Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begne.
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Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
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Speaker 1: Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vasse with you until eleven thirty tonight from Uniclo
Speaker 2: Field at Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers defeat the Mariners six
Speaker 2: to two. We have phone lines open at eight six
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven two five seventy. Jose Mota will
Speaker 2: join us at eleven fifteen. We have two pairs of
Speaker 2: tickets to give away to Sunday Night Baseball here at
Speaker 2: the Ravine.
Speaker 1: Dodgers Red Side.
Speaker 2: So if you come strong, if you have any trade deadline,
Speaker 2: trade talk, trade talk, mind numbing, trade talk, questions, comments, opinions,
Speaker 2: that's how we're gonna give away these tickets at eight
Speaker 2: six six nine, eight seven two five seventy we.
Speaker 1: Will hear from Eric Lower, who is very aware of the.
Speaker 2: Situation at hand as we get closer to Monday's trade deadline,
Speaker 2: which is at noon Pacific time this coming Monday, so
Speaker 2: Lower understands what's going on. The Dodgers were very transparent
Speaker 2: with him when he was acquired from the Blue Jays,
Speaker 2: so we'll get to him. And also we'll get to
Speaker 2: show Hail Tani, who's not in the starting lineup tonight
Speaker 2: as the knee was the left knee was a little sore,
Speaker 2: and the Dodger trainers and Dave Roberts decided to give
Speaker 2: him a night off, thinking big picture, Otani will be
Speaker 2: back in the starting lineup tomorrow dhing for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Tonight's DH hit a home run. That was ta Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 2: Ta Oscar Hernandez, who you know, was doing really well
Speaker 2: going into the All Star break and came out of
Speaker 2: it a little bit of a slump, but started to
Speaker 2: really get things going again, and he homers tonight and
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing hit a three run home run, so that's
Speaker 2: a good thing. And Mookie Betts was in a great
Speaker 2: mood today. You saw it right away when he walked
Speaker 2: into the clubhouse. You could feel it, and MOOKI has
Speaker 2: to be reminded sometimes about how good he is, and
Speaker 2: when the confidence is up, the performance goes up as well.
Speaker 2: It's been a rough July for Mookie, obviously, and you
Speaker 2: just hope that he can pick himself up going into
Speaker 2: the end of September and into October. Eight six, six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. I
Speaker 2: felt like it's important to point out with Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, everybody focuses on the viral moments that
Speaker 2: he has had, and albeit in the first half of
Speaker 2: the year, you haven't really seen any one of those
Speaker 2: viral moments since the All Star break, and even going
Speaker 2: into the All Star break, seems like he's done a
Speaker 2: better job of keeping his emotions in check. Look, part
Speaker 2: of the reason that Dalton Rushing is good is because
Speaker 2: he plays with the chip on his shoulder and he's
Speaker 2: looking to not just beat you, but embarrass you at times,
Speaker 2: and that has lent itself to him being one of
Speaker 2: the best players in the Dodgers' minor leagues the last
Speaker 2: few years, which earned them this opportunity to be on
Speaker 2: the opening day roster and here he is now playing
Speaker 2: seventy two games. Nobody thought Dalton Rushing would play seventy
Speaker 2: two games before the month of August, but with the
Speaker 2: entry to Will Smith the inflamed disc in his neck,
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing has played twenty more games now than Will
Speaker 2: Smith this season. Fifty two games before he got hurt,
Speaker 2: Will Smith was hitting two forty nine with forty three hits,
Speaker 2: six home runs, and twenty three RBIs. Dalton Rushing in
Speaker 2: seventy two games is hitting two fifty nine with twelve
Speaker 2: home runs and thirty six RBIs and an ops over
Speaker 2: eight hundred. So my point is not many teams a
Speaker 2: can lose a player the caliber of Will Smith and
Speaker 2: have a guy like Dalton Rushing ready to go number two.
Speaker 2: Everybody that tried to embarrass Dalton Rushing on social media
Speaker 2: by replaying those emotional outbursts and his immaturity at times,
Speaker 2: how about giving him some shine now when he's letting
Speaker 2: the bat do all the talking and he's doing a
Speaker 2: great job catching Roki Sasaki the last three starts again,
Speaker 2: twelve home runs, thirty six RBIs. He has a big
Speaker 2: home run tonight against Brian Wood, a three run home
Speaker 2: run to put this game away. Uh, at some point
Speaker 2: you're going to have to acknowledge that he's doing really
Speaker 2: well on the field and forget about what you see
Speaker 2: what you I should say what you saw in the
Speaker 2: dugout because he's maturing run in front of our eyes.
