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Speaker 2: the Dodgers fall to the Angels today by a final
Speaker 2: score of thirteen to five. The Dodgers win five out
Speaker 2: of the six regular season matchups between them and the
Speaker 2: Halos this season, after dropping all six last year. But
Speaker 2: this was a very range game, more than you would
Speaker 2: believe in a thirteen to five type of game. Now,
Speaker 2: just to reset everything, the Dodgers now still in first
Speaker 2: place by a lot in the NLST with a forty
Speaker 2: two and twenty four record. There's seven and a half
Speaker 2: games ahead of the Diamondbacks, who were the only team
Speaker 2: in the NLS today to win. The Diamondbacks are seven
Speaker 2: and a half back, the Padres, who have lost eleven
Speaker 2: of thirteen, are eight back, The Giants are fifteen and
Speaker 2: a half games back, while the Rockies are eighteen back.
Speaker 2: But this was a weird game in more ways than one.
Speaker 2: Because let's start with the home played umpire, Dan Iosnia,
Speaker 2: who's a really good umpire but today just wasn't on
Speaker 2: his game, and a couple of things that impacted the game.
Speaker 2: Let's start in the second inning, when you know, Jose
Speaker 2: Siri foul tipped a ball into the glove of Dalton rushing.
Speaker 2: He was pretty certain and adamant, and the replay showed that, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, Dan i Asonia missed that one. Instead Jose
Speaker 2: Siri walks and then the number nine hitter, the catcher
Speaker 2: that everybody knows now, the backup catcher for the Angels, Sebastia,
Speaker 2: have hit a bleeder over the head of Alex Friedlin
Speaker 2: in no man's land to score two. If if Emit
Speaker 2: Sheen gets the call there, that inning is not what
Speaker 2: it turned out to be. Also, maybe a more egregious
Speaker 2: and more confusing chain of events involving the home played
Speaker 2: umpire was in the uh in the seventh inning, or
Speaker 2: excuse me, in the sixth inning where or I'm gonna
Speaker 2: reset that fourth inning?
Speaker 3: Uh, there should have been a.
Speaker 2: Swing appealed on a check swing that you know, quite honestly,
Speaker 2: there was some confusion with the ABS.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: The ABS was something that you know, it's a great tool,
Speaker 2: but here is something where is a little bit of
Speaker 2: a gray area.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Nick Madrical at the plate working a twelve pitch at
Speaker 2: bat against Alex Vesia full count, a pitch that originally
Speaker 2: was called strike three that would have ended that inning
Speaker 2: in the fourth. Instead they go to the ABS and
Speaker 2: they say, no, it's a ball. So it is a
Speaker 2: full count, right, and that turns into a three to
Speaker 2: two count after the count coming into it was two
Speaker 2: to two. So on that pitch that was rule overruled
Speaker 2: and turned into from a strike to a ball, Nick
Speaker 2: Madrical actually swung. If you go back and look at
Speaker 2: the replay, it was a swing. And here's my question, Okay,
Speaker 2: on an ABS call like that, if you're if the
Speaker 2: call is overturned to a ball, but the hitter didn't
Speaker 2: check his swing, shouldn't that be strike three? That's a
Speaker 2: rule that I'm not sure about, and you heard Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts allude to it. There's gotta be a little bit
Speaker 2: more clarity on that, because whether or not the pitch
Speaker 2: was a strike or not, he swung at it, he
Speaker 2: offered at it, and that should have been strike three
Speaker 2: now as far as the game goes, And that's where
Speaker 2: it really is decided inexcusable for the Dodger pitching staff,
Speaker 2: which threw two hundred and six pitches to allow the Angels,
Speaker 2: who are not a very good hitting team. But the
Speaker 2: Angels six through nine hitters go thirteen for fifteen with
Speaker 2: ten RBIs and ten runs scored, including the Angels backup
Speaker 2: catcher Sebastian Rivero going five for five with six RBIs. Now,
Speaker 2: a couple of those hits were a product of luck
Speaker 2: with him, you know, just getting bat on ball and
Speaker 2: it finding some grass in the fourth inning. I still
Speaker 2: don't understand why the Dodgers had the infield in only
Speaker 2: being down a run with one out in the fourth
Speaker 2: and Blake Trinon on the mound with the number nine hitter,
Speaker 2: slow un running catcher Rivero at the plate. What the
Speaker 2: infield in tells me is you don't believe you're going
Speaker 2: to score a lot of runs today, which I find really.
