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Speaker 2: Well a rough night for the Dodgers as they wrap
Speaker 2: up their first home stand of twenty twenty six in
Speaker 2: the offense just has not gotten going in the first
Speaker 2: six games of the season. Despite that, the Dodgers still
Speaker 2: four and two to start the year. Hiver Buddy, Tim Kates,
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Speaker 2: The Dodgers against the Diamondbacks fell behind in all three
Speaker 2: games and came back and won all three games against
Speaker 2: the Snakes to get out to a three to zero
Speaker 2: start and win that first series of the seas. The
Speaker 2: Guardians came to town. And remember this is a Guardians
Speaker 2: team that a year ago went to the postseason. Sure,
Speaker 2: they had to collapse, and you know, the season ended
Speaker 2: last year for them, not how they wanted it to.
Speaker 2: But the Cleveland Guardians are a good young team. And
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Guardians battle with Detroit last year the final
Speaker 2: month of the season. And this is a Guardians team
Speaker 2: with a team that really plays good defense and has
Speaker 2: got good pitching, and that'll carry you in games, and
Speaker 2: that'll carry you in series. And they don't have the
Speaker 2: depth one through nine that the Dodgers offense does. Quite frankly,
Speaker 2: nobody does in Major League Baseball. But look at what
Speaker 2: the three guys that the Guardians threw out at the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in this series. Parker Messik, really good left hander
Speaker 2: who the Dodgers had trouble with, Tanner Biby who the
Speaker 2: Dodgers had trouble with. And Gavin Williams, the big right hander,
Speaker 2: was absolutely really good for the Guardians tonight. And this
Speaker 2: was a Gavin Williams who against the Mariners in his
Speaker 2: first start struggled walking six. He came back tonight and
Speaker 2: you heard Dave Roberts in the Clubhouse Show allude to it.
Speaker 2: This was a different Gavin Williams who filled up the
Speaker 2: strike zone did not have issues walking guys or control
Speaker 2: problems out there on the mound, and the Dodgers just
Speaker 2: couldn't figure him out tonight. And Freddie Freeman said, you know,
Speaker 2: he was good.
Speaker 4: He was loaned the zone.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers weren't seen it well. The Guardians pitched the
Speaker 2: Dodgers very well the last three games, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: could have won two of three, you know, very easily
Speaker 2: could have been swept in all three games by the
Speaker 2: Cleveland Guardians. As it is, they lose two to three
Speaker 2: to the Guardians, and the Dodgers find themselves now hitting
Speaker 2: the road. And here they are against the Nationals on Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 2: and Sunday, and then back to Toronto next week in a
Speaker 2: rematch of last year's World Series with an offense that
Speaker 2: quite frankly has not done much, an offense that has
Speaker 2: been very quiet at the top.
Speaker 4: And if you were to talk to anybody and.
Speaker 2: Say this Dodger's offense one through nine, there's no way
Speaker 2: collectively they're all gonna struggle at the same time.
Speaker 4: It's just not gonna happen. It can't. The laws of numbers,
Speaker 4: which I don't even know would law, would be. I'm
Speaker 4: just like literally throwing this out there. But the odds are.
Speaker 2: Right that one through nine, not all the guys are
Speaker 2: gonna be struggling at the same time. You're gonna have one, two, three,
Speaker 2: four guys carry you, whether it's a game, whether it's
Speaker 2: a series, whether it's a week, whether it's a few weeks.
Speaker 2: And then it may change and you may have a
Speaker 2: different three or four guys carry you, and then you
Speaker 2: may strike goal that all of a sudden, for a
Speaker 2: ten game stretch, all nine guys in this Dodgers lineup
Speaker 2: are gonna be on fire, and they're just gonna boat
Speaker 2: race teams and win games and bunches.
Speaker 4: And that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But through the first six games, it's really been Miguel Rojas,
Speaker 2: Andy Potters, yeah, Monthsy home run last night, okay, you know,
Speaker 2: Will Smith home run the other night, Okay, but that's it.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers looking at Otani and Tucker and Pats
Speaker 2: Freeman the big four tonight one.
Speaker 4: For the night.
Speaker 2: You look at the first six batters in this lineup,
Speaker 2: Otani all the way down to Muncie one for twenty
Speaker 2: one combined with eight strikeouts. That is something you're not
Speaker 2: gonna see very often one through six guys struggling in
Speaker 2: this Dodgers lineup as it is. Look at the bottom
Speaker 2: of it, tay Oscar Pajz Freeland. Those three went combined
Speaker 2: four for eight with a couple of walks getting on base.
