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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vase.
Speaker 2: Last day, What a night for the Dodgers as they
Speaker 2: score three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning
Speaker 2: to come back and beat the Marlins walk off style
Speaker 2: five to four. Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase with
Speaker 2: you until eleven thirty tonight. We have phone lines open
Speaker 2: at eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker delivered the big hit with two outs in
Speaker 2: the bottom of the ninth inning. Score show Hayo Tani
Speaker 2: and Freddie Freeman as the Dodgers walk it off against
Speaker 2: the Marlins five to four and take game one of
Speaker 2: this three game series. We got a lot to get
Speaker 2: to between now and eleven thirty. Your phone calls eight
Speaker 2: sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. Also, you'll
Speaker 2: hear from Edwin Diaz and Andrew Friedman on Diaz's right
Speaker 2: elbow procedure that he underwent last week. Edwin Diaz at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium and speaking to the media earlier today, Andrew
Speaker 2: Friedman gave us a little bit more detail over the weekend,
Speaker 2: so we'll share that with you as well. But tonight
Speaker 2: it was a night where you thought, maybe the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are just going to go down quietly against the Marlins.
Speaker 2: But that's not who this Dodger team is. They want
Speaker 2: to win each and every game and they're going to
Speaker 2: do their best to find a way to do that.
Speaker 3: Yamamoto, he's human. He was off tonight.
Speaker 2: He was not really having the feel for his split
Speaker 2: fingered fastball. He was missing it. He was leaving it
Speaker 2: up in the strike zone. And the fifth inning was
Speaker 2: indicative of all that, because you know, Yama Moto doesn't
Speaker 2: walk batters when he's on and let alone, let the
Speaker 2: number nine hitter again hurt you. Connor Norby was on
Speaker 2: base three times tonight. He singled in the third, he
Speaker 2: walked in the fifth, and that was the beginning of
Speaker 2: Yama Moto having a very frustrating fifth inning where he
Speaker 2: Norby let off the inning with a walk, and then
Speaker 2: what was even more frustrating was that Yama Moto was
Speaker 2: this close to getting out of the fifth but he
Speaker 2: walked second basement Xavier Edwards with two outs, which allowed
Speaker 2: Liam Hicks, the left handed hitting DH, to come up
Speaker 2: and hit a go ahead three run home run over
Speaker 2: the short wall inside the right field foul pole. So
Speaker 2: it was a two to one Dodger lead, and it
Speaker 2: turned into a four to two Marlins lead at that
Speaker 2: point in time until the ninth inning when the Dodgers
Speaker 2: came alive. He kind of felt like the game was
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning when the Dodgers had an opportunity
Speaker 2: with the bases loaded and two outs and the right
Speaker 2: guy at the plate, Will Smith against the Marlins left
Speaker 2: handed reliever Andrew Nrdi, who was in a lot of
Speaker 2: trouble and reeling at that point in time. So Smith
Speaker 2: broke his bat and grounded out softly to the second baseman.
Speaker 2: And Smith this year against lefties is not doing well.
Speaker 3: Early on.
Speaker 2: He's only hitting a buck eighty eight against lefties with
Speaker 2: no home runs. Usually a lefty against Will Smith especially
Speaker 2: a lefty reliever against will Smith and the bases loaded,
Speaker 2: will Smith is at least going to get a base hit.
Speaker 2: And tonight will Smith came up twice with the bases
Speaker 2: loaded and couldn't get one run in seventh inning and
Speaker 2: the ninth inning. He was the second out in the
Speaker 2: ninth inning, and luckily Kyle Tucker was able.
Speaker 3: To deliver his first walk off hit for the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: So he.