Speaker 3: Hard to believe.
Speaker 2: And it turned out to be true, even against Jose Soriano,
Speaker 2: who has been very human the last few weeks, including
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers in Anaheim. So forget about whatever you
Speaker 2: think the play should be or what should have taken
Speaker 2: place there. Infield in is a signal to me that
Speaker 2: you don't believe you're going to score a lot of
Speaker 2: runs there. And if Alex Frielan's playing at normal depth,
Speaker 2: he makes the catch on a bleeder that barely hit
Speaker 2: grass in that fourth inning, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it's four to one turns into six to one, and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers come back big time against Soriano in the
Speaker 2: sixth inning thanks to back to back home runs by
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing and Ryan Ward. So all of a sudden
Speaker 2: it's a six to five game. And I understand Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts was put in a bad spot with she and
Speaker 2: only going an inning and a third in him having
Speaker 2: to go to his bullpen and look, he's got to
Speaker 2: save Kyle Hurt and or Tanner Scott for the eighth
Speaker 2: and ninth innings, but I'm not questioning that part. Jonathan
Speaker 2: Hernandez goes out for a second inning and the Angels
Speaker 2: bashed him for six runs on seven hits in that
Speaker 2: seventh inning, and nobody went out for a mound visit.
Speaker 2: A six run seventh inning, a two run home run
Speaker 2: was hit, and then a few batters later, the lineup
Speaker 2: turns over for Zach Netto.
Speaker 3: In between Adele's two.
Speaker 2: Run home run and Neto's three run home run, somebody
Speaker 2: needed to go out to the mound to give this
Speaker 2: guy a breather. I mean, I'm not saying take the
Speaker 2: guy out, but how about Dalton rushing going out and
Speaker 2: just slowing the game down a mound visit. How about
Speaker 2: a mound visit to slow the game down if you
Speaker 2: need Hernandez to get through that seventh inning after that
Speaker 2: two run home run to Adele, you gotta go out
Speaker 2: there and settle him down. He's Jonathan Hernandez. I know
Speaker 2: he's pitched well in the first eight or nine games
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers, but he's Jonathan Hernandez. You gotta go
Speaker 2: out there and slow the game down for him. And
Speaker 2: I thought that was a big mistake, and that was
Speaker 2: part of the reason why that inning got away from
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Speaker 2: to talk about the Dodger offense today, it was really
Speaker 2: good in that sixth inning, but far and few between
Speaker 2: outside of that sixth inning. And it's hard to continue
Speaker 2: to ignore the struggles of Kyle Tucker, who is ozer
Speaker 2: for four today, who is now hitting two thirty six
Speaker 2: with an OPI of seven sixteen. You know, you go
Speaker 2: back to the second half of last year with the Cubs,
Speaker 2: this has been Kyle Tucker. In fact, Kyle Tucker in
Speaker 2: the second half of last year, I guess he was
Speaker 2: dealing with the wrist injury, but nonetheless hit two thirty
Speaker 2: one and only slug three seventy eight. It's looking a
Speaker 2: little similar so far in his first few months with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and nobody can seem to give me any
Speaker 2: sort of real clear idea about why they believe Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker has been playing so poorly to start the year.
Speaker 2: This year, Tucker is hitting two thirty six, he's getting
Speaker 2: on base at a three thirty two clip, and he's
Speaker 2: only sl three eighty four. I mean, at this point
Speaker 2: in time, it's becoming incredibly difficult to ignore what's going
Speaker 2: on with Kyle Tucker. Eight six six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to the phones, Manny and Sam Miguel. You're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk with David Vasse. How you doing, Manny.
Speaker 5: I'm doing good day. Thanks for taking my call. Man Yeah,
Speaker 5: you just you know, you take the words kind of
Speaker 5: part of my call out of my mouth is at
Speaker 5: this stage, you know, the offensive struggles are hard to ignore.
Speaker 5: I think entering the game he was Kyle Tucker. That
Speaker 5: is is he was one ninety one average at home
Speaker 5: for a cleanup hitter, number three hitter is to me,
Speaker 5: he's inexcusable. You should not have that guy at the
Speaker 5: top of the order.
Speaker 3: The other thing that well, Nry Manny hold up.
