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Speaker 2: Day, Welcome the Dodger Talk. David vass with you until
Speaker 2: eight thirty tonight here on five seventy LA Sports. After
Speaker 2: the Dodgers win their fifth game in a row, coming
Speaker 2: off of sweep at Chorusfield over the Rockies. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: have won the first two games of this series against
Speaker 2: the Pirates. Last night it took ten innings. Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: the Hero, Evan Phillips, the hero and Tonight, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: beat the Pirates four to three behind a really impressive
Speaker 2: performance from Trek Schoolbull, who allowed three runs on five
Speaker 2: hits in the first two innings of tonight's game, and
Speaker 2: then after that retired eighteen of the last nineteen batters
Speaker 2: he faced. He did not allow a hit from the
Speaker 2: third inning on. All in all, he finishes with eleven
Speaker 2: strikeouts in seven innings. And how about this, He threw
Speaker 2: one hundred and six pitches tonight. That's the second most
Speaker 2: pitches this season for school Bowl. And as I'm looking
Speaker 2: at you know more of the stats and where all
Speaker 2: this ranks. Schoolboll threw one hundred and nine pitches six
Speaker 2: days ago in his last start right here at Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium against the Brewer and tonight he throws one hundred
Speaker 2: and six in seven innings. And in between that, the
Speaker 2: last time he threw this many pitches you have to
Speaker 2: go back to twenty twenty two when he threw one
Speaker 2: hundred and eight in a regular season game, and last
Speaker 2: year in a wildcard game, he threw one hundred and
Speaker 2: seven pitches. So twice in his career he has thrown
Speaker 2: the most pitches in a game in a Dodger uniform,
Speaker 2: and it does help that the Dodgers do only pitch
Speaker 2: him once a week. I think we all forget that
Speaker 2: as well when we talk about Dave Roberts pushing these guys. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the bullpen needs to get on track. They've had some
Speaker 2: guys not pitching their best at the same time, Also,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers being a reliever short sticking with the six
Speaker 2: man rotation means these starters that are only pitching once
Speaker 2: every six or seven days have got to go deeper
Speaker 2: into the game if they're effective. And today you thought
Speaker 2: in the first two innings that this was a very
Speaker 2: ordinary five or six innings start from school bl and
Speaker 2: from that point on, I feel like he did not
Speaker 2: want to. I'm not going to say he was embarrassed
Speaker 2: after the first two innings, but he certainly got a
Speaker 2: little angrier, and it was impressive to see in the
Speaker 2: sixth and seventh inning of tonight's game that he was
Speaker 2: throwing upwards of ninety nine and one hundred miles an
Speaker 2: hour and got stronger as the game went on. Also,
Speaker 2: you know, I always talk about how the national broadcasters
Speaker 2: always bring up the shadows when it's a five o'clock game.
Speaker 2: When ESPN used to have Sunday Night Baseball in the
Speaker 2: games would start at five oh five. Here, the first
Speaker 2: three innings of that broadcast would be lamenting the shadows,
Speaker 2: Oh the shadows, Oh shadows. Aw Well, today the shadows
Speaker 2: were in play a four to twenty start. By the
Speaker 2: time school bol got to the fifth or sixth inning,
Speaker 2: the shadows were starting to play because the pitchers mound
Speaker 2: was in shadows, but the was shining off the batter's eye.
Speaker 2: And from what hitters and pitchers have told me before
Speaker 2: is that's even tougher when the pitchers in shadows and
Speaker 2: the batter's eye the outfield is in sun because you
Speaker 2: lose the baseball as it's coming out of his hands.
Speaker 2: So that played into Schooble as well. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 2: ran into one of, if not the Dodger VP COO
Speaker 2: Bob Wolf as I was coming back to the press box,
Speaker 2: one of my favorite people in the organization, and even
Speaker 2: he knew he's the one that led me. Hey, I
Speaker 2: don't think Scooble gave up a hit. I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna double check that and I did eighteen of
Speaker 2: the last nineteen batters retired and Schooble did not allow
Speaker 2: a hit after the second inning tonight, And let's hear
Speaker 2: from the big Dodger left hander who was on or
Speaker 2: was speaking to the media, and thanks to our guy
Speaker 2: Fredo from the Sporting Tribune to share that with us.
Speaker 4: One with a new team, what's last year one way
Speaker 4: for you?
