Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
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 fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vase.
Speaker 2: We are live at the bank in Philadelphia after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to Christopher Sanchez, Trey Turner and the Phillies.
Speaker 2: Ten to seven eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy.
Speaker 3: Is the phone number coming up on the show.
Speaker 2: You'll hear about the trade the Dodgers made earlier today
Speaker 2: for Seth Halverson. I'll let you know what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: plan is for him. Also, we'll give you an update
Speaker 2: on show Hey o Tani and the pitch planned. Plus
Speaker 2: you'll hear from Miguel Rojas and his memories of the
Speaker 2: Dodgers beating the Phillies in the NLDS. Remember coming into
Speaker 2: Philadelphia and taking control of the series. The Dodgers did
Speaker 2: not have home field advantage during the NLDS last year.
Speaker 2: So you'll hear from Rojas about how he came back
Speaker 2: here and this could be the last time that he's here,
Speaker 2: and just some reflections from the two time World Series
Speaker 2: champion in last year's Game seven.
Speaker 3: Hero.
Speaker 2: But let's talk about tonight's game and Mookie Bets. You'll
Speaker 2: hear from Dave Roberts on why he moved Bets down
Speaker 2: to the five spot because that is where he's going
Speaker 2: to be in the foreseeable future. It just hasn't looked
Speaker 2: good for Mookie Bets this year. It hadn't looked good
Speaker 2: for Mookie Bets the majority of last year. So at
Speaker 2: this point in time, it's a real question to ask
Speaker 2: whether or not this is the new normal for Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets offensively, and tonight I felt like he responded to
Speaker 2: the challenge and the questions about whether or not this
Speaker 2: is the new normal. With only his twelfth four hit
Speaker 2: game as a Dodger since joining them in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: he had eighteen four hit games with the Red Sox in.
Speaker 3: Just six years. But this was good to see.
Speaker 2: And for Mookie, he's one of the most humble, really
Speaker 2: good players you'll ever meet in your life. And for
Speaker 2: him to see the ball not go over the wall
Speaker 2: just once, but twice with the authority that he hit
Speaker 2: it with is a good thing, and hopefully he can
Speaker 2: carry that confidence forward because frankly, the results haven't been there.
Speaker 3: He has ten hits in the month of July.
Speaker 2: Four of them came tonight, So it's been a struggle
Speaker 2: for Mookie. Dave Roberts and the Dodgers thought that it
Speaker 2: was going to turn the coren a month ago. It
Speaker 2: really did for a short period of time, and you're
Speaker 2: hoping that he's able to recapture that again.
Speaker 3: But whatever.
Speaker 2: Whatever's going on with Mookie Bets, whatever he's practicing over
Speaker 2: and over again, it just doesn't seem to stick. And
Speaker 2: maybe it's it's a different voice that he needs to hear.
Speaker 3: I don't really know.
Speaker 2: I think he's so talented and he's so good, and
Speaker 2: his teammates have told me repeatedly over the years that
Speaker 2: it's so mental with him. His confidence sometimes gets lower
Speaker 2: than it should being Mookie freaking Bets. But tonight it
Speaker 2: was a good sign to get four hits and two
Speaker 2: home runs the way he hit them tonight. And here's
Speaker 2: what manager Dave Roberts had to say about Mooki and
Speaker 2: moving him down to the five spot.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's an easy answer in the sense
Speaker 4: of what the production is supposed to be. I just
Speaker 4: think that he's better than what he's showing. I do
Speaker 4: believe that is he Do I have the expectations of
Speaker 4: when he was considerably younger playing the outfield. No, I don't,
Speaker 4: and I think that's an unfair expectation. So I have
Speaker 4: a hard time really answering what my expectation is. I
Speaker 4: just know that he helps us when baseball games. He's
Speaker 4: playing a premium position, and so I feel like, you know,
Speaker 4: hitting him fifth versus second, third, or fourth, I still
Speaker 4: think takes a little bit of offensive strain given the
Speaker 4: position he's playing.