Speaker 2: The reason why he was hitting that high today was
Speaker 2: because Will Smith and Mookie Betts were out of the lineup,
Speaker 2: so is Andy pot Has. So that's the reason why
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker was hitting third today. And I don't think
Speaker 2: and by the way, I think it's that much to
Speaker 2: ask a player that is a pretty good hitter in
Speaker 2: his career, forget about the salary. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: that much to ask for one day for Kyle Tucker
Speaker 2: to hit third.
Speaker 5: I agree, but when when those guys are in the lineup,
Speaker 5: he shouldn't be anywhere near the top of the order
Speaker 5: and until hitting fifth, good good, well even fifth, maybe
Speaker 5: he should be you know, seventh Ray at this point.
Speaker 5: But but regardless of that, Dave, the defense today was
Speaker 5: also not what you want to see. He just looked
Speaker 5: a little lax. Of days ago. He missed, he missed
Speaker 5: the catch in foul territory that he any any outfielder
Speaker 5: should make. And then he had that like the one.
Speaker 2: Where he's sliding towards Uh, the one where he's sliding
Speaker 2: towards the wall.
Speaker 5: That was even it was half the slide. You should
Speaker 5: have got. The guys on TV said he should have
Speaker 5: that ball.
Speaker 3: Who said that just.
Speaker 5: Uh, Steve, Steven Nelson and Steve, the guys that were
Speaker 5: doing on the TV my beat. But they said, they said,
Speaker 5: any big ly outfielder should have that ball, And I agree.
Speaker 5: It didn't look that difficult.
Speaker 3: It hit his glows It hit his glove.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I understand that, and look many that when
Speaker 2: things are not going good for you and you're missing
Speaker 2: balls like that, and let's face it, maybe he got
Speaker 2: a late jump on it too. I think we all
Speaker 2: want to see a little bit more from Kyle Tucker
Speaker 2: in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I agree percent David. Let's hope to turn this
Speaker 5: thing around, and let's let's get the train back on
Speaker 5: the tracks.
Speaker 2: Here for everybody, Okay, the train is not off the tracks. Man,
Speaker 2: you're making a lot of crazy statements here. The train
Speaker 2: is not off the tracks. The Dodgers won two out
Speaker 2: of three from the Angels. They beat them nine to
Speaker 2: two last night. They had a walk off home run
Speaker 2: from Freddie Freeman on the first night. They have forty
Speaker 2: two wins and are seven and a half games ahead
Speaker 2: of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Yeah, maybe Kyle Tucker needs to
Speaker 2: get the train back on the track, but his teammates
Speaker 2: are picking him up in a big way. He's the
Speaker 2: guy that needs to get the train back on the tracks,
Speaker 2: not the team as a whole. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Mission Viejo. Bill, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Bill?
Speaker 6: Pretty good? Thanks for taking my call. I had one
Speaker 6: quick question for you. You said that the five arbis
Speaker 6: by a catcher hasn't happened since in Boston. Was that
Speaker 6: against the Dodgers or was that the Dodgers?
Speaker 2: I said, I said, I said, you see, you can't
Speaker 2: just hear. You have to listen to the show, my friend,
Speaker 2: I said, Sebastian Rivero not only five hits but also
Speaker 2: six RBIs in the same game for an Angel's catchers,
Speaker 2: the second time it's happened. The only other time the
Speaker 2: Angels have had a catcher with five hits and six
Speaker 2: RBIs in a game was a guy by the name
Speaker 2: of Carlos Perez against the Red Sox in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: So it's for the Angels.
Speaker 6: Also, I just wanted to point out that foul ball
Speaker 6: bumped up Shean's pitch count pretty good too.
Speaker 7: It did, was missed it did.
Speaker 2: But look, I'm not going to say that's a routine
Speaker 2: foul ball to catch. I mean he was sliding and
Speaker 2: oh you know, right against the short wall. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean he hit his gloves so in the sun.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say it's routine. It's not like
Speaker 2: he was right camped underneath it. But yeah, he probably
Speaker 2: should have caught it. I'm not going to say it's routine.
Speaker 2: I think that's the least of the issues.
Speaker 7: Bill.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers need Kyle Tucker to start hitting. That's the
Speaker 2: bigger issue.
Speaker 6: Rad I was going to tell you the nineteen twenties
Speaker 6: is the last time the six three to ten batting
Speaker 6: order had that the thirteen for fifteen.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, Bill, appreciate that. Were you there?
