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Speaker 1: David Vasse.
Speaker 3: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse live at Nationals Park
Speaker 3: in Washington, d C. After the Dodgers defeat the Nats
Speaker 3: again today, the final score ten to five.
Speaker 2: We're with you until five thirty tonight.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number coming up on the show.
Speaker 2: You'll hear from Alex Call.
Speaker 3: He had a scare before the game where he was
Speaker 3: hit by a bay.
Speaker 2: We'll tell that story later in the show.
Speaker 3: Also, I gotta give Will Smith some props being a
Speaker 3: pretty good umpire himself behind the plate, so we'll get
Speaker 3: to that as well. We'll get to the Dodger offense.
Speaker 3: But you know, the biggest concern out of this game.
Speaker 3: Even though the Dodgers win the game, they lose their
Speaker 3: stars shortstop in Mookie Betts, who was on base.
Speaker 2: Drew a one out walk in the first inning.
Speaker 3: Scored from first base on a Freddie Freeman double in
Speaker 3: the first inning, and as he crossed home plate it
Speaker 3: kind of looked a little awkward before he stepped on
Speaker 3: home plate and he walked back to the dugout. That's
Speaker 3: not abnormal sometimes in stadiums where home plate isn't that
Speaker 3: far from the dugout. But still he was taking it
Speaker 3: easy and he came out of the game. Miguel Rojas
Speaker 3: had to take over at shortstop the majority of the game,
Speaker 3: the last eight innings. And now Dave Robert is talking
Speaker 3: about an MRI for Mookie Bets. So I want to
Speaker 3: hear from the Dodger manager about Mookie Bets and his
Speaker 3: lower back.
Speaker 4: It was on running the basis scoring on that double,
Speaker 4: and so we're going to get some testing right now
Speaker 4: and we'll know more later. But it's certainly more moderate
Speaker 4: than you know significant. So like I said, we'll know
Speaker 4: more tomorrow.
Speaker 1: He's the one that started that.
Speaker 5: It will can kind of point that out him when
Speaker 5: he was no.
Speaker 4: I was actually talking about his at bat that I
Speaker 4: thought spurred that inning, and then I got when later
Speaker 4: that you know he had a sore back.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, unlikely to play tomorrow.
Speaker 6: That's right, That's right.
Speaker 4: So I think right now, I don't want to get
Speaker 4: too far ahead of what we're going to do.
Speaker 6: But you know, we'll see what.
Speaker 4: We'll huddle up and see if we need to get
Speaker 4: a player here to protect against us and if the
Speaker 4: m R. Depends on how the MR comes. But yeah,
Speaker 4: he certainly I'll be playing the next couple of days.
Speaker 4: I would assume tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6: Yes, given it's kind of the defense he is playing,
Speaker 6: I mean, the right the power he.
Speaker 1: Kind of showed at Dodger state of getting that one
Speaker 1: to the opposite fields.
Speaker 4: Is kind of have disappointed for him, Yeah, disappointed for
Speaker 4: him because you know, we're we're sort of starting to
Speaker 4: get going a little bit, and you know the way
Speaker 4: he's playing defense, and he's a big part of what
Speaker 4: we do, and so you know, anytime you miss, it's
Speaker 4: going to take some time to kind of get your footing.
Speaker 4: So I'm disappointed for him, but hopeful that it's not
Speaker 4: long term.
Speaker 7: I know you gave Day the day off the day.
Speaker 1: But that's just kind of underscore maybe with some of
Speaker 1: the you know, more ventering guys.
Speaker 8: So you kind of mixed in those those days offense.
Speaker 4: I think so, And I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 4: It's also nice when you can plug Alex call in
Speaker 4: and feel good about the defense and the ed bats
Speaker 4: and you know, tomorrow I'm going to give Kyle the
Speaker 4: day off and you know, insert Alex and again. And
Speaker 4: so I think, you know, kind of getting ahead of it,
Speaker 4: knowing you want to kind of you know, take care
Speaker 4: of guys and rest and when needed to also keep
Speaker 4: guys relevant is important.
Speaker 7: You know, it's like started hurting him as he was
Speaker 7: running or when he like kind of got back to
Speaker 7: the dougout.
Speaker 2: Word he felt it.
Speaker 4: He felt it as he was running.
Speaker 3: All right, there's manager Dave Roberts with some details about
Speaker 3: Mooki backs Mookie bets injuring his back in the first inning.
