad Tucker's get getting going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you are a hero, Joe. Good job.
Speaker 2: And Otani started to show signs of better quality at
Speaker 2: bats last night, much better. And today, you know, was
Speaker 2: an indication that he was starting to carry it over
Speaker 2: from last night. Was his leadoff walk in the bottom
Speaker 2: of the first inning, and then he steals second. The
Speaker 2: ball kicks off his cleat, he's at third base and
Speaker 2: scores the first run. Like I said during the Clubhouse Show,
Speaker 2: he's the greatest player out there, fifty to fifty only
Speaker 2: guy to ever do that, a guy that's going for
Speaker 2: the cy Young this year, out of this world, talent,
Speaker 2: out of this world, player that we've never seen. But
Speaker 2: in the here and now, when he's struggling, the entire
Speaker 2: Dodger offense is going to have a hard time to
Speaker 2: be as good as they possibly can be.
Speaker 3: And I think he saw that the last twelve games.
Speaker 2: Because he's the leadoff hitter, he's the catalyst on top
Speaker 2: of being the best player in the game. Now if
Speaker 2: he's sitting third or fourth, you know, when he goes
Speaker 2: into a slump like anybody else, like a Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: Obviously not ideal, but he's not the leadoff hitter on
Speaker 2: this team. He's the leadoff hitter that is so dynamic,
Speaker 2: that takes so much energy away from whoever's on the mound.
Speaker 2: And when he's getting himself out, because I believe that's
Speaker 2: what we have seen the last thirteen games. He's getting
Speaker 2: himself out by, you know, swinging at pitches that he
Speaker 2: normally doesn't swing at. When Otani is striking out, and
Speaker 2: his helmet is coming off.
Speaker 3: You know, he's way out of balance.
Speaker 2: And you hear Jose Mota talk about posture and Otani
Speaker 2: talk about posture. The posture was way off during these
Speaker 2: last twelve games. He homers today for the first time
Speaker 2: in fifty nine plate appearances. That's the most time in
Speaker 2: between home runs since him becoming a Dodger.
Speaker 3: So there we go. I mean, it was good to see.
Speaker 2: And it feels like as we get closer to May,
Speaker 2: Otani is starting to heat up because he told me
Speaker 2: in Toronto, so he's looking forward to a big May
Speaker 2: and just trying to get himself right in the month
Speaker 2: of April.
Speaker 3: And don't discount the fact that he was.
Speaker 2: One of and is one of many World Baseball Classic
Speaker 2: players that have gotten off to a slow start.
Speaker 3: Pcrow Armstrong for the Cubs.
Speaker 2: Fernando Tatist Junior doesn't have a home run, Aaron Judge
Speaker 2: is hitting below two twenty. These guys did not get
Speaker 2: enough plate appearances playing.
Speaker 3: In the World Baseball Classic. I am a firm believer
Speaker 3: about that.
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Speaker 2: of a Fighter. Let's go out to Ontario, home of
Speaker 2: the buzz Towers. Rudy, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Rudy, I'm doing great.
Speaker 10: I haven't talked in a minute, but I wanted to
Speaker 10: ask you, what's your opinion on giving the umpire the
Speaker 10: ball and strike. Let them know what the ball and
Speaker 10: strike the two challenges. Aren't we kind of defeating the
Speaker 10: purpose of getting the call right trying to show up
Speaker 10: the batter And we are definitely not trying to show
Speaker 10: up the umpire. Just let him know when it's a
Speaker 10: ball and strike.
Speaker 9: That.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not I'm not in. I'm not all in
Speaker 3: on that, Rudy.
Speaker 2: I think part of the reason why this whole ABS
Speaker 2: system is appealing to Major league baseball is because of
Speaker 2: the reactions they got from the minor league fans when
Speaker 2: you would see and as you see it here in
Speaker 2: big league ballparks, that ball coming through the strike zone
Speaker 2: and a little bit of drama if you will, to
Speaker 2: see whether or not the balls in the strike zone.
Speaker 2: And also, I do like the strategy that you can't
Speaker 2: just have unlimited challenges. I like there's still some element
Speaker 2: of strategy in the game instead of just making it
Speaker 2: fully automated.
Speaker 10: Okay, I'll give you that, But how about well, it's
Speaker 10: the playoffs start. Aren't those games a little bit more
Speaker 10: important than the fans getting the excitement of seeing the
Speaker 10: pitch hitting the box or not?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Can you imagine how heightened that would be in a
Speaker 2: World Series game? You know, a pivotal at bat late
Speaker 2: in the game, and you challenge it or you run
Speaker 2: out of challenges.
Speaker 3: To me, yeah, I've heard the argument.
Speaker 2: Where you don't need the homeplate umpire to call balls
Speaker 2: or strikes, but you know this is sports entertainment and
Speaker 2: there's a lot more drama now involved.
Speaker 10: That's true, that's true. How did they arrive at only
Speaker 10: two challenges?
Speaker 2: I think that's what they tested out in the minor
Speaker 2: leagues and they felt like that was, you know, not
Speaker 2: overdoing it, because if you have like ten or five,
Speaker 2: isn't that a little bit too many? I feel like
Speaker 2: two is a good number, and then an extra innings
Speaker 2: you get, you get an extra one.
Speaker 10: Right, right? Okay? Well, I just wanted to find out
Speaker 10: about that. Listen to you guys all the time, and
Speaker 10: I think the Cubs manager he needs to uh re
Speaker 10: set itself because the that's put in for the fans
Speaker 10: and everybody he's the best player in all of baseball.
