WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (6-9-26) 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:02.920 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.960 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:11.680 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.480 the fifth. This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.720 Here we go again. We're going to running back to. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.480 Get in on the show called eight six six eighty 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.200 seven two five seven d and be sure to follow 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:25.880 Dodger Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:32.240 Here's your host, David Vasse. Welcome the Dodger Talk. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:36.279 David Vase with you until eight thirty tonight after the 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:40.240 Dodgers get a big win in Pittsburgh, twelve to three 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.440 the final score. After the Dodgers score ten runs in 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.360 the seventh inning tonight to beat the Pirates on a 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:51.080 night that Paul sken started the game. We have phone 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:55.680 lines open at eight six six eight seven two five seventy. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.440 You know, I'm just gonna get right into this. We'll 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.800 get into that seventh inning in a second. But here's 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.360 a question that begs to be answered at this stage 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.920 of Freddie Freeman's career. Who just had another big moment 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.200 in his Hall of Fame career wearing a Dodger uniform 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.840 I know Freddy did not collect even half of his 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.920 twenty five hundred hits in a Dodger uniform. But the 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:27.560 reality is, Freddie Freeman's two signature career moments are in 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.800 a Dodger uniform on their way to winning back to 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:35.520 back World Series championships, something that no team has done 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.759 in twenty six years, in fact, something that only two 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:44.920 other franchises have ever done before. So you look at 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.960 Freddy Freeman's walkoff Grand Slam in Game one of the 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.559 twenty four World Series. You look at Freddy Freeman's walk 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.520 off home run in the eighteen inning affair in Game 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.360 three of last year's World Series. You see him holding 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.200 up the line car the baseball wearing a Dodger jersey 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:07.360 in front of his locker at this stage of his career. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.560 Who would have thought that this would even be a question. 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.080 Will Freddy Freeman go into the Hall of Fame with 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:19.560 a Dodger LA logo on his cap? I know he 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.400 doesn't want to answer this question, but we can answer 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.919 it for him. At the very least. Everybody always thought 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.000 Freddie Freeman would go in as an Atlanta Brave. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:31.240 Of course we did. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.359 We thought Corey Seeger would go in if he ever 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.560 did as a Dodger. But now he's spending the majority 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.720 of his career with the Rangers. He's won a World 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.760 Series and won the World Series MVP with Texas, and 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:49.600 Freddie Freeman has had his signature moments. Whenever you see 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.240 if Freddie Freeman highlight, it'll be in a Dodger uniform. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.920 It won't be in Atlanta Brave uniform. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.840 So at the very least, don't you believe Freddie Freeman 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.440 will go into Cooperstown and at the very least do 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.120 with Greg Maddox and not even have a logo on his. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:11.320 Enshrinement plaque. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.720 I see it at the very least that way. But 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:19.560 come on, this guy's signature moments are as a Dodger. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.680 Let's hear from Freddie Freeman on sports and at LA 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:27.839 after another signature moment, his twenty five hundredth career head. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:29.760 It does mean a lot. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.800 And then obviously when you're a manager and your teammates 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.920 appreciate what you've done over the course of your career, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.760 it does mean a lot. Yeah, there's always another goal 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.600 to get to, but to step back and realize, you 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.040 know how long you have to play the consistency over 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.760 the course of that to play at a high level for. 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.040 Many, many years to get there. It does. It doesn't 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:53.520 mean a lot, you know. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.040 I just try to play this game the right way 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.640 the best of my abilities every single day, and you know, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.840 to reach some of these cool mind stones as you 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:01.680 get later in your career. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:06.480 It's definitely means yeah, we did one. 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.320 We just did when you had to give a little 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.000 speech and yeah, doc ended it with you better get 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:16.680 a five hundred more so where we'll start, hopefully start 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:17.239 that tomorrow. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.960 Did you get the ball from this one? Yeah, yeah, 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.640 Alex has the ball. They the line of card. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.240 They asked if they want to keep my bassett, take 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.000 my basset, and I'll keep using that one. 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:31.479 But you know, it's cool. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.159 You know, I've never been one to collect and memorabilia 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.960 and things of that nature, but as I've gotten older, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.839 they keep telling me to do it. Your kids will 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.360 love it and stuff like that. So I definitely won't 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.520 keep the ball. When you're in a season like how 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.560 often do you reflect on like when you get your 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.160 career monalstones like this, Like do you look at like 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.200 those big picture numbers often? 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:52.960 Like how do you just kind of like process it 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:53.480 all when. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.520 When you have things like yeah, I mean I've never 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.840 thought about it as I was going along, but when 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.240 I got here. The over the last few years, we 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.960 have appreciated the big moments for all the guys that 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.839 reach these things. And I think when you're going through 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.000 the course of one sixty two, you're just kind of 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.279 every single day is the same. You're grinding, you're doing 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.280 whatever you can. But and so when you have an 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.279 organization that steps back and takes time to appreciate what 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.360 you've done over the course of your career, it does 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.120 help you take the moment for a second. You know, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.040 you know, I'm getting the text messages already, Andrew Friedman 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.560 and all of them. So it makes you take a 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.919 step back and realize how hard this game is and 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.760 how long you have to play to reach these things. 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:33.800 And it does mean a lot. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.800 So you know, it's I don't I've always If you 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:39.440 had asked me ten years ago, I probably would have 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.880 brushed it off and kept going. But as you get older, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.640 you get a little bit more emotional, and he's sentimental. 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:49.000 But it is nice for people to take a moment 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:50.640 out of their time and appreciate what you've done in 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:55.360 this game, so it is special. I understand, twenty five 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:56.760 hundred hits, the's a lot of hits. 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.680 So I'm happy to be able to do it. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.000 You know, hopefully tomorrow will start the next five hundred journey. 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:04.520 How much the goal is like. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.040 Three thousand right now, so it's like something you like 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:08.240 really want to get to. 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.120 Is it kind of like a like right? 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.040 I mean it goes yeah, I mean it goes back 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.760 and forth. I never thought about it ever until the 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.960 last couple of years when people start bringing up more 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:22.400 of the individual stats that I'm coming close to, and 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.520 you know, obviously it's kind of you know, it sits 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.479 on your mind, and when you reach this one, the 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.560 next one is the big one. And but you got 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.240 to be healthy, and you got to play. I got 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.719 to play longer. You have what you played seventeen years, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:39.599 so you got to keep going. And I've always you know, 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.880 over the last year or two it's three thousand is 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.400 the number that I would love to get to. But 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.040 I have one year under contract left, so there's still 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.040 a lot of other factors that go into it. I 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.920 have four kids now, we got to see what they're 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.240 what's going on with there. But I would love to 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:55.200 get to three thousand hits. 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:55.800 I would love to. 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.599 I mean, I'm not going to deny that, But do 0:06:58.680 --> 0:06:59.720 I know if I'm going to get there. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:00.000 I don't know. 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.839 But we'll start the truck tomorrow and see how we 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.400 can see what we can get close to numbers and 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.720 hopefully people want me to still play after twenty twenty seven. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.160 All right, there's Freddy Freeman on Sports at LA after 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.720 having a very special night, a twenty five hundredth career 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.240 hit collected in that ten run seventh inning for the 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.560 Dodgers tonight and Tonight's game brought to you by Modello 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.080 Modello the mark of a fighter. And it's somewhat unfortunate 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.840 for Freddy Freeman because there are a couple of variables 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:35.280 out of his control that have already prevented him from 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.560 getting having more certainty about being able to get to 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.520 three thousand hits, and also something that could happen next 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.760 year that also can be a big obstacle to Freddie 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.760 Freeman getting his three thousandth hit. Going back to the pandemic, 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.360 the COVID pandemic in twenty twenty, only sixty games were 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.000 played Freddie Freeman at least, at the very least, was 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.480 cost one hundred hits. He won the MVP that year. 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.640 He had seventy three hits in only sixty games. 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:05.880 At that stage of. 