Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begune.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
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Speaker 1: Back to get in on the show called eight six
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Speaker 1: your host, David vase Lasting.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until the
Speaker 2: top of the hour. We're between games of a day
Speaker 2: night doubleheader between the Dodgers and Yankees. The Dodgers. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers won the first game eight to two. Last night's
Speaker 2: game rained out. There was heavy rain here in the Bronx,
Speaker 2: so the prevailing decision was to postpone it and play
Speaker 2: a doubleheader today. Both teams had a mutual day off
Speaker 2: this coming Thursday, with the Dodgers going to the White House,
Speaker 2: but they decided to go with the doubleheader. So the
Speaker 2: Dodgers will be going from Philadelphia to Washington, DC back
Speaker 2: to New York next weekend to play the Mets. Eight
Speaker 2: six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: We will get to Yamamoto and his dominant performance in
Speaker 2: game one of the doubleheader in a moment, But just
Speaker 2: want to set the scene for you right now. We're
Speaker 2: in the broadcast booth and before the game today, Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts announced that Shoahi Otani will not make his scheduled
Speaker 2: start on Wednesday in Philadelphia, and there is no word
Speaker 2: on when Otani will make another start this year, although
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said he is confident Otani will pitch again
Speaker 2: this year, he just doesn't know when. So that left
Speaker 2: knee of Otani was giving him enough pain when he
Speaker 2: threw off a flat ground the other day here the
Speaker 2: first day in New York that he never even threw
Speaker 2: a bullpen session, and the Dodger trainers, the pitching coaches,
Speaker 2: and Otani decided it's not even worth throwing a bullpen session.
Speaker 2: Let's pause the pitching. But here we are in between
Speaker 2: doubleheader games, after Otani just dged drove in two runs,
Speaker 2: and he's throwing off flat ground. And when I say throwing,
Speaker 2: it's not like me and Rick Monday playing catch in
Speaker 2: the backyard. No, this is show Haotani in full wind
Speaker 2: up on the flat ground.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Rick just said something to Steven Nelson, so I don't
Speaker 2: know if he would play catch with me.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 2: Shoe Haotani is out here with head trainer Thomas Albert.
Speaker 2: They're having a discussion right now, and he's in full
Speaker 2: wind up, full batting practice uniform, pitching off a flat
Speaker 2: ground from about I would say, ninety feet from here,
Speaker 2: So you know, well, it's an interesting situation. And look,
Speaker 2: the reality is, I don't think it's any secret the
Speaker 2: Dodgers need Otani as a hitter more than a pitcher.
Speaker 2: But he's a really good pitcher, and he would be
Speaker 2: a dominant force in a short five game series or
Speaker 2: in a best of seven series, as we saw in
Speaker 2: last year's NLCS. So you could say all you want,
Speaker 2: scrap the pitching. That's not his identity when you signed show, Heyotani,
Speaker 2: this is what you were signing up for, the two
Speaker 2: way player. Once he got his elbow healthy and his
Speaker 2: arm's fine, it's just his left knee that's given him
Speaker 2: problems that he had surgery on back in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: But here he is still in full wind up, ninety
Speaker 2: feet on flat ground, pitching, even though that's what Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts said caused the pain in the left knee on Friday,
Speaker 2: forced the Dodgers and Otani to scrap Wednesday's start and
Speaker 2: to put a pause on him pitching in games. But
Speaker 2: I guess at some point you got to keep the
Speaker 2: arm moving if he's going to come back and pitch.
Speaker 2: But here's what Dave Roberts had to say earlier today
Speaker 2: when he broke the news to us that Wednesday is
Speaker 2: out for Otani and so is pitching in the near future.
Speaker 4: Well, I think that you know, the elephant in the
Speaker 4: room is a show. He's not going to start on Wednesday,
Speaker 4: is me. We just want to continue to give it
Speaker 4: the best chance to kind of get into a good spot.
Speaker 4: And as he said, as we feel it's the pitching
Speaker 4: and the torque on landing on that leg that kind
Speaker 4: of gets it upset, and so I think that the
Speaker 4: hitting doesn't do that. So I think that for us,
Speaker 4: we're trying to give it as much time as possible.
Speaker 4: So I think being able to kick Emmett to Monday
Speaker 4: made the most sense.
Speaker 2: Did he throw a bullpen session, and that's when he
Speaker 2: realized the knee wasn't responding.