Speaker 3: And look, he's thirty three years old. Now, he's done
Speaker 3: a lot more weight training to gain back his weight
Speaker 3: this offseason and into spring training. We've seen him with
Speaker 3: sense YadA on his shoulders. So to me, this is
Speaker 3: a little concerning and honestly, as the Dodgers go through
Speaker 3: the summer with some of their older players like Muncie,
Speaker 3: Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman, Teoscar Hernandez. That's the concern injuries, right,
Speaker 3: You have to have a lot of luck when it
Speaker 3: comes to injuries to be able to withstand them. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers do have depth to be able to, you know,
Speaker 3: have somebody fill a position, but none of them are
Speaker 3: Mookie Beds or Freddie Freeman or Max Muntsey or Will Smith.
Speaker 3: We saw that last year when Will Smith broke his
Speaker 3: hand and missed six weeks of the season. So that is,
Speaker 3: to me, the only concern for the Dodgers trying to
Speaker 3: repeat and get themselves in a great position to make
Speaker 3: a run in October. It's some of these older players
Speaker 3: and at times you kind of see like the winters
Speaker 3: can be long sometimes as you get over thirty and
Speaker 3: closer to thirty five years old. So look that I'm
Speaker 3: not going to dismiss this injury. It's a back injury.
Speaker 3: Mookie plays a very demanding position now every day shortstop,
Speaker 3: so I would venture to say he's going on the
Speaker 3: injured list, and that's the prudent decision because the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: It's so early in the season. You don't want this
Speaker 3: lingering the rest of the year. Eight six, six nine,
Speaker 3: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 3: beat the Nationals today ten to five. Kyle Tucker was
Speaker 3: on base four times today. Shoho Tani did not homer,
Speaker 3: but he did have a couple of hits. Andy pa
Speaker 3: Has did homer. He had three hits. A three run
Speaker 3: home run in the fifth inning blew this game open.
Speaker 3: And Freddie Freeman hit his four hundred and forty ninth
Speaker 3: double and four hundred and fiftieth double or five hundred
Speaker 3: and forty ninth and five hundred and fiftieth doubles of
Speaker 3: his career. He passes Chipper Jones, his former teammate, for
Speaker 3: the most doubles or thirty second most doubles in baseball history.
Speaker 2: And he's just ten away.
Speaker 3: From five hundred and sixty doubles in his career, which
Speaker 3: would time with Eddie Murray and Jeff Kent. Tyler Glass
Speaker 3: Now pitched really good today. I feel like it's going
Speaker 3: to be a big year for Tyler Glass now. There
Speaker 3: just seems to be a lot more clarity with Glass now.
Speaker 3: He doesn't seem to be basically, you know, over overthinking things,
Speaker 3: and he talked about that in spring training. He's trusting
Speaker 3: the Dodgers pitching coaches, trusting the training staff, and that's
Speaker 3: allowed him to just go out there and pitch. And
Speaker 3: when he's out there, he's one of the best pitchers
Speaker 3: in the game, and we saw that today, especially with
Speaker 3: a big lead six innings, nine strikeouts. Let's head back
Speaker 3: downstairs to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from today's winning
Speaker 3: pitcher on sports.
Speaker 2: Net La Good.
Speaker 8: I think the beginning was a little bit more forcing
Speaker 8: heavy with the curveball, and I think as a game
Speaker 8: went on, just a little bit more left right stuff
Speaker 8: the two seam, a couple sliders, But yeah, I think
Speaker 8: I leaned on heaters are good about to saying some
Speaker 8: some timely curveballs.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 8: When you look at us your first two outings of
Speaker 8: this season, I mean, do you feel like you're personally
Speaker 8: kind of just building on each one and considering what
Speaker 8: you've been able to.
Speaker 2: Provide to death the results.
Speaker 8: Does it feel like you're kind of pushing yourself in
Speaker 8: a different way as well? Yeah, I think how I
Speaker 8: feel good and I think he's shot. I'm just trying
Speaker 8: to take that into the next week and build off
Speaker 8: of it. And I think this last start, in this start,
Speaker 8: we're pretty consistent, so I'm just trying to keep it going.
Speaker 5: Think about how you use the sequencing in the pitch mix.
Speaker 8: How does knowing that the rest of your pitches are
Speaker 8: playing up allow for the curveball to be that strikeout pitch. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I think today I kind of lost feel for it
Speaker 8: towards the end. But I do think if I'm throwing
Speaker 8: other stuff and like kind of getting lefties inside showing
Speaker 8: it away, and then I just think the curveball not
Speaker 8: showing it so frequently. I think guys definitely if it's
Speaker 8: coming out of the same tunnel, will swing at it.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I think early early on for strikes and
Speaker 8: then later it was I kind of only had it
Speaker 8: as a strikeout. But I do think it opens it
Speaker 8: up quite a bit.