Speaker 2: Kind of felt like that seventh inning that was the
Speaker 2: best chance for the Dodgers to do Dodger things. And
Speaker 2: against the Marlins bullpen that is the best in Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball coming into tonight, holding hitters to a batting
Speaker 2: average of what a buck eighty seven coming into the
Speaker 2: game tonight, So it's not a bad Marlins bullpen. In fact,
Speaker 2: it's a pretty good Marlin's bullpen, and they lost their
Speaker 2: closer tonight. Pete Fairbanks came in throwing ninety seven and
Speaker 2: after intentionally walking Freddie Freeman, the Marlins manager, Clayton McCullen,
Speaker 2: the training staff went out there and Fairbanks left the
Speaker 2: game with one out and the bases loaded, and that's
Speaker 2: when Tyler Phillips came into the game, and you know,
Speaker 2: just being right next to the Dodger Dougout. I looked
Speaker 2: like an NFL sideline with the offensive coordinator, the defensive
Speaker 2: coordinator looking at everything. And you had Dino Ebol, Bob Gearan,
Speaker 2: J T. Watkins, Rob ban Zoyak all in a huddle,
Speaker 2: all looking and sharing information. As Tyler Phillips was coming
Speaker 2: into the game and Will Smith was the first spatter up.
Speaker 2: He struck out, so it was two out, spaces loaded.
Speaker 2: After Shohei Otani was able to double one run in,
Speaker 2: you had the bases loaded for Kyle Tucker, who had
Speaker 2: his biggest moment to date as a Dodger, delivering a
Speaker 2: two run walk off basit to center field to give
Speaker 2: the Dodgers the five to four win. After the game,
Speaker 2: we had a chance to catch up with Tucker who
Speaker 2: just had gotten the ice bath from Taascar, Hernandez and Alex.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was nice, Like I said earlier, when you
Speaker 5: know the teammates with the phenomenal at bats in front
Speaker 5: of me and just getting on base. Show Hey with
Speaker 5: a huge double right there to get get the extra run,
Speaker 5: Freddie Paez with the grant at bats, Dalton, just guys
Speaker 5: getting on base in front of us and grinding throughout
Speaker 5: the whole game, just get the opportunity.
Speaker 3: So that is that was huge in that situation.
Speaker 2: Base is loaded, there's really no march at Frere for
Speaker 2: the picture.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like that was a huge advantage for you?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's a great picture. He's you know, had
Speaker 5: a really good year so far. So I was just
Speaker 5: trying to get something I could handle decently and just
Speaker 5: try and get hit with it.
Speaker 3: So it worked out.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: You feel like this personality lends itself to those moments.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'm just trying and grind the abats on, trying
Speaker 5: to do my job, and you know, sometimes it works,
Speaker 5: sometimes it doesn't, but you just gotta keep moving on and.
Speaker 1: Can grinding it.
Speaker 3: Are you expecting the gate ade bath?
Speaker 5: No, I don't. I don't know the last time I've
Speaker 5: had something like that, so I wasn't at all. So
Speaker 5: it was pretty cold though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, congratulations, glad you got to enjoy that and deliver.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you appreciate it. One of many.
Speaker 2: Yep, there we go, all right, Kyle Tucker delivering his
Speaker 2: biggest hit as a Dodger.
Speaker 3: And I like Kyle Tucker I.
Speaker 2: Know he's not the emotional guy that's gonna be the
Speaker 2: greatest interview or really pour out his emotions.
Speaker 3: But I like him.
Speaker 2: I've gotten to know him over the course of the
Speaker 2: last two months since spring training, and I like him.
Speaker 2: He is who he is, and it's not that he
Speaker 2: doesn't want to help the team win or he doesn't care.
Speaker 3: I know that label is out there. Of course he cares.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't be in the major leagues if he didn't care.
