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Speaker 2: Day, the Dodgers return home with a big win over
Speaker 2: Chris Sale and the Atlanta Braves, defeating Atlanta three to
Speaker 2: one and handing Chris Sale a rare loss this season.
Speaker 2: Sale now six and two after the Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Braves three to one. Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase
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Speaker 2: have phone lines. If you're always texting me, dming me, Oh,
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Speaker 2: never can get in. The lines are busy. Well, tonight's
Speaker 2: your night, and tonight's a great night to call in.
Speaker 2: Because after the Dodgers split a six game road trip
Speaker 2: that had some ups and downs. Tonight, coming back and
Speaker 2: facing maybe the best pitcher in the National League not
Speaker 2: wearing a Dodger uniform in Chris Sale, and finding a
Speaker 2: way to get timely hits to beat him. That's that's
Speaker 2: significant and shouldn't be overlooked, even though it is a
Speaker 2: regular season game in May. You want to rise to
Speaker 2: the occasion against teams like this, the Dodgers, the Braves,
Speaker 2: the Cubs, the three best teams in the National League,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers facing the best pitcher this side of
Speaker 2: Otani Yamamoto and the rest of these Dodgers start and
Speaker 2: Chris Sale and they beat him three to one. That's impressive,
Speaker 2: especially considering the ups and downs and the inconsistencies of
Speaker 2: the Dodger offense. To get some timely hits against a
Speaker 2: pitcher like Chris Sale, that's a big deal in a
Speaker 2: lot of different ways. Alex Vesia came in in another
Speaker 2: big spot, riding off the high of being at Downy
Speaker 2: Hunday with us on off day Dodgered Talk yesterday, Vesia
Speaker 2: came in in a huge spot in the game. Emmett
Speaker 2: Shehan was in a little bit of trouble, two outs,
Speaker 2: runners at the corners, and Matt Olsen at the plate,
Speaker 2: who is just crushing right handed pitching. So Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: didn't want to have she And face Olsen a third time.
Speaker 2: Despite him getting him out the first two times. There
Speaker 2: was some hard hit balls against she Hin tonight. He
Speaker 2: hung in there, but that just showed showed you the
Speaker 2: way that Dave Roberts was managing this game. He was
Speaker 2: managing it with urgency and he obviously felt like that
Speaker 2: was the game at that point, and rightfully so. At
Speaker 2: that point it was still a tide game, and you
Speaker 2: have runners at the corners with the guy that's having
Speaker 2: a great year, and especially a guy in Matt Olson,
Speaker 2: a left handed power hitter that is just crushing right
Speaker 2: handed pitching. So he brings in Alex Vesia, his best,
Speaker 2: high leverage left handed reliever, and Vessia got him out,
Speaker 2: got him to pop up to Max Munsey to end
Speaker 2: the inning. So that was huge, uh, And that was
Speaker 2: that was a big That was a big point in
Speaker 2: the game. And from that point on, the Dodger bullpen
Speaker 2: continued to put up zeros against the Braves and match
Speaker 2: Chris Sale. The Braves only used two pitchers because Sale
Speaker 2: went seven innings despite taking the loss. The Dodgers, after
Speaker 2: taking and she Han out for Vessia, went to Kyle Hurt,
Speaker 2: Will Climb Brock Stewart and Tanner Scott. By the way,
Speaker 2: after Vessia got that last out in the fifth inning,
Speaker 2: he did not come back for the sixth inning. Kyle
Speaker 2: Hurt came in and started to get himself in a
Speaker 2: little bit of trouble, but he was able to get
Speaker 2: himself out of trouble by getting a former Giant, mike Yastremski,
Speaker 2: to strike out in the sixth inning with two men
Speaker 2: on and two out to end the inning. That was
Speaker 2: a nine pitch at bat Kyle Hurt versus mike Yastremsky,
Speaker 2: and Hurt was pumped up and that was another opportunity
Speaker 2: by the Braves with runners on base that they were
Speaker 2: not able to cash in. In fact, the Braves left
Speaker 2: ten men on base tonight, they were just one for
Speaker 2: ten with runners in scoring position, while the Dodgers only
Speaker 2: left three men on base. Not a lot of opportunities,
Speaker 2: but when they got them, they advantage of them. Against
Speaker 2: Chris Sale eight six eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Freddie Freeman starting to look like Freddy
Speaker 2: Freeman again, coming off a good road trip where he
Speaker 2: hit three seventy five. He had nine hits on that
Speaker 2: road trip, two of them were doubles. He has not
Speaker 2: a homer since the Dodgers' first road trip in Toronto,
Speaker 2: so he was stuck on ninety nine regular season home
Speaker 2: runs as a Dodger since the first road trip of
Speaker 2: the year. In the sixth inning, he led off and
Speaker 2: hit a ninety seven fastball over the centerfield wall for
Speaker 2: his one hundredth home run as a Dodger in the
Speaker 2: regular season, and he did it off one of the
Speaker 2: toughest left handed pitchers in baseball, in Chris Sale. We
Speaker 2: caught up with Freddy after the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, in I would say in Houston, a lot
Speaker 3: better swing decisions. Yeah, I made a little adjustment.