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number Angels beat the Dodgers today, thirteen to five.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Glenn Dale. Robert, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Robert, Hey.
Speaker 7: Dave, thanks for taking my call. I was from to
Speaker 7: call with your comments on Kyle Tucker, and I just
Speaker 7: wanted to ask you because I got a couple of
Speaker 7: friends that are diehard Cubs fans and what they tell
Speaker 7: me about Kyle Tucker and I don't know if this
Speaker 7: is true or not. That's why I want to ask you,
Speaker 7: is that he doesn't have a reputation of being the
Speaker 7: most coachable player, that he doesn't necessarily want to look
Speaker 7: at the zapp bats on video or he kind of
Speaker 7: shows up to the bar park and does his thing
Speaker 7: and has his way of doing things. And as the
Speaker 7: doctor Insider, I just wanted to ask your insight on that.
Speaker 7: And for someone that on this particular show is talking
Speaker 7: about how he needs to get it going, what's your
Speaker 7: insight on how he can do that?
Speaker 2: Okay, Robert, don't hang up, so you should listen to this.
Speaker 2: Number One, Kyle Tucker is on the record in interviews
Speaker 2: with myself that has said he's not an iPad type
Speaker 2: of guy and watches the game and has his own
Speaker 2: routine when it comes to getting ready for the game.
Speaker 2: I got news for you, Robert, Freddie Freeman doesn't focus
Speaker 2: on an iPad. He's watching the picture, he's watching what's
Speaker 2: happening in the game, and he doesn't take a million
Speaker 2: swings before the game to get ready. So if you're
Speaker 2: going to criticize Kyle Tucker, that would not be one
Speaker 2: of the areas to criticize Kyle Tucker. There's a great
Speaker 2: I don't even know if Sports in at LA is
Speaker 2: going to post this robber. But a few days ago,
Speaker 2: Nomar Garcia Para did a great breakdown of Kyle Tucker
Speaker 2: when he was going really good in the first half
Speaker 2: for the Cubs last year compared to where he's at
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers right now. And basically what it comes
Speaker 2: down to is he's overstriding, is my takeaway from Nomar
Speaker 2: on what he's saying. He's overtriding, which is affecting the
Speaker 2: way his bat is coming through the strike zone. The
Speaker 2: barrel of the bat is flat, and that all starts
Speaker 2: with his stride. So a lot of times it's not
Speaker 2: that complicated. And again, Robert, here's my thing. No, mare
Speaker 2: Garcia Para is out here every day for batting practice
Speaker 2: for home games. One of these guys like Mookie Bets,
Speaker 2: who's not even hitting two hundred, or Kyle Tucker, if
Speaker 2: you they have the TVs on inside that clubhouse, if
Speaker 2: he sees that, or he sees no Maar and he's
Speaker 2: struggling and he can't find it, how about tapping into
Speaker 2: a different voice like that. And I think Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: at this point in time, even though his betting average
Speaker 2: is under two hundred. He's hitting the ball better than
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker is even though they're for outs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm with you there, and that makes a lot
Speaker 7: of sense. I know that. You know, overstriding can cause
Speaker 7: issues with the head position, also if your head's moving
Speaker 7: while you're trying to see the pitch.
Speaker 3: So I need the green light from Nomar.
Speaker 2: I need the green light from Nomar to post the
Speaker 2: video that he had on Sports and at LA because
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it on their Twitter account. They should
Speaker 2: do that and maybe tag Kyle Tucker, you know, free
Speaker 2: free batting lesson from Nomar for Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 7: All right, well, I appreciate the input and I'll be
Speaker 7: hopoit to listen to the rest of the show on
Speaker 7: on my driving home from work.
Speaker 2: Okay, Robert, thanks a lot for calling in eight six
Speaker 2: six nine seven two five seventy. Yeah, I caught that
Speaker 2: the other night because they do replay the postgame shows,
Speaker 2: and I did catch Nomar's demo of what he believes
Speaker 2: is causing Kyle Tucker's struggles. It's not about watching an iPad.
Speaker 2: It's sometimes as simple as overstriding and that causing the
Speaker 2: back to lag through the strike zone. He made it
Speaker 2: so he made an idiot like me understand what he
Speaker 2: was saying. So that's how good it was. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Valencia. Lawrence, you're on Dodger Talk with David Vasse.
