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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vasse.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are handed their first loss of the season,
Speaker 2: four to two by the Cleveland Guardians. Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vassay with you until the top of the hour.
Speaker 2: We have phone lines open at eight six six nine
Speaker 2: to eight seven two five seventy. And the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: not the only undefeated team coming into the game tonight
Speaker 2: that lost.
Speaker 3: There are no more.
Speaker 2: Unbeaten teams in Major League Baseball. The Yankees lost, the
Speaker 2: Blue Jays lost, the Brewers lost, and the Marlins, of
Speaker 2: all teams, also was undefeated coming into the game tonight
Speaker 2: and they lost. So there are no unbeaten teams in
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. There is just one winless team in baseball,
Speaker 2: and that is the Sacramento A's eight six six eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. The Dodger
Speaker 2: offense just had no answer for a pitcher they haven't
Speaker 2: seen before, and that was left hander Parker Messik, who
Speaker 2: kept them off balanced all night long. He pitched six
Speaker 2: scoreless sinnings. And I believe that there's something to be
Speaker 2: said about the fact the Dodger offense hasn't done much
Speaker 2: of anything in the last two games, and not coincidentally,
Speaker 2: against left handed starters Eduardo Rodriguez, who's a pretty good
Speaker 2: pitcher and when he's on his game, he's good. And
Speaker 2: then tonight a left handed twenty five year old Parker
Speaker 2: Messik who the Dodgers haven't seen before, and Will Smith
Speaker 2: got the scheduled day off. The Dodgers shuffled their lineup
Speaker 2: tonight again with Smith getting the day off. It was
Speaker 2: Teoscar Hernandez hitting cleanup in front of Freddy Freeman, who
Speaker 2: was hitting fifth, and it just seems like that's the
Speaker 2: way it's going to be. Even on days where Will
Speaker 2: Smith does get a day off, Freeman is going to
Speaker 2: remain hitting fifth against lefties. Now that may change, it
Speaker 2: feels like that's a little late in the lineup to
Speaker 2: have Freddy Freeman be hitting. I love to have Freddy
Speaker 2: back in his familiar cleanup spot, even against lefties. But
Speaker 2: I understand it. It's not just about the starting pitcher.
Speaker 2: It's about forcing the manager to make decisions in the
Speaker 2: middle of the game by having as many left right
Speaker 2: left combinations you have. So I understand it. But te
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez, after a red hot spring training, just hasn't
Speaker 2: had it so far in the first four games. And look,
Speaker 2: it's such a small sample size twelve at bats fourteen
Speaker 2: at bats. During the course of a season, you're going
Speaker 2: to see a guy go one for fourteen or two
Speaker 2: for twelve like Otani to begin the year. Otani has
Speaker 2: no extra base hits in the first four games of
Speaker 2: the season. He's just won for four tonight, so all
Speaker 2: those factors and the Dodgers are three to one to
Speaker 2: begin the year eight six six seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. We had a chance to catch
Speaker 2: up with Will Smith, by the way on the pregame show,
Speaker 2: and we asked him about the ABS system. We'll let
Speaker 2: you hear what he had to say in a few
Speaker 2: minutes here, but just want to get to Roki Sasaki
Speaker 2: because everybody was so skeptical about what they were going
Speaker 2: to see tonight or how short the outing was going
Speaker 2: to be, and quite honestly, it was better than we
Speaker 2: all expected considering everything we've seen from the beginning of
Speaker 2: spring training, even bullpen sessions. And I know he only
Speaker 2: threw nine first pitch strikes tonight, and I know he
Speaker 2: only threw forty five strikes tonight, but it was still
Speaker 2: better than anything we've seen since the beginning of spring training.
Speaker 2: So that's the reason to be encouraged. Roki went four
Speaker 2: plus innings tonight, allowed just one earn run, and Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts in his postgame press conference referenced Sasaki striking out
Speaker 2: Jose Ramirez in the third inning.
Speaker 3: That was Ramirez.
Speaker 2: Chasing a ball way out of the strike zone, up
Speaker 2: and away. He helps Sazaki in that situation, and I
Speaker 2: know we talked about this a lot or from time
Speaker 2: to time when it's applicable when it's the opposing pitcher
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers. Well, tonight, I felt like Sasaki was
Speaker 2: effectively wild. You look at his spray chart, he was
Speaker 2: still all over the place, and the guardians at times,
Speaker 2: like Jose Ramirez in the third inning, really helped him out.