Speaker 10: And I think there's a little bit of animosity there,
Speaker 10: don't you think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a little sour grapes now that
Speaker 2: O'tani finds himself on the Dodgers. When he was on
Speaker 2: the Angels, I never heard Creig Council complain, right, all right,
Speaker 2: thanks a lot, all right, thank you, Rudy eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy. And in case
Speaker 2: you missed it, on the show yesterday, we shared Andrew
Speaker 2: Friedman's response to all this Otani rule, Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: sour grapes from Craig Council and others around Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: You can hear that full conversation during our Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: show yesterday on the iHeartRadio app, and our full conversation
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Speaker 2: at least from the per I'm talking to. For me,
Speaker 2: no inside at all. Let's go out to Palm Springs.
Speaker 3: Richard. You're on Dodger Talk Live. From Dodger Stadium. How
Speaker 3: you doing, Richard?
Speaker 11: Good David, just.
Speaker 9: Want to let you know that there's no Lake Snell
Speaker 9: sighting at stage coach.
Speaker 2: Oh, good to know. And I saw him today on
Speaker 2: the field. I saw him on the field today, Richard,
Speaker 2: So I appreciate that. I'm glad he stayed away from Stagecoach.
Speaker 9: I just have a quick question, when Mookie and when
Speaker 9: uh Tommy come back, who do you think is going
Speaker 9: to get Sun back down the triple eighth?
Speaker 8: That's it?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Tommy Edmund's not coming back until the end
Speaker 2: of May, so there's a lot of time for that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: So the uh, the question would be when Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: comes back in the next maybe in the next homestand
Speaker 2: is it going to be Freeland or Kim? And uh,
Speaker 2: you know, Kim's so dynamic of a player, especially with
Speaker 2: the speed, and he's playing so well. I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like, uh, it might Freeland. But the preface of
Speaker 2: Freeland making the team coming out of spring training is
Speaker 2: that they didn't want Kim to sit. They wanted him
Speaker 2: to play every day and they had an opening at
Speaker 2: second base. But you can move Kim to second base
Speaker 2: and get those reps that Freeland's getting. So I would say,
Speaker 2: right now, Kim is more of a dynamic player and
Speaker 2: until Tommy Edmund comes back, could get more of a
Speaker 2: runway at second base.
Speaker 3: So if I had to choose, that's the way I
Speaker 3: would go.
Speaker 12: All right, Well, thanks for your input. You know, I
Speaker 12: like these new guys are that.
Speaker 13: I came up, and you know, I guess we could
Speaker 13: have bigger problems.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, You could be the Phillies. Did they win today?
Speaker 2: They've lost ten in a row coming into today they
Speaker 2: lost again. They've lost eleven in a row, so everybody
Speaker 2: was freaking out over Friday night. You could be the
Speaker 2: Phillies right now, with one of the top five payrolls
Speaker 2: like the Mets and being last play.
Speaker 14: All right, David, thank you, We appreciate you.
Speaker 11: Your whole team curshed in everybody from Rick in the food.
Speaker 11: You guys are awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Rick Monday's the man longest active tenured Dodger broadcaster Rick Monday,
Speaker 2: who was celebrated with his family for saving the American flag,
Speaker 2: uh fifty years ago last night. And that, in case
Speaker 2: you missed it, the American flag that Rick Monday saved
Speaker 2: is headed to Cooperstown and is going to be part
Speaker 2: of their two fifty celebration of the country. Uh, since
Speaker 2: Rick did save that flag fifty years ago. Last night
Speaker 2: eight six six two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's head back downstairs to the Dodger clubhouse to hear
Speaker 2: from Dodger catcher Dalton rushing on sports and at LA.
Speaker 15: I think we were just a little too cute early,
Speaker 15: try to be perfect, and it's not him, you know.
Speaker 15: We we recreated the game plan downstairs and Mark kind
Speaker 15: of let us know, stay on the attack, and I
Speaker 15: think that really helped us moving forward. Obviously, it's always
Speaker 15: a good sign to have your starter go six six,
Speaker 15: shut out even better. But yeah, it's just once again
Speaker 15: it's a testament to our starting pitching right now and
Speaker 15: where we're at, and everyone's doing a great job. Obviously
Speaker 15: we're avoiding runs early in the game, getting out of jams.
Speaker 15: It's good to see. Uh, but yeah, we're gonna carry
Speaker 15: it over in the next series.
Speaker 7: He's saying the best thing about what Justin's done this
Speaker 7: one of these concidence and knowing who he is as
Speaker 7: a pitcher, Yeah, who is he as a picture?
Speaker 15: He's you said it carries a lot of confidence. Trust
Speaker 15: every single pitch that he has. He's a lot of them.
Speaker 15: But like I said, we got a little too cute
Speaker 15: early on and it took us going downstairs and kind
Speaker 15: of recreating the plan a little bit and new word attack,
Speaker 15: attack every hitter, make them get themselves out, you know,
Speaker 15: And yeah, it worked out for us. For a guy
Speaker 15: like that, it's the stuff so good. So it's just
Speaker 15: like it's fill up the strike zone early and you'll
Speaker 15: get guys to expand as the back goes on.
Speaker 1: To keep trying to nibble it.
Speaker 15: Yeah, just nibbling, you know. And it's easy to do
Speaker 15: that as a starter for sure, especially if you want
Speaker 15: to go the distance. You're you're trying to chase strikeouts,
Speaker 15: in which I don't think he was doing it at all.
Speaker 15: He just he's very confident and competitive person and if
Speaker 15: he has the opportunity to be perfect, he's gonna make
Speaker 15: sure he is.
Speaker 9: Council call the A B against Horner in the second
Speaker 9: inning where Justin wist on three and ol yah.
Speaker 3: And then he went three and oh to the Suzuki
Speaker 3: later a couple.
Speaker 9: Of indias later. Can you describe how he came back
Speaker 9: from those counts to get those guys out in those situations.
Speaker 15: And the Yeah, I think I think it goes back
Speaker 15: to what I just said. It's just kind of flipped
Speaker 15: the game plan a little bit. You're not You're not
Speaker 15: trying to find this corner that corner. It's hey, I'm
Speaker 15: gonna throw it and hit it if you hit it.