Speaker 2: And I know there were a lot of questions if
Speaker 2: Will Smith was not able to come back this year,
Speaker 2: could the Dodgers trust Dalton Rushing to keep his emotions
Speaker 2: in check when the emotions run higher than ever in
Speaker 2: the postseason. But I feel like he is starting to
Speaker 2: show some of that maturity to keep his emotions in check.
Speaker 2: And ta Oscar Hernandez, you know, speaking to the media,
Speaker 2: actually gave us a little hint that Will Smith is
Speaker 2: doing more and more and is going to hit tomorrow.
Speaker 2: When Taoscar Hernandez said Smith was going to hit, that
Speaker 2: means Smith is going to either hit in the cage
Speaker 2: or he's actually going to come out tomorrow and take
Speaker 2: part in batting practice for the first time since going
Speaker 2: on the IL. So that's a good sign as well.
Speaker 2: But can we just give Dalton Rushing some credit here.
Speaker 2: He's done a hell of a job and he's done
Speaker 2: a much better job of maturing as he has gotten
Speaker 2: more playing time. Eight six seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Mariners six to two tonight.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Hollywood. Casey, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Lead us off.
Speaker 4: Hey, David, Hell, are we doing here?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great right now.
Speaker 4: I guess we'll just perfect perfect Well, let's just just
Speaker 4: jump off to a Dalton rushing, just keep this going.
Speaker 4: First off, I just want to say, the guy's doing fantastic,
Speaker 4: having solid at bats. And I got to say when
Speaker 4: he was having those outbursts earlier in the year, I
Speaker 4: loved it, man. I love my players having passion. I
Speaker 4: like him keeping that fire alive, especially during the Giant
Speaker 4: Series when he had that moment at a home plate,
Speaker 4: you know, and then they threw a pitch at him,
Speaker 4: and where they throw it at it was just throw
Speaker 4: it at one of our guys and then the sliding
Speaker 4: on that. That's baseball. There's a lot of fun. He's
Speaker 4: doing good and I'm confident with him behind the plate,
Speaker 4: hoping Will Smith can come back. But if he doesn't,
Speaker 4: are we going to trade for a catcher? And that's
Speaker 4: what I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2: About Well, it doesn't sound like the Dodgers are in
Speaker 2: need of a big league veteran backup catcher right now
Speaker 2: because Smith is coming back. I will say this, if
Speaker 2: the Dodgers do feel like, uh, there's not a roster
Speaker 2: spot to get call more playing time with Keiky Hernandez back,
Speaker 2: I can envision the Dodgers going out and getting a
Speaker 2: veteran big league catcher as insurance, like a Travis Darnault
Speaker 2: from the Angels, and carry three catchers. I could see that.
Speaker 2: But right now it looks like things are trending in
Speaker 2: the right direction for Will Smith. Thanks for the phone call, Casey,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Eight sixty six nine to eighty seven seventy.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Art, who is at the ballpark tonight. Hi, Art,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hey, David. So, I just saw this online and I
Speaker 5: saw that the USA Today writer Bob Nightingale wrote that
Speaker 5: Karen Scoople's first choice at free agency is Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: So how can I be surprised at something like that? Yeah,
Speaker 5: you shouldn't be, now, So, like, can you just imagine
Speaker 5: what that would be like with all the guys going
Speaker 5: at it and just fighting fighting for fighting for a
Speaker 5: spot in a rotation. That that would be awesome. I mean,
Speaker 5: like the rest of baseball and everybody would you know,
Speaker 5: definitely come hard and then maybe the whole nation would
Speaker 5: be against Dodger Nation. But you know, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like that, that would just be that'd just
Speaker 5: be awesome to see.
Speaker 2: I would love that on the Dodgers staff because he's
Speaker 2: a two time sign Award winner and arguably one of
Speaker 2: the best left handers or arguably the best left hander,
Speaker 2: the best pitcher in baseball. But the other part of
Speaker 2: the equation is he doesn't just have talent, he has
Speaker 2: the work ethic and that kind of sets the tone
Speaker 2: for the rest of the staff. And he would fit
Speaker 2: in perfectly with Otani and Yamamoto on the staff as
Speaker 2: far as work ethic goes Robleski those guys. To have
Speaker 2: a guy like Schoobole in the weight room, in the
Speaker 2: bullpen sessions, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: He would be a great fit.
Speaker 2: And that's part of the reason why it makes a
Speaker 2: lot more sense for the Dodgers to sign Schoolble at
Speaker 2: the end of the season going into next year, depending
Speaker 2: on where they're at and what the new CBA looks
Speaker 2: like more than treating for him at this point in time.
Speaker 2: So I continue to hear about the Tampa Bay Rays
Speaker 2: going to be aggressive at the trade deadline and going
Speaker 2: to be aggressive to try to acquire Schooble. So we'll
Speaker 2: see where it plays out. Let's go out to Sean
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. Sean, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: If Will Smith is gonna be back?
