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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Basset Day.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk. David vasse with you until four
Speaker 2: point thirty this afternoon, leading you up to Petros and money.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers close out this six game homestand with a
Speaker 2: disappointing series against the Marlins. Today. They fall three to
Speaker 2: two on getaway Day and lose two out of three
Speaker 2: to Miami for the first time since April of twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: That's when Don Manningly was managing the Marlins. That's when
Speaker 2: Christian Yelich, John Carlos Stanton, we're still living on South Beach.
Speaker 2: But Clayton McCullough has somehow, some way found a way
Speaker 2: to inspire the young Marlins who do have talent, and
Speaker 2: they did not back down, did not flinch against the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in this series, and they beat the Dodgers two
Speaker 2: out of three, including the last two games of this series.
Speaker 2: Today the final score three to two, last night two
Speaker 2: to one. We have phone lines open at eight six
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven, two five seventy. Jose Mota will
Speaker 2: join us at four point fifteen. Plus I had a
Speaker 2: chance to catch up with Mookie Betts to get an
Speaker 2: update on where he's at in his recovery from a
Speaker 2: strained rhyd obleique strain. So we'll tell talk to Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts about his strained right O bleak and where he's
Speaker 2: at and when he may come back. Also, we'll get
Speaker 2: some postgame reaction here. But look, the Dodgers last night,
Speaker 2: even talking to some of the guys this morning. Last
Speaker 2: night was a very uninspired effort by the Dodgers' offense.
Speaker 2: They were first pitch swinging against a guy named Jansen
Speaker 2: Junk who had not pitched that well since a year ago,
Speaker 2: and he pitched six scoreless innings against them. I don't
Speaker 2: know how anybody could say that the Dodgers were good
Speaker 2: against the Marlin starters when Sandy al Kintara, who's one
Speaker 2: of the best, but the Dodgers got to him last
Speaker 2: year and last night didn't do anything against Jansen Junk,
Speaker 2: who pitched six scoreless innings. So I don't know how
Speaker 2: anybody could say the Dodger offense was good against the
Speaker 2: Marlin starters. And it was a frustrating end to the
Speaker 2: homestand a frustrating end to today's game, and a frustrating
Speaker 2: end for Freddie Freeman, who did not have a very
Speaker 2: good homestand he was zero for five today he grounds
Speaker 2: into the game ending double play and he's just three
Speaker 2: for twenty five to finish up this Homestand so maybe
Speaker 2: the road will do Freddy some good. But I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna say that he looks old and just put that
Speaker 2: blanket over him or put that label on him. He
Speaker 2: is thirty six years old. He plays every day, he
Speaker 2: wants to play every day. But there are certain games
Speaker 2: so far this season that he does look sluggish. He
Speaker 2: does look I don't want to say old, but he
Speaker 2: does look like a guy that needs a day off.
Speaker 2: But he doesn't want a day off. He doesn't want
Speaker 2: a DH. Last night, Otani was not the DH. Dalton
Speaker 2: Rushing was the DH. Freddy Freeman was playing first base.
Speaker 2: So at some point this season, the Dodgers are going
Speaker 2: to have to convince Freddy free that taking a day
Speaker 2: off or dhing when Otani's not is going to benefit
Speaker 2: him in the long run. I know he wants hits.
Speaker 2: I know he wants to achieve three thousand hits, but
Speaker 2: going oh for five is not going to help him.
Speaker 2: Going three for twenty five on a homestand is not
Speaker 2: going to help him. It's not helping the Dodgers. So
Speaker 2: at some point I feel like you got to see
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing more at first base, or Keike Hernandez when
Speaker 2: he comes back, or maybe even Santiago Espinal. But my
Speaker 2: first choice is Dalton Rushing at first base on the
Speaker 2: days that Freddie Freeman gets a day off or if
Speaker 2: he's dching. But this is not all on Freddy. There
Speaker 2: were a lot of guys on this homestand that did
Speaker 2: not perform very well. Not only was Freddy three for
Speaker 2: twenty five, ti Oscar Hernandez, who did not get the
Speaker 2: start today. I thought that was interesting because he has
Speaker 2: really good numbers against Sandy Alkintara, and not too many
Speaker 2: guys can say that. Taoscar Hernandez on this homestand it
Speaker 2: was just three for sixteen. Hey, Sung Kim, who had
Speaker 2: a very nice road trip, was just five for twenty
Speaker 2: on this homestand and did not draw a single walk.
Speaker 2: So that's not ideal from your number eight hitter either.
Speaker 2: So those are the type of situational things that Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts is talking about. Kyle Tucker had his first walk
Speaker 2: off hit as a Dodger on Friday Night. It took
Speaker 2: a Kyle Tucker walk off base hit to beat the
Speaker 2: Marlins on Friday night. Let's not forget that, or the
Speaker 2: Dodgers could have been facing a sweep today and that
Speaker 2: certainly would not have set well with anybody. But these
Speaker 2: are the points in time in a season that you're
Speaker 2: going to have. I'm not going to freak out. I mean,
Speaker 2: you want to put it into context. I'd rather be
Speaker 2: the Dodgers at twenty eleven and losing two out of
Speaker 2: three to the Marlins than being where the Mets are,
Speaker 2: being where the Phillies are, being where the Red Sox are.