Speaker 2: With my foot to.
Speaker 3: Kind try and keep my right hippen a little bit more. So,
Speaker 3: you know, obviously results have been much better. Ball's been
Speaker 3: going to left field on the line. Even my misses
Speaker 3: are a lot better. So we are trending in the
Speaker 3: right direction. But this game is very hard, so you
Speaker 3: never know what it could be like. Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: It seemed like you and show A the third time
Speaker 2: around against Sale, you guys were looking to be aggressive
Speaker 2: early in the count.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there's no adjustments you can really make
Speaker 3: against Chris Sale, as to put a simple like, I
Speaker 3: just still Kierson. To put it simple, as a left
Speaker 3: handed hitter, you gotta be willing to die against Chris
Speaker 3: Sale because he's throwing behind you, and so if you're
Speaker 3: pulling out at all, you're gonna you don't really have
Speaker 3: a chance. So you gotta stay in. And if you
Speaker 3: stay in and he throws one up at your you
Speaker 3: know he's thrown behind you. So in your mind, you
Speaker 3: gotta be willing to die, is.
Speaker 2: How I put it.
Speaker 3: So I just kind of that was my course of action.
Speaker 3: He threw an oh strike for a slider, and I
Speaker 3: was like, I can't hit that, so I'm still gonna
Speaker 3: stay on the heater, and luckily he left one out
Speaker 3: over and I was able to get one.
Speaker 2: That was your one hundredth home run as a Dodger,
Speaker 2: did you Yeah, we're even aware of that.
Speaker 3: No, maybe that's why it took so long to hit
Speaker 3: one in the last month.
Speaker 1: No, I did not.
Speaker 3: Obviously I'm not a big stat of home run tracker,
Speaker 3: because I don't hit those as very often as my
Speaker 3: other things. But I'm surprised you usually keep my stats
Speaker 3: from me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There it is one hundredth home run as a Dodger.
Speaker 3: Well, you never told me I had ninety nine, so
Speaker 3: that's your fault. He told me I would have done
Speaker 3: it a lot quicker than waiting a whole month.
Speaker 2: All right, it's on me.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I love you laughing, I love you smiling, Freddy.
Speaker 3: So hopefully we can continue that tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when Freddy Freeman gets hits, he's smiling, he's in
Speaker 2: a good mood, and he's gotten ten hits in his
Speaker 2: last seven games, including a home run off of Chris Sale.
Speaker 2: I've never heard that before, but it makes sense. You
Speaker 2: got to be willing to die against Chris Sale if
Speaker 2: you're a left handed hitter. And obviously Freddy hung in
Speaker 2: there and took his life into his own hands facing
Speaker 2: Chris Sale tonight and not pulling out. Tonight's game brought
Speaker 2: to you by Modello Modello The Mark of a Fight.
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers beat Chris Sale and the
Speaker 2: Braves tonight, three to one. Let's go out to Eddie,
Speaker 2: who is at the ballpark tonight. Hi Eddie, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: What's up DV?
Speaker 6: If I could say a couple of quick things and
Speaker 6: then get to my point, I wanted to say, it
Speaker 6: was great running into Pete Montero before the game. He's
Speaker 6: a great guy. He's been doing his thing with the
Speaker 6: Dodgers for a while now and and we can't be
Speaker 6: more proud of proud of him over here at Pacoyma
Speaker 6: in the Sa Fernando Valley. I also want to say
Speaker 6: a happy Mother's Day to my wife and all the
Speaker 6: mouths out there this Sunday. And then I just wanted
Speaker 6: to say DV real fast. The Dodgers showed up today.
Speaker 6: It was a playoffs in May, but like they do
Speaker 6: every time when a good team comes to town, they
Speaker 6: show up.
Speaker 7: Thanks TV for the.
