Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
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Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
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Speaker 1: Back to get it on the show called eight six
Speaker 1: six nine eighty seven two five seven, and be sure
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Speaker 1: your host, David Vasse.
Speaker 2: Last Day, Welcome the Dodger Talk. On this beautiful Mother's
Speaker 2: Day afternoon. The Dodgers fall to the Braves today by
Speaker 2: a final score of seven to two. We have two
Speaker 2: phone lines open at eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. After the Dodgers beat Chris Sale in
Speaker 2: the first game of this series, they lose the next
Speaker 2: two games by the identical score of seven to two,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers lose a series at home to the
Speaker 2: Braves for the first time since twenty twenty three, when
Speaker 2: the Braves took three out of four here at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: So the Dodger offense only mustered two hits. That's a
Speaker 2: season low, and last year they only mustered two hits
Speaker 2: in two games. So, look, this doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you thought when I came on here,
Speaker 2: I would basically be so upset. I would say the
Speaker 2: sky's falling. The Dodger offense needs to be shaken up,
Speaker 2: things need to change. That is not really true. What
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you is is the Dodger offense has
Speaker 2: not been very good or consistent for the last three weeks.
Speaker 2: They've gotten great starting pitching, their bullpen has been really good,
Speaker 2: even with the absence of Edwin Diaz, but their offense,
Speaker 2: not for a stretch of ten games, not for a
Speaker 2: stretch of a week. But I would venture to say
Speaker 2: for the last three weeks, the Dodger offense, outside of
Speaker 2: maybe three or four games where they put up crooked numbers,
Speaker 2: has not been very good, very consistent. Quality of at
Speaker 2: bats have not been great for the last three weeks.
Speaker 2: And with all that being said, the Dodgers are twenty
Speaker 2: four and sixteen, tied for first place in the National
Speaker 2: League West. And that's the Dodgers not even hitting on
Speaker 2: all cylinders offensively. That's the Dodgers with Kyle Tucker having
Speaker 2: having done virtually nothing so far for the Dodgers. His
Speaker 2: OPS is seven thirty six. He walked three times today,
Speaker 2: but he really hasn't been a major factor outside of,
Speaker 2: you know, a handful of games. Shoe a Otani's hitting
Speaker 2: two forty one as a hitter this year with an
Speaker 2: OPS of seven ninety two. Shoe Otani has one home
Speaker 2: run in his last one hundred and two plate appearances,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers are twenty four and sixteen, tied for
Speaker 2: first place in the National League West. While the Padres
Speaker 2: had a walk off win today against the Cardinals, it
Speaker 2: seems like the Cardinals, excuse me, the Padres are playing
Speaker 2: their best baseball and they really haven't blown away the
Speaker 2: Dodgers the last three weeks. And we'll get our first
Speaker 2: look at the Padres coming up a week from tomorrow
Speaker 2: in San Diego, so we'll see how that head ahead
Speaker 2: matchup goes. But outside of Max Munsey and Andy Pajz,
Speaker 2: this Dodger offense has not really done much of anything.
Speaker 2: Those two guys have been the two best players the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have had this year, pa haz and Moncie both
Speaker 2: defensively and offensively. You can't say that about any other Dodger,
Speaker 2: even Otani, who's been out of this world as a pitcher.
Speaker 2: He's been very human as a hitter. Zero for four
Speaker 2: today with a strikeout, and the Dodgers got a really
Speaker 2: good pitching performance from Justin Robleski in this respect, considering
Speaker 2: Tyler Glassnell only pitched one inning in Houston just four
Speaker 2: games ago, four or five games ago, and Blake Snell
Speaker 2: only went three innings yesterday. For Justin Robleski to be
Speaker 2: as efficient as he was today and to go out
Speaker 2: there and eat eight and two thirds innings, I know
Speaker 2: he was charged with seven earned runs. He gave up
Speaker 2: solo home runs in the eighth and ninth inning, but
Speaker 2: outside of that it was five earned runs and four
Speaker 2: of them were given up in second inning that I
Speaker 2: know he wants back. And what's ironic is the Dodgers
Speaker 2: lose last night seven to two, they lose today seven
Speaker 2: to two, and it was the second inning last night,
Speaker 2: with the bases loaded in two outs that got Blake
Speaker 2: Snell and the Braves scored four runs in the second
Speaker 2: inning last night again today, four runs th to Mauricio
Speaker 2: Dubond's basses clearing double off of Robleski. After that, Robleski
Speaker 2: retired sixteen in a row until the eighth inning, and
Speaker 2: then you had Eli White making the catch of his
Speaker 2: life in right field with two outs and the bases loaded,
Speaker 2: and Max Munsey's sending a rocket there he face plants
Speaker 2: right into the wall and holds onto the baseball, and
Speaker 2: the innings over, the threats over, and the momentum's over.
Speaker 2: So the Braves made the plays today, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: offense just was not able to get anything going outside
Speaker 2: of that sixth inning. And you know, the eighth inning
Speaker 2: months he hits a two run home run with two outs,
Speaker 2: So outside of that, not much of anything. Today's game
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Speaker 2: All right, I want to give Justin Robleski some love
Speaker 2: that he's due. I know he gave up seven earned runs,
Speaker 2: but nonetheless still win eight and two thirds innings to
Speaker 2: save a bullpen that had been used quite a bit.
