WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (7-19-26) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.880 The quest for the three peat has begune. 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.920 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:11.399 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:12.560 the fifth. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.040 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:16.920 Here we go again. We're gay running. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:18.800 Back to get in on the show called eight six 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.840 six eight seven, two five, seven days and be sure 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.920 to follow Dodger Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. Here's 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.600 your host, David vase Lasting. 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.640 Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until the 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.239 top of the hour. We're between games of a day 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:40.879 night doubleheader between the Dodgers and Yankees. The Dodgers. The 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.400 Dodgers won the first game eight to two. Last night's 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.400 game rained out. There was heavy rain here in the Bronx, 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:52.880 so the prevailing decision was to postpone it and play 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:57.560 a doubleheader today. Both teams had a mutual day off 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.600 this coming Thursday, with the Dodgers going to the White House, 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.120 but they decided to go with the doubleheader. So the 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:08.600 Dodgers will be going from Philadelphia to Washington, DC back 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.120 to New York next weekend to play the Mets. Eight 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.479 six six seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:20.160 We will get to Yamamoto and his dominant performance in 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.480 game one of the doubleheader in a moment, But just 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.119 want to set the scene for you right now. We're 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.600 in the broadcast booth and before the game today, Dave 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:34.399 Roberts announced that Shoahi Otani will not make his scheduled 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.880 start on Wednesday in Philadelphia, and there is no word 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:44.040 on when Otani will make another start this year, although 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.640 Dave Roberts said he is confident Otani will pitch again 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:53.080 this year, he just doesn't know when. So that left 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.880 knee of Otani was giving him enough pain when he 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.400 threw off a flat ground the other day here the 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.280 first day in New York that he never even threw 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.600 a bullpen session, and the Dodger trainers, the pitching coaches, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.360 and Otani decided it's not even worth throwing a bullpen session. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.560 Let's pause the pitching. But here we are in between 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:19.679 doubleheader games, after Otani just dged drove in two runs, 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.400 and he's throwing off flat ground. And when I say throwing, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.160 it's not like me and Rick Monday playing catch in 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.519 the backyard. No, this is show Haotani in full wind 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:32.880 up on the flat ground. 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:33.760 I don't know. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.440 Rick just said something to Steven Nelson, so I don't 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:37.760 know if he would play catch with me. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:41.560 Anyway. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.800 Shoe Haotani is out here with head trainer Thomas Albert. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.160 They're having a discussion right now, and he's in full 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:54.919 wind up, full batting practice uniform, pitching off a flat 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.680 ground from about I would say, ninety feet from here, 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:03.720 So you know, well, it's an interesting situation. And look, 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.040 the reality is, I don't think it's any secret the 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:11.320 Dodgers need Otani as a hitter more than a pitcher. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.440 But he's a really good pitcher, and he would be 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.919 a dominant force in a short five game series or 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.160 in a best of seven series, as we saw in 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.560 last year's NLCS. So you could say all you want, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:33.799 scrap the pitching. That's not his identity when you signed show, Heyotani, 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.080 this is what you were signing up for, the two 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.560 way player. Once he got his elbow healthy and his 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.880 arm's fine, it's just his left knee that's given him 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.400 problems that he had surgery on back in twenty nineteen. 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.360 But here he is still in full wind up, ninety 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:55.960 feet on flat ground, pitching, even though that's what Dave 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.000 Roberts said caused the pain in the left knee on Friday, 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:05.120 forced the Dodgers and Otani to scrap Wednesday's start and 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.800 to put a pause on him pitching in games. But 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.080 I guess at some point you got to keep the 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.280 arm moving if he's going to come back and pitch. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.480 But here's what Dave Roberts had to say earlier today 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.359 when he broke the news to us that Wednesday is 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:22.440 out for Otani and so is pitching in the near future. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.719 Well, I think that you know, the elephant in the 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.159 room is a show. He's not going to start on Wednesday, 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.840 is me. We just want to continue to give it 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:40.400 the best chance to kind of get into a good spot. 