Speaker 6: Obviously they're not in a big need for a catcher,
Speaker 6: But if they were gonna get a third guy, how
Speaker 6: about Ben Rortvett.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: I hate to use this phrase, but that's the laziest
Speaker 2: idea I have ever heard. There are other catchers out
Speaker 2: there not named Ben Rohtfitt that can do a pretty
Speaker 2: good job.
Speaker 6: Wasn't Ben a real good fit with the pitching staff
Speaker 6: last year?
Speaker 1: He was really good with really good starters. I thought
Speaker 1: he was good. Yes he was.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying that you bring in Ben Rohtfitt,
Speaker 2: how is that going to make Rushing feel We're back
Speaker 2: in the same quagmire as last year, where you know,
Speaker 2: Rushing was squeezed out. So I just don't think that
Speaker 2: would be the right message to send. A Dalton rushing
Speaker 2: to acquire Ben Rohtvett. All right, thank you for the
Speaker 2: phone call. I don't know what else to say to that.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number Dodger talk going until eleven thirty tonight.
Speaker 2: I continue to believe the Dodgers have interest in the
Speaker 2: Mets right hander Clay Holmes, who would be a really
Speaker 2: good fit for the Dodgers because he can be a
Speaker 2: guy that can come out of the bullpen in the postseason,
Speaker 2: can be a starter for the rest of the regular season,
Speaker 2: and also if you need one in the postseason, he
Speaker 2: can do that for you as well. But I just
Speaker 2: think back to what Andrew Friedman and Brandon Gomes talked
Speaker 2: about going into each of the last two postseasons. We're
Speaker 2: going to go with the thirteen best pitchers for the staff,
Speaker 2: not putting them in a box of a starter or
Speaker 2: a reliever.
Speaker 1: You saw the Dodgers Yu.
Speaker 2: Shehan, Glass Now Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, and Roles that we
Speaker 2: haven't seen him in And that's why I believe Clay
Speaker 2: Holmes would be a great fit for the thirteen best
Speaker 2: pitchers for an October staff. A pretty good in his
Speaker 2: day in October is going to get honored rightfully. So
Speaker 2: our guy Oral Herschheiser is being honored by the Hollywood
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Speaker 2: of Fame. That's happening on August thirteenth. It's open to
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Speaker 2: So put that in your notepads and your calendars. Be
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Speaker 2: All right, we're going to take a time out. When
Speaker 2: we come back, you'll hear from Eric Louer had him
Speaker 2: on the pregame show. He shared his thoughts about the
Speaker 2: trade rumors surrounding him. We'll share that with you and
Speaker 2: also Jose Mota will check in at eleven fifteen plus
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Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy. Dodgers beat the Mariners six
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Speaker 7: This is Dodger talk with David Bassi. A one pitch
Speaker 7: swung on hammer deep to right failed this Paul's back.
Speaker 7: It is gone unless Seattle til pen. Dalton Rushing a
Speaker 7: three run shot for the Dodger catcher.
Speaker 1: It is five and I good.
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing doing a phenomenal job, growing on the job.
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Speaker 2: us in ten minutes. We have phone lines open at
Speaker 2: eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. I
Speaker 2: have two pairs of tickets to give away to this
Speaker 2: Sunday's Dodgers Red Sox game, so you gotta wow me
Speaker 2: to get those tickets. And so far I have been underwhelmed.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Eric Lower poured out his heart to
Speaker 2: us before the game today, had a great time talking
Speaker 2: to lour And if you listened to the interview before
Speaker 2: the game, if you can tell me the fun fact
Speaker 2: that Eric Lower served to us, I will give you
Speaker 2: a pair of those tickets for Sunday night's game. If
Speaker 2: you can tell me the fun fact about Eric that
Speaker 2: we had no clue about, I will give you those
Speaker 2: pair tickets for Sunday at eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. But we got to Eric Lower
Speaker 2: being very candid after the game last night, very aware
Speaker 2: of the fact that when he was acquired by the
Speaker 2: Dodgers that this could be a short term thing until
Speaker 2: Snell and Glass now and Otani got healthy.
Speaker 1: Well, here we are Lower.
Speaker 2: Nine starts in and the Dodgers are nine to zero
Speaker 2: when Eric Lower is on the mound.
Speaker 1: Eight starts.