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.280 His career, it was an automatic. He was getting one 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.840 hundred and ninety nine hits, two hundred hits. So at 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.720 the very least, I'll be generous, you're very conservative that 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:20.400 COVID cost Freddie Freeman one hundred hits. And then the 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:25.239 uncertainty of the labor situation in Major League Baseball going 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:30.640 into next year. If they lose games, that hurts Freddy's 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.920 chances to getting to three thousand hits. If they don't 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.080 play a season next year, then that really hurts his 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:42.080 chances to get to three thousand hits. So also twenty 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.679 twenty seven, the uncertainty of that is a variable that 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.680 he can't control, and I'm sure to a certain extent, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.560 is a little frustrating. But the one thing you can't 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.319 take away from Freddy Freeman is what he's accomplished already. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.880 If you look at his ranks among active. 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.840 Players right now, and really that's all you can compare 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:06.040 players by is their generation. Freddie Freeman has played the 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.320 second most games of any active player. Right now, he 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.480 has the second highest batting average or a third highest 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.719 batting average of any player right now is right now, 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.200 career average is two ninety nine. His twenty five hundred 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.720 hits is the most by any active player. His doubles, 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:27.240 his extra base hits, his RBIs his runs scored first 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.440 among all active players. And that's something you can never 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.520 take away from Freddie Freeman. Eight six six nine eight 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.720 seven two five seventy is the phone number. Now, let's 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.439 get to that seventh inning, because Freddy had two at bats. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:42.560 In that seventh inning. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.400 The first one he did not get a hit, but 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.960 he came up for the second time and got that 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.960 twenty five hundredth career hit. That seventh inning, where the 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:56.120 Dodgers scored ten runs off the Pirates bullpen, in particular 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:00.480 wilburd Dotel, was an inning to be whole in a 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:04.560 lot of ways. They scored ten runs, They had seven hits, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.040 two of them were extra base hits, including Pajez's two 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:09.040 run home run. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.560 They took four walks, They forced. 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.280 Two errors from Brendon Lowe and Henry Davis to catcher Loud, 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.280 the second baseman with the infield in couldn't throw a 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.440 strike at a force out at the plate to Henry Davis, 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:28.559 which goes back to show you how not automatic. Miguel 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.760 Rojas's play in Game seven in Toronto last year to 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:38.560 get IKF was, this is June in Pittsburgh and Brandon 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:42.319 Lowe with the infield in, the ball hit more directly 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.080 at him than the ball that was hit to Rojas 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.640 in Game seven's ninth inning last year, and Brandon Lowe 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.600 pulls Henry Davis a wide of home plate. But the 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.800 problem was Henry Davis couldn't catch the ball. And I'm 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.800 not gonna say that was a clank by day. It's 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.240 a major league catcher, he should catch it. But that 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.840 goes to the other end of that play in Game 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.319 seven of the World Series, where it's not as easy 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.640 to catch a throw like that with the catcher's mint. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.400 Guys have told me that that have played the game. 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.880 It's not a myt that is meant for that type 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:23.080 of play. It's not a first baseman's mint. But I 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.400 didn't see Henry Davis try to catch it and secured 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.319 it with two hands. So that goes back to little 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.760 league stuff as well. Trying to secure, especially as a 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.920 catcher on a throw like that with two hands, I 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.120 know he was reaching like a first baseman. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:43.240 But the point is that play that Rojas. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.440 Made in Game seven in the ninth inning last year 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:51.800 was just as incredible as his home run with one 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.080 out in the top of the ninth inning. So that 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:59.079 took place, and that seventh inning took thirty six minutes. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.040 The Dodger forced the Pirate's pitching staff to throw eighty 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.360 three pitches in that inning. So that was an incredible 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.680 inning that I haven't seen in quite some time. The 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:14.000 Dodgers scoring ten runs an inning that took thirty six minutes, 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:18.360 and the game time overall was three hours and thirteen minutes. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.440 Dodgers beat the Pirates tonight, twelve to three. The Pirates 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.760 have now lost five straight Paul Skeen starts, and you 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.560 got a feel for Paul Skeens is doing everything in 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.000 his power to try to win these starts. Just some 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.640 weird things happening from what I was told by people 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:39.360 that watch Pirates and Skiens games. And tonight, in the 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:43.040 sixth inning, Max Munsey reached out on a change up 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.040 by Paul Skeens and was able to pull it by 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.040 Brandon Lowe, who as we know now is not really 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.440 a great second basement to tie the game, and Mookie 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.800 Betts tonight, Max Munsey and Mookie Bets to me had 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.160 the two best at bats against Skeens tonight. Mooki in 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.120 his first at bats double to left center field off 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.120 of schemes and hopefully that's a huge confidence builder for 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:07.400 the Dodgers shortstop. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.880 Let's hear from Mookie on sports and at LA. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:11.080 Oh it's awesome. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.760 I mean, he's I think the first person I've seen 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.040 accomplished something like that. So he's been he's been around 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:19.560 for a while, and he's been really good. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:19.840 For a while. 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:24.240 So I think these things are coming up because because 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.200 of that. You know, he's so good for so long. 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.760 You guys look at that seventh inning, what. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.120 Do you how do you describe just what you guys 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.720 were able to do, build up fads, pass the time there. 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.400 We're able to take walks, hits. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.840 I mean, we kind of did everything that ending, So 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.160 I think it just shows what we can do. I mean, 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:43.920 obviously you would love to do that all the time, 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.440 but it just shows that we're capable of it and 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.679 we're just grinding, you know, just just grinding as a 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:56.480 team twenty How do you put in toowards why that's 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:57.280 so hard to. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:58.440 Achieve twenty five years? 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.480 I don't, I don't, I don't really know. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.320 I mean, especially with the game now, it's so hard 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:10.400 to get hits, but he keeps doing it. So I mean, 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:11.640 I don't know if I don't know if there are 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.760 really words to say, because there's so few people that 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.480 are that are in that category. So it just shows 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.520 you how he is as a player. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.960 Are you personally to just the two hits? 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:25.760 I know that you've been kind of working through a 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.440 few mechanical things offensively, you feel like you're kind of getting. 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.400 Into more of a consistent feel with the stuff. 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:31.760 I don't know. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.200 Every time I say, yeah, I go for thirty. So 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.240 we'll just enjoy today. 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:40.560 Let's enjoy today. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.600 I mean, come on, the guy gotta double off of 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.640 Paul's skeens, and all they asked him about was Freddie Freeman. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.160 But hey, Mookie's been there with Freddie for quite some time. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:53.520 I would say Muncie and MOOKI are the two teammates 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.520 that Freddy has played with the most on the Dodgers currently, 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.960 right now. So MOOKI has seen a lot of those. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.160 I believe Freddy has eight hundred hits now with the Dodgers, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.840 So Mookie certainly has been by Freddie side during the 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:11.080 last few years. And look, I'll maintain this. I know 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.880 Mookie Betts is hitting just about a buck ninety, but 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.840 it looks like Mookie Betts has a greater chance of 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.560 coming out of his slump more than Kyle Tucker, who 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.600 again was hitless tonight, didn't even get a hit off 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.600 a position player that was throwing in the ninth inning tonight. 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.680 Dave Roberts was our guest before the game today and 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.320 I had a chance to ask the Dodger manager about 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.360 what's going on with Kyle Tucker, what his thoughts are 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.440 how to get Tucker out of this. When we continue 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.200 on Dodger Talk, you will hear from Dave Roberts. And 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.440 also last night on off day Dodger Talk, in case 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.640 you missed it, Chris Taylor had. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.880 His first official closure. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.080 Retirement interview with us, and you'll hear how it all 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.480 went down. So a lot to get to, including your 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.080 phone calls two lines a row on a night that 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.920 Freddy Freeman collects his twenty five hundredth career base hit, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.600 and the Dodgers beat Paul Skeins and the Pirates twelve 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.840 to three on the back to back World Champion Dodgers 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:23.800 Audio Network. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.720 On air at AM five seventy, online at AM five seventy, 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.760 la sports dot com, and available by podcast on the 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:29.920 iHeartRadio app. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.000 This is Dodger Tom with David Bassi. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.560 I have Freddy Freeman's wins there. It is hit number 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:41.080 twenty five hundred. It's a base hit to center. Freeman 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.680 comes into score, Otani goes first to third. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.440 So Freddie Freeman with a milestone hit. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.960 Two thousand and five hundred career hits for Freddy Freeman. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:55.360 Yeah, and they're asking for the bowl. Don't play it 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.840 on fire. Just motion through the ball for the Dodgers. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.240 First base dougout for Freddy Freeman. 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.840 The souvenir well earned. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.920 Freddy Freeman two hits tonight, including his twenty five hundredth 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:09.560 career hit. 