Speaker 5: But yeah, it feels good obviously to get the first
Speaker 5: one out of the way. But you know, I didn't
Speaker 5: do a good job early in the game, but the
Speaker 5: boys picked me up, and you know, I was able
Speaker 5: to keep us in a game, and obviously the offense
Speaker 5: got going and that's all we needed to get a
Speaker 5: win today. What was the big difference from the first
Speaker 5: inning and to the next ships, Yeah, I think, you know, one,
Speaker 5: they hit some good pitches. I think execution got a
Speaker 5: little bit better as the game went on, and obviously
Speaker 5: just some adjustments that I needed to be made. And
Speaker 5: that's probably just more pitch execution than anything, and just
Speaker 5: getting ahead and counts.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't think I did.
Speaker 5: Actually, I think I was over five of my last
Speaker 5: five first pitch strikes. But other than that, I thought
Speaker 5: I was ahead in most counts.
Speaker 6: What's puss has been like sort of getting the field
Speaker 6: for yourself on the mountain while also trying to figure
Speaker 6: out everything else, saw the changes, all the different adjustments.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we're everybody in there were constantly kind
Speaker 5: of learning each other and developing relationships, and you know,
Speaker 5: those are important to have, you know, going forward, especially
Speaker 5: if we wanna go where we wanna go, you know,
Speaker 5: just developing those relationships and understanding what adjustments need to
Speaker 5: be made and all that type of stuff too. So
Speaker 5: it's it's been a it's been a great process, but
Speaker 5: you know, sometimes those things take a little bit time,
Speaker 5: but it's been it's been great, you know, and everybody
Speaker 5: there has been very supportive of of.
Speaker 4: Everything that I'm trying to do. All those last time
Speaker 4: it is as good as you throw the ball since
Speaker 4: the trade, Yeah, yeah, I mean probably.
Speaker 5: I mean I think my last start was was pretty
Speaker 5: good too, you know, just from a pitch execution standpoint,
Speaker 5: Like I felt like I executed a ton of pitches,
Speaker 5: you know, against Milwaukee, they just took a lot of
Speaker 5: qualities pitches and you know we're able to file off
Speaker 5: some quality stuff too.
Speaker 4: But you know that my last start, I felt like
Speaker 4: I was, you.
Speaker 5: Know, executing at a pretty high clipped and you know,
Speaker 5: today I felt like, for the majority of the game the.
Speaker 4: Same type of thing.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm not gonna be perfect out there, but
Speaker 5: you know, I definitely would be better than the first time, right.
Speaker 4: But other than that, you know.
Speaker 5: I thought my execution was pretty good to that I'd
Speaker 5: have to go back and watch. You know, I haven't
Speaker 5: watched the name of It yet, but all of the
Speaker 5: better grasses it tomorrow. But yeah, I think stuff on
Speaker 5: our hand is as good as ever been. You talk
Speaker 5: flash week about the standard and try to hold yourself
Speaker 5: getting to eat in the games, Like how important was.
Speaker 4: It to get from seven today?
Speaker 5: Especially after like the way the person w Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean you get punched them out earlier in this game,
Speaker 5: and you know, I always think it's important for any
Speaker 5: pitcher to see how kind of you respond to those moments,
Speaker 5: you know, getting punched in the mouth, and that's when
Speaker 5: I think the true we really are, you know, kind
Speaker 5: of shows out.
Speaker 4: And yeah, that's something I take a ton of pride.
Speaker 4: And you know, if I give up.
Speaker 5: Runs early, I still feel like I can keep us
Speaker 5: in a game and keep it tight enough to where
Speaker 5: our offense can get going and you know, make a
Speaker 5: run at it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, but I mean the standard is to pitch
Speaker 4: deeper in the game.
Speaker 5: This whole point of being a starting pitcher, you know,
Speaker 5: is controlling that game, you know, saving the bullpen and
Speaker 5: giving you a team a chance to win.
Speaker 4: And that's, you know, that's the standard I.
Speaker 5: Hold myself too, and it's it's a high one, but
Speaker 5: you know, I think I'm capable of it for sure.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Terrek's school Ball, and thanks to our
Speaker 2: friends at the Sporting Tribune for sharing that audio. Derek
Speaker 2: Schouble today's seven innings, eleven strikeouts, allowed three runs in
Speaker 2: the first inning, and after that or after the second
Speaker 2: inning especially, he was very stingy, tightened the screws, as
Speaker 2: Tim Nevertts said today, and did not allow a hit
Speaker 2: from the third inning on. So an impressive start from
Speaker 2: Derek school Well. Got to give some love to Jack
Speaker 2: Dryer who came in and to me after Schooble left.