Speaker 2: He's just not going to be Yasie Oh Puig type
Speaker 2: of personality. I'm sorry. He's just not gonna be that guy.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna be Freddie Freeman. He's gonna be more
Speaker 2: on the show, hal tany type of personality spectrum with
Speaker 2: some dry sense of humor. But look, I felt like
Speaker 2: he gave as much as he was going to give
Speaker 2: right there, and he certainly gave more between the lines,
Speaker 2: and that's that's what counts a two run walk off
Speaker 2: base hit. As the Dodgers beat the Marlins tonight five
Speaker 2: to four, and I got to give some love to
Speaker 2: the Dodger bullpen because after Yamamoto came out of the game,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were down four to two, And I know
Speaker 2: a lot of times we only look at the bullpen
Speaker 2: when the team has a lead, whether it's the Dodgers
Speaker 2: or any other team or any other fan base. You
Speaker 2: only really focus or put the bullpen under a microscope
Speaker 2: when you have a lead. But this was big as well.
Speaker 2: It's only a two run deficit and you got this
Speaker 2: Dodger offense behind you. So a four to two lead
Speaker 2: for the Marlins is not insurmountable, as we saw with
Speaker 2: two outs in the ninth inning tonight, So it was
Speaker 2: huge for Alex Vesia, Tanner Scott, Edgardo Enriquez and Jake
Speaker 2: Eder to come in and.
Speaker 3: Hold the score where it was.
Speaker 2: So you got four scoreless innings from four different relievers
Speaker 2: are combined, four different relievers tonight, and that was huge.
Speaker 2: If one of them gives up a run all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you know it's a different game. A three
Speaker 2: run deficit's a little bit different than a two run deficit.
Speaker 2: And Svesia had three strikeouts, ten Or Scott had three strikeouts,
Speaker 2: and Riquez had won seven strikeouts combined from the Dodger
Speaker 2: bullpen is the most in a game this season. And
Speaker 2: Jake Eder tonight won his first ever major League game
Speaker 2: in relief. So congratulations to Jake as well as the
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Marlins five to four.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Dean, who is at the game tonight.
Speaker 3: Hi Dean, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hey Dave, longtime listener, first time caller. I just wanted
Speaker 7: to pay you a compliment first, because you're always very objective.
Speaker 7: You're not afraid to call guys out when they're not performing,
Speaker 7: and I appreciate that You're not a homer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we were at the same to night.
Speaker 2: That's what I grew up with, Mia Karrn, Vince Scully,
Speaker 2: Don Drysdale, Ross Porter, Charlie steiner, Rick Monday.
Speaker 3: None of them are homers.
Speaker 7: I love all those guys. And yeah, we stayed till
Speaker 7: the end because I told my friend, I go, Tucker
Speaker 7: is gonna come through. You know, I know that they're
Speaker 7: gonna come through. And I'm so happy he had his moment.
Speaker 7: And you know, Yamamotos, you know, nobody's gonna throw perfect
Speaker 7: games every every time out, so he was due for
Speaker 7: a set back and I'm just glad that Tucker had
Speaker 7: his moment. And Dodgers are so balanced rushing. I'm very
Speaker 7: excited about rushing. He's a he's a great young player,
Speaker 7: and he needs to get in there more often.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll find his way in the lineup more and more.
Speaker 8: Dean.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was a good at back, coming off
Speaker 2: the bench, working a walk, not trying to do too much,
Speaker 2: understanding the situation. And he's really starting to really embrace
Speaker 2: this role, coming off the bench and starting whenever they
Speaker 2: need him to. So I'm with you and appreciate the
Speaker 2: phone call and appreciate you even more for staying all
Speaker 2: the way through and not giving up.
Speaker 3: In the ninth inning.
Speaker 7: All Right, thank you, Dave.
Speaker 2: All Right, Dean, thank you for the phone call. Eight
Speaker 2: six six two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 2: walk it off against the Marlins five to four. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Braxton, who is at the game tonight.
Speaker 2: Hi Braxton, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Hey David, thanks for taking a call. Man.