Speaker 2: The top of the lineup just not done their job.
Speaker 2: Is it gonna stay that way?
Speaker 4: No? Is it something to panic about? Certainly not.
Speaker 2: But it is interesting how hot some of these Dodger
Speaker 2: players were in Arizona, and I think of Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: in particular, played in only home games at Candleback Ranch,
Speaker 2: was hitting over four to twenty at one point in
Speaker 2: the Cactus League. It just hasn't carried over at all.
Speaker 2: Show hey Otani. Hitting Buck sixty seven has.
Speaker 4: Not carried over. Now.
Speaker 2: I get he's got a thirty seven game on Bay
Speaker 2: streak that extended tonight because of a walk early, but
Speaker 2: still he was zero for three with two strikeouts, and
Speaker 2: one of those strikeouts quite frankly, did not look good
Speaker 2: at all from Show Heyotani. The Dodgers offense tonight didn't
Speaker 2: have a lot of chances, but when they did, they
Speaker 2: did not make the.
Speaker 4: Most of them.
Speaker 2: The sixth inning in particular, circled it. Dodgers down two
Speaker 2: to nothing, within striking distance. Andy Pajes, Oh, mister three
Speaker 2: for three Andy Pies, by the way tonight, a leadoff single,
Speaker 2: Alex Frieland drill walk?
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 2: Eight to nine hitters getting on base to flip the
Speaker 2: order back to Otani. Down two to nothing in the
Speaker 2: sixth inning? All right, you felt good. The Oregon's playing
Speaker 2: Dieter rules got you all pumped up in Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: You got Tim Never blaring in your ears here on
Speaker 2: the radio, feeling pretty good about it, only to see
Speaker 2: a showy Otani ground into a four to six to
Speaker 2: three double play.
Speaker 4: It was ruled safe at.
Speaker 2: First at first, but then they reviewed it and they
Speaker 2: called it out double play. Kyle Tucker then flies out
Speaker 2: to right field, and just like that, the rally that
Speaker 2: started with the eight to nine hitters of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: down to nothing in the six a big goose.
Speaker 4: Egg on the board for the Dodgers. Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: Eighth inning, tay Oscar Hernandez a one out single. Andy
Speaker 2: Pie has a double. All right, Dodgers got a little
Speaker 2: something going. But Kyle Frielan struck out looking he actually
Speaker 2: challenged the strike three call on a ball that was
Speaker 2: right there down the middle. And then O'tani could not
Speaker 2: produce as well, and the Dodgers put up a zero
Speaker 2: in that eighth inning. Limited opportunities, but when they did,
Speaker 2: they put it right on a plate for the guys
Speaker 2: that you're expecting to do the job one, two, three
Speaker 2: in the lineup. O Tani, Tucker and Bets unfortunately did
Speaker 2: not get it done tonight. In the first six games
Speaker 2: of this season, it has been a struggle for the
Speaker 2: top of the lineup for the Dodgers despite a four
Speaker 2: and two record.
Speaker 4: It's not gonna stay this way.
Speaker 2: It's not, but it's certainly something that is interesting that
Speaker 2: the big boppers, if you will, the big boys, the
Speaker 2: big superstars of the Dodgers collectively are off to a
Speaker 2: slow start here in twenty twenty six. You can look
Speaker 2: at the other way and say slow start. That means
Speaker 2: they're only gonna turn it up. One sixty seven for Otani,
Speaker 2: one seventy four for Kyle Tucker, a bucks thirty six
Speaker 2: for rookie Bets. Ah, those numbers will flip. We'll start
Speaker 2: seeing threes instead of ones in their ball and average
Speaker 2: we'll start seeing ops's in the nine hundreds, I think
Speaker 2: when it all levels out. Yes, the numbers are not
Speaker 2: gonna be what they are now. But that being said,
Speaker 2: first two series of the season just not a lot
Speaker 2: of offense right there. Good pitching, okay, defense, just not
Speaker 2: a lot of offense. And the Dodgers, despite all that,
Speaker 2: are fourn too. And now they hit the road to
Speaker 2: take on the Nationals for their home opener on Friday,
Speaker 2: Saturday Sunday, and then back to Toronto, where I'm sure it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a rude, rude welcome by the Toronto Blue
Speaker 2: Jay fans as the Dodgers make their way up there.