Speaker 2: This was the at bat of the game and the
Speaker 2: eighth inning with two outs, tying run ninety feet away
Speaker 2: and Jack Dryer brought into face the left handed hitting
Speaker 2: O'Neil Cruz, who is the best hitter the Pirates have
Speaker 2: and maybe the one guy that can really hurt you,
Speaker 2: and Jack Dryer dialed up ninety six to freeze O'Neil
Speaker 2: Cruz to strike him out looking, and from that point
Speaker 2: on the Dodgers were looking at getting the final three
Speaker 2: outs with Tanner Scott. He did his nineteenth save of
Speaker 2: the season. Also, Kyle Tucker a really good game for
Speaker 2: him to deliver in the fifth inning, his first hit
Speaker 2: in twenty seven at bats at Dodger Stadium, the first
Speaker 2: RBI Tucker has had at Dodger Stadium when he drove
Speaker 2: in those two runs in the fifth inning since July eighth,
Speaker 2: But infield was drawn in seeing I single. Sometimes he
Speaker 2: needed that to spark you and Tucker and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are looking for anything to get him going, and maybe
Speaker 2: they found something today because we saw Tucker steal a
Speaker 2: base for the first time in a while. You heard
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts talk about him staying out of a double
Speaker 2: play and really hustling up the first base line to
Speaker 2: extend the inning. So today was a good day for
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker. And I'm not going to take full credit
Speaker 2: but he was our pregame guest. So I am going
Speaker 2: to say some pregame karma for Kyle Tucker today. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Dodgers beat the Pirates tonight four to three
Speaker 2: for their fifth win in a row. Trek Scooble's first
Speaker 2: win as a Dodger. Let's go out to Malibu. Paul
Speaker 2: was at the Dodger game tonight.
Speaker 7: Hi, Paul, David's Bob and Malavu Mett.
Speaker 2: Oh why did the guy say, Paul, I'm sorry, Bob.
Speaker 2: I knew that.
Speaker 8: That's all right.
Speaker 7: David's all good and I'll go buy Paulton. I no problem,
Speaker 7: all right, David. Was a great game out there. Boyd
Speaker 7: looked good. It was a team win today. Scooble got
Speaker 7: us all a free jumbo Jack pitched a masterclass after
Speaker 7: those first two innings. It was good to see Tucker
Speaker 7: come up big right there. I know the crowd was
Speaker 7: really on his side today and kudos to him. Kudos
Speaker 7: to Alec Thomas as well. Great debut today. Kudos to
Speaker 7: our boy Max Munsey. Men, that boy was just hitting
Speaker 7: that ball right down in the right field all day long.
Speaker 4: And he came up big today.
Speaker 7: So a great team win all around today. It was
Speaker 7: really cool.
Speaker 2: It really was, Bob, and thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Max Monthsey tonight three for three with two doubles and
Speaker 2: he scored twice. And he is starting to heat up
Speaker 2: at the right time for the Dodgers. He's come up
Speaker 2: with seven big hits to decide games for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: In between all that he hadn't been really hitting on
Speaker 2: all cylinders, but coming up clutch as he always does.
Speaker 2: And tonight three hits, two runs scored, and two doubles.
Speaker 2: He now has twenty on the year to go along
Speaker 2: with what twenty six home runs. Max Munthsey has twenty
Speaker 2: doubles and twenty six home runs. If he gets going,
Speaker 2: that'll help make up for the loss of Andy Paez, who,
Speaker 2: in case you're joining us late last night, was hit
Speaker 2: by a pitch in the third inning, taken out of
Speaker 2: the game in the fifth inning. He had X rays
Speaker 2: and it showed a broken left hand. It's a displaced
Speaker 2: l fifth metacarp bowl fracture. According to the Dodger trainer
Speaker 2: Thomas Aalbert, he likely is going to have to have surgery.
Speaker 2: That's going to put him on the shelf somewhere between
Speaker 2: four and six weeks. And remember when Will Smith got
Speaker 2: hit by a pitch because he exposed his right hand
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh. It always seems to happen against the Pirates.
Speaker 2: Will Smith and Pittsburgh last year had his right throwing
Speaker 2: hand exposed for some reason, broke his hand. And when
Speaker 2: he came back in the playoffs, yeah he was back. Yes,
Speaker 2: it was great to have his calming presence behind the plate,
Speaker 2: but as a hitter, he wasn't the same Will Smith
Speaker 2: until the World Series. So I wouldn't expect Andy pa
Speaker 2: has to be in center field and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden be the twenty home run EDRBI guy that he
Speaker 2: was before breaking his left hand. It's gonna take some time.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to mission Viejo, Joe, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Joe.
Speaker 9: I'm doing great. Just coming back from the game. I
Speaker 9: wanted to compare Kyle Tucker's numbers this year to another
Speaker 9: Dodger great whose first year with the Dodgers, and actually
Speaker 9: Kyle Tucker's number are better is Dusty Baker his first
Speaker 9: year with the Dodgers in almost five hundred plate appearances.