Speaker 2: Time, all right, Eddie, thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Peta Montero one of the video coordinators and coaches for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and a great eight one eight guy, so
Speaker 2: definitely a valuable member of the Dodgers' staff. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Alex, who is at the ballpark tonight. Hi, Alex,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hey David, good to talk to you man, Thanks for
Speaker 7: taking the call. I just wanted to give a shout
Speaker 7: out to I want to give a shout out to
Speaker 7: Sian for stepping up today. You know, faith in a
Speaker 7: great pitcher like Sale. You know you're gonna have to
Speaker 7: keep the other team down too, and I like did
Speaker 7: a real good job holding them down, getting out of
Speaker 7: trouble a couple of times, and then turn over to
Speaker 7: the bullpen and just came in and then basically did
Speaker 7: the same thing. So great, great, great performance by she
Speaker 7: An once again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I wouldn't say great. I mean that
Speaker 2: word would be for a complete game, shutout, Alex. I
Speaker 2: would say great for that. But he hung in there.
Speaker 2: It was a solid start, eighty eight pitches, uh, and
Speaker 2: you don't even get through five innings. I still feel
Speaker 2: like he's he's trying to get consistent with his fastball,
Speaker 2: with his mechanics. But I'll tell you this, the Dodger
Speaker 2: bullpen is exceeding your expectations. I bet you might not
Speaker 2: want to admit it right here, but come on, Alex,
Speaker 2: come clean.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, absolutely, they've been They've been a lot better
Speaker 7: than than last year. And yeah, you know, he still
Speaker 7: held them just a one run. That's a pretty dynamic
Speaker 7: offense over there. So even even for as little as
Speaker 7: the time he was in there, he kept us in
Speaker 7: the game and gave us a chance. And Bolton came
Speaker 7: in and slammed the door.
Speaker 9: So yeah, at.
Speaker 2: For sure, it took everybody tonight to help the Dodgers
Speaker 2: beat Chris sale in the Braves three to one. And
Speaker 2: it was a great night for Miguel Rojas, who was
Speaker 2: being celebrated tonight with his bobble head uh a replica
Speaker 2: of the swing the follow through swing of his game
Speaker 2: tying home run in Game seven of the World Series.
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas has always played great defense. Tonight he got
Speaker 2: the started shortstop and him Teoscar Hernandez teamed up for
Speaker 2: a huge relay throw in the fourth inning to get
Speaker 2: Michael Harris the second on that Austin rally double the
Speaker 2: left field. So give the Dodger defense a lot of credit.
Speaker 2: Espinal got the started second base tonight. They made a
Speaker 2: couple of nice plays, and the Dodger defense, which is
Speaker 2: a big underrated part of this team again this year,
Speaker 2: is the best tops in every statistical category. And if
Speaker 2: you watch these games, they're making not only the routine plays,
Speaker 2: but they're making even better plays with fundamental defense. And
Speaker 2: certainly tonight was a great example of that. And I
Speaker 2: don't see any other team as consistently as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: when they come to town. When the team's on the road,
Speaker 2: you have Freddy Freeman, you have Rojas, you have Maximuncy.
Speaker 2: When Mookie Beds is healthy, he's out there as well.
Speaker 2: All the infielders are out there taking infield practice at
Speaker 2: least once a series. And then you know, on the
Speaker 2: last homestand the Dodgers had the outfielders throwing to bases.
Speaker 2: You don't see that. I don't see that. And that's
Speaker 2: a big reason why you know, a relay play like
Speaker 2: tonight in the fourth inning looks routine because these guys
Speaker 2: practice it. I don't see too many teams practicing that.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Torrance, Kate. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David vasse Hi. Kate.
Speaker 10: Oh, hey, I just want to give a shout out
Speaker 10: specifically the Kyle Hurt kind of the new guy, but
Speaker 10: he's been great, so and also to give lots of
Speaker 10: good vibes to Snell for tomorrow night on his Bubble Night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be a great night for Blake Snell. He's ready.
Speaker 2: We'll get to him as he is getting ready to
Speaker 2: make his debut. Snell was at that Will Smith comedy
Speaker 2: show last night that Will Smith was hosting, and my
Speaker 2: understanding is that he and Andrew Friedman had a conversation
Speaker 2: at that show and that's when the decision was made, Okay,
Speaker 2: if we need you, let's have you start on Saturday.
Speaker 2: And Snell wanted it. Snell wants it. He convinced Andrew
Speaker 2: Freeman he was ready to go, and instead of pitching
Speaker 2: in Ontario or four Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga, he's going
Speaker 2: to be on the big stage. And he's been very
Speaker 2: eager for this, so he's ready and I think you're
Speaker 2: going to see a good performance from Blake Snell tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: And as far as Kyle Hurt goes, he's now pitched
Speaker 2: ten innings, he's allowed just one earned run. He has
Speaker 2: fourteen strikeouts and one walk, and that's pretty impressive. And
Speaker 2: you know he's been in low leverage situations, but tonight
Speaker 2: he came in in the thick of the game and
Speaker 2: got himself into some trouble, but was able to get
Speaker 2: himself out of that trouble. So love Kyle Hurt. He's
Speaker 2: a great guy and one of the few Trojans that
Speaker 2: I like out there. Let's go out to Eileen who
Speaker 2: is at Dodger Stadium tonight. Hi, Eileen, you're on Dodger.
