WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (3-30-26) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.880 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.920 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:11.440 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:12.560 the fifth. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.080 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:15.880 Here we go again. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.720 Brgara Running Back hosted by Dodgers insider David Vase. 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:21.520 Three in the mix. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.799 Dodger Talk is brought to you by La County Public 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:30.000 Works Champions Recycle Beverage Containers make the play Recycle Today, 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.159 and by Children's Hospital LA from Colds to Cancer. We 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.599 got this to get in on the show called eight 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.559 six six nine eighty seven two five seven day and 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.240 be sure to follow Dodger Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.479 Here's your host, David Vasse. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.839 The Dodgers are handed their first loss of the season, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.720 four to two by the Cleveland Guardians. Welcome the Dodger Talk. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.040 David Vassay with you until the top of the hour. 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.319 We have phone lines open at eight six six nine 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.480 to eight seven two five seventy. And the Dodgers were 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.640 not the only undefeated team coming into the game tonight 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:13.480 that lost. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:15.600 There are no more. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:20.440 Unbeaten teams in Major League Baseball. The Yankees lost, the 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.360 Blue Jays lost, the Brewers lost, and the Marlins, of 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.680 all teams, also was undefeated coming into the game tonight 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:33.120 and they lost. So there are no unbeaten teams in 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.759 Major League Baseball. There is just one winless team in baseball, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:42.280 and that is the Sacramento A's eight six six eight 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.280 seven two five seventy is the phone number. The Dodger 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.919 offense just had no answer for a pitcher they haven't 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:54.200 seen before, and that was left hander Parker Messik, who 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.680 kept them off balanced all night long. He pitched six 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.840 scoreless sinnings. And I believe that there's something to be 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.800 said about the fact the Dodger offense hasn't done much 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.799 of anything in the last two games, and not coincidentally, 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.560 against left handed starters Eduardo Rodriguez, who's a pretty good 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.800 pitcher and when he's on his game, he's good. And 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.160 then tonight a left handed twenty five year old Parker 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:23.640 Messik who the Dodgers haven't seen before, and Will Smith 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:28.480 got the scheduled day off. The Dodgers shuffled their lineup 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.160 tonight again with Smith getting the day off. It was 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:36.679 Teoscar Hernandez hitting cleanup in front of Freddy Freeman, who 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.240 was hitting fifth, and it just seems like that's the 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.520 way it's going to be. Even on days where Will 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.280 Smith does get a day off, Freeman is going to 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:50.040 remain hitting fifth against lefties. Now that may change, it 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.120 feels like that's a little late in the lineup to 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.000 have Freddy Freeman be hitting. I love to have Freddy 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.880 back in his familiar cleanup spot, even against lefties. But 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.960 I understand it. It's not just about the starting pitcher. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.960 It's about forcing the manager to make decisions in the 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.280 middle of the game by having as many left right 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.440 left combinations you have. So I understand it. But te 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:19.000 Oscar Hernandez, after a red hot spring training, just hasn't 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.560 had it so far in the first four games. And look, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.760 it's such a small sample size twelve at bats fourteen 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.839 at bats. During the course of a season, you're going 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.400 to see a guy go one for fourteen or two 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:36.160 for twelve like Otani to begin the year. Otani has 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.040 no extra base hits in the first four games of 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.880 the season. He's just won for four tonight, so all 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.360 those factors and the Dodgers are three to one to 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.520 begin the year eight six six seven two five seventy 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.360 is the phone number. We had a chance to catch 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.000 up with Will Smith, by the way on the pregame show, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.640 and we asked him about the ABS system. We'll let 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:02.680 you hear what he had to say in a few 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:06.160 minutes here, but just want to get to Roki Sasaki 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.320 because everybody was so skeptical about what they were going 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.040 to see tonight or how short the outing was going 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.680 to be, and quite honestly, it was better than we 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:21.840 all expected considering everything we've seen from the beginning of 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:26.080 spring training, even bullpen sessions. And I know he only 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.440 threw nine first pitch strikes tonight, and I know he 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.640 only threw forty five strikes tonight, but it was still 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.120 better than anything we've seen since the beginning of spring training. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.600 So that's the reason to be encouraged. Roki went four 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:44.080 plus innings tonight, allowed just one earn run, and Dave 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:48.920 Roberts in his postgame press conference referenced Sasaki striking out 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.960 Jose Ramirez in the third inning. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:52.920 That was Ramirez. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.240 Chasing a ball way out of the strike zone, up 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:59.279 and away. He helps Sazaki in that situation, and I 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.280 know we talked about this a lot or from time 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.200 to time when it's applicable when it's the opposing pitcher 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.159 against the Dodgers. Well, tonight, I felt like Sasaki was 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.039 effectively wild. You look at his spray chart, he was 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:18.000 still all over the place, and the guardians at times, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.880 like Jose Ramirez in the third inning, really helped him out. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:26.000 So I mean, good on Roki for making it look 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.000 like strikes, I guess, or tempting them to swing at it. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.680 But that's the reality of tonight. And also what was 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.240 a little surprising is that he did lean on his 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:40.600 cut fastball that he's been trying to develop since the offseason. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.320 He used that twenty eight percent of the time, So 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.840 I guess that's good as well because he's trusting that 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:51.240 pitch and he used it the second most behind his. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.360 Fastball, his four seam fastballs. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.279 So those were a couple of the highlights that stood 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.880 out to me about his outing tonight. Let's hear from 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:03.000 the guy that caught him, Dalton Rushing on Sports at 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:04.000 l A. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.480 Yeah, I thought that was a quality start for rookie. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.320 It's a good turnaround coming after or coming off the spring. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.000 U The emphasis was getting his zone early and fill 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.880 up his own as much as possible to start, and 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.520 then from there you just kind of get some swing 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:19.640 and miss later and counts. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.960 Think in the evolution of that kind of. 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.480 It's uh, you know, it's a newer pitch to him, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.960 it's a it's a pitch. We're still kind of trying 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:32.760 to understand how. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:33.400 We want to use it. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.000 I think he did a good job of tonight of 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:41.120 using it in the right spots. Obviously we want one 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.600 back on the right field line, but I thought he 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:45.960 was He looked really good overall. 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.760 All right, there's Dalton Rushing who started tonight in place 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.160 of Will Smith. It was the first start of the 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.719 season for Dalton Rushing. Will Smith will be back in 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:01.640 there tomorrow night, and the Dodger off, you know, Will Smith. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.040 I thought the third inning was really sloppy for the Dodgers. 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.600 By the way, now that I'm you know, talking about 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:14.280 Dalton Rushing starting, he was supposed to sacrifice Miguel Rojas 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:15.160 to third base. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:16.680 Instead he pops up a bun. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.000 He gets lucky because Parker Messick misplays it. So you 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.600 got runners at first and second with nobody out when 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.160 you were supposed to have Rojas at third base with 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.440 one out, so I guess, okay, you'll take that. But 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.440 then Miguel Rojas got picked off a second base for 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.960 the first out, and that kind of just derailed whatever 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.760 they may have had going against a young Parker Messick 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:46.000 at Dodger Stadium making his first start here against a 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.360 lethal lineup. They bailed him out there. It was a 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.680 sloppy third inning from the Sasaki top half of the 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.160 third to the bottom half of the third with the 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.120 Dodger offense. Tonight's game brought to you by Modelo Modelo. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:02.200 The mark of a Fighter. Six six seven, two five 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.920 seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Tony 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.000 who was at the game tonight. Hi, Tony, you're on 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.280 Dodger Talk Dave. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.160 How you doing, boss, how's it going? 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.080 I'm right, I'm the one that I caught you up 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:15.880 up upstairs. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.560 I was gonna pour a beer in your head, remember, 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:19.120 Oh yeah, I. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.760 Can forget you almost uh you almost poured the beer 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:22.600 out on the ground. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.880 Oh yeah, I was. I was having a good time. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.880 But anyways, Yeah, the the the Guardians, they played a 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.520 good game. They were good defensively, they were solid. You 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.520 gotta give them that. But yeah, I hear you about 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:41.440 the sloppy play, the sloppy base running. You know, hey, 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.400 it's it's it's fundamental baseball. And now we're gonna be there. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:46.720 We'll be alright, We're all right. 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:48.160 Hey. 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.440 Speaking of good defense, how about Miguel rojas Is catch. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.559 I mean, I thought that was the best player of 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.640 the night tonight where he robbed what could have been 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.720 a blue bass hit in that in that fifth inning 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.640 where he was able to rob Jose Ramirez of a 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.439 seeing eye single to drive in a run. 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.320 To me, that was the best defensive play of the game. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.800 Yes, sir, My daughter and I we were talking about that. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.320 I told her he was done and literally behind second 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.680 base almost and he ran all the way to the 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.200 fell line to that ball. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.120 Not bad for a thirty seven year old Tony. Thanks 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.520 for the phone call and great seeing you, and thank 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.920 you for not pouring that beer on me earlier today. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.600 Outside the press box, let's go out to Noe la Puente. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.640 Did I pronounce your name correctly? 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:32.920 No? A? 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:33.960 Did I say it right? 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:35.640 Yeah? 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.719 He said it right, Dave. It's all good. You could 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.760 say no as well, depends on you. How Yeah, that 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.120 works too, Dave, real quick. I remember a couple of 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:50.280 season ago you had mentioned how pitchers are are taught 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.160 more or less to let gold balls to let the 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.080 defense make plays. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.760 We kind of saw that from both the Guardians and 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.720 the Dodgers, where. 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.880 The pitchers were trying to make plays and not letting 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.960 their defense make the place for themselves. 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:05.480 Yeah. 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.400 What was Robleski gonna do with that ball? By by 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.320 the catcher Hedges? I mean, even if he fields it 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.560 cleanly like he did, he's not he's not making a 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.640 play on it. You just gotta let Munsey make that 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:18.800 play coming in on it. 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.559 Did you did you see them practicing that during spring 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.040 training where they they're tied not to touch the ball. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.640 I mean, that's just an instinct by a pitcher. You 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.319 could practice it all you want, but you know, instincts 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.480 and competitiveness take over. And you know, it was his 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:40.839 first outing of the season and adrenaline's pumping, so I'm 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:41.880 sure that took over. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.280 Yes, they do practice it, by the. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.440 Way, got it, And then I was you know, I 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.080 was happy with Rokie the fact that he wasn't good, 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.439 But the most important thing was he wasn't. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.680 Bad, right, Yeah, I mean it lasted longer than what 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.840 a lot of the Salty Riders thought it would. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.800 Oh my gosh. Yeah, hey, so you know, can't win 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.480 them all day. Hopefully we'll batch back these next couple 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:08.880 of days. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.000 All right, thank you for the phone call, Noe, thank you. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.040 I'll get it right the first time. Next time. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.040 Thank you for calling in. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.240 Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.080 phone number. There was a lot of talk before the 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:26.240 game today about the ABS Challenge system and the results, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.040 and I had a chance to catch up with Will 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.480 Smith before the game tonight, and he's done a pretty 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.679 good job in limited challenges, if you will, so far 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.040 in the first three games of the season. Here's what 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.920 Will Smith had to say about the first three games 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.839 of the year and how the ABS Challenge has gone 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.760 for him and the Dodgers. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:51.640 Yeah, it's it's it's gone. Well, you know, I don't 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:53.559 I don't know. I think it's good for the game, 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.240 and I think, honestly, the best part about it is 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.760 I think the umpires are more locked in, uh, just 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.960 from the get go, you know, just to spring training. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.560 I think you know, there were a lot less overturned 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.960 calls because they were they were locked in, and that's 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.280 that's the most important thing, is you know, just getting 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.720 the call right, and you know they're they're trying to 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.240 do their best too. They get that instant feedback, which 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.080 is great, you know for the rest of the game. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.000 So I think it's I think it's a good thing. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.160 I think we've handled it pretty well. You've got a 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.000 couple of calls go our way using the right situations, 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.040 so it's just been good. It's still kind of a 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.280 learning process and learning different situations and all that stuff, 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.079 but overall, again, pretty good at so far. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.760 Is there a certain etiquette because former umpires have said 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.280 umpires don't want to be embarrassed in front of forty 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.880 fifty thousand fans, So what about that dynamic of it? 