Speaker 2: We're gonna here for Jose Mode coming up in a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes. But let's go out to the phones.
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Speaker 2: Alex start things off here on this Wednesday night, after
Speaker 2: the Dodgers fall to the Guardians four to one out
Speaker 2: of the stadium.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Alex, Yeah, doing well.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you taking the call.
Speaker 7: Sure, Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 3: Two things that you know, it kind of seems like
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker might be uh press pressing a little bit,
Speaker 3: a little bit of pressure being new to the team,
Speaker 3: trying to trying to perform for that contract. I was
Speaker 3: just thinking it might be it might be time to
Speaker 3: maybe switch him up with Freddy and flip them in
Speaker 3: the two in the four spot and get Freddy back
Speaker 3: to his uh where he was hitting last year. And
Speaker 3: then second thing I was gonna mention, you know, alex
Speaker 3: In and coming up in the third inning, runner on first,
Speaker 3: one out, Uh, you're shifting over to the right, playing
Speaker 3: him to playing him to pull, and uh, even the
Speaker 3: left side of the infield Wilmost wide open, just a
Speaker 3: little surprised with the nine hitter one out, and and uh,
Speaker 3: show hey on deck that you're not gonna just take
Speaker 3: what they're giving you right there, lay down a punt
Speaker 3: and get on and get two on base for show. Hey,
Speaker 3: you're going to get your thoughts on time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it. Yeah, Kyle Tucker, small sample size.
Speaker 2: We're not flipping the lineup around. There's no sense of
Speaker 2: urgency or panic right now six games into the season.
Speaker 2: What twenty five or so at bats into this year.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty six, you're gonna let it ride out.
Speaker 2: It's gonna you know, get back to sea level so
Speaker 2: to speak. Here for this Dodgers offense, they're not going
Speaker 2: to continue to sink and struggle underwater.
Speaker 4: Uh, They're gonna get back and that'll be okay.
Speaker 2: I For Kyle Tucker, you'll wonder if he's putting a
Speaker 2: little bit of pressure on himself. Zero for four tonight
Speaker 2: now hitting one forty seven. You know, uh, zero home
Speaker 2: r just one extra base hit. That was back on
Speaker 2: opening day with a double in the season opener. So
Speaker 2: still a lot of room to get back for Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker and this Dodgers offense back to a level playing
Speaker 2: field here as all three of the big guys for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, O, Tawnie, Tucker, and Bets hitting below one
Speaker 2: seventy five to start this season. Rod was at the
Speaker 2: game tonight out of Dodger Stadium. Rod, welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: How you doing, hey man, I'm doing great. Thanks for
Speaker 6: taking a calm on my way back from a long
Speaker 6: distas flight here to watch the Dodgers and then we're
Speaker 6: going back to watching play the Nats. Just to echo
Speaker 6: your point, man, I don't think all is lost. I
Speaker 6: think we need to hold our heads high. We're still
Speaker 6: the back and back chance. They still got to beat us.
Speaker 6: We don't got to beat everybody. But I do think
Speaker 6: a little bit of a you know, maybe a change
Speaker 6: in some of the batting. It seems like as I
Speaker 6: was out there, you know, we have the same approach
Speaker 6: with the starter as we were facing the relievers, taking
Speaker 6: first pitch stretch and grabbing a pitch count up. I
Speaker 6: don't know if that's the strategy, but from an outsider
Speaker 6: looking at it's what it looks like to me. Is
Speaker 6: curious what you say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, Gavin Williams tow I'll just use him as
Speaker 2: an example. Gavin Williams tonight got ahead in thirteen to
Speaker 2: twenty three batters he faced with the first pitch strike
Speaker 2: and he flipped that over to Yamamoto. He got ahead
Speaker 2: in fifteen of the twenty two batters that he faced.
Speaker 2: What does that mean, Well, you pound the strike zone
Speaker 2: and you get ahead oh one the count. Whether it's
Speaker 2: a guy who files the ball off or you throw
Speaker 2: an off speed pitch in for a striker, you pump
Speaker 2: it in for a fastball to get ahead oh one,
Speaker 2: whatever the case may be, you get ahead in the count,
Speaker 2: and that's huge. And Gavin Williams was getting ahead of
Speaker 2: the count, so was Yamamoto. The thing was, Gavin Williams
Speaker 2: was getting swinging missus and getting guys to chase and
Speaker 2: then get in the head two and getting ahead one
Speaker 2: two in the count Yamamoto just was not able to
Speaker 2: get swinging missus. The guardians were putting the ball in play,
Speaker 2: the guardians were finding holes, and the guardians were getting
Speaker 2: on base and taking advantage of that.