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.880 And as he said, as we feel it's the pitching 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:50.400 and the torque on landing on that leg that kind 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.560 of gets it upset, and so I think that the 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.400 hitting doesn't do that. So I think that for us, 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.600 we're trying to give it as much time as possible. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.800 So I think being able to kick Emmett to Monday 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:05.279 made the most sense. 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.599 Did he throw a bullpen session, and that's when he 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.200 realized the knee wasn't responding. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.680 No, No, he didn't. He just was playing catch. And 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.520 then also just kind of the feeling of where he's at, 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.280 how it feels day to day. So that was enough 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.640 for him to talk to the trainers and feel like 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.839 there was no need to test it with a bullpen 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.000 where he already knew the answer, right. So I just 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.440 think for us, it's more like we've done many times 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.880 over airing on the side of caution. I don't know yet, 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:40.400 don't know yet, but kind of where we're at right now, 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:46.440 how we're proceeding. I would say that you know it's 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.600 going to be some time, and I say that it's 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.000 not going to be a day to day thing. I 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:54.240 think that once we've moved Emmett, the rotation can keep 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:59.559 going forward without showing for the time Dame, And again 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.359 I can't speak to how long that's gonna be. 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.440 All Right, there's manager Dave Roberts before game one of 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:10.359 this day night doubleheader, explaining that Otani will not be 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.200 pitching anytime soon. He's walking off the field, just going 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.000 down the steps, with a herd of Japanese media following 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.440 every step that he takes after pitching off a flat 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.080 round here and Thomas Albert and Mark. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.160 Pryor watching closely. 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.200 So the bottom line is Otani's not going to pitch Wednesday, 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.039 and he probably is not going to pitch until mid 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.040 August to get that left knee to calm down. Now, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.719 remember during the All Star break, we were told he 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.839 was going to get that left knee drained. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:42.440 That never happened. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:47.320 In fact, what he had was a lubricant injection, and 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:52.640 that's sometimes you know, to treat arthritis because senior citizens 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.799 usually get that lubricant injection in their knees. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.159 Trust me, I know firsthand. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.280 My mom goes for shots every month and that's exactly 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.320 what she gets. Now we're talking about sho Heyo Tani, 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.520 thirty two years old now that has had a lot 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.720 of wear and tear. In Dave Roberts's words, over the 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.160 course of his career. That has been extraordinary to do 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.680 what he's done. But this reminds me of last year 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.680 the Dodgers slow ramp up Ovotani so he would be 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.000 ready to pitch in the postseason. I feel like this 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.840 is not exactly the same because he is built up. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.680 But once you shut it down and don't pitch for 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.280 two or three weeks. He got to ramp back up slowly, 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.440 so I could totally see that happening in mid August 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:43.080 to get him ramped up and ready to go for October. 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.160 On the mound eight six six nine eight seven two 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.040 five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Yankees 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.720 in game one of the day night doubleheader. Yamamoto a 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:57.560 complete game against this Yankees lineup that has been struggling, 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.880 and they were first pitch swinging, and he was taking 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:06.320 advantage and exploiting every weakness of every batter in that lineup. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.720 He only threw one hundred and two pitches in a 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.280 complete game, his first career regular season complete game, the 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.360 first complete game by a Dodger in the regular season 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:21.920 since Gavin Stone in June of twenty four against the 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.400 White Sox on the South Side. So it was a 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:30.560 pleasure as a baseball fan to watch Yamamoto go to 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.840 work today and do what he did. It really was 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.320 and I know everybody was impressed that have pitched in 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.839 the major leagues that were here at Yankee Stadium or 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.800 a Herscheizer, David Cone, We're raving about just the game 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.040 plan and the reading of swings and how to get 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:51.040 to strike too. That was part of the mastery of Yamamoto, 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:52.800 who definitely should be. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.040 In the conversation for the National League. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.800 Cy Young Award, we were talking about the Cy Youngs 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:03.160 and how not all Cy Young's are created equally. Yamamoto 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.679 got third place. He came in third place last year 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.280 in the final balloting. But this year, I know everybody 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:14.720 talks about Miserowski and Christopher Sanchez, who are two great pitchers. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:20.080 But if Miserowski misses any length of time, that's that's 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.800 kind of an X on his resume. For this season, 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:28.199 Yamamoto has made every start this year and he's been masterful. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.680 Tonight's game brought to you, or, like Tommy Edmond corrected me, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.080 Today's game brought to you by Modello. 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.720 Modello. The Mark of a Fighter eight. 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.160 Six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:43.560 phone number. David Vasse live at Yankee Stadium with Rick Monday, 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.640 Stephen Nelson, our producer, engineer, Dwayne McDonald, and. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.520 The stud back in the studio. Colin Yee. That's right, Nelly, 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:52.720 you don't think I hear that. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.000 I heard it the stud in the studio back there, 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.960 all right, let's go out to the phones. Patrick, in 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.000 all places, Alabama is going to lead us off. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:02.680 Hi. Patrick, You're on Dodger Talk. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:09.800 Hello David. This is my first time. Patrick. I'm doing great. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.560 I'm working. I'm driving a truck right now, but I 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.080 don't miss a game. I listen to every game on 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:21.120 the radio. I've been let me tell you something. Seventeen 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.880 was an awesome team. But this team, we are gonna 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.400 do this. We are gonna three peat, no doubt my mind. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.160 We've got all the tools, we've got all the weapons, 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.760 we got people coming back. We're gonna do this. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.679 I kind of feel the same way, Patrick. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.640 I have something in the back of my mind that 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.520 I've told people privately, but I don't want anybody to 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.600 freak out and say I'm jinxing anything. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.000 But I'll just say it right now. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.439 People are going to be shocked how easy the Dodgers 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.080 go through the postseason and three PTE. This will be 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:59.160 the easiest run to the championship this year, Easier than 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.160 the first one, much easier than the second one. It 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.800 is going to be shockingly easy for the Dodgers to 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.720 three pet I said it. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.200 I can't hold it in. I was holding in I've 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:11.760 been holding it in for a month. 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.079 They're not talking about it. But what about the Yankees? 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.440 They did it twice, they won five in a row. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.680 We're gonna do this turn warning. We're going for those 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.240 fourth and fifth months. I guarantee it, all right. 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.640 Patrick, thanks a lot for calling in. Thank you for listening. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.360 Rick Monday and Steven Nelson and all of us appreciate 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.480 the loyalty. Nineteen seventy six, fifty years ago, Rick Monday 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.680 saved the flag in a cub's uniform at Dodgers Stadium, 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.600 and then nineteen seventy seven came home and the Dodgers 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.040 were off and running. So awesome to have you listening 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:49.760 all the way in Alabama. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:54.800 Patrick, go Dodgers. All right, Thank you for the phone call. Patrick. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.760 I know Rick and Steven turned to each other. Hey, 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.199 just remember this day in between day night doubleheaders, the 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.080 day Bob Costas came in here and put on Stephen 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:10.360 Nelson's game, used headphones. Remember this day as well. Let's 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:14.800 go out again. Not in La Eugene, Oregon. Tom listening 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.560 on the iHeartRadio AP. How you doing, Tom? 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.640 I'm doing great, David. Every time the Dodgers win is 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:22.679 a great game. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.960 A little extra when they beat the Yankees. It's like 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.920 in a regular season game. If you're a Laker fan. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:37.160 Hey John, Lakers, Dodgers changed. Come on all LA all 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.960 the time. Hey David, I do have a question for you, 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:42.920 a little concerning you know that Will Smith has been 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.000 out for so long. Doesn't sound like from what I'm 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.720 hearing listening to you guys, he's coming back anytime soon. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.720 Are the Dodgers looking at anybody, any catchers to pick up, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:57.800 specifically before the trade deadline that can come in and help. 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.560 I know they are, but I don't know who. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.880 And I feel like everybody always defaults to Ben Roortfitt, 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.840 But the reality is Ben rotvettz not the only guy 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.240 that can catch. There's other veteran catchers out there, and 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.480 I feel like that's what the Dodgers need. As as 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.880 even a mentor to a very emotional and at times 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:23.240 immature Dalton Rushing, you need a veteran catcher backing him 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.280 up until Will Smith returns. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:26.439 It's his job. 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.800 You don't want to, you know, affect his psyche by 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.840 bringing in somebody like a Ben Roortfitt or anybody else 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.839 you want to bring in a veteran catcher that can 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.360 mentor him and maybe even split some time with him. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.560 That's that's what I think you're looking for. And I 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:48.240 know the Dodgers are are starting to uh excavate teams 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.680 and see what's out there in that regards. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:56.680 Anybody that jumps to your mind. Besides who you just 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.440 mentioned that you would like this, there's a least kick 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:01.200 the tires on. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:03.920 There's one guy that sticks out. 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.480 I don't know if the Guardians would make him available, 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.600 but I feel like Austin Hedges would be the perfect 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.640 fit that type of backup veteran catcher. And Dave Roberts 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.079 was a coach on the Padres when Hedges broke into 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.360 the major leagues. So that's just the name that I 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.560 was thinking about. I have no idea if he's even available, 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:30.200 but somebody of that type you want to bring in 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.400 to be a backup catcher maybe you know, I hate 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.240 to use an old Dodger reference, but a guy like 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.360 aj Ellis, if there was an Ajlis on another team 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:44.920 out there, that type of not only veteran but also 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.680 that type of personality you would want to have. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.440 Very cool, all right, Thank you, David, No problem. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.120 Tom, thanks for calling in and listening on the iHeartRadio app. 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.200 Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.160 the phone number. Dodgers beat the Yankees today eight to 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:05.360 two in game one of this day night doubleheader. And 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.040 before we take our first time out, I want to 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:12.640 give a shout out to little Sophia Vega who is 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:17.520 at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Her dad, Thomas reached out 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.840 to me and said that she's a big time Dodger 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.840 fan and she was supposed to go to her ten 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.320 U softball tournament last week, but she had to stay 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.640 a little bit longer at CHLA, and they've been listening 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.840 to the Dodger games on the iHeartRadio app and AM 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:40.200 five seventy LA Sports ever since she has been in there. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.520 And we just want to say we were thinking about you, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.160 Sophia Vega, and. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.680 You are going to be a warrior. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.480 You're going to get out of there and you're going 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:54.280 to start hitting home runs and doing backflips with your 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:58.000 softball ten you teams, So we're thinking about you. God 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.600 bless you, Sofia, and thank you for listening. And the 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.160 Dodgers definitely will put a smile on your face. With 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.240 what they did today and what they're going to do 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.120 in the nightcap of this day night doubleheader. 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.160 All right, we're gonna take a time out. 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.880 When we come back, Jose Mota will stop by and 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.480 we'll share that conversation with Bob Costas that we had 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:20.680 during the Clubhouse show. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:21.320 That was fun. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.880 Hey, here's an update. Guess what They still haven't scored 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.240 in soccer? Okay, shocker, right, zero zero, no score. They 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.120 just kick the ball back and forth. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.480 That's it. They say baseball's boring. 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.200 I mean, I've had my best naps during the World 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:38.200 Cup this summer. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.320 I want some. You want a good nap? 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.880 Put on the I mean it's on the big screen 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.000 here at Yankee Stadium. I've had to drink two coffees 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.200 to stay awake, So I respect Messi, but that's where 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.000 it ends. And by the way, FIFA in the Dodgers 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:56.720 team Hotel Super Arrogant eight six six nine eight seven 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.640 two five seventy is the phone number pulling back the 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.400 Kurt here on Dodger Talk until the top of the 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:08.400 hour right here on five seventy LA Sports. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.760 Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy LA sports 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:19.000 dot com hand on the iHeartRadio app. Back to more 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.720 Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Basse. 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.960 Another payoff from Bird. Edmund hits it on the ground, 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.920 base head, right field. Tucker scores. He'll be a green 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:36.000 light for tail, He'll come in without a play. 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This headset 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:11.399 in the booth should go to the Hall of Fame 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.920 because Stephen Nelson's game used headset he has lent to 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:20.879 Bob Costas and now Jose Mota is wearing the same headset. 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.640 This is a significant day for that headset. It is 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:26.720 a big day. I feel honored. 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.879 Bomba Costa, Stephen Nelson, my partner on TV and so 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.439 many times and on radio. But also I feel like 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.280 I'm being tested here by a teacher, like, hey, come 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:35.919 to the front of a classroom and explain. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.320 To me your homework. Oh, you're being judged. 