Speaker 2: I'd rather be where the Dodgers are. But games like this,
Speaker 2: games like last night, are frustrating in the moment. And
Speaker 2: today in the eighth inning, I was a little surprised
Speaker 2: that Dave Roberts decided to pinch hit for Max Munsey
Speaker 2: and Dalton Rushing in that eighth inning against Andrew Nardi,
Speaker 2: the left handed reliever for the Marlins. Munsey, by the way,
Speaker 2: has been excuse me. It was against John King, the
Speaker 2: left hander for the Marlins, who's really good. He was
Speaker 2: in the game in the eighth inning, the left hander,
Speaker 2: and basically, you know, righty's and lefties aren't doing much
Speaker 2: against John King. But Will Smith to start the year
Speaker 2: is hitting just a buck eighty eight against lefties, and
Speaker 2: he pinch hit Will Smith for Max Munsey in that
Speaker 2: eighth inning. And then Dalton Rushing, who is mashing lefties
Speaker 2: and righties almost four hundred against both, is pinch hit
Speaker 2: for Miguel Rojas. I didn't get that. You know, a
Speaker 2: lot of times rallies can be killed in the eighth inning,
Speaker 2: not necessarily the ninth inning, and those were two questions
Speaker 2: that I had. I was surprised that Dave Roberts pinched
Speaker 2: it for those two guys against that picture in that situation.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's head downstairs to the Dodger Clubhouse
Speaker 2: to hear from Freddie Freeman on sports and at LA.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we're gonna go through that during the
Speaker 5: course of the season. Stretches like that happened, So just
Speaker 5: keep getting guys on base and ultimately we'll get them in.
Speaker 6: When you look at just kind of where your swing
Speaker 6: is at right now, it seems you know, but I
Speaker 6: mean it seems like there's a good contact.
Speaker 1: Just kind of where are you at.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just hit and miss, you know, two or
Speaker 5: three we're good today and then the other three are bad.
Speaker 5: Three of the bad so when I needed them to
Speaker 5: be good, that's just kind of you know, up and
Speaker 5: down right now, just trying to feel for it and
Speaker 5: hopefully get when fall against some confidence.
Speaker 7: What did you see when people playing.
Speaker 5: I hit it right at the second basement git with that, Yeah,
Speaker 5: tax show hanging tag verst It's pretty a really good
Speaker 5: place started season, Like, what has sort of done I'll
Speaker 5: put it would have fixed it by now if I
Speaker 5: knew thoughts, maybe.
Speaker 3: The day off of fix it.
Speaker 8: When you're looking at the top of the order collectively,
Speaker 8: what have you seen from the approach from you guys
Speaker 8: and where do you think it can be better?
Speaker 7: From a group?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I mean we've kind of been going
Speaker 5: through it. I would say as a group, luckily, we
Speaker 5: have really really good pitching, and that's why I kind
Speaker 5: of where we're at right now when we were going
Speaker 5: at the beginning the season. Offensively, you just kind of,
Speaker 5: you know, going through it right now, and you know,
Speaker 5: our pitching has been amazing.
Speaker 3: I don't want to not.
Speaker 5: Give them praise because they're the reasons why we have
Speaker 5: a chance to win every single game. But as an offense,
Speaker 5: we haven't, you know, the last few games haven't been
Speaker 5: where we wanted to be. So hopefully we're the day
Speaker 5: offul get back out of parting, all right.
Speaker 2: There's Freddy Freeman, very frustrated with himself and especially frustrated
Speaker 2: with the last play of the game, which at first glance,
Speaker 2: if you're at the stadium, you're a little confused by
Speaker 2: what's going on? Did the game really end that way? Yeah? Did?
Speaker 2: Xavier Edwards did a great job of finding a way
Speaker 2: to tag show Hao Tani in some way tag the
Speaker 2: first base back. Going back to look at the slow
Speaker 2: motion replay, Xavier Edwards fielded the ground ball from Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman with the bases loaded in one out and was
Speaker 2: able to tag show Hao Tani, who was trying to
Speaker 2: delay the inevitable of Edwards getting at least one out
Speaker 2: to try to allow the run to score, trying to
Speaker 2: force Edwards to make a play, and as he was
Speaker 2: going back to first base, he kind of should have
Speaker 2: just gone for a straight line back to first base,
Speaker 2: but nonetheless, Edwards made a great play. He tags Otani,
Speaker 2: and then his pitcher, Calvin Foe said, who he saved,
Speaker 2: had his foot on the first base bag. He was
Speaker 2: trying to cover first base as Edwards was running to
Speaker 2: first base, and his foot was blocking the front part
Speaker 2: of first base as Edward was coming to it. And
Speaker 2: Edward steps on Fosay's foot, not on the first base bag,
Speaker 2: and that's why the Dodgers gave it a shot to replay,
Speaker 2: because he first steps on Fosay's foot, not on the
Speaker 2: first base bag and then somehow, some way feels that
Speaker 2: and is able to drag his foot across the bag
Speaker 2: for the third out of the inning and the game
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Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi, Nick.
Speaker 1: DV.
Speaker 9: How are you, bro? Listen? Uh, you are a real broadcaster, now, Bro,
Speaker 9: And I've fought your whole career because I'm an old man,
Speaker 9: but you're your real credit and thank thank goodness we
Speaker 9: got you.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 9: I'm not worried about the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm not worried about the Dodgers at all.
Speaker 7: This is what happens through a season.
Speaker 9: But their pitching is unbelievable, and again today it was unbelievable.
Speaker 9: And if you look at their stats, it is unbelievable.
Speaker 9: The other thing I'll say is this, I will not
Speaker 9: be surprised if the Marlins make the playoffs, even this
Speaker 9: year as a wildcard.
Speaker 10: But look at this team.