Speaker 4: I mean, you look at what Schneman did.
Speaker 2: A ball hit hard, hard past second base into right
Speaker 2: center field, and as Rick Monday said, from the moment
Speaker 2: he hit it as a left headed out of the box,
Speaker 2: he knew he was going too and he put the
Speaker 2: pressure on Kyle Tucker and right field to go and
Speaker 2: make a running play to stop the ball from going
Speaker 2: into right center field to the wall, gets up, throws
Speaker 2: the second, but Schneman beats it in for a double
Speaker 2: and then gets Yamamoto sleeping, steals third and puts the
Speaker 2: pressure on the defense to make a play. And what
Speaker 2: happens Will Smith one hops it down the left field
Speaker 2: line pass Max Muncie, So within the sequence of one
Speaker 2: at bat a double on a hard running Schneman steals
Speaker 2: third and in the process draws a wild throw and scores,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, the Guardians on one hit
Speaker 2: which turned into a double, which turned into a stolen base,
Speaker 2: which turned into a wild throw, scored a run, and
Speaker 2: the next batter comes up, Ariuson hits a home run,
Speaker 2: and it's a two dozing game. It changed that quickly
Speaker 2: by putting the pressure on Yamamoto and the Dodgers defensively.
Speaker 2: So you put the ball in Gavin Williams hand, and
Speaker 2: he was getting a lot of swinging misses tonight, and
Speaker 2: he was finishing off hitters when need be. I mean,
Speaker 2: at one point he struck out out of the outs
Speaker 2: the Dodgers made. Six straight outs were strikeouts by the
Speaker 2: Dodgers between the the I believe the second and the
Speaker 2: fourth inning.
Speaker 4: So a lot of swinging missus for the Dodgers offense tonight.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was the early start, five
Speaker 2: to twenty first pitch, looking ahead to the off day,
Speaker 2: and then getting getting away for a six game East
Speaker 2: Coast road trip.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: It was dark, it was cloudy, it was cold, it's
Speaker 2: you know. The first day of April just just wasn't
Speaker 2: a great day for the Dodgers offense. And with that
Speaker 2: being said, it was a two to nothing game for
Speaker 2: a long time until it was four to nothing. And
Speaker 2: even then, the Dodgers, to their credit, put up a
Speaker 2: spot in the bottom of the inning with the home
Speaker 2: run from Freddie Freeman, and then Will Smith drove a
Speaker 2: ball deep to center field, only to end the game
Speaker 2: on a flyout to the center and that was it
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers, who fall to the guardianso four to one.
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Speaker 4: Let's go to Lance and Seemi Valley joins us from
Speaker 4: the eight oh five.
Speaker 8: How you doing, Lance, I'm doing great. I'm just got
Speaker 8: home from the game. Went to all six home games.
Speaker 8: Nie took my dad, who's uh eighty eighty year Dodger fan,
Speaker 8: and uh took him to most of the games. And
Speaker 8: I don't know last I looked at We're still in
Speaker 8: first place for four and two and we were not
Speaker 8: hitting the ball at all. No worries. I don't think
Speaker 8: you do anything. You don't change the lineup around. They'll
Speaker 8: they'll they'll break out, They'll start scoring four or five
Speaker 8: runs at the inning. I'm not worried a bit. We're
Speaker 8: playing pretty good defense, pitching's been good, and we're four
Speaker 8: and two. So you know, White panic.
Speaker 4: Nobody's panicking, Lance.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the phone call, but it's certainly interesting to
Speaker 2: look at the small sample size. If you can now
Speaker 2: look at the homestand and what happened over the course
Speaker 2: of the six game games, and you look at what Otani,
Speaker 2: Tucker and Bets have done offensively and just haven't done
Speaker 2: a lot. You know, a home run here from Will
Speaker 2: Smith helps out a win, Andy pat has three more
Speaker 2: hits tonight, and Miguel Rojas a good start to the season.