Speaker 4: No, No, he didn't. He just was playing catch. And
Speaker 4: then also just kind of the feeling of where he's at,
Speaker 4: how it feels day to day. So that was enough
Speaker 4: for him to talk to the trainers and feel like
Speaker 4: there was no need to test it with a bullpen
Speaker 4: where he already knew the answer, right. So I just
Speaker 4: think for us, it's more like we've done many times
Speaker 4: over airing on the side of caution. I don't know yet,
Speaker 4: don't know yet, but kind of where we're at right now,
Speaker 4: how we're proceeding. I would say that you know it's
Speaker 4: going to be some time, and I say that it's
Speaker 4: not going to be a day to day thing. I
Speaker 4: think that once we've moved Emmett, the rotation can keep
Speaker 4: going forward without showing for the time Dame, And again
Speaker 4: I can't speak to how long that's gonna be.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's manager Dave Roberts before game one of
Speaker 2: this day night doubleheader, explaining that Otani will not be
Speaker 2: pitching anytime soon. He's walking off the field, just going
Speaker 2: down the steps, with a herd of Japanese media following
Speaker 2: every step that he takes after pitching off a flat
Speaker 2: round here and Thomas Albert and Mark.
Speaker 3: Pryor watching closely.
Speaker 2: So the bottom line is Otani's not going to pitch Wednesday,
Speaker 2: and he probably is not going to pitch until mid
Speaker 2: August to get that left knee to calm down. Now,
Speaker 2: remember during the All Star break, we were told he
Speaker 2: was going to get that left knee drained.
Speaker 3: That never happened.
Speaker 2: In fact, what he had was a lubricant injection, and
Speaker 2: that's sometimes you know, to treat arthritis because senior citizens
Speaker 2: usually get that lubricant injection in their knees.
Speaker 3: Trust me, I know firsthand.
Speaker 2: My mom goes for shots every month and that's exactly
Speaker 2: what she gets. Now we're talking about sho Heyo Tani,
Speaker 2: thirty two years old now that has had a lot
Speaker 2: of wear and tear. In Dave Roberts's words, over the
Speaker 2: course of his career. That has been extraordinary to do
Speaker 2: what he's done. But this reminds me of last year
Speaker 2: the Dodgers slow ramp up Ovotani so he would be
Speaker 2: ready to pitch in the postseason. I feel like this
Speaker 2: is not exactly the same because he is built up.
Speaker 2: But once you shut it down and don't pitch for
Speaker 2: two or three weeks. He got to ramp back up slowly,
Speaker 2: so I could totally see that happening in mid August
Speaker 2: to get him ramped up and ready to go for October.
Speaker 2: On the mound eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Yankees
Speaker 2: in game one of the day night doubleheader. Yamamoto a
Speaker 2: complete game against this Yankees lineup that has been struggling,
Speaker 2: and they were first pitch swinging, and he was taking
Speaker 2: advantage and exploiting every weakness of every batter in that lineup.
Speaker 2: He only threw one hundred and two pitches in a
Speaker 2: complete game, his first career regular season complete game, the
Speaker 2: first complete game by a Dodger in the regular season
Speaker 2: since Gavin Stone in June of twenty four against the
Speaker 2: White Sox on the South Side. So it was a
Speaker 2: pleasure as a baseball fan to watch Yamamoto go to
Speaker 2: work today and do what he did. It really was
Speaker 2: and I know everybody was impressed that have pitched in
Speaker 2: the major leagues that were here at Yankee Stadium or
Speaker 2: a Herscheizer, David Cone, We're raving about just the game
Speaker 2: plan and the reading of swings and how to get
Speaker 2: to strike too. That was part of the mastery of Yamamoto,
Speaker 2: who definitely should be.
Speaker 3: In the conversation for the National League.
Speaker 2: Cy Young Award, we were talking about the Cy Youngs
Speaker 2: and how not all Cy Young's are created equally. Yamamoto
Speaker 2: got third place. He came in third place last year
Speaker 2: in the final balloting. But this year, I know everybody
Speaker 2: talks about Miserowski and Christopher Sanchez, who are two great pitchers.
Speaker 2: But if Miserowski misses any length of time, that's that's
Speaker 2: kind of an X on his resume. For this season,
Speaker 2: Yamamoto has made every start this year and he's been masterful.
Speaker 2: Tonight's game brought to you, or, like Tommy Edmond corrected me,
Speaker 2: Today's game brought to you by Modello.
Speaker 3: Modello. The Mark of a Fighter eight.
Speaker 2: Six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. David Vasse live at Yankee Stadium with Rick Monday,
Speaker 2: Stephen Nelson, our producer, engineer, Dwayne McDonald, and.