Speaker 2: All right, there is Dave Roberts expectation or explanation about
Speaker 2: hitting him fifth, whether or not Mookie's lack of production
Speaker 2: the last two years is the new normal, but no
Speaker 2: doubt about it. Tonight was a big night for him,
Speaker 2: and hopefully it's a sign of things to come, because
Speaker 2: it just hasn't looked It hasn't looked good for the
Speaker 2: majority of the season, and it didn't look good the
Speaker 2: majority of last season. At some point, Mookie's the first
Speaker 2: guy to say this, you gotta get results, you gotta
Speaker 2: have production. And if he starts to get results, he'll
Speaker 2: be moved back up in the order. But for now
Speaker 2: he's hitting fifth and Max Muncy likely will be the
Speaker 2: Dodgers cleanup hitter more days than not. Tonight, he was
Speaker 2: not in the starting lineup because he played the doubleheader yesterday,
Speaker 2: and also the left hander Christopher Sanchez was on the mound,
Speaker 2: and Tommy Edmond got the start at third base tonight
Speaker 2: and made a phenomenal play to start a five to
Speaker 2: four to three inning ending double play in the first
Speaker 2: inning with the bases loaded, or this would have been
Speaker 2: a really short night for Emma Shean, who gave up
Speaker 2: four runs in the second inning. He could have been
Speaker 2: down six to nothing at the least after two innings
Speaker 2: tonight if it wasn't for Edmund making.
Speaker 3: That play on that Alec Baum hard hit round ball.
Speaker 2: So Tommy Edmund's doing a lot of good things for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. And just going back to Mooky Betts, Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts has won three World Series with the Dodgers. He's
Speaker 2: a winning player. He knows how to win, and even
Speaker 2: though he's not hitting two to eighty and hitting thirty
Speaker 2: home runs anymore, he's a winning player.
Speaker 3: And so is Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have a lot of those type of guys,
Speaker 2: but that's what separates Mooky from a lot of other guys.
Speaker 3: He's a winning player.
Speaker 2: And as far as the overall game tonight, I thought
Speaker 2: the one thing that stood out was the fact that
Speaker 2: these Philly fans are so freaking emotional. You hear about
Speaker 2: Phillies fans, Red Sox fans, Yankee fans. The emotional rollercoaster
Speaker 2: tonight with Trey Turner was It's ridiculous. He boots a
Speaker 2: ground ball in the first inning, they shower him with booze,
Speaker 2: loud booze, and then he hits his first of two
Speaker 2: home runs tonight. They give him a standing ovation, and
Speaker 2: then he boots a couple of other balls and they're
Speaker 2: booing them like rabbit animals out here. And then he
Speaker 2: hits his second home run and they're like, ah, we
Speaker 2: love you, Trey. It's I mean, this was unbelievable. This
Speaker 2: is typical East Coast fandom, and uh, it's not easy
Speaker 2: to play here. That's for sure, but I thought that
Speaker 2: that's one of the things that stood out to me
Speaker 2: tonight about the game. Eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. And by the way,
Speaker 2: Mookie's second home run of the game. I mentioned this
Speaker 2: during the Clubhouse show, forced On Mattingly to bring in
Speaker 2: his closers. So I know the Dodgers look at things
Speaker 2: like that, and it will affect the rest of this series.
Speaker 2: And the tarp is on the field right now. Rain
Speaker 2: is expected tomorrow. You just hope that the delay is
Speaker 2: not too long. And neither one of these teams want
Speaker 2: to lose. They're really good starters and Robleski and Wheelers,
Speaker 2: so who knows. They may start this game a little
Speaker 2: bit later. And your guys, Petro some money, might actually
Speaker 2: have to put away the surfboards and the yoga mats
Speaker 2: and do a little extra work tomorrow. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Sherman Oaks. Mark, You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Mark,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger.
Speaker 3: Talk live from Phil Dave.
Speaker 5: How you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, I'm doing good.
Speaker 6: I got two quick questions.