Speaker 9: He only had four home runs and he only hit
Speaker 9: like two And I remember back then how people were
Speaker 9: all over his case and everything, and then he ended
Speaker 9: up having a great career. So I think silver lining
Speaker 9: for Kyle Tuckle Tucker is the same type of thing,
Speaker 9: because I think they're sort of comparable type of players.
Speaker 2: Wasn't Dusty traded in the middle of the year that season?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 9: No, he had four hundred and fifty something at bats
Speaker 9: with the Dodgers and he was traded in a off
Speaker 9: season with I think it was like Tompas Shore and
Speaker 9: about four guys because Dusty Baker was going to be
Speaker 9: like the next Hank Aaron for Atlanta, but he being
Speaker 9: traded as the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did playing one hundred and twelve games that year.
Speaker 2: He did have four hundred and twenty one played appearances,
Speaker 2: and you're right, he only hit two forty two and
Speaker 2: only had a six zho five ops. But I'm reluctant
Speaker 2: to compare Kyle Tucker to Dusty Baker because Dusty has
Speaker 2: a lot of credit in this game, and I think
Speaker 2: that's that's the biggest shock, Joe, that you would compare
Speaker 2: Tucker to Dusty Baker, But I will say this, I
Speaker 2: understand what you're saying. Coming to a new team playing
Speaker 2: in LA, joining the back to back World Series champions,
Speaker 2: that's a lot. That's a lot, three teams in three years,
Speaker 2: So I would say that's where the parallels are. And
Speaker 2: even Gary Sheffield said as much on Thursday that it's
Speaker 2: been an adjustment for him, but the postseason is going
Speaker 2: to be where he turns his season around and then
Speaker 2: never look back. So I understand what you're saying there.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call. Joe. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Tonight's
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Speaker 2: a fighter. Let's go out to downtown, Manny. You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. How you doing, Manny?
Speaker 4: What's up DV?
Speaker 10: How you doing? I'm just glad the team got the
Speaker 10: w today on my birthday. Kind of shout myself out
Speaker 10: right there, so it was a good little birthday gift
Speaker 10: for me.
Speaker 2: Usually somebody else calls to wish a person a happy birthday.
Speaker 2: Are you Are you that lonely Manny that you have
Speaker 2: to call me to wish you a happy birthday?
Speaker 10: I was under the weather today a little bit, so
Speaker 10: I kind of just hung out watched the game.
Speaker 2: But you know what you're feeling. Because of your feelings,
Speaker 2: you watch the Dodger game. Now you're feeling great. Happy birthday, Manny,
Speaker 2: And you know what I'm gonna do for you. I'm
Speaker 2: going to give you a pair of tickets to the
Speaker 2: game on September twentieth. Because you're home alone, you're depressed,
Speaker 2: and you're calling me.
Speaker 6: I am a little bit.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you're my Dodger therapist and IDV.
Speaker 2: I love it. So after you're done with your call,
Speaker 2: hold on, Zach will get your info and you're coming
Speaker 2: to the game on September twentieth. So that's a birthday
Speaker 2: gift from me and everyone at five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 10: Hey, tipping my cap to you guys.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 10: You guys do a great job.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I just love what Max Muntsey's doing. I think he's,
Speaker 10: you know, like he's been blazing high. I sound like
Speaker 10: a broken record because I call this Dodger hot line
Speaker 10: once a week. At least, he's doing his thing. He's
Speaker 10: carrying the team. It's never easy if you're joining a
Speaker 10: team like Alec Thomas. You know, getting thrown right into
Speaker 10: the starting lineup. But he's a former Arizona diamondback. He
Speaker 10: was playing regularly, so it's good to see that too.
Speaker 10: Because pots is down, sense of urgency must go up,
Speaker 10: so someone has to step into those big shoes. So
Speaker 10: good to see him getting RBI today. I kind of
Speaker 10: called because I wanted to.
Speaker 8: I want to know what's going on with.
Speaker 10: Dylan Hernandez down there. You don't have to, you know,
Speaker 10: tell us everything, but I'm so glad Stan Caston put
Speaker 10: him in his place.
Speaker 4: Real good to see.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for the phone call. Many Yeah, that
Speaker 2: was that was a fun exchange yesterday. And look, it's
Speaker 2: about setting the record straight and Stan Casten was trying
Speaker 2: to do that yesterday. But yeah, never see now here
Speaker 2: we go back to back calls. Very oh and I
Speaker 2: hung up on you, Manny called back. I'm sorry, Zach
Speaker 2: will get your information. I I was. I was shocked
Speaker 2: that we had somebody compare Kyle Tucker to Dusty Baker.
