WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (4-28-26) 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:02.960 The quest for the three peat has be gone. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.000 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:11.479 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:12.640 the fifth. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.120 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:15.960 Here we go again. 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:17.200 We're Gota running back to. 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.800 Get him on the show called eight six six eight 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.840 seven two five seven, and be sure to follow Dodger 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:23.919 Talk wherever. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:28.000 You catch your podcasts. Here's your host, David Vase. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:32.080 Welcome the Dodger Talk. 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:36.199 David Vase with you until eleven o'clock tonight here on 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.559 a five to seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers fall to 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.720 the Marlins tonight by a final score of two to one, 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.000 with show Hey Otani on the mound, but not in 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:50.800 the Dodger lineup, the Dodgers opting to allow Otani just 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.760 to pitch tonight with a day game tomorrow, second time 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:59.120 this year that O'twani has pitched but not been in 0:00:59.160 --> 0:00:59.800 the lineup. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.280 And look it's hard to argue, right. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.920 Otani, in sixty four at bats is hitting just above 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:11.600 two hundred with the Dodgers on days games that he pitches, 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:16.360 and he only has two home runs so on this I'm. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:17.800 Kind of with the Dodgers. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.280 You know, Andrew Friedman talked to us on Saturday that 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.000 there are going to be times like tonight where Otani's 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.720 the starting pitcher and is not in the starting lineup. 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:32.440 There's gonna be other games where Otani is doing both, 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.559 but maybe gets the next day off and is available 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.080 to come off the bench late in the game as 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:43.680 a pinch hitter. So you know, I honestly, I'm on 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.080 board with this plan. The Dodgers have got to find 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.480 a way to keep a thirty one year old unicorn, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.840 the most unique and greatest player in the game, healthy 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:59.320 for the entire season. And it's not as simple as 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.840 just letting him go out there and do both once 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.640 a week, because the recovery is a lot harder than 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.639 you may imagine, even for you know, a physical specimen 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:11.720 like Otani. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:13.160 He's human. 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.639 We all have to acknowledge that, and most pictures the 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.120 day after they start, they have to go through a 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.480 lot to recover for the next five or six days 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.639 to be able to go back out on the mound. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.080 And he's doing something nobody else is doing. He's not 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.360 just a guy in the lineup. He's your leadoff hitter. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.200 He's the catalyst. He's the guy that can carry You 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.639 can change the game with one swing. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.720 So I'm on board with this. 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:43.360 And we heard what Otani had to say in the 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.480 Clubhouse show as far as his thoughts and all this, 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.480 but I got a direct quote translated from one of 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:54.880 the Japanese media members. This is what O'tani said when 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.360 he was asked about his feelings on the Dodgers load 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:03.440 managing him on knights that he pitches. He said, quote, Personally, 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.760 I'm pretty much fine either way. I just want to 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.960 go in whatever role they tell me to. If they 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.000 say go, then I'm ready to go in that role. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.040 From the team's overall perspective, it's a long season, so 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.480 there may be times when they want to give other 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:24.279 players opportunities at DH as well, and for me personally 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:28.160 in terms of staying healthy over the course of the season, 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.079 having starts like this where I'm only pitching could maybe 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.120 be a positive too, So I'm leaving that completely up 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.840 to the team and however they want to use me. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.040 I just want to be prepared and ready to perform 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.000 and whatever role they ask and ask of me. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:46.000 End quote. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.560 So, just like he said, during the Clubhouse show. He's 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:54.080 basically going with what the Dodgers have laid out for him, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.200 or what they feel is the best to keep him 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.480 healthy for the entire year, and we'll all I'll find 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.440 out at the end of the season if it worked 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:08.520 or not. But to me, this makes complete sense and 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.680 we'll see where it goes from here. But he should 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:16.159 be in the lineup tomorrow and look, Otani leading off 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.200 changes the dynamic of any lineup. But tonight, I don't 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.400 know if he would have made a huge difference considering 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.839 the way the rest of the lineup performed. Outside of 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.279 Will Smith, who had three hits, Dalton Rushing was the 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.040 Dodger dh tonight. He was zero for four with the 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:39.360 only run scored, and Dalton I thought, you know, he 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.479 again may have had one of those social media moments, 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.599 but it wasn't his fault. In the fifth inning, This 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:52.880 to me is on home played umpire Clinton Vondracht. He 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:54.919 was kind of off all night. He was kind of 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:59.200 daydreaming because there's a video online and I forgot when 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.360 inning this wee but Otani was trying to get his attention. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.320 He actually had to waive a few times to get 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.400 the home played umpire's attention that he was coming set. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.000 And in the fifth inning, with two strikes, Dalton Rushing 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.440 asked for time Sports and at La had a great 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:20.960 replay of it. He's looking at the home plate umpire's 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.159 direction and into his eyes in the same time time 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.160 and I know your requesting time, and it doesn't mean 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.039 that the homeplate umpire has to grant time, but come on, 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.520 there was the clock was not winding down. 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.279 He just needed to reset. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.600 And it just feels like at times the home played 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.200 umpire was in another world. He wasn't paying attention when 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.279 there was not a dead ball, but a little break 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:52.880 in time, as evident by that example. And also Otani 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.560 on the mound trying to say, hey, I'm going out 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.880 of the wind up now. So that wasn't on Rushing. 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.080 I thought that was on the home played umpire. Eight 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.080 six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is the 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:10.640 phone number. Also, the fifth inning was maybe Otani's toughest inning. 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.960 It started with a leadoff walk to Christopher Morell, and 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:19.719 he got two outs after that, but loaded the basis. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.520 Kyle Stowers made him pay for that leadoff walk with 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.680 an RBI single and then he was able to strike 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.680 out Augustine Ramirez to end the inning. But the fifth 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.040 inning was the toughest one for Otani and he was 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.159 certainly not as good on the Mountain night as he 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.160 was in San Francisco in his last start. Eight six, 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.440 nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.200 The Marlins win a game at Dodger Stadium for the 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:51.480 first time since August of twenty twenty three. That's hard 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.040 to believe, but they haven't been a very talented roster 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:59.480 since then. So they squeaked by tonight two to one, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.600 and Tyler Phillips, the reliever for the Marlins that was 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.479 in the game when Kyle Tucker hit the two run 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.160 walk off base hit last night, was able to put 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.000 up a zero in the ninth and pick up his 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.560 second save of the season as the Marlins beat the 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:21.080 Dodgers tonight two to one. Going back to Otani and 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.160 his pitching tonight, you know, Rick Monday shared this with 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.240 me that he has been absolutely dominant this year. When 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.600 he has two strikes on a hitter, he doesn't let 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.200 him come up for air. He just puts the choke 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.360 hold on that hitter for the most part and on 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.640 the season, when a hitter has two strikes on him 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.880 facing Otani, he's just four for sixty two. Hitters are 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.160 just four for sixty two when they have two strikes 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.640 on him. Facing Otani tonight, the Marlins were one for 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.840 fourteen when Otani had two strikes on him. But the 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.640 Dodger offense just wasn't there. Eight six six nine eight 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.360 seven two five seven is the phone number. 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Will 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.280 Smith had to miss two games because of back stiffness 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.959 just a few days ago. Over the weekend. The Dodgers 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.679 are in the middle of playing thirteen in a row 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.200 for the first time this year. Tomorrow will end that 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:58.360 straight stretch. You gotta imagine it's taking its toll on 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.040 these guys, and it's not an excuse. And they're still winning. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.400 They still have what twenty wins on the season. They're 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.679 twenty and ten, so it's not like they're falling apart 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.600 when they play these many games. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.480 In a row, but it does take its toll. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.600 And I'm not sure what it is that's been going 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.480 through the Dodger clubhouse the last two and a half weeks, 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.040 but there's a lot of guys under the weather that 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:26.360 has blown them down, including Max Munsey Alex Freeland, two 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.199 of the guys that come to mind right away, And 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.360 that's part of this equation of playing thirteen in a 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:37.600 row as well. So just to put that in perspective 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.079 on where the Dodgers are at, you know, in this 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.680 point in time of the season, thirteen in a row 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.520 for the first time this year is going to take 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:52.120 its toll on the team with the highest average age 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.280 in baseball. The highest average age in baseball goes to 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.200 the Dodgers, so thirteen in a row is going to 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.960 take its toll. But they've been able to navigate this 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:07.360 stretch by using Dalton rushing a lot, getting Santiago Espinal 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.960 in there, and Kim and Freelan and Miguel Rojas rotating 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.040 up the middle. But it is a reality and the 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.360 Dodgers are going to have to play sixteen in a 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.800 row beginning at the end of May. So it's gonna 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:27.040 happen twice here before before June ends, and we'll see 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.480 how the Dodgers come out of that stretch as well. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.280 Eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy is the 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:33.920 phone number. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:38.440 By the way, the Dodger bullpen again tonight put up 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.320 zeros after show Hey Otani came out of the game, Tanner, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.480 Scott Blake, Trinen, and Jack Dreyer did not give up 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:51.199 a run. So again the Dodger bullpen put up zeros 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.880 and kept the game where it was. So you have 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.960 to give them some credit here. It's the four straight 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.840 game that the Dodger bullpen has not giving up a run. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:05.199 That's fourteen consecutive innings and it's the fifteenth time this 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.760 year they have combined for scoreless innings. So kudos to 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.920 the Dodger bullpen, and I would have to say. On Ladies' 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:17.040 Night with the wives picking out the walk up songs 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.480 for the Pictures and the Hitters, each wife picked out 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:24.920 the song for their man, Alex Frielan's Justin Bieber Baby 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.439 Baby Baby coming off Coachella, snell Zilla Coachella got the 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.520 most reaction out in the pavilion. They continued singing the 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.800 song after it was over during his at bat. He 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.280 may want to stick with that because that could become 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.880 one of those East Coast kind of cult stupid things 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.400 that happen out there that everybody falls in love with. 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:49.840 And Blake Trenon's Warrior Eighties throwback song that was my 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:50.800 favorite as well. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.160 All Right, we're gonna take a time out here on 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:53.920 Dodger Talk. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.400 When we come back, we'll check in with Jose Mota 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.760 and we'll give you an update on snell Zilla. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.479 He was out there in the Inland Empire. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.160 They haven't had this type of buzz in the Inland 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.800 Empire since Joe Kelly. We'll get you caught up and 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.599 let you hear from Blake Snell after he pitched in Ontario. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.160 If you were out in Ontario. Tonight let me know 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.960 eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy Dodgers 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.600 go down to the Marlins tonight two to one on 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.319 A five to seventy LA Sports. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.160 On air at AM five seventy, online at amfive seventy 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.160 LA sports dot com, and available by podcast on the 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:37.319 iHeartRadio ASP. 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.480 This is Dodger Talk with David Bassa. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.480 We are taking you to the top of the hour 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.960 after the Dodgers fall to the Marlins tonight two to one. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.960 Jansen Junk pitched six scoreless innings tonight. He is now 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.960 two and two. He only threw seventy six pitches and 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.800 he felt like the Marlins were doing the Dodgers of 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.640 by taking out their starter that was really doing a 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.400 number on them. Tonight show, Haotani takes the loss Tyler 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.560 Phillips with his second save of the season. Daniels Jewelers 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.360 presents the home Run Forecast. For your chance to win 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.520 a fifty dollars Daniels Jeweler's gift card, visit AM five 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.280 to seventy LA sports dot Com. Use the keyword home run, 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.520 enter your name and you could win. Daniels Jewelers Own 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:25.560 the Dream. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.200 It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota. 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.000 All right, Jose Mota. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:37.120 The Dodgers fall tonight two to one to the Marlins Show. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:41.000 Heotani gives up two runs. I know only one was earned, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.439 but his error led to the other one. What did 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.440 you think about Otani on the mounta tonight? 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.439 I think I saw two different versions of the show. Hey, tonight, Dave. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.080 When I saw the guy that tours pitch that were 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.640 around eighty pitches, see some mechanically who was fighting himself 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.560 a little bit more more part of his body. But 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.480 nonetheless you look at it numbers and once again he 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:05.040 went out there and give you everything. He got triple digits. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.200 Great combination of his cut fastball, his slider sweeper to 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.720 up go out to neutralize a team that again battled 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.480 and does not swing out started signs on. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.319 When you look at that fifth inning, why did things 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.600 start to come off the rails for him at that 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.640 point in time, even with two outs. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.560 I was plenty out during the broadcast that he is using, 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.360 Dave the extreme side of the matter first base, but 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.760 instead of finishing towards that side, as he lands across 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.560 his body, it was like it was crisscrossing himself again 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.680 and Dionslat just could not catch up. And that's what 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.160 I saw with the inconsistency was with him. But I mean, 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.720 I'm getting a little too demanding here, but I'll take 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.920 this out in any single time. But I know the show. Hey, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.000 you can see him gesturing a lot today, by the way. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.160 In fact, he got rid of about three or four 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.400 baseball he didn't like, so something was off with him, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.560 I think on the mechanical side. But he's so special, 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.040 so gifted, wants to fight, so determined that he went 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:03.640 out there and gave you another good stuff. But I 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.880 think mechanically he's gonna find some things to clue up 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:06.480 a little bit more. 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.320 When you look at o'tani and the Dodger's decision not 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.920 to have him hit tonight, do you believe that this 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.760 is going to be something that o'tani will completely buy in? 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.400 Do you feel like he's a little neutral on the idea. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.880 What are you gathering about his buy in to this plan? 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.880 Having lived through this with the Angels, Dave, he's always 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.120 gonna fight it showhy wants to be a difference maker. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.840 In fact, there's time in which Joe Madden had to 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.200 beg him to please allow him to just take him 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.560 out of the game, to just go out and go 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.520 inside him, don't hit anymore. He wants to be out there. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.520 He wants to be a difference maker with a bat. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:47.840 And when he made the error today, the first thing 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.880 I thought about was, I know, Show's thinking, all if 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.560 I had a chance to do something with a bat 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.160 to help myself out with the error, it's a difference 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.440 maker for me. But this is the right thing to do. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.640 You got to navigate through a guy that dies not 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.200 getting younger. He's getting older, much more miles in that 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.880 body and more bullets coming out on arm for a 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.480 long season. And with Shohil Tani, it's all about the 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.560 termination to help and win. But certainly you got to 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:12.440 guard against himself. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:13.800 Jose. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.320 The Dodgers, as I mentioned earlier, are going to be 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.520 ending a stretch here of playing thirteen in a row tomorrow. 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.080 How much do you believe that is affecting them during 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.800 this stretch? Do you feel like when they play thirteen, sixteen, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.120 nineteen in a row, how much do you think that's 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.160 going to take out of a team that's on average 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:37.720 in their mid thirties. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.120 I know it's a narrative, a conversation. I don't think 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.360 it really has a lot to do with anything nowadays 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.160 day because you have guys that you don't have to 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.880 play every single day. You don't have to push guys. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.760 They know what's a stake. I mean, you go through 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.000 stretches sometimes, and teams that how are affected by weather 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.240 go through this way more than teams out west right now, 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.560 and all those things cost teams to sometimes late twenty 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.280 one in a row. So for a team that's aging, 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.800 a team does in good shape and in good health 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.680 really basically, you know, considering everything that is going on 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.080 around baseball, I don't think is really an issue of 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.560 them getting affected by this overall. And sometimes guys don't 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.120 want to take off dase when things are going well. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:17.359 So you got to take it the way it is 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.320 and the way it's going with the schedule to know 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.000 that you got to deal with it no matter how 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.040 it goes. Because if they're twelven. 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.800 Oh oh, I think our guy Jose Mota's got to 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.840 get a new carrier right there. Three out of four nights, 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.840 three out of four nights, right there, my man. Anyway, 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.760 thanks to Jose Mota for checking in. He'll be out 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:45.760 here early because start time twelve ten tomorrow afternoon. So 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:50.359 we got some good insight on a tani from Jose Mota. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.440 Now I'm not sure if he was all the way 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.320 out in Ontario in the Inland Empire. You know, your 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.240 cell service could get a little spotty out there. But 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.840 Blake Snell was out there tonight and he pitched three 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.959 scoreless innings. He had six strikeouts, no walks, and allowed 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.240 just one hit. His heater is starting to look frisky, 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.560 and that's a good thing for the Dodgers. Here's what 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.919 Blake Snell had to say tonight in Ontario after his 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:16.320 second rehab start. 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.440 Yeah, that was gonna be more patient, but that was 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.160 definitely a little more aggressive to get it going. 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.960 Feel really good. So yeah, excited about it. 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:25.720 He's looking for. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.040 I thank yeah telling me, Yeah, I know that that 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:32.480 Sunday I believe. 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.920 So yeah, yeah, it's in Austin. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:39.480 The bosses. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:41.639 Are you checking as you progressed, you feel like you 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:42.800 could even more. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:48.400 Yeah, just consistency. I really got to get the cards 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:53.080 ball going. When I get that pitch going, it just 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:57.640 makes pitching a lot easier. So this week I'm really 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.000 going to focus on that. Uh, And I'm really gonna 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.240 focus on uh commanding the ball a fast far better 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.320 and going uh to face triple hitters. Uh. 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.399 I need that a lot more. So that's gonna probably 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:13.200 my main focus. 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.040 And then on the drive, I'll figure out, I'll have 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:16.920 time to myself to. 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:18.800 Really talk and to come through it. What has been 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.520 your biggest thing away from these reno stories? 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.800 The first one was about patience, you know, not trying 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.159 to you know, you wanna do good, So back. 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:29.640 To it's been a while being hurt. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:32.879 So the first one I I I always say the 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.080 first two are patients, but I felt I've been feeling 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.480 really good. So the first one I didn't do too good. 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.719 So I was pretty upset with that. And then when 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:41.920 I got in the booth end of day, I was 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.720 telling myself I was gonna be patient, but then I 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.560 felt really good and felt like in control. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.200 And yeah, it's a little more aggressive to get results. 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.920 You know, how do you balance the patients with aggression 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.680 on this rehot process? Fear trust? 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.680 You know, known if it is a smart not smart 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:03.080 I where you are just really talking to yourself and 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.800 figuring out, you know, how I feel and I felt 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:07.720 really good, so I was like, we can kind of 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.760 push it a little more and get results. And then 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.320 in the third ning, yeah, I want to see the curveball. 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.320 I get better. That was pretty frustrating for me, so 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.560 that was more like third enning was more to follow. 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.600 Me pitch getting out there again? How badly do you 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:25.520 want to be with your teams? And I see you, 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:27.119 you know, posting on social. 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:28.399 With your guys, how badly do you want to be 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:28.840 out in there? 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:30.720 Yeah? I love I love really for him. I love 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:31.360 their success. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:32.720 You know. 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:36.879 I definitely want to contribute. I feel like I'm a 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.919 big part of the team, and yeah, I want to 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.760 hope badly, So I can't wait. 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:43.640 I'm gonna be. 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.200 Patient and make sure I do everything the right way 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:47.040 and then when. 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:48.680 It's my time, and I'll be right now. 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.800 All right, there's Blake's now in Ontario after his second 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.600 rehab start. A really good night for him, and yeah, 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.639 the curveball wasn't there, but it's a field pitch. Only 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.560 a second rehabs already's still in that spring training type 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.680 of process, and like he said, he wants to get 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.720 to fifty pitches in his next start, which will be 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:13.600 for Oklahoma City this Sunday against Round Rock. And that's 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:19.399 something that he mentioned to me yesterday when we were talking. 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:21.480 He said, I asked him whether or not he's going 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:23.520 to be in Ontario again. I said, Hey, if you're 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.880 in Ontario, maybe I'll come out there and do Dodger talk. 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.160 You know, we'll skip things and I'll just head out 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:34.159