Speaker 3: The stud back in the studio. Colin Yee. That's right, Nelly,
Speaker 3: you don't think I hear that.
Speaker 2: I heard it the stud in the studio back there,
Speaker 2: all right, let's go out to the phones. Patrick, in
Speaker 2: all places, Alabama is going to lead us off.
Speaker 3: Hi. Patrick, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hello David. This is my first time. Patrick. I'm doing great.
Speaker 5: I'm working. I'm driving a truck right now, but I
Speaker 5: don't miss a game. I listen to every game on
Speaker 5: the radio. I've been let me tell you something. Seventeen
Speaker 5: was an awesome team. But this team, we are gonna
Speaker 5: do this. We are gonna three peat, no doubt my mind.
Speaker 5: We've got all the tools, we've got all the weapons,
Speaker 5: we got people coming back. We're gonna do this.
Speaker 3: I kind of feel the same way, Patrick.
Speaker 2: I have something in the back of my mind that
Speaker 2: I've told people privately, but I don't want anybody to
Speaker 2: freak out and say I'm jinxing anything.
Speaker 3: But I'll just say it right now.
Speaker 2: People are going to be shocked how easy the Dodgers
Speaker 2: go through the postseason and three PTE. This will be
Speaker 2: the easiest run to the championship this year, Easier than
Speaker 2: the first one, much easier than the second one. It
Speaker 2: is going to be shockingly easy for the Dodgers to
Speaker 2: three pet I said it.
Speaker 3: I can't hold it in. I was holding in I've
Speaker 3: been holding it in for a month.
Speaker 5: They're not talking about it. But what about the Yankees?
Speaker 5: They did it twice, they won five in a row.
Speaker 5: We're gonna do this turn warning. We're going for those
Speaker 5: fourth and fifth months. I guarantee it, all right.
Speaker 2: Patrick, thanks a lot for calling in. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: Rick Monday and Steven Nelson and all of us appreciate
Speaker 2: the loyalty. Nineteen seventy six, fifty years ago, Rick Monday
Speaker 2: saved the flag in a cub's uniform at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 2: and then nineteen seventy seven came home and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were off and running. So awesome to have you listening
Speaker 2: all the way in Alabama.
Speaker 3: Patrick, go Dodgers. All right, Thank you for the phone call. Patrick.
Speaker 2: I know Rick and Steven turned to each other. Hey,
Speaker 2: just remember this day in between day night doubleheaders, the
Speaker 2: day Bob Costas came in here and put on Stephen
Speaker 2: Nelson's game, used headphones. Remember this day as well. Let's
Speaker 2: go out again. Not in La Eugene, Oregon. Tom listening
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio AP. How you doing, Tom?
Speaker 6: I'm doing great, David. Every time the Dodgers win is
Speaker 6: a great game.
Speaker 2: A little extra when they beat the Yankees. It's like
Speaker 2: in a regular season game. If you're a Laker fan.
Speaker 6: Hey John, Lakers, Dodgers changed. Come on all LA all
Speaker 6: the time. Hey David, I do have a question for you,
Speaker 6: a little concerning you know that Will Smith has been
Speaker 6: out for so long. Doesn't sound like from what I'm
Speaker 6: hearing listening to you guys, he's coming back anytime soon.
Speaker 6: Are the Dodgers looking at anybody, any catchers to pick up,
Speaker 6: specifically before the trade deadline that can come in and help.
Speaker 3: I know they are, but I don't know who.
Speaker 2: And I feel like everybody always defaults to Ben Roortfitt,
Speaker 2: But the reality is Ben rotvettz not the only guy
Speaker 2: that can catch. There's other veteran catchers out there, and
Speaker 2: I feel like that's what the Dodgers need. As as
Speaker 2: even a mentor to a very emotional and at times
Speaker 2: immature Dalton Rushing, you need a veteran catcher backing him
Speaker 2: up until Will Smith returns.
Speaker 3: It's his job.
Speaker 2: You don't want to, you know, affect his psyche by
Speaker 2: bringing in somebody like a Ben Roortfitt or anybody else
Speaker 2: you want to bring in a veteran catcher that can
Speaker 2: mentor him and maybe even split some time with him.
Speaker 2: That's that's what I think you're looking for. And I
Speaker 2: know the Dodgers are are starting to uh excavate teams
Speaker 2: and see what's out there in that regards.
Speaker 6: Anybody that jumps to your mind. Besides who you just
Speaker 6: mentioned that you would like this, there's a least kick
Speaker 6: the tires on.