Speaker 2: But I do understand when you say a guy coming
Speaker 2: to a new team, it takes an adjustment period, and
Speaker 2: that was the case with Dusty coming from Atlanta and
Speaker 2: Tucker being on his third team in three years with
Speaker 2: a high price tag, and now somebody referencing Dylan Hernandez.
Speaker 2: All I got was shade. Yesterday. It felt like nobody
Speaker 2: was listening to what Dylan or Stan Casting was saying,
Speaker 2: and they were just making fun of the look on
Speaker 2: my face. The sun was beating down in my face.
Speaker 2: I couldn't shield my face because I was in the
Speaker 2: middle of something there, So I apologize if you did
Speaker 2: not look like the look on my face. Eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Pirates tonight four to three and have
Speaker 2: won five in a row, and more importantly, now have
Speaker 2: a four game lead over the Braves in the lost
Speaker 2: column for the number two seed in the National League
Speaker 2: playoff picture. And what that means is, yes, there's three
Speaker 2: division winners, but the top two records of the division
Speaker 2: winners get a bye and don't have to play a
Speaker 2: wildcard game. And that was the case last year where
Speaker 2: the Dodgers had to play a best of three wildcard
Speaker 2: series against the Reds and then we're on the road
Speaker 2: for the rest of the postseason. That's also part of
Speaker 2: this equation. You don't want to be in that position again,
Speaker 2: if you're the Dodgers, Yes, they ran the table, never
Speaker 2: having home field advantage and any of the postseason series
Speaker 2: except for the Wildcard round against the Reds. You don't
Speaker 2: want to have to put this team that has a
Speaker 2: lot of miles on them the last two and a
Speaker 2: half years and have not have home field advantage. So
Speaker 2: if they can not only just keep the spot that
Speaker 2: they're in, but also maybe catch the Brewers, they would
Speaker 2: be in a great spot. And that is something to
Speaker 2: keep an eye on. Yes, they are going to win
Speaker 2: this division, whether it's by ten games or three games,
Speaker 2: They're going to win this division because right now they
Speaker 2: have a nine and a half game lead over the Padres.
Speaker 2: San Diego has come back against the Twins and are
Speaker 2: leading right now six to five in the eighth inning
Speaker 2: at Peco Park. But the thing to watch is the
Speaker 2: number of losses the Dodgers have compared to the Brewers
Speaker 2: and Braves. Right now, the Dodgers have opened it up
Speaker 2: against Atlanta, sweep in the Rockies, taking care of business
Speaker 2: the way they needed to, and now taking care of
Speaker 2: business here at Dodgers Stadium. They only have won eight
Speaker 2: to fifteen games at home since the All Star break.
Speaker 2: That needs to change going down the stretch. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: need to win home games, and their schedule in September
Speaker 2: is extremely more forgiving than what it has been the
Speaker 2: last eight weeks. And in fact, there was one site
Speaker 2: that really ranks the string the schedules and they said
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have the second easiest schedule in the month
Speaker 2: of September of any team in baseball. So that's also
Speaker 2: good news for the Dodgers. Also good news is they
Speaker 2: got Snell back. He's starting tomorrow and Tyler Glass now
Speaker 2: is going to return on Tuesday in Atlanta, the first
Speaker 2: game of that road trip, the first game of that
Speaker 2: series out there at Truest Park. Eight six six eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. We're going
Speaker 2: to take another time out. When we return, we will
Speaker 2: take more of your phone calls. We have one line open.
Speaker 2: We'll give you an update on what we saw with
Speaker 2: Otani's live BP today and what is next for him,
Speaker 2: and how the Dodgers are going to manage center field
Speaker 2: without Andy pa has Alec Thomas Tonight got the start,
Speaker 2: he got his first hit as a Dodger. He drove
Speaker 2: in his first run as a Dodger and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: beat the Pirates four to three on five seventy LA Sports. Hey,
Speaker 2: it's Miguel Rojas. This is Dodger Talk am LA Sports,
Speaker 2: your home.
Speaker 11: Off the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: David Vasse live at Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium. After
Speaker 2: the Dodgers defeat the Pirates four to three tonight and
Speaker 2: when they're fifth in a row, the Dodgers will look
Speaker 2: for the sweep against the Pirates tomorrow on snell Zilla Sunday.
Speaker 2: That's right. Blake Snell has dominated in his first two starts.