Speaker 5: What's going on with River Ryan?
Speaker 6: Is he ready to come up or.
Speaker 2: No, he's had two hamstring injuries. I don't know what's
Speaker 2: going on with that. I know he was disappointed when
Speaker 2: the Dodgers didn't bring him on the opening day roster.
Speaker 2: He had one hamstring injuries, had another hamstring injury. He's
Speaker 2: really missed his golden opportunity to make an impact and
Speaker 2: get a chance to see if he can stick this year.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was just wondering when they brought a knack up
Speaker 5: and I said, well, what's going on with Ryan? Now
Speaker 5: I know, so thank you for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: My second question is My second question is the ADS
Speaker 5: system where it calls falls the strikes, Where are the
Speaker 5: sensors and does this does the zone change for the
Speaker 5: height of the of the batters.
Speaker 2: That's the one thing that they haven't They won't. That's
Speaker 2: the elephant in the room because they've measured all these
Speaker 2: guys standing straight up, but they haven't measured them in
Speaker 2: their batting stance. So in spring training they measured every
Speaker 2: single player for their strike zone, so called strike zone.
Speaker 2: But Max Munsey's strike zone when he steps in the
Speaker 2: batter's box is much different than when he's standing straight up,
Speaker 2: so they haven't perfected that. But I guess the the
Speaker 2: technology is made for when you stride for the baseball,
Speaker 2: so that's what they're coming at their average height between
Speaker 2: standing straight up and their actual batting stance. So it's
Speaker 2: it's not a perfect in science, even though they want you.
Speaker 3: To believe that it is.
Speaker 5: So it's not moving, it's not moving. I noticed that
Speaker 5: because I'm telling you, you know, if somebody looks, if
Speaker 5: you look at the zone, they it calls low, low
Speaker 5: and high and everything like that. It's it's I think
Speaker 5: it's different, but where are the sensors.
Speaker 3: It should be different for every hitter.
Speaker 2: I mean, what I'm saying is it is supposed to
Speaker 2: be different. But what I'm telling you, the way they
Speaker 2: measured these players to me was not accurate. Because when
Speaker 2: I'm standing straight up against the wall, my batting stands.
Speaker 2: If I'm Freddie Freeman or Max Munsey or you're an
Speaker 2: older sounding guy, Ricky Henderson standing straight up was not
Speaker 2: the same as Ricky Henderson in the batter's box been
Speaker 2: at the waist.
Speaker 3: That's my thing.
Speaker 5: It does change a lot taller, a lot taller than Muncie, right,
Speaker 5: so so it's got to.
Speaker 2: Be different, but it does change for him but Otani
Speaker 2: standing straight up, not Otani standing in the batter's box.
Speaker 2: But what they're saying is the way they've calculated that
Speaker 2: buffer is for when the guy is in his stance
Speaker 2: starting to swing, and that's where they're coming up with
Speaker 2: the strike zone for that player each individualized strike zone day.
Speaker 5: Do you know where the sensors are?
Speaker 3: I don't know. Actually, yeah, because.
Speaker 6: I I just for life making.
Speaker 2: I measure the You know, the strike zone starts at
Speaker 2: the beginning front of the plate right that even was
Speaker 2: supposed to be the strike zone before ABS. So the
Speaker 2: sensors are all around a lot of these stadiums have
Speaker 2: sensors all over.
Speaker 3: So I'll figure that out for you. Mark. I'm sure
Speaker 3: Rick Monday knows that answer, that question and that answer.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine to eighty seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Phillies beat the Dodgers tonight ten
Speaker 2: to seven. Yeah, that ABS. I like it, but I'm
Speaker 2: just telling you I don't feel like it's one hundred
Speaker 2: percent accurate. The further we get away from the question
Speaker 2: about it in spring training, I think we all forget
Speaker 2: about the fact that as these players were measured against
Speaker 2: the wall, standing straight up or whatever they were measuring
Speaker 2: is not who they are in the batter's box. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to ocean side. Mark, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Mark, You're on Dodger Talk Live from Philly.