Speaker 3: There's one guy that sticks out.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the Guardians would make him available,
Speaker 2: but I feel like Austin Hedges would be the perfect
Speaker 2: fit that type of backup veteran catcher. And Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: was a coach on the Padres when Hedges broke into
Speaker 2: the major leagues. So that's just the name that I
Speaker 2: was thinking about. I have no idea if he's even available,
Speaker 2: but somebody of that type you want to bring in
Speaker 2: to be a backup catcher maybe you know, I hate
Speaker 2: to use an old Dodger reference, but a guy like
Speaker 2: aj Ellis, if there was an Ajlis on another team
Speaker 2: out there, that type of not only veteran but also
Speaker 2: that type of personality you would want to have.
Speaker 6: Very cool, all right, Thank you, David, No problem.
Speaker 2: Tom, thanks for calling in and listening on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Yankees today eight to
Speaker 2: two in game one of this day night doubleheader. And
Speaker 2: before we take our first time out, I want to
Speaker 2: give a shout out to little Sophia Vega who is
Speaker 2: at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Her dad, Thomas reached out
Speaker 2: to me and said that she's a big time Dodger
Speaker 2: fan and she was supposed to go to her ten
Speaker 2: U softball tournament last week, but she had to stay
Speaker 2: a little bit longer at CHLA, and they've been listening
Speaker 2: to the Dodger games on the iHeartRadio app and AM
Speaker 2: five seventy LA Sports ever since she has been in there.
Speaker 2: And we just want to say we were thinking about you,
Speaker 2: Sophia Vega, and.
Speaker 3: You are going to be a warrior.
Speaker 2: You're going to get out of there and you're going
Speaker 2: to start hitting home runs and doing backflips with your
Speaker 2: softball ten you teams, So we're thinking about you. God
Speaker 2: bless you, Sofia, and thank you for listening. And the
Speaker 2: Dodgers definitely will put a smile on your face. With
Speaker 2: what they did today and what they're going to do
Speaker 2: in the nightcap of this day night doubleheader.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna take a time out.
Speaker 2: When we come back, Jose Mota will stop by and
Speaker 2: we'll share that conversation with Bob Costas that we had
Speaker 2: during the Clubhouse show.
Speaker 3: That was fun.
Speaker 2: Hey, here's an update. Guess what They still haven't scored
Speaker 2: in soccer? Okay, shocker, right, zero zero, no score. They
Speaker 2: just kick the ball back and forth.
Speaker 3: That's it. They say baseball's boring.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've had my best naps during the World
Speaker 2: Cup this summer.
Speaker 3: I want some. You want a good nap?
Speaker 2: Put on the I mean it's on the big screen
Speaker 2: here at Yankee Stadium. I've had to drink two coffees
Speaker 2: to stay awake, So I respect Messi, but that's where
Speaker 2: it ends. And by the way, FIFA in the Dodgers
Speaker 2: team Hotel Super Arrogant eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number pulling back the
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Speaker 2: in the booth should go to the Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: because Stephen Nelson's game used headset he has lent to
Speaker 2: Bob Costas and now Jose Mota is wearing the same headset.
Speaker 3: This is a significant day for that headset. It is
Speaker 3: a big day. I feel honored.
Speaker 8: Bomba Costa, Stephen Nelson, my partner on TV and so
Speaker 8: many times and on radio. But also I feel like
Speaker 8: I'm being tested here by a teacher, like, hey, come
Speaker 8: to the front of a classroom and explain.
Speaker 3: To me your homework. Oh, you're being judged.
Speaker 2: Every word you say will be judged by those two
Speaker 2: guys in the front Monday with me and Stephen Nelson.
Speaker 3: So I'm such a privileged man. What we got, or well,
Speaker 3: I mean, what do we got?
Speaker 2: We got Yama MOODI got throwing a complete game against
Speaker 2: the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 3: You know what I brought me to.
Speaker 8: When Yama Molto signed with the Dodgers and people are questioning,
Speaker 8: why did this guy get more money than Garrett Cole
Speaker 8: And we come to Yankee Stadium and everybody's saying, yeah,
Speaker 8: but let's see what he's got. And pretty much the
Speaker 8: stamp and the sign and the message from Yamamota was
Speaker 8: here's why I am. He won seven innings that day
Speaker 8: and he ended up making one more start. Then he
Speaker 8: got hurt, but it was like, this is who I am.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go out there and get the job done.