Speaker 2: And Robleski is the you know, came close to throwing
Speaker 2: a complete game and giving up seven earned runs. The
Speaker 2: last time that happened a Dodger pitcher pitching a complete game,
Speaker 2: nine inning game and giving up seven earned runs was
Speaker 2: Fernando Vevenezuela back in nineteen eighty six when he gave
Speaker 2: up eight earned runs in a complete game in Montreal.
Speaker 2: So this game had a lot of things that you
Speaker 2: don't see a lot of, and today we saw that
Speaker 2: it was a throwback game to see Robleski go as
Speaker 2: deep as he went despite losing five to nothing going
Speaker 2: into the eighth inning. Let's head downstairs right now to
Speaker 2: the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from Robleski on Sports at LA.
Speaker 3: I just didn't turn double play. I mean that's symbols.
Speaker 3: If I turned double player, say eight and two thirds,
Speaker 3: two or three runs, and you know this isn't about outing.
Speaker 3: So I didn't turn double play and came playing. Nothing
Speaker 3: really changed. It's just I didn't turn double play.
Speaker 1: What try can you take this? Being able to go
Speaker 1: into the ninth inning and be that guy that this
Speaker 1: needed today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's great. It's great to get to
Speaker 3: the ninth inning. It's great to have a chance. And
Speaker 3: then obviously, you know, one gets away from me there
Speaker 3: and I don't end up getting to finish it, which sucks.
Speaker 3: But you know, overall, it's okay. It's frustrating, you know,
Speaker 3: to give up runs like that. But the other day,
Speaker 3: I mean, back to the back to work this week
Speaker 3: and have a good one next week, and then it's
Speaker 3: all good. Center rush the double playball. What's happens that
Speaker 3: I was going up the mound. So when you're going
Speaker 3: up to the mound like that, you got to really stay.
Speaker 4: On top of it.
Speaker 3: And I just just went up high on me.
Speaker 5: Yes, Han a second, and you went through four thinnings
Speaker 5: of retiring each fatter that you faced.
Speaker 6: When you're looking at this brave sign up that does
Speaker 6: actually chase a lot, doesn't have a lot of swing
Speaker 6: and miss, how did you combat back to get the
Speaker 6: seven strack outs today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we did a good job and rushed
Speaker 3: at a good job calling the game, and I think
Speaker 3: we did a good job just moving it, moving around,
Speaker 3: keeping them off balance and making good pitches, which I
Speaker 3: thought I did for the most part today.
Speaker 4: So does that play double playball kind of not you the.
Speaker 3: Rest of the day when I mean, it's just it's
Speaker 3: just you know, I for me, it was one half
Speaker 3: inning of being like pissed off about it, and then
Speaker 3: you gotta keep going back out there and doing your things.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's frustrating. You know it's annoying because now
Speaker 3: I look back at it and yeah, that's what cost me,
Speaker 3: you know, from being a good outing. But if that's
Speaker 3: what costs me from a good outing, I think that
Speaker 3: when gets popped.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Justin Robleski, great point by him, with
Speaker 2: Sean Murphy a comebacker to him. He tried to get
Speaker 2: a double play. Starting at second base. He threw high
Speaker 2: to Alex Freeland, who was very fortunate to get Eli
Speaker 2: White at second base for just one out there, and
Speaker 2: then Marisio Dubon two batters later, breaks the game open
Speaker 2: with a three run double and the Braves had a
Speaker 2: four run second inning. And he's right. He described it perfectly.
Speaker 2: When you look at the replay, he was standing right
Speaker 2: next to the pitching rubber and as he is throwing
Speaker 2: on a linear path, it's going into center field if
Speaker 2: not for a great leaping stop by Freeland and barely
Speaker 2: getting his foot down on the second base bag. If
Speaker 2: he's able to make a clean throw there, yeah, the
Speaker 2: inning's much different than what it turned out to be.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to the phones for
Speaker 2: the first time today. Westlake Village. David, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Lead us off, DV, thanks a lot for taking my call.
Speaker 4: First call.
Speaker 7: This season for me could be my spring training a
Speaker 7: little bit, but I'll do my best. First off, a
Speaker 7: happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. Unfortunately,
Speaker 7: my wife's mother's Day was a little spoiled by the
Speaker 7: Dodgers losing for her, so still upset about that. But
Speaker 7: that's okay. We're going to rally. Here's the deal. In
Speaker 7: my opinion, sho Heosani is the head of the snake.
Speaker 7: When he hits, everyone follows, and he's not hitting right now.
Speaker 7: So my hot take is, DV, is that I want
Speaker 7: to see show Heyo Tani hit more and pitch less.
Speaker 7: In twenty twenty four, he didn't pitch at all and
Speaker 7: we won the championship. In twenty twenty five, he pitched
Speaker 7: twenty and a third innings of regular season baseball and
Speaker 7: we won the championship. To me, Otani needs to pitch
Speaker 7: maybe three times a month and.
Speaker 4: Let the baseball experts figure out.
Speaker 7: What when that happens. Is the off one week and
Speaker 7: on one week, or is he off two weeks and on?
Speaker 7: It's up to them, But to me, this guy needs
Speaker 7: to get going, and I'm so sick of the narrative
Speaker 7: of him wanting to win a Cy Young Award.
Speaker 4: It's like true Dodger fans do not care about individual awards.