Speaker 1: Talk my call.
Speaker 11: I just wanted to give a shout out to McGee
Speaker 11: row before the game. He was He stepped out onto
Speaker 11: the field and you could just kind of fill the
Speaker 11: emotion he spent, and he kind of took a moment.
Speaker 11: He almost felt like he was dedicating the game to
Speaker 11: his dad, who had recently passed away at the beginning
Speaker 11: of April.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I'm sure you know Miggy is taking
Speaker 2: in all of this because it may be his last
Speaker 2: season playing Major League baseball, and tonight was a celebration
Speaker 2: of one of the greatest moments of his career, probably
Speaker 2: the greatest moment of his career, and certainly a historic
Speaker 2: home run in Dodger history, in baseball history. And he
Speaker 2: came out twenty minutes before first pitch for stretch. That
Speaker 2: just shows you, Eileen, he was out here to take
Speaker 2: it all in.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it was a beautiful moment and I'm glad he
Speaker 11: had a good game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. It was unfortunate that he
Speaker 2: had to leave the game in the eighth inning because
Speaker 2: he told reporters that he slipped around the home played
Speaker 2: area in his first that bat and that kind of
Speaker 2: tweaked his left hip, and then when he was sliding
Speaker 2: into second base and the fifth inning on the overthrow,
Speaker 2: he kind of felt a dead leg sensation on his
Speaker 2: left side and that was the reason why he came out.
Speaker 2: But all in all, a really good night for Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 2: And he spoke to reporters on Sports net LA after
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful.
Speaker 5: For for this fan base, for the whole community. I
Speaker 5: think they they did something to me that I never
Speaker 5: felt and in my career before. Like we were talking
Speaker 5: about early in the end of the day. Uh, I know,
Speaker 5: I hit the homer in Canada and I could received
Speaker 5: the law from from everybody through social media, to messages
Speaker 5: and videos and all that. But today was really cool
Speaker 5: just for me to go out there and stretch and
Speaker 5: and hear the loud ovation just because of uh, they
Speaker 5: were so happy to see me and kind of like
Speaker 5: celebrate me u on this day. It was pretty cool
Speaker 5: And this one is going to be top three moments
Speaker 5: of my my life in a baseball.
Speaker 1: Game, Christill.
Speaker 10: Obviously not an easy picture to face, but how did
Speaker 10: you just see this team not only just kind of
Speaker 10: make some adjustments but find ways to attack when there
Speaker 10: were errors of mistakes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 5: It was really good to see the whole team kind
Speaker 5: of like luck and in for a really good picture
Speaker 5: that he's been training the world really well for a
Speaker 5: long time and uh being able to to do whatever
Speaker 5: we need to do to win the game. Obviously, the
Speaker 5: Boopen did an amazing job. And I think this team
Speaker 5: is always find a way to kind of like step
Speaker 5: up to the to the moments where we needed the most,
Speaker 5: and that's what we did today. Again, we want we
Speaker 5: won a really good baseball game. Looking forward to win
Speaker 5: this year some more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and hopefully Miguel rowhas And thanks to sports net
Speaker 2: LA for bringing us a portion of his postgame comments.
Speaker 2: You just hope Miguel Rojas and his left hip are
Speaker 2: okay tomorrow. The good news is, you know, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have enough depth to be able to cover it. If
Speaker 2: he needs a day or two off where he doesn't
Speaker 2: need to start, you could have Freelin and Kim, who
Speaker 2: they've been starting as their double play combination quite a
Speaker 2: bit ever since Mookie Bets went on the IL. And
Speaker 2: then speaking of Mooki Bets, Mookie Betts was making his
Speaker 2: first rehab assignment appearance tonight for Oklahoma City. He went
Speaker 2: one for three starting at shortstop, and Keith k Hernandez
Speaker 2: was playing in that game as well. He was zero
Speaker 2: for threes starting at third base, and Dave Roberts joined
Speaker 2: us on Dodger Talk yesterday. He made a surprise phone
Speaker 2: call to Dodger Talk and while he was with us,
Speaker 2: I had a chance to ask him about what the
Speaker 2: plan is for Mookie Bets. We will share that with
Speaker 2: you right around the corner as we're going to take
Speaker 2: our first time out here on Dodger Talk. When we
Speaker 2: come back, you'll hear from Dave Roberts about the plan
Speaker 2: for Mookie Bets and when he may return. Also well,
Speaker 2: check in with Jose Mota. After the Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Braves in Game one of this game series three to
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Speaker 2: Shakes off the catcher. It'll be the first time Freddie
Speaker 2: Swings hits a drive to center field and teeth this.