Speaker 3: All Right, there's Tyler Glass now on Sports into LA
Speaker 3: and yeah, that's an interesting dynamic to his outing today.
Speaker 3: He did throw a lot of four seam fastballs, but
Speaker 3: he threw more curveballs today, so he was kind of
Speaker 3: pitching backwards. He used his sinker, used his fastball, but
Speaker 3: the pitch that he threw the.
Speaker 2: Most today was his curveball.
Speaker 3: And I think back to his last start of the spring,
Speaker 3: the Freeway Series against the Angels. The Dodgers also had
Speaker 3: a big inning that game where they scored a lot
Speaker 3: of runs in one inning. I believe they put up
Speaker 3: ten runs in the second or third inning of that
Speaker 3: game against the Angels in the Freeway Series, And.
Speaker 2: He said, yeah, I was kind of just trying to come.
Speaker 3: Up with a different routine to stay warm during that
Speaker 3: long inning, and when I got back out on the mound,
Speaker 3: it took a little bit for me to ramp up
Speaker 3: my fastball, so I was reading swings and also using
Speaker 3: my curveball until I got my.
Speaker 2: Fastball velocity back.
Speaker 3: So I think back to that start where he was
Speaker 3: throwing a lot of first pitch curveballs, a lot of curveballs,
Speaker 3: and today this start reminded me of that. And the
Speaker 3: very first inning it was a little bit not as
Speaker 3: long as that one, but the line was moving and
Speaker 3: the Dodgers scored five runs two innings of the game today,
Speaker 3: so they were making Jake Irvin work and extending innings.
Speaker 3: But yeah, interesting dynamic to Tyler Glass now this year
Speaker 3: where he's really relying heavily on his curveball. Today's game
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Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: I don't want to get too deep into the psyche
Speaker 3: of Tyler Glass now. All I can tell you is
Speaker 3: he's a different guy than what I've seen since he
Speaker 3: joined the Dodgers, and that's for the better.
Speaker 2: A lot of people believe.
Speaker 3: The success he had coming out of the bullpen in
Speaker 3: the World Series has carried over into this season to
Speaker 3: give him confidence to trust the Dodgers. I had a
Speaker 3: chance to catch up with one of his former teammates
Speaker 3: and now a special assistant with the Dodgers, and that's
Speaker 3: Chris Archer. Here's what Chris Archer had to say about
Speaker 3: this version of Tyler Glass.
Speaker 2: Now, where have you seen the.
Speaker 3: Growth in Tyler since you become part of the Dodgers'
Speaker 3: front office.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, Tyler's always been
Speaker 9: super talented, even back when he was with Pittsburgh and
Speaker 9: had some struggles, He's always been super talented. I think
Speaker 9: the confidence that he has he really trusts himself. I
Speaker 9: think the success that he's had here parlayed with what
Speaker 9: he did in the World Series. He can really trust
Speaker 9: his body. He can really get out of his head
Speaker 9: when it comes to all the delivery stuff, because he's
Speaker 9: a very cerebral guy. But it seems like spring training
Speaker 9: in his first start this year, he's really out there
Speaker 9: just executing pitches and he's not thinking too much. And
Speaker 9: this is a really really good version of glass now
Speaker 9: right now.
Speaker 2: Do you believe there was one moment in time or
Speaker 2: do you believe.
Speaker 3: Like you said, coming out of the bullpen and succeeding
Speaker 3: gave him a new mindset coming into spring training.
Speaker 9: I think all players go through a long transition to
Speaker 9: really trust who they are. And it seemed like the
Speaker 9: World Series last year, specifically, not just the playoffs, but
Speaker 9: the World Series, like you said, the different roles he
Speaker 9: had to serve and thrown on short rest and back
Speaker 9: to back like he.
Speaker 2: Never has before.
Speaker 9: I think it was that last like five percent that
Speaker 9: he needed to show himself that he is one of
Speaker 9: the best in the league. Now he can just go
Speaker 9: out there and trust that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like he's a different guy this year.
Speaker 3: Like you said, there just seems to be a lot
Speaker 3: more clarity when you talk to him and when you
Speaker 3: look look at him in the eyes.