Speaker 9: They're they're all up hugging each other after home runs,
Speaker 9: up and down the bench. They got that love and
Speaker 9: feeling like we've seen the Dodgers the last seven or
Speaker 9: eight years, and they got something going on in my
Speaker 9: in Miami. They got a great pitcher that what we
Speaker 9: saw today. And but no worries.
Speaker 10: I got no worries.
Speaker 9: I am looking forward to October. Baby down the line DV.
Speaker 2: All right, Nick, thank you for the phone call. And
Speaker 2: look like we had said last year, Mookie bed said
Speaker 2: it the best and it wasn't a shot at everybody else.
Speaker 2: But teams like the Marlins playing the Dodgers in LA,
Speaker 2: this is their World Series. I mean, the Marlins may
Speaker 2: sneak in as a wildcard team with how bad the
Speaker 2: Phillies and Meds are, but they're still a little short.
Speaker 2: But they are up and coming, and they are a
Speaker 2: young group, excitable group, and they come in and beat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers two out of three times and end the
Speaker 2: final game on an incredible play. Some would say Xavier
Speaker 2: Edwards made the defensive play of the season with what
Speaker 2: he did in the ninth inning. There and look it
Speaker 2: is their World Series. Did you ever hear of Liam Hicks?
Speaker 2: I mean, Liam Hicks has come out of nowhere at
Speaker 2: thirty years old to hit a three run home run
Speaker 2: on a Friday night and then hit a home run
Speaker 2: off a Tyler Glack today. I mean, right now, Liam
Speaker 2: Hicks may be an All Star for the Marlins. He
Speaker 2: has seven home runs and twenty eight RBIs hitting over
Speaker 2: three hundred. He came to play. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Craig in Long Beach. I, Ray, Craig, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hi, Dave, Hey a really good job of analyzing some
Speaker 7: of the at bat. First off, there was no Friday game.
Speaker 7: That was a cup. You said that a couple of times,
Speaker 7: just for FYI.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, yeah, the days blended. It was Monday night.
Speaker 7: Sorry, it's been a blurner of a Homestand you know,
Speaker 7: last night I thought that Paz his bat looked like
Speaker 7: he was just dragging, like just a lot of really
Speaker 7: late reaction swings. I think if Max last night and
Speaker 7: the first inning popped out with the bases loaded, that
Speaker 7: really set a bad tone for the offense last night.
Speaker 7: And then Tucker with the US at bat Blooper in
Speaker 7: the ninth inning with a chance to tie it. So
Speaker 7: those are tough, tough at bats. But today, the thing
Speaker 7: that frustrated me today was we had two opportunities with
Speaker 7: leadoff guys on second base, and first it was Rushing
Speaker 7: zero strikes and hit the lazy fly ball the left
Speaker 7: field instead of, you know, trying to turn on something
Speaker 7: and at least get the guy over to third. And
Speaker 7: then Freddy did the same thing with only one strike
Speaker 7: on him. So some of the approaches that it almost
Speaker 7: looks like we're in the dog days of August and
Speaker 7: they're just dragging a little bit. So hopefully a day
Speaker 7: off and improving things on the road. But this was
Speaker 7: frustrating these last couple games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really was. And I think that's what Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts was saying after last night's game and again after
Speaker 2: today's game, poor situational hitting, and that's a good call,
Speaker 2: Ira Craig. Yeah, definitely, those are the things that get
Speaker 2: overlooked at the end of the game when you go
Speaker 2: back and take inventory of some of the poor at
Speaker 2: bats and situations. But hard to knock Dalton Rushing, who
Speaker 2: has been really good and not getting a chance to
Speaker 2: play every day, but when he does, he makes the
Speaker 2: most of it. He tied the game in the sixth
Speaker 2: inning off of Sandy al Kintara, and he was He's
Speaker 2: now seven for sixteen with eleven RBIs this year with
Speaker 2: runners in scoring position. The Dodgers just did not have
Speaker 2: good at bats the last couple of games, and that'll happen.
Speaker 2: But tip your cap to Sandy al Kintara, and I guess,
Speaker 2: to a certain extent Jansen Junk last night, who only
Speaker 2: threw seventy six seventy seven pitches and six scoreless innings.
Speaker 2: That should not happen if you're the Dodger offense. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Marlins beat the Dodgers today three to two,
Speaker 2: and you have to ask yourself, how does Tyler Glass
Speaker 2: now ever lose a game with the dominating stuff that
Speaker 2: he has not just this year, but any year in
Speaker 2: his career. And today he was really good. The Marlins
Speaker 2: just hit two ambush first pitch fastballs off of him
Speaker 2: for two runs, two solo home runs, and five and
Speaker 2: two thirds innings. I couldn't believe when he looked up
Speaker 2: at his box score that he walked six Marlins. That
Speaker 2: was hard to believe considering how dominant he was. Nine
Speaker 2: strikeouts today as well, and still nobody can touch his curveball.
Speaker 2: Nobody has had a hit off his curveball in his
Speaker 2: last three starts. But somehow, some way, he gets a
Speaker 2: no decision and the Dodgers lose the game three to two.
Speaker 2: It's said downstairs right now to hear from Tyler Glass
Speaker 2: now on Sports at LA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was definitely challenged.
Speaker 11: I think early on I felt good, like third and
Speaker 11: fourth inning felt great, and then the fifth and six
Speaker 11: I just it was super weird. I just lost timing
Speaker 11: flying open. It was just one of those days where
Speaker 11: it's just hard to throw strikes.
Speaker 6: When you look at that, and obviously you've put so
Speaker 6: much work into being able to get back after that.
Speaker 6: I mean, is there need to take away at least
Speaker 6: from that our learning or getting yourself back on track
Speaker 6: from how you close this one out.