Speaker 2: Impressive that he was able to strike out ten and
Speaker 2: six innings in his first start against the Royals, and
Speaker 2: then impressive to go six innings and dominate the Rockies
Speaker 2: at Coursefield. I don't care who you are or where
Speaker 2: you're at in your season, but your second start since
Speaker 2: coming off the IL and you're pitching at Coursefield, you
Speaker 2: dominate the way Snell did. That was impressive and there
Speaker 2: was a great scene in the Dodger dugout during today's
Speaker 2: game between Trek Scooball and Blake Snell. I tweeted it
Speaker 2: out at the Real Underscore DV and you gotta love
Speaker 2: two lefties like that on the same staff talking the
Speaker 2: game plotting and Snell, I know, has a perception of
Speaker 2: being a guy that stays up all night to play
Speaker 2: video games and now you know, breaks open baseball cards.
Speaker 2: He does do that, but he does get his sleep.
Speaker 2: But he's a next level baseball savant when it comes
Speaker 2: to game planning, knowing's hitter swings. You know, he's he's
Speaker 2: really smart. And I feel like the perception that he
Speaker 2: has plays to his advantage because everybody thinks that he
Speaker 2: just has no clue what he's doing out there, but
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Speaker 2: the dream. Kyle Tucker was our pregame guest. You can
Speaker 2: listen to that conversation on the iHeartRadio app. That's where
Speaker 2: he can make Dodger Talker preset and hear all the
Speaker 2: shows all the interviews, and I do encourage you to
Speaker 2: hear from Kyle Tucker earlier today, but a couple of
Speaker 2: days ago, Gary Sheffield was in town for the Pump
Speaker 2: Family Charity Foundation and he was asked about Kyle Tucker's
Speaker 2: struggles this year with the Dodgers, and chef being from
Speaker 2: Tampa knows about Kyle Tucker, who also is a Tampa guy.
Speaker 2: And here's what Gary Sheffield had to say. A guy
Speaker 2: that should be in the Hall of Fame, one of
Speaker 2: the best hitters in the history of the game, and
Speaker 2: certainly a guy that never holds back.
Speaker 1: One question on Kyle Tucker big free agent signing.
Speaker 4: It's been stumbling of late.
Speaker 2: What's you read on his situation and do you think
Speaker 2: you can get out of it? Well, you know, a
Speaker 2: guy from Tampa.
Speaker 12: You know, a lot of times when you play in
Speaker 12: a smaller market teams, you know, it can be a
Speaker 12: bit overwhelming for you coming in as a new teammate,
Speaker 12: especially when the team has already won without you, and
Speaker 12: so it puts a lot of pressure on you. You know,
Speaker 12: I know the kid from home, back home. You know,
Speaker 12: I've known since high school. He's going to bounce back.
Speaker 12: You know, he just needs to get this year out
Speaker 12: the way, come through in the playoffs and all to
Speaker 12: be okay.
Speaker 4: Any Gary Sheffield a device for him.
Speaker 12: Just keep going at it, you know, you just remember
Speaker 12: who you are. You're a great player and you can
Speaker 12: always continue to be great. So just remember just go
Speaker 12: out there. All that matters is the playoffs at this point.
Speaker 12: Once you get in there, you can be the man.
Speaker 12: It's quick, all right.
Speaker 2: There's Gary Sheffield with the California Post a couple of
Speaker 2: nights ago at the Beverly Hilton. And when you hear
Speaker 2: that as a Dodger fan, that's got to give you
Speaker 2: some confidence that Tucker can change his season with one
Speaker 2: hit in October. He had a big hit today. Hopefully
Speaker 2: that is the start of more things to come here
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium, as his two runs single to put
Speaker 2: the Dodgers ahead for good in the fifth inning snapped
Speaker 2: an oh for twenty six drought here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Ish in Riverside. You're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 8: Ish, Hey, DV man, how's it gone? Long time knows
Speaker 8: the kind of a situation.
Speaker 4: Man, How you been.
Speaker 2: My life hasn't been the same since you called in
Speaker 2: last time. I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 8: Yes, there's been a hole in my heart as well. No,
Speaker 8: but hey, listen, man, we had a good game up
Speaker 8: there went with my brother Isaac, my sister Tanya. We
Speaker 8: were cooking in the sun. So totally understand what you're
Speaker 8: saying about being in the sun. But yeah, man, just
Speaker 8: a question I have regarding the lineup. You know, really
Speaker 8: happy to see some signs of life with Tucker. I
Speaker 8: think it is obviously Monsey's, you know, doing his Monsey thing.
Speaker 8: What are your thoughts on this lineup change? Obviously with
Speaker 8: pa has been out, I think Mooki was down to
Speaker 8: the third bat like kind of like he.