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely. I think another thing is he changes body
Speaker 9: composition a little bit. He added some weight, and he's
Speaker 9: like he has a very unique body obviously, like long limbs,
Speaker 9: very very lean. He added a little extra fat, a
Speaker 9: little extra muscle, and I think that gives him extra
Speaker 9: confidence to go out there and be healthy and kind
Speaker 9: of let his body just do his thing rather than
Speaker 9: having all that past history be a part of his game.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: That's Chris Archer now a special assistant with the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: He's been in uniform with the Dodgers, been watching bullpens,
Speaker 3: been picking the brains of Mark Pryor and Connor McGinnis
Speaker 3: so he could take it back to the minor leagues
Speaker 3: because he is very much involved in player development for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers. And look, I'm really impressed with Chris Archer.
Speaker 3: And that was great insight on Tyler Glass. Now where
Speaker 3: he was, where he is and how he got there.
Speaker 3: To hear the full conversation with Chris Archer, you know
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Speaker 3: to five. Let's go out to Douglas in Indio. You're
Speaker 3: on Dodger Talk. How you doing Douglas?
Speaker 10: Hey, I'm doing great, David. Thank you. You know you're
Speaker 10: absolutely rried about Glasnow's confidence after the World Series. Another
Speaker 10: person I think that got a huge amount of confidence
Speaker 10: after the World Series is definitely Andy pie Has after
Speaker 10: he made that catch over Kik Hernandez just tearing it
Speaker 10: up this year so far. I mean, I know it's early,
Speaker 10: but patting five hundred and three home runs, he's just
Speaker 10: killing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he really is.
Speaker 3: And look, I think when you talk about Piz, he's
Speaker 3: not immune that he struggled in the postseason. So that
Speaker 3: just showed him he had a lot of work to
Speaker 3: do to come back and really solidify his spot moving
Speaker 3: forward and not have a sophomore slump. And he put
Speaker 3: in a lot of work during spring training. The Dodgers,
Speaker 3: as Jose Mota told us understand him better, understand what
Speaker 3: works for him better. And my understanding is in spring training,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers have one of those high tech they call
Speaker 3: it project machines where you could actually see the picture
Speaker 3: on the big screen and instead of a straight fastball
Speaker 3: out of the batting cage machine it it throws the
Speaker 3: same pitches as whatever pitchers on the screen. And my
Speaker 3: understanding is Pa Haz was in there a lot and
Speaker 3: he wasn't even swinging the bat. He was just trying
Speaker 3: to learn pitches, learned the strike zone, and I think
Speaker 3: that's translated.
Speaker 10: Absolutely. Yeah. And you know what else I love about
Speaker 10: him is he'll make a little routine play in the
Speaker 10: outfield and the way that he flips it back into
Speaker 10: the infield. This guy is just so smooth. So I'm
Speaker 10: looking forward to big things from him this year. And hey, man,
Speaker 10: thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, good call, Douglas. And look, this is
Speaker 3: a big outfield, a big center field, and Andy pa
Speaker 3: has has made it look a lot easier than it is.
Speaker 3: He got to a ball and left center field that
Speaker 3: Alex Call couldn't get to and he made the catch.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's playing great center field, and you think
Speaker 3: back to the first two weeks of last year where
Speaker 3: he had a rough time as to center field. But
Speaker 3: he's put in a lot of hard work with Dodger
Speaker 3: outfield coach and third base coach Dino Eble every day
Speaker 3: even to this day. Before the game, Pajez is out
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Speaker 3: a scare before the game. Luckily he was able to play.
Speaker 3: He actually got a couple of hits today and the
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Speaker 7: Urbans first freeman swings and hits it in the air
Speaker 7: right center field. This pau is carrying back and it
Speaker 7: is off the base of the wall. Freddy Freeman has
Speaker 7: done it again. Ambushes Jay Kerbin a first pitch double,
Speaker 7: then drives in another pair and makes it five nothing LA.
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman, with two doubles today, drove in four runs
Speaker 3: as the Dodgers put up a ten spot and beat
Speaker 3: the Nats ten to five. David Vasse at Nationals Park
Speaker 3: in Washington, DC until five thirty eight sixty six nine
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Speaker 3: Freeman today hit his five hundred and forty ninth double
Speaker 3: and five hundred and fiftieth career double, passing Alex Rodriguez
Speaker 3: and Chipper Jones. He is now number thirty two has
Speaker 3: the thirty two to thirty second most doubles hit in
Speaker 3: baseball history. This guy is a slam dunk Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3: I don't care about three thousand hits or not. He's
Speaker 3: a Hall of Famer, no doubt about it. And he's
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Speaker 2: Alex Call got his first start of the year.