Speaker 2: One was with an opener, but for all intentsive purposes,
Speaker 2: basically nine starts because he pitched six perfect innings after
Speaker 2: the opener in Minnesota. So Lower's aware that the trade
Speaker 2: deadline is on Monday, and his name has been put
Speaker 2: out there publicly by the Athletic that the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: considering flipping Lour to help bolster their minor league system
Speaker 2: because it's a little thin, very little international spending money,
Speaker 2: low draft picks, giving up draft picks, being dropped down
Speaker 2: in the draft in the amateur draft because of being
Speaker 2: so high in the luxury tax threshold. So it makes
Speaker 2: sense from a baseball operation standpoint, and Lower understands that,
Speaker 2: but express to us how much he wants to stay
Speaker 2: in LA.
Speaker 1: You probably don't even know what I do, right, You
Speaker 1: have no idea what I do.
Speaker 8: I know you talking to a microphone.
Speaker 2: Exactly, But I host the postgame show and take calls
Speaker 2: from fans. Yeah, okay, big revelation, Right, you told me
Speaker 2: something about yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what I do.
Speaker 2: And fans, Dodger fans, in this short period of time,
Speaker 2: have expressed to me the emotional attachment they have to
Speaker 2: Eric Lower and don't want you to go anywhere.
Speaker 6: I don't want to go anywhere.
Speaker 8: I know, I know.
Speaker 2: But what you said after the game last night, not
Speaker 2: a lot of guys would admit just how what front
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were with them. Where you today As we
Speaker 2: get closer to Monday, how are you handling all that.
Speaker 8: I'm trying to stay off social media as much as
Speaker 8: possible because I know my wife's on top of that
Speaker 8: and she's telling me everything that's being said and all
Speaker 8: the thoughts and predictions and whatnot out there. And I mean,
Speaker 8: I knew coming in, like I said, it was like
Speaker 8: I wasn't doing great to beget in the year, and
Speaker 8: I wasn't in a great spot when I came over here.
Speaker 8: So I think if I wasn't able to accept that,
Speaker 8: you know, this might be the situation, they might you know,
Speaker 8: be testing me out see something that they think that
Speaker 8: they can help me with, and they definitely have to
Speaker 8: just get me back to where I should be. And
Speaker 8: you know, my goal was to come in and you know,
Speaker 8: make the decision really hard for him, if that was
Speaker 8: their plan all along, it was, it was to make
Speaker 8: the decision really hard and being like, are we actually
Speaker 8: willing to give up this guy?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 8: And I think I've done a pretty decent job of
Speaker 8: that so far. And you know, I'm I've gotten pretty
Speaker 8: close with the entire team, the staff, like everybody around here.
Speaker 6: So I'm I'm.
Speaker 8: More than more than hoping that I don't get traded.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Same here.
Speaker 2: The radio guy likes you a lot too, So I
Speaker 2: hope in Chicago on Tuesday you're still wearing Dodger blue.
Speaker 1: But obviously there's a lot of moving parts.
Speaker 2: And like I said, everybody has grown an emotional attachment
Speaker 2: to Eric Lawer. So thank you, and we'll see you.
Speaker 2: I'll see you tomorrow at least. Right, we'll be where
Speaker 2: our feet are, I.
Speaker 8: Think so, I hope so at least, But you know,
Speaker 8: I appreciate it all right.
Speaker 2: That was part of our conversation with Eric Lower, and
Speaker 2: he expressed how much he has loved being with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and he actually used the phrase that the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: spoken the language of Lower to bring the best out
Speaker 2: of him. And it seems like communication is a big
Speaker 2: part for him having a lot of success. And Mark
Speaker 2: Pryor knew Lower when he was just a young buck
Speaker 2: in San Diego. Both guys were young bucks. Now Pryor's
Speaker 2: got a lot of grand that beard and Lower, I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously he's going strong. So uh, it's been a great fit.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have gotten more out of Lower than anybody expected.
Speaker 2: I feel like to a certain extent. Even Lower shared
Speaker 2: that with us as well. But it's a numbers game,
Speaker 2: and right now the Dodgers are getting closer to being full,
Speaker 2: not only as a team, but as a pitching staff.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number, and to hear the full conversation with
Speaker 2: Eric Lower, you can find that on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to Indio. Matt, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 3: Matt?
Speaker 1: Was that really awkward between me and Lower? Do you
Speaker 1: feel like I handled that? Okay?
Speaker 6: Nah, you had a nice, good personal moment there, sharing
Speaker 6: a bit about yourself what you do? I thought that
Speaker 6: was good.
Speaker 2: I've only been around the guy for two mo months.
Speaker 2: He had no idea that I host this show until
Speaker 2: eleven thirty every night.
Speaker 6: How is that possible?
Speaker 10: Man?
Speaker 6: You do a good job.
Speaker 2: Hey man, I guess I guess they didn't have Blue
Speaker 2: Jay's Talk when Lower was playing over there.
Speaker 6: Nah, bro, we're we gotta we do it better over here.
Speaker 1: Let me will with you.