Speaker 2: So I mean, good on Roki for making it look
Speaker 2: like strikes, I guess, or tempting them to swing at it.
Speaker 2: But that's the reality of tonight. And also what was
Speaker 2: a little surprising is that he did lean on his
Speaker 2: cut fastball that he's been trying to develop since the offseason.
Speaker 2: He used that twenty eight percent of the time, So
Speaker 2: I guess that's good as well because he's trusting that
Speaker 2: pitch and he used it the second most behind his.
Speaker 3: Fastball, his four seam fastballs.
Speaker 2: So those were a couple of the highlights that stood
Speaker 2: out to me about his outing tonight. Let's hear from
Speaker 2: the guy that caught him, Dalton Rushing on Sports at
Speaker 2: l A.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought that was a quality start for rookie.
Speaker 5: It's a good turnaround coming after or coming off the spring.
Speaker 5: U The emphasis was getting his zone early and fill
Speaker 5: up his own as much as possible to start, and
Speaker 5: then from there you just kind of get some swing
Speaker 5: and miss later and counts.
Speaker 1: Think in the evolution of that kind of.
Speaker 5: It's uh, you know, it's a newer pitch to him,
Speaker 5: it's a it's a pitch. We're still kind of trying
Speaker 5: to understand how.
Speaker 3: We want to use it.
Speaker 5: I think he did a good job of tonight of
Speaker 5: using it in the right spots. Obviously we want one
Speaker 5: back on the right field line, but I thought he
Speaker 5: was He looked really good overall.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Dalton Rushing who started tonight in place
Speaker 2: of Will Smith. It was the first start of the
Speaker 2: season for Dalton Rushing. Will Smith will be back in
Speaker 2: there tomorrow night, and the Dodger off, you know, Will Smith.
Speaker 2: I thought the third inning was really sloppy for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: By the way, now that I'm you know, talking about
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing starting, he was supposed to sacrifice Miguel Rojas
Speaker 2: to third base.
Speaker 3: Instead he pops up a bun.
Speaker 2: He gets lucky because Parker Messick misplays it. So you
Speaker 2: got runners at first and second with nobody out when
Speaker 2: you were supposed to have Rojas at third base with
Speaker 2: one out, so I guess, okay, you'll take that. But
Speaker 2: then Miguel Rojas got picked off a second base for
Speaker 2: the first out, and that kind of just derailed whatever
Speaker 2: they may have had going against a young Parker Messick
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium making his first start here against a
Speaker 2: lethal lineup. They bailed him out there. It was a
Speaker 2: sloppy third inning from the Sasaki top half of the
Speaker 2: third to the bottom half of the third with the
Speaker 2: Dodger offense. Tonight's game brought to you by Modelo Modelo.
Speaker 2: The mark of a Fighter. Six six seven, two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Tony
Speaker 2: who was at the game tonight. Hi, Tony, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk Dave.
Speaker 6: How you doing, boss, how's it going?
Speaker 7: I'm right, I'm the one that I caught you up
Speaker 7: up upstairs.
Speaker 6: I was gonna pour a beer in your head, remember,
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Can forget you almost uh you almost poured the beer
Speaker 2: out on the ground.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I was. I was having a good time.
Speaker 6: But anyways, Yeah, the the the Guardians, they played a
Speaker 6: good game. They were good defensively, they were solid. You
Speaker 6: gotta give them that. But yeah, I hear you about
Speaker 6: the sloppy play, the sloppy base running. You know, hey,
Speaker 6: it's it's it's fundamental baseball. And now we're gonna be there.
Speaker 6: We'll be alright, We're all right.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 2: Speaking of good defense, how about Miguel rojas Is catch.
Speaker 2: I mean, I thought that was the best player of
Speaker 2: the night tonight where he robbed what could have been
Speaker 2: a blue bass hit in that in that fifth inning
Speaker 2: where he was able to rob Jose Ramirez of a
Speaker 2: seeing eye single to drive in a run.