Speaker 2: Paul heading back at USK got a home run Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman with a solo shot, his fourth of the season,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers lead at three to one. Oh fastball
Speaker 2: left middle middle and Freddie didn't miss it, No, he
Speaker 2: did not. That was leading off the sixth inning. That
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Speaker 2: phone lines open at eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. I mentioned before we first took our
Speaker 2: first time out that Mookie Betts went one for three
Speaker 2: in what is expected to be the first of just
Speaker 2: two games he is going to play at Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: He's expected to play again tomorrow and then well, Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts filled us in yesterday on off day Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: when he made a surprise phone call.
Speaker 8: Absolutely you know if he's gonna go on his rehab assignment.
Speaker 8: So that's exciting for all Dodgers. So he the plan
Speaker 8: is if if it goes well, he'll be back joining
Speaker 8: us on Monday night. So the hope is that we
Speaker 8: get him for three out of those four games against
Speaker 8: the hated Giants.
Speaker 2: All right, So that was Dave Roberts calling in to
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. We had our off day show from the
Speaker 2: downy Hunday showroom. Alex Vesi has stopped by. Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: called in and in case you missed that show, you
Speaker 2: can find it on the iHeartRadio app. So Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: seem to be all smiles by all the videos I
Speaker 2: saw online, so that's a good sign. He's expected to
Speaker 2: play again tomorrow, have a day off on Sunday, return
Speaker 2: to LA And you just heard it right there from
Speaker 2: the Dodger manager that Mookie Betts, if all goes well,
Speaker 2: is going to be back in the Dodgers lineup on
Speaker 2: Monday against the San Francisco Giants. And that's the start
Speaker 2: of a four game series between the Dodgers and Giants
Speaker 2: to close out this seven game homestand Monday night is
Speaker 2: Replica Trophy Night here at Dodgers Stadium. So that would
Speaker 2: be great to get Mookie Bets back because the Dodgers
Speaker 2: certainly need more production from their right handed hitters not
Speaker 2: named Andy pa has certainly Will Smith and Taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: have had a little bit of a slow start to
Speaker 2: the year. So to get Mookie Bets back, that will
Speaker 2: be a huge boost to the Dodger lineup and another
Speaker 2: option in case the Dodgers decide on the days that
Speaker 2: Otani pitches that they may want somebody else leading off,
Speaker 2: especially on the days that O'tani is not in the
Speaker 2: starting lineup. Each of the last two times that's occurred,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers had Dalton rushing DH and lead off and
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts coming back certainly is a great leadoff option,
Speaker 2: considering he's one of the greatest leadoff hitters of the
Speaker 2: last twenty five years, maybe in baseball history when he
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: What a Mota night at Dodgers Stadium. Not only do
Speaker 2: I get to see Jose on a nightly basis, I
Speaker 2: got to see his legendary father and his beautiful wife
Speaker 2: in the house tonight at the press box. So wow,
Speaker 2: I really got a full dose of the Mota family tonight.
Speaker 9: Man, you're pretty international, I heard too makes some Japanese. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 9: you're well known to Japan two day, so I'm so happy.
Speaker 2: I do have to say thank you to you and
Speaker 2: your pops for gifting me an extra. Kenley Jansen Dodgers
Speaker 2: home jersey and that was really special. So I appreciate
Speaker 2: you cleaning out the price closet for me.
Speaker 9: I think there's like two of you that can fid
Speaker 9: in that thing's I could size sixty or something like that.
Speaker 9: Nothing against Kenley, but so he's a big boy.
Speaker 2: He loves seeing a photo of your dad holding up
Speaker 2: that jersey. So even though he's in Detroit, you know
Speaker 2: his heart is all blue.
Speaker 10: Oh yes, always forever.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jose, you got a front row seat to the
Speaker 2: Dodgers on this road trip. What we saw tonight was
Speaker 2: more of what we expect from this offense. To have
Speaker 2: some timely hits and to beat Chris Sale. That is
Speaker 2: a tall order, and the Dodgers did it tonight.
Speaker 9: Disco was pretty unhittable. Every single pitch of the throws
Speaker 9: coming into tonight was being hit under two hundred. You
Speaker 9: don't gotta have a lot of success against them with
Speaker 9: bigger swings. What I like the most is did they
Speaker 9: make nice adjustments when they needed to. We saw the
Speaker 9: battles with Kyle Tucker and the bats. Max Bussey sold
Speaker 9: and that's his pictures of the night. But overall, the
Speaker 9: one thing you have to do to beat good pitching
Speaker 9: his pitch well and emmachion. Even though he did not
Speaker 9: finish the task the way he wanted to, gave the
Speaker 9: team a chance along with a bullpen. And in terms
Speaker 9: of the swings too, Dave. You know, you know going
Speaker 9: through that stretch where you get a little bit dry
Speaker 9: and making, you know, trying to create something, but there's nothing.