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.640 Uh? Yeah, I mean that's that's that's human nature, you know, 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.480 not wanting to be embarrassed in front of a bunch 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.319 of people. It's also you know, embarrassing when you strike 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.439 out and it's a bad call, but you still strikeout 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:01.720 and you got to walk off the field, you know, 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.720 with a man on third or whatever. So just it's 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.080 just about getting the call right, you know, I know, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.120 catching wise, I'm talking to those guys all the time, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.959 and of them want to just get the call right. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.720 They truly care. Some some guys maybe not as much 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.800 and just don't want to be embarrassed or whatever. But uh, 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:23.600 you know, I think overall it's good for the game, 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.120 and I think I think it challenges the umpires a 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.000 little more to be on their a game every single night, 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.400 just like we're required to be. And I think overall 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.400 most of them are really good at their job, and 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.120 that's that's kind of what we're seeing as well too. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:36.840 Hey, I know you're always in the moment. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.400 You got the Guardians starting tonight, but ever since the 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.120 schedule came out, it's hard to ignore that your first 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.640 road trip is taking you to Toronto, the scene of 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.360 where you guys dramatically came back to win the World Series. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.120 Any concern over customs the Mounties when you go back 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:55.520 across the border. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.400 No, no, I'm not concerned. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.000 I was asked the other day if I was actually banned, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.200 and that was that one kind of threw me for 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:03.280 a loop thinking it was real. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.800 But uh, yeah, I did a whole commercial promoting your 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.720 bubblehead going through the security line. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.600 I know that was that was that turned out better 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.160 than I thought. That was pretty good. That was a 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.240 good a good script. I didn't I didn't have any 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.280 part of that other than just kind of reading the lines. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.200 But that was good. But no, it'd be fun. I 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.920 know they're gonna want a little payback on us, so 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:21.440 it should be. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:22.520 It should be a good series. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.520 You know they're they're a really good team again this year, 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.240 so it should be you know, fun, fun over there. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:27.600 All right. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.280 So no concerns over Canadian TSA stopping you a little longer. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.200 You and ROAs you guys have some targets on your 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:35.560 back when you go through TSA. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.680 Yeah, yeah, we'll see, maybe it'll be longer, but no, 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:39.520 it should be fine. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.680 All right. That was part of our conversation with Will Smith. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.360 To hear the full conversation, you can find it on 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.440 the iHeartRadio app and UH ask our own Rick Monday 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.600 what it's like to be a Canadian team in the 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.680 postseason with a home run. He had some run ins 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.760 with the Canadians after that, no doubt about it. But yeah, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.240 it's going to be electric at Rogers Center for a 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:07.280 game in early April, a World Series rematch Dodgers Blue Jays. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:11.040 This early in the season. The schedule makers certainly knew 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.040 what they were doing. Eight six six, nine eighty seven 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.200 two five seventy is the phone number. When we continue 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.280 on Dodger Talk, we'll check in with Jose Mota. We'll 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.080 get you him to update on Blake Snell, and we'll 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.040 let you know how Walker Buehler fared in his Padres debut. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:28.680 A lot to get to between now. 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.920 On the top of the hour, Dodgers fall for the 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.880 first time in twenty six, four to two on the 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.120 back to back World champion Dodgers Audio Network. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.960 On air at AM five to seventy, online at AM 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:50.359 five seventy, LA sports dot com, and available my podcast 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:51.880 on the iHeartRadio app. 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.960 This is Dodger Talk with David Bassin. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:03.040 The Guardians to LA and hand the Dodgers their first 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:07.200 floss of the season. The Dodgers will not be undefeated 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:12.680 despite many of what you thought would happen. Yeah, sorry, 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.080 the Dodgers were not going one sixty two to zero. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.320 They lose their first game tonight four to two to 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.520 the Guardians, and they have two more games to go 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.520 to win this series. That's what they're all about, winning series. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:26.520 And they got a pretty good guy on the mount 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.920 tomorrow to help them do that show. Hao Tani will 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:34.560 be making his season debut as a starting pitcher. Speaking 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.120 of starting pitchers for the Dodgers, I have an update 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.360 on Blake Snell. He told me earlier today that he's 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.800 chopping at the bit to get back out there, but 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.720 he's not going to skip any steps. The Dodgers are 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.120 not going to allow that to happen. He's not on 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.200 the sixty day IL, He's on the fifteen day IL, 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.960 and Dave Roberts already said you know at the beginning 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.920 of the season. Snell is not expected back until the 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.880 end of May, and he is going to throw to 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.119 hitters for the first time. After the Dodgers were turned 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:09.040 back from this first road trip. A former Dodgers starting pitcher, 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.880 Walker Buehler, who was signed by the Red Sox last 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.280 year and then released and caught on with the Phillies 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.040 at the end of the year, made the Padres on 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:21.520 a minor league contract, and tonight was his Padres' debut. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.560 He went four innings tonight took the loss. He gave 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:29.240 up all three runs to the Giants, had three strikeouts 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.960 and two walks. San Diego lost to the Giants tonight, 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:38.119 three to two. The big hit against Walker Bueller was 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:43.119 a Harrison Bader solo home run on a hanging curveball. 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.840 One two pitch date of the air, deep to left 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.800 field where Loreano is back and the first home run 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.800 of the season for the Giants belongs to Harrison Vader. 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.240 It gives them their first lead of twenty twenty six 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.400 solo shot to begin the third inning. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:58.120 It's one to nothing. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.960 Yeah, the College coach led Giants finally won their first game, 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:07.280 unfortunately at the hands of Walker Bueller and the Padres, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.320 and that was ninety seven to three. 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Daniel s Jewelers Own the Dream. 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:32.320 It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota. 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:38.000 All right, Jose Mota, Rochi Sasaki, how would you rate 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:39.240 this start tonight? 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.040 He did well considering the last time un I talked. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:49.440 There's some issues and trust about contact and fastball usage, 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.679 and as he explained earlier today in the show, the 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.359 cuff fastball played in not a whole lot of strike once. 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:58.920 But I think it's a step in the right direction. Though. 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.160 The main thing is when you don't get that strike 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.159 one get back into counts. And I think it was 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.600 quite noticeable the fact that they've been wanted to simplify 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:09.880 things for him, find a way to just get back 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:14.080 into the zone. Forget about velocity, no over usage, the split, 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.399 don't chase strikeouts. And I think today he needs to 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.800 take this one and build off of because there's something 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.879 there's some be done. But certainly I think today he 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:23.800 needed really bad. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:28.000 I heard Rick Monday describe the first two innings as 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:32.240 Sasaki attacking the strike zone, something we hadn't seen since 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:36.040 since spring training started. But then Rick mentioned that he 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:40.040 thought that Sasaki and even Charlie Steiner mentioned this that 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.040 he was searching for the strike zone in the third inning. 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:44.320 Did you see it that way too? 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.639 I think mechanically yes, I agree with with Charlie and 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.840 with Rick. Mechanically it might have gotten a little bit 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.600 too fast for him sometimes maybe thinking about getting outs, 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.160 and that's what happens with young pitchers and as much 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.200 success as he hadn't depand he's still a young guy 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.840 developed in the big league today. So and when things 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.480 start rolling and the other club season for a second time, 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.919 I think there's a little rush to get out instead 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.919 of just slowing the pace knowing that your stuff is working. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.640 And he did against the team that was not very 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.480 good hitting fastballs up in Seattle, and I think that's 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.199 part of the report today that they had obviously that 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.159 to use the fastball a little bit more. We know 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.000 there's a lot of work to be done with a 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.360 secondary pace like a slider. But and then the tumbling 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.760 splitter for today, this and different things. And you know, 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.080 even the strike cut on Ramirez that you're talking about, 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.520 if you think about strikeout pictures and you think about 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:39.960 what allows him to get a bunch of punch outs, 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.840 they're not necessarily gonna be balls in the zone. So 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:45.240 the fact that he had rememves chasing, it's an indication 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.520 to me of remembers respecting what he saw from the 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:52.920 cut fastball and for the fastball to wanting to get 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.640