Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begne.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are the favorites to become the fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Here we go again, virgea running back to.
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Speaker 1: David Vase, last.
Speaker 3: Day, Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vasse with you until eleven thirty tonight right here
Speaker 2: on AM five to seventy LA Sports. After the Dodgers
Speaker 2: on Otani Night beat the Guardians four to one. We
Speaker 2: have phone lines open at eight sixty six nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. We will hear from show, Hey Otani,
Speaker 2: we will hear from Max Muncy. We will check in
Speaker 2: with Jose Mota, and we will take your phone call.
Speaker 2: So a lot to get to between now and eleven thirty.
Speaker 2: Let's start with Otani and then we'll get into the
Speaker 2: Dodger offense.
Speaker 3: Because I know.
Speaker 2: I always preach let the season breathe a little bit,
Speaker 2: but some signs are a little concerning, and this Dodger
Speaker 2: offense is leaving a lot to be desired considering how
Speaker 2: talented it is and how disciplined they usually are, and
Speaker 2: it just hasn't materialized yet in the first five games.
Speaker 2: But I'll re emphasize it's only the first five games.
Speaker 2: But still, some of the pitchers the Dodgers have faced
Speaker 2: they should be doing a lot more damage against than
Speaker 2: they have, and specifically a couple of their hitters in
Speaker 2: the first three of their lineup. So I'll get to
Speaker 2: that in a second, But first sho Heotani, who since
Speaker 2: the beginning of spring training seems to be on a
Speaker 2: mission to have his best pitching season of his career.
Speaker 2: You go back to his first season with the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: He set goals.
Speaker 2: He set goals to steal fifty bases, to be a
Speaker 2: really good base runner, a base Steeler. He and Clayton
Speaker 2: McCullough teamed up for that. He was the first fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty player last year. He wanted to ease back
Speaker 2: into pitching, and he also wanted to be the best
Speaker 2: hitter he could possibly be, and knowing that he was
Speaker 2: coming back to pitch, he couldn't run as much hit
Speaker 2: fifty five home runs, but this year, even Andrew Friedman
Speaker 2: said it in spring training, he seems to be on
Speaker 2: a mission pitching wise this season, and that's very clear
Speaker 2: and has been very clear that's been his focus. And
Speaker 2: certainly we saw that on display tonight. Six scoreless sinnings,
Speaker 2: allowed just one hit, had six strikeouts, did walk three
Speaker 2: and hit a batter. So I'm sure if you're Otani
Speaker 2: and the level of greatness that he strives, he's looking
Speaker 2: at that and what he can do better. But for
Speaker 2: his first start, and for a guy that's leading off
Speaker 2: for the back to back world champion Dodgers, overall, a
Speaker 2: really good night as he shined for a sellout crowd
Speaker 2: on Yoshi Bobblehead night. You couldn't have two bigger things
Speaker 2: happening on the same night at Dodger Stadium than Otani
Speaker 2: starting the game and having In my opinion, and I
Speaker 2: took a survey, it feels like tonight's bobblehead giveaway was
Speaker 2: top three. I mean, this side of Otani's first bobblehead
Speaker 2: and the Otani decoy dog bobblehead, this one is top
Speaker 2: three as far as demand and frenzy over a bobblehead,
Speaker 2: and yeah, you know, it's funny getting some text from people. Hey,
Speaker 2: I got here, didn't get one as like, yeah, open
Speaker 2: ended text, I'm not offering to find you on okay,
Speaker 2: And I was right. Our guy here, Dwayne MacDonald, our
Speaker 2: producer engineer who usually says, nah, I'll pass on the bobblehead,
Speaker 2: he scooped up not just one, but he scooped up two.
Speaker 2: That's right, Dwayne. I got sources, not just with baseball.
Speaker 2: I got sources up here in the press box. Everybody
Speaker 2: wanted this Yoshi bobblehead tonight and you could see a
Speaker 2: fun ig live on our AM five seventy l A Sports.
Speaker 2: We went to uh to the concourse there in the
Speaker 2: right field Loaje entrance, you can uh you could see
Speaker 2: me try to convince fans to give me their Yoshi bobbleheads.
Speaker 2: But back to Otani, a great night, a great debut
Speaker 2: to start the season show. Hey, Otani spoke to the
Speaker 2: media for the first time this season after his start
Speaker 2: and win.
Speaker 4: How do you sort of feel just being able to
Speaker 4: have a fully built up sort of starts the season,
Speaker 4: you only go six aies first sort of out, Jim
Speaker 4: Mean na.