Speaker 3: Like you're saying, like after today, trying to get.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just considering how much work you put into doing
Speaker 6: that to avoid from last year.
Speaker 3: I think just like easy fixes.
Speaker 11: I think I was just flying open too soon, getting
Speaker 11: like really aggressive with my front's side so it's just
Speaker 11: more about like staying patient and staying closed. Just one
Speaker 11: of those things today in the moment, was hard to fix.
Speaker 8: In the moment, the five of your six starts to
Speaker 8: start the season happening quality starts. When you look at
Speaker 8: that kind of totality, is there anything that stands out
Speaker 8: to you about any artsenal changes that you made or
Speaker 8: pitch changes that you think has led to that success.
Speaker 11: I think just keeping the throw what it is and
Speaker 11: kind of having a being in a good spot last
Speaker 11: year bringing into this year mixing it up a little
Speaker 11: bit more. But I think just kind of going out
Speaker 11: there and throwing it feels good and sequencing a little
Speaker 11: bit better. But I think for the most part, it's
Speaker 11: just like the throw itself.
Speaker 2: All right. There's Tyler Glass now after he gets a
Speaker 2: no decision with nine strikeouts in a three to two
Speaker 2: loss to the Marlins. He gave up two of the
Speaker 2: three runs that scored. Will Klein had two outs in
Speaker 2: the eighth inning, and it was unfortunate that Javier Sonoah
Speaker 2: hit a bleeder to right field that found some grass
Speaker 2: and that was the deciding run in the game. Today.
Speaker 2: With two outs in the eighth inning, eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Eugene, Oregon. Tom listening on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. Hi, Tom, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Hey, damn, thanks Lotch.
Speaker 12: Just a quick question then I'm going to jump off
Speaker 12: and hear your answer.
Speaker 7: So Freddie Freeman really says be struggling somewhat this year.
Speaker 10: What are you hearing and what are you seeing? Is
Speaker 10: there any elf issues or is he concerned about his swing?
Speaker 12: I appreciate your time, Dave, It's always great to listen
Speaker 12: to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't believe Freddy's nursing any injuries. He's just
Speaker 2: in one of those bad spells that a lot of
Speaker 2: hitters go through. Who we're just not used to seeing
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman go three for twenty five on a homestand
Speaker 2: he was zero for five today, and his betting average
Speaker 2: has dropped to two point fifty nine with an ops
Speaker 2: of seven forty two. I mentioned this last night after
Speaker 2: the game, and I'll say it again. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: this is the only reason. There's a lot of contributing factors,
Speaker 2: but the Dodgers ended playing thirteen in a row today
Speaker 2: for a team that is the oldest on average as
Speaker 2: far as age goes. Thirteen in a row is not
Speaker 2: easy for some guys, and there has been I don't know,
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, flew the crud, whatever
Speaker 2: you want to call it. It's been going through that
Speaker 2: Dodger clubhouse and it takes a lot out of you.
Speaker 2: I've seen these guys that have not been able to
Speaker 2: kick it for seven eight days, So that played into
Speaker 2: all this as well. I think tomorrow the day off
Speaker 2: is really going to benefit this team. And the reason
Speaker 2: why I bring it up is because after that eighteen
Speaker 2: inning game in Game three of the World Series last year,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers admitted that they were the team that we
Speaker 2: all thought was going to have momentum and win the
Speaker 2: next two at home. It was the Blue Jays that
Speaker 2: won the next two at home because the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: so worn down after playing eighteen innings. So that sticks
Speaker 2: out in the back of my mind when the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are going through stretches of time like this where they're
Speaker 2: at the end of playing thirteen in a row, and
Speaker 2: they'll play sixteen in a row at the end of
Speaker 2: May as well. Let's go out to Glendale. Robert, you're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Robert, Hey, Dave.
Speaker 12: Of second Time, long Time. I think I called in
Speaker 12: months before. Thanks for taking my call. I wanted to
Speaker 12: off of what you were saying about Freddie Freeman and
Speaker 12: maybe having him DH and having Russian play first. I
Speaker 12: think that's an excellent idea, and then kind of ties
Speaker 12: in to what I was thinking, which is that the
Speaker 12: Dodgers have been doing a great job of getting rushing
Speaker 12: at bats on days that he's not catching. I think
Speaker 12: that they've been doing a better job of that this
Speaker 12: year than they were last year, and both rushing and
Speaker 12: the Dodgers have benefited for that. So I wanted your
Speaker 12: thoughts on that. And then also Andy pa has He's
Speaker 12: a guy that, honestly, I've always felt like he's very
Speaker 12: hit or missed, and he has these streaks where he's
Speaker 12: doing amazing makes amazing plays. Nobody can forget the play
Speaker 12: they made in the World Series. Defensively, he's a valuable
Speaker 12: addition to the team, but he seems like offensively, he
Speaker 12: gets into a good spurt and then he just kind
Speaker 12: of forgets the strike zone a little bit. And we
Speaker 12: saw that today with a bad challenge he probably shouldn't
Speaker 12: have made, and then he strikes out in that at
Speaker 12: bats and just wander your thoughts on those two players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're both homegrown players. Let's establish that
Speaker 2: right away. And number two, Dalton Rushing came into spring
Speaker 2: training with a full season ahead of him and the
Speaker 2: right frame of mind of what to expect in the
Speaker 2: big leagues number one, what to expect as a backup
Speaker 2: catcher the Will Smith number two, And he made adjustments
Speaker 2: to his swing to be able to adjust to this
Speaker 2: new role that he has embraced more this year than
Speaker 2: he did when he was first called up last year.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of the reason why Ben rourtvitt took
Speaker 2: go over the catching duties behind Will Smith last year.