Speaker 3: To me, that was the best defensive play of the game.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, My daughter and I we were talking about that.
Speaker 6: I told her he was done and literally behind second
Speaker 6: base almost and he ran all the way to the
Speaker 6: fell line to that ball.
Speaker 2: Not bad for a thirty seven year old Tony. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the phone call and great seeing you, and thank
Speaker 2: you for not pouring that beer on me earlier today.
Speaker 2: Outside the press box, let's go out to Noe la Puente.
Speaker 2: Did I pronounce your name correctly?
Speaker 8: No? A?
Speaker 3: Did I say it right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: He said it right, Dave. It's all good. You could
Speaker 8: say no as well, depends on you. How Yeah, that
Speaker 8: works too, Dave, real quick. I remember a couple of
Speaker 8: season ago you had mentioned how pitchers are are taught
Speaker 8: more or less to let gold balls to let the
Speaker 8: defense make plays.
Speaker 7: We kind of saw that from both the Guardians and
Speaker 7: the Dodgers, where.
Speaker 8: The pitchers were trying to make plays and not letting
Speaker 8: their defense make the place for themselves.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What was Robleski gonna do with that ball? By by
Speaker 2: the catcher Hedges? I mean, even if he fields it
Speaker 2: cleanly like he did, he's not he's not making a
Speaker 2: play on it. You just gotta let Munsey make that
Speaker 2: play coming in on it.
Speaker 8: Did you did you see them practicing that during spring
Speaker 8: training where they they're tied not to touch the ball.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just an instinct by a pitcher. You
Speaker 2: could practice it all you want, but you know, instincts
Speaker 2: and competitiveness take over. And you know, it was his
Speaker 2: first outing of the season and adrenaline's pumping, so I'm
Speaker 2: sure that took over.
Speaker 3: Yes, they do practice it, by the.
Speaker 8: Way, got it, And then I was you know, I
Speaker 8: was happy with Rokie the fact that he wasn't good,
Speaker 8: But the most important thing was he wasn't.
Speaker 2: Bad, right, Yeah, I mean it lasted longer than what
Speaker 2: a lot of the Salty Riders thought it would.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh. Yeah, hey, so you know, can't win
Speaker 7: them all day. Hopefully we'll batch back these next couple
Speaker 7: of days.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you for the phone call, Noe, thank you.
Speaker 2: I'll get it right the first time. Next time.
Speaker 3: Thank you for calling in.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. There was a lot of talk before the
Speaker 2: game today about the ABS Challenge system and the results,
Speaker 2: and I had a chance to catch up with Will
Speaker 2: Smith before the game tonight, and he's done a pretty
Speaker 2: good job in limited challenges, if you will, so far
Speaker 2: in the first three games of the season. Here's what
Speaker 2: Will Smith had to say about the first three games
Speaker 2: of the year and how the ABS Challenge has gone
Speaker 2: for him and the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's it's gone. Well, you know, I don't
Speaker 9: I don't know. I think it's good for the game,
Speaker 9: and I think, honestly, the best part about it is
Speaker 9: I think the umpires are more locked in, uh, just
Speaker 9: from the get go, you know, just to spring training.
Speaker 9: I think you know, there were a lot less overturned
Speaker 9: calls because they were they were locked in, and that's
Speaker 9: that's the most important thing, is you know, just getting
Speaker 9: the call right, and you know they're they're trying to
Speaker 9: do their best too. They get that instant feedback, which
Speaker 9: is great, you know for the rest of the game.
Speaker 9: So I think it's I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 9: I think we've handled it pretty well. You've got a
Speaker 9: couple of calls go our way using the right situations,
Speaker 9: so it's just been good. It's still kind of a
Speaker 9: learning process and learning different situations and all that stuff,
Speaker 9: but overall, again, pretty good at so far.
Speaker 2: Is there a certain etiquette because former umpires have said
Speaker 2: umpires don't want to be embarrassed in front of forty
Speaker 2: fifty thousand fans, So what about that dynamic of it?