Speaker 7: We care about rings La is a city of winning championships,
Speaker 7: and so I would focus on Otani hitting more and
Speaker 7: pitching less. I'd love to hear your take on it.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, it's not going to happen. He's going to
Speaker 2: continue to pitch, and the inconsistency of having your most
Speaker 2: valuable player in not only the team but the sport
Speaker 2: one week on three weeks off of pitching would be
Speaker 2: more inducive to an injury. But I will say this,
Speaker 2: and I want you to hear this because I had
Speaker 2: this ready. I wanted to share with you what no
Speaker 2: mar Garciapara told us before the game yesterday when it
Speaker 2: came to Otani and the easy take that the pitching
Speaker 2: is taken away from the hitting. Look, there's no doubt
Speaker 2: we haven't seen Otani slump like this for this long
Speaker 2: as a Dodger. In his last fifteen games as the
Speaker 2: leadoff hitter, he's hitting one ninety six. He's slugging three
Speaker 2: h four. He has one home run in his last
Speaker 2: one hundred and two plate appearances. I'll say that again,
Speaker 2: Otani one home run in his last one hundred and
Speaker 2: two plate appearances. He hasn't homerd since he hit one
Speaker 2: against the Cubs two weeks ago. But I asked no
Speaker 2: mar Garciapara, who not only was one of the greatest
Speaker 2: hitters this game has ever seen, two time batting champion,
Speaker 2: but also on next level thinker evaluator when it comes
Speaker 2: to diagnosing hitters and other offenses. So here's what Nomar
Speaker 2: had to say to what David is claiming that the
Speaker 2: pitching is taken away from the hitting.
Speaker 6: I think it's that's the easy thing to say.
Speaker 2: He's is he in a corner?
Speaker 6: It's And I think it's just unfair to say that,
Speaker 6: because really to say, oh, well, he's struggling. This is
Speaker 6: why hitting is hard is extremely hard. Everybody goes through slumps.
Speaker 6: Everybody goes through struggles, whether you're just a DH and
Speaker 6: all you are is focusing on hitting, or whether you're
Speaker 6: playing defense, or whether you're like, it's hard. So I'm
Speaker 6: not going to say his pitching is affecting his hitting.
Speaker 6: That is way too easy, and that's assuming so much.
Speaker 6: When I watch show, Hey, I just think his mechanics
Speaker 6: are off. I think right now he's where the times
Speaker 6: that we've seen in the past, since he's been in
Speaker 6: the Dodger uniform, he went through slumps even when he
Speaker 6: wasn't pitching, when all he did was the age when
Speaker 6: that fifty to fifty season that was unbelievable. He went
Speaker 6: through a slump. He went through stretches where he was
Speaker 6: pulling off the ball. He went through stretches where he
Speaker 6: was rolling over. He went through stretches where it looked
Speaker 6: like he was chasing out of the zone. He went
Speaker 6: through all of those stretches. We're seeing that right now.
Speaker 6: And to me, when I look at his swing, his
Speaker 6: bat path and some of the mechanics, I think the
Speaker 6: same thing back then that got him that he struggled
Speaker 6: with is happening right now. I just think we're seeing
Speaker 6: that more where the front side, his front hip and
Speaker 6: his front shoulders are bailing out together at the same time,
Speaker 6: and that pulls off the ball. Rather than your front
Speaker 6: ear your hip can open up, but his top upper
Speaker 6: half would stay closed longer and he stays on the
Speaker 6: ball longer. When he does that, he stays on more pitches,
Speaker 6: he sees pitches longer, and he drives the ball, especially
Speaker 6: the other way. Right now, he's just not doing that.
Speaker 6: I've seen him do that in the past where he struggles.
Speaker 6: So I don't want to say it's pitching by any means,
Speaker 6: and I can't say that it's unfair, but I think
Speaker 6: he'll get back on track.
Speaker 2: All right. There's no Mark Garcia Parr, responding to a
Speaker 2: David in Westlake Village, was claiming, what so many go
Speaker 2: out there and say, Ah, the pitching's taken away from
Speaker 2: the offense. You know what, maybe taken away from the offense.
Speaker 2: He's thinking too much and doesn't have the preparation time
Speaker 2: to be able to focus on some of the cues
Speaker 2: or have somebody to just simplify it for him. You know.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is maybe tap him on
Speaker 2: the shoulder and say something like, hey, keep your hands up.
Speaker 2: Maybe that'll trigger something. But his butt is into the
Speaker 2: visitor's dugout almost every swing. That's the visual Nomar was
Speaker 2: trying to paint for you. And that was the case today,
Speaker 2: outside of his third at bat, where he drove a
Speaker 2: ball to the center field track. But somebody has got
Speaker 2: to get to him where they can simplify things so
Speaker 2: he's not thinking so much, and maybe have some of
Speaker 2: those cues that a hitter needs to simplify things, because
Speaker 2: you can't be thinking about five or six different things
Speaker 2: when you're in the batter's box as far as mechanics go.
Speaker 2: And who knows, maybe Otani listening to Dodger Talk right
Speaker 2: now taps into Nomar. I mean, I've heard of Otani
Speaker 2: talking to former players and you know, talking the game
Speaker 2: because he respects them. Maybe no Mar is that guy.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five. Seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number Dodgers fall to the braves today, seventy two.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Manny in downtown. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Manny?
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 7: DV?
Speaker 5: Happy Mother's eight to all the moms listening and all
Speaker 5: the moms out there. I was fortunate to be still
Speaker 5: having my mom here with us, so God bless great.