Speaker 5: My Masca, oh Mama's.
Speaker 6: Opening. The opating group.
Speaker 7: Forces good to be able to start the game, go
Speaker 7: through six under a limited pitch count, and you know,
Speaker 7: even in this condition, I thought, I'm going to put
Speaker 7: a charge of the experience.
Speaker 6: Do you feel like you're a better picture?
Speaker 4: Maybe then you worry last year Day said that your
Speaker 4: stuff has even gotten better than it was. First in back.
Speaker 5: You can give shut the mast didn't play.
Speaker 8: She's Leason And.
Speaker 7: That's mine. Tension every year is to be a better pitcher,
Speaker 7: better player, and I hope that at the end of
Speaker 7: the year something that my intention is to be able
Speaker 7: to look back and say, that was a really good
Speaker 7: pitching season.
Speaker 4: What way do you feel like the better.
Speaker 6: Can move up to this skittle?
Speaker 7: I'm last year I felt good, But this year I
Speaker 7: do feel a lot more loose and easy pitching overall.
Speaker 7: And you know, looking back at today's outing specifically, that
Speaker 7: wasn't necessarily the cay so that's something I want to
Speaker 7: work on. But compared to last season, I do feel
Speaker 7: a lot a lot loose and easy.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: There was show he Tani with Will Ireton after tonight's
Speaker 2: game on Sports net LA, and certainly It's impressive that show.
Speaker 2: Hey Otani could have that type of feel for so
Speaker 2: many different pitches in his first start of the season.
Speaker 2: Like I said during the Clubhouse show, I know everybody
Speaker 2: these days loves looking at the radar gun and the
Speaker 2: velocity that Otani and other pitchers have ninety eight ninety nine,
Speaker 2: one hundred. But for me, my favorite pitch that I've
Speaker 2: watched for from Otani since becoming a Dodger starting last
Speaker 2: year as a pitcher is his curveball. I love his curveball.
Speaker 2: And certainly the Dodgers have had a lot of great
Speaker 2: pitchers with great curveballs, namely Clayton Kershaw, Sandy Kofax to
Speaker 2: name a few, but as recently as Kershaw, who had
Speaker 2: that beautiful twelve six curveball signature curveball. I love Otani's curveball,
Speaker 2: and you know, I think he knows it's a big
Speaker 2: time weapon because he threw it the second most out
Speaker 2: of any of his pitches tonight. He threw twenty one
Speaker 2: curveballs tonight, thirty two four seen fastballs, and then mixed in,
Speaker 2: you know a few of his other pitches, the splitter,
Speaker 2: the sweeper, but man to have a feel for that
Speaker 2: curveball tonight was really special. Eight six, six, nine, seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Now the next
Speaker 2: question is no, is he It's not. Is he going
Speaker 2: to win the Cy Young Award? I warned you, or
Speaker 2: I gave you at least a great handicap before the
Speaker 2: season started. When I saw the odds that Otani was
Speaker 2: forty to one to win the National League Cy Young Award,
Speaker 2: I advised all of you gamblers out there to jump
Speaker 2: on that. Now you've lost your chance. With every start,
Speaker 2: those odds are going down, down, down, down. You missed
Speaker 2: your chance. Now the next question is when does he
Speaker 2: pitch again. The entire baseball world wants Otani to pitch
Speaker 2: next Wednesday, interno that would be on seven days rest.
Speaker 3: We all want to see it.
Speaker 2: We all want to see Otani go back to Rogers
Speaker 2: Center and make the start like he did in Game
Speaker 2: seven of the World Series in what is going to
Speaker 2: be an electric environment at Rogers Center next week. How
Speaker 2: incredible would it be on Getaway Day, the final game
Speaker 2: of that series, to have Otani take the mound against
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays. We all remember, you know, one of
Speaker 2: the scenes of Game seven in that seesaw incredible. Game
Speaker 2: seven was Bo Bishett hitting that three run home run
Speaker 2: and Otani doubled over after a Bishett hit that home run.
Speaker 2: Would love to see Otani go back there and show
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays the new and improved Otani pitcher better
Speaker 2: than ever, better than the twenty three Otani pitching version.
Speaker 3: We all want to see it.
Speaker 2: Dodgers Blue Jays is going to be epic for an
Speaker 2: in early April series. I mean, the schedule makers at
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball knew what they were doing to have
Speaker 2: the World Series rematch this early in the season. With
Speaker 2: the Dodgers turn to go back to Toronto, it is
Speaker 2: going to be even the players already have it circle.