Speaker 9: Uh? Yeah, I mean that's that's that's human nature, you know,
Speaker 9: not wanting to be embarrassed in front of a bunch
Speaker 9: of people. It's also you know, embarrassing when you strike
Speaker 9: out and it's a bad call, but you still strikeout
Speaker 9: and you got to walk off the field, you know,
Speaker 9: with a man on third or whatever. So just it's
Speaker 9: just about getting the call right, you know, I know,
Speaker 9: catching wise, I'm talking to those guys all the time,
Speaker 9: and of them want to just get the call right.
Speaker 9: They truly care. Some some guys maybe not as much
Speaker 9: and just don't want to be embarrassed or whatever. But uh,
Speaker 9: you know, I think overall it's good for the game,
Speaker 9: and I think I think it challenges the umpires a
Speaker 9: little more to be on their a game every single night,
Speaker 9: just like we're required to be. And I think overall
Speaker 9: most of them are really good at their job, and
Speaker 9: that's that's kind of what we're seeing as well too.
Speaker 3: Hey, I know you're always in the moment.
Speaker 2: You got the Guardians starting tonight, but ever since the
Speaker 2: schedule came out, it's hard to ignore that your first
Speaker 2: road trip is taking you to Toronto, the scene of
Speaker 2: where you guys dramatically came back to win the World Series.
Speaker 2: Any concern over customs the Mounties when you go back
Speaker 2: across the border.
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm not concerned.
Speaker 9: I was asked the other day if I was actually banned,
Speaker 9: and that was that one kind of threw me for
Speaker 9: a loop thinking it was real.
Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, I did a whole commercial promoting your
Speaker 2: bubblehead going through the security line.
Speaker 9: I know that was that was that turned out better
Speaker 9: than I thought. That was pretty good. That was a
Speaker 9: good a good script. I didn't I didn't have any
Speaker 9: part of that other than just kind of reading the lines.
Speaker 9: But that was good. But no, it'd be fun. I
Speaker 9: know they're gonna want a little payback on us, so
Speaker 9: it should be.
Speaker 3: It should be a good series.
Speaker 9: You know they're they're a really good team again this year,
Speaker 9: so it should be you know, fun, fun over there.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 2: So no concerns over Canadian TSA stopping you a little longer.
Speaker 2: You and ROAs you guys have some targets on your
Speaker 2: back when you go through TSA.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, we'll see, maybe it'll be longer, but no,
Speaker 9: it should be fine.
Speaker 3: All right. That was part of our conversation with Will Smith.
Speaker 2: To hear the full conversation, you can find it on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app and UH ask our own Rick Monday
Speaker 2: what it's like to be a Canadian team in the
Speaker 2: postseason with a home run. He had some run ins
Speaker 2: with the Canadians after that, no doubt about it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's going to be electric at Rogers Center for a
Speaker 2: game in early April, a World Series rematch Dodgers Blue Jays.
Speaker 2: This early in the season. The schedule makers certainly knew
Speaker 2: what they were doing. Eight six six, nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. When we continue
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk, we'll check in with Jose Mota. We'll
Speaker 2: get you him to update on Blake Snell, and we'll
Speaker 2: let you know how Walker Buehler fared in his Padres debut.
Speaker 3: A lot to get to between now.
Speaker 2: On the top of the hour, Dodgers fall for the
Speaker 2: first time in twenty six, four to two on the
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Speaker 1: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassin.
Speaker 2: The Guardians to LA and hand the Dodgers their first
Speaker 2: floss of the season. The Dodgers will not be undefeated
Speaker 2: despite many of what you thought would happen. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were not going one sixty two to zero.
Speaker 2: They lose their first game tonight four to two to
Speaker 2: the Guardians, and they have two more games to go
Speaker 2: to win this series. That's what they're all about, winning series.
Speaker 2: And they got a pretty good guy on the mount
Speaker 2: tomorrow to help them do that show. Hao Tani will
Speaker 2: be making his season debut as a starting pitcher. Speaking
Speaker 2: of starting pitchers for the Dodgers, I have an update
Speaker 2: on Blake Snell. He told me earlier today that he's
Speaker 2: chopping at the bit to get back out there, but
Speaker 2: he's not going to skip any steps. The Dodgers are
Speaker 2: not going to allow that to happen. He's not on
Speaker 2: the sixty day IL, He's on the fifteen day IL,
Speaker 2: and Dave Roberts already said you know at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the season. Snell is not expected back until the
Speaker 2: end of May, and he is going to throw to
Speaker 2: hitters for the first time. After the Dodgers were turned
Speaker 2: back from this first road trip. A former Dodgers starting pitcher,
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler, who was signed by the Red Sox last
Speaker 2: year and then released and caught on with the Phillies
Speaker 2: at the end of the year, made the Padres on
Speaker 2: a minor league contract, and tonight was his Padres' debut.