Speaker 8: They saw once again today. One thing that really impressed
Speaker 8: me today that was his coming out party. Like we
Speaker 8: said earlier, it was pretty much the fact that, as
Speaker 8: Dave mentioned, Fastbaok command was the biggest issue today that
Speaker 8: he had going a lot of reid on early swings,
Speaker 8: but also the variance and the fastballs fifty nine fastballs,
Speaker 8: variants between the four seamer, sinker and cutter and against
Speaker 8: leftis in this ballpark. The minute you see a lot
Speaker 8: of cutters, he's saying, well, short porch, I see spin
Speaker 8: coming in down and in on me, let me swing.
Speaker 8: But he was having just a little bit more tilt
Speaker 8: on it for guys swing over the ball.
Speaker 3: That's why he saw a lot of foul.
Speaker 8: Balls rolled behind on the ground and on top of
Speaker 8: that downing spread the plate. And this guy is so
Speaker 8: good at doing one more thing offsetting your timing. I
Speaker 8: don't know how many times you saw today, but he
Speaker 8: quick pitch a couple of times when he was not
Speaker 8: even lifting the leg. He doesn't lift them much anyways,
Speaker 8: but he was sliding through home played. And that's just
Speaker 8: a guy that has a great sense aptitude for the
Speaker 8: game and reading intentions on guys trying to get to
Speaker 8: him early and being able to neutralize that zone.
Speaker 2: How about the Dodger offense today doing their thing against
Speaker 2: Cam Schlittler. That is vintage Dodger offense, getting that pitch
Speaker 2: count up to forty four after two innings. I mean,
Speaker 2: Schlittler was really good today, but he wasn't going to
Speaker 2: be going to be in the game that long.
Speaker 8: He was very good upstairs. When they let off that pitch,
Speaker 8: he was a different guy. Tommy Edmund got it going
Speaker 8: with that low cut fastball that he got the ball hit,
Speaker 8: you know, throw the right and then it's pretty much like, okay,
Speaker 8: if he's gonna get you to chase upstairs, you're not
Speaker 8: gonna win up there. This guy's tall ball just sumps
Speaker 8: out of his hand. But then did a very good
Speaker 8: job fouling balls off, starting with the first three guys.
Speaker 8: Actually they took seventeen pitches in the first inning, and
Speaker 8: then the long bats that just works guys out, and
Speaker 8: before you know it, they forced him down to the zone.
Speaker 8: No matter how hard you throw, it's much easier to
Speaker 8: hit downstairs day than there's upstairs.
Speaker 2: Yamamoto is the most underrated pitcher in baseball, and I
Speaker 2: feel like Tommy Yedman might be the most underrated piece
Speaker 2: in this Dodger lineup. Since he's come back, he has
Speaker 2: made this thing go to another level.
Speaker 8: He's a presence Dave in so many ways. Number one
Speaker 8: is he can hit him anywhere one through nine and
Speaker 8: he's not going to change.
Speaker 3: It could be on.
Speaker 8: Him on driving and runs, on driving, on driving the baseball,
Speaker 8: on leading up an inning, and he's not going to change.
Speaker 3: That's what makes him so valuable.
Speaker 8: That's why Andrew Freeman was out for him for so
Speaker 8: many years as a cardinal right.
Speaker 3: And then the big.
Speaker 8: Of the situation, the smaller he gets. And that's something
Speaker 8: you explained to me he'd learned over in Saint Louis. Say, hey,
Speaker 8: I known from the big bows over there. Just don't
Speaker 8: let it get too big. Just get a little bit
Speaker 8: smaller with your own, with your swing, everything else. And
Speaker 8: you know, it's good to see. Another thing from from
Speaker 8: Tommy Evan that we haven't witnessed really in a couple
Speaker 8: of years since you've joined the Dodgers, is now he's
Speaker 8: really more free on the basis and taking the extra
Speaker 8: base that ankleou was operating on there, being very careful
Speaker 8: with it, but he's getting better, moves, better jumps on
Speaker 8: the basis, but also on the defensive side.
Speaker 2: Don't you feel like the Dodgers today were gifted at
Speaker 2: least four or five extra outs. They have a utility
Speaker 2: guy playing right field and Max Schuman. He had three
Speaker 2: misplays that led to extra pitches for Cam Schlittler and
Speaker 2: it led to extra runs. And then you had Ryan
Speaker 2: McMahon losing a ball in the sun and that allowed
Speaker 2: Max Munsey to get on and score. I don't know
Speaker 2: about you, Jose, but I'm not very impressed by this
Speaker 2: Yankees team.