Speaker 6: Okay, thanks, Dave, I appreciate it. Got a couple of
Speaker 6: things for you. The first one is I'm glad that
Speaker 6: he made a change with Mooki in the order. I
Speaker 6: think that will take some of the pressure off of him.
Speaker 6: But the second part of that they to move pash
Speaker 6: Is down too and put Edmund into two spot. I
Speaker 6: think that's about thing and not doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought they were gonna go with that, but
Speaker 2: I feel like they like the versatility of Tommy Edmund,
Speaker 2: not only as a defensive player but also as an
Speaker 2: offensive player to be able to move them wherever they
Speaker 2: feel they need the matchups and the construction of one
Speaker 2: through nine. But I agree with you, he's to me,
Speaker 2: out of all these guys because they have had a
Speaker 2: hard time finding a number two hitter, Edmund is the
Speaker 2: guy for me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree. Okay. The second thing I have for
Speaker 6: you is that I don't what was the attitude of
Speaker 6: these hitters going into this game against Sanchez. I just
Speaker 6: couldn't believe it. I mean, he might have thrown one
Speaker 6: strike or two strikes out of the first three hitters
Speaker 6: in the first inning, and they're swinging at everything that's
Speaker 6: not even close. I mean, if you watch him in
Speaker 6: the All Star Game, the American League made him work
Speaker 6: and throw strikes, and they hit him and we just
Speaker 6: sit there and swing it pitches in the dirt or
Speaker 6: the way outside or I couldn't believe it. I mean,
Speaker 6: he didn't throw hardly any strikes and he struck.
Speaker 7: Out three guys.
Speaker 2: Maybe he threw pitches that appeared to look like strikes,
Speaker 2: but I agree with you. Otani was expanded the strike
Speaker 2: zone right away, and that kind of set the tone
Speaker 2: for the first inning.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then in three to one counts when we
Speaker 6: were trying to get something going, when the guys, I mean,
Speaker 6: take another pitch and it can throw two in a row.
Speaker 6: Three to two is fine. Three to one takes well.
Speaker 2: That's that's the problem with Paez hitting second, because he's
Speaker 2: a free swinger. He doesn't take a lot of walks.
Speaker 2: He does all those things that you're talking about. He's
Speaker 2: he's one of those type of hitters that they call
Speaker 2: a variant type of hitter because you know, he's I mean,
Speaker 2: he he swings out a lot of pitches, and when
Speaker 2: he's not going good, he swings early and often.
Speaker 6: Yeah, another thing about Edmund, he had the chance maybe
Speaker 6: a stealing a base. We got nobody, nobody in the
Speaker 6: line up can steal any bases at the top of
Speaker 6: the lineup. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense there either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, good points, Mark, Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: All I could tell you is the Dodgers value the
Speaker 2: versatility of Tommy Edmund in the lineup because tonight he
Speaker 2: was hitting third. It's not like he was hitting ninth tonight,
Speaker 2: he was hitting third. So you know, hard to argue
Speaker 2: those type things. But Tommy Edmund has had so many
Speaker 2: big hits and has made so many big plays for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. But the one swing that I know he
Speaker 2: wishes he could have back tonight was the one in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning with the bases loaded, two outs and
Speaker 2: he flew out to left field.
Speaker 3: That was to me the game tonight.
Speaker 2: In the sixth where the Dodgers uh were given another
Speaker 2: gift by Trey Turner and they couldn't take advantage of it,
Speaker 2: and then Emmit Sheen gives up a home run to
Speaker 2: Brandon Marsh. Eight six six seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. We're gonna take a time out here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk Live from Philadelphia. When we continue, we'll
Speaker 2: give you an update on show Hey Tani and where
Speaker 2: he's at with the pitching sided things, will give you
Speaker 2: more information on the reliever the Dodgers acquired from the
Speaker 2: Rockies today, and you also hear from Miguel Rojas about
Speaker 2: last year's NLDS. So a lot to get to, including
Speaker 2: more of your phone calls. Phone lines are wide open
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Speaker 3: This is Dodger Tom with.