Speaker 2: They know they're going back to Toronto next week. So if
Speaker 2: Otani doesn't pitch in Toronto, as I would love and
Speaker 2: the baseball world would love, then you're talking about him
Speaker 2: pitching on nine days rest a week from Friday here
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium against a Rangers team. So we'll see
Speaker 2: which direction it goes. But for any pitcher, even Otani,
Speaker 2: nine days rest, that's that's a long time in between
Speaker 2: starts eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Let's go out to Howard and Porterville.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David Vasse.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Howard doing good?
Speaker 9: Good to hear you guys back. You're a stellar analyst.
Speaker 10: I've been listening to you for a long time, man,
Speaker 10: and I really enjoyed listening to Oil and.
Speaker 9: The whole crew, down to Miss Kirsten, Jerry Hartong, everybody.
Speaker 10: You guys have some great analysts anyway, for anybody who
Speaker 10: didn't know, not that it counts a lot baseball wise,
Speaker 10: the city of Los Angeles had their way with Cleveland
Speaker 10: tonight because the Lakers also beat the Cavaliers down the
Speaker 10: street at Crypto tonight. My question for you, though, was
Speaker 10: with the Dodgers beating the Diamondbacks the first three games, I.
Speaker 9: Think that means they only need four more to win
Speaker 9: the season series of the remaining nine games, how much
Speaker 9: does that help them if they accomplish that they.
Speaker 2: Play them thirteen times during the season since they're in
Speaker 2: the same Divis vision, Howard, so that's a long ways off.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone call, and yeah, how about that.
Speaker 2: I love that connection. Since Mark Walter owns both the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and the Lakers. Luca had forty two points and
Speaker 2: twelve assists beating the Cavaliers one twenty seven to one
Speaker 2: thirteen tonight in Downtown LA and Lebron James against his
Speaker 2: old team fourteen points, five rebounds. But the Dodgers, you
Speaker 2: saw the urgency in Dave roberts managing style tonight in
Speaker 2: a non safe situation. He brought in Edwin Diaz in
Speaker 2: the rain in the ninth inning to close things out.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to North Hollywood. Steve, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Steve good?
Speaker 7: How are you doing?
Speaker 3: Dave great?
Speaker 6: So I'm thinking.
Speaker 7: It might be a little bit too early to start Otani,
Speaker 7: you know, with intensity pitching this early.
Speaker 6: If it were me, obviously it's not up to me,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't have him start to July.
Speaker 4: On August.
Speaker 6: I don't know what you think about that.
Speaker 3: No, No, I mean he wants to be a pitcher.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers slow played him back in rehab style last year.
Speaker 2: He has prepared himself for this season. It's one thing
Speaker 2: if a guy comes into camp and has not prepared Steve,
Speaker 2: but Otani's been preparing all season long to come back
Speaker 2: and pitch that's who he is, that's his identity as
Speaker 2: a player, and the Dodgers and Otani are going to
Speaker 2: write it out this year.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, let's hop it turns out well. But
Speaker 6: I was just really, why.
Speaker 3: Why are you so nervous? Why? Why? Why are you
Speaker 3: so nervous?
Speaker 2: I mean, even when O'tani injured his elbow with the
Speaker 2: Angels two separate times, he's still hit as a dh
Speaker 2: it didn't prevent him from continuing to hit.
Speaker 6: I mean, it probably won't hurt to wrest Otani months
Speaker 6: in rest, but.
Speaker 2: He pitches once a week and he hits every day. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy is a mache Steve. He is
Speaker 2: not a mere immortal like Steve from North Hollywood. You
Speaker 2: need to rest. Otani doesn't need to rest.
Speaker 6: All right, Dave, I'll take your word for it. Let's hope.
Speaker 6: So he is a machine. Thanks for all right, Steve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have some load management out there in North Hollywood.
Speaker 2: All right, Why don't you drive to Elta Hano once
Speaker 2: in a while instead of walk?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 6: Got it?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 6: Brother?
Speaker 3: All right, Steve, thanks for the phone call. Rest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe Steve in North Hollywood needs rest. Otani doesn't
Speaker 2: need rest, speaking of Elta Hano. Tonight's game was brought
Speaker 2: to you by Modello. Modello. The mark of a fighter
Speaker 2: eight six, six, nine to eighty seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. All right, I want to get
Speaker 2: into this Dodger offense. This Dodger offense is frustrating me
Speaker 2: through the first five games of the season. Again, we're
Speaker 2: over hyping this Dodger offense or not over hyping it.