Speaker 8: They're not playing good baseball overall consistently, even though they
Speaker 8: lead their wild card. You're just not seeing that team
Speaker 8: that you know can do a lot of them. Yeah,
Speaker 8: they're missing here in judge, but we know that consider this,
Speaker 8: that made twenty more ears than the Dodgers have, and
Speaker 8: the Dollars obviously a very good defensive team as of late,
Speaker 8: not as well. But that's just a little way they're
Speaker 8: going through. It just tells you a lot how much
Speaker 8: they have to score.
Speaker 3: To win games. That's the way.
Speaker 8: Too many errors, and even though the pitcher will respond to,
Speaker 8: their pitching is very good overall collectively, but just it
Speaker 8: seems like it's fragmented and who's starting, who's not starting,
Speaker 8: which guy's coming? A little open because when they allow runs,
Speaker 8: they allow a lot of runs. But I know that
Speaker 8: Aaron Boon would like to see more consistency in both ways,
Speaker 8: with or without Aaron judge, what do you.
Speaker 2: Think this second game goes? How do you think this
Speaker 2: goes in the second game of this doubleheader?
Speaker 8: If we get about the first two, just go out
Speaker 8: there and win a series, which you already have done.
Speaker 8: But think about this game is a key for I'd
Speaker 8: like to see more relieve guys go multiple innings because
Speaker 8: now you only have three with games after this for
Speaker 8: the off day, so I'll like to see you. We'll
Speaker 8: client at least get you through two and then from
Speaker 8: there on go out and get it done. But for
Speaker 8: the offense, don't expect another high scoring game. Make sure
Speaker 8: you go out there and just keep your at bats going.
Speaker 8: And if anybody youngster shows up, make him earn because
Speaker 8: you are the LA.
Speaker 3: Dodgers, all right.
Speaker 2: Before I let you go what you got, you consider
Speaker 2: that we are friends. Right, We're friends, right, I would
Speaker 2: say so, even though you haven't said that. The invitation
Speaker 2: you're for dinner. So if it makes me an outsider
Speaker 2: or not, but well, I feel like say that maybe
Speaker 2: that's the reason why yesterday when I was talking to
Speaker 2: you and your wife with your grandson right there in
Speaker 2: the Team Hotel, I had forgotten to wash off toothpaste
Speaker 2: on a pimple that I was trying to dry out
Speaker 2: and I was talking to you for thirty minutes right
Speaker 2: and after I after I left the Team Hotel, I
Speaker 2: walked thirty blocks, went into a pizza place, ordered pizza,
Speaker 2: a slice of pizza. So you went from the fiftieth
Speaker 2: or fifty first to what to twenty sixth street?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: And I went into a pizza place, ordered a pizza
Speaker 2: with toothpaste on my forehead, ate the pizza and walked
Speaker 2: to a bookstore. I was trying to get a Roberto
Speaker 2: Baggio autograph copy of his book. They sold out, They
Speaker 2: sold out, and then I come here to do an
Speaker 2: Instagram live and I see the toothpaste on my forehead
Speaker 2: and I think back that you were and Joe Davis
Speaker 2: talked to me and never said a word that I
Speaker 2: had toothpaste on my forehead.
Speaker 3: Damn, here's what I saw.
Speaker 8: I'm like, as David Vesse, why would toothpas be on
Speaker 8: your forehead number one to dry out pimple. Oh, so
Speaker 8: I'm saying he's he's trying something new, you know, like
Speaker 8: it's Madison, it's Fifth Avenue. Maybe he went to some
Speaker 8: the stores, fancy stores. They're like, hey, put this on
Speaker 8: your forehead, maybe it'll curse something.
Speaker 3: But I saw something.
Speaker 8: I'm like, I'm not gonna say it's something because I
Speaker 8: know you treating your pimple.
Speaker 2: So did your wife even say, like, why did he
Speaker 2: have that on his forehead?
Speaker 8: And I said, I'm sure he's treating something. I always obvious.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I can't believe that. I was wondering
Speaker 2: why people were looking at me so weird. But the
Speaker 2: moda is never blinked. You treated me.
Speaker 8: You didn't treat me like a leoper, respectfully saying he's
Speaker 8: taking care of something in his face. It's just not
Speaker 8: say anything because you'll go hell. Oh, thank you for watching.
Speaker 8: But you know, I just make sure my pimple's will
Speaker 8: to take care of.
Speaker 2: If I had something between my teeth, would you tell me,
Speaker 2: Jose you seem like the type of guy that would
Speaker 2: not After yesterday, I only if you're gonna.