Speaker 1: David Vassie bets again high in the ear left center field.
Speaker 3: Mookie bets.
Speaker 1: Four hits and two home runs and the Dodgers not
Speaker 1: going quietly here at the Bank. It's now ten to seven.
Speaker 3: That would be the final score tonight.
Speaker 2: Despite four hits and two home runs from Mookie Betts,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers fall to the Phillies tonight, ten to seven.
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Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone numbers show. Hey Otani tonight was zero for
Speaker 2: four with two strikeouts. He has not hit a home
Speaker 2: run in his career in this ballpark, and trust me,
Speaker 2: he's very aware of it, because as he was coming
Speaker 2: back from throwing in the outfield and then signing autographs
Speaker 2: for the fans here in Philadelphia, we made eye contact
Speaker 2: and he pointed out to the right field bleachers, and
Speaker 2: I'm not sure he was pointing his and calling his
Speaker 2: shot for tonight. I think he was hoping to, but
Speaker 2: I feel like he was calling his shot to be
Speaker 2: able to to hopefully hit a home run in one
Speaker 2: of these three games, because Show he's very aware of
Speaker 2: the numbers, and I know he's aware that he has
Speaker 2: not rounded the bases with a home run in.
Speaker 3: This ballpark in his career.
Speaker 2: Also, as far as the pitching goes with Show, Hey Otani,
Speaker 2: I mention over the weekend that it's been put on pause.
Speaker 2: And today was a little surprising because Dave Roberts outlined
Speaker 2: that Otani is going to do his normal routine where
Speaker 2: today he threw and over the weekend he plans on
Speaker 2: throwing a bullpen session.
Speaker 4: Not gotten better, and so because it had not gotten
Speaker 4: better the All Star break, the Orthovis shot, not pitching him,
Speaker 4: all that stuff, is trying to ensure give us the
Speaker 4: best chance for her for him to be out of
Speaker 4: the woods entirely with them.
Speaker 2: All right, So that was the question post to Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts about all these sequence of events that took place.
Speaker 2: Was it because the left knee got worse or is
Speaker 2: it because it never got better?
Speaker 3: And that was his answer.
Speaker 2: But I was a little surprised that a yesterday he
Speaker 2: plays both games of the doubleheader, he fouls a ball
Speaker 2: off his left knee, he tries to beat out a
Speaker 2: ground ball at first base, running full full of bow
Speaker 2: at up the line, and then in between games he's
Speaker 2: throwing pitching off black round in the wind up. And
Speaker 2: now we're finding out that he well I watched him
Speaker 2: today do the same thing he threw, and now we
Speaker 2: find out he's gonna throw a bullpen session over the weekend.
Speaker 2: I just don't understand all of this. When they tell
Speaker 2: us that when he pitches, that's where the left knee
Speaker 2: has the most pain. So if they're going to pause
Speaker 2: the pitching, why would Otani throw a bullpen session today?
Speaker 2: The only thing or this weekend, The only thing I
Speaker 2: can think of is they want they want. He wants
Speaker 2: to keep his arm moving. If the Dodgers plan on
Speaker 2: having him pitch again by the end of this season,
Speaker 2: you can't take a month off of not pitching because
Speaker 2: it takes that long to build back up. So I
Speaker 2: understand all that, and it'll be interesting to see how
Speaker 2: many pitches Otani throws in this bullpen session over the weekend.