Speaker 15: If not, we're gonna throw it in the strike zone.
Speaker 15: And I think once we kind of started to establish
Speaker 15: the strike zone early as the game went on, obviously
Speaker 15: we got better results and quicker innings.
Speaker 8: Who justin is a picture is him just attacking his
Speaker 8: zone and he's not a guy that's.
Speaker 6: Generated a ton of strikeouts, mainly because instead of nibbling,
Speaker 6: he's been able to so effectively count the zone.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think I think he learned a lot about himself.
Speaker 15: I've obviously got to work with him a lot in
Speaker 15: the past, and twenty twenty four was a year that
Speaker 15: I really think he recreated himself a little bit. He's
Speaker 15: no more like chasing strikeouts. Guys, get him in the box,
Speaker 15: get him out of the box as much or as
Speaker 15: quick as possible. And I think ever since then, he's
Speaker 15: obviously excelled so much as a picture, but being able
Speaker 15: to find that as yourself as a player. I think
Speaker 15: it's very special. And the fact that he did it
Speaker 15: in twenty four and he's only built off of it
Speaker 15: since then is obviously a good sign.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Dalton Rushing, who was behind the plate
Speaker 2: for a second straight game catching Justin Robleski today. Will
Speaker 2: Smith was not available today because, as Dave Roberts said,
Speaker 2: for the game, still dealing with some back stiffness, and
Speaker 2: that was the reason why he was out of the
Speaker 2: lineup last night day game. After a night game, it
Speaker 2: was going to be a stretch for Will Smith to
Speaker 2: catch today dealing with back stiffness. So we'll see whether
Speaker 2: or not he's in the lineup tomorrow. But Dalton Rushing
Speaker 2: off to a great start, and certainly a lot of
Speaker 2: teams would love to have a backup catcher the caliber
Speaker 2: of Dalton Rushing. And for Justin Robleski and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: pitching staff, that was their eighteenth quality start this year.
Speaker 2: That's the most by any team in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: And for those that were taking shots at the Dodger
Speaker 2: bullpen on Friday night, just want to put this on
Speaker 2: your table This was the thirteenth time this year the
Speaker 2: Dodger bullpen did not allow run after Justin Robleski came
Speaker 2: out of the game in the after six shutout innings tonight,
Speaker 2: So Robleski goes six shutout innings and then the Dodger
Speaker 2: bullpen put up zeros for the next three Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Santa Barbara.
Speaker 3: John. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, John?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Good, Thank you. I love your show. This is the
Speaker 13: greatest channel and the greatest fans. A shout out too
Speaker 13: to all the fans to call in. I really like
Speaker 13: listening to you and keep it up. So I'm calling
Speaker 13: in to talk about the issue of closing. People want
Speaker 13: to talk about starting games, people want to talk about offense.
Speaker 13: But as you remember, last year, there was some issues
Speaker 13: as far as a regular closer. And this year we
Speaker 13: started out with some of the greatest news in the
Speaker 13: off season, and that was Diaz joined the Dodgers. But
Speaker 13: now we've got to wait a few months before he
Speaker 13: comes back. And I just it looks to me like, well,
Speaker 13: first of all, the easiest way to close games is
Speaker 13: to build up huge leads, and we're doing a good
Speaker 13: job of that. But the best thing, the thing that
Speaker 13: seems to me is.
Speaker 11: It's like a It's like people.
Speaker 3: So you're concerned about the closer.
Speaker 2: You want to know who's going to close games for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and you just mentioned it right there, John.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have an incredible starting staff. They have a
Speaker 2: potent offense that can have games like last night where
Speaker 2: they beat the Cubs by eight runs. Today they beat
Speaker 2: them by six runs. So the Dodgers are not going
Speaker 2: to be playing a lot of one run games in
Speaker 2: my opinion. And Diaz when he was healthy before he
Speaker 2: had to have surgery on his right elbow, was not
Speaker 2: getting that many opportunities. So that's one way to alleviate
Speaker 2: a closer issue. The other way to alleviate it is
Speaker 2: by having a guy like Tanner, Scott and Alex Vassia,
Speaker 2: and then you're gonna get Brock Stewart back and Bruce
Speaker 2: star Gratol back, and then in the second half of
Speaker 2: the season you're gonna get Diaz and Evan Phillips back.
Speaker 2: So with all that being said, it feels like the
Speaker 2: Dodgers can navigate the loss of their closer better than most,
Speaker 2: especially with the way Tanner Scott's been pitching this year.
Speaker 13: Good good. I like that analysis and it gives uh,
Speaker 13: and it gives us hope. And let's just keep our
Speaker 13: eye on the bullpen. Yeah, the bullpen is great this year.
Speaker 13: I've got absolutely no criticism. And I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 13: We've got a great, absolutely fantastic coach, and Heat has
Speaker 13: dealt with this problem before, if you want to call
Speaker 13: it a problem, and we're going to be relying on
Speaker 13: him a great deal to figure it out.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts and Mark Pryor, Connor McGinnis and the Dodger
Speaker 2: front office certainly. I've put together really good game plans
Speaker 2: for each and every game, and then it's up to
Speaker 2: the pitchers to be able to execute. Eight six six
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number? Did I forget
Speaker 2: to mention the Dodgers are without Blake Snell? Yeah, they're
Speaker 2: missing Graderol brock Stewart, Evan Phillips, Edwin Diaz, and Blake Snell.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 2: Uh, if you've been listening to the show, you know
Speaker 2: I've been targeting single Demyo as my over under. I
Speaker 2: feel like it's going to be over Sinkle Demayo. I
Speaker 2: could see him returning either the week of May eleventh
Speaker 2: or at the very latest the week of May eighteenth,
Speaker 2: because Blake Snell is going to go out on his
Speaker 2: second rehab assignment this Tuesday and pitch for Ontario in Ontario.
Speaker 2: So if you're living that humdrum life in the Inland Empire,
Speaker 2: Snell Zilla is going to spice up your Tuesday night.