Speaker 2: You know, a couple of hits there, a home run there,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers are able to get a four and
Speaker 2: two record the first six games.
Speaker 4: That's great.
Speaker 2: Nobody's panicking, And by no means am I saying change
Speaker 2: up the lineup. That's not gonna happen. The lineup is.
Speaker 2: It is what it is right now, and you need
Speaker 2: a bigger sample size. And certainly you got a lot
Speaker 2: of trust and you're paying these guys a lot of
Speaker 2: money to be superstars because they are the best of
Speaker 2: the best, and they are really good at what they
Speaker 2: do and near the best of what they do. And
Speaker 2: Shoe a Otani, Kyle Tucker, Mookie Betts, these guys are
Speaker 2: gonna get it going. There's no doubt in my mind
Speaker 2: that the offense will start producing for this team. And
Speaker 2: you know it could start as early as Friday when
Speaker 2: they hit the road and start the series against the Nationals.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
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Speaker 4: We'll come back.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from Jose Mota and from you. Guardians beat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers tonight four to one. Gavin Williams seven shutout
Speaker 2: any strikes out ten. Yamamoto gets tagged with the loss
Speaker 2: as the Dodgers drop two to three in Cleveland. They're
Speaker 2: now four and two to start the season as they
Speaker 2: hit the road in our nation's capital on Friday. Your
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Speaker 9: Two to oh, and Freddie Hammer's won dep the center failed,
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Speaker 9: It is four to one as Freddy Freeman launches his
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Speaker 1: The three hundred and sixty eight home run of his career.
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Speaker 4: Let's check in with Jose.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mos.
Speaker 4: All right, Jose.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers offense the first six games of the season
Speaker 2: on Tany hitting him Bucks sixty seven, Kyle Tucker Bucks
Speaker 2: seventy four, Mookie Betts oh for three, Tonight hitting one
Speaker 2: thirty six.
Speaker 4: What are you seeing from these guys in the first
Speaker 4: two series?
Speaker 7: Right out?
Speaker 10: What I'm seeing is first series more of a grindy
Speaker 10: approach with the at bats. This series is not the same.
Speaker 10: It's a combination of a couple of things. Number one,
Speaker 10: very good pitching day face and the youngsters, you know,
Speaker 10: and Biby and message and Gavin Williams. So that's you know,
Speaker 10: at six six, two fifty coming out of the sun
Speaker 10: and that angle, that till that he has is brilliant.
Speaker 10: But I think overall the Dodgers as hitters, if the
Speaker 10: tendency has been to chase pitches early in zone, early
Speaker 10: in counts, which is very you know, unusireful of dollars.
Speaker 10: I mean, they're springing on early. You're seeing a lot
Speaker 10: of check swings also early in counts, which is something
Speaker 10: you don't see from teams that are built like the Dodgers.
Speaker 10: This will all pass. But I do want to see
Speaker 10: an approach where it's disciplined, it's calm. You got to
Speaker 10: slow down the at bats a little bit more. Sometimes
Speaker 10: there's been a lot of weak contact early in at bats,
Speaker 10: prolonged at bats. Take your watks, you know, and make
Speaker 10: the guy work out there. As a day to Yama
Speaker 10: Molto today, who had a chance to win the ball game,
Speaker 10: pitch to win and was not able to but on
Speaker 10: the offensive side, better pitch selection, in other words, will
Speaker 10: really take care of things starting in Washington.
Speaker 2: Show Hey Otani doesn't take batting practice out on the
Speaker 2: field very often.
Speaker 4: When he does well, we talk about it.
Speaker 2: Did it during the World Series in Toronto last year,
Speaker 2: and he did it today before this finale against the Guardians.
Speaker 2: What do you make of a show Hey out taking
Speaker 2: batting practice in the sixth game of the season.
Speaker 10: I'm glad he did. I think I changes the visual.
Speaker 10: There's a lot of things that happened in the cage
Speaker 10: that you can not really get a feel for when
Speaker 10: you're hitting outside. If you're hitting in live drive off
Speaker 10: the matting side to side, less center field right center field.