Speaker 2: It's just he must have the highest pain tolerance of
Speaker 2: any player on this team, because there's been some guys
Speaker 2: with really high pain tolerances, but he must have an
Speaker 2: extremely high level for pain to be able to play
Speaker 2: through a left knee that needed some lubricant injection over
Speaker 2: the All Star break that has prevented him from pitching
Speaker 2: and is still giving him some issues. So those are
Speaker 2: the type of guys that you have to also protect
Speaker 2: from themselves. And look, let's not kid ourselves. He's the
Speaker 2: greatest player on the planet, so I'm sure he's he's
Speaker 2: kind I'm not gonna say directing this, but certainly has
Speaker 2: a big say in it. Eight six six, nine eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Earlier today,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers made a trade for Rockies relievers Seth Halverson,
Speaker 2: who throws ninety eight to one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2: But as we all know pitchers relievers at Corsfield, it's
Speaker 2: a little bit taller of a task. And Halverson's only
Speaker 2: twenty six years old, so he's a young guy. He's
Speaker 2: appeared in twenty six games for the Rockies with a
Speaker 2: four to seventy four ERRA, but he does have seventeen
Speaker 2: strikeouts in nineteen innings. He's got a big arm from
Speaker 2: what I understand. And look, this is a flyer on
Speaker 2: a guy that only cost a single lay outfielder and
Speaker 2: one of my favorite guys in the miners, Nick Frosso.
Speaker 2: So hate to see Frosso leave the organization. But the
Speaker 2: Dodgers gave up a minimal amount of prospect capital to
Speaker 2: acquire a guy with a big arm, a major league
Speaker 2: reliever that can throw one hundred miles an hour coming
Speaker 2: out of the bullpen. So if the Dodgers can work
Speaker 2: their magic and this guy Seth Halverson gets to C
Speaker 2: level and feels normal again, who knows, the Dodgers may
Speaker 2: have found something. And I mentioned this earlier today. If
Speaker 2: you remember, in twenty twenty, the Dodgers acquired left handed
Speaker 2: reliever Jake McGee, the former Ray who was excellent in
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay, but then once he got to the high
Speaker 2: altitude at Corsfield, was not very good. They gave him
Speaker 2: a big contract and he wasn't very good. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: acquired him and he got back to being Jake McGee
Speaker 2: to help the Dodgers win the World Series in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: So this may be the same case for a guy
Speaker 2: like Seth Halverson. Eight sixty six nine seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. I'm watching the Tigers and
Speaker 2: Cubs at Wrigley Feel tied at five. In the bottom
Speaker 2: of the ninth inning, Dansby Swanson led off against my guy,
Speaker 2: Kennlee Jansen with a double.
Speaker 3: He got moved to third base as Michael.
Speaker 2: Confordo hit a fly ball to the warning tracks, So
Speaker 2: Swanson representing the winning run in the bottom of the
Speaker 2: ninth inning with one out and Pete Crow Armstrong coming
Speaker 2: up against Kennley Jansen was walked intentionally, so he got
Speaker 2: runners at the corners. Now with one out in the
Speaker 2: bottom of the ninth inning and Saya Sazuki, the right
Speaker 2: handed hitting Seya Suzuki at the plate, he just needs
Speaker 2: to get a ball to the outfield and the Cubs
Speaker 2: win this game. It's been a rough go for ken
Speaker 2: Lee and I know Kenley Jansen when he's right, when
Speaker 2: he's healthy. He just doesn't look healthy right now.
Speaker 3: So we'll see. We'll see where this goes.
Speaker 2: And by the way, if the Tigers are considered sellers,
Speaker 2: wouldn't they trade kenn Lee Jansen to a team that
Speaker 2: needs another relief pitch, so I wouldn't be surprised to
Speaker 2: see that happen. If the Tigers are so called sellers,
Speaker 2: everybody's focusing on Schooble, but they've got other players teams
Speaker 2: might want. And speaking of all that, I came up
Speaker 2: with a couple of other veteran backup catchers that would
Speaker 2: fit the bill for the Dodgers outside of Austin Hedges,
Speaker 2: who probably is going nowhere with the Guardians in it
Speaker 2: and they really love him there. How about Louis Torentz,
Speaker 2: considered one of the best backup catchers in baseball. He's
Speaker 2: with the Mets. Louis Torentz. He's a really good backup
Speaker 2: defensive catcher and has come up with some random big
Speaker 2: hits for the Mets. He's a great receiver, can throw
Speaker 2: guys out right Now. For me, if I'm the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and I'm looking for a veteran good defensive catcher, Louis
Speaker 2: Tornz is at the top of my list. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Mission Viejo. Bill, you're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 2: David Vassa.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 7: Bill, Hi, thanks for taking my call, Just letting you
Speaker 7: know you didn't mention of Alex Dessi in between she
Speaker 7: And and Nac. That was a huge three run home
Speaker 7: run he gave up to really break the game open.