Speaker 9: There's very little traffic on the basis and when there raise,
Speaker 9: you take bigger swings to strike out. It all leads
Speaker 9: to what they did tonight. I mean last two days,
Speaker 9: the last two times they faced a guy like Chris Sale,
Speaker 9: which is over a year ago about your stadium, and
Speaker 9: tonight they've done exactly what they need to do is
Speaker 9: capitalize on the smaller moments, take your best swing, make
Speaker 9: the best deficions, and that's why they looked game here tonight.
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman had nine hits on the last road trip,
Speaker 2: but he only had two extra base hits and they
Speaker 2: were both doubles. To see him hint ninety seven off
Speaker 2: Chris Sale over the center field wall. That gives you
Speaker 2: a little bit of hope that you know, Freddy Freeman
Speaker 2: is far from over.
Speaker 9: Oh Freddy is. I mean, he's such a great hitter.
Speaker 9: Makes it just he's very honest with everybody, including you
Speaker 9: the fans, on how he feels, because he wants to
Speaker 9: make sure that the assessment is good and he's not
Speaker 9: fooling himself thinking about I'm getting assisted on fine, No,
Speaker 9: I mean a long run. This was the main of
Speaker 9: Hall of Famer. He wants to make sure that everything
Speaker 9: is lined up correctly. And the one thing that happened
Speaker 9: today too, that you know Freddy's always told me is
Speaker 9: sometimes when he's lost like that and schirtling the baseball,
Speaker 9: a tough lefty is the formula to get him straightened out.
Speaker 9: And you figure, well, tough lefty, well yeah, because he's
Speaker 9: he knows he's got to simplify it against gull like Crsale,
Speaker 9: He's gonna challenge you. And the same time, if you
Speaker 9: spread your wings a little bit too much and spread
Speaker 9: the zone, you're gonna get into a big trouble. I
Speaker 9: think the mentality that he takes the games a guy
Speaker 9: like Chris Sale is the one that you know, what
Speaker 9: if I do less is better because he's gonna provide
Speaker 9: the power with the fastball. We saw ninety eight today.
Speaker 9: He's gonna be around his zone. He's gonna make good pitches.
Speaker 9: But Freddy is is he told you a little toe
Speaker 9: tap or you know, turn the toe a little bit
Speaker 9: more is just enough to get that hit straight out
Speaker 9: and hopefully she'll keep it for a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I know a lot of people are trying to
Speaker 2: compare it to Corey Seger. Corey Seger would turn his
Speaker 2: front foot all the way towards his back foot. That exaggerated.
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman's not doing that. It's just a little bit
Speaker 2: of the toe being pointed backwards or or not parallel
Speaker 2: to the Dodger dugout.
Speaker 9: Whatever it takes. I mean, look at Max Munsey what
Speaker 9: he did in the World Series. Treya Savage phrases him
Speaker 9: again in relief, and he already had that toe turned
Speaker 9: in guardian against everything you're saying closed and they get
Speaker 9: a big holdmun because of things like that. So so guy,
Speaker 9: they've done it for a long time that you find
Speaker 9: little things that they do. They're not afraid of, not
Speaker 9: so much changing but adjusting, and have a certain plates
Speaker 9: of reminders to trigger whatever they need to do to
Speaker 9: have success.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us on Dodger Talk after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Braves and Chris Sale three to one
Speaker 2: tonight at Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium, Jose. It feels
Speaker 2: like we just take it for granted when there are
Speaker 2: no mistakes. And the Dodger defense, I mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 2: No matter what stat you want to look at, the
Speaker 2: Dodger defense is tops in Major League Baseball, and we
Speaker 2: saw a perfect example of that in the fourth inning.
Speaker 2: They cut down another run at the play tonight thanks
Speaker 2: to a great relay from ta Oscar Hernandez to Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas and Will Smith. How big has the defense been
Speaker 2: to them being ten games above five hundred.
Speaker 9: I think it's an overlooked and Dave Robertson I had
Speaker 9: this conversation this past road chap because everything about the offense.
Speaker 9: Now you're pitching starter, yell a molto, etcetera. Ce but
Speaker 9: the defense has to give the pitchers a chance to
Speaker 9: take a breathe and look behind them and say, you
Speaker 9: know what, I'm not striking people out, but I have
Speaker 9: defense behind me. Dave ed Roll really relates to your
Speaker 9: pitch selection. When you're throwing strikes, you make your defense better.