Speaker 3: We're just waiting for it.
Speaker 2: It's a really good lineup if they played to their potential.
Speaker 2: We saw this offense slump the second half of the season.
Speaker 2: We saw them hit two oh three in the World Series.
Speaker 2: And here we are after opening Day and they could
Speaker 2: barely scratch across three runs against the Diamondbacks in each
Speaker 2: of the last two games. Tonight, they can barely scratch
Speaker 2: across two runs before the ninth In last night, they
Speaker 2: were shut down by a young left hander.
Speaker 3: So what's going on with this offense?
Speaker 2: Well, I point to the first three hitters, Otani, Tucker,
Speaker 2: and Mookie Betts Shoeotani does not have an extra base
Speaker 2: hit so far. He's been very human in the first
Speaker 2: five games as a hitter. Kyle Tucker, see this is
Speaker 2: the reason why I believe Kyle Tucker was such a
Speaker 2: good fit in LA and part of the reason why
Speaker 2: he said, you know what, no, thanks Mets, I'm coming
Speaker 2: to LA to be one of many.
Speaker 3: Really good players.
Speaker 2: Because the Mets fans and city field we're booing Bob
Speaker 2: Bischett in the after the first three games of the season,
Speaker 2: I don't hear any booze at Dodger Stadium for Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 2: who is four for nineteen to start his Dodger career
Speaker 2: with eight strikeouts. That is the reason why Kyle Tucker
Speaker 2: is a Dodger. Not to mention the sixty million dollars
Speaker 2: they gave him each year, but the Mets were right
Speaker 2: there as well, fifty five million dollars. But can you
Speaker 2: imagine Bob Boschette being booed in New York and Queens
Speaker 2: after the first three games. Nobody is even saying anything
Speaker 2: about Tucker and he's off to a dreadful start. I mean,
Speaker 2: he made a couple of nice plays in the outfield,
Speaker 2: but really, I mean outside of a drawn in infield
Speaker 2: single on the ground through the infield, he's striking out
Speaker 2: a lot, a lot. Eight strikeouts in his first nineteen
Speaker 2: at bats. Mookie Bets isn't much better to start the
Speaker 2: year either. Three for is first nineteen with one walk.
Speaker 2: We're talking about your two and three hitters, and you're
Speaker 2: wondering why the Dodger offense isn't doing much of anything.
Speaker 2: I mean, Will Smith and Freddie Freeman can't get up
Speaker 2: with runners on base with that kind of production.
Speaker 3: So that's got to change.
Speaker 2: Once the first three hitters get it going, then this
Speaker 2: Dodger offense is going to get it going. But these
Speaker 2: guys need to start, you know. I mean it's only
Speaker 2: five games. I understand, all right, I'm gonna pump the
Speaker 2: brakes on myself, but dang it, I expect a lot
Speaker 2: from this Dodger offense. Sorry, I know I'm emotional, but
Speaker 2: geeze four for nineteen, three for nineteen, Mookie only has
Speaker 2: one walk. Let's go out to Santa Monica. Evan, you're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk with David Vasse.
Speaker 3: How you doing? Evan?
Speaker 6: It right?
Speaker 2: David?
Speaker 11: I mean, come on, I love your passion right now.
Speaker 12: Five games and I feel the same way I was
Speaker 12: at the game tonight.
Speaker 8: I got a Yoshi.
Speaker 12: Babblehead, loved watching Otani pitch, but.
Speaker 8: I still think it's so.
Speaker 12: Interesting when he has to bat leadoff, that he runs
Speaker 12: back in, has to stay out on the field, gets
Speaker 12: all his equipment, gets in the box, then he gets
Speaker 12: the walk, then he's staying out on the bases.
Speaker 11: I'm just wondering, would you on days that he starts,
Speaker 11: bat him second and let somebody else take that leadoff
Speaker 11: position so he has this a second to breathe.
Speaker 3: Or Okay, I know everybody talks about that.
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, I know everybody talks about that,
Speaker 2: and it's a fair point, right, And I know last
Speaker 2: year when he did start games, his offense was not
Speaker 2: as good.
Speaker 3: But hear me out on this seven.
Speaker 2: What's to say that he doesn't lead off the fourth
Speaker 2: inning after pitching the top half of the fourth inning.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no guarantees he doesn't lead off other
Speaker 2: innings in the game outside of the first innings, so
Speaker 2: to me, I I understand the argument, but there's no
Speaker 2: guarantees that he wouldn't lead off maybe two other innings
Speaker 2: in the game if if that's the way it shook out.