Speaker 2: He went four innings tonight took the loss. He gave
Speaker 2: up all three runs to the Giants, had three strikeouts
Speaker 2: and two walks. San Diego lost to the Giants tonight,
Speaker 2: three to two. The big hit against Walker Bueller was
Speaker 2: a Harrison Bader solo home run on a hanging curveball.
Speaker 10: One two pitch date of the air, deep to left
Speaker 10: field where Loreano is back and the first home run
Speaker 10: of the season for the Giants belongs to Harrison Vader.
Speaker 10: It gives them their first lead of twenty twenty six
Speaker 10: solo shot to begin the third inning.
Speaker 3: It's one to nothing.
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota, Rochi Sasaki, how would you rate
Speaker 2: this start tonight?
Speaker 7: He did well considering the last time un I talked.
Speaker 7: There's some issues and trust about contact and fastball usage,
Speaker 7: and as he explained earlier today in the show, the
Speaker 7: cuff fastball played in not a whole lot of strike once.
Speaker 7: But I think it's a step in the right direction. Though.
Speaker 7: The main thing is when you don't get that strike
Speaker 7: one get back into counts. And I think it was
Speaker 7: quite noticeable the fact that they've been wanted to simplify
Speaker 7: things for him, find a way to just get back
Speaker 7: into the zone. Forget about velocity, no over usage, the split,
Speaker 7: don't chase strikeouts. And I think today he needs to
Speaker 7: take this one and build off of because there's something
Speaker 7: there's some be done. But certainly I think today he
Speaker 7: needed really bad.
Speaker 2: I heard Rick Monday describe the first two innings as
Speaker 2: Sasaki attacking the strike zone, something we hadn't seen since
Speaker 2: since spring training started. But then Rick mentioned that he
Speaker 2: thought that Sasaki and even Charlie Steiner mentioned this that
Speaker 2: he was searching for the strike zone in the third inning.
Speaker 3: Did you see it that way too?
Speaker 7: I think mechanically yes, I agree with with Charlie and
Speaker 7: with Rick. Mechanically it might have gotten a little bit
Speaker 7: too fast for him sometimes maybe thinking about getting outs,
Speaker 7: and that's what happens with young pitchers and as much
Speaker 7: success as he hadn't depand he's still a young guy
Speaker 7: developed in the big league today. So and when things
Speaker 7: start rolling and the other club season for a second time,
Speaker 7: I think there's a little rush to get out instead
Speaker 7: of just slowing the pace knowing that your stuff is working.
Speaker 7: And he did against the team that was not very
Speaker 7: good hitting fastballs up in Seattle, and I think that's
Speaker 7: part of the report today that they had obviously that
Speaker 7: to use the fastball a little bit more. We know
Speaker 7: there's a lot of work to be done with a
Speaker 7: secondary pace like a slider. But and then the tumbling
Speaker 7: splitter for today, this and different things. And you know,
Speaker 7: even the strike cut on Ramirez that you're talking about,
Speaker 7: if you think about strikeout pictures and you think about
Speaker 7: what allows him to get a bunch of punch outs,
Speaker 7: they're not necessarily gonna be balls in the zone. So
Speaker 7: the fact that he had rememves chasing, it's an indication
Speaker 7: to me of remembers respecting what he saw from the
Speaker 7: cut fastball and for the fastball to wanting to get
Speaker 7: something softer in the zone, and that bo just going
Speaker 7: out there and telling on him, But he needs to
Speaker 7: get back to, you know, staying through the whole game mechanically,
Speaker 7: to lost this load a little bit more and continue
Speaker 7: building one any end to the other.
Speaker 2: It's hard to celebrate starting pitcher that only goes four
Speaker 2: plus sinnings. I know it's early in the season, is
Speaker 2: first start of the year, but I guess it's it's
Speaker 2: kind of strange to for the Dodgers side of things
Speaker 2: to kind of be pleasantly surprised from what they saw tonight.