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.600 Every word you say will be judged by those two 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.919 guys in the front Monday with me and Stephen Nelson. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.880 So I'm such a privileged man. What we got, or well, 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:46.840 I mean, what do we got? 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.639 We got Yama MOODI got throwing a complete game against 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.240 the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:52.240 You know what I brought me to. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.840 When Yama Molto signed with the Dodgers and people are questioning, 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.040 why did this guy get more money than Garrett Cole 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.440 And we come to Yankee Stadium and everybody's saying, yeah, 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:03.560 but let's see what he's got. And pretty much the 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.960 stamp and the sign and the message from Yamamota was 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.800 here's why I am. He won seven innings that day 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.119 and he ended up making one more start. Then he 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.280 got hurt, but it was like, this is who I am. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.000 I'm gonna go out there and get the job done. 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.240 They saw once again today. One thing that really impressed 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.520 me today that was his coming out party. Like we 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.280 said earlier, it was pretty much the fact that, as 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.439 Dave mentioned, Fastbaok command was the biggest issue today that 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.120 he had going a lot of reid on early swings, 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.960 but also the variance and the fastballs fifty nine fastballs, 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.359 variants between the four seamer, sinker and cutter and against 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.560 leftis in this ballpark. The minute you see a lot 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.160 of cutters, he's saying, well, short porch, I see spin 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.040 coming in down and in on me, let me swing. 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.160 But he was having just a little bit more tilt 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:47.800 on it for guys swing over the ball. 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:48.840 That's why he saw a lot of foul. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.439 Balls rolled behind on the ground and on top of 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.879 that downing spread the plate. And this guy is so 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.000 good at doing one more thing offsetting your timing. I 0:19:58.000 --> 0:19:59.760 don't know how many times you saw today, but he 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.080 quick pitch a couple of times when he was not 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.360 even lifting the leg. He doesn't lift them much anyways, 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.720 but he was sliding through home played. And that's just 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.480 a guy that has a great sense aptitude for the 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.760 game and reading intentions on guys trying to get to 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.359 him early and being able to neutralize that zone. 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.479 How about the Dodger offense today doing their thing against 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:22.760 Cam Schlittler. That is vintage Dodger offense, getting that pitch 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.680 count up to forty four after two innings. I mean, 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.919 Schlittler was really good today, but he wasn't going to 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.640 be going to be in the game that long. 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:33.560 He was very good upstairs. When they let off that pitch, 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:35.840 he was a different guy. Tommy Edmund got it going 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:39.120 with that low cut fastball that he got the ball hit, 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:41.880 you know, throw the right and then it's pretty much like, okay, 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.760 if he's gonna get you to chase upstairs, you're not 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.440 gonna win up there. This guy's tall ball just sumps 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:49.320 out of his hand. But then did a very good 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:51.720 job fouling balls off, starting with the first three guys. 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:55.040 Actually they took seventeen pitches in the first inning, and 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.520 then the long bats that just works guys out, and 0:20:57.640 --> 0:20:59.960 before you know it, they forced him down to the zone. 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.159 No matter how hard you throw, it's much easier to 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.040 hit downstairs day than there's upstairs. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:08.679 Yamamoto is the most underrated pitcher in baseball, and I 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.639 feel like Tommy Yedman might be the most underrated piece 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.600 in this Dodger lineup. Since he's come back, he has 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.359 made this thing go to another level. 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:19.920 He's a presence Dave in so many ways. Number one 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.240 is he can hit him anywhere one through nine and 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:23.280 he's not going to change. 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:24.480 It could be on. 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.840 Him on driving and runs, on driving, on driving the baseball, 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:30.200 on leading up an inning, and he's not going to change. 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:31.280 That's what makes him so valuable. 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.119 That's why Andrew Freeman was out for him for so 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:34.560 many years as a cardinal right. 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:36.800 And then the big. 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:39.400 Of the situation, the smaller he gets. And that's something 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:41.560 you explained to me he'd learned over in Saint Louis. Say, hey, 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:43.440 I known from the big bows over there. Just don't 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:45.080 let it get too big. Just get a little bit 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:48.359 smaller with your own, with your swing, everything else. And 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.560 you know, it's good to see. Another thing from from 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.440 Tommy Evan that we haven't witnessed really in a couple 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:55.760 of years since you've joined the Dodgers, is now he's 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.480