Speaker 11: Yes, absolutely, I'm just trying to think in his head
Speaker 11: how that feels to start the game one, two, three,
Speaker 11: and then just get a little breather. That's it.
Speaker 2: Well, I saw like in the sixth inning it seemed
Speaker 2: like he was exhaling. That's the only time where I've
Speaker 2: seen him basically exhale and then remind himself, Oh, I
Speaker 2: don't have time to exhale.
Speaker 3: I have to lead off this inning.
Speaker 2: And we saw that after the sixth inning where he thought,
Speaker 2: you know, I could go back and take a deep breath,
Speaker 2: but they reminded him, you're leading off the bottom of
Speaker 2: the sixth so in those and that's a great example
Speaker 2: of the fact that even though you hit him second
Speaker 2: or third, or fifth or sixth, who's to say he's
Speaker 2: not leading off the bottom of the sixth inning.
Speaker 11: It's a great point. And you know, I'm just happy
Speaker 11: Dodger Baseball's back.
Speaker 6: Love you, Dave.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone number. Hey,
Speaker 2: I understand it. Eric Harrows was talking about it a
Speaker 2: lot on sports and at LA last year.
Speaker 3: But that's who he is, and he is one of one.
Speaker 2: And if the Dodgers and Otani didn't believe that they
Speaker 2: were capable, they would Otani would would pivot and say,
Speaker 2: you know, what maybe hitting second or third is better
Speaker 2: for me on the days that I pitch, especially at
Speaker 2: home on the road, obviously he would be hitting first.
Speaker 2: So that's a mood point. But you know, he's just spectacular.
Speaker 2: I just say, sit back and enjoy the show. Because,
Speaker 2: like I have said since the beginning, since Otani got here,
Speaker 2: I fully echo Charlie Steiner's sentiments that Dodger games are
Speaker 2: not just games anymore. They are events. And tonight was
Speaker 2: a perfect example of an event. This was not just
Speaker 2: a baseball game tonight. This was an event. There was
Speaker 2: a Laker game in downtown, but this was an LA
Speaker 2: sporting event. Eight six six seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Hey, there was some Turner broadcasting going
Speaker 2: on tonight. TBS at Baseball on Tuesday Nights start up
Speaker 2: again tonight and Pedro Martinez, a guy that is one
Speaker 2: of the greatest pitchers of all time, was on set
Speaker 2: and marveling at Otani's first start of the season.
Speaker 13: Choh is a human freak. I think Choha was made
Speaker 13: by Ai.
Speaker 3: Really, Choh is just amazing.
Speaker 13: How can you get the field for pitching so early
Speaker 13: in the season and used that variety of pitches effectively
Speaker 13: all night against a pretty good team because they they can.
Speaker 13: Both those guys are young, but Josera Mires and those
Speaker 13: guys and I Soulozerra mirrors hitting left. Take auld swing
Speaker 13: on a fastball that when he went to swing, the
Speaker 13: bowl was right there as gonna hit him right there.
Speaker 13: So that that's a lot to say. And that was
Speaker 13: the fat Well young a little bit. He wanted to
Speaker 13: get it in there because he knows old he's quick
Speaker 13: in there. But man, that was impressive to watch.
Speaker 2: That was the one and only Pedro Martinez. Hey, that's
Speaker 2: a good comparison. Yeah, I agree, Oh, Tani's Ai. What
Speaker 2: you saw tonight was Ai. Pedro's the best and he
Speaker 2: does a great job on MLB Network and tonight on
Speaker 2: TBS eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Let's go out to g Man
Speaker 2: in Pasadena. G You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hey, Dave, first time ever being on this channel with you,
Speaker 8: so thank you.
Speaker 2: I fell silly going out to U g Man. Hello, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was trying to tell you g Man. It felt
Speaker 2: weird going out to a caller named g Man. Can
Speaker 2: I just call you g.
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 8: That's my call I go by G and they call
Speaker 8: me g Man. Kind of a deal weird.
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead, but anyways, anyways, ques.
Speaker 8: I said, I was going to talk about defense, but
Speaker 8: or the lack of offense, but I kind of want
Speaker 8: to switch up. Miggie Rowe. I had a chance to
Speaker 8: meet him last week at a friend's house, and I
Speaker 8: just want to say he was just the chillest person ever.
Speaker 8: And can you explain his autograph to me? Because I
Speaker 8: did have him sign something for me, and I saw
Speaker 8: the seventy two, but I was trying to figure out
Speaker 8: what he actually signed his signature, do you.
Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, I just saw a signature a few times
Speaker 2: because I was with him at WSS and Boyle Heights
Speaker 2: last week, and I got to say, his autograph, compared
Speaker 2: to some of the younger guys, is better than most.
Speaker 2: A lot of these guys you can't even read their names.
Speaker 2: But at least Miguel Rojas is signature. You could tell
Speaker 2: it's Miguel and it's Rojas, and he rights his numbers,
Speaker 2: so to me, it's more legible than most.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, Well, to say, Dave appreciate you, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, wait a minute, you're just gonna bury the lead.
Speaker 2: You were at your friend's house and Miguel Rojas was there.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're just gonna bury the lead right there. Geeve,
Speaker 2: is that a humble brag? You wanted to call in
Speaker 2: and say, Hey, my friend is friends with Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 2: How does that happen? How does Miguel Rojas end up
Speaker 2: at your friend's house?
Speaker 3: Dave?
Speaker 8: I can't, I really can't.
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean you just can't call in and say
Speaker 3: that and not explain.
Speaker 8: At an event, I will come up to you. I
Speaker 8: think you'll remember my name and I'll tell you what
Speaker 8: the circumstances were.
Speaker 2: Okay, sounds good, g man. Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: What a mysterious phone call. You don't even give your
Speaker 2: real name and you mysteriously say that Miguel Rojas was
Speaker 2: at your friend's house. Yeah, Miguel's a great guy, regular dude.
Speaker 2: He actually a hobby aers last week in downtown La.
Speaker 2: My guy Hobvier took care of him.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna take a time out here on
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: When we come back, another mysterious man, Jose Mota, will
Speaker 2: join us as the Dodgers defeat the Guardians four to
Speaker 2: one on A five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 3: This is Dodger Tom with Damn Bassi.
Speaker 14: There's a one one to Munsey. He swings hits a
Speaker 14: drive to right way back, it goes and Max Munsey
Speaker 14: has hit it out Hexwell, swinging the silver hammer for
Speaker 14: the first time this season. HiT's two nothing, oh lot
Speaker 14: of blast pie Munson.
Speaker 2: You know what that's called. That's called pregame Karma. Max Monsey,
Speaker 2: he joined us on the pregame Show and what does
Speaker 2: he do at his first home run of the season.
Speaker 2: Monsey and the Dodgers defeat the Guardians tonight by a
Speaker 2: final scorer of four to one. David Vas Say, Dodger
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Speaker 2: home run to tye Steve Garvey for the third most
Speaker 2: home runs in LA Dodger history. How about that Monsey
Speaker 2: not only would thirteen postseason home runs the most LA
Speaker 2: Brooklyn franchise history, now just one home run away from
Speaker 2: tying the great Dodger Steve Garvey for third most in
Speaker 2: LA Dodger regular season His way three.
Speaker 3: All right, let's check in with Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota, what did you think about Pedro
Speaker 2: Martinez saying what we saw tonight from Otani was Ai.
Speaker 6: Who rather than better to describe that better of catching
Speaker 6: up with the times too, to use certain definitions and
Speaker 6: match it well with what everybody can understand nowadays. Good
Speaker 6: job by Pete.
Speaker 3: What did you think about Otani?
Speaker 2: How does he have such great feel for all his
Speaker 2: pitches so early in the season.
Speaker 6: He's engaged in what he does. He takes everything pretty
Speaker 6: much to detail, to heart. He doesn't want to fail.
Speaker 6: He doesn't want to fail, his teammates, doesn't want to fail,
Speaker 6: his country, doesn't want to fail Dodger fans, And that's
Speaker 6: why he is who he is. I mean, if you
Speaker 6: see the thing that Joey does mentally in the off season,
Speaker 6: you go, you think he's pitching every single night. That's
Speaker 6: a type of approach he has to life, and that's
Speaker 6: a tough approach he has to pitching. Considering that now
Speaker 6: the full season, I mean mentally he's in there. Paranceins
Speaker 6: I told you the last out of the World Series
Speaker 6: seems like for this moment. And when you also keep
Speaker 6: him to consideration and take this into consideration, Dave, when
Speaker 6: he come to the string training and he has like
Speaker 6: everything lined up in the program for guys to meet
Speaker 6: their starts, saying, Yamamota, who's gonna picture? You know, Team
Speaker 6: Japan WBC. But O Todi didn't have the luxury, but
Speaker 6: he made sure that whatever the other guys were doing,
Speaker 6: he almost stayed on par with that. And then when
Speaker 6: I talked to him in Tokyo and I said, what
Speaker 6: are you throwing your live VP which didn't happen in Tokio,
Speaker 6: threw a long boatpin over there. He goes, uh, if
Speaker 6: we get to Miami and'm gonna start there and it's
Speaker 6: gonna be long, and he went like force simulated innings
Speaker 6: right away, which is unusual for him and for anybody
Speaker 6: you know not rehabbing. He was not rehabing his anybody
Speaker 6: for a season. And then you see the last down
Speaker 6: against the Angels and preaches and going eighty six pitches
Speaker 6: and go, this guy's more than ready. And you understand
Speaker 6: ing O very well now by nowadave. A lot of
Speaker 6: these things are dictated by one guy, Shohil Tony. How
Speaker 6: he feels, how is arms responding, how he's bouncing back,
Speaker 6: and when he's the eighty six for preseason outing, well,
Speaker 6: let me tell you you could not expect anything less
Speaker 6: here today, first outing of the season, when he's going
Speaker 6: to be a complete pitcher and go up and make
Speaker 6: you twenty five to thirty starts.