Speaker 2: Was up to the third spot from the fifth and
Speaker 2: sixth spot.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, yeah, right, So what are your thoughts of that?
Speaker 8: I mean, is this something that we're going to kind
Speaker 8: of see while Bajz is out? You know, I believe we're.
Speaker 4: Going to see this.
Speaker 2: I believe you're going to see this while Paz is
Speaker 2: out and until Will Smith returns and Mooki has this
Speaker 2: opportunity the next couple of weeks to prove that Mookie's
Speaker 2: back and I like Mooki's at Pats today. He hit
Speaker 2: the ball hard. Unfortunately a couple of times right at people,
Speaker 2: but uh, he was hitting the ball hard today and
Speaker 2: if he continues to do that, good things are going
Speaker 2: to happen.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: No, he's kind of seen a little bit more of
Speaker 8: a Pepini staff, a little bit more I don't want
Speaker 8: to say engaged, but I mean it was definitely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you use that word. I know nobody
Speaker 2: wants to say that word, but yeah, I feel like
Speaker 2: he has been more engaged the last week, and him
Speaker 2: and Taoscar Hernandez understand how to get through a full season.
Speaker 2: I mean, Mookie's a four time champion ta Oscar since
Speaker 2: he got here back to back champions, So these guys
Speaker 2: know how to get through a full season. And even
Speaker 2: Mookie said that to us in Denver. So I feel
Speaker 2: like it's go time for him and Taoscar Hernandez, and
Speaker 2: now with the injury to Paijaz, I think they understand
Speaker 2: that more than ever.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, that's great. And then you know, as far
Speaker 8: as the call of Alex Thomas and stuff like that, again,
Speaker 8: I thought he did very very well obviously his first
Speaker 8: day out right, what does that look like? Is he
Speaker 8: coming up and down? Is he gonna stay for a
Speaker 8: little bit?
Speaker 2: What king tell us man, Well, he's staying and thanks
Speaker 2: for the phone call. Is she's staying. And the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are looking for defense from Alec Thomas because taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: and Kyle Tucker have limited range out there, so they
Speaker 2: need a center fielder that can cover as much ground
Speaker 2: as possible because those two guys are limited and Indy
Speaker 2: pa Has did that. I mean he covered a lot
Speaker 2: of ground from right center to left center. And that's
Speaker 2: first and foremost for the Dodgers, and that's the reason
Speaker 2: why Alec Thomas got the call up for his defense
Speaker 2: and whatever he can add with his speed at the
Speaker 2: bottom of the lineup is a bonus for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: until pa Has can return. Eight sixty six seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Phil and Santa Anna. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Phil?
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm good, David.
Speaker 6: Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: My pleasure.
Speaker 6: So right on, So I wanted to share this my
Speaker 6: experience recently. I'm a teacher surviving the first couple weeks
Speaker 6: of school here and so haven't made it through uh,
Speaker 6: Dodger Talk at night, but in the morning, I to
Speaker 6: Top on the AM five seventy iHeartRadio app listen to
Speaker 6: Dodger Talk and it's sympathetic. The other day you were
Speaker 6: talking about Kyle Tucker needing to get into the pregame
Speaker 6: on the field batting practice.
Speaker 4: He does it.
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts now is talking about how.
Speaker 4: He's loving is At. That's obviously today.
Speaker 6: Had a fantastic hit in a key moment. Then you
Speaker 6: were talking about Alec Thomas being the answer for Paz
Speaker 6: while he's out, Boom gets called up. So it's like
Speaker 6: you've been letting me know in the morning exactly what's
Speaker 6: going to happen later in the day with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you. I appreciate it. I know the Dodgers
Speaker 2: better than I know my wife and kids these days,
Speaker 2: so I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And then just the last thing. The last week, you
Speaker 6: were kind of questioning callers on what's the answer with
Speaker 6: the concerns about Edwin Diaz, and you mentioned like Tanner Scott,
Speaker 6: that's the guy, and you know, Tanner Scott has just
Speaker 6: been maybe the most consistent Bolton pitcher this whole year
Speaker 6: and seen him go in now with the confidence he has, like.
Speaker 4: I feel it.
Speaker 6: I feel like we're gonna win when he goes in
Speaker 6: the lock it down and that feels good as we
Speaker 6: get culture to the playoffs because it would really be
Speaker 6: nice to have a guy like that, and whether or
Speaker 6: not Edwin Diaz comes back, I feel confidence in Tanner
Speaker 6: Scott and I'm just really excited to see what our
Speaker 6: pitchings that time has done with them, and yeah, looking
Speaker 6: forward to seeing what he does.