Speaker 3: He was two for five today with a double and
Speaker 3: he scored a run and he drove in a run.
Speaker 3: But he had a scare before the game. Alex Call,
Speaker 3: who the Dodgers acquired at the trade deadline from the Nationals,
Speaker 3: by the way, was back facing his former team for
Speaker 3: the first time here in the nation's Capital. And during
Speaker 3: batting practice for the Nationals, the Dodgers started to come
Speaker 3: out and started to do their normal routine where they
Speaker 3: come out and the strength coaches have these guys do
Speaker 3: high knees, have them start jogging up and down the
Speaker 3: grass area in foul territory up the third baseline when
Speaker 3: they're on the road, and even at Dodger Stadium for
Speaker 3: that fact, and the Nationals was still taking batting practice
Speaker 3: and they as you know, during batting practice before a game,
Speaker 3: there's a cage for obvious reasons, foul balls, misfires, you
Speaker 3: don't want it hitting anybody that's just you know, talking
Speaker 3: or stretching during pregame activity. Well, for whatever reason, the
Speaker 3: Nationals did not have their batting cage in the right spot,
Speaker 3: and one of Alex Call's former teammates, Brady House, was
Speaker 3: in the batting cage, right handed hitter, and he pulled
Speaker 3: a ball so far that it wrapped around the cage
Speaker 3: and hit Alex Call, who was like right there in
Speaker 3: the chest area. And all you heard, because I was
Speaker 3: watching Brady House take batting practice, you heard the crack
Speaker 3: of the bat and then you hear Alex Call scream
Speaker 3: in pain, and the Dodger trainers had to go down
Speaker 3: there and see what the extent of the injury was.
Speaker 2: Luckily it got Call where.
Speaker 3: It didn't hurt him or prevent him from playing today
Speaker 3: in the upper chest area.
Speaker 2: But it could have been a lot worse.
Speaker 3: Could you imagine if that would have hit him in
Speaker 3: the face, that would not have been good. And Brady
Speaker 3: House came over and apologized, and then the Nationals coaches
Speaker 3: pushed the cage a little further. Maybe they should have
Speaker 3: put it in the right spot before all that took place.
Speaker 3: And when Alex Call came back to the dugout. I
Speaker 3: asked him if everything was okay and if he was
Speaker 3: ready to go.
Speaker 11: I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm.
Speaker 2: Doing Did you see it even coming?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 11: I saw it coming, yeah, and then I was doing
Speaker 11: high and ease and I got in the chest. You know,
Speaker 11: my buddy Brady. So hopefully he doesn't beat himself up
Speaker 11: too much. But it's all good.
Speaker 2: Just trying to take you out for your first start.
Speaker 11: Maybe probably not, but it's it's all good. It's all guy.
Speaker 11: I've been hit with baseballs every part of my body,
Speaker 11: so that's kind of a new area.
Speaker 2: But it's all right, all right. Well, luckily he was okay.
Speaker 3: He had two hits, including a double RBI, and scored
Speaker 3: a run, and he likely will be out there tomorrow
Speaker 3: if the Dodgers shuffle their lineup a little bit more.
Speaker 3: But Mookie Bets, in case you missed it, left the
Speaker 3: game after scoring on a Freddie Freeman double in the
Speaker 3: first inning, and Mooky is on his way to get
Speaker 3: an MRI and likely headed to the IL with a
Speaker 3: lower back injury. Eight six six seven two five seventy
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Speaker 3: this Will Smith was one for two today when it
Speaker 3: came to challenging balls and strikes behind the plate. I
Speaker 3: saw an interview with Max Munsey on foul Territory where
Speaker 3: he explained some of the Dodgers' strategy when it came
Speaker 3: to challenging as hitters, and he said that the strategy
Speaker 3: for the team is is to leave as many challenges
Speaker 3: for the pitching staff for Will Smith to challenge. Not
Speaker 3: so much do the Dodgers want to challenge when the
Speaker 3: hitters are at the plate, especially early in the game
Speaker 3: and not high leverage counts.
Speaker 2: So that gave us a peek inside with the Dodgers we're.
Speaker 3: Thinking, and today Will Smith was one for two challenging
Speaker 3: balls and strikes behind the plate. And this year Will
Speaker 3: Smith has been really good. He's eight for twelve on
Speaker 3: challenges this year. So that's a stat to track the
Speaker 3: rest of this year and moving forward for as long
Speaker 3: as they're going to have this ABS system, and it
Speaker 3: looks like it's in forever. So Will Smith eight for
Speaker 3: twelve as a catcher challenging balls and strikes. Let's go
Speaker 3: out to Hollywood, Casey, You're on Dodger Talk Live from
Speaker 3: Nationals Park.