Speaker 2: Can you give us some hope that he may pitch
Speaker 2: in Toronto on seven days rest or do you believe
Speaker 2: that nine days rest back at home is more likely.
Speaker 6: I hope that if he's going to be a full
Speaker 6: time pitcher, that he takes the ball in Toronto, And
Speaker 6: I hope that that is the agreement they have. Knowing that,
Speaker 6: I mean, he's going to have plenty of time to
Speaker 6: take the ball. If you take away the circumstances, it
Speaker 6: doesn't matter. It's about making his start. Yeah, it's historic,
Speaker 6: it's impactful. Is going to be every light on every
Speaker 6: eye of the world baseball on that outing. But Choy
Speaker 6: needs to stay and the doggie do to stay with
Speaker 6: him where he is, doesn't matter if it was Toronto
Speaker 6: or Saint Luis or Tampa Bay. I hope he stays
Speaker 6: in tune with his outing right now, with the schedule,
Speaker 6: to make that start when he needs to make it,
Speaker 6: regardless against him.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us on Dodger Talk after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Guardians four to one tonight. Now I
Speaker 2: know it's only four games, Jose, but maybe you could
Speaker 2: help us understand what's going on with this Dodger offense.
Speaker 2: I mentioned the slow starts for Tucker and Mookie, but
Speaker 2: tonight four strikeouts looking two from Mookie bets. Are the
Speaker 2: Dodgers going back to guessing what they might be seeing?
Speaker 2: Do they have to start looking more for their own zone?
Speaker 2: What's going on with this Dodger offense.
Speaker 6: It's all about five games. If they pumped the brakes
Speaker 6: a little bit days three days ago, we're talking about
Speaker 6: how is this Dodger offin is going to be stopped.
Speaker 6: And now you facing guys that you are not facing
Speaker 6: in spring training. Now you're facing guys that have way
Speaker 6: more information on you, and they can base information and
Speaker 6: scouting based on a couple of things. Number one, will
Speaker 6: they get pregame based on cumulative stuff, and also number
Speaker 6: two on what they see the previous at bat and
Speaker 6: how you react to that. I think baseball fact talking
Speaker 6: to a lot of scouts up few from the front
Speaker 6: offense is going back to that a little bit more
Speaker 6: and trusting the catchers, trusting their pitchers and what they
Speaker 6: see their first step bat, because you know it's gotten
Speaker 6: to a point where it's like culative information. Go out
Speaker 6: there and pitch this one because of what forty have baths,
Speaker 6: fifty at baths. No talk to me about how the
Speaker 6: guys swinging today. And I think that's what seeing with
Speaker 6: the values right now. If you think about this kid
Speaker 6: last night, Parker Messick, how many times did he threw
Speaker 6: breaking balls and breaking ball counts and how many times
Speaker 6: did he surprise guys with fastballs. Dodgiers hitters are a
Speaker 6: little bit off killed right now. But I'm going to
Speaker 6: say at the same time that Kyle Tucker does have
Speaker 6: the pantells, eight of them, but he also had a
Speaker 6: game winner the other day, just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 6: He goes Arizona, So you got to take the battle
Speaker 6: with the good. Adjustice is a part of the game,
Speaker 6: the scheduling, the intensity of the series of the season.
Speaker 6: And at the same time we know that at the
Speaker 6: right time they will come through because it's just way
Speaker 6: too talented, way too deep. So we can say at
Speaker 6: four and one right now without the offense clicking, it
Speaker 6: should be a fun summer.