Speaker 9: You stay active, you're not walking people in defense gets
Speaker 9: a little bit better too. And then, as he mentioned,
Speaker 9: with the coaches, they put their work in everything to
Speaker 9: make sure that the minimum instrumentals is being respected and applied,
Speaker 9: from throwing to the basis, from getting out their early
Speaker 9: into snow like all Rojas and we saw you know,
Speaker 9: Freddie Freeman and Denver in all manners. And a lot
Speaker 9: of times when you know fans get to the stadium,
Speaker 9: they're like, what are these drills are doing? Look like
Speaker 9: they're like Little League drills. Well they are, but they're not.
Speaker 9: It's all about repetitions that memory your back to say
Speaker 9: I can do this. I have to know what I
Speaker 9: have to do with my love needs to be more
Speaker 9: arm used to be and being able to just anticipate places.
Speaker 9: And they do very much top positioning. But also you
Speaker 9: have good athletes. They know how to execute and they
Speaker 9: know how to do the basic which is play catch
Speaker 9: as they did tonight.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in tonight.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow will be a huge Saturday snail Zilla Saturday, as
Speaker 2: Blake's now will make his season debut tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Looking forward to that, he needs to come and stay
Speaker 9: and go out there and show everybody why he is here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. It'll be a great match up. Not
Speaker 2: an easy task to go up against this Braves lineup
Speaker 2: in your first start, but he's certainly ready for it
Speaker 2: and look forward to seeing how it turns out. Thanks
Speaker 2: a lot for checking in.
Speaker 9: Send me a picture of a pajama today.
Speaker 2: Okay, he sounds good. Thanks Thanksjse. There he goes Jose Mota,
Speaker 2: part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. Not sure about
Speaker 2: the pajamas, but I'm not doing that. I don't know
Speaker 2: what he meant anyway, but appreciate Jose and his pops
Speaker 2: kicking me down one of those seventy four jerseys they had.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that eight six six seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Alex Vessi gets the winning relief
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott the save, his third of the season for
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas. Like I mentioned, I want to hear from
Speaker 2: him uh after the game, because he did come out
Speaker 2: with a left hip issue. Let's head downstairs again. We
Speaker 2: were able to clip it, uh to hear what Miguel
Speaker 2: had to say about how much that left hip is
Speaker 2: bothering him in.
Speaker 5: The first sitting when I when I hit the ball,
Speaker 5: I kind of sleep a little bit off the of
Speaker 5: the box and I felt a little something on my
Speaker 5: leg and then when I got hit a second base
Speaker 5: on the doll play ball kind of have like a
Speaker 5: dead a dead legs and sensions. So anyways, Dog told
Speaker 5: me that I was going to get one more back
Speaker 5: against Sale and I was going to get out of
Speaker 5: the game to get some prink and I should be
Speaker 5: fine for the rest of the week.
Speaker 2: All right, Great to hear that. Great to hear that
Speaker 2: he'll be okay. So appreciate that. As the Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: the Braves three to one, eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: will have Blake Snell on the mound tomorrow, which is
Speaker 2: a good thing because he's a two time cy Young
Speaker 2: Award winner. He's a difference maker. And all this talk
Speaker 2: about who's the odd man out when Blake Snell returns,
Speaker 2: is it Shehn, is it Robleski? Is it Rokie? Well
Speaker 2: that's a moot conversation at this point. Can considering Glass
Speaker 2: now is on the il and he's gonna be on
Speaker 2: it for fifteen days. Blake Snell returns tomorrow, so status
Speaker 2: quo here, and it looks like Roki Sasaki has been
Speaker 2: bumped to Monday against the Giants. So in a lot
Speaker 2: of ways, Blake Snell's willingness to come back and pitch
Speaker 2: against the Braves helps the Dodgers out. It's a better
Speaker 2: matchup for Snell to go up against the Braves than
Speaker 2: it would be for Roki Sasaki to go up against
Speaker 2: the Braves, an easier matchup for Roki on Monday against
Speaker 2: the Giants. So Snell's having an effect on two games
Speaker 2: by him being willing to, you know, forego his last
Speaker 2: rehab start to be able to pitch in the big
Speaker 2: leagues and make his season debut tomorrow. So that's a
Speaker 2: good thing. Eight six six seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Braves three to one.
Speaker 2: By the way, tomorrow night is Blake Snell Bobblehead night.