Speaker 2: So I think all of that has helped Dalton Rushing
Speaker 2: be better prepared for this season. As far as Andy
Speaker 2: Pie has go, you know, he's not going to hit
Speaker 2: five hundred or four hundred all season long. He was
Speaker 2: due for a little bit of a dip and on
Speaker 2: this homestand he had six hits, so he's cooled off.
Speaker 2: But he's still one of the better Dodger hitters production
Speaker 2: wise so far. This year. Let's go out to Daniel
Speaker 2: in Soritos. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Doing I'm doing great, Dave. It was a great, great
Speaker 10: day at the ballpark. Kind of a weird game. Agree
Speaker 10: with what you said about Glass now, he was he
Speaker 10: was quite good, impressive. My question is why does Shohey
Speaker 10: Otani not run harder into second base routinely and specifically
Speaker 10: on the final out. If he had run straight ahead,
Speaker 10: full speed and then he runs into the second baseman
Speaker 10: who made the play, or the shortstop, why wouldn't he
Speaker 10: have been called for interference? Okay, at worst he's called
Speaker 10: for interference, he's tagged out, but then Freddie is safe
Speaker 10: and the run scores.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, he was trying to do a version of
Speaker 2: what you just described, trying to force Exavier Edwards to
Speaker 2: try to make a play, try to stall the final
Speaker 2: out for as long as he could to allow the
Speaker 2: time run to score. And I guess in his judgment
Speaker 2: right there, he thought if he kept running towards second base,
Speaker 2: it would have been an easier tag by Edwards on him,
Speaker 2: because Edwards was charging on the ground ball and if
Speaker 2: Otani's running, he's gonna tag him out and he throws,
Speaker 2: flips the ball the first base and it's an easier
Speaker 2: double play. So he was trying to extend the play.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but he he he very if you watch him
Speaker 10: even earlier in this game, he h, I know.
Speaker 2: What you're talking about. There was another double play that
Speaker 2: Freddie hid into and that was an easy play. I
Speaker 2: mean it was for me, tou double play earlier in
Speaker 2: the game, and that was that was in the fifth
Speaker 2: inning there, or excuse me, the seventh inning.
Speaker 10: Right, he he. He almost always runs easy and then
Speaker 10: he'll move out of the way.
Speaker 2: I disagree with you. I disagree with you. I just
Speaker 2: think on certain plays, if you watch most runners, especially
Speaker 2: now with that rule, that utterly rule that they put in,
Speaker 2: there's really no advantage of trying to go in and
Speaker 2: break up the double play like it used to be.
Speaker 2: I mean, you saw Dalton Rushing do it in San
Speaker 2: Francisco and everybody you know almost doubled over. How could
Speaker 2: he do that? That was such a dirty play. Now,
Speaker 2: that was the way baseball was played back in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: So there's no there's nothing to gain by doing what
Speaker 2: you're saying these days, Daniel.
Speaker 10: Well, but that's that's fair I'll take your you know,
Speaker 10: I'll take your answer as that. But Dalton Rushing wasn't penalized.
Speaker 2: Was he? Uh No, But we'll see how it goes
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers and Giants next time they play, because
Speaker 2: they took exception to it and he was lucky that
Speaker 2: he wasn't called because he was definitely not going to
Speaker 2: slide into the base. He was going for the fielder,
Speaker 2: which was Willie Adamas. We gotta run, Daniel. Thank you
Speaker 2: for the phone call, appreciate it. We're gonna take a
Speaker 2: time out here on Dodger Talk. When we continue more
Speaker 2: of your phone calls, you'll hear from Mookie Betts and
Speaker 2: we'll check in with Jose Mota after the Marlins come
Speaker 2: to La, take two out of three and beat the
Speaker 2: Dodgers today on a Wednesday afternoon, three to two on
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Speaker 4: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Basse.
Speaker 2: We are with you until the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: That's when Petrosen Money will take over, leading you up
Speaker 2: to Game five of the first round matchup between the
Speaker 2: Lakers and Rockets. So a big day in LA with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers playing a matinee and the Lakers playing a
Speaker 2: playoff game tonight. Unfortunately, the Dodgers close out this homestand
Speaker 2: with a to the Marlins three to two. It was
Speaker 2: Will Klein who took the tough luck loss, Andrew Nrdi
Speaker 2: the winning pitcher in relief, and Colin fo Say with
Speaker 2: the save, his first of the year, despite having more
Speaker 2: walks than innings pitched this season. And that's the way
Speaker 2: the ninth inning was going and that's why it was disappointing.
Speaker 2: With one out and the bases loaded, the game ended
Speaker 2: on a double play groundball double play by Freddie Freeman.
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Speaker 2: before today's game to catch up with Mookie Betts. If
Speaker 2: you remember, before the last homestand ended, I had a
Speaker 2: chance to catch up with Mookie, and he sounded more
Speaker 2: optimistic about his return than he did today. Here's what
Speaker 2: Mookie said about where he's at with that strained rhight obleak.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't really know.
Speaker 13: I mean, it's just kind of wake up and see
Speaker 13: how it feels. Oblik's starting something you really kind of
Speaker 13: mess with, you know, so when it feels good, then
Speaker 13: we keep progressing. But then if not, then we'll kind
Speaker 13: of take a rest day or whatever. But I mean
Speaker 13: we're getting closer, I mean starting to swing and add
Speaker 13: on a little intensity. Last time I added on some
Speaker 13: intensity with DP, it got sore after, so you know,
Speaker 13: we just gotta slowly. So that's really the last piece,
Speaker 13: is just adding on a velocity, like hitting off the
Speaker 13: machine and everything. But I think I've kind of started
Speaker 13: to turn the corner to where every day I'm starting
Speaker 13: to wake up and it feels good.