Speaker 2: Out there, Matt. You sound like you're really sleepy out
Speaker 2: there in Indio. That's an exciting town.
Speaker 6: Now I'm building. Oh no, I'm building man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you building out there?
Speaker 6: I'm using name where you know?
Speaker 1: Okay, got you?
Speaker 2: I understand all right now that we've gotten that out
Speaker 2: of the way, Matt, what do you have for me
Speaker 2: with Dodger Baseball?
Speaker 6: I got something on Emmett, something on Dalton, and something
Speaker 6: on Lower. So let me shoot you with uh Emmett first.
Speaker 6: And I don't nessary want this to happen, but I
Speaker 6: could see it that him being a Dustin May like
Speaker 6: last year. And I know the big difference is Dustin
Speaker 6: May wanted to stay a starter and she has already
Speaker 6: shown that he could, uh, he can perform well in
Speaker 6: the postseason coming out of a bullpen. So that's a
Speaker 6: big key difference there. Next Ruk, So.
Speaker 1: You're saying, keep she hand, but put him in the bullpen.
Speaker 6: Oh, I mean that's for sure. It's kind of like
Speaker 6: a given. If he can throw ninety eight coming out
Speaker 6: of the bullpen like last year, he's gonna do well
Speaker 6: for us.
Speaker 1: He has the potential, no doubt.
Speaker 9: Matt.
Speaker 1: What do you got to say about rushing?
Speaker 6: Rushing? I gotta start with the good and let me
Speaker 6: call it. Let me just call it right here first,
Speaker 6: And I see the future stoic version of Will Smith.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean. I do see a future
Speaker 6: stowage version.
Speaker 2: Do you think Alton Rushing is gonna turn into Will
Speaker 2: Smith's personality?
Speaker 6: Maybe not that level of stoic stoicism whatever, but I
Speaker 6: can see him being I can I can see it.
Speaker 6: And you're you're hearing the first here. And just to
Speaker 6: note on the little childish antics, I mean, I think
Speaker 6: they're all kind of justified. And let me just throw
Speaker 6: this cool little note out to you. As I was
Speaker 6: out in Philly for that three game set, I caught
Speaker 6: a game over there in which she him was he started,
Speaker 6: and I was in the I was in the bullpen
Speaker 6: out over there, you know, coaching, coaching the guy up
Speaker 6: and uh. When Dalton came up to close out the
Speaker 6: bullpen session, I told him, Hey, man, no no byes today.
Speaker 6: I was yelling at him, no byes today.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he took that to heart. Matt.
Speaker 2: Matt, I like I like style. You really cool yourself out.
Speaker 2: You're a great guy for a cure to insomnia. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you a pair of tickets to Sunday's
Speaker 2: Dodger game.
Speaker 1: Can you make it?
Speaker 6: Let's go baby, tell y.
Speaker 2: All right, Matt Dalton Rushing needs you. He needs to
Speaker 2: be coached up by you. Congratulations. You want a pair
Speaker 2: of tickets to see your back to back world champion
Speaker 2: Dodgers take on the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night baseball.
Speaker 2: First pitch is at four to twenty and Matt can
Speaker 2: listen to every Dodger game as well as you on
Speaker 2: a five to seventy LA Sports and stream on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app live from the gallpin Ford Broadcast booth. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go out to Culver City. Bruce appears to have
Speaker 2: listen to the pregame show and I like that full circle,
Speaker 2: Bruce staying with me from beginning to end tonight.
Speaker 10: Thanks David. I actually listen to usually as listen to
Speaker 10: the Dodger Talk on podcasts. So I listened to the
Speaker 10: podcast version of the interview, which is really good.
Speaker 6: I enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: Quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'll take it download.
Speaker 10: Yeah, No, every night, every night I listen to you guys.
Speaker 10: Eric Lauer, when he was with Milwaukee hit the last
Speaker 10: home run for the Milwaukee Brewers. That's a picture off
Speaker 10: of Chris Paddock and the padres.
Speaker 1: Hey there you go, Bruce. Good job.
Speaker 2: Congratulations you also are winning a pair of tickets to
Speaker 2: see the back to back world champion Dodgers take on
Speaker 2: the Chotterheads from Boston on Sunday night at four to twenty.
Speaker 2: Congratulations and thanks for being a loyal listener live and
Speaker 2: also on the podcast iHeartRadio app Appreciate.
Speaker 10: That, Bruce, absolutely, thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Let's go Dodgers, all.
Speaker 2: Right, hold on, Bruce, Colin will get your information. And
Speaker 2: don't forget Bruce. You can listen to every Dodger game
Speaker 2: on se LA Sports, stream it on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 2: live and podcast the show and all the interviews like
Speaker 2: you did from the gallpin Ford Broadcast booth. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how about that? Eric Lower was in the big leagues
Speaker 2: when pitchers still hit pictures could rake back in the day.