Speaker 3: How do you how do you how do you reconcile
Speaker 3: all that?
Speaker 7: I think you reconciled no.
Speaker 8: One.
Speaker 7: Also, another big point that Steven both made before the
Speaker 7: game down the Duggat was hey, we saw this guy
Speaker 7: in the spring training recently back on March third, and
Speaker 7: they scored four runs of him with a whole run
Speaker 7: only a couple of innings. So whatever he did and
Speaker 7: adjusting to the hitters was ideal. Dave, I think there's
Speaker 7: times in which he can roll a breaking ball for
Speaker 7: strike and have hitters thinking even more, Okay, you got
Speaker 7: to respect ninety five ninety eight, right, and then you
Speaker 7: got to respect the fourth ball splitter. But I think
Speaker 7: having the cutter at the starting point for a slider
Speaker 7: to get the ball over for a strike. It's going
Speaker 7: to be important, but I think you know, overall, he
Speaker 7: needs to know that to Tasch, the test in the
Speaker 7: Big League is not about celebrating four things. We do
Speaker 7: it because obviously we know what we went through last year,
Speaker 7: what he went through the spring training, But there's way
Speaker 7: more in that tank, and I think the talent he
Speaker 7: continue to be for him to go out there and
Speaker 7: keep his team in the game no matter who loo's facing,
Speaker 7: and to trust the stuff without having to earn or
Speaker 7: look for the shot cut to have that weapon. Round
Speaker 7: ball is a good weapon for him. We threw a
Speaker 7: couple of sinkers today that I think we're effective in
Speaker 7: at least opening his own up for him in different ways.
Speaker 2: Jose Mote is joining us on Dodger Talk after the
Speaker 2: Guardians defeat the Dodgers tonight by a final score of
Speaker 2: four to two. What do you make of the Dodger
Speaker 2: offense tonight against Parker Messik? Was it Messick or was
Speaker 2: it the Dodger hitters? Maybe taking that Sunday fun day
Speaker 2: into Monday.
Speaker 7: Dad, I'm gonna make it the Dodgers offer those first
Speaker 7: few games is one that there's way more to be desired.
Speaker 7: They only hit two twenty two against Arizona. They hit
Speaker 7: the five home runs, which is great, but consider one thing.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers did not get a walk today. So let's
Speaker 7: put it this way. The Guardians did not issue a walk.
Speaker 7: We know that when the Dodgers don't walk, there's issues.
Speaker 7: And today the plan for Carl Willis was attack and
Speaker 7: keep attacking and pitching backwards. It look messic did pitching
Speaker 7: backwards a lot of brick and ball counts that he
Speaker 7: utilized the fastball. Same thing with Sobrowski. That kid has
Speaker 7: a big arm and come in a big situation to
Speaker 7: throw a lot of fastballs too. So I think overall,
Speaker 7: even though the power has been for the Dodgers, it's great,
Speaker 7: but I know that there's way more continuity in the
Speaker 7: offensive side of things that you need to get better at,
Speaker 7: especially when it comes out to the fundamental game and
Speaker 7: just prolonging them. It's been like spurts here and there,
Speaker 7: you fall behind, a couple of guys, get on big,
Speaker 7: they sit and sweep Arizona. But now a different muscle,
Speaker 7: you don't walk people, and I he's just so way
Speaker 7: too many.
Speaker 3: Fast up.
Speaker 7: That's tonight where you control a little bit more at
Speaker 7: the temple and knowing that, Dave, you're not gonna win
Speaker 7: every single game. You're gonna run into a guy that
Speaker 7: you haven't seen before and look what happens. And that's
Speaker 7: We've seen that happen many times against many teams. But
Speaker 7: I know there's way more in the tank in terms
Speaker 7: of continuity and have a better at schule of Dodgers
Speaker 7: on the defensive side.
Speaker 2: Love it, Jose, great way to cap, have a synopsis
Speaker 2: of what's been going on with this Dodger offense and
Speaker 2: hopefully tomorrow is the day it breaks out. Show Hey,
Speaker 2: Otani can help himself. He's starting tomorrow and that's always exciting,
Speaker 2: the first start of the season for Otani.