Speaker 2: Do you think you could trust to just go to
Speaker 2: that next step?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, we hate yesterday, hit today.
Speaker 13: I think we'll just keep slowly progressing hitting you know,
Speaker 13: coach BP and once that feels good and add on
Speaker 13: to you know, the next step to velosity. Last time
Speaker 13: I hit Coach BP, I was kind of sore the
Speaker 13: next day, so.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 13: Probably the next day or so, I'll probably hit VP
Speaker 13: again and then we'll just take a step by step.
Speaker 13: It's just one of those things where actually it's kind
Speaker 13: of the opposite. It hasn't taken as long. I'm I'm
Speaker 13: actually kind of ahead of where most obliques are. But
Speaker 13: the boys have been playing well, and so I don't
Speaker 13: have to overly rush back.
Speaker 3: I have to make sure.
Speaker 13: They're doing everything they need to do, so I can
Speaker 13: just kind of sit back and watch.
Speaker 2: All right. There was Mookie Betts earlier today about where
Speaker 2: he's at with that right oblique strain. It doesn't sound
Speaker 2: like he's coming back on this upcoming road trip, and
Speaker 2: we'll have to see how he's feeling when the Dodgers
Speaker 2: return home on the next home stand. That will have
Speaker 2: him here for three against the Braves, four against the Giants,
Speaker 2: and then going down the five to Anaheim in San Diego,
Speaker 2: So hopefully he's back during that stretch of time. All right,
Speaker 2: let's check in with Jose Moda.
Speaker 4: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jose Mota on Friday night, we were wondering what
Speaker 2: Clayton McCullough would do in the ninth inning if Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas would have got that bunt down. Excuse me, Monday night,
Speaker 2: if Miguel Rojas would have got that bunt down and
Speaker 2: first base would have been open for sho Heyo Tani. Well, today,
Speaker 2: Alex Freeland got the bunt down, first base was open,
Speaker 2: and he put up the four fingers immediately to have
Speaker 2: a cold Freddie Freeman at the plate. So when you
Speaker 2: look at what he was going to do what he
Speaker 2: did today, would you still have sacrificed those two runners over?
Speaker 14: Freddy Freeman is not the top of hitter we saw
Speaker 14: throughout this homestand Dave and you got to take chances
Speaker 14: with guys that are proven Freddie Freeman Throught's careers with
Speaker 14: three thirty average. Well, Beni Scorn was, yes, I would
Speaker 14: take that chance any single time because has worked in
Speaker 14: the past more time than not. And today just happened
Speaker 14: to be the unfortunate situation that a very strange play
Speaker 14: ends up the ball game.
Speaker 2: Y t Oscar Hernandez was standing on the top step
Speaker 2: of the dugout when Freeland was on deck were you
Speaker 2: thinking that if Kim doesn't get on base, that ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez was going to pinch hit for Freeland or
Speaker 2: why was he on the top step? Was he a decoy?
Speaker 2: What was the thought there?
Speaker 14: Oh, for sure, he's a threat. I mean, he's the
Speaker 14: guy that you want for one swing and you got
Speaker 14: to pick your spouse of tail two against the matchup
Speaker 14: and we're you're looking for Tail in that situation, Dave,
Speaker 14: You know very well it's one swing, but you got
Speaker 14: to go out there and pick the right situation. It's
Speaker 14: not a situation where you want tell us it to
Speaker 14: be a situational type of hitter. Just Hey, your job
Speaker 14: is either to drive in or run or to go
Speaker 14: out there and get one swing out of you. But
Speaker 14: you know, the Bottles pitch well throughout this whole series,
Speaker 14: and they painted corners and they he actually got the dog.
Speaker 14: You spread his own a little bit more they wanted to.
Speaker 14: But yeah, going back to that question day, for sure,
Speaker 14: you got to pick your smug with Tail, especially when
Speaker 14: he's not feeling very well, to understand that the matchup
Speaker 14: is still be right for you for him to get
Speaker 14: that one good swing to give you a run.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the matchup was gonna stay the same with that
Speaker 2: Colin fo Say, who couldn't find the strike zone. And
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman is in a funk that we're not used
Speaker 2: to seeing. Freddy Freeman in three for twenty five on
Speaker 2: this homestand oh for five today, batting average in the
Speaker 2: two fifties, ops in the seven hundreds. Jose, that's not
Speaker 2: a great matchup.
Speaker 14: No for Freddy. I mean, I will take my chance
Speaker 14: with Freddy anybody. I don't care if it's still one
Speaker 14: hundred miles an hour. Lefty, Lefty, He's gonna find a
Speaker 14: way with this swing. Nah, But Freddy's gonna find it somehow,
Speaker 14: because Freddy can do on the fly what a lot
Speaker 14: of guys can do, which is tell himself, I'm gonna
Speaker 14: hit this ball in the label because I need to
Speaker 14: get back to where I was right now. If you
Speaker 14: look at his swings from the side, everything is cutting through,
Speaker 14: and Freddy's a guy with a lot of gestures when
Speaker 14: things are not and that swing is not right, and
Speaker 14: he's told you many times he understands where he is,
Speaker 14: and then he gets a little bit jumpy. The swing
Speaker 14: comes through the zone and then he gets on top
Speaker 14: of the baseball, you know, the one that you started rolling.