Speaker 2: Clayton Krushaw hit a big home run on opening Day
Speaker 2: of twenty thirteen against the San Francisco Giants, and Eric
Speaker 2: Lower has the distinction to hit the last home run
Speaker 2: in Brewer's history as a pitcher off of Chris Paddock.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Let's go out to Bob in Malibu.
Speaker 1: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Bob.
Speaker 11: I'm doing great, Dave, Hey, I appreciate the call. Two
Speaker 11: things I need before the trade deadline, Dave, Actually, one
Speaker 11: thing before the trade deadline.
Speaker 6: One thing for the end of the season.
Speaker 11: Number One, I think it would be great if we
Speaker 11: got a Roki Sasaki tops card this year with Mickey
Speaker 11: Hatcher's big glove. I think that would be perfect for Roki.
Speaker 11: It'd be a good inside joke right there on a card.
Speaker 2: Yes, uh faby and our DAYA tweet out that photo, Bob,
Speaker 2: no doubt that would be great.
Speaker 11: And number two, we need a Vic the Brick haiku
Speaker 11: about the trade deadline. We need a Dodgers haiku from
Speaker 11: Vic the Brick doing the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: Do they really need that?
Speaker 6: You tell me, Dave?
Speaker 11: Do we need one?
Speaker 1: Do we do we need one? Bob? I gotta run. Jose.
Speaker 1: Motive is on hold. All right, Let's check it with Jose.
Speaker 3: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Save me, Jose. It's been a wild night of Dodger
Speaker 2: talk phone calls tonight. Dalton Rushing. I feel like everybody
Speaker 2: was talking about, you know, the outbursts, the emotions the
Speaker 2: first half of the season, but it feels like everybody's
Speaker 2: ignoring what matters the most production behind the plate and
Speaker 2: him actually growing on the job.
Speaker 9: He has to grow on the job. This guy has
Speaker 9: really taken to, you know, a high responsibility, high profile job,
Speaker 9: replacing an all star catcher and Will Smith and you know,
Speaker 9: growing with the punches and growing with the you know,
Speaker 9: the mistakes he's made, admitting to the fact that needed
Speaker 9: to mature. And I think we really hit the wall
Speaker 9: was Johio Tani. That's it. I was like, the biggest
Speaker 9: wake up call you're going to call out with show
Speaker 9: how you got to really do something to correct it.
Speaker 9: And he's done it. He admitted it. He's moved on.
Speaker 9: But let me tell you somethingday now, we were talking
Speaker 9: about catchers and acquisitions. You know, there's teams that are
Speaker 9: interested in doesn't rushing. Are you surprised by that? I'm not.
Speaker 9: I mean, for all that we've seen and all the
Speaker 9: negative stuff you've seen the you know, some people exposed
Speaker 9: on social media, this guy is doing a very fine job.
Speaker 9: He's got some things to improve on. The pass balls
Speaker 9: are in the sure right now. He's got seven of them.
Speaker 9: But when he considered the things he's had to face,
Speaker 9: the pitchers he's handling, the bullpeny's handling. And one thing
Speaker 9: that we all missed yesterday with a visit to the
Speaker 9: mound with Eric Lauer, with cal Rally hitting and him
Speaker 9: taking the time to go, wait a minute, let's go
Speaker 9: to a different plan. So all those things that you
Speaker 9: see and that perhaps don't capture anybody's eye or cannot
Speaker 9: be written down, matter a whole lot to doubt and
Speaker 9: Russia because his last year he's been put to the
Speaker 9: test by Dave Roberts, and one needs to to be
Speaker 9: a better catcher, be a better kid, and be a
Speaker 9: better teammate. And so far, you know what, there's the
Speaker 9: fact that he's attracting attention around the league because he's
Speaker 9: doing a very good job.
Speaker 1: He's not going anywhere, I can guarante not that.
Speaker 9: No, he's not going anywhere, But I'm saying that's how
Speaker 9: high profile he's created for himself right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, he told me in New York he's lived
Speaker 2: through the trade deadline and his name being out there
Speaker 2: for the last two years, so he knows all about that.
Speaker 2: And also another part of all this is he seems
Speaker 2: to bring out the best in Roki Sasaki. He knows
Speaker 2: how to push Roki Sasaki to keep him engaged and
Speaker 2: keep him aggressive.
Speaker 9: Correct, And there's a big trust level there with those
Speaker 9: two communication openness to be inflexible. We're Roki. You got
Speaker 9: to be very careful how you threat those waters because
Speaker 9: he knows and where to push when not to, and
Speaker 9: he understands how to get to him. So there's so
Speaker 9: many factors, so many ways in which a catch you
Speaker 9: can help, and one of them sometimes just staying off
Speaker 9: of him and just say I trust you so much.