Speaker 10: You got to see how the ball's traveling, and then
Speaker 10: how the ball is carrying off your bat, because I
Speaker 10: think the hitters background is helpful, especially today, before the game,
Speaker 10: any unusual time. But I'd like to see Showy do
Speaker 10: that more often. I think it's great to go out
Speaker 10: there and get a feel for how the balls carrying,
Speaker 10: how it's coming off your bat, how well you're standing
Speaker 10: inside the ball, if you're topping the ball a lot,
Speaker 10: A lot of those things you don't see. You get
Speaker 10: a great feel for when you're inside the cage. Now
Speaker 10: you can argue about what he's done in the last
Speaker 10: couple of seasons or throughout his career hitting in the
Speaker 10: cage most often than not, but I think it's a
Speaker 10: good side even for this teammates see him out there.
Speaker 10: I was down there. I saw him to take me
Speaker 10: P even a VP. He was okay. I mean, he
Speaker 10: was not trying to put on the show or anything
Speaker 10: like that. But when he goes out there most times
Speaker 10: that I've seen so many times on WBC, it's about
Speaker 10: splating the ball and trenty as many balls up the
Speaker 10: middle as he can. Even today doing that a VP,
Speaker 10: it was quite assistent with it, but show it'll come
Speaker 10: at some point because he's been he's been pretty selective
Speaker 10: in the bats, but now when he's made selections to
Speaker 10: swing at certain pitches, not at the right time, especially
Speaker 10: with men a board, when he has to go up
Speaker 10: there and just get something he can drive or put
Speaker 10: a good, you know, good battle on.
Speaker 2: He is not Yoshanoba Yamamoto. Six innings, two runs, four
Speaker 2: hits on any other given night. You know, we're talking
Speaker 2: about what a good job he did on the mount,
Speaker 2: and he did. But Gavin Williams seven shutout at ten
Speaker 2: punch outs, the second time a Cleveland pitcher has struck
Speaker 2: out ten against the Dodgers in the last five years.
Speaker 2: But Yamamoto overall didn't get a lot of swinging misses,
Speaker 2: got a lot of contact from the guardians. When they did,
Speaker 2: they got on base, a lot of traffic as far
Speaker 2: as moving around stealing base.
Speaker 4: What do you think of Yamamoto tonight?
Speaker 10: I would take that start anytime. I don't care about
Speaker 10: the strike coals for the swings and missus, I don't know.
Speaker 10: It's a big part of this game. But they made
Speaker 10: him more and he worked enough where the damage that
Speaker 10: was done was by the bottom of the order, which
Speaker 10: I know really bothers any type of relief pitcher. You
Speaker 10: don't want to get hurt by the bottom of the order.
Speaker 10: They're still big leaguer spot with Yoshi with the kind
Speaker 10: of a Batsford running through, he still make quality pitches
Speaker 10: and he'll I'll take six innings to run any time
Speaker 10: with him. The one thing that it's around the league
Speaker 10: tim the UNI very well is the base running. He
Speaker 10: has to be a little bit more aware with the
Speaker 10: guys on the basis. He did surprise Perdomo the series
Speaker 10: against Arizona, but those things like that when he knows
Speaker 10: he's going to be facing the top guys in the rotation,
Speaker 10: so there's going to be a lot of close ball games.
Speaker 10: That's why he doesn't get a lot of run support
Speaker 10: because he's facing top guys in the other rotation. But
Speaker 10: that's what the importance of attention to the base runners
Speaker 10: and just don't let them cheat on you. Starting with
Speaker 10: him with the middle of the field of the second
Speaker 10: base and himself with guys at the first base, there's
Speaker 10: going to be more than you usual and useful for
Speaker 10: him going forward. But I'll tell you what, man he's
Speaker 10: showing again. Elite pitchers know how to have a chance
Speaker 10: to win for their team even when they're grinding through
Speaker 10: it and when perhaps didn't field the best when it
Speaker 10: comes down to execution.
Speaker 2: Hell, the Dodgers hit the road for the first time
Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty six, Washington, d C. And then Toronto.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a lot of fun going back to
Speaker 2: the Rogers Center. But Washington DC, any spots you like
Speaker 2: to hit up there as a foodie.
Speaker 10: Oh, let's see, I have a lot of Dominican colleagues
Speaker 10: out there with good restaurants, so I'll be hitting them
Speaker 10: up and make a nice donation and hope the fee
Speaker 10: myself some Dominican food.
Speaker 4: Love it, love it. Make a donation. Jose save travels
Speaker 4: and we'll talk to you in a couple of days.
Speaker 10: Oh, I got good talk to you too.