Speaker 2: Nobody planned it that way, but that's the way it's
Speaker 2: lined up. As the Dodgers had an make a decision
Speaker 2: knowing that there was a very good chance they were
Speaker 2: going to have to do what they did and place
Speaker 2: Glass now on the il that means Blake Snell. His
Speaker 2: willingness to want to come back just shows you how
Speaker 2: much he wants to pitch this season and not look
Speaker 2: back after starting the season a little delayed. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Brentwood Sherwin. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Sherwin.
Speaker 4: I'm doing well in yourself, mister Vassay, tremendous. I'm glad
Speaker 4: to hear it. Two things. One you're gonna like, one
Speaker 4: you may not like. But I'm gonna throw it up
Speaker 4: at you. I thought the adulation you gave to Freddie
Speaker 4: Freeman tonight was terrific. I've been around for a cup
Speaker 4: of tea a few times in my lifetime. He's one
Speaker 4: of the best hitters I've ever seen, and I've been
Speaker 4: going back to with baseball probably fifty sixty years, and
Speaker 4: I think he is close to the top of one
Speaker 4: of the best hitters that I've ever seen, Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 4: So I was very glad you threw him a lot
Speaker 4: of flowers tonight. I was not happy that you ripped
Speaker 4: him apart when he first joined the Dodgers, and he
Speaker 4: was very emotional and he let it all out with tears.
Speaker 4: And so forth, and you were very cruel to him
Speaker 4: at the time. And I won't forget that last thing.
Speaker 4: I've got to say.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know, I okay, okay, what else you got?
Speaker 9: Sure?
Speaker 2: Well, but man, you're a longtime listener. You're going all
Speaker 2: the way back to his first year with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Old in a minute, your your buddy, Brad Paisley. You're
Speaker 4: aware of what NBC did for him tonight.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not. I was at the game.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, I figured as much. NBC gave about a
Speaker 4: four or five minute deal at the end of their
Speaker 4: newscast tonight, and it was about a great American. They're
Speaker 4: taking an American from now until the July fourth holiday,
Speaker 4: and they're celebrating the great Americans, so forth and so on.
Speaker 4: Tonight it was Brad Paisley, and it was really touching.
Speaker 4: And I was thinking about you when they showed that
Speaker 4: thing tonight. So I don't know how you would get
Speaker 4: a hold of that video, but try to get it.
Speaker 4: But he was beautiful tonight, Brad Paisley. So that's all
Speaker 4: I want to say. Goodnight, mister Vesay, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Sherwin Man you were a oil listener. You know
Speaker 2: about Brad Paisley. You've been listening since Freddie Freeman first
Speaker 2: came from the Dodgers and the Braves. I remember that.
Speaker 2: It was a tearful press conference return to Atlanta. I
Speaker 2: remember that. But yeah, obviously Freddie Freeman now is entrenched
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers. And I would venture to say, if
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman, if his career ended tomorrow, and if there
Speaker 2: was a world where he would be inducted into the
Speaker 2: Baseball Hall of Fame the day after, what team would
Speaker 2: he pick to have on his hat? Would it be
Speaker 2: the Braves or would it be the Dodgers. If you
Speaker 2: would have told me the year that he left the
Speaker 2: Braves and came to the Dodgers, I would say it's
Speaker 2: Atlanta Slamdunk. But now I would say it would be
Speaker 2: either no logo on his cap, on his plaque in Cooperstown,
Speaker 2: or I would say, you know what, the Dodgers may
Speaker 2: have more of a chance than you would have thought,
Speaker 2: because his two signature moments of his career are in
Speaker 2: a Dodger uniform on the biggest stage and winning back
Speaker 2: to back championships. So I would say right now, because
Speaker 2: of how much you know Atlanta and the Braves meant
Speaker 2: to him, and obviously how much the Dodgers mean to
Speaker 2: him now and the moments he's had here. I would say,
Speaker 2: when Freddie Freeman goes into Cooperstown, he won't have a
Speaker 2: logo on his hat. I think Greg Maddox also did
Speaker 2: not have a logo on his hat, so I feel
Speaker 2: like Freddie Freeman would be in that category as well.
Speaker 2: All Right, that'll do it for us. On Dodger Talk tonight,
Speaker 2: Blake Snell is on the mound tomorrow. The two time
Speaker 2: Cy Young Award winner is making his first start of
Speaker 2: the year. I would expect him to go at least
Speaker 2: five innings tomorrow, going up against Spencer Stryder, who's making
Speaker 2: only his second start of the year. Strider was on
Speaker 2: the il with an oblique strain in his first start
Speaker 2: five days ago. He went three and a third gave
Speaker 2: up three earned runs. So Blake Snell making his first
Speaker 2: start of the year, going up against Spencer Strider, who's
Speaker 2: making just his second start of the year on stage
Speaker 2: at Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium tomorrow night. Our coverage
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