Speaker 8: What I want to hit on is today this game,
Speaker 8: this game is just such a game, and you know
Speaker 8: we deserved that win. I stayed to the end as well,
Speaker 8: like I with this team. And you just know I
Speaker 8: said the last time I called you, you just know
Speaker 8: they're going to come through. And if if you look
Speaker 8: at this game as a whole, y'all, Mamoto he gave
Speaker 8: up a lot of a lot of men on base, right,
Speaker 8: But I mean, but he kept battling through and he
Speaker 8: kept getting out of the jam, and then we had
Speaker 8: we had he had a home run stick over the
Speaker 8: short the short wall. You know, it is unfortunate. You
Speaker 8: look at our bats on the other side, and I
Speaker 8: mean we were hot tonight, like sitting in the stands.
Speaker 8: There were so many balls that we all thought were
Speaker 8: out of there, and I mean, I'm in a lot
Speaker 8: of games, but I mean we crushed the ball all night.
Speaker 8: And then Meggy has the ball that's a one foot
Speaker 8: foul and I think Kyle Tucker hit won the right
Speaker 8: field that was like one foot foul. So I mean,
Speaker 8: we could have won this game by ten runs with
Speaker 8: if it was just a few feet each way, you know.
Speaker 8: So yeah, that's that's what I want to talk about.
Speaker 8: You've got all the faith in the world this team, man, Like,
Speaker 8: how fun, good for Tucker.
Speaker 6: So proud of y'allah, no doubt. Awesome game, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a great game. And you're right.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have had their chances to maybe have that
Speaker 2: big hit. It just didn't go fair for Miguel Rojas
Speaker 2: and his first at bat of the game when he
Speaker 2: came up to pinch hit in the seventh inning for
Speaker 2: Alex Freeland and then he struck out looking. Speaking of
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas, the whole decision for him to lay down
Speaker 2: or try to lay down a sacrifice bunt with nobody
Speaker 2: out and runners it first and second in the ninth
Speaker 2: inning against Pete Fairbanks. Look, I'm not gonna say there
Speaker 2: wasn't thought behind it, because Miguel Rojas has an extremely
Speaker 2: high baseball IQ and many believe that he'll be a
Speaker 2: manager one day in Major League baseball.
Speaker 3: But here's my thought.
Speaker 2: If he does get that bunt down, then you have
Speaker 2: runners at second and third, you're still down two runs,
Speaker 2: and show Hao Tani's coming up. I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like Clayton McCullough would intentionally walk O Tony take the
Speaker 2: bat out of his hands. And I can understand, and Okay,
Speaker 2: that's fine. You got Freddie Freeman coming up with one
Speaker 2: out and the bases loaded. That's that's not a great
Speaker 2: spot to be in if you're Pete Fairbanks, but I
Speaker 2: still would have had Roja swing away in that situation.
Speaker 2: But I do understand the line of thinking from his side.
Speaker 2: I just don't know how many people in the stadium
Speaker 2: would agree with that decision. And I'm sure that was
Speaker 2: on his own. And look, the Dodgers are able to
Speaker 2: come from behind and win it. But I just feel like,
Speaker 2: if he does get those runners over, you got the
Speaker 2: tying run at second base, but you have Otani with
Speaker 2: the bat out of his hands, and you know when
Speaker 2: you want Otani up, especially after what we've seen the
Speaker 2: last couple of days, he could end the game with
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Speaker 2: By the way, Otani with the ground rule double down
Speaker 2: the right field line another example of what Braxton was
Speaker 2: talking about. If that doesn't one to hop the wall
Speaker 2: and he hits it, let's say a little bit to
Speaker 2: the left off the bullpen gate, you have a tie
Speaker 2: score with one swing from Otani right there. So those
Speaker 2: are the type of things that were occurring tonight. But
Speaker 2: at the end, the Dodgers again showed the game was
Speaker 2: a little bit too long for their opponent as they
Speaker 2: beat the Marlins tonight five to four, eight six, six, seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. By the way,
Speaker 2: until Otani's ground rule double in the ninth inning, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers did not have an extra base hit in the game.