Speaker 8: You are demand Dave. I have a question for you. Yes,
Speaker 8: how long is it supposed to be for a review
Speaker 8: to happen?
Speaker 2: As far as an abs tapping the helmet challenge? Yeah, oh,
Speaker 2: it's got to be immediate, within the second or two.
Speaker 2: You got to tap the helmet. And that's where Ayas
Speaker 2: Sonia left his mic on. You could hear Rushing talking
Speaker 2: to him and you heard him say I didn't hear
Speaker 2: him because it's got to be verbal. And also tapping
Speaker 2: the helmet. So you know a lot of times the
Speaker 2: guys are adjusting their helmet and don't say, hey, I
Speaker 2: want to challenge that, and the umpire gets confused. So
Speaker 2: it's got to be verbal. And also, you know, tapping
Speaker 2: the top of the helmet.
Speaker 8: Do you remember that one, three and two count during
Speaker 8: the game. I want to say, what the seventh inning
Speaker 8: or sixth inning? Okay, it seems like about a minute
Speaker 8: later that they went to the challenge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think that's the play we were
Speaker 2: talking about with Nick Madrigal because there was some confusion
Speaker 2: about ball strike.
Speaker 3: Did he swing or didn't swing?
Speaker 2: And that's the issue I had in the fourth inning
Speaker 2: where they overturned the call, and that's the same play.
Speaker 2: In fact, that ISOs Sonia wasn't sure if if madriic
Speaker 2: Ole was asking for an ABS challenge, but okay, it
Speaker 2: was a ball. We saw that on the big screen.
Speaker 2: But he did swing. He should have been he should
Speaker 2: have been called out. It should have been strike three.
Speaker 8: There were two strikeouts, Dad did Dodger it can wait
Speaker 8: from them all because of league challenges.
Speaker 2: All right, Lawrence, Yeah, I just think it was a
Speaker 2: rough day behind the plate for Dan i Asnia, no doubt.
Speaker 2: And I think the other one you're talking about is
Speaker 2: what we addressed earlier in the show. Jose Siri foul tip.
Speaker 2: It was caught by Dalton Rushing and he said it
Speaker 2: was a foul ball. Eight six six nine eight seven
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Speaker 2: we'll check in with Jose Mota and also take more
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Speaker 3: It's the pitch.
Speaker 1: Rushing hangs back, lifted in the or to right field.
Speaker 3: A Dell is on the warning track.
Speaker 1: He's at the wall. Pit's gone.
Speaker 5: Dalton Rushing with a three year run homer, his eighth home.
Speaker 1: Run of the season, makes it six to four.
Speaker 2: Dodgers made it a game in the sixth in name
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing and Ryan Ward hit back to back home runs.
Speaker 2: Three run shot by Dalton Rushing, who was four for
Speaker 2: four today. Catching the Dodger pitching staff, which threw two
Speaker 2: hundred and six pitches today. That's a long day for
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Speaker 3: How about this?
Speaker 2: The Dodgers take two out of three from the Angels,
Speaker 2: but the Angels outscore the Dodgers in these three games.
Speaker 2: If you could believe that the Dodgers scored nine runs
Speaker 2: last night, they only scored one the first night, and
Speaker 2: they score five today. So they fall to the Angels
Speaker 2: thirteen to five. They win five out of six head
Speaker 2: to head matchups and take two out of three from
Speaker 2: the Halos in this three game series. Let's check in
Speaker 2: with Jose Mota.
Speaker 1: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Jose, what a day at Dodgers Stadium. This was a
Speaker 2: wild game. What stood out to you the most as
Speaker 2: far as the way things played out the in the
Speaker 2: sixth the way things played out with the home played
Speaker 2: umpire dan Aya, Sonya and uh Ema. She's struggling in
Speaker 2: that second inning.
Speaker 9: Dave, There's a lot to dissect in this one, but
Speaker 9: I'm going to go back to the bottom of the order.