Speaker 2: Fair to say though, so that this offense is only
Speaker 2: going to go as far as the first three hitters
Speaker 2: get this offense going right, because if this is going
Speaker 2: to be the first three hitters, they've got to get
Speaker 2: on base and keep the line moving right.
Speaker 6: So when they're ascent, guess what, that's what you have
Speaker 6: at will Smith. You have a max months, you have
Speaker 6: Tail coming through today, and then you have Andy Payes,
Speaker 6: so everything ends up running up very nicely. I don't
Speaker 6: think we're going to see nine guys be hot at
Speaker 6: the same time, but yes, the big guys need to
Speaker 6: be the big guys, and right now, from showy at
Speaker 6: least he's a little bit waiting the fastball a little
Speaker 6: bit more, which I prefer that he's doing that instead
Speaker 6: of jumping on fastballs. You got to breaking up pretty
Speaker 6: nice today. He's taking his walks, Tucker. I think pitch
Speaker 6: election is one issue, maybe a little bit longer than
Speaker 6: the swings. It'll come with time and yes, adjustments to
Speaker 6: a new team. It all matters a whole lot. And
Speaker 6: for Midki is building off good at bats, getting word
Speaker 6: from the lady fly balls and making sure that his
Speaker 6: pitch selection as well. But as a unit, you want
Speaker 6: to compliment each other and help each other out. Well,
Speaker 6: that bottom half got it done by his big ut
Speaker 6: bats and those guys to positive to Oscar shill be
Speaker 6: feeding off a lot of information and runners to go
Speaker 6: out and driving some runs.
Speaker 2: Also this season, Andy Paie has has not missed the
Speaker 2: beat since day one of spring training. He he is
Speaker 2: oosing confidence since the first day of spring training. He
Speaker 2: came ready to play and he's building off a tremendous
Speaker 2: rookie season.
Speaker 6: He is, and I think you see a more confident player,
Speaker 6: a guy that you know you don't have to be
Speaker 6: moving up and down the lineup. Maybe occasionally you get
Speaker 6: somebody to day off and move him up. But he
Speaker 6: understands where he is. He follows the game.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 6: One thing Piz was telling me, Dave was that hitting
Speaker 6: this low at times, it's always beneficial to see how
Speaker 6: other guys are being pitched to. And he goes, no
Speaker 6: matter what, maybe they're not gonna pitch to me like
Speaker 6: they're gonna pitch Mookie Betts or Tiasca. But I know
Speaker 6: that if I see a guy throwing a break the ball,
Speaker 6: many times, I don't see what's going to be landing.
Speaker 6: How many times is he gonna land it for a strike.
Speaker 6: That's my information. That's what I'm gonna take. And that's
Speaker 6: just a sign. It's pretty for a guy that perhaps
Speaker 6: went through a whole lot last season, ended up with
Speaker 6: twenty seven home runs and twenty seven doubles and close
Speaker 6: and out of RBIs. But I'm glad to hear at
Speaker 6: leads the information being passed them is going to be
Speaker 6: simplified a little bit more to you just go out
Speaker 6: there and be reactive and so far as you mentioned,
Speaker 6: says the first that bat and Tempi Diablo where he
Speaker 6: struck out looking when five pitches that he saw, he says,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna build off that at bat, and I think
Speaker 6: overall we're seeing some maturity, and I think overall him
Speaker 6: doing we're good. It's going to take some pressure. I've
Speaker 6: selling the bigger guys too, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in.
Speaker 2: We'll see you tomorrow night before the Dodgers head out
Speaker 2: on their first road trip of the season.
Speaker 6: I know how much you're looking forward to going north
Speaker 6: to Canada, so I look forward to seeing you there too, Buddy, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look forward to it as well. Thanks Ose.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast, checks
Speaker 2: in after every game here on Dodger Talk. All Right,
Speaker 2: Tomorrow the finale of this opening homestand it's been eventful,
Speaker 2: to say the least. Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck began
Speaker 2: at four o'clock tomorrow, with first pitch at five twenty.
Speaker 2: Yama Moto will be making his second start of the season,
Speaker 2: going up against Gavin Williams. A successful opening day start
Speaker 2: for Yama Moto against the Diamondbacks. He'll be looking to
Speaker 2: build off that and catching the first pitch on Yoshi
Speaker 2: Bobblehead night. So look forward to that and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: winning the series. Thanks to Colin Yee back at our
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Speaker 3: Once again.
Speaker 2: The final score the Dodgers beat the Guardians four to one.