Speaker 2: The last time the Dodgers won a game without an
Speaker 2: extra base hit was April of twenty twenty four. They
Speaker 2: don't win many games if they're not slugging, and tonight
Speaker 2: they slugged once with the Otani's ground rule double. But
Speaker 2: nonetheless they find a way to pass the baton, get
Speaker 2: the other guy up taking the walk, not trying to
Speaker 2: be the hero, understanding you can't have a three run
Speaker 2: home run with nobody on base. It started with Andy
Speaker 2: Pie as lead off walk. In the ninth inning, Dalton
Speaker 2: Rushing came off the bench, and by the way, he
Speaker 2: was the last position player on the bench for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers outside of I believe Santiago Espinal. He was the
Speaker 2: only other guy still left on the bench when Rushing
Speaker 2: came up to pain shit, So he took a walk
Speaker 2: and from there the Dodgers kept putting pressure on the Marlins.
Speaker 2: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
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Speaker 1: Two hounds of the on one and.
Speaker 3: Tucker lines went on the center fielder base Dodgers are
Speaker 3: gonna win it. Here comes old tiny Rod Third.
Speaker 1: He'll store hop.
Speaker 3: About that second walkoff winning the season for Tucker four
Speaker 3: career walkoff hits, and the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Come back for the eleventh time this.
Speaker 3: Year and win the ball game of five to four. Oh,
Speaker 3: how do you like that? Woman?
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have the second most comeback wins this season
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball. They score three runs in the
Speaker 2: ninth inning and beat the Marlins tonight, five to four.
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Speaker 2: Daniel Stewlers owned the dream. I'm just looking at the scorecard.
Speaker 2: I was right initially. Dalton Rushing coming off the bench
Speaker 2: in the ninth inning was pinch hitting in the Santiago
Speaker 2: espinall spot, so Rushing was the last position player the
Speaker 2: Dodgers used in the game tonight. What if the game
Speaker 2: just is tied and the Dodgers don't walk it off,
Speaker 2: who goes where? How do they arrange all that? I'll
Speaker 2: have to ask Dave Roberts that tomorrow. But luckily that
Speaker 2: was not a concern as the Dodgers got a big
Speaker 2: hit from Kyle Tucker with two outs and beat the
Speaker 2: Marlins tonight five to four.
Speaker 3: All right, let's check in with Jose Mota.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Hose, I'm sure you were looking at your
Speaker 2: score book when all that was happening. Let's start there.
Speaker 2: What if the game is tied? Who goes where?
Speaker 6: Man, I'm trying to figure that out myself. Let's get
Speaker 6: rushing a first baseman's.
Speaker 3: Glove, first, Freddy going left field.
Speaker 6: Keep Freddy in the infield. But I'm sure they were
Speaker 6: about wage you'll get somebody in there in the right time. Thanks.
Speaker 6: Thankfully we're not talking about the dogues again because of that.
Speaker 2: Right, exactly right. And here's another one for you. Just
Speaker 2: as it was happening. I could understand the thought process
Speaker 2: by Miguel Rojas, But where do you land on the
Speaker 2: strategy to leave first base open if you successful getting
Speaker 2: that sacrifice bunt down with nobody out runners at first
Speaker 2: and second in the ninth inning.
Speaker 6: I'm not against him, and I'll tell you why. Show
Speaker 6: Hal Touney has struggled mightily this season against right handed pitchers.
Speaker 6: And if you go back, Dave to September or last season,
Speaker 6: you know what was happening. In those situations with Ben Robert,
Speaker 6: he was bunning the guy over and Dave Roberts like, hey,
Speaker 6: you o the pictures show Hey, that's fine. We got
Speaker 6: other guys behind him and worked out more times than it,
Speaker 6: not against the Dodgers, I mean against the other team.