Speaker 7: I thought I didn't hear that mentioned on the post game.
Speaker 7: I just once wondering about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a bad home run that that obviously
Speaker 2: affected the game.
Speaker 3: No doubt that was.
Speaker 7: Only his first of the year he's given up to
Speaker 7: his credit. By the way, did you know that the
Speaker 7: starters have given up thirty eight home runs since June first?
Speaker 3: I did not know that.
Speaker 2: I guess I would have to see which starters are
Speaker 2: giving up those home runs. I know Yamamoto early in
Speaker 2: the season was giving up way too many, but I'd
Speaker 2: have to see which starters are the ones given those up. Bill,
Speaker 2: Do you know who's Bill, since you have all the numbers,
Speaker 2: which starter since June first has given up the most
Speaker 2: home runs?
Speaker 7: It's Shean's given up nine, including to and given up nine.
Speaker 2: Okay, how many of those guys are going to start
Speaker 2: a playoff game for the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: That's a great question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably one of the three, if any.
Speaker 7: That's what's good to know.
Speaker 3: All right, Bill, thank you for the phone call. Good call.
Speaker 2: Look, and and yesterday was a bullpen game. Vessia came
Speaker 2: in there, and I'll just tell you that it was
Speaker 2: a long day for the relievers because they didn't pitch
Speaker 2: in the first game. They got there at nine am,
Speaker 2: and it's hard to ramp up for a night cap.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure tonight Vessia wasn't feeling his best. And
Speaker 2: I know he told me before today's game. Steven Nelson
Speaker 2: and I were talking to him and he said, when
Speaker 2: I got out there, I didn't know if I was
Speaker 2: gonna throw eighty eight or ninety five. I just didn't
Speaker 2: know after sitting around all day. But he competed his
Speaker 2: way through and got struck out the side. So that
Speaker 2: was a big one, all right. So the Cubs have
Speaker 2: runners at second and third now and Kenley Jansen's on
Speaker 2: the mound. They've broken away on big innings, major League Baseball,
Speaker 2: big innings. Maybe they're trying to protect me from seeing
Speaker 2: Kenley Jansen blow this game, and I appreciate that anyway.
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas was in the starting lineup tonight because he
Speaker 2: has the highest batting average against lefties on the Dodgers
Speaker 2: this year. Didn't know that digit Bill in mission viah
Speaker 2: but he does. He was in there and obviously played
Speaker 2: a big part in the Dodgers winning the World Series
Speaker 2: last year, and he was taken it all in before
Speaker 2: the game today, And there's a good reason because this
Speaker 2: may be the last time Miguel Rojas plays a series
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia. And we had a great pregame conversation that
Speaker 2: included some reflections about the big moments of last year's
Speaker 2: NLDS against these Phillies.
Speaker 8: A lot of things in that series happened for us
Speaker 8: to to be in a good shape going into the
Speaker 8: Championship Series. But definitely we knew when you know, when
Speaker 8: we got when we got the chance to play in
Speaker 8: the playoff again, that we were gonna face that team
Speaker 8: again at some point because we knew, as we knew
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty four that the Patchers was going to
Speaker 8: be a really good team and a tough one to
Speaker 8: be the Phillies were gonna be that team. In twenty
Speaker 8: twenty five, we play against them in the in the
Speaker 8: during the regular season, it was tough, you know, it
Speaker 8: was really hard to play here in Philadelphia, and they
Speaker 8: got a bigger, better seat than us.