Speaker 2: Get out to the Ontario Tower Buzzer Stadium and go
Speaker 2: watch Blake Snell in his second rehab start for Ontario
Speaker 2: six thirty five. He'll be taking the mound in Ontario
Speaker 2: this Tuesday night. I know there's not a lot to
Speaker 2: do out there in the Inland Empire. There's only so
Speaker 2: many times you can go to living spaces in Rancho Cucamonga.
Speaker 2: So how about Ontario go out to the Ontario brand
Speaker 2: new beautiful Ballpark and watch Blake Snell make a second
Speaker 2: rehab start this Tuesday night. So Blake'snell there, it is
Speaker 2: making a second rehab start. And you know, it's cool
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers single a affiliate is this close to
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. So if you're a fan, and I know
Speaker 2: there's a lot of them out there in the Ie
Speaker 2: go out and uh and watch Blake Snell make a
Speaker 2: second rehab start on Tuesday night at six thirty five.
Speaker 2: Let's take another phone call Teresa in Covina. You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Teresa, Hello, David, how
Speaker 2: are you.
Speaker 12: I just want to say thank you for taking my
Speaker 12: call and for everything you do. I've been listening to
Speaker 12: you ever since, I well, quite some time. I've been
Speaker 12: a Dodger fan for over fifty years. I listen to
Speaker 12: Dodgers when I'm in my car and at home, and
Speaker 12: so thank you, thank you. I just want to say
Speaker 12: it was a great I love listening to Rick Mundy too.
Speaker 12: Oh my gosh. I just want to say thank you,
Speaker 12: thank you for all you do. I love your show.
Speaker 3: Ah, thank you, Teresa.
Speaker 2: We love that you're such a passionate Dodger fan, and
Speaker 2: we have a lot of gratitude for you and for
Speaker 2: all the fans, because without the fans, there are no Dodgers,
Speaker 2: there is no Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: So thank you. Teresa.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number.
Speaker 3: We're going to take a.
Speaker 2: Time out here on Dodger Talk when we come back
Speaker 2: more of your phone calls. We have two lines open
Speaker 2: at eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 2: And also you'll hear my conversation with Michael Conforto. He
Speaker 2: uh not only talked about receiving his World Series ring
Speaker 2: what that feeling was like, but also reflected on a
Speaker 2: disappointing year with the Dodgers and how he was able
Speaker 2: to maintain being a great teammate. And Jose Mota will
Speaker 2: check in at five point fifteen as well. So a
Speaker 2: lot to get to between now and five point thirty
Speaker 2: after the Dodgers shut out the Cubs six to nothing
Speaker 2: on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4: Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy LA sports
Speaker 4: dot com, hand on the iHeartRadio app. Back to more
Speaker 4: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Vasse. Showy old Tani
Speaker 4: leading things on swinging with the first pitch, driving it
Speaker 4: the other way back it goes head Donna here old
Speaker 4: Tani's first home run in a dozen games is six
Speaker 4: to the season, and it's now six to nothing.
Speaker 2: The view from the booth was perfectly clear right there.
Speaker 2: Show Haltani with his sixth home home run of the year.
Speaker 2: It was fifty nine plate appearances between o'tani home runs
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers, and that was the most Otani has
Speaker 2: gone without hitting a home run as a Dodger.
Speaker 3: But he had a big game today.
Speaker 2: He sparked the offense leading off, getting on base all
Speaker 2: four times today, stealing a base, doubling, and hitting that
Speaker 2: home run in the seventh inning to cap off a
Speaker 2: six to nothing win for the Dodgers over the Cubs. Today,
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Speaker 2: Jewelers Own the Dream. Coming up in ten minutes, you'll
Speaker 2: hear from Jose Mota. Also my conversation with Michael CONFORDO.
Speaker 2: But first let's go back out to the phones. Pedro,
Speaker 2: who was at the ballpark today. Hi, Pedro, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: Hey, what's up DVN.
Speaker 12: How you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, good man.
Speaker 9: We're just leaving the game.
Speaker 13: Me and my daughter Tony is looking good, but she
Speaker 13: wanted to say hi to you and tell her a
Speaker 13: story about the game.
Speaker 10: Give me one again.
Speaker 3: Okay, Hi David, Hi, what's your name? I'm Dylan, Dylan.
Speaker 3: What's up? Did you have fun at the game?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What story did you want to tell me?
Speaker 16: Got a lot of home ones?
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, a lot of homeland and I had a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. Oh did your dad get you a
Speaker 3: Dodger dog in some ice cream? Today?
Speaker 1: She got me at you us and not a Dodger dog,
Speaker 1: been a Hamburger.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you had a great time at the
Speaker 2: game and hopefully we see you soon. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: thank you Pedro and thank you Dylan. See that's awesome.
Speaker 2: That's what baseball is all about. You bring your son
Speaker 2: or your daughter out here, you come with your mom
Speaker 2: or dad, and you build memories. And that's what's so
Speaker 2: special about baseball, coming to Dodger Stadium and seeing a
Speaker 2: one of a kind player like show hey Otani, and
Speaker 2: really the best show in baseball. I've said this for
Speaker 2: a while now, ever since the Dodger's got Otani. It's
Speaker 2: more than a game. It's an event, and it's awesome
Speaker 2: when you come to the ballpark. And that's why being
Speaker 2: able to hear each other have a conversation at a stadium,
Speaker 2: that's what's always awesome because during a nine inning game,
Speaker 2: that's where you could catch up with your family. Especially
Speaker 2: if you have teenagers, bring them to a Dodger game.
Speaker 2: They can't escape you. They got to watch the game
Speaker 2: with you and tell you they're deep dark secrets. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to the one oh one. Keith, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. How you doing.
Speaker 17: I'm doing great, Dave, how are you?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 2: Things can't be better when you're hosting Dodger Talk during
Speaker 2: the best time of being a Dodger.