Speaker 6: So I was not totally say. And the one thing
Speaker 6: that I mean, I gotta make clear is sometimes if
Speaker 6: he showed bunt on your own and the managers doesn't agree,
Speaker 6: somebody's gonna yell you, hey, hey, no, no, no, you
Speaker 6: sung the bat. But remember Miguel showed bun the first time,
Speaker 6: nobody said pull the bat back. He did it again,
Speaker 6: showed it early, which is a sacrifice, and he and
Speaker 6: he missed. But I'm not against it just because there's
Speaker 6: been proof that show. Hey, i'll tell you what it
Speaker 6: is today coming against right handed pictures. He was at
Speaker 6: two nineteen against lefties three sixty seven. So I can
Speaker 6: see what McColls looking at those numbers, going, you know what,
Speaker 6: just going to go out there and just either get
Speaker 6: after him or at least go after Freddie. And that's
Speaker 6: what we call great protection right there. But I'm not
Speaker 6: against that player.
Speaker 2: Jose Moti is joining us after the Dodgers scored three
Speaker 2: runs in the ninth inning and beat the Marlins five
Speaker 2: to four. I'm sure you saw what I did in
Speaker 2: the ninth inning when Tyler Phillips came into the game,
Speaker 2: right there a lot of huddling by the Dodgers, not
Speaker 2: only with Will Smith and Kyle Tucker, but with the
Speaker 2: base runners as Phillips was coming in. So when you
Speaker 2: have a situation like that, what did you see? Number one,
Speaker 2: why Pete Fairbanks came out of the game with an injury,
Speaker 2: and number two just that whole Okay, here's a guy
Speaker 2: that we weren't expecting coming into the game right here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he always think advantage for Pete Fairbanks. What I
Speaker 6: saw him just taking his right hand a lot, which
Speaker 6: is not an invacation of the hand, but it could
Speaker 6: be something. Now hopefully it is not the moment some
Speaker 6: crumping for him because he's a very valued guy in
Speaker 6: the gate captor sign him for a reason because they're
Speaker 6: right now, you know, in a good spot. But with
Speaker 6: a guy like Phillips, you know he's got all the
Speaker 6: time with the world to walmap, and you have all
Speaker 6: the time in the world also to do your homework
Speaker 6: on him and to see what he comes with out
Speaker 6: of that bullpen. Anybody coming in like this who was
Speaker 6: not expecting to be in the game, you are always
Speaker 6: going to be And the advantage of the hitter. Now
Speaker 6: he beat Will Smith, yes, but as they left on
Speaker 6: that hitter, like you know Kyle Tucker, who was looking
Speaker 6: for that big moment. The information you want to get is, hey,
Speaker 6: why is the secondary pitch? How does he get ahead?
Speaker 6: What does he do when he's behind? And for Kyle
Speaker 6: Tucker right now, all those things mean get something good
Speaker 6: to hit, period, Just get something to hit. He rolled
Speaker 6: over first pitch day, which he does a whole lot
Speaker 6: to the you know, the opponent, but out here at home.
Speaker 6: But then he squared things up. If you stop that swing, fans,
Speaker 6: go ahead, find the video. Stop the swing. That is
Speaker 6: the best swing he has. That is a Dodger is
Speaker 6: it's all perfection, middle of the field, behind the baseball,
Speaker 6: that barrel is not drugging or going around the baseball
Speaker 6: and is exactly what he needed to say, fill the
Speaker 6: baseball a little bit more and have the big ballert.
Speaker 6: But that could be a big lifter found.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be a good thing for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Now that O'tani in the last three games is starting
Speaker 2: to look like o'tani. And then you have Kyle Tucker
Speaker 2: hopefully getting some some weight off his shoulders with that
Speaker 2: walk off hit. All of a sudden, you may have
Speaker 2: Otani and Tucker hitting at the same time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was looking at you know, at Tucker some
Speaker 6: digging deep in what he has been doing. And the
Speaker 6: chases have been very high. Last year, he's in a
Speaker 6: great spot in great ratings in chases. This year he's not.