Speaker 5: I want to shout out Max, Thank you, David. I
Speaker 5: want to shout out Max Munsey. You know he's been
Speaker 5: showing up this year. He's been scoring. I feel like
Speaker 5: the home runny hit after the great catch by the
Speaker 5: outfielder today was kind of like something like, he's going
Speaker 5: to get his runs no matter what it takes. So
Speaker 5: he got that home run and eventually put us on
Speaker 5: the board. I want to tip my cap out to Robleski.
Speaker 5: There was a I don't think this has been mentioned,
Speaker 5: but he had like a fourteen hitter like streaklist getting
Speaker 5: them on bass, so our reaching bass. So he shut
Speaker 5: people down after that bad second inning. And yet yeah, that.
Speaker 2: Was sixteen in a row. We mentioned it at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the show and it was accurate. Manny.
Speaker 5: Aha, my fault. That's that I'm guilty of tuning in late.
Speaker 2: Today forty five minutes. What were you doing.
Speaker 5: I was eating my lunch.
Speaker 4: I'm getting ready for work.
Speaker 2: See, I got the receipts on you, Manny, and I'm
Speaker 2: gon got the receipts on the Dodgers. I got the
Speaker 2: receipts on you, Manny in downtown.
Speaker 5: You got it. You got me. Don't panic on Otani, guys.
Speaker 5: This is not the time nor the place to start
Speaker 5: doing this now. And I'm definitely not buying the whole
Speaker 5: theory about pitchings like messing them up everyone goes through slumps.
Speaker 5: We're about to get Mookie Bets back, We're about to
Speaker 5: play the Giants. What better timing to get right than
Speaker 5: starting tomorrow, So Dodger fans take a deep breath. Six
Speaker 5: months left, guys, Thanks TV.
Speaker 2: All right, Manny, thank you. And look, I don't think
Speaker 2: it's a crazy idea to have Mooki Bets lead off eventually,
Speaker 2: but it's a lot to ask Mookie Bets, who hasn't
Speaker 2: played in almost a month, to come back and jump
Speaker 2: start an offense that has been sluggish the last three
Speaker 2: weeks and have him hit leadoff. That's a lot to
Speaker 2: ask for a guy that only had five weeks five
Speaker 2: hits in the first couple of weeks of the season.
Speaker 2: So I like Dave Roberts resisting that right now. But
Speaker 2: who knows. Otani's scheduled to pitch on Wednesday. I believe
Speaker 2: he'll hit that night, but you know, let's see how
Speaker 2: things go and how Mookie Bets eases into things. It's
Speaker 2: not like he's gonna play every day right away. He's
Speaker 2: gonna play tomorrow and Tuesday, get Wednesday off and then
Speaker 2: you know, get into a regular rhythm. If he's the
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets from a couple of years ago offensively, and
Speaker 2: Otani continues to struggle. I see no reason why not
Speaker 2: to consider seriously having Mookie Bets be the leadoff hitter
Speaker 2: because he was the best leadoff hitter in baseball from
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers need Mooki Bets back and Mookie Bets back
Speaker 2: as the guy we saw his entire career is the
Speaker 2: Dodger right handed hitters outside of Andy Pajz haven't done
Speaker 2: much of anything, and that's the reason why Alex Call
Speaker 2: or one of the reasons why Alex Call got the
Speaker 2: start and left field today. Teoscar Hernandez has been scuffling mightily.
Speaker 2: He has no home runs against lefties, and that's a
Speaker 2: big reason why the Dodgers signed him before twenty four.
Speaker 2: He wasn't very good against lefties either last year until
Speaker 2: his big home run against Christopher Sanchez in the NLDS
Speaker 2: game one, but during the regular season he wasn't very
Speaker 2: good against lefties and he's been in a slump too,
Speaker 2: and Will Smith doesn't have a home run against the lefties.
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers need Mookie Betts back because there are
Speaker 2: other two big time right handed hitters outside of Paiaz
Speaker 2: haven't really been doing much of anything offensively, and before
Speaker 2: the game, Dave Roberts explained his decision to have Alex
Speaker 2: call start in left field instead of ta Oscar Hernandez today.
Speaker 8: I do see certainly the timing is off. I think
Speaker 8: one thing is that you know, he hasn't you know,
Speaker 8: hit lefties like you know he has in the past.
Speaker 8: That's one thing.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 8: He's certainly, you know, missing pitches that he should hit.
Speaker 8: You know, he's fouling them off, whether they're spin or fastballs.
Speaker 8: I think he's passive, a little too passive at times,
Speaker 8: you know, getting behind a lot early and it's hard
Speaker 8: to hit oh one. So I think that the mechanical piece,
Speaker 8: the approach piece, you know, there's there's some things that
Speaker 8: I know he's trying to you know, figure out. I
Speaker 8: think that also it just gives him a chance to,
Speaker 8: you know, work some things out. But and also you
Speaker 8: know Alex has earned more playing time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense to me. I thought the Dodgers
Speaker 2: sitting ta Oscar today was the right move because it's
Speaker 2: a night game after a day game. Ta Oscar has
Speaker 2: looked sluggish at times this year, and you got to
Speaker 2: keep him fresh. You got to keep Freddie Freeman fresh,
Speaker 2: You got to keep Will Smith fresh. And Max Munsey
Speaker 2: looks fresh, but he's thirty five years old. You want
Speaker 2: him to be fresh at the end of the year.
Speaker 2: And just to point out the numbers, I mean, as
Speaker 2: Rick Monday likes to say, the numbers are with the
Speaker 2: numbers are ta Oscar Hernandez in thirty at bats against
Speaker 2: left handed pitching this year, does not have a home
Speaker 2: run and he's only slugging three hundred and his banning
Speaker 2: average is two thirty three, while Alex call against lefties
Speaker 2: in limited action is six for twelve against lefties. Dodgers
Speaker 2: fall to a ridy today and Bryce Elder eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy seven to two
Speaker 2: the final score. When we continue on Dodger Talk, we'll
Speaker 2: take more of your phone calls and also we'll check
Speaker 2: in with Jose Mota as we take you to the
Speaker 2: top of the hour after the Braves win their first
Speaker 2: series in LA in three years, beating the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: the last two games by an identical score of seven
Speaker 2: to two on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 2: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassan. Here's the pitch.
Speaker 2: Two months eason, Range hits a drive deep right field. Hey,
Speaker 2: packet cost it is gone's two run homer for Max
Speaker 2: Mounsey and it's five to two. Well, he didn't wait
Speaker 2: a round. He's got a slider right over the middle
Speaker 2: of the play. He crushed it for his tenth home
Speaker 2: run of the season. Kyle Tucker with a two out
Speaker 2: walk set up that two run home run by Max
Speaker 2: Munsey in the eighth inning. But the Dodgers go down
Speaker 2: quietly seven to two, as they mustered only two hits today.
Speaker 2: That's a season low for them and the Dodgers scoring
Speaker 2: two runs. That's been a trend they have to change.
Speaker 2: They've scored two or less runs in seven of their
Speaker 2: last eleven games. Today, the final score seven to two
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Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. All right, the Dodgers need to
Speaker 2: close the book on today and on this series and
Speaker 2: focus on the fact that they have now seven games
Speaker 2: in a row against two of the worst teams in baseball.
Speaker 2: They're going to be facing the Happaliss College coach Giants
Speaker 2: starting tomorrow night, a four game series against the Giants,
Speaker 2: no joke them and the Mets have the worst record
Speaker 2: in the National League. And right now the Giants are
Speaker 2: tied with the Pirates at six. In the bottom of
Speaker 2: the eleventh inning, they have bases loaded and one out.
Speaker 2: We'll see whether or not they pull it off, but
Speaker 2: either way, the Dodgers at the very least should take
Speaker 2: three out of four from the Giants. They got Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki on the mount tomorrow. They're gonna have Yamamoto, Otani
Speaker 2: and Emitshian pitching the next three games against the Giants.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are going to be facing a Giants team
Speaker 2: without Logan Web pitching in this series because he was
Speaker 2: placed on the il yesterday. There's no reason to believe
Speaker 2: the Dodgers shouldn't win at least three out of four,
Speaker 2: and I would venture to say a sweep would be
Speaker 2: very realistic. And then from there three games in Anaheim
Speaker 2: against the Angels, who do have the worst record in baseball.
Speaker 2: They do have the worst record in baseball. They are awful.
Speaker 2: I mean, there is no ways around it. They are
Speaker 2: really bad, and it just seems like everything they do
Speaker 2: doesn't work, and everybody's very upset about it, from Main
Speaker 2: Street to you know, Kotela Avenue out there in Anaheim.
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers should sweep the Angels. They should sweep them.
Speaker 2: But I'll take two out of three. So you know,
Speaker 2: winning five of the next seven would help going into
Speaker 2: San Diego. But I feel like if you're the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and you got Otani and Yamamoto pitching in this Giant
Speaker 2: series and you're playing a team that's awful, who just
Speaker 2: squandered a basis loaded opportunity in the eleventh inning with
Speaker 2: one out they hit into a double play. I mean,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers should sweep this team. They are limping in here,
Speaker 2: and they should beat the Angels as well. So you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put it out there right now. I'll be
Speaker 2: satisfied with six out of seven, but the Dodgers need
Speaker 2: to get healthy in the next seven games against these teams.
Speaker 2: If we're talking about the totality of a regular season,
Speaker 2: these are the games where you get healthy and pad
Speaker 2: your wins. Let's go out to the phones again. Eight six,
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven, two five seventy. Milo and Marina
Speaker 2: del Ray, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Milo,
Speaker 2: what's up DV?
Speaker 4: How you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Did Mother's Day with my mom yesterday.
Speaker 2: So happy to be at the ballpark. And these tote
Speaker 2: bags they gave away are great for mom. They could
Speaker 2: come back anytime with this see through bag. So all
Speaker 2: in all things are good. And with all that being said, Milow,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers aren't first place.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's not too much to complain about. I just
Speaker 9: I had a question about what your opinion is on
Speaker 9: the age of the team. I sometimes get a little
Speaker 9: concerned when I see, like the workload on some of
Speaker 9: these guys, like That's moving to shortstop and Otani taking
Speaker 9: on this workload, and you know, they're not the young
Speaker 9: players that they once were, but you know they're obviously
Speaker 9: still amazing players. And I just want your opinion on that.
Speaker 9: You know, Freddie Freeman, you know, not hitting three hundred
Speaker 9: this year, but obviously he has room for growth.
Speaker 2: What's the real thing, Miley, I've been saying it since
Speaker 2: spring training. That was my biggest concern. You know, off
Speaker 2: season sometimes age players more than others. But you know,
Speaker 2: Freddie hitting a home run ninety seven fastball off of
Speaker 2: Chris Sale was encouraging. He's not a home run hitter,
Speaker 2: but it's great to see him drive the ball, whether
Speaker 2: it went over the wall or off the wall. But
Speaker 2: that's why I was all in favor of Taascar hernandez
Speaker 2: Gez a day off today, day game after a night game.
Speaker 2: And the reality is the average age of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: lineup is the oldest in baseball, So there is that,
Speaker 2: and I think the Dodgers do a really good job
Speaker 2: of managing that. But yeah, it's a real thing that
Speaker 2: is going to have to be managed all season long.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Absolutely. I mean, of course we have the young guys
Speaker 9: coming up to you, you know. I mean in future years,
Speaker 9: I definitely see James Tibbs taking the spot over Tao
Speaker 9: at some point.
Speaker 2: And geez, you're already getting rid of Taale Milo, Geez,
Speaker 2: never to Hey, loyalty is not part of that Milo
Speaker 2: and Marina del Ray vocabulary out there.
Speaker 4: No. I love Tao.
Speaker 9: I love Tao, but you know, I think there are
Speaker 9: things to look forwards to in the future as well.
Speaker 2: All Right, Well, I mean that's great for the Pirates,
Speaker 2: but it's the Dodgers. They're trying to win a three
Speaker 2: peat Milo and make histories. So the future is nice
Speaker 2: for teams like the Pirates, but not for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: They're in the moment trying to win it this year.
Speaker 2: All Right, thank you for the phone call. Have a
Speaker 2: great rest of your Sunday. Let's go out to Ken
Speaker 2: in Newport Beach. Ken. I'm not surprised you're calling today,
Speaker 2: but go ahead. Happy Mother's Day to yours.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you. Yeah, last twenty four hours has been
Speaker 4: a little tough. To be a big sports fan here.
Speaker 4: First off, I just want to say that you have
Speaker 4: some really good callers that make strong points. I listened
Speaker 4: to other stations sports and they're not even close to
Speaker 4: some of the people that call it here.
Speaker 2: Next level thinking with the next level host, maybe that's
Speaker 2: the reason why I.
Speaker 4: Can seriously, I think it has a lot to do
Speaker 4: with this. You make great points.
Speaker 2: I don't think so, but go ahead.
Speaker 4: Well, really good points were made earlier by Nomar. He
Speaker 4: was saying exactly what I'm thinking. I mean, look, oh,
Speaker 4: County's a tremendous players. Last ten games, he's hitting one
Speaker 4: nineteen and then we hear.
Speaker 2: Through all that. We've gone through all that. So what's
Speaker 2: your solution? Do you want o Tani hitting ninth and
Speaker 2: Kim leading off? What do you want to do? No?
Speaker 4: I think what what no Bar said is right on.
Speaker 4: They need to work on what's going on. He's pulling
Speaker 4: his head, he's the body is way out. They've got
Speaker 4: hitting coaches. They just need to straighten him out. He's
Speaker 4: going through a bad streak, but he's a tremendous player,
Speaker 4: and it hurts when your leadoff man is not getting
Speaker 4: on base at all. I mean it's earlier in the season,
Speaker 4: it's going to change.
Speaker 2: But you can't be afraid to coach him. I think
Speaker 2: that's the biggest thing. Guys like Michael Jordan, Barry Bonds,
Speaker 2: Tiger Woods, guys like show, Hey Otani, they want to
Speaker 2: be coached. Uh. They don't want to be just left
Speaker 2: alone and everybody be there. Yes, man, they want to
Speaker 2: be coached. And you got to coach a guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you see something wrong, like Nomar mentioned, I've
Speaker 4: been watching him for a while, pull his head and yank,
Speaker 4: and I think no More needs to get together with
Speaker 4: him kind of away from everybody else and the dugout
Speaker 4: and talk to him and say, hey, have you thought
Speaker 4: about this and thought about that? Because I think he's
Speaker 4: gotta have a lot of respect for no More.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, Ken, I think Nomar would be
Speaker 2: the right guy if if it ever happened. No Mar
Speaker 2: is not going to be the guy to go to Otani.
Speaker 2: If Otani wants to ask no More for what he's seeing,
Speaker 2: then Nomar would be happy to help. And that's been
Speaker 2: his stance with every player. He's not going to cross
Speaker 2: that line because the Dodgers do have hitting coaches, So
Speaker 2: if a player wants to approach him, He'll be happy
Speaker 2: to talk hitting with any of the Dodgers. He's out
Speaker 2: here during batting practice for every home game when he's
Speaker 2: doing Sports Net LA. So you know, anytime anybody wants
Speaker 2: to tap into Nomar, I would say, I always thought
Speaker 2: Austin Barnes should have tapped into him. I thought a
Speaker 2: lot of guys should tap into Nomar's standing right there.
Speaker 2: He's very available if you want to tap into one
Speaker 2: of the best hitters and a guy that understands hitting.
Speaker 2: So that's up to Otani or any other player, because no,
Speaker 2: Mar is not going to undermine any of the Dodgery
Speaker 2: hitting coaches. And rightfully so, they've they've done something right
Speaker 2: winning back to back championships. All right, let's check in
Speaker 2: with Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota, you brought this up to us,
Speaker 2: and Otani mentions it in his answers. The posture. The
Speaker 2: posture has been his butt in the opposing team's dugout
Speaker 2: when he's swinging. That doesn't seem to be the right
Speaker 2: posture for Otani to be successful.
Speaker 4: It's not right nowadays, there's no doubt about it. It's
Speaker 4: clearly you know at some point he gets so worried
Speaker 4: about the inside pitch. But I'm going to ask you something,
Speaker 4: how many times have you seen a guy consistently beat
Speaker 4: you inside. They can beat you inside and show you inside,
Speaker 4: so you get yourself out and break it back. But
Speaker 4: you have to be able to at least you know,
Speaker 4: and get the mentality to become a singles hitter. And
Speaker 4: that's fine too. Just tell yourself I'm a good singles hitter.
Speaker 4: Everything's gonna be cut down. You're gonna think more about
Speaker 4: going up the middle going the other way. No player
Speaker 4: think singles is thinking about pulling the baseball, And I think,
Speaker 4: for right now, I'll Showy's implicity should be just that,
Speaker 4: I mean pasture or not. He just needs to have
Speaker 4: better slings, make better decisions, and have conviction on those
Speaker 4: swings right to say, hey, I cannot have all that pitch.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna let it go by, and to challenge a
Speaker 4: guy in the mound to repeat it. If he does,
Speaker 4: you'll beat me. But very rarely do you see guys
Speaker 4: go out to repeat and getting out in the way.
Speaker 2: They're doing it right, now Jose Mota is joining us
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk after the Braves beat the Dodgers today
Speaker 2: seven to two. But Justin Robleski gets two outs into
Speaker 2: the ninth inning today. That was a throwback type of start.
Speaker 2: I mentioned Fernando Valnezuela was the last Dodger to pitch
Speaker 2: a complete game and give up that many runs in
Speaker 2: a regular season start, back in nownineteen eighty six. I
Speaker 2: mean that that is something that you don't see very often.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen it in forty years as a Dodger.
Speaker 4: And it's so unfortunate. The one bath throw pretty much
Speaker 4: costs him.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: The one thing that's eating him up right now is
Speaker 4: not the last twelve months. It's not the double dubon,
Speaker 4: it's that one throw he didn't make. The good thing
Speaker 4: about our list is he was getting a little punch,
Speaker 4: you know, a little punchy there with the case in
Speaker 4: this game. He didn't have havam to strike this last
Speaker 4: time out, but he continued to glutfer and pitch, continue
Speaker 4: to get early contact, continue to be economical, and the
Speaker 4: Briggs hitters will ask you, you know, asking me about
Speaker 4: this serious started. He's not getting start work from his own.
Speaker 4: He's not gonna be lucking people, but he's gonna throw
Speaker 4: strikes and repeat mechanically so consistently that he can go
Speaker 4: outside and beat you outside with ninety two ninety three.
Speaker 4: He's up to ninety seven today a couple of times.
Speaker 4: But it's good this young pitcher just convince himself to
Speaker 4: not be looking into the bullpen after a rough inning
Speaker 4: and just amnitude up some innings. They needed hit me
Speaker 4: from yesterday what happened yesterday and opened to his six innings,
Speaker 4: and I think he's a great step. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: so bad that it came back to want th all
Speaker 4: day because today was again another step in the rise
Speaker 4: direction from when it comes out to knowing that he
Speaker 4: can go along in the game.
Speaker 2: What should he have done differently there, because obviously he's
Speaker 2: still replaying that play in his head. I mean, he
Speaker 2: was very fortunate Alex Friedland was able to jump and
Speaker 2: catch that and get his foot down on the second
Speaker 2: base bag for and out. I mean, he's right. That
Speaker 2: kind of changed the complexion of that second inning.
Speaker 4: That was pretty much. It is the first play the
Speaker 4: pictures work on in spring training. The first thing they
Speaker 4: do in spring training is filling your position, playing catch,
Speaker 4: starting with a baseball, all tons of things. That's why
Speaker 4: eighty two up so much to the picture. When things
Speaker 4: like this happened. In BA snowball, there's a challenge called
Speaker 4: the mound. Okay, that slope, it could be anatomy sometimes
Speaker 4: and if you don't practice it enough, we thrown up
Speaker 4: that hill. It gets in the way. And as he
Speaker 4: mentioned himself, when that happens, you got to get on
Speaker 4: top of the baseball a little bit more. But now day, Dave,
Speaker 4: in modern day baseball, it is not practice a whole lot.
Speaker 4: And that's why repetitions makes profession. And I'm going to
Speaker 4: go back to this and if you ask Gamamoto, so
Speaker 4: Saki or show hey, what happens if they make a
Speaker 4: play by that in Japan, will make it. It's repetitions.
Speaker 4: Go back to the back toris and get it done again.
Speaker 4: Gazel's changed. But it's one of those things that really
Speaker 4: eat you up because he did so well, but gives
Speaker 4: one play, is not able to finish it off. Will
Speaker 4: would have been a superb start, Jose.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have seven games. I was just mentioning this
Speaker 2: against two of the worst teams in Baseball, the Giants
Speaker 2: and Angels, what's realistic for you as far as how
Speaker 2: they get healthy after a series like.
Speaker 4: This, Go out there and think about tomorrow. Take take
Speaker 4: care of tomorrow and the Giants and whatever they did
Speaker 4: to you, because you know, things kind of started going
Speaker 4: south against the Rockies in Colorado. Then the Giants ate
Speaker 4: them up and shut them down off. So we in
Speaker 4: San Francisco, and you know, you have an idea what
Speaker 4: they have in terms of their starting pitcher, which is
Speaker 4: very different than the one they saw in San Francisco
Speaker 4: a couple weeks ago. In their bullpen. They've been scuffling.
Speaker 4: But you've got to treat them just like you with
Speaker 4: the Braves and any other place post place team. If
Speaker 4: you start thinking as a team, here comes inferior teams,
Speaker 4: you're going to get into a lot of trouble. Just
Speaker 4: be a good team, have better at bats, grind thro
Speaker 4: at bats, and forget about results. Just take those team
Speaker 4: from batting practice and make it as simple as possible.
Speaker 4: Not things wrong. Again, to say, let's be good. Singles
Speaker 4: are because you're going to be able to sit to
Speaker 4: them a little bit longer. And one thing too, Dave,
Speaker 4: is very important when I've seen teams go like this,
Speaker 4: and you know, some of the most respected hitting coaches
Speaker 4: don't forget about the hitting team the meeting and have
Speaker 4: individual meetings with guys to say this is what they're
Speaker 4: gonna do to you, this is how you should approach it.
Speaker 4: And instead of throwing the whole blanket out there an umbrella,
Speaker 4: how to say this is what this guy does is
Speaker 4: make a little bit more individual so the guys understand
Speaker 4: really that we in the batters bots. There's not nine
Speaker 4: cauys with you out there, it's just you. And now
Speaker 4: we have a better idea how to break things up.
Speaker 4: And then you go back to the traditional hiers means
Speaker 4: about thinking individually about now it's a better message for
Speaker 4: guys to underself where they're at, what they need to do,
Speaker 4: and what the giants are going to be able to do.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, we'll see you back out of the
Speaker 2: ballpark tomorrow. Enjoy the rest of your Mother's day.
Speaker 4: Happy Mother's Day to all the mamas.
Speaker 2: So leave you there, he goes Jose Motive part of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast after the Dodgers fall to
Speaker 2: the Braves seven to two. Now I still stand firm
Speaker 2: that I believe the Dodgers should win at least five
Speaker 2: of the next seven against the Giants and Angels. I
Speaker 2: know it's hard to sweep a four game series, but
Speaker 2: at least three out of four against San Francisco, and
Speaker 2: then I would say a sweep in Anaheim definitely isn't
Speaker 2: too much to ask when you're the Dodgers and you
Speaker 2: have this much talent compared to the talent the Angels have.
Speaker 2: I know, baseball happens, but the tail of the tape
Speaker 2: says the Dodgers should take three out of four from
Speaker 2: the Giants, and they should sweep the Angels heading into
Speaker 2: San Diego. But with everything that we talked about as
Speaker 2: far as the offense and how it needs to improve,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are still tied for first place in the
Speaker 2: NL West and we're barely through the tenth day of May.
Speaker 2: So all in all, I would say the rest of
Speaker 2: the league should be really concerned, considering the Dodger offense
Speaker 2: has not even come close to scratching the surface of
Speaker 2: their potential and Otani's been in a perpetual slump for
Speaker 2: the last three weeks, so that should be scary not
Speaker 2: to mention Mookie Betts is back tomorrow night, We'll see
Speaker 2: what decision the Dodgers make. Will it be Kim, will
Speaker 2: it be Freeland, option to triple A or the wildcard?
Speaker 2: Like I mentioned last night, how's Miguel Rojas's left hip feeling?
Speaker 2: Are the Dodgers going to play it conservatively and have
Speaker 2: Rojas go on the il something he did not do
Speaker 2: all of last season, so that would alleviate the decision
Speaker 2: between Freeland and Kim if rojas Is hip is still
Speaker 2: bothering him from playing. So just keeping in mind when
Speaker 2: you wake up tomorrow and you're thinking is it going
Speaker 2: to be Kim? Is it going to be Freeland? And
Speaker 2: I hope you're not losing sleep over that. The thing
Speaker 2: that you should be focused on is that Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: is back. And we'll be starting at short stuff for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers tomorrow night when they open up a four
Speaker 2: game series against the Giants, and Roki Sasaki will be
Speaker 2: on the mount for the Dodgers. He's one and three
Speaker 2: with an ERA of five ninety seven, going up against
Speaker 2: Trevor McDonald, who has an ERA of one twenty nine.
Speaker 2: Our coverage begins at six o'clock tomorrow with first Pitch
Speaker 2: at seven ten with Rick Monday and Charlie Steiner from
Speaker 2: Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium. That'll do it for us today,
Speaker 2: thanks to Colin Yee back at our Burbank studios, thanks
Speaker 2: to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks
Speaker 2: to you for listening. In case you missed any of
Speaker 2: the show or our full conversation with no mar Garcia
Speaker 2: Pari yesterday, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: That's also where we can hear our one on one
Speaker 2: pregame conversation with Blake Snell as well. Did that this morning,
Speaker 2: so you can find all of that on the Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk channel on the iHeartRadio app. Once again. The final
Speaker 2: score today the Braves defeat the Dodgers seven to two.
Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your Sunday. Happy Mother's Day
Speaker 2: to all the moms out there. Steal them to tell
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