Speaker 14: But dum, going back to the situation today again, Freddy
Speaker 14: Freemant will be my.
Speaker 2: Guy, okay, And in the eighth inning I was a
Speaker 2: little surprised and wondering why Max Munsey was pinched for
Speaker 2: and Dalton Rushing were pinched for for two right handed
Speaker 2: hitters and Smith and Rojas against the lefty John King.
Speaker 2: Munsey has been better against lefties this year and Rushing
Speaker 2: has been crushing lefties this year. Will Smith coming into
Speaker 2: the game only hitting a buck eighty eight against lefties.
Speaker 2: Were you wondering the same thing I.
Speaker 14: Was, David, I agree with you one hundred percent. And
Speaker 14: Dave Roberts said it here a few days ago, a
Speaker 14: few nights ago on your show. There's times when the
Speaker 14: lefty is the one scenario who's going to fix your
Speaker 14: swing or keep you square. And we're not talking about
Speaker 14: atomatic house right now against left endant pitchers in both
Speaker 14: you know, Muncy and Rushing and these guys to me,
Speaker 14: at least with the flow of the game today, with
Speaker 14: the day game and all that going on, and also
Speaker 14: with you know the fact that Rushing is making he's
Speaker 14: making good to justice as a game progresses, and for
Speaker 14: Max Mounsey, every single of that today was a good one.
Speaker 14: He lined out, he hit the double, and then he
Speaker 14: moved the guy all over second and third, which nobody
Speaker 14: else could do before him. Uh So those are two
Speaker 14: things that I think day will have to go more
Speaker 14: on field than anything else, and not so much on
Speaker 14: the matchup where the blue dots are in the square
Speaker 14: folds the red or blue or gray, but just to
Speaker 14: know the flow of the game right there, I like
Speaker 14: to see those lefties phaser left. They're not automatic els.
Speaker 14: I like that swing.
Speaker 2: I guess it goes back to Miguel Rojas commenting on
Speaker 2: social media about what John John Schneider said about you know,
Speaker 2: the different colored lineup cards. It always comes up against Rojas.
Speaker 2: But you gotta believe in the guy, and in the situation.
Speaker 14: You gotta believe in how you see in the swings
Speaker 14: and believe that not be a graph or a chart.
Speaker 14: And Dave Roberts, that's what he's won a couple of
Speaker 14: World Series in a row. He's forgotten about that book
Speaker 14: comes September October and just gone onto the field. I
Speaker 14: understand where you're trying to find from guys that are
Speaker 14: maybe a better matchup lefty righty, because the book says that,
Speaker 14: the numbers say that, the analytics say that, But I
Speaker 14: think the flow of the game to me, means way more.
Speaker 14: In a game like today against the moment, seemed that
Speaker 14: those two guys do exactly how to be in pitch
Speaker 14: two and had a better idea and where be able
Speaker 14: to kind of close down the zone a little bit
Speaker 14: more to get better pitches to that. So it didn't happen,
Speaker 14: But I don't expect this to be automatic every single
Speaker 14: time out from now on.
Speaker 2: You what do you believe the Dodger lineup as a
Speaker 2: whole needs to do to get back to where they
Speaker 2: were the first couple of weeks of the season. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers have shuffled the lineup a little bit here and there.
Speaker 2: That doesn't seem to have really jump started things. Especially
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker, who was swinging over fifty percent of the
Speaker 2: times that the first pitch he sees. That's not very
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker, Like.
Speaker 14: No, it's not. It goes against his numbers in his career.
Speaker 14: It seems like he is trying to do way too much,
Speaker 14: and I think you start to do way too much
Speaker 14: what all we change, Davis, guy like Andy pie Is right,
Speaker 14: the league knows that you are one of the best
Speaker 14: hitters in baseball. Now it's time for you to let
Speaker 14: the league readjust to you. But he's not adjusting. Pie
Speaker 14: is swinging. Pis has hit more foul ball than anybody
Speaker 14: else throughout this homestead, and good pitches to hit. He's
Speaker 14: back to the old signs and habits of getting out
Speaker 14: of the baseball, trying to produce and hind the ball
Speaker 14: hard than he can. And you see him lunging a
Speaker 14: whole lot. But overall, what I see is two things.
Speaker 14: Number One, there's a lot of rushing at bats stays,
Speaker 14: and when you take more team at bats, you take
Speaker 14: more of a two strike approach. RDI accounts they have
Speaker 14: always been better, and is what I'd like to see
Speaker 14: as they leave here for this road trip is it
Speaker 14: is what we saw when they left after the Guardians
Speaker 14: and went to Washington Toronto, where everything was a better flow,
Speaker 14: deeper at bats, work the counts, and also don't let
Speaker 14: the guy in the Mountain Russia abs All.
Speaker 2: Right, Jose, We'll see if the Dodgers can put that
Speaker 2: all together on this six game road trip to Saint
Speaker 2: Louis and Houston. Thanks a lot for checking in and
Speaker 2: ending the homestand on a great phone.
Speaker 14: Yes, no changes for me today, No combos from Brebeck.
Speaker 2: Thanks Jse. We'll see you on the road.
Speaker 14: Ideals, there it goes.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. After
Speaker 2: the Dodgers fall to the Marlins three to two. They
Speaker 2: did take two out of three from the red hot Cups,
Speaker 2: ended their ten game winning streak, but then they come
Speaker 2: back and let down against the Marlins, who were very
Speaker 2: up for this series. As Miami takes two out of three,
Speaker 2: Clayton McCullough, the manager for the Marlins, the former Dodger
Speaker 2: first base coach, gets his team to come into Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium to take two out of three before the Dodgers
Speaker 2: head out on this road trip to Saint Louis and Houston.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five point seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Let's go out to San Jose. Isaac,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk. Thanks for listening to us on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 10: Hey Dave, what's up?