Speaker 6: How you doing Casey, Go well, David, how about yourself?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. I'm the last guy here.
Speaker 3: I could see a lot of apartment buildings now on
Speaker 3: the top of the Capitol Building from our radio booth
Speaker 3: here at Nationals Park.
Speaker 6: Well, we appreciate you holding it down up there for us.
Speaker 6: First off, before you know, we get into anything, I
Speaker 6: just wanted to say, you know, prayers for Molti Bets.
Speaker 5: Let's hope that it's a real.
Speaker 6: Minor situation, because you know, we need him out there
Speaker 6: enough to have guys like Miguel Rojas who can pick
Speaker 6: up the slack when you know, on these unfortunate situations happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know we got a call yesterday that
Speaker 3: somebody want to Hay Sung Kim up here. Well, there's
Speaker 3: a very good chance you may see Hayesung Kim here
Speaker 3: at the ballpark tomorrow. With Mookie Bets likely headed to
Speaker 3: the IL and another bummer about Mookie not being able
Speaker 3: to play tomorrow or Monday, uh probably headed to the IL,
Speaker 3: but at the very least, Dave Roberts said he's not
Speaker 3: playing the next two games. The Dodgers are going back
Speaker 3: to Toronto, where he was the one that ended the
Speaker 3: World Series and unassisted double play. Alejandro Kirk hit the
Speaker 3: ground ball and Mookie stepped on second as we all know,
Speaker 3: and through to Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers were back
Speaker 3: to back World champions. So that's a bummer too in
Speaker 3: all this that Mooki's not going to play in Toronto,
Speaker 3: at least in the in the first game of the series.
Speaker 3: And by the way, that turf not great for back,
Speaker 3: So I could see Mooky missing the entire series in Toronto,
Speaker 3: and I could see him going on the il, especially
Speaker 3: since the Dodgers sent him out for an mri H.
Speaker 3: And by the way, Alejandro Kirk, the Blue Jays catcher
Speaker 3: that hit into the game ending double play in last
Speaker 3: year's World Series, he's not going to play in the
Speaker 3: upcoming series either because he fractured his left thumb. He
Speaker 3: took a foul ball and fractured his left thumb, So
Speaker 3: Alejandro Kirk is out, Trey is Shavage is having issues.
Speaker 2: With his arms.
Speaker 3: So those main characters from the most entertaining world series
Speaker 3: of my lifetime in your lifetime are not going to
Speaker 3: be part of the upcoming exciting series at Rogers Center,
Speaker 3: which begins on Monday Night. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 3: Everybody's looking forward to that. Going back to see the
Speaker 3: Blue Jays just a matter of months after the Dodgers
Speaker 3: came back in Game seven to win back to back championships.
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Speaker 3: two five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers beat
Speaker 3: the Nationals today ten to five and have scored twenty
Speaker 3: three runs in the first two games of this series.
Speaker 3: And Kyle Tucker hit his first home run as a
Speaker 3: Dog yesterday. He's on base four times today. He scored
Speaker 3: on both of Freeman's doubles. So that's what the Dodgers want.
Speaker 3: They want him to get on base, they want him
Speaker 3: to drive in some runs when the opportunity presents itself.
Speaker 3: And he's starting to show why the Dodgers think he
Speaker 3: can be a valuable piece to this lineup, hitting second
Speaker 3: behind Otani. And we'll see how the Dodgers stack up
Speaker 3: their lineup tomorrow with Mookie bets out of it. Now
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are saying it's a lower back issue. I'm
Speaker 3: going for MRI results, So we'll see what comes out
Speaker 3: of all this for Mookie and uh what the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are saying a lower back issue? Eight six six seven
Speaker 3: two five seventy is the phone number I wanted to
Speaker 3: bring up yesterday. I brought up some of my memories
Speaker 3: coming to Nationals Park Dodgers Nationals twenty sixteen Game five NLDS,
Speaker 3: and of course twenty nineteen did not go the way
Speaker 3: the Dodgers wanted, as the Nationals upset them in a
Speaker 3: five game series, which culminated in them beating the Dodgers
Speaker 3: at Dodgers Stadium in Game five of the nineteen NLDS.
Speaker 2: Howie Kendrick grand slam off of Joe.
Speaker 3: Kelly, