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. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Here we go again. We're going to running back.
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Speaker 1: nine eighty seven two five seven, and be sure to
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Speaker 1: David Vase.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vase with you until about
Speaker 2: eleven fifteen tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers play their first game in that minor
Speaker 2: league ballpark in Sacramento in front of a sellout crowd
Speaker 2: of twelve thousand plus. Quite a departure from sellout crowds
Speaker 2: in San Diego of forty one thousand plus, but those
Speaker 2: are the circumstances that Major League Baseball has allowed for
Speaker 2: the A's. They're playing in Sacramento for the second straight year,
Speaker 2: and that ball flies. That's part of the PCL. The
Speaker 2: Pacific Coast League is notorious for having stadiums in cities
Speaker 2: where the air is thin and the ball flies, and
Speaker 2: Sacramento is no different. I'm not saying it's Albuquerque or
Speaker 2: Reno or Las Vegas, but it has a reputation for flying,
Speaker 2: and fly it did tonight as the Dodgers hit three
Speaker 2: home runs on their way to a nine to four
Speaker 2: win in Sacramento in the opener of this three game series.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers now improve on baseball's best record to fifty
Speaker 2: five and thirty. They improve their lead in the NL
Speaker 2: West to eleven games. It's the largest division lead in
Speaker 2: all a Major League Baseball. The Padres, after losing the
Speaker 2: final two games to the Dodgers over the weekend, flew
Speaker 2: to Chicago and Mason Miller bleue the save at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 2: Saya Suzuki with a high fly ball off the ivy
Speaker 2: and left field walked it off against Mason Miller and
Speaker 2: the Padres. So San Diego is eleven games back of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and it is very sad Diego right now
Speaker 2: in America's most finest city. Hey, it's not out of
Speaker 2: the question. When the Padres get to Dodger Stadium on Thursday,
Speaker 2: they very well could be twelve or thirteen games back
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers. To start that four game series over
Speaker 2: the Fourth of July weekend. But the Dodgers are feeling good.
Speaker 2: They got Tioscar Hernandez back tonight. He had two hits.
Speaker 2: Not a coincidence, Maybe a coincidence. Andy Pa has snapped
Speaker 2: his seventeen game homerless streak with Taoscar Hernandez back in
Speaker 2: the lineup. But one thing's for certain, it's great to
Speaker 2: have Taoscar back. Great to see that signature smile. And
Speaker 2: I'm sure Piz wouldn't want anybody else throwing those sunflower
Speaker 2: seeds at him. Then his big brother, ta Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. If
Speaker 2: you're listening to us on the iHeartRadio app and we're
Speaker 2: lucky enough to get into the ballpark in Sacramento twelve
Speaker 2: thousand plus, I would love to hear from you. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. One of
Speaker 2: my good friends, Al Camario, who moved up to Sacramento
Speaker 2: from the San Fernando Valley a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: lives in Sacramento but had to leave and go out
Speaker 2: of town. But he did report this how much the
Speaker 2: cheapest seats were to see the game tonight. To get
Speaker 2: into the building tonight at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento,
Speaker 2: the cheapest seat, according to Pullman to the Stars Al Camario,
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty dollars to get in to see
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in AA tonight. That was the cheapest ticket.
Speaker 2: He told me that when the A's played the Marlins,
Speaker 2: the cheapest seat was thirty dollars. So that was the
Speaker 2: secondary market there for the Dodgers and A's tonight. At
Speaker 2: least I believe that's the secondary market. You would hope
Speaker 2: that wasn't face value. Dave Roberts, by the way, one
Speaker 2: win away from a thousand in his managerial career. Everybody
Speaker 2: is on it now. I'm not sure many were aware
Speaker 2: before we talked about it on Dodger Talk, but it
Speaker 2: went from three wins in San Diego to now one
Speaker 2: went away from managing one thousand wins in his eleven
Speaker 2: year managerial career. Let's head back to Sacramento to hear
Speaker 2: from the Dodger skipper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I thought, you know, early he got
Speaker 3: behind a lot. They did a good job of just
Speaker 3: putting the battle the ball, you know, finding some outfield grass,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm really happy that he kind of found
Speaker 3: his way right of the ship and then you know,
Speaker 3: got through sixth inning for us.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I thought tonight it was a
Speaker 2: great environment.
Speaker 3: We certainly as a Dodge were pretty well represented and
Speaker 3: it was good to see the offense come to life.
Speaker 3: I thought, Max, you know, big Homer show hate big Homer,
Speaker 3: Andy with the big Homer, and then we just took
Speaker 3: good at bats all night long. Kyle had some good
Speaker 3: at bats. So yeah, solid game you've.
Speaker 4: Been within there.
Speaker 3: I mean, you talk about the offense, but how good
Speaker 3: is it when you have someone like Taoska Hernandez comes
Speaker 3: back in the lineups and able to is able to
Speaker 3: produce things early.
Speaker 2: It was good.
Speaker 3: You know, he was anxious to get back and got
Speaker 3: a left tennis starter, took some really good at bats
Speaker 3: and it was good to get him back in the mix.
Speaker 3: And he's certainly a presence.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of contact and Eric Lawer stat line
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's still another quality start.
Speaker 5: When the front office signed him, it was essentially to
Speaker 5: shore up these innings in the back end of the rotation.
Speaker 1: How critical has it been that he's been able to do.
Speaker 3: So it's been critical certainly. You know, every time he
Speaker 3: takes the ball, it seems like he's going six innings
Speaker 3: and he's given us some length. We're in the middle
Speaker 3: of thirteen in a row, and so you know, coming
Speaker 3: out of San DIEGOZ. He's got those guys again for
Speaker 3: four so for him to kind of be a little
Speaker 3: bit shaky early, not getting the strikeouts, but still, you know,
Speaker 3: takedown eighteen outs was big, and you know that's what
Speaker 3: he signed up for and he's been nothing but impressive
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's manager Dave Roberts on sports Net LA
Speaker 2: talking about Eric Lower, who went another six strong innings
Speaker 2: tonight with the Dodgers. Lower is three and zero with
Speaker 2: an elray of two eighty eight. Tonight's game brought to
Speaker 2: you by Modello Modello the mark of a fighter. All Right,
Speaker 2: we have two guys that were at the game tonight
Speaker 2: in Sacramento. One of them is a loyal Dodger talk
Speaker 2: listener and caller. That's Frank in Sacramento. And Frank, you
Speaker 2: finally got the Dodgers in Sacramento in a minor league ballpark.
Speaker 6: Congratulations, Thank you gave in LA's favorite ten I just
Speaker 6: wish you were up here to see it also, But hey,
Speaker 6: how about show Bay's home run to night. I've got
Speaker 6: to see it one hundred and twelve of ex velocity.
Speaker 2: Where were you city tonight, Frank?
Speaker 7: Exactly? I was sitting up in the well. I had
Speaker 7: nosebleed section.
Speaker 2: So is are they really no minor league stadium? So
Speaker 2: nosebleeds there would probably be the load section at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 7: Yes, And what I wanted to talk about tonight is
Speaker 7: is there any word on when mister kee CA's got
Speaker 7: to be back joining the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Frank, I want to I want to know where
Speaker 2: that stands as well. We've always heard that it's going
Speaker 2: to be the second half of the season. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if that means end of July beginning of August,
Speaker 2: but I have to go back and look when he's
Speaker 2: eligible to be activated. But it's gonna be well after
Speaker 2: the All Star break, that's for sure. Thanks for the
Speaker 2: phone call, Frank. Let's go out to Adon Adon, who
Speaker 2: was at the game tonight as well. Did I get
Speaker 2: your name right?
Speaker 8: Almost their day?
Speaker 2: Adon Adon? Where were you sitting? I mean, Frank said,
Speaker 2: those bleeds there's no such thing as those bleeds there.
Speaker 8: Hey, we're about twenty minutes south of Sacramento, small town
Speaker 8: of golf, so we were a third baseline about seven
Speaker 8: rows up, perfect seeds.
Speaker 2: How much might I pay to get those seats? How
Speaker 2: much did you pay?
Speaker 8: It was if I cut it short, don't don't, don't.
Speaker 8: Don't get me for that. But it's two hundred and
Speaker 8: fifty bucks a ticket, So.
Speaker 2: I was right. He pool man versus al Camillo was
Speaker 2: accurate with his information that the cheapest ticket was two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty dollars tonight to get in.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and this is a Father's Day gift that that
Speaker 8: I'll remember forever. We had family and friends around, But
Speaker 8: the best part of mye was on our way back
Speaker 8: to our our parking garage. I ran into Krchito Cruise
Speaker 8: at the stoplight, and I said, Qchito, let me get
Speaker 8: a picture. He was, of course. I spoke to him
Speaker 8: in Spanish, Viva Meico. He took a quick picture of
Speaker 8: me and a cousin of mine, female cousin Susie. Shout
Speaker 8: out to Susie, that got us the tickets, that got
Speaker 8: everyone together, and then I looked to my right and
Speaker 8: Rick Monday's right next to him. I said, I got
Speaker 8: to get a picture for Rick Monday. But by the
Speaker 8: time the crosswalk started going, we couldn't catch up to
Speaker 8: Rick Monday. So we finally caught him at the Sacramento
Speaker 8: I don't know if you've seen that bridge over the river.
Speaker 8: We caught him right in the middle of the bridge
Speaker 8: and finally took a picure. It was great, it's either Joe,
Speaker 8: but we'll take a picture with you exactly. And we
Speaker 8: ran like we were spinning to catch up to him,
Speaker 8: and he was the nicest person.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 8: That topped it all. It was a perfect night.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's great. I got one more question for you.
Speaker 2: So you were on the third base side. You're behind
Speaker 2: the Dodger Doug Out.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Did you have a clear view of where that Otani
Speaker 2: home run landed?
Speaker 8: Dave, You're not gonna believe me, but I had a
Speaker 8: cousin to my right. I said, hey, we can watch replays,
Speaker 8: you know wherever we can, right, but I says, I
Speaker 8: want to give everybody else a fan experience. I recorded
Speaker 8: that that Holman shot all the way from the pitch
Speaker 8: to the hit and around the bases. I love my phone,
Speaker 8: and it's posted on social media and Dave. But another
Speaker 8: thing to top up my night is I'm talking to you.
Speaker 8: I listened to Daily When when You're on And the
Speaker 8: first thing I asked Gorchito was where's David Vase? Is
Speaker 8: he gonna walk through here? Am I gonna see him here?
Speaker 8: He's like, he didn't make the trip.
Speaker 2: I didn't make the trip because the press box, the
Speaker 2: broadcast booth only has room for Rick and Tim Neverett.
Speaker 2: There's hardly any room so and the press box is
Speaker 2: really small. So I said, why even put myself through
Speaker 2: the at just come back to the Burbank studios. Do
Speaker 2: the show be able to be in a comfortable setting? So, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I missed you this time. But it sounds
Speaker 2: like this is the most excitement Sacramento has had since
Speaker 2: the Lakers used to whoop the King's butt back in
Speaker 2: two thousand and one, two thousand and two.
Speaker 8: Beck, Yeah, back in the heydays at three p Lakers
Speaker 8: were big Laker fans as well. Me and my family
Speaker 8: shout out to the Mendez family. We're a big, huge family.
Speaker 8: We're all Dodger Laker fans, and when it gets to
Speaker 8: the football, we kind of split up. But other than that, Okay,
Speaker 8: don Don, this.
Speaker 2: Was the highlight of the show. You did a great
Speaker 2: job calling in tonight and I'm happy. Coachito Cruz and
Speaker 2: Rick Monday. We're first class to you. I would expect
Speaker 2: nothing else. And uh, hopefully we'll see you at Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium soon.
Speaker 8: Dave, I have one favor to ask you. Please send
Speaker 8: a shout out to the men, the Mendes family, one
Speaker 8: of the biggest Dodger family in the Central Valley. You
Speaker 8: just did family bas Viva, Viva.
Speaker 2: Mendez Familia, Viva the Familia the Mendez How there you go?
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 8: A Don, I love it. Hey, we'll be back Wednesday.
Speaker 8: Wednesday will be a guys trip. I'm gonna take my
Speaker 8: oldest boy and uh about fifteen of us guys and
Speaker 8: cousins that we'll be back Wednesday to Charon Otani.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tawi day on Wednesday. Thanks a lot, a Don,
Speaker 2: I appreciate you calling in, and yes, it sounds like
Speaker 2: a very passionate Mendez family there. So thank you for
Speaker 2: listening and being loyal Dodger fans. I'm I'm happy that
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are able to be up there. In Sacramento,
Speaker 2: and man, you know, it's incredible you have a ticket
Speaker 2: to go to one of these three games in Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Like I said, it's a spring training, minor league stadium.
Speaker 2: You're never gonna get this close to Otani Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: playing baseball outside of when you go to a spring
Speaker 2: training game. But these games count, and the closest thing
Speaker 2: to regular season games being this close to them was
Speaker 2: when the Dodgers were in Tampa last year. Because of
Speaker 2: Tropicana Field being damaged from the hurricane. The Rays were
Speaker 2: playing their games last year at Steinbrenner Field, the Yankees
Speaker 2: spring training stadium. So you know, obviously a complete different
Speaker 2: set of circumstances. That was a natural disaster that forced
Speaker 2: the Rays to go to Tampa, Florida. But certainly it's
Speaker 2: as close as you can get to the Dodgers the
Speaker 2: last two years if you're at a game against the Rays,
Speaker 2: and obviously Tonight's game in Sacramento and man Otani Knight
Speaker 2: in Sacramento, that should be electric on Wednesday night, eight
Speaker 2: six six, seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the A's tonight nine to four. When we continue,
Speaker 2: we'll hear from Eric Lauer, who won his third game
Speaker 2: as a Dodger. He's three to zero with an ERA
Speaker 2: of two to eighty eight. Also, we'll share our conversation
Speaker 2: with the Lake great Fernando Valenzuela on this date. Back
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety, there were two no hitters thrown in
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball Dave Stewart of the A's in Toronto
Speaker 2: and our very own El Toro, Fernando Valenzuela at Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium against the Cardinals. I had a chance to talk
Speaker 2: to Fernando about that back in twenty eighteen, on June
Speaker 2: twenty ninth, twenty eighteen, and man, listening back to that
Speaker 2: to get it ready for the show was more emotional
Speaker 2: than I expected. Fernando was. We had a great working relationship,
Speaker 2: spent a lot of time together in the press box,
Speaker 2: and can't wait to have you hear what Fernando had
Speaker 2: to say about that fateful night nineteen ninety June twenty
Speaker 2: ninth at Dodgers Stadium. More Dodger talk around the corner
Speaker 2: after the Dodgers beat the A's nine to four on
Speaker 2: a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: Seventy Dodger talk is available on a five seventy LA
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Speaker 1: more Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Basset, hitch from.
Speaker 2: Krunk and Otani belts at high and deep to right,
Speaker 2: forget it, Oh, that's Paul's way.
Speaker 4: Onta here over to the top of home run Hill
Speaker 4: between the trees.
Speaker 2: A three run home run for show Hey O'tani, his
Speaker 2: eighteenth of the season and his two hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: eighth career home run. A four hundred and thirty two
Speaker 2: foot blast. Show Hey Otani always put it on a show,
Speaker 2: and tonight was no different in front of twelve thousand
Speaker 2: plus at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento. A monstrous home
Speaker 2: run in the sixth inning of three run shot with
Speaker 2: two strikes off a left handed reliever Matt Crook, who
Speaker 2: threw him another sweeper one too many that Otani hid
Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty two feet, felt like it went
Speaker 2: to the moon, felt like it was a five hundred footer,
Speaker 2: But that's what they're saying. An estimated four hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty two feet off the bat at one hundred and
Speaker 2: twelve miles an hour, and again you go back and
Speaker 2: look at the highlight or the photo. As Otani is
Speaker 2: standing admiring that home run. So is home played umpire
Speaker 2: Manny Gonzalez, who took his mask off to see how far,
Speaker 2: how majestic that ball was hit, and certainly Otani captures
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Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number before we get to my conversation that
Speaker 2: we had with Fernando Velenzuela back in twenty eighteen. I
Speaker 2: want to go back to Sacramento to hear from another
Speaker 2: left hander, Eric Lower, who obviously is not as decorated
Speaker 2: in his Dodger career as Fernando, but certainly pitch well. Tonight,
Speaker 2: six innings allowed just three earned runs. His record now
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers since being acquired from the Blue Jays
Speaker 2: three to zero with an era of two eighty eight,
Speaker 2: and on this road trip, the Dodgers used an opener
Speaker 2: in Minnesota and then Lower pitched the middle innings of
Speaker 2: that game. It was six shutout innings tonight, six innings
Speaker 2: he allowed just three earned runs. Let's hear from Lower
Speaker 2: on sportsnet LA. Uh.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's actually a pretty good way of putting it.
Speaker 9: I felt like it was, you know, just getting single
Speaker 9: to death, which I mean, it'll happen, but you just
Speaker 9: try to make pitches and make sure that you're, you know,
Speaker 9: executing good pitches. You know, sometimes that kind of stuff happens,
Speaker 9: but as long as they're not, you know, as long
Speaker 9: as you're keeping soft contact and play, I think it's
Speaker 9: you know, eventually it'll work out in our favor, and
Speaker 9: I think it did overall.
Speaker 1: Is that an adjustment that you made or did you
Speaker 1: kind of just stick to your approach and look for
Speaker 1: just a different contact.
Speaker 9: No, I think it was I just stuck to my
Speaker 9: approach and made sure that I was, you know, focusing
Speaker 9: on executing pitches and let my defense work behind me.
Speaker 9: And I knew eventually they would start going at people
Speaker 9: instead of you know, right in the right spots for them.
Speaker 8: Cot just treated for you.
Speaker 2: They're pretty clear about the hole they need you to fail.
Speaker 5: Since then, you've been able to do so thanks to
Speaker 5: a couple.
Speaker 6: Of adjustments and well execution.
Speaker 5: How much pride do you take in and knowing that
Speaker 5: you've been able to give them exactly what they needed.
Speaker 9: I think that's it's a big It's a big point
Speaker 9: for me to make sure that I'm going out there
Speaker 9: and doing my job every day. That's what I try
Speaker 9: to do every time, and you know, just making sure
Speaker 9: I'm putting the team in a position to win the
Speaker 9: game is you know, pretty much my job. And I
Speaker 9: think so far I've done a good job of that.
Speaker 9: And you know, making sure that I'm able to stay
Speaker 9: in the game long enough to you know, save the
Speaker 9: bullpen a couple of innings as always a positive. And
Speaker 9: I've been really happy with the way, you know, I've
Speaker 9: been executing pitches, especially with the adjustments that I've made
Speaker 9: after coming here. So overall, I feel like I'm in
Speaker 9: a really good spot and I you know, I think
Speaker 9: I'm doing my job well.
Speaker 2: All right. There's Eric Lauer on sports at LA tonight.
Speaker 2: Lower Through ninety five pitches, sixty six of them were strikes.
Speaker 2: The majority were fastballs and cutters cut fastballs, and then
Speaker 2: he worked in his change up seventeen times tonight. So really,
Speaker 2: when I talked to Mark Pryor when the Dodgers acquired Lower,
Speaker 2: he said there wasn't major mechanical adjustments to get Lower
Speaker 2: back on track. What he wanted to do was find
Speaker 2: the right secondary pitches to be able to work off
Speaker 2: Lower's fastball. And Dave Roberts said before today's game he
Speaker 2: would like to see Lower not really work his fastball
Speaker 2: too much on the edges. He wanted to see him
Speaker 2: go back to attacking hitters, and that's what he did tonight.
Speaker 2: And the runs that he gave up outside of one
Speaker 2: home run, I mean, they were basically bleeders finding grass
Speaker 2: out there in Sacramento. So not too many hard hit
Speaker 2: balls off of Eric Lower. Also, I mentioned Taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: was activated before tonight's game. Ryan Ward was optioned back
Speaker 2: to Oklahoma City. Taoscar Hernandez was two for five tonight
Speaker 2: with the run scored. And you know, we talk about
Speaker 2: this a lot, how the game always finds you. Whether
Speaker 2: you're struggling defensively, the ball will be hit to you.
Speaker 2: Whether you're struggling offensively, it feels like you're spot in
Speaker 2: the lineup always seems to come up with runners on
Speaker 2: base and runners in scoring position. In the second inning tonight,
Speaker 2: the game found Taoscar Hernandez is hamstring. Taoscar Hernandez missed
Speaker 2: a month because of a left hamstring strain when he
Speaker 2: was trying to beat out field single at Dodgers Didium
Speaker 2: at the beginning of this month. Well, in the second inning,
Speaker 2: he hit a comebacker off of the starting pitcher gauge
Speaker 2: jump at ricochet to the shortstop who made a great
Speaker 2: play to make it close. So already the first game back,
Speaker 2: ti Oscar Hernandez has to put the hamstring in the
Speaker 2: legs in overdrive because the ball ricocheted perfectly to the
Speaker 2: a shortstop Williams, who made a nice play made a
Speaker 2: nice play a few times tonight. And then Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 2: the next batter, hits a fly ball that you think
Speaker 2: is going to be caught, but it was a sun double.
Speaker 2: So Taascar Hernandez had to go from zero to one
Speaker 2: hundred when the ball dropped in the outfield. So I
Speaker 2: mean go figure right. His first game back, in that
Speaker 2: second inning, he was doing a lot of running, but
Speaker 2: luckily it looked like he came out of it. Okay,
Speaker 2: eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the A's tonight in Sacramento nine to four.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Ontario. Robert, you're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 4: Robert, Damn, what's going on? Man?
Speaker 2: Everything's beautiful when you're the when you're hosting Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: the last ten years, things are pretty good, Roberts.
Speaker 4: That's awesome, man. It's it's this team. I mean, guys
Speaker 4: aren't even back yet and they're slowly starting to run
Speaker 4: away with it. I mean, it's still got a second half, still.
Speaker 2: Got a second half. And you don't want these guys
Speaker 2: to exhale in September because if they keep going the
Speaker 2: way they're going, they're gonna get that first round by again,
Speaker 2: which is good. You don't want to be ambushed by
Speaker 2: some of these better teams in a short three game series,
Speaker 2: but you don't want them to lose their edge going
Speaker 2: down the stretch.
Speaker 4: No, And uh, you know, today's my birthday and today's
Speaker 4: the day of Dave Stewart. Afernando ven Azuela as no
Speaker 4: hitter and it's something to you know. I was a
Speaker 4: part of it.
Speaker 2: You know. Well, how old were you in nineteen dy, Robert,
Speaker 2: if you don't mind me asking, five years old? So
Speaker 2: you don't remember the no hitter, but you've heard about
Speaker 2: it maybe when you were ten. Your dad told you, Hey,
Speaker 2: this happened back in nineteen ninety when you were five.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you sure did, you sure did well.
Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Robert. I'm not going to do the math
Speaker 2: on how old you are now, we'll just leave it there.
Speaker 2: I'm twenty one, all right, Robert, thanks a lot for
Speaker 2: the phone call. Don't go anywhere. You're just gonna hear
Speaker 2: Fernando's voice right now talking about that no hitter that
Speaker 2: day and how it all went down. Okay, so don't
Speaker 2: go anywhere for sure, of course. All right, Robert, thank
Speaker 2: you for the phone call. And yeah that brings us
Speaker 2: to you know, for me, the passing of Fernando hit
Speaker 2: home really hard. I'm not Don Mattingly always used to
Speaker 2: say when some but he dies, I would always be
Speaker 2: smiling and laughing, and I guess that's just my defense mechanism.
Speaker 2: But back back when I'd spent a lot of time
Speaker 2: with Fernando in the press box. You know, I'd be
Speaker 2: eating dinner while he'd be watching his Mexican Baseball league,
Speaker 2: and we'd spend a lot of time together before first pitch,
Speaker 2: and a lot of times when I would ask Fernando
Speaker 2: too many questions about his career, he would joke and say, hey, hey,
Speaker 2: stop asking so many questions. It's in my book. And
Speaker 2: I would say, what book. There is no book. He's oh,
Speaker 2: it's coming out. There was never any book, and there
Speaker 2: was no book ever coming out. He just didn't want
Speaker 2: to talk about himself and his career. You would have
Speaker 2: to allow those things to happen naturally. So back on
Speaker 2: June twenty ninth, twenty eighteen, I asked Fernando if we
Speaker 2: could talk about his no hitter that he threw the
Speaker 2: only no hitter he ever threw in his career back
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety. And here was the conversation from June
Speaker 2: twenty ninth, twenty eighteen, on the anniversary of his no hitter.
Speaker 2: On June twenty ninth, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 5: How you doing, David. Thanks for this chance opportunities to
Speaker 5: say hi to oh you listens. Yeah, So that's that's great.
Speaker 5: You know twenty eight years ago. Well, that's the great
Speaker 5: moment for me in my career. So that's that's good. Great,
Speaker 5: that's good.
Speaker 2: Is it true before the game that you told your
Speaker 2: teammates you saw one no hitter with Dave Stewart, you're
Speaker 2: about to see another one? Or is that legend? Nah?
Speaker 5: Nah, that little comment by that one. But it happens, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it happens. But yeah, I remember we were watching the
Speaker 5: day Sars game and I say something like that, you know,
Speaker 5: I say, well, you guys watching one on TV. Now
Speaker 5: it's gonna be one alive. So that's that's happened.
Speaker 2: But you know that's.
Speaker 5: Like I say, it's it's you know, for the pitchers,
Speaker 5: I think it's another another Uh.
Speaker 2: I don't know, uh, like.
Speaker 5: Maybe one shut up now for me and trove no hitter?
Speaker 5: That was that was one of the best moment and
Speaker 5: and that's happened. But I think for to have no hitter,
Speaker 5: I think you need a good, good defense offense. And
Speaker 5: I think the team they did it. They put so
Speaker 5: good good defense and and let's got run. So that's
Speaker 5: that's make the pictures strong the more comfortable.
Speaker 2: Could you feel in the bullpen, your screwball was better
Speaker 2: than normal?
Speaker 5: Or what what was so special day years ago?
Speaker 10: I don't know, you don't remember that I remember, But
Speaker 10: you know, in my case, when I don't have a
Speaker 10: good control, I think it's going to have a trouble.
Speaker 5: And for me, that's that's that's when when I have
Speaker 5: a good control, and I think that's when I'm going
Speaker 5: to have good games. You know, But that's not my
Speaker 5: my my best, you know, So I had to mix
Speaker 5: it up in the corners and and uh tried to
Speaker 5: cook my arm on top for the school ball. But
Speaker 5: if I have a good control, I'm guarantee you I
Speaker 5: going to have a good game. And uh, and that's
Speaker 5: happened that.
Speaker 2: That not your last batter that you face was your
Speaker 2: old teammate Pedro Guerrero. And when you're facing him with
Speaker 2: one out in the ninth inning, you don't seem like
Speaker 2: a guy that would get nervous. So do you remember
Speaker 2: what you may have been feeling at that moment?
Speaker 5: You know, Just like everybody, I go and try to
Speaker 5: do my best. And when when when that's happened? When
Speaker 5: I think it was was one out men the first
Speaker 5: when Pedro coming up and uh, I know he liked
Speaker 5: to pull everything, and uh, but in that situation, I
Speaker 5: can see it when he tried to get it hit.
Speaker 2: He tried to get a hit.
Speaker 5: He done tried to hit a homer. He tried to
Speaker 5: hit a hit. And I say, that's when when I
Speaker 5: tried to keep the ball in the hands, out with
Speaker 5: my cutter and keeping and Ryan in the hands. And
Speaker 5: then that's when he had that ground ball back to
Speaker 5: the middle and once some other was Ryan the back
Speaker 5: and turned for double play.
Speaker 2: That was the great Fernando Vealezuela, and I miss him terribly.
Speaker 2: We had so many great times together up in the
Speaker 2: press box and certainly one of a kind. And I
Speaker 2: know how much he means to so many of you
Speaker 2: and to this city, and he represents a lot to
Speaker 2: a lot of people. And that was our part of
Speaker 2: the conversation we had for a pregame interview on June
Speaker 2: twenty ninth, twenty eighteen, remembering his no hitter, his one
Speaker 2: and only career no hitter in nineteen ninety against the
Speaker 2: Saint Louis Cardinals, and a couple of things about that
Speaker 2: game that I remember the most. He mentioned it Pedro
Speaker 2: Guerrero was the last hit of that no hitter, who
Speaker 2: grounded into a double play. They had been teammates for
Speaker 2: a long time, going back to when they were both
Speaker 2: first called up. Another thing I remember, and I think
Speaker 2: Fernando is grateful for, And it's not a coincidence that
Speaker 2: Mike's Soshia was his catcher that night for his no hitter.
Speaker 2: Mike Sosha caught more Fernando Vealezuela games than any other
Speaker 2: catcher in Fernando's career, and they had a great brotherhood
Speaker 2: that lasted until Fernando passed away. And he mentioned another
Speaker 2: random Dodger, Juan Samuell, who was playing second base that
Speaker 2: night behind Fernando. The ball was hit right to him.
Speaker 2: He kicked the second base bag, never had a jump,
Speaker 2: never had to do anything, just straddle the second base
Speaker 2: bag and threw to Eddie Murray, who was playing first
Speaker 2: base that night his second year with the Dodgers. So
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed hearing Fernando's voice. That was that
Speaker 2: was really special? All right? Tomorrow the Dodgers Game two
Speaker 2: of this three game series against the A's and Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski, another lefty, will be on the mound. He's
Speaker 2: looking for his tenth win of the year, and I
Speaker 2: know Fernando would appreciate the style of pitching that Robleski has.
Speaker 2: Keeps it moving, isn't afraid to throw strikes, isn't afraid
Speaker 2: to induce contact, goes deep into games, and dictates the
Speaker 2: winner losses himself. Robleski this year is nine to two
Speaker 2: with an ERA of two seventy one, going up against
Speaker 2: Jeff Springs, who is three and seven with an ERA
Speaker 2: of five point fifty two. Our coverage begins at five
Speaker 2: point thirty tomorrow with first pitch at six point forty,
Speaker 2: with Rick Munday and Tim Nevert on the call from Sacramento.
Speaker 2: That'll do it for us tonight, thanks to Dwayne McDonald
Speaker 2: in Sacramento, Thanks to Colin Ye at our Burbank Studios,
Speaker 2: and thanks to you for listening. In case you missed
Speaker 2: any of the show, you know where to find it.
Speaker 2: The iHeartRadio app Our pregame ues today was Alex Freeland,
Speaker 2: whose playing time is gonna go down. Rojas was starting
Speaker 2: tonight at second base. Tom Y Edmond's gonna play second base,
Speaker 2: but Freeland certainly is getting the experience and contributing whenever
Speaker 2: called upon. So Alex was our pregame guest. Tomorrow Eric
Speaker 2: Harris will join us on the pregame show as well.
Speaker 2: All Right, once again. The final score tonight the Dodgers
Speaker 2: defeat the A's nine to four. Have a great rest
Speaker 2: of your night. Ben Maller on Fox Sports Radio is next.
Speaker 2: See ya.