Speaker 9: Bad so badly here today and not being able to
Speaker 9: put those guys away. It's one in which you know
Speaker 9: it's gonna happen occasionally. Emit she and unfortunately by Matregal
Speaker 9: just took so much out of him. Fourteen pitches, and
Speaker 9: it seems like one thing after the other, you know,
Speaker 9: from those defensive lapses. I think some of the energy
Speaker 9: was missing today, the urgency of putting somebody away like
Speaker 9: the Angels team, and they brought it today. I mean,
Speaker 9: and every single way you saw in way in the
Speaker 9: way which you know Dave rob Roberts managed she in
Speaker 9: number one, number two of the defensive thing that you
Speaker 9: were talking about with the infield end, that type of situation,
Speaker 9: which it surprised me too, because you're allowing yourself to
Speaker 9: think that, hey, you know, I don't have a couple
Speaker 9: of guys in the lineup. Maybe I'm not gonna score
Speaker 9: so many oun But you can't think that way. That's
Speaker 9: that puts the picture in a very bad situation. It
Speaker 9: gives a hit or a big advantage. I'm just putting
Speaker 9: the ball in play and without taking anything away from
Speaker 9: the Angels, I mean, there was way too many opportunities
Speaker 9: given by the Dodgers and every single last pit year
Speaker 9: it's an inquitting at bats that to me just didn't
Speaker 9: go deep enough.
Speaker 2: What do you make of that seventh inning where Jonathan
Speaker 2: Hernandez is asked to go out and pitch a second inning.
Speaker 2: I'm a big believer in slowing down momentum, and not
Speaker 2: just by taking the picture out, but getting a mound
Speaker 2: visit by somebody when the snowball is going downhill against him.
Speaker 2: I was a little surprised nobody went out there to
Speaker 2: try to slow that inning down.
Speaker 9: Some one of those those things that happens in the
Speaker 9: game like this day. But yes, you're right. You want
Speaker 9: to be able to just allow this guy to take
Speaker 9: a breather. He been out there now for the third
Speaker 9: time on the mound. The one thing with Jonathan two
Speaker 9: is he hadna coming into today at one point thirteen,
Speaker 9: he allowed one hit in eight innings and it just
Speaker 9: went south. Why because he has been so good at
Speaker 9: being a pitcher. But it seems like I for hit
Speaker 9: a threshold there. He became a thrower. He's like, I'm
Speaker 9: out here, I'm not going to worry too much about
Speaker 9: making the right pitch. I just got to throw the
Speaker 9: ball out of the plate. Hopefully good things will happen.
Speaker 1: I just didn't.
Speaker 9: I mean there's a few leaders. Yeah, that's part of
Speaker 9: the game too. You got to take it with the
Speaker 9: good and the bad. But too many strange things happened
Speaker 9: to allow yourself to get that close and not being
Speaker 9: able to put it away. But it all stars the
Speaker 9: one thing. Your starting pitcher sets up everything out of
Speaker 9: the bullpen, good and bad when they go deep. Everything
Speaker 9: set up so nicely and slotted when it doesn't. These
Speaker 9: are the type of games that you know, kind of
Speaker 9: follow you more times than not.
Speaker 3: What do you make of that rule, Josea?
Speaker 2: How how are we supposed to kind of dissect the
Speaker 2: rule of the ABS. And when there's a check swing
Speaker 2: like we saw in that fourth inning with Nick Matricoll
Speaker 2: facing Alex Vessia, you know there's two strikes on him.
Speaker 2: I understand that. You know, the ABS challenge showed that
Speaker 2: that pitch should have been a ball. It was a ball,
Speaker 2: but he did swing. It was a complet swing. So
Speaker 2: why was he allowed to continue that bat? And what
Speaker 2: does baseball have to do to try to rectify that
Speaker 2: in between type of scenario?
Speaker 9: It is a tough scenario because as a hitter, you
Speaker 9: think you wait a minute, I didn't go, but there's
Speaker 9: the appeal at first base. The guy said he didn't go,
Speaker 9: But you're thinking about, okay, which one do I take here?
Speaker 9: Obviously you want the umpire first fast to get say
Speaker 9: hey he went. It doesn't matter where the pitch one.
Speaker 9: So baseball needs to find a way to say there's
Speaker 9: a pause here to get the appeal. And then if
Speaker 9: there's the appeal just favors you, then you go to
Speaker 9: the pitch challenge. And it could happen both ways too.
Speaker 9: It could happen on the defensive side to day, because
Speaker 9: it could be you asking on the defensive side catch
Speaker 9: or a pitcher swing no swing on the appeal, or
Speaker 9: then ask for the strike. But a lot of confusing
Speaker 9: things happened today, Madrigal. Nonetheless, with the toughest that bat overall,
Speaker 9: hopefully things will be cleaned up a little bit more.
