Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vase.
Speaker 2: It wasn't pretty, but the Dodgers got it done. They
Speaker 2: snapped their seven game losing streak with a two to
Speaker 2: one win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in ten innings. Tonight,
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse live at Chase Field.
Speaker 2: We have phone lines wide open. I'm talking to you
Speaker 2: kenan Newport Beach. You had a lot to say last night.
Speaker 2: Where are you at tonight as the Dodgers snap that
Speaker 2: seven game losing streak and win their seventieth game of
Speaker 2: the season. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. I still don't know how
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks did not win this game after back to
Speaker 2: back triples from Heroldo Perdomo and Corbin Carrol in the
Speaker 2: ninth inning with nobody out. Carol was at third base.
Speaker 2: He's the fastest runner in Major League Baseball, and all
Speaker 2: Arizona needed to do was get the ball anywhere in
Speaker 2: the outfield. He tags up and likely scores. Even with
Speaker 2: the outfield drawn in for the Dodgers, even maybe a
Speaker 2: ground ball, you know, a slow ground ball to the
Speaker 2: right side possibly gets him in. But somehow, some way,
Speaker 2: at that point in time, Edwin Diaz just competed his
Speaker 2: way out of there without his slider, because that was
Speaker 2: the issue.
Speaker 1: Again. Tonight his his going his going back.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back to even when Edwin Diaz was
Speaker 2: pitching for the Mets and there was a game in
Speaker 2: the last don't know, three or four years that the
Speaker 2: Dodgers came back and walked off the Mets with Diaz
Speaker 2: on the mound. And I remember talking to some of
Speaker 2: the Dodger hitters that night and I said, how did
Speaker 2: you do that against Edwin Diaz? And they told me
Speaker 2: he didn't have a slider, And when he doesn't have
Speaker 2: a slider, you could sit fastball. And tonight, last night,
Speaker 2: and this entire season, Edwin Diaz just has not had
Speaker 2: the feel for his slider. So the Diamondbacks, Heraldo Perdomo
Speaker 2: and Corbyn Carroll jumped all over that back to back triples.
Speaker 2: They hit it in the perfect spot here at Chase Field.
Speaker 2: That is very much a big outfield that can lead
Speaker 2: to triples, back to back triples.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen that in.
Speaker 2: A long time. I know I haven't seen that ever.
Speaker 2: But that was the case in the ninth inning. On
Speaker 2: top of all that, so with the winning run ninety
Speaker 2: feet away, Edwin Diaz had to dig down and compete.
Speaker 2: Forget about finding the feel for his slider. He was
Speaker 2: fortunate Gabrielle Moreno hit a line drive right at Max Munsey,
Speaker 2: and kudos to the Dodgers positioning because there were a
Speaker 2: lot of hard hit balls tonight that were hit right
Speaker 2: at infielders Mookie Bets, Tommy Edmund. Max Munsey positioned perfectly
Speaker 2: to tell Marte pops up to Mookie Bets for the
Speaker 2: second out. Dave Roberts decides to walk now Bar intentionally,
Speaker 2: and then Edwin Diaz strikes out Vargas on a fastball.
Speaker 2: He did not have the slider, so even though he
Speaker 2: blew the safe, he did not blow the game. And
Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest thing here. This guy is
Speaker 2: one of the best closers the last three or four years,
Speaker 2: and to see him take it personal and didn't like
Speaker 2: being embarrassed last night or tonight or this entire season.
Speaker 2: For him to just say, you know what, I'm rearing
Speaker 2: back and I'm going to compete, and that's exactly how
Speaker 2: he got out of that ninth inning. The Diamondbacks, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know how they're going to sleep tonight. They
Speaker 2: left fifteen runners on base tonight. They were just two
Speaker 2: for sixteen with runners in scoring position, And as far
Speaker 2: as the game goes overall, the Dodger offense still still
Speaker 2: not where it needs to be, but hopefully a win
Speaker 2: like tonight gets it going in the right direction, because
Speaker 2: in the eighth inning, the Dodgers should have scored more
Speaker 2: runs after Tucker's home run. They had runners at first
Speaker 2: and second with one out. Otani and Pahz swung at
Speaker 2: ball four at least three times each during their at bat,
Speaker 2: so that was a prime example of the Dodgers' quality
Speaker 2: of at bats tonight being subpar. And if you look
Speaker 2: at the Dodger offense, overall, this is an incredible, incredible stat.
Speaker 2: Every single one of their hits during the last eight
Speaker 2: games has either been a single or a home run,
Speaker 2: nothing in between. No doubles, no triples, either a single
Speaker 2: or a home run, including tonight. Now the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: their last eight games thirty three singles, eight home runs.
Speaker 1: That's hard to do.
Speaker 2: One of the guys with the home runs was Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker in the eighth inning.
Speaker 1: We caught up with him after the game tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels great.
Speaker 5: I mean we haven't played our best brand of baseball lately,
Speaker 5: but yeah, this long season stuff happens. You know, glad
Speaker 5: to get get back in the win column and you know,
Speaker 5: keep moving forward from beer.
Speaker 1: Can you take us through the tenth inning?
Speaker 2: Obviously there was some good base running, opportunistic base running.
Speaker 1: It's not a conventional.
Speaker 2: Way to win, but I guess you have to do
Speaker 2: whatever you can at this point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you just got to try and take advantage of,
Speaker 5: you know, whatever the other team gives you and just
Speaker 5: keep keep on trucking. I mean, right there, just you know,
Speaker 5: two outsret there, I'm on second, Fetti drawing a great
Speaker 5: walk out there, and you know, show being able to
Speaker 5: get that single right there was huge. So then Jack
Speaker 5: coming in obviously at the at the end right there
Speaker 5: and pulling it down and getting that huge double play
Speaker 5: at the end to you know, secure the wind was
Speaker 5: was amazing.
Speaker 2: What was the feeling in the dugout and going through
Speaker 2: this game?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: I mean, so if we've been we've been grinding lately,
Speaker 5: just trying to continue to keep pushing forward, keep keep
Speaker 5: grinding through the season, just trying to put up some
Speaker 5: competitive bats. I mean, they got a good pitching staff,
Speaker 5: a good bullpen and everything, so it.
Speaker 4: Can be tough at times. But you know, we just
Speaker 4: got to.
Speaker 5: Keep confidencing ourselves and just go try and play a
Speaker 5: little bit better brand baseball than we have done.
Speaker 2: All right, tonight's the start of a new winning streak.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for stopping yep starts at one. All right,
Speaker 2: there is Kyle Tucker feeling good, and so were the
Speaker 2: Dodgers after snapping that season long seven game losing streak.
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Speaker 1: How about Jack Dryer.
Speaker 2: A lot of pitchers would have thrown that ball into
Speaker 2: center field, but he kept his composure, was deliberate with
Speaker 2: the throw to Tommy Edmond to end the game, with
Speaker 2: last night's hero Ryan Waldschmidt at the plate to end
Speaker 2: the game a one four to three double play.
Speaker 1: And how about Jack Dryer.
Speaker 2: In the last two months fifteen appearances, he has allowed
Speaker 2: just two earned runs eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to the phones for the first time tonight after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers get a win. Let's go out to Whittier. Julian,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk. I guarantee to win last night, Julian.
Speaker 2: Don't anybody ever doubt me.
Speaker 6: I remember I was listening. I was listening, but I
Speaker 6: didn't know it was gonna be in this fashion. My god,
Speaker 6: that felt. Let me tell you something. Baseball in general,
Speaker 6: it's just a remarkable sport, isn't it. I mean, extra ending.
Speaker 6: How often do you see two triples?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 6: It was just it was such a good baseball game
Speaker 6: just to begin with, you know, And the Dodgers came
Speaker 6: out on top on the right end of this, and
Speaker 6: I think we're gonna see more as the season progresses,
Speaker 6: We're going to see more intense baseball games like this.
Speaker 6: It really doesn't matter sometimes about the record, because the
Speaker 6: teams come out to play and they come out to
Speaker 6: beat you regardless of where they are in the standings.
Speaker 6: And I wasn't gonna call tonight, but I was just
Speaker 6: I was so impressed with the the game itself tonight,
Speaker 6: you know, a pictures duel. I mean, it really felt
Speaker 6: like a playoff game. Two triples by the other team
Speaker 6: and the Dodgers come out on top. It was just really,
Speaker 6: really awesome to watch such an intense game.
Speaker 2: I love I love the excitement from you, and that's
Speaker 2: sparking you to call in tonight.
Speaker 1: Julian. Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: And it's going to be an exciting last fifty something
Speaker 2: games down the stretch, and it's only going to get exciting,
Speaker 2: even more exciting in October. So thanks a lot for
Speaker 2: calling in, and I love your passion and excitement for
Speaker 2: Dodger baseball.
Speaker 7: Thank you. Take care David, all right, Julian.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: I don't like to keep the receipts on you, but
Speaker 2: I did guarantee a Dodger win tonight, and this man,
Speaker 2: I asked to call in after the Dodgers ended this
Speaker 2: losing streak. And he is a man of his word
Speaker 2: as well, that is MCS Scrooge himself. Ken in Newport Beach, Ken,
Speaker 2: What complaints do you have tonight?
Speaker 1: Ken?
Speaker 3: Well, first off, young Yamamoto was great. I thought Dryer
Speaker 3: was sensational. I was shocked when he went back to
Speaker 3: uh to what's his name again, uh.
Speaker 1: Edwin dis Aka Sugar.
Speaker 7: Yeah, actually I was a.
Speaker 1: Little I was on the fence.
Speaker 2: I thought maybe he would go with Tanner Scott for
Speaker 2: a four out, say, but Scott threw a lot of
Speaker 2: pitches last night, so I would feel like that was
Speaker 2: the limit there. But I mean, you got to give
Speaker 2: DS some credit, can for finding a way to send
Speaker 2: that game into extra innings.
Speaker 3: And here's here's a little staff pucker down in the
Speaker 3: last ten games, is a better batting average than Oki?
Speaker 1: Then uh Munsey.
Speaker 3: Muncie, who was a bad slump and.
Speaker 2: He's in a bad sty three percent during the last
Speaker 2: eight games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said a bunch of them twenty five only walking.
Speaker 2: Ten percent of the time when he walks. That's a
Speaker 2: big part of the Dodger offensive attack. And Muncie, I
Speaker 2: think is a really key player for the Dodgers, and
Speaker 2: I feel like it's been overlooked.
Speaker 1: He's been in a bad slump lately, and there's.
Speaker 3: A little a lot of slow pitches, a lot of changeups,
Speaker 3: and he's not hitting them. But I thought Tucker really
Speaker 3: really showed us. He's hitting two ninety two in the
Speaker 3: last ten games, and that's amazing coming from where he was.
Speaker 3: But the great win, I was in down a long time,
Speaker 3: but happy as I can be right now.
Speaker 1: Hey, I can't believe you called. Thanks a lot ken.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you.
Speaker 2: There he goes canon Newport Beach. A rare phone call
Speaker 2: after a Dodger win. Let's go out to Westwood Dominic.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk dominic. Were you listening last night
Speaker 2: when I guaranteed a dodd your win guaranteed?
Speaker 8: Unfortunately I was not. I I had I had personal
Speaker 8: issues I had to take care of. But I did
Speaker 8: watch right.
Speaker 1: I don't need a doctor's note here.
Speaker 2: This isn't school. You don't need an excused absence dominic.
Speaker 2: I can handle you. Weren't listening last night? Okay, but
Speaker 2: there's but if you want to if you don't believe me,
Speaker 2: that's why Dodger Talk and every episode you can find
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app Dominic.
Speaker 1: So I expect you to find your way to last
Speaker 1: night's show.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna do that when I get off the phone
Speaker 8: right now. But before I do that, I want to say, Man,
Speaker 8: this game it felt like a playoff game, just like
Speaker 8: the first caller said, I forgot his name, sorry, but
Speaker 8: it absolutely felt like a playoff game. And honestly, I
Speaker 8: just I feel released. I feel the leaved because we
Speaker 8: snapped that wedding stream, we cut the cable. You know,
Speaker 8: there's so many ways to describe it that we we
Speaker 8: we map that fertin losing streak because you know, I
Speaker 8: can't stand lease hey, I'm.
Speaker 2: Not gonna say hey, Dominic. The reason why you feel
Speaker 2: and so does so many other This was a playoff
Speaker 2: atmosphere because Chase Field was sold out forty six thou
Speaker 2: two hundred and thirteen at least thirty eight thousand were
Speaker 2: Dodger fans. And I'm not going to say games in
Speaker 2: August or I must win, but this came as close
Speaker 2: as it can to a must win for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: because you don't want that losing streak to go to
Speaker 2: eight and you're staring at a sweep tomorrow and you
Speaker 2: lose two Yamamoto starts in the last two weeks or
Speaker 2: in the last week.
Speaker 1: So that's the reason why you felt that way. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's say back downstairs to the Dodger
Speaker 2: Clubhouse to hear from manager Dave Roberts on sports and
Speaker 2: at LA oh.
Speaker 4: Man, it was.
Speaker 9: You know, that was a tough one. We'll take it.
Speaker 9: You know, I think that it comes down to the pitchers.
Speaker 9: Uh competed all night. Some of them were sharp, some
Speaker 9: of them weren't. Young Momoto got his pitch count up
Speaker 9: and but did enough obviously, you know, throwing up zeros
Speaker 9: through the sixth inning or almost finishing the sixth You know,
Speaker 9: we got a big out there, you know with Phillips
Speaker 9: and you know Vessia with a couple of walks. We
Speaker 9: found a way to to work his way out of
Speaker 9: that one. You know, Kyle had a good start to
Speaker 9: his inning and then the hit and the two walks.
Speaker 9: But then Tanner came out and made a big pitch
Speaker 9: to get the flyout, and so we we it wasn't pretty.
Speaker 9: I think offensively, we just got.
Speaker 3: To get going.
Speaker 9: You know, I think it's just hard to win games
Speaker 9: when you know your margin for winning his Erazor's edge
Speaker 9: and so it's not like guys aren't trying, but you know,
Speaker 9: it's a tough way to pitch and have to be perfect.
Speaker 9: And so yeah, DS tonight, I think for me, it's
Speaker 9: just the intensity. I think that you saw once they
Speaker 9: scored the run man on third base, nobody out. You
Speaker 9: saw the intensity pick up the stuff pick up. The
Speaker 9: fastball got better, the slider got better, and you know,
Speaker 9: even talking to him after the game, it's, you know,
Speaker 9: that's how we have to be from the first pitch.
Speaker 9: But that was the first game I saw this year
Speaker 9: where he had some real intensity. Yeah, it's it's yeah,
Speaker 9: you know, it's great. It's hard to win a major
Speaker 9: league baseball game. It feels good to win, and yeah,
Speaker 9: it feels good to win a basically win.
Speaker 5: Yes, as far as that intensity hasn't been there for him,
Speaker 5: considering how kind of struggles have kind of happened for
Speaker 5: Diaz this.
Speaker 9: Year, Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's just
Speaker 9: kind of you know, you want to be perfect. You're
Speaker 9: trying to, you know, get your using feet under you.
Speaker 9: He's been in rehab mode a lot, but I think
Speaker 9: that again, this is something I think could be a
Speaker 9: springboard to the for audys to come.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Dave Roberts on Sports Net LA, and
Speaker 2: I agree with him one hundred percent. It feels like
Speaker 2: Edwin ds since he came off the IL, he's acting
Speaker 2: like these are rehab outings and he's.
Speaker 1: Easing into the game. No, the rehab is over.
Speaker 2: You got to come into the game in the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: hit the ground running because the game is on the line.
Speaker 1: And I agree with him.
Speaker 2: I felt like again tonight, Diaz was easing into the
Speaker 2: game until the game was on the line. And that's
Speaker 2: what I was trying to explain that he competed his
Speaker 2: way through the final three outs of that ninth inning
Speaker 2: after being embarrassed. Again, I don't believe he wanted to
Speaker 2: be embarrassed walking off that mound after giving up another
Speaker 2: walk off basit and being responsible for the eighth loss.
Speaker 2: And by the way, during that seven game losing streak
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers that ended tonight, the Dodgers had leads
Speaker 2: in all seven of those games, so they blew leads
Speaker 2: at different point in times of those games during that
Speaker 2: seven game losing streak, and tonight could have been another one,
Speaker 2: not just in the ninth inning, but Vessia for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: his walk rate is higher than it's ever been in
Speaker 2: his career. Kyle Hurt gets the first two outs of
Speaker 2: the eighth inning and then all of a sudden is
Speaker 2: all over the place and Tanner Scott had to come
Speaker 2: in to bail them out with the bases loaded. So
Speaker 2: those are the things that Dave Roberts was pointing to.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Covina, Lucas. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: Live from Chase Field.
Speaker 1: Hi, Lucas, you stole my thunder, Dave.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's the Edwin Diaz experiment, and I'm just wondering.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not an experiment. Is here to stay?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, I get it. But you know, is he ready?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 10: And and you know he goes out there.
Speaker 2: I believe physically he's ready. And I think what Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts said after the game is right on point. He
Speaker 2: knows his players. Diaz is ready physically. Now he's got
Speaker 2: to flip the switch mentally and get out of Oh
Speaker 2: I'm just easing my way back.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: Sorry, you don't have that luxury when the game is
Speaker 2: on the line, when you're on the mound.
Speaker 1: So I agree with Dave. It's not physical, it's mental.
Speaker 10: Are you know you've been in the clubhouse and and
Speaker 10: you you're talking to the players, you know, can you
Speaker 10: give us some insight as to how they're feeling when
Speaker 10: when they go through something like this. And I'll land
Speaker 10: on that, but I really appreciate the show and and
Speaker 10: love to get your insight on what the players are
Speaker 10: thinking after this long stretch.
Speaker 1: Thanks all right, Lucas, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Perfect tease to our next segment, because when we continue
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk, you'll hear from Miguel Rojas, who won
Speaker 2: the hard and hustle for the Dodgers. He shared with
Speaker 2: us what he told his teammates via text after last
Speaker 2: night's game. Don't go anywhere more Dodger Talk around the
Speaker 2: corner after the Dodgers snapped their seven game losing streak
Speaker 2: with a two to one win in ten innings over
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks on a five to seventy LA sports.
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Speaker 1: One oh pitch, Tucker swings. It's a high drive, Dude
Speaker 1: Price Field back it goes. He his gone held. Tucker
Speaker 1: breaks the ice with a home run, He's.
Speaker 2: Eleventh of the season, and the Dodgers late at one
Speaker 2: to nothing. Kyle Tucker with his fourth home run since
Speaker 2: the All Star Break, his ninth home run away from
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium. Tucker has eleven home runs on the year,
Speaker 2: nine of them on the road, including that one that
Speaker 2: gave the Dodgers a one nothing lead in the eighth inning.
Speaker 2: Arizona would tie it to with back to back triples,
Speaker 2: but the Dodgers in the tenth inning found a way
Speaker 2: to be opportunistic and infield single by show hel Tany
Speaker 2: score Tucker to give the Dodgers the two to one lead,
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Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Snakes two to one in ten innings, and before the game,
Speaker 2: we had a chance to catch up with one of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers team leaders, Miguel Rojas, who was awarded the
Speaker 2: Hardened Hustle for the Dodgers team in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Third time Rojas has won that award, but the first
Speaker 2: time with the Dodgers, and I can't think of anybody
Speaker 2: better than to be honored with that award than Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 2: And then in the middle of the conversation, we talked
Speaker 2: about how the Dodgers were going to get out of
Speaker 2: this rut they've been in, and he shared with us
Speaker 2: the message that he sent to his teammates after last
Speaker 2: night's loss.
Speaker 11: I challenged the guys, I sent in a little quick
Speaker 11: message on the group last night to start our sprint
Speaker 11: right now. You know why not to start when he's
Speaker 11: forty four games left, so we prepare for what is coming.
Speaker 11: And I feel like if we put the little intensity
Speaker 11: on every pitch and forget about the boss and forget
Speaker 11: about what's the future is going to look like. I
Speaker 11: think we're gonna be on the moment more and we're
Speaker 11: gonna give everything that we have in that moment. So
Speaker 11: I think it's important to remember those those little things
Speaker 11: when you go in the middle of the summer and
Speaker 11: you know, like you're approaching the end of the season
Speaker 11: and you kind of wanted to get over there with
Speaker 11: so you can go to October. But I mean, no
Speaker 11: one is gonna give you anything for free, so we're
Speaker 11: gonna have to earn it, and this is our time
Speaker 11: to kind of start our spring. I believe we can
Speaker 11: do it. I know we've been playing a lot of
Speaker 11: games the last two years and this year, but if
Speaker 11: we have an opportunity to do something really special, so
Speaker 11: if we have it in our hands, let's do it.
Speaker 1: You know, we're in it to win it.
Speaker 11: We're not in it just to say, oh, no, we
Speaker 11: won the last two, were okay, not winning this one,
Speaker 11: or let's see what happened. No, we're in it to
Speaker 11: win this one, and now that we have the opportunity
Speaker 11: that all we have to play is fifty some more
Speaker 11: games in this year, it's a good time for.
Speaker 4: Us to kind of like do the sprint and finish
Speaker 4: the season.
Speaker 2: Man, I love that, and I told Rojas he would
Speaker 2: get me to run through a wall. I was excited
Speaker 2: after hearing that. And that's what you need from your
Speaker 2: leaders to hold the others accountable, especially a guy like
Speaker 2: that hard and Hustle Award winner. It's not just about
Speaker 2: what he's done on the field, it's what he means
Speaker 2: in the dugout, in the clubhouse and to his teammates,
Speaker 2: and what he did in the World Series last year,
Speaker 2: not starting a game all of a sudden, he's in
Speaker 2: there in Game six, in Game seven, hits the World
Speaker 2: Series saving home run. All of those things give him
Speaker 2: a lot of credibility with his teammates to be able
Speaker 2: to fire off a text after last night's game and say, hey, we.
Speaker 1: Got to clean it up.
Speaker 2: We got to refocus and run through the finish line,
Speaker 2: not just run to it as we see the light
Speaker 2: at the end of the tunnel, being the postseason. And
Speaker 2: I love what he said. It reaffirms everything I've believed
Speaker 2: in this team. They are not just here to go
Speaker 2: through the motions and see what happens in October. They
Speaker 2: want to make history. They want to become the first
Speaker 2: team in National League history to three pete.
Speaker 1: They want to become one of those elite teams.
Speaker 2: Joining the Reds, joining the A's, joining the Yankees to
Speaker 2: three p That's who they want to be, or not
Speaker 2: the Reds, but the A's and Yankees want to They
Speaker 2: want to be one of those teams that has that
Speaker 2: legacy of three peating. And they know everybody's against them,
Speaker 2: and uh, nothing would be sweeter for them to prove
Speaker 2: a lot of people wrong. Let's go out to Downey, Rob,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk with David Vasse. How about that, Rob,
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas doubling down, sending a message to his teammates.
Speaker 2: I think that proves to you and everybody else this
Speaker 2: team is not just going through the motions.
Speaker 12: I love a DV. Thanks taking my call. Migurel speaks
Speaker 12: for all of us. You know we're not too worried
Speaker 12: about this lost streak. But Edwin Diaz doesn't me a
Speaker 12: little bit of Craig Kimbrel During that time. If you
Speaker 12: remember that kind of crusting the resume.
Speaker 1: It's not like that Dies is not at the end
Speaker 1: of the rope that Kimberrel was. He's not.
Speaker 12: But I'm just saying reminiscent of that. But anyways, my
Speaker 12: point is I just left the wedding in the Greater
Speaker 12: La area and ran into Blake Trining in the lobby
Speaker 12: of this area. I won't say much bewhere, but I
Speaker 12: saw Blake.
Speaker 6: I saw Blake. He looks good.
Speaker 12: So I don't know if you have any inside information
Speaker 12: on that, but help is on the way, it seems like.
Speaker 12: And I just want to remind Dodger fans we got this.
Speaker 12: Let's go for three in a row.
Speaker 7: Thanks DV.
Speaker 1: All right, Rob, thank you for the phone call. Hey, Downy,
Speaker 1: stop by Downey Hundai while.
Speaker 7: You're out there, Rob, we'll do Thanks DV Okay.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Look, Blake Tryning has to go out on some rehab appearances.
Speaker 2: By all accounts, the shoulder is calmed down as far
Speaker 2: as the inflammation goes.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: He just needs to get ready for September and the
Speaker 2: stretch run. He's a guy that's a three time World
Speaker 2: Series champion with the Dodgers, so he has that experience.
Speaker 2: I view him in that bullpen kind of like Dan
Speaker 2: Hudson was for the Dodgers in twenty four And it's
Speaker 2: great to see Daniel Hudson out here at Chase Field.
Speaker 1: He's been around each of the last two days. When
Speaker 1: tryin it comes back.
Speaker 2: That's who I view him as a guy that will
Speaker 2: be part of the thirteen best pitchers. He brings experience,
Speaker 2: he brings a calmness to the mound, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: he brings a calmness to the bullpen. So I kind
Speaker 2: of feel like that's his role at this stage of
Speaker 2: his career. Let's go out of Santa Clarita. Sean, You're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk Live from Chase Field. Hi, Sean, thanks
Speaker 2: for being patient.
Speaker 7: How are you doing. Thank you for taking my call, DV.
Speaker 7: I was actually checking in on a fellow Santa Clarita native,
Speaker 7: Tyler Glass. Now, I know you got to start the
Speaker 7: other day down with the tower buzzers, and I've been
Speaker 7: looking at the box store and I see there's twenty
Speaker 7: old kid Easton Shelton, thirty three home runs and one
Speaker 7: hundred two RBIs. He's not on any prospect licks. I
Speaker 7: didn't know anyone else like who I could ask, But
Speaker 7: do you have any information on this kid?
Speaker 12: Is he?
Speaker 7: Is he possible next big star for the Dodgers?
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you, Sean.
Speaker 2: I don't really put too much stock into what guys
Speaker 2: are doing at Single A, but since the tower buzzers
Speaker 2: are in our backyard, it's hard to ignore having a
Speaker 2: guy like that. I'll I'll ask Brandon Gomes and Andrew
Speaker 2: Friedman and I'll let you know what they think of
Speaker 2: Easton Shelton.
Speaker 7: All right, I'll be listening. Thank you, DV.
Speaker 1: All Right, thank you for the phone call. Sean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, My focus is on the back to back champions,
Speaker 2: and obviously the guys like Kintaro Morales, those guys Depaula,
Speaker 2: those are the guys that have been on my radar.
Speaker 2: But I if I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna take
Speaker 2: a pause and remind myself what Clayton Kershaw used to
Speaker 2: tell me repeatedly. He gave me some great advice when
Speaker 2: spring training, and he said, it's okay to tell somebody
Speaker 2: you don't know. And I don't know about Easton Shelton,
Speaker 2: but I will find out for you. How about that
Speaker 2: channeling Clayton Kershaw, who did a good thing with Brad
Speaker 2: Paisley being on who wants to be a millionaire and
Speaker 2: getting some good money for the store Kimberly and Brad's
Speaker 2: great place in Nashville that allows families that can't afford
Speaker 2: groceries to be able to shop, and Kershaw's challenge. So
Speaker 2: thank you Clayton for always being in my head. And
Speaker 2: that was a true story. In spring training one day
Speaker 2: he said, why can't you just say that you don't know?
Speaker 2: I said, you know what, thank you for the advice.
Speaker 2: I'll keep with that with me moving forward. So I
Speaker 2: don't know about Easton Shelton, but I will find out.
Speaker 2: One thing I do know is Scott vans Like used
Speaker 2: to tell me trust my eyes. And I saw a
Speaker 2: show Heytani with my own with my two O hos
Speaker 2: today today in full uniform, go out there, throw plyioballs
Speaker 2: against the bullpen wall down the right field line in
Speaker 2: the Dodger bullpen, and then come out and play catch
Speaker 2: with a purpose.
Speaker 1: For the first time in two weeks since he threw
Speaker 1: a thirty four.
Speaker 2: Pitch bullpen session, and again I feel like he took
Speaker 2: a lot of people by surprise that he was doing
Speaker 2: this today, but he did it, and I.
Speaker 1: Don't know where this is leading, but I will tell
Speaker 1: you this.
Speaker 2: He has seven more weeks to go in the regular
Speaker 2: season and the even shorter amount of time to build
Speaker 2: back up, and I firmly believe that he does want
Speaker 2: to try to make it work. I saw a video
Speaker 2: because there's hot mics everywhere and hot camera zooming in
Speaker 2: on everything Otani does before first pitch tonight, he and
Speaker 2: Lars now Bar, teammates with Team Japan. We're having a
Speaker 2: common in center field, and I'm a pretty good rip
Speaker 2: lip reader. I'm not John Boy, but I'm a good
Speaker 2: lip reader. And he was saying as Lars Newpar was
Speaker 2: asking him how the pitching was going, he basically was saying,
Speaker 2: we'll see how it goes, and then he was motioning
Speaker 2: how the landing leg is a problem. His left knee
Speaker 2: was a problem. So even him in that candid moment
Speaker 2: with Lars Newbar didn't seem very sure that the left
Speaker 2: knee was going to cooperate moving forward.
Speaker 1: So it stinks for Otani.
Speaker 2: He can't even have a conversation with Lars Newbar in
Speaker 2: center field before the game without cameras zooming in.
Speaker 1: But it's out there. I saw it, and that's what
Speaker 1: he was basically describing. So there you go.
Speaker 2: By the way, I want to end the show on
Speaker 2: this because we haven't had a chance. During a seven
Speaker 2: game losing streak in Chicago, I had a chance to
Speaker 2: catch up with Alex Call, who did not get traded,
Speaker 2: and he was he wanted to keep the receivers. So
Speaker 2: enjoy this corrections and retractions self reporting here. I should
Speaker 2: not have believed the news that was out there that
Speaker 2: Alex Call was being considered to be traded before the
Speaker 2: trade deadline. He got his revenge. She almost hit me
Speaker 2: with a baseball during batting practice. And Alex Call, a
Speaker 2: great loyal Dodger talk listener, is in front of us.
Speaker 2: So I am going to hand him the microphone and
Speaker 2: I'll wear whatever you have for me.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Dave. Well, it's ga. It's great to be here.
Speaker 13: And you know, I was getting a little bit nervous
Speaker 13: after all the you know, reports reporting from.
Speaker 4: Dave Essay and.
Speaker 13: Others, but uh, you know, I kept the faith, you know,
Speaker 13: because at the end of the day, you love being
Speaker 13: a Dodger. It's been an amazing year for me. It's
Speaker 13: been so much fun, and uh, it's out of your control.
Speaker 13: But grateful to still be here.
Speaker 2: What were the conversations like from Andrew Friedman? Did he
Speaker 2: tell you you David Vasse's an idiot?
Speaker 13: You know it was insinuated, but no, it was just
Speaker 13: nice to hear very complimented me of me. He wasn't,
Speaker 13: you know, giving me assurance either way, but basically just
Speaker 13: that you know, we really respect you, We we value
Speaker 13: what you do.
Speaker 4: We love how you approach the.
Speaker 13: Game, how you prepare, how you're ready, and you know,
Speaker 13: that's the exact type of player that we like. And uh,
Speaker 13: you know we obviously like to acquire in you and
Speaker 13: and and continue to like even more since we've had you.
Speaker 4: So just really really nice stuff from Andrew and just
Speaker 4: anytime you.
Speaker 13: Hear that type of stuff, you're you're just grateful for
Speaker 13: the organization and you know, just kind of validates what
Speaker 13: you're doing.
Speaker 4: So yeah, happy to happy to be here. But it
Speaker 4: was great to have the conversation.
Speaker 2: It was tough for me to be niced out by
Speaker 2: you for the last three days, just getting the thumb
Speaker 2: thumbs down, I mean, the disappointment I'm serious that that
Speaker 2: was tough for.
Speaker 3: Me to hand.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I was given Dave the thumbs down whenever I
Speaker 13: saw him. We weren't on speaking terms. But you know,
Speaker 13: we can move forward and we're focused on the three
Speaker 13: feet now.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 2: I won't listen read apps that promote fake news. Alex
Speaker 2: calls a Dodger. That's the way it's going to remain.
Speaker 2: And I'm happy you're here.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 3: Dave.
Speaker 1: All Right, Alex call and I we're back. We're back
Speaker 1: after the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: So whatever the case was, Eric Lower and Alex call
Speaker 2: her a Dodger, and I think that's a good thing
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. Call, by the way, has barely had
Speaker 2: one played appearance in the last week or so. He
Speaker 2: got hit by a pitch in Chicago as a pinch hitter.
Speaker 2: Hasn't played a lot, never played in one of those
Speaker 2: three games against Boston where they threw three lefties at him.
Speaker 2: So hopefully he gets in there soon. But he understands
Speaker 2: his role. And he told me before the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: I said, wouldn't you I want to go somewhere if
Speaker 2: they're going to trade you to play more, And he said,
Speaker 2: you know, what where would I be in October. I'd
Speaker 2: rather be here than on my couch in October, So
Speaker 2: I want to stay. So that's the type of attitude
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers probably leaned towards. Hey, this guy wants
Speaker 2: to be here, he accepts his role. Let's keep him,
Speaker 2: Let's keep lower. Lower has accepted either starting or going
Speaker 2: to the bullpen when Snell and Glass now get healthy.
Speaker 2: So both those guys, they're all in. And you need
Speaker 2: those type of guys, those complimentary players to understand their
Speaker 2: role and how they fit with a championship team. So
Speaker 2: Alex cal and I thumbs back up. Tomorrow, Justin Robleski
Speaker 2: is on the mound. He's eleven and three with an
Speaker 2: ERA of three point thirty one, going up against a
Speaker 2: Wardo Rodriguez, who is ten and four with an ERA
Speaker 2: of two seventy one. Our coverage begins tomorrow at noon,
Speaker 2: first pitch at one ten with Rick Munday and Tim Neverett.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Colin Ye back at our burd Banks Studios,
Speaker 2: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Chase Field, and
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow. Be safe on this beautiful Saturday.
Speaker 4: See you.
Speaker 12: Six.
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