Speaker 15: Man?
Speaker 14: Hey?
Speaker 15: I appreciate all the hard work and all the time
Speaker 15: you take on the show. Hey, I just want to say, Hey,
Speaker 15: the team hasn't had a day off. It seems like
Speaker 15: what in two weeks.
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 14: I think the just finished, right, Yeah, so I.
Speaker 15: Think the team just needs to enjoy the day off.
Speaker 15: Maybe have some bruise tonight, go see where Budweiser's made,
Speaker 15: have a boys night, and let's just get back into it.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 7: I think it's pretty simple. Boys need to be boys,
Speaker 7: Guys need to be guys.
Speaker 15: Let's just take the day off, reset, and let's get
Speaker 15: him starting this weekend.
Speaker 2: You know what's great about where the Dodgers are going, Isaac,
Speaker 2: Saint Louis. There are no distractions in Saint Louis. There
Speaker 2: there is nothing to do there. Maybe the guys will
Speaker 2: play some golf tomorrow, but that's about all you can
Speaker 2: do in Saint Louis. It's one of my bottom five
Speaker 2: cities in all of America as far as Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball goes.
Speaker 7: Hey, that sounds great for that.
Speaker 15: Let's just hunker down, let's play some games, some cards,
Speaker 15: have some bruise, and let's whip on anymore.
Speaker 2: Isaac, this isn't nineteen eighty five with Keith Hernandez and
Speaker 2: Willie McGee. They're not having Bruce and playing cards in
Speaker 2: the hotel. Okay, but no, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 2: A day off can do these guys a lot of good.
Speaker 2: After playing thirteen in a row. Look, some guys were
Speaker 2: affected more than others. So you're right, tomorrow's day off
Speaker 2: can do a lot of these players good. Hey, by
Speaker 2: the way, Isaac, were you at the Ontario San Jose
Speaker 2: game last week when snell Zilla was making his rehab start.
Speaker 9: I was.
Speaker 15: He came up and said hi to my daughter.
Speaker 10: It was it was really cool.
Speaker 7: We're hanging out.
Speaker 15: He was warming up by the bullpen, and then he
Speaker 15: came up Sai hide to my daughter and then.
Speaker 9: You know, said what's up?
Speaker 7: And yeah, it was a great time.
Speaker 10: Snell's the man.
Speaker 2: When he came up to your daughter, did he say
Speaker 2: what's up? Dog?
Speaker 10: No, he said what's up, little mama.
Speaker 7: It was the funniest thing. I was like, this freaking guy,
Speaker 7: he does not turn it off.
Speaker 9: He's the best. He's the best.
Speaker 2: No, that's him. That's not a character, that's him. Thanks, Isaac,
Speaker 2: appreciate the phone call. Yeah. Snelzilla pitched his second rehab
Speaker 2: start for Ontario in Ontario last night, three scoreless innings,
Speaker 2: allow just one hit, had six strikeouts, no walks. His
Speaker 2: fastball was there, his slider was there, his changeup was there.
Speaker 2: He's just trying to get the feel for his curveball.
Speaker 2: But he still got at least one more rehab start,
Speaker 2: maybe two more. The next one, though, is coming up
Speaker 2: Sunday for Oklahoma City against Round Rock. Let's take one
Speaker 2: more phone call before we say goodbye, Petro. Some money
Speaker 2: are on deck right now. Let's go out to Carson.
Speaker 2: Mike close us out tonight on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 16: Hey, what's going on today. I'm just heading back from
Speaker 16: the game now. I'll tip my cap to the Marlins.
Speaker 16: I think it was one of the first calls you took. Yeah,
Speaker 16: they could sneak their way into the playoffs. Tyler looked great.
Speaker 16: You know, some sluggish at bats for sure, but that's baseball.
Speaker 16: I think he took my call on Friday. I was
Speaker 16: pretty devastated after that Cub loss. But you know, today,
Speaker 16: you know, you know, it's just one of those games.
Speaker 16: The off day is going to do him good.
Speaker 2: So all right, Mark, Mike, thanks a lot for calling in.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. By the way, I'll leave you with this.
Speaker 2: The Marlins, like I said, came to Dodger Stadium like
Speaker 2: it was their World Series, and for good reason. Uh
Speaker 2: they've only been to the playoffs four times in their
Speaker 2: thirty three year history, so this was their World Series.
Speaker 2: And congratulations, you took two out of three from the
Speaker 2: Dodgers at the end of April Miami. All right, that'll
Speaker 2: do it for us. On Dodger Talk tomorrow, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have a day offense Saint Louis. They'll be at it
Speaker 2: Friday night at Bush Stadium. Em Mit Sheen will be
Speaker 2: on the mound for the Dodgers against left hander Matthew Libatur.
Speaker 2: Our coverage begins on Friday night at four o'clock with
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Speaker 2: We can't stop. We won't stop. That's what they say,
Speaker 2: and that's what I was told to do. Those were
Speaker 2: my orders years ago, and that's why Tomorrow night we
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Speaker 2: we'll get more into the Dodgers their quest on how
Speaker 2: to navigate this season. For their best chance to three peat,
Speaker 2: something that hasn't been done since the Yankees did it
Speaker 2: back in two thousand. All right, thanks to Colin Yee
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Speaker 2: McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you
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