Speaker 9: And perhaps this calls for me to make a visit
Speaker 9: to the mountain, I'm not gonna do it because I
Speaker 9: knew that when I put the fingers down or make
Speaker 9: that call in the pitch, Colm, you're gonna trust it.
Speaker 9: What I put down is what we talked about, and
Speaker 9: you will be flexible enough Sasaki to understand that if
Speaker 9: I do it and I emphatically put something down or
Speaker 9: put that message down for you to listen to that pitch,
Speaker 9: I trust in you, and I'm going to block it
Speaker 9: for you and get the job done. So yeah, it
Speaker 9: goes both ways. So I'm glad it's working out nice
Speaker 9: for them both.
Speaker 2: What do you make of the fact that Roki, I know,
Speaker 2: everybody always focuses on whenever he throws one hundred miles
Speaker 2: an hour, but the trend for Roki this year has
Speaker 2: been to throw that split finger more and more.
Speaker 1: Coming into the game tonight.
Speaker 2: This month, he's thrown it thirty eight percent of the time,
Speaker 2: and it was thrown that many times tonight about thirty
Speaker 2: nine percent of the time.
Speaker 9: That's just a guy paying attention to reaction from the hitters,
Speaker 9: a guy having ninety nine one hundred in his pocket,
Speaker 9: watching the separation from between those pitches and also letting
Speaker 9: it fly, I mean away with that fork ball. That
Speaker 9: was just too much of a floating pitch. He still
Speaker 9: has it somewhere out there when he needs it, but
Speaker 9: it's a splitter, a two splitter. And what better example
Speaker 9: the fall than Shohil Tani and mostly Yoshinobo Yama Malta
Speaker 9: and the way they throw it where they throw it,
Speaker 9: you know, and learning that even though that pitch perhaps
Speaker 9: is not something that he had back in Japan, he
Speaker 9: had more to forkball, but complimented with a slider. But
Speaker 9: the splitter velocity. We saw a ninety three and a
Speaker 9: ninety four tonight, which tells you that he's not holding
Speaker 9: back mechanically, he's aligned properly and he's understanding more about
Speaker 9: but sequencing in the big leagues way different than Japan.
Speaker 9: And there's something that you know, I've asked him about
Speaker 9: going back to spring training, and it's a big lesson today.
Speaker 9: It's a big step to learn what that means, how
Speaker 9: to approach one through nine in the big league level.
Speaker 9: And I'm so happy to the fact that even when
Speaker 9: he's gotten into a little bit of trouble lately, he's
Speaker 9: found a way with his own stuff to become his
Speaker 9: own reliever.
Speaker 2: What did you make of the sixth inning tonight? Obviously
Speaker 2: Pa has slipped, He got a gift triple right there.
Speaker 2: He gave up a run, bases loaded, he couldn't get
Speaker 2: out of that jam. Dave Roberts brought in Jack Dryer.
Speaker 2: What did you make a bit the way he handled
Speaker 2: some adversity or didn't handle adversity in that sixth inning tonight?
Speaker 9: If you watch the approach by the Mariners, totally different.
Speaker 9: Kevin Seisser is a guy that was a good contact her.
Speaker 9: He talks, spray the baseball, be selective. Third time around.
Speaker 9: Second time around, they're saying, don't chase, don't spread his own,
Speaker 9: let him come into the zone. And then when he
Speaker 9: wasn't getting those swings and misses that he was getting earlier,
Speaker 9: then he got a little bit tentative, which is one
Speaker 9: thing he'll learn that he has to stay as aggressive
Speaker 9: as possible against a team like the Mariners, and if
Speaker 9: they're not chasing, you get back to the zone. First
Speaker 9: pitch of the ball game today against the lefty today, slider,
Speaker 9: first strike. That was the biggest indicator to me that
Speaker 9: he felt really good about the stuff. So when the
Speaker 9: lineup turns around and the more success he has, they
Speaker 9: you know quite well, the big guys, the guys that
Speaker 9: take the next step are the ones that make the
Speaker 9: biggest adjustments, not by shying away from the zone, but
Speaker 9: attacking in a different way. And he now has three
Speaker 9: pitches he can attack with and turning, he'll know and
Speaker 9: learn that he's got to stay with it and become
Speaker 9: a guy that wet and push himself and just looking
Speaker 9: that dugout and when you look to your manager and
Speaker 9: your pitching coach, I'm not coming out of this. I
Speaker 9: got still enough of me to attack his zone and
Speaker 9: get some guys out.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us on Dodger Talk after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Mariners six to two. Tonight's game was
Speaker 2: brought to you by Modello Modello The mark of a fighter.