Speaker 2: The first example phil of coming into this big machine
Speaker 2: that's the Dodgers with high expectations defending champs and trying
Speaker 2: to do too much, not being himself, and then getting
Speaker 2: into a snowball of a season that he couldn't get
Speaker 2: out of, and then obviously having the issues that he
Speaker 2: had and not being part of the postseason roster. This year.
Speaker 2: He came in with a more relaxed and confident attitude
Speaker 2: in spring training and owned it that he wasn't good
Speaker 2: at all last year. He didn't shy away from it
Speaker 2: from the first day spring training when he was asked
Speaker 2: about it, too, even as recently when a reporter asked
Speaker 2: him about it in Denver after one of the games.
Speaker 2: So I think that's been part of it. I guess
Speaker 2: acknowledging all that is the first step, as they say,
Speaker 2: So I love seeing this confident version of Tanner Scott.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 6: And you know, at the end of the day, I
Speaker 6: think that we should all look at that and say,
Speaker 6: if this first year goes how it is with Edwin Diaz,
Speaker 6: look at Tanner Scott, look at all these other guys,
Speaker 6: like I think we should feel good about long term
Speaker 6: what we're going to get from him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt, Phil, And we'll see what he can
Speaker 2: do in October. Remember last year he was not part
Speaker 2: of it, so I'm sure he's looking forward to being
Speaker 2: part of the team in the postseason. Thanks for the
Speaker 2: phone call, Phil, and thanks for the love and listening
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. Speaking of Edwin Diaz, he was
Speaker 2: out here at the stadium working on his mechanics. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the neck is feeling better. We're expected to talk to
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz tomorrow, so we'll be able to share that
Speaker 2: with you on the pregame show when we check in
Speaker 2: with Tim Kates on Dodgers on Deck. But Edwin Diaz
Speaker 2: has about twenty Ish games to show the Dodgers that
Speaker 2: he can be part of this postseason roster, at least
Speaker 2: in the very first round. Obviously, you can reset your
Speaker 2: roster as the postseason goes along, but he's got a
Speaker 2: proof that he can help and be one of the
Speaker 2: thirteen best pitchers on this staff. The Dodger staff is
Speaker 2: going to be really good like it was last year.
Speaker 2: Starters going to the bullpen to get outs. But if
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz can come back and look like Edwin Diaz
Speaker 2: from a year ago, all of a sudden, the Dodger
Speaker 2: staff and Dodger bullpen in the postseason is looking even better.
Speaker 2: That'll do it for us. Tonight on Dodger Talk, Roy
Speaker 2: and Michael, I'm sorry I couldn't get to you. Call
Speaker 2: back on Tuesday when we have Dodger Talk from Atlanta,
Speaker 2: or you can call Tim Kates after the game tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And you know what tomorrow is, It's bump day for
Speaker 2: Blake Snell. Blake Snell has dominated in his first two
Speaker 2: starts since coming back from the IL. He's looking to
Speaker 2: continue that against the Pirates. Our coverage begins at noon
Speaker 2: tomorrow with first pitch at one ten and Snell Zilla
Speaker 2: knows all about my Ionic nine from our friends at
Speaker 2: Downy Hunday. He wants a ride so bad to the
Speaker 2: stadium on start day in my beautiful blue Ionic nine
Speaker 2: from Downy Hunday. And I say, you know what, Zilla,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You gotta make at least five
Speaker 2: starts before I give you a ride in the Ionic
Speaker 2: nine Downy Hunday. Just kidding. He never asked for a ride,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure he's curious anyway. Thanks to Zach Eelcaldy
Speaker 2: pinch hitting for Colin Yee. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out
Speaker 2: here at Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to
Speaker 2: you for listening. And by the way, I want to
Speaker 2: send get better. Rick Monday had a right into the
Speaker 2: Rick Monday's saddle in the seventh inning. Rick is doing okay,
Speaker 2: you'll be back tomorrow. But you know, things happen sometimes.
Speaker 2: So Tim Neverett gracious enough to allow me to sit
Speaker 2: in the co pilot's seat for the last two innings.
Speaker 2: And gotta win. You know, when when a coach is
Speaker 2: suspended or thrown out in the middle of a game,
Speaker 2: the assistant coach gets credit for that win. So I
Speaker 2: feel like this win today goes on my books, not
Speaker 2: on Rick Monday's books. Once again. The final score today
Speaker 2: the Dodgers defeat the Pirates four to three. Have a
Speaker 2: great rest of your night. Be safe in Pasadena the
Speaker 2: Strokes concert at the Rose Bull. I'm very jealous. We'll
Speaker 2: talk to you tomorrow, see you