Speaker 3: So we knew we was gonna have to come.
Speaker 8: Here and at least winning two games then to go
Speaker 8: back home. So it was pretty special because it lacked
Speaker 8: if it made us lacked in on on what we
Speaker 8: needed to accomplish at this time. And uh Showhill Toney
Speaker 8: starting that game one and going six seednings and throwing
Speaker 8: one of the best balls that he threw the whole year.
Speaker 8: Then obviously tail being clutched as he used to in
Speaker 8: the playoffs. It was really cool. But that play that
Speaker 8: you just mentioned changed the dynamics of the series, and
Speaker 8: it was really cool to see that a team that
Speaker 8: is always knowing for the offense and the big arms
Speaker 8: and the bullpen and all that were able to do
Speaker 8: that kind of play in that moment. It was pretty
Speaker 8: cool to watch. I wasn't playing that game, but then
Speaker 8: I saw, I saw it happen, and I saw how
Speaker 8: Mookie took the moment and kind of like let Monsigno
Speaker 8: and Bessie, I did an amazing job delivering the ball
Speaker 8: to home play and it was a great play.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm glad you said that you weren't playing, But
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas was a big part of that because after
Speaker 2: the game, Mookie bets that he heard your Venezuelan voice
Speaker 2: in his head to get everybody organized to pull off
Speaker 2: that play. I know you have a future ahead of
Speaker 2: you in the dugout. I mean, I guess that's step one,
Speaker 2: right where players on the field are remember bring what
Speaker 2: they learned from you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's one of the things that I'm not
Speaker 8: looking for any confirmation for from from other players, but
Speaker 8: it's always nice to to hear that from Mookie and
Speaker 8: from the guys that I kind of like they they
Speaker 8: remind like a couple things that happening early in the year.
Speaker 8: We run this play in a regular season game against
Speaker 8: the Angels and it worked out. So I mean, we
Speaker 8: already have it on our playbook, even though we don't
Speaker 8: practice that since spring training, you know.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 8: And that was really cool to see Mookie that he's
Speaker 8: on his second year playing shortstop every single day in
Speaker 8: a playoff game that means a load and kind of
Speaker 8: like have impact over like the full season and and
Speaker 8: for a for an aspiration of winning the World Series. Uh,
Speaker 8: he was able to slow the game down and kind
Speaker 8: of like tell the tell the guys around the infield,
Speaker 8: this is what we want to do.
Speaker 3: And that's what that's what makes.
Speaker 8: Me really proud that uh uh, the things that you
Speaker 8: are trying to kind of like teach and and kind
Speaker 8: of like the experience that you have in the position
Speaker 8: to have your teammates when they're out there by themselves
Speaker 8: and they were able to pull it off and it
Speaker 8: was amazing to watch.
Speaker 3: All Right.
Speaker 2: There's Miguel Rojas's memories of the wheel play in the
Speaker 2: nld AS that certainly helped the Dodgers win the first
Speaker 2: two games of the series. Ti Oscar Hernandez's big home
Speaker 2: run against Strom in Game one of that series as well,
Speaker 2: So really great memories. We always just think about the
Speaker 2: World Series, but that NLDS here in Philly had a
Speaker 2: lot of great moments as well. To hear the full
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Speaker 2: that we have live on the air. And five to
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports tomorrow Justin Robleski against Zach Wheeler. Our
Speaker 2: coverage is scheduled to begin at two thirty, with first
Speaker 2: pitch at three forty. Like I said, rain is in
Speaker 2: the forecast. The tarp is on the field as we speak,
Speaker 2: so we'll see when that game gets underway and whether
Speaker 2: or not there's any interruptions. Thanks to calling Ye back
Speaker 2: at our Burbank studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here
Speaker 2: at the Bank in Philadelphia. Thanks to you for listening.
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Speaker 2: final score from Philadelphia. The Phillies beat the Dodgers ten
Speaker 2: to seven. I have a great rest of your night.
Speaker 3: See you
Speaker 2: And Bry