Speaker 2: There he goes, Jose Mota joining us here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: As the Guardians beat the Dodgers four to one. Gavin
Speaker 2: Williams out pitches Yoshinoba Yama Moto seven shutout, innings, ten strikeouts,
Speaker 2: yam a modo. You have a Moto pitch well, six innings,
Speaker 2: two runs, four hits, two strikeouts, had some traffic on
Speaker 2: the base pass and the third inning that led to
Speaker 2: the first run on a throwing air on a stolen
Speaker 2: base attempt a third base and then gabrielle Erase a
Speaker 2: solo home run on the very next pitch made it
Speaker 2: a two to nothing to Guardian's lead. A two run
Speaker 2: home run from Jose Ramirez off Tanner Scott in the
Speaker 2: eighth inning made it a four to nothing Guardian's lead
Speaker 2: before the Dodgers got on the board in the bottom
Speaker 2: half of the ninth, Indian on a solo home run,
Speaker 2: the first of the year from Freddie freeran Freeman abteen
Speaker 2: in Woodland Hills joints us here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Abteen?
Speaker 10: No, how's it going?
Speaker 1: Just the game tonight?
Speaker 10: The you know, the energy was kind of low at.
Speaker 11: Dodgers Stadium, but that's to be expected early in the season,
Speaker 11: and obviously show he still.
Speaker 10: Has to get it going.
Speaker 11: But I think the question on a lot of Dodgers
Speaker 11: fans minds is when do you think we'll call up
Speaker 11: hay song Cam and put him in the lineup. And
Speaker 11: the last thing I just want to say for all
Speaker 11: the Iranian listener.
Speaker 2: As long live your runs all right, appreciate the phone call,
Speaker 2: Hay Song Kim. We'll find out soon what he does
Speaker 2: in Triple A and when there's a spot opening for
Speaker 2: him that he gets to call up. I like to say,
Speaker 2: he's just marinating right now, so to speak.
Speaker 4: In Triple A.
Speaker 2: You know, get me at bats, playing every day and producing.
Speaker 2: And he's gone off to a good start in the
Speaker 2: first couple of games in Triple A Oklahoma City.
Speaker 4: As long as he.
Speaker 2: Continues to quote unquote marinate and you know, just be
Speaker 2: ready when his name is called again, we'll find out
Speaker 2: how soon that is, whether or not it's Alex frielan
Speaker 2: playing himself out of a spot when a right hander
Speaker 2: or left hander is up on the mound.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Miguel Rojas isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 2: He's gonna get a lot of opportunity to play, especially
Speaker 2: against left handers, So I don't know how soon it happens.
Speaker 2: You know, injuries obviously affect a roster, and if that
Speaker 2: is a injury that it brings him up, we'll find
Speaker 2: out if it's because he's out playing somebody at the
Speaker 2: major league level and he can do better that could
Speaker 2: be a reason, but it's six games into the major
Speaker 2: league schedule and less than that in the minor league.
Speaker 2: So let's let him quote unquote marinate a little bit
Speaker 2: more in Triple A. James and North Hollywood wrap things
Speaker 2: up here on Dodger Talk on this Wednesday night after
Speaker 2: the Dodgers lose to the Guardians four to one.
Speaker 4: How you doing, James?
Speaker 10: Good Tim?
Speaker 6: Good Tim?
Speaker 8: Hey.
Speaker 7: You know, I agree that the big dogs are gonna
Speaker 7: eat in this lineup, there's no doubt about that. But
Speaker 7: something that I don't understand, not just with the Dodgers
Speaker 7: but with MLB in general, is I don't understand why
Speaker 7: more managers don't ride the hot hands. So I mean,
Speaker 7: I think the lineup we're running out is going to
Speaker 7: be our lineup more often than not when the guys.
Speaker 10: Are hitting like they're supposed to.