Speaker 11: Fan, no doubt about it.
Speaker 17: Hey, So a few years back, I was in Milwaukee.
Speaker 17: Actually you were kind enough to meet us and talk
Speaker 17: to us for a couple of minutes there. But there
Speaker 17: was something at the ballpark there that I really liked
Speaker 17: that I'd.
Speaker 3: Like to don't.
Speaker 17: Definitely not the slide. So no, I was wondering on
Speaker 17: the right field scoreboard. You know how they split it
Speaker 17: in half and they show the picting information on one
Speaker 17: half and the hitting information on the other half. But
Speaker 17: why not on the pitching half? Instead of showing the lineup,
Speaker 17: why don't we show the pitch mix. You know, at
Speaker 17: the stadium they flash out the pitch, the kind of
Speaker 17: pitch and the speed, and it flashes.
Speaker 15: Up real quick.
Speaker 8: But you know, at home, you kind.
Speaker 17: Of get to see the mix when it's particularly an
Speaker 17: along a bat. It seemed to be like more useful
Speaker 17: than having the defensive team's batting lineup up there during
Speaker 17: the endiad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could.
Speaker 2: I could understand that. I know what you're talking about,
Speaker 2: and I've seen that in other stadiums where they had
Speaker 2: the pitch sequencing of each ad bat up there on
Speaker 2: the big board. I'm not sure whose advantage that is,
Speaker 2: whether it's the pitcher of the hitters, but yeah, as
Speaker 2: a fan, it's cool to see just the strategy between
Speaker 2: the pitcher and and the you know, the chess match
Speaker 2: as far as pitch sequencing.
Speaker 3: So, I've seen it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's room for it or if
Speaker 2: that's just the style for Dodger Stadium, but yeah, i've
Speaker 2: seen it.
Speaker 3: I like it. But I like what they do here too.
Speaker 17: I love what they did to a Dodger stadium. I
Speaker 17: just think it would be a nice talk.
Speaker 2: Okay, well Worth noted Keith, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you didn't say the slide. Eight six sixnine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 2: shut out the Cubs today, six to nothing, and they
Speaker 2: win their first series in quite some time.
Speaker 3: The last time the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Won a series was before they left for that last
Speaker 2: road trip. They split four in Denver and then lost
Speaker 2: two out of three to the Giants. But they come
Speaker 2: back after losing a disappointing game on Friday night and
Speaker 2: win the next two to beat the Cubs last night
Speaker 2: twelve to four, six to nothing today, and for the
Speaker 2: thirteenth time this year, the Dodger bullpen did not allow
Speaker 2: a run. Shoe he O'tani was on base every plate
Speaker 2: appearance today. The last time that happened was last September
Speaker 2: seventh against the Orioles, when he had three walks that day.
Speaker 2: Today he was three for three with a walk, a
Speaker 2: home run, and a double. Eight six six seven is
Speaker 2: the phone number now. The first game of this series,
Speaker 2: the Dodger players were out behind the batting cage to
Speaker 2: greet their former teammate Michael Conforto, who played the entire
Speaker 2: regular season and left field for the Dodgers. Obviously a
Speaker 2: down year Forfordo, who is having a better year with
Speaker 2: the Cubs this year. We all know the struggles of
Speaker 2: Michael Conforto, but through it all and part of the
Speaker 2: reason why his teammates loved him so much is because
Speaker 2: he was such a great teammate. And I had a
Speaker 2: chance to catch up with Michael after he was presented
Speaker 2: his twenty twenty five World Series ring.
Speaker 7: I didn't know what it was going to feel like,
Speaker 7: you know, being back here. It's kind of a weird
Speaker 7: experience for me, Like I wasn't on the roster, but
Speaker 7: I very much felt like I was part of the team,
Speaker 7: and I was, you know, able to support these guys
Speaker 7: and and you know, just be there for him and
Speaker 7: obviously played throughout the season. But seeing this ring and
Speaker 7: holding it and putting it on, you know, it's one
Speaker 7: of one of the cooler moments in my baseball career.
Speaker 12: For sure.
Speaker 2: Everybody has a story. So where were you when Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas hit that home run?
Speaker 7: I mean I was top seven of the railing. I mean,
Speaker 7: you know, we go down one out, you know, still believing,
Speaker 7: but you can kind of feel, you know, we're running
Speaker 7: out of time, and.
Speaker 11: I was.
Speaker 7: I was standing next to Kirby Yates. Miggi fouled off
Speaker 7: a fastball, great swing, and we kind of looked at
Speaker 7: each other and we were like, he's locked in right now,
Speaker 7: and I think it was the next pitch hung breaking ball,
Speaker 7: puts us, you know, puts Us gives us life again.
Speaker 7: Just going crazy, man, just going absolutely nuts. And the
Speaker 7: silence in that in that dome. Man, you kind of
Speaker 7: you know, you just think about that all the time.
Speaker 7: And I'm sure Miggi thinks about it all the time.
Speaker 7: I mean, if I'm thinking about it, you know. So
Speaker 7: just just pretty cool, pretty cool to be there, to
Speaker 7: experience one of the greatest games ever played.
Speaker 2: Do you ever look back and take inventory of your
Speaker 2: season last year and why it's going so well this
Speaker 2: year in Chicago?
Speaker 7: I was just telling Steve, I kind of brought a
Speaker 7: lot of things that I learned from from this past
Speaker 7: season with me to Chicago and into my workouts in
Speaker 7: the offseason and conversations I had with Doc. You know,
Speaker 7: Doc really just kind of being very brutally honest with me,
Speaker 7: saying I need to see more, like I need to
Speaker 7: see you know some I need you to make some
Speaker 7: baseball plays. You know, move guys, get him in from
Speaker 7: third with less than two you know, focus more on
Speaker 7: that stuff rather than slug and you know, big swings
Speaker 7: and all that stuff. And I really took that to heart,
Speaker 7: and I think in my role with this team, you know,
Speaker 7: it's pretty valuable stuff to bring. And and also just
Speaker 7: like I soaked up a lot just from being around
Speaker 7: you know, the two time champion, you know, back to
Speaker 7: back world champions. So I've brought a lot of that
Speaker 7: stuff with me. And you know, I'm just trying to
Speaker 7: stay ready when my name's called.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when you when you kind of look back at.
Speaker 7: Last year, I mean it's overall it's positive. I mean,
Speaker 7: these guys are like family to me. I built some
Speaker 7: some really great relationships baseball wise. For me, personally, it
Speaker 7: wasn't great, But like I said, I think I learned
Speaker 7: a lot about the game, about who I am, you know,
Speaker 7: kind of as a player. You know, just obviously the
Speaker 7: World Series ring is you know, it's what we come
Speaker 7: out here and we play for, you know, so to
Speaker 7: have that and know that no one can take it
Speaker 7: from me is is uh is.
Speaker 2: The coolest highlight of your season last year being on
Speaker 2: the rooftop in Tampa with me during the trade deadline.
Speaker 7: We were we were we were red hot at that point,
Speaker 7: you know, pants on, That's right, I had my pants on.
Speaker 7: It was it was it was actually hot. Yeah, it
Speaker 7: was actually super hot. Up their trade deadline madness. We
Speaker 7: went got out call uh Rock Stewart. Yeah, that was
Speaker 7: that was fun. That was That was a good time.
Speaker 7: You're live on the on the phone. You got Freddy
Speaker 7: to chime in for a little bit. That was fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good time. That was last year
Speaker 2: trade deadline. I was with Michael Confordo and Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: on the rooftop of the Team hotel. Both those guys
Speaker 2: did not pack short pants and it was one hundred
Speaker 2: degrees with one hundred percent humidity. And I'll just say
Speaker 2: this to you, I'll let you in on something and
Speaker 2: it may hurt their feelings.
Speaker 3: But they'll get over it.
Speaker 2: Rogan and Rodney always call me at the worst time
Speaker 2: because their show is right in the middle of when
Speaker 2: things are happening, whether I'm at home or on the road.
Speaker 3: So I was on the with Rogan and.
Speaker 2: Rodney, and yeah, I think Fred realized halfway through the
Speaker 2: call that it was the day of the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: So Michael Confordo sitting right next to me as Fred
Speaker 2: and Rodney are asking me, uh, should the Dodgers get
Speaker 2: a left fielder? Should the Dodgers trade Michael Conforto and
Speaker 2: Michael Confordo sitting right next to me right there. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that was a fun day. And I think you heard
Speaker 2: it in Michael's voice just how much being part of
Speaker 2: this group last year meant to him, and he so
Speaker 2: badly wanted to be activated during the postseason.
Speaker 3: It just wasn't happening after the year that he had.
Speaker 2: But he was always a great teammate and I love
Speaker 2: hearing his story about where he was and what he
Speaker 2: was seeing as Miguel Rojas hit that unbelievable home run
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers down to their final two outs. Let's
Speaker 2: take one more phone call before we check in with
Speaker 2: Jimmy coming from the game. Hi, Jimmy, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: Hey, David, thanks for saying in the call my pleasure.
Speaker 14: Uh tough to follow up that touching moment between you
Speaker 14: and Confordo, but I'm gonna hot take here from Chicago.
Speaker 14: Love coming out to LA and watching the game. One
Speaker 14: of my favorite stadiums. Beautiful.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 14: Unfortunately the Cubs did not take the series. I thought
Speaker 14: we were gonna take the series. We did not take
Speaker 14: the series. We came back strong in the first game,
Speaker 14: very strong.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 14: My hot take here, David is uh Otani's going to
Speaker 14: the Cubs at the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: So does that mean that we should still get rid
Speaker 2: of the Otani roll? Jimmy if if Craig Council's managing show.
Speaker 2: Hey Otani.
Speaker 14: So it was talking about that the other day and
Speaker 14: it got me thinking that the only way we can
Speaker 14: overcome the Otawani rule, we are going to trade for
Speaker 14: Otani and we are going to win the Role Series.
Speaker 14: It is the ten year March. Every ten years, you
Speaker 14: know this, we with David. I'm in Tarzana right now
Speaker 14: on the one on one, your home, your backyard, and
Speaker 14: we are going to get Otani at the trade deadlines.
Speaker 2: Hey, Jimmy, Jimmy, it's not every ten years the Cubs
Speaker 2: win a World Series. It's every one hundred years.
Speaker 14: Ten years ago from right now, and I'm just saying it's.
Speaker 2: Been Yeah, you got ninety more years to go, Jimmy,
Speaker 2: maybe your grandkids will see it happen again. Thanks for
Speaker 2: the phone call, appreciate it. Will see you, hopefully not
Speaker 2: in Tarzana, but hopefully out there Wrigley Field. Yeah. Sorry,
Speaker 2: the Cubs are not entitled to winning the World Series
Speaker 2: because they just barely won one for what the first
Speaker 2: time in the last one hundred and six years? What
Speaker 2: happened to that Cub's dynasty? Oh yeah, it's the Dodgers dynasty.
Speaker 2: All right, let's check in with Jose Mota.
Speaker 4: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, you gotta follow that up, right, ninety
Speaker 2: more years before the Cubs win another World Series.
Speaker 11: Well, they're a good team, they have the resources, so
Speaker 11: hopefully they'll put it together at some point. But remember
Speaker 11: that was Joe Madden magic. It took over our ears.
Speaker 3: You're right, yeah, yeah, magic for sure. Jose.
Speaker 2: We've been talking about show hey Otani the last week.
Speaker 2: He finally started to show signs of life last night,
Speaker 2: and he certainly followed it up with a big game today.
Speaker 3: Is he back?
Speaker 11: I believe he's back. I believe it. The approach we
Speaker 11: saw starting last night, we you and I talked is
Speaker 11: what we want to see because you know, we talk
Speaker 11: about posture. It's not just like, okay, the way he's standing,
Speaker 11: it's like what it does to his heels when he
Speaker 11: show he is pushed back on his heels as he
Speaker 11: does not have to reach that he needs to really
Speaker 11: hit mistakes, and his head's steadier when he's not in
Speaker 11: his heels. So it all goes together. But I'd like
Speaker 11: to see more repetitions on the way he takes pitches, uh,
Speaker 11: laying up some pitches up down on the zone day.
Speaker 11: But for sure a good indicator. And you asked me yesterday,
Speaker 11: was that base hit to left field? Just gets him
Speaker 11: go in the right direction and to get results a
Speaker 11: whole lot more because obviously you want results, you want
Speaker 11: conference and it seems like it's trending in the right way.
Speaker 2: A power hitter, only guy to be a fifty to
Speaker 2: fifty player in a season, but he is the Dodgers'
Speaker 2: leadoff hitter. If he doesn't get on base, if he's
Speaker 2: not doing something, it kind of feels like the Dodger
Speaker 2: offense has to go from zero to one hundred on
Speaker 2: their own.
Speaker 11: You're right, and you know it's a good point because
Speaker 11: I've spoken with a Showy about this when he was
Speaker 11: with the Angels, about leading off, and he says that
Speaker 11: at times when he feels like this added pressure to perform,
Speaker 11: like Shohil Tani, it actually helps him, Dave to be
Speaker 11: a leadoff hitter because he didn'tkn'd of simplify things to say, well,
Speaker 11: it's not about the power now, it was about getting
Speaker 11: a base and making sure that the guys behind me
Speaker 11: have a chance to drive me in. And it works
Speaker 11: both ways. I mean for himself to see the ball,
Speaker 11: hit the ball, take his watch. The watts are a
Speaker 11: big part of his game. It's are the strikeouts, but
Speaker 11: strakeouse for him are a product of going deep at
Speaker 11: the counts. About being a leadoff hitter mentality wise, it's
Speaker 11: always a plus for him. It would be if he
Speaker 11: was at number three hitter number four here because that
Speaker 11: way it's all about carrying the low. But now when
Speaker 11: he gets on, he knows can run and make a
Speaker 11: difference on the basis too.
Speaker 2: How big was it, Jose for the Dodgers to come
Speaker 2: back and win these last two games after the way
Speaker 2: they lost the first game of this series.
Speaker 11: I think it's a statement to the fact that you
Speaker 11: beat a very good team, you have a team that
Speaker 11: was not depending on the home run only. We saw
Speaker 11: some manufacturing yesterday. We saw the watts, we saw the
Speaker 11: deeper at bats, we saw more team at bats, and
Speaker 11: then we saw the pitching show up. And I think,
Speaker 11: going back to you know the comings about the bullpen,
Speaker 11: these guys, at some point we're gonna have a little
Speaker 11: slip at year in their day. But to see not
Speaker 11: the bigger names come through yesterday, it's huge incline and
Speaker 11: a dryer and again today you find the opportunity to
Speaker 11: get Robleski to fight through six and that was remarkable.
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski today was remarkable. In my opinion, I said
Speaker 2: this earlier in the show. I don't know how you feel,
Speaker 2: but to me, a start like today he was more
Speaker 2: impressive than what he did against the Mets, considering how
Speaker 2: he didn't have his best command.
Speaker 11: I agree with you because I know that after pitching
Speaker 11: in Colorado and talking to former pictures, I mean Hall
Speaker 11: of famers about the recovery after pitching in Colorado is
Speaker 11: not easy.
Speaker 10: He came in today.
Speaker 11: And as he mentioned, Dalton, Russia played a huge part
Speaker 11: in him just calming down and filling his own and
Speaker 11: not trying to just go out there and throw ninety eight.
Speaker 11: Big Number two, he knows that the strikeouts sometimes are
Speaker 11: not going to be there, and you're understanding more and
Speaker 11: more that by sequencing better and getting some early outs,
Speaker 11: he's going to go deep into game. Number three is
Speaker 11: he never cames in. He never comes in in situations
Speaker 11: where you think there's going to be one pitch away.
Speaker 11: He just keeps getting better and being challenged at and
Speaker 11: over all his stuff gets better as the progresses. But
Speaker 11: I don't know that if anybody brings up the strikeouse.
Speaker 11: I just hope it's not a matter of him things
Speaker 11: that he has to do that to win games, because
Speaker 11: right now he's leading the team and wins by one thing,
Speaker 11: throwing strikes and pitching into that defense and aspect that
Speaker 11: I will say, Dave, the defense is one asking the
Speaker 11: Dodgers where people are just overlooking it. But it's a
Speaker 11: big part of of why Russian Rabuski talk about the
Speaker 11: guys being positioned well and getting those aready.
Speaker 3: Else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Dodgers are number one in baseball with defensive
Speaker 2: runs saved, but a lot of credit goes to the Dodgers'
Speaker 2: Baseball Operations department about you know, the information they have
Speaker 2: to be able to position these guys and not have
Speaker 2: them have to cover so much.
Speaker 11: Ground correct, which is what you do when you have
Speaker 11: the size, buying all these brains to put it all
Speaker 11: together and to tell the next n seet, we're better
Speaker 11: up with you playing here. Don't worry about disc ball,
Speaker 11: because what happens a lot of times is you give
Speaker 11: them so much information on different organizations and then they
Speaker 11: worry about their coverage. Arrange one word or the other.
Speaker 11: But the Dodgers are convinced, if you get beat in
Speaker 11: one direction, we tell you to be standing in another,
Speaker 11: nobody's gonna call you out. Just trust us. And the
Speaker 11: same Tom had The pitchers will league.
Speaker 10: They understand it.