Speaker 6: He's a very poor twenty five percent. In other words, Dave,
Speaker 6: you know, it's kind of baffling sometimes if you look
Speaker 6: at a hitter and you tell anybody, hey, getting ahead
Speaker 6: for you as a hitter isn't advantage. It's proved throughout
Speaker 6: the history of baseball. Want to know is a great
Speaker 6: count to be in because it could lead to seeing
Speaker 6: us right, and it could lead to ball to now
Speaker 6: you two and zero. Check this out for Kyle Tucker
Speaker 6: days after one and oh he comes in hitting one
Speaker 6: forty eight. You can't explain that. It's like, how has
Speaker 6: that happen? That is one thing, making bad decisions swinging
Speaker 6: the pitches that you shouldn't be swinging at but mainly
Speaker 6: just not having that consistence well, which he has admitted.
Speaker 6: But you know, today is the day in which I
Speaker 6: hope he just puts it all behind, becomes a good
Speaker 6: contact hitter, goes out in hiss BP sometimes on the
Speaker 6: field to see how the ball's traveling, and just is
Speaker 6: able to show why the dollars went um signed this guy.
Speaker 3: All right, hose before I'll let you go.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said in his postgame press conference that O'tani
Speaker 2: will not hit tomorrow night, second time this year that
Speaker 2: O'tani will not DH on the same night that he
Speaker 2: is pitching. Do you believe this is a trend we're
Speaker 2: going to see moving forward? Do you believe that O'tani
Speaker 2: might get Wednesday off as well?
Speaker 6: I believe that he will play against Sandie al Contra
Speaker 6: on Wednesday, then there's an off day for the players
Speaker 6: before they, you know, head out to Saint Louis. And
Speaker 6: I think there's a trend. We say it that you
Speaker 6: played it perfectly the other day with Andrew feeven A Mansters.
Speaker 6: I mean, they've thought about this for many, many, many months,
Speaker 6: and before the season they're planning out this guy is
Speaker 6: going to come full bore to be a picture and
Speaker 6: we have to protect Showy from show and it is
Speaker 6: a trend that's going to be more than beneficial for
Speaker 6: show Hey, for the Dodgers, anybody else, because obviously you
Speaker 6: want this guy not just healthy and productive and strong
Speaker 6: for six months, it is beyond six months, and there's
Speaker 6: a very big step. And I always say, protect Joy
Speaker 6: from Showy and everything should be all right.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in. We'll
Speaker 2: see you at the ballpark tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, Hey, no slump today. Thanks for not throwing
Speaker 6: me the breaking balls day for jobs taking you out
Speaker 6: of the slump.
Speaker 2: There he goes, Jose Motive part of the Dodgers Spanish
Speaker 2: radio broadcast. Dodgers beat the Marlins tonight five to four.
Speaker 2: And speaking of Andrew Friedman, you could hear our full
Speaker 2: conversation with Andrew that we had on Saturday on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. He was so candid with so many different
Speaker 2: topics from Otani and the strategy of what the or
Speaker 2: the plan the Dodgers are going to have for Otani
Speaker 2: moving forward when he pitches, and also his response to
Speaker 2: the critics or all of a sudden the whiny people
Speaker 2: around baseball bringing up the Otani rule. And also he
Speaker 2: gave us some real clarity on the severity of Edwin
Speaker 2: Diaz's right elbow procedure. I mean, that's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 2: We hadn't heard from Diaz or Andrew to that point
Speaker 2: about how severe the procedure was. And here's what Andrew
Speaker 2: told me on Saturday as far as where the floating
Speaker 2: loose bodies were in Edwin Diaz's right elbow, you know, with.
Speaker 9: That one, obviously it's a big law. But you know,
Speaker 9: it was something he had been feeling in his last
Speaker 9: couple outings and velocity was down just where the chip
Speaker 9: was was pushing right on the tricep muscle and so
Speaker 9: something that just wasn't allowing him the same freedom to
Speaker 9: get to his velocity, and just a lot of discomfort.