Speaker 7: But you know, riddled me this. What about a top
Speaker 7: of the order right now that looks something like, now,
Speaker 7: I know he's slumping Freddie Freeman, because guy knows how
Speaker 7: to get on base. He hits more doubles than anybody
Speaker 7: on the lineup, and he's a great, you know, base runner,
Speaker 7: So you know, I trust in his pedigree then you
Speaker 7: put Pie in the two hole right now because he's
Speaker 7: hitting everything, and then you put show. Hey. Now, I
Speaker 7: know Sho Hay likes to hit lead off, but fifty
Speaker 7: home runs a season, you know, seems like such a
Speaker 7: waste at the top, you know, of the order. And
Speaker 7: if he hit second or third, I mean, you got
Speaker 7: to feel like he's still gonna get as many at
Speaker 7: bets as the one two guys and it's got to be,
Speaker 7: you know, better for him if he's got to take
Speaker 7: the mound immediately after before. And so you know, I
Speaker 7: would say three games sample size, right, if a guy
Speaker 7: is just oh for twelve and another guy is six
Speaker 7: for twelve, why not ride out the hot hand for
Speaker 7: three games at a time. And you don't see a
Speaker 7: lot of teams do it, and I don't understand why.
Speaker 7: Because hitting is such a streaky thing. Why not ride
Speaker 7: the hot hand?
Speaker 8: Is?
Speaker 10: What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 4: And to counter what you're saying, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: It is a streaky thing, and it's ups and downs
Speaker 2: over the course of one hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 2: Just because you're in a down, just because you're you know,
Speaker 2: as you said in an zero for six an oh
Speaker 2: for ten streak. That doesn't mean you're not going to
Speaker 2: turn things around, and all of a sudden a three
Speaker 2: hit game, a two hit game, a three hit game,
Speaker 2: and next thing you know, you know, you're eight for
Speaker 2: your last fourteen. It could turn as quick as it
Speaker 2: can go bad for a player in baseball. That's why
Speaker 2: you can't. You can't look at a short sample size
Speaker 2: and make a rastisses and say, you know what, we're
Speaker 2: gonna strigger change things around. Oh no, after three more games,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna flip it back and we're gonna beat
Speaker 2: this guy's second.
Speaker 4: You have to let them get into the routine.
Speaker 2: You have to let the you have to let the
Speaker 2: lineup soak a little bit as you will, and get
Speaker 2: used to it on a day to day basis, with
Speaker 2: guys in their respective spots, whether it's leadoff, that in second, patting, fifth, batting, seventh, batting, eighth,
Speaker 2: you know, playing every day playing against left, he's only
Speaker 2: playing against right, he's only in Alex frielan and Miguel Rojas,
Speaker 2: all that stuff. You've gotta let it play out a
Speaker 2: little bit longer, and if it doesn't work after twelve
Speaker 2: fifteen twenty games. Are they all of a sudden just
Speaker 2: gonna blow it up and flip the lineup around? No,
Speaker 2: they're not, you know, but could it be a swight slight,
Speaker 2: you know, tinker in the lineup, Maybe a Will Smith
Speaker 2: drop down, a Tasker moves up, bets, some Tucker flip.
Speaker 4: I mean, they could do multiple things, but they're just
Speaker 4: not gonna do it yet. It is too soon into
Speaker 4: the season.
Speaker 2: You know, we're looking at twenty to thirty at bats
Speaker 2: at most for some of these guys through the first
Speaker 2: six games. You're just you're not gonna start making adjustments yet.
Speaker 4: You're just not. But I appreciate the phone call.
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Speaker 2: Dodgers come up short. They fall to the Cleveland Guardians
Speaker 2: four to one. Gavin Williams seven shoutout Indians ten shrankouts.
Speaker 4: Yoshinobu Yamamoto goes six in.
Speaker 2: Pitched well, two runs, four hits, struck out two kept
Speaker 2: him in the game. The Dodgers' offense just couldn't get
Speaker 2: anything going one through six a combined one for twenty
Speaker 2: one with eight strikeouts. That one hit a solo home
Speaker 2: run from Freddy Freeman in the bottom half of the
Speaker 2: ninth inning.
Speaker 4: Dodgers lose two of three to the.
Speaker 2: Guardians, but they finished off the opening homestand with a
Speaker 2: four and two record.
Speaker 4: After the three game.
Speaker 2: Sweep of the Arizona Diamonbacks Day offt on Thursday, and
Speaker 2: then the Nationals home opener on Friday, we get it
Speaker 2: going at nine A and Pacific first pitch ten oh
Speaker 2: five on the West coast, one to five on the
Speaker 2: East Coast, as the Dodgers started a three game series
Speaker 2: against the Nationals and off to Toronto for three against
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays. Thanks to Coliny, Thanks to all you
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Speaker 4: Please be safe out there. Brad Paisley, Sorry didn't have
Speaker 4: time for you tonight. Maybe another time. Solo everybody,