Speaker 3: Can't wait to see you out here tomorrow night. It
Speaker 3: should be.
Speaker 1: Electric, David.
Speaker 7: I'm looking forward seeing you and the big showing them
Speaker 7: ound the big trumpshot.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks a lot, there he goes Jose Mota, part
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. Before we say goodnight,
Speaker 2: got to give a shout out to one of Dave Roberts'
Speaker 2: special guests out here at Dodgers Stadium tonight and that
Speaker 2: it was Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: Ty Simpson was out here as a guest of Dave Roberts,
Speaker 2: and Dave went back to Alabama during the offseason. Somehow,
Speaker 2: some way, he's become friends with the head football coach
Speaker 2: at Alabama and he actually spoke to the team, so
Speaker 2: I guess that's the connection. And I had a chance
Speaker 2: to talk to Ty Simpson when he was on the
Speaker 2: field and he told me he's a huge baseball fan.
Speaker 2: In fact, so much of a baseball fan and a
Speaker 2: baseball player that he played for the same travel ball
Speaker 2: coach in Nashville that Mookie Betts played for. He wanted
Speaker 2: to be a shortstoper outfielder, he said that was his
Speaker 2: position growing up in high school. So he was a
Speaker 2: baseball player as well as a quarterback. And it went
Speaker 2: as far as him wanting to play baseball college baseball
Speaker 2: at the University of Alabama until Nick Saban said, no chance,
Speaker 2: you are not playing baseball. You're going to be the
Speaker 2: Alabama quarterback. No baseball. So that's when the baseball career ended.
Speaker 2: But he grew up loving college baseball, being in Nashville
Speaker 2: Braves Country. He was a Braves fan growing up. Danceby
Speaker 2: Swanson one of his favorite players, And he told me
Speaker 2: he went to the Danceby Swanson baseball clinic when Swanson
Speaker 2: was at Vanderbilt and he saw Walker Bueller pitch at Vanderbilt.
Speaker 2: So how about that Ty Simpson in the house tonight
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium and a big baseball guy, So there
Speaker 2: you go. Never would have known that great kid, by
Speaker 2: the way, very humble, and I'm hoping that the Rams
Speaker 2: somehow someway keep him in LA. We love to have
Speaker 2: Ty Simpson backing up Matthew Stafford and become the heir
Speaker 2: apparent only because I met him and I like him
Speaker 2: and he likes baseball, So there we go. No, he
Speaker 2: could be a steal of the NFL draft, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow show hey O Taani on the mound for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Tanner Biby will start the game for Cleveland. We think
Speaker 2: he's listed still, but something to keep in mind.
Speaker 3: Like we mentioned.
Speaker 2: Earlier, he did leave his first start of the year
Speaker 2: with shoulder discomfort, so something to keep in mind. And
Speaker 2: not only is it Otani Knight it's also Yoshi Bobblehead Night.
Speaker 2: It's expected to be a sellout crowd if it's not already.
Speaker 2: Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at six o'clock. First
Speaker 2: pitch at seven ten and memo to anybody that has
Speaker 2: my phone number, No, I cannot get you a bobblehead.
Speaker 2: I've had so many randos, well even not even rando's
Speaker 2: like close family friends like my father in law asking
Speaker 2: me for an extra bobblehead. All right, I'll get it
Speaker 2: for him. But that's it. That's where I draw the line. Anyway,
Speaker 2: get here early for the Yoshi Bobblehead. Thanks to Colinie
Speaker 2: back at our Burbank studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald here
Speaker 2: at the ballpark, and thanks to you for listening. In
Speaker 2: case you missed any of the show, you can find
Speaker 2: it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: Once again.
Speaker 2: The final score of the Guardians hand the Dodgers their
Speaker 2: first loss of the year, four to two. Fox Sports Radios. Next,
Speaker 2: in fact, it's the Ben Maller time. Yeah Ben Maller,
Speaker 2: remember that. Yeah, he's on next. Have a great rest
Speaker 2: of your night.
Speaker 3: See you, look at you.
Speaker 6: It's truth.
Speaker 1: Time.
Speaker 2: Send it away.