Speaker 9: So fortunately it didn't involve anything with the ligament. It
Speaker 9: wasn't near the ligament, and doctor Elatrosh felt really confident,
Speaker 9: let's go in and get it out. It will alleviate
Speaker 9: those symptoms and he'll come back and be in a
Speaker 9: good spot.
Speaker 3: So it's good in.
Speaker 9: Terms of, you know the prognosis of him coming back
Speaker 9: and helping us in the second half of the season
Speaker 9: and hopefully through along October.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was encouraging from Andrew Friedman knowing now
Speaker 2: that there was a bone ship pressing up against his
Speaker 2: right tricep and that was causing him pain. And today
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz spoke to the media for the first time
Speaker 2: in the Dodger dugout and he echoed the same optimististic
Speaker 2: sentiments that Andrew Friedman had, and he also explained just
Speaker 2: how this was affecting his fastball velocity and his effectiveness.
Speaker 10: I guess I think my emotion was a little way
Speaker 10: short and normal. Now after I saw you, I'm getting
Speaker 10: close to what what what I ad when I am
Speaker 10: when I was good. So I think that maybe that's
Speaker 10: why the villa was a little way inconsistent. But at
Speaker 10: the end of the day, you know, I was feeling great.
Speaker 10: Just I am feel tired that day, tired on the
Speaker 10: image showed that loose body on it were removed.
Speaker 2: So after that night at Course Field, that was it
Speaker 2: for Edwin Diaz and the Dodgers. They said, hey, let's
Speaker 2: go take a look with an MRI what's going on,
Speaker 2: And luckily there was no ligament damage. It was just
Speaker 2: a bone chip pressing up against his right tricep muscle.
Speaker 2: And Edwin Diaz also said that he has a more
Speaker 2: range of motion with his arm than he expected after
Speaker 2: that right elbow procedure. Doctor Electro the best, so obviously
Speaker 2: he's gonna handle with care and he's gonna bring him
Speaker 2: back as soon as possible. He has an incredible track record,
Speaker 2: so doctor elatrosh is the right guy to do a
Speaker 2: procedure like that, and Edwin Diaz should be should be
Speaker 2: returning sometime during the second half of the season. And
Speaker 2: don't forget, the Dodgers will be getting back Evan Phillips
Speaker 2: the second half of the season as well. Tonight's game
Speaker 2: brought to you by Modello Modello the Mark of a Fighter,
Speaker 2: all right. Tomorrow the Dodgers will have show Hey Tani
Speaker 2: on the mound. They will not have him leading off
Speaker 2: as the DH. We'll see whether or not Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: gets off his feet and is the DH and Dalton
Speaker 2: Rushing plays first base. That would be my first choice,
Speaker 2: but we'll see what Dave Roberts puts out there tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Otani in four starts absolutely dominant. Zero thirty eight era
Speaker 2: a whip of zero seventy five. He's undefeated going up
Speaker 2: against the year old Jansen Junk. Junk in five starts
Speaker 2: is one and two with an ERA of three sixty seven.
Speaker 2: Our coverage begins at six o'clock. First pitch between the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Marlins on Otani Night at seven ten, and
Speaker 2: of course I'll get here thanks to my friends at
Speaker 2: Downey Hunday. I'll be driving my Downy Tucson here. Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman did not carpool with me and my Hyundai Tucson,
Speaker 2: but maybe he'll decide to do that tomorrow. You never know.
Speaker 2: You never know anyway. Thanks to Colin e back at
Speaker 2: our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you for listening. In case
Speaker 2: you missed any of the show or our pregame conversation
Speaker 2: with former Dodgers first base coach now Marlin's manager Clayton McCullough,
Speaker 2: you can find it on the iHeartRadio app. And that's
Speaker 2: also where you can hear our full conversation over the
Speaker 2: weekend with Andrew Friedman once again. The final score tonight
Speaker 2: from Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers come back with three runs
Speaker 2: in the ninth inning and walk off the Marlins five
Speaker 2: to four. Ben Mallor on Fox Sports Radio is next.
Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your night, See you
Speaker 3: Season,