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.000 Andy pie has hit a two run home. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.560 Ron Max Munsey was three for three with an RBI 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:19.040 and on base all four times, and the Dodgers beat 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.639 the Pirates tonight by a final score of twelve to three. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.480 Daniels Jewelers presents the home Run Forecast. For your chance 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.680 to win a fifty dollars Daniels Jeweler's gift card, visit 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.399 AM five to seventy LA sports dot com. Used the 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.280 keyword home run in to your name, you could win. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.639 Daniels Jewelers Own the Dream. This is Dodger Talk David 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.400 Vasse with you until eight thirty tonight here on AM 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.879 five to seventy LA Sports. And for the Dodgers tonight 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.800 at p and C Park, only their second win in 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:53.440 Pittsburgh since twenty twenty three. Coming into the game tonight, 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:57.200 the Dodgers had lost six of their last seven at 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.960 P and C Park. It has not been a player 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.080 where the Dodgers have had a lot of success in 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.280 recent memory. Not to mention when you go back to 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.239 twenty nineteen, I believe it was Rich Hill had a 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.679 no hitter that ended on a walk off home run 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.800 by Josh Harrison in the bottom of the ninth inning. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.679 Because the Dodgers could not score a run. It was 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.639 a scoreless tie with Hill throwing a no hitter going 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.240 into the bottom of the ninth inning and Josh Harrison 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.400 ended the game one to nothing on a walk off 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.520 home run to left field, and that's one of the 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.000 memories I have. Also, another memory I have is off 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.680 the field, or actually on the field before a game 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:44.000 in twenty seventeen, a complete solar eclips I still have 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.679 photos of that being on the field with Justin Turner, 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.280 Yasie Opuigue and the rest of the seventeen Dodgers with 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.600 those glasses to protect your eyes when you looked up 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.119 at the sun. Maybe I'll post that on X at 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:58.760 the Real Underscore DV. 0:18:59.200 --> 0:18:59.840 Eight six six. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.200 It's nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Well, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.520 hear from Dave Roberts in just a moment. But let's 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:06.480 go out to the phones. 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.800 Rob in Rancho Kucamonga, You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Rob? 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:13.720 Oh, I'm doing great. 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:14.200 David. 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.280 Hey, thanks for taking my call. I've really really enjoyed 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.520 all the interviews and just all the great insight you 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.040 offer on the show over the year. So again, thanks 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:24.000 for taking my call. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.520 My pleasure. Thank you for the nice words. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:31.119 Rob absolutely day, if I want to run something by you, 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.280 I've got you your opinion on these kinds of matters, 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.119 and I think it's awesome that we're celebrating Freddie tonight. 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.399 You've mentioned many times before and me being a Dodger 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.560 fan going back to the nineteen seventies, right now is 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.360 the golden age of Dodger baseball and Freddie is absolutely 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.280 a future Hall of Famer, along with several other guys 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:49.920 on this roster. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.760 As you will know later on this season. You know 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.000 they're they're honoring a guy that you interviewed back at 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.240 the Star of the Season, Reggie Smith. He's a legend 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:02.000 of Dodger baseball, and David, I need you to leave 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:06.000 the Reggie belongs in the Hall of Fame chat for 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:07.600 us and really get out in front of that. I 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.359 don't understand why Reggie does not get enough recognition with 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.159 the numbers. When you look at the modern stats like 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:18.600 Win's above replacement, Reggie's right there with current Hall of Famers. Anyway, 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.440 would love to see him in the Hall of Fame. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.800 I think he's really deserving and would appreciate your thoughts 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:24.119 on that. 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.480 All right, thank you for the phone call. 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.879 Hey, you're never going to get an argument for me 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.320 when it comes to honoring Reggie Smith. And look, even 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.520 Eric Carross told me that if Reggie Smith was playing 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.600 in today's game, he would be considered one of the 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:43.120 greatest players that is currently playing because of what he did, 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.280 his style of play. He had over two thousand hits, 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:50.000 twenty twenty hits. He did, hit three hundred and fourteen 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:53.000 home runs, He had an ops of eight fifty five, 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.280 he slugged forty nine. And look, I'm not going to 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:00.040 say he doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame considering 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.359 some of the guys they put in there already, But 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.280 I think we can all agree that Reggie Smith had 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.640