Speaker 3: Go on TV.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, good to know wow on radio for what?
Speaker 2: So there's the background on the toothpaste on my forehead
Speaker 2: that you never next time?
Speaker 3: Next time, I'll just touching and smelling. Hey, hey, you
Speaker 3: got a tooth POSENTI for it. Thank you, Helse, thanks
Speaker 3: a lot for stopping by.
Speaker 2: Thank you to Steven Nelson for lending his headset to
Speaker 2: Bob Costas and Jose Mota today. Oh yeah, no doubt
Speaker 2: Steven song, Yes, yes muchis gressis age six six nine
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number the Dodgers
Speaker 2: beat the Yankees eight to two in Game one of
Speaker 2: this day night doubleheader. Let's take a couple of more
Speaker 2: phone calls before we uh send it back to Fox
Speaker 2: Sports Radio and all of the affiliates out there as
Speaker 2: We will rejoin you at three o'clock and Tim Kates
Speaker 2: and Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck, no toothpaste anymore, still
Speaker 2: drawing it out and first pitch coming up at four twenty.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are going with a bullpen game. They have
Speaker 2: pushed back Emitt Sheen to tomorrow because Otani is not
Speaker 2: going to start on Wednesday, and TBD on when he
Speaker 2: may make his next pitching start. So it will be
Speaker 2: Emmett Sheen on the mount for the Dodgers Monday, and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are going with the bullpen game.
Speaker 3: Will klinb will open.
Speaker 2: Landon Knack is on standby at some point in this
Speaker 2: game as well, And as far as the Dodger rotation goes,
Speaker 2: it'll be Sheehan tomorrow, Robleski back in Philly on Tuesday
Speaker 2: the All Star and Eric Lower On Wednesday, the day
Speaker 2: that Otani was supposed to make the start, Bob Costas
Speaker 2: was in the booth talking shop with Rick Monday and
Speaker 2: Steven Nelson, and it was so cool that Stephen lent
Speaker 2: his headset to Bob to join us with Oral Herscheizer
Speaker 2: in the booth Bob orl Hersheizer. Roger Clemens will be
Speaker 2: on the call for Sunday Night Baseball on TV, and
Speaker 2: he shared one of the classic stories of the eighty
Speaker 2: eight World Series with us.
Speaker 9: So here's what happened right Game four of the World Series.
Speaker 9: The Dodgers are up two games to one, but not
Speaker 9: only is Gibson out he had only that one swing,
Speaker 9: one of the most epics in the history of the game,
Speaker 9: but Mike Marshall's out, So the entire Dodger lineup has
Speaker 9: fewer home runs than Canseko or mguire individually, So why
Speaker 9: say something that's completely pertinent and true. Pitching aside and
Speaker 9: Dodger pitching is excellent, this may be the weakest lineup
Speaker 9: ever to take the field for a World Series game.
Speaker 9: That's all that Lasorda had to hear. The game is
Speaker 9: on in the clubhouse and the visitors club and he
Speaker 9: goes nuts see even f and Costas, blah blah blah,
Speaker 9: and then apparently according to oral, the chant becomes kill Costas,
Speaker 9: kill Costas. Right now, I don't know anything about this,
Speaker 9: So now the pregame's over, I throw it upstairs to
Speaker 9: Vin and Joe. I'm looking to get off the field,
Speaker 9: but now they start the anthem. It don't want to
Speaker 9: be disrespectful, so I fall in at the end of
Speaker 9: the line. He's at the end because he's the next
Speaker 9: night's pitcher. He's gonna clitch it, as it turns out
Speaker 9: in Game five, and he looks down over his shoulder
Speaker 9: and he goes, boy, you really got Tommy going the guys.
Speaker 10: I have no idea what the hell he's talking about.
Speaker 9: Then I find out afterwards, So Lasorda pulls every rabbit
Speaker 9: out of his hat in the game squeeze play, gives
Speaker 9: Mike Davis the hit sign on three at Aero, and
Speaker 9: Davis homers everything a manager can do.
Speaker 10: So they name Lasorda the player.
Speaker 3: Of the game.
Speaker 9: First thing he says, tomorrow, Albert is the player of
Speaker 9: the game, should be Bob Costas. Then I walk over
Speaker 9: and get into the shot, and he says, with a
Speaker 9: complete spole in his face, winking at me, Thanks Bob,
Speaker 9: We'll call you when we need you again. Okay, So
Speaker 9: everybody knows it's a joke, except most of the people
Speaker 9: in the media. Now, the next day, I got to
Speaker 9: go into Larussa's office.