Speaker 9: Also with the obviously the checkswing rule coming up with
Speaker 9: their own system too electronically. But I won the appeal first,
Speaker 9: and I want to swing a mint and that doesn't
Speaker 9: matter what ABS says he should have been struck out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point, Hose. So you're saying the
Speaker 2: Czech swing call should come first, and then if he
Speaker 2: didn't swing, then you can go to the ABS challenge.
Speaker 9: That is what I'm saying, because you cannot force a
Speaker 9: guy on either side, the defensive side or the offensive side,
Speaker 9: to say which one do you want? You go right
Speaker 9: to what's going to be the most instant thing, which
Speaker 9: is did he swing or not? And then I don't
Speaker 9: want the first base umpire on the right handed batter
Speaker 9: a left him or the third base umpire and left
Speaker 9: hand a batter to be persuaded by the fact that
Speaker 9: they're still waiting on a call to confirm what he
Speaker 9: did or to go out there and counteract that. So
Speaker 9: appeal number one to me because that's the quickest way
Speaker 9: to get out of it, and then you go to
Speaker 9: the second option, which is the ABS.
Speaker 2: I in my opinion, all right, Jose, Tomorrow will be
Speaker 2: a good reset day before the Dodgers head out to
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh to face Paul Skins of all people. Great way
Speaker 2: to start a road trip facing Paul Skeens.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 9: I mean you're gonna be challenged by the Angels. There's
Speaker 9: a little wake up call.
Speaker 5: Why not happen tonight?
Speaker 9: Well, you know you're handsful because the Pirates. Overall, you know,
Speaker 9: there's very well days have played good baseball against the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: Skins is a little more humor, but nonetheless he's gonna
Speaker 9: turn on the notch and you gotta go out there
Speaker 9: and beat him. Pitchwell, defenwill and make the most of
Speaker 9: the opportunities of the business.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose safe travels to the Steel City and
Speaker 2: we'll talk to you on Tuesday.
Speaker 9: Okay, I thank you, I've there there, he goes.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast, and
Speaker 2: speaking of the Pirates, there into second to last place,
Speaker 2: but they do have a winning record this year. They're
Speaker 2: thirty four and thirty two, seven and a half games
Speaker 2: back at the Brewers in the now Central.
Speaker 3: Their run differential, though.
Speaker 2: Is the second best in the Central.
Speaker 3: To only the Brewers.
Speaker 2: The Brewers are plus one oh five and run differential well,
Speaker 2: the Pirates are a plus thirty. But they have lost
Speaker 2: three in a row, so the may be catching them
Speaker 2: at a good time. Let's take another phone call Randy,
Speaker 2: who is at the ballpark today? Hi, Randy, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Hey Dave, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3: My pleasure. Did you have fun.
Speaker 10: He oh, I had a great time, had a great time.
Speaker 10: It was not too hot, it was it was just
Speaker 10: a you know, a nice little breeze going. Great day
Speaker 10: for a ball game.
Speaker 8: Hey, just want to.
Speaker 10: Let some of those Dodger guys know that, you know what,
Speaker 10: we are not in trouble. Hey, six at a seven
Speaker 10: is great that some of the bats are picking up.
Speaker 10: We'll be just buying come October. I do have a question, Dave. Yeah,
Speaker 10: what do you think about all those dogs at the park?
Speaker 3: I thought it was kind of cool. Late in the game.
Speaker 2: It was quiet, you know, and you hear the dogs
Speaker 2: barking coming from the pavilion.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it was kind of charming.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 10: It was really cool. I've been coming to Dodger stated
Speaker 10: for years and I've never seen that because they have
Speaker 10: the dogs in the park, of the puffs in the park,
Speaker 10: I've never seen that many dogs. And Dodger stayed him
Speaker 10: at one time.
Speaker 9: It was great.
Speaker 10: It's a great day for a ball game. You know,
Speaker 10: you're not gonna win every game, it's baseball. But it
Speaker 10: was a great day for a ball game. And you
Speaker 10: know what, a lot of people left early and I
Speaker 10: got out of the parking lot just fine. Today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was happy, you know, a day game.