Speaker 11: Sometimes contact it is their best friend with that tough defense.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us on Dodger Talk. After the
Speaker 2: Dodgers shut out the Cubs six to nothing. Miguel Rojas
Speaker 2: had a huge two run double in the first inning.
Speaker 2: He's thirty seven years old, Jose, he's playing in his
Speaker 2: last major league season. Whether the Dodgers three pete or not,
Speaker 2: He's done at the end of this year. And he's
Speaker 2: hitting three sixty six with a nine to twelve OPS
Speaker 2: and playing great shortstop and second base. I mean, have
Speaker 2: you seen anything like this from a player like Miguel Rojas?
Speaker 3: Speechless?
Speaker 2: All right, Hose, we'll catch up with you tomorrow after
Speaker 2: the game Dodgers and Marlins. Let's take a couple of
Speaker 2: more phone calls before we say goodnight, Courtney in Long Beach.
Speaker 3: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Courtney.
Speaker 16: I'm doing great.
Speaker 12: Do we slept well?
Speaker 8: Not slept?
Speaker 16: We took the sea. Life is good. I wanted to
Speaker 16: bring up, though, I'm getting a little worried about my boy,
Speaker 16: Freddy freemant him up.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, you may think he's cold, but he's
Speaker 2: really not. He's been hitting in a lot of bad luck.
Speaker 2: He's hitting the ball hard. And I hate using these stats, Courtney,
Speaker 2: but it proves what we're seeing with our eyes, how
Speaker 2: much bad luck he's having. He's in the top five
Speaker 2: percent of expected batting average, which shows you how much
Speaker 2: bad luck he's he's been hitting in.
Speaker 3: Nobody or very few have hit the.
Speaker 2: Ball as hard as Freddy Freeman has hit it this
Speaker 2: year without a lot to show for it. So it's
Speaker 2: not a case of him slowing down. Saya Suzuki robbed
Speaker 2: him today in the first home stand of the year.
Speaker 2: I see two or three doubles taken away from him
Speaker 2: in left field. So the last two days hasn't been
Speaker 2: great for him. But for the most part, he's still
Speaker 2: hitting the ball hard, just not getting a lot to
Speaker 2: show for it.
Speaker 3: Early on.
Speaker 16: What's he got to do? Get get in the cage.
Speaker 16: I'm taking a look at it. I don't see anything
Speaker 16: different with his approach. I don't see anything else like
Speaker 16: I just I'm perplexed, and I'm seeing anxious. I'm not worried.
Speaker 2: No, no, if he wasn't hitting the ball hard and
Speaker 2: his bad speed was slowing down, then there would be
Speaker 2: a cause for concern Courtney. But none of those things
Speaker 2: are happening.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 2: The first thing he's gonna do is stop doing pregame
Speaker 2: interviews with me because he didn't get any hits the
Speaker 2: first night of the series, and who knows, maybe more,
Speaker 2: you know, sugar cookies can help. But he'll be fine, Courtney.
Speaker 2: He's Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 3: He'll be okay.
Speaker 16: That's right. I just got to wear his jersey more often.
Speaker 3: I guess right, Yeah, yeah, wear it inside out.
Speaker 16: There we go. Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 14: Day, Let's go Dodgers, all.
Speaker 2: Right, thanks for the phone call. Yeah, don't be concerned
Speaker 2: about Freddie Freeman. I know the batting average, the hits
Speaker 2: are not where he wants it to be. He was
Speaker 2: over four today with two strikeouts, but overall he's hitting
Speaker 2: the ball hard and he's just not getting a lot
Speaker 2: to show for it. And that's where you know, slumps
Speaker 2: turn into bigger slumps, because when you should be getting
Speaker 2: hits and you're not, and then when you actually do
Speaker 2: go into a slump, that's where it becomes an extended
Speaker 2: period of time. So Freddy's just one of those guys
Speaker 2: that is better than most at sticking to the process
Speaker 2: and understanding who he is trying to go to left
Speaker 2: field and up the middle. And he's the guy that
Speaker 2: I don't worry about at all as far as avoiding
Speaker 2: these type of situations. But he's human and you could
Speaker 2: see him when he strikes out or he makes it out.
Speaker 2: He's not happy. He's got his head down and he's
Speaker 2: upset because he wants hits and they just haven't been
Speaker 2: coming at a frequent rate as he would like them
Speaker 2: to be. So maybe maybe if I take them for
Speaker 2: a drive, Maybe I should carpool with Freddy Freeman, pick
Speaker 2: him up in my Hyundai Tucson from my friend Sam
Speaker 2: at Downey Hunday. How about that? Maybe that'll get Freddy going.
Speaker 2: No pregame interviews, but I could be his uber for
Speaker 2: the rest of the homestand in my Downy Hunday. Right,
Speaker 2: come on, that's the way to go. All right, that'll
Speaker 2: do it for us today on Dodger Talk. Coming up tomorrow,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers continue their stretch of playing thirteen in a row.
Speaker 2: It'll end on Wednesday as they start a three game
Speaker 2: series against the Marlins.
Speaker 3: Yamamoto on the mound tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Nineties two and two with an ERA of two forty
Speaker 2: eight going up against former padre Chris Paddock, who has
Speaker 2: an ERA of six thirty eight and a record of
Speaker 2: zero to four. Our coverage begins at six o'clock tomorrow
Speaker 2: with first pitch at seven to ten with Rick Monday,
Speaker 2: Charlie Steiner, and Tim Neverett. Thanks to Colin Ye back
Speaker 2: at our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you for listening in
Speaker 2: case you missed any of the show, or a fun
Speaker 2: pregame conversation with Will Klein with a cameo from Blake Trining.
Speaker 2: You can find it on the iHeartRadio app once again.
Speaker 2: The final score from Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers shut out
Speaker 2: the Cubs six to nothing. Have a great rest of
Speaker 2: your Sunday.
Speaker 3: Seal the