Speaker 2: How about Dave Roberts springing in Edwin Diaz back to
Speaker 2: back nights. He wants to knock off that rust as
Speaker 2: quickly as possible.
Speaker 9: It seems like it seems like, you know these Dodgers players,
Speaker 9: we see a guy going the aos like get me
Speaker 9: back and get me to stay, which is something that
Speaker 9: was emphasized so much by Andrew Freeman yesterday. We want
Speaker 9: guys to get back, but we want guys to stay.
Speaker 9: That's it. It's like we don't want to be testing
Speaker 9: the waters in the big leagues. Suffer setback, but I'm glad.
Speaker 9: I mean, Edwin wants to be a closer. You know,
Speaker 9: Twner Scott is a guy that did a good job
Speaker 9: replacing him. But I like the decision made by Dave Roberts.
Speaker 9: I didn't expect them to put on the fire yesterday,
Speaker 9: but it was like, this is what he's coming back
Speaker 9: to why wait. Obviously there's some things that he's pitching
Speaker 9: for and things that he signed for. Obviously in terms
Speaker 9: of being a reliever and being a closer, which you
Speaker 9: have a lot of pride in and you know, like, look,
Speaker 9: Kelly Jansen, you come back. You're a closer. That's your
Speaker 9: job and that's what you've been done your entire life.
Speaker 9: And you don't want to mess with the psyche of it,
Speaker 9: mentality of it, aggressiveness of it. But Edwin has gotten
Speaker 9: a little bit better, and it's good to see Dave
Speaker 9: that the fastfall average a mile higher yesterday than he
Speaker 9: averaged in the month of April, which means that he
Speaker 9: is letting loose things are gonna get better at command,
Speaker 9: but certainly not holding back in velocity, and that's always
Speaker 9: a good sign for God like Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 1: All right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow night after the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: Red Sox hook up for the first time this season.
Speaker 9: Hey, Lward told me to ask you, what does that
Speaker 9: you do again?
Speaker 1: Exactly right? They think I just show up and make
Speaker 1: them laugh.
Speaker 9: You work hard to anybody, my friend.
Speaker 6: Be good?
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks Jose, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: There he goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish
Speaker 2: radio broadcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: Munsey even asked me, it's like, what do you do? Like,
Speaker 2: what's your actual title? I said, Monsey, I mean, how
Speaker 2: long have you been here twenty eighteen? You don't know
Speaker 2: my title? I mean, come on, I'm not just here,
Speaker 2: you know, for to be a punching bag twenty four
Speaker 2: to seven. I got a day job, and it's Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk until eleven thirty every damn night, live from the
Speaker 2: stadium or whatever stadium the Dodgers are in.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night, we're gonna continue the trade talk, trade talk,
Speaker 2: my numbing trade talk, and I have together my top
Speaker 2: five trades Andrew Friedman has pulled off at the deadline
Speaker 2: since he has been with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: See, I didn't even type it. I got I have
Speaker 1: a paper. I wrote it down on paper.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night we will get to it after the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and Red Sox square off for the first of three
Speaker 2: games this weekend. Tomorrow night, the Dodgers will go with
Speaker 2: a bullpen game. Edgardo Enriquez will open for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: The Red Sox are throwing three lefties at the Dodgers
Speaker 2: this series starting with ron Are Suarez or Ranger. Ranger
Speaker 2: Suarez is on the mound. He's four and three with
Speaker 2: an era at three zero two. Our coverage begins at
Speaker 2: six o'clock. First pitch at seven to ten from Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium with Rick Monday, Charlie Steiner and Tim Nevertt over
Speaker 2: on the Sports Net LA side. Mister Hollywood Star Walk
Speaker 2: of Fame Oral Herscheizer will be back in the booth
Speaker 2: with Joe Davis. He only you know when you have
Speaker 2: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and you're
Speaker 2: the eighty eight World Series MVP. The Cy Young should
Speaker 2: be Hall of Famer, should have been Cy Young Award
Speaker 2: winner in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 1: You only come back for.
Speaker 2: The big series, the Star Series. So or we'll be
Speaker 2: back in the house tomorrow night as well. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Dwayne McDonald.
Speaker 1: Where did Dwayne go?
Speaker 2: He left already? I mean, I guess he's like lower
Speaker 2: doesn't know what I do. Thanks to Colin Ye back
Speaker 2: at our Burbank studios, and thanks to you for listening
Speaker 2: in case you missed any of the show or a
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Speaker 2: Uniclow Field at Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers win another series
Speaker 2: and they beat the Mariners tonight six to two.
Speaker 1: Have a great rest of your night, Be safe, Seal
Speaker 1: the Time, all slander away and time semen.