Speaker 2: Even last the last day game here at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: against the Phillies, the temperatures were getting closer to ninety,
Speaker 2: so I was happy it wasn't too hot for those
Speaker 2: dogs out there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was a great day, great day all around.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the Dodgers come up short, thirteen to five to
Speaker 2: the Angels, and the thirteen runs that the Angels scored
Speaker 2: today is the most they have ever scored against a
Speaker 2: Dodge team. And the thirteen runs the Dodgers allowed today
Speaker 2: is the most runs they've allowed to any team since
Speaker 2: the fourth of July last year. Now, I promised a
Speaker 2: couple of updates on a couple of injured pitchers. Blake's Nell,
Speaker 2: who is throwing now from about sixty feet. I was
Speaker 2: standing next to Freddie Freeman when Snell was going through
Speaker 2: his play, his catch play today. It's the second time
Speaker 2: in three days that Blake Snell has been playing catch
Speaker 2: from about sixty to sixty five feet. He only had
Speaker 2: his left elbow nanoscope procedure two and a half weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Usually when you have bone chips removed, it takes a
Speaker 2: lot longer before you start playing catch, but that's a
Speaker 2: less invasive procedure. The holes where doctor Neil Elatrosh used
Speaker 2: to get into Blake Snell's left elbow were minimally invasive,
Speaker 2: and that was kind of his thought behind developing this procedure,
Speaker 2: same procedure that Derek Scuball had, but Schooble's procedure only
Speaker 2: took thirty minutes, while Blake Snell's procedure was a little
Speaker 2: bit more involved. More bone chips needed to be removed
Speaker 2: in different areas of his left to elbow tricep area,
Speaker 2: so that took about two and a half hours, which
Speaker 2: makes Blake Snell play ain't catch two out of three
Speaker 2: days after having that procedure two and a half weeks ago.
Speaker 2: That much more impressive all around. And Blake told me
Speaker 2: that he feels great and he was clocked at throwing
Speaker 2: about eighty miles an hour from sixty feet today, So
Speaker 2: things are moving in the right in the right direction
Speaker 2: for blake'snew I could see him coming back before August
Speaker 2: if this continues to trend in the right direction. And
Speaker 2: by the way, Trek Scouble made his first rehab start today,
Speaker 2: So both these guys can thank doctor Elatrosh for being
Speaker 2: able to come back as quickly. That was the thought
Speaker 2: behind this procedure to get pictures back on the field
Speaker 2: quicker than they normally would be under the old style
Speaker 2: of removing bone chips. Also, Evan Phillips, who is extremely
Speaker 2: close to returning, who underwent Tommy John's surgery last year.
Speaker 2: He made his second rehab appearance today for Oklahoma City
Speaker 2: and pitched a scoreless eighth inning. So that's great news
Speaker 2: as well as he's basically going through spring training and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers obviously would love to have Evan Pillows back
Speaker 2: in this bullpen. All right, Tomorrow we have off day
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk for you at seven o'clock. You know I
Speaker 2: always find a special guest. We'll have one tomorrow night
Speaker 2: as well, So we look forward to you joining us
Speaker 2: tomorrow night at seven o'clock for off day Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: And then on Tuesday, the Dodgers will be back in
Speaker 2: action beginning a six game road trip, three in Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: and three more on the South side of Chicago. Tuesday,
Speaker 2: Eric Lower will be on the mound in Pittsburgh going
Speaker 2: up against Paul Skeens, who is six and five this
Speaker 2: year with an era at three zero nine. Eric Lower
Speaker 2: will be making his third start as a Dodger. Our
Speaker 2: coverage begins at two thirty on Tuesday with first pitch
Speaker 2: from P and C Park at three point forty with
Speaker 2: Rick Monday and Tim Neverett. That'll do it for us
Speaker 2: today from Dodgers Stadium. Thanks for hanging with us on
Speaker 2: this beautiful Sunday afternoon in the City of Angels. Thanks
Speaker 2: to calling me back at our Burbank studios. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Dwayne McDonald out here at the ballpark. In case you
Speaker 2: missed any of the show, you can find it on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. We had a great weekend here at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium as we were joined by Alex Vesia on Friday,
Speaker 2: Mike Trout and Miles Garrett yesterday, and then twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four World Series Champion Kirby Yates today, So you can
Speaker 2: find all that on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: Once again.
Speaker 2: The final score the Angels defeat the Dodgers thirteen to five.
Speaker 3: Have a great rescue day, Be safe, see you six
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