Speaker 10: He's in a foul humor to begin with.
Speaker 9: His one hundred and four win team is down three
Speaker 9: games to one and about to face her scheiser in
Speaker 9: game fight, so their doom is just about set. And
Speaker 9: I got to explain to Larusa that I wasn't in
Speaker 9: cahoots with Tommy Lushorda. But to this day I could
Speaker 9: be in la at the ballpark and some guy will say, hey, Bob,
Speaker 9: love you love your work. I forgive you for what
Speaker 9: you said about the Dodgers. No one knows the story,
Speaker 9: and no one wants to see the true story because
Speaker 9: it ruins it.
Speaker 10: It's a better story. The false story is a better story.
Speaker 2: Or do you want you want to chant it? Want
Speaker 2: to kill costas together? Want to chant that?
Speaker 3: Right now? Can you repeat what you just told? Rick
Speaker 3: Monday and Stephen Nelson?
Speaker 2: All cy youngs are not created equally, and this guy's
Speaker 2: eighty eight cy Young certainly shouldn't be.
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, all cy Young awards are not created equal.
Speaker 9: Bob Gibson in sixty eight is not equal to If
Speaker 9: there's such a thing as a generic cy Young.
Speaker 3: Like Mark Davis in nineteen eighty nine, Well.
Speaker 10: We don't want it.
Speaker 9: We don't want to downgrade anybody.
Speaker 10: I totally get it. I totally get it.
Speaker 9: Justin Verlander thinks he should have won a fourth instead
Speaker 9: of Rick Porcello.
Speaker 10: And sometimes you know what happens if a guy.
Speaker 9: Has won x number of MVPs, X number of cy
Speaker 9: Young's already certified for the Hall of Fame, and some
Speaker 9: guy has the year of his life, at least some voters.
Speaker 2: Go, ah, what the heck? This is his one shot out? Yeah,
Speaker 2: how about that? That's that was pretty special. Bob Costas
Speaker 2: in the boo sharing that story from nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: I was twelve years old and the eighty eight Dodgers
Speaker 2: were larger than life. They certainly were David to the
Speaker 2: Mets Goliath and the A's Goliath that year, and they
Speaker 2: beat those two one hundred win teams to go on
Speaker 2: and win that magical nineteen eighty eight championship. It was
Speaker 2: the second championship in the decade of the eighties. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers won with Tommy Lasorda. Of course, our guy Rick
Speaker 2: Monday back in the Bronx won it with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty one. Funny how they never show the
Speaker 2: highlights of the nineteen eighty one World Series at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2: They never seemed to show those highlights, just like they
Speaker 2: haven't showed Freddie Freeman's walk off Grand Slam since we've
Speaker 2: been here. You wonder why, right, But the booze that
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman gets from some of the Yankees faithful is
Speaker 2: still heartwarming because that was one of the more special
Speaker 2: performances not only in Game one, but that entire World
Speaker 2: Series by Freddie Freeman. He essentially was the Dodger offense
Speaker 2: with an assist from Garret Cole and Anthony Rizzo and
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge in Game five of the twenty four World Series.
Speaker 3: All right, that'll do it for us on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: In case you missed any of the show, you know
Speaker 2: where to find it the iHeartRadio app. We'll rejoin you
Speaker 2: at three o'clock with Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck. I
Speaker 2: had a first pitch of Game two of this day
Speaker 2: night doubleheader between the Dodgers and Yankees. Otani will be
Speaker 2: leading off and dhing for the Dodgers. It will be
Speaker 2: a bullpen game started by Will Klein. Thanks to Colin
Speaker 2: Yee back at our Burbank studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald
Speaker 2: out here at Yankee Stadium. Great to have Rick Monday
Speaker 2: and Steven Nelson have to weather a Dodger Talk live.
Speaker 2: I've never had a live in person studio audience. But
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you, thank you. Couldn't have done it
Speaker 2: without you, guys, especially you.
Speaker 3: Rick. The wind beneath my wings. Hey, they're doing the wave.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Last time these two guys were sitting in those chairs
Speaker 2: before Friday night was Game five of the twenty four
Speaker 2: World Series. So one more game in the Bronx before
Speaker 2: the Dodgers busted to Philadelphia once again. The final score
Speaker 2: behind yamamotos complete game. The Dodgers beat the Yankees eight
Speaker 2: to two. Will rejoin you at three o'clock. By the way,
Speaker 2: still no score in that soccer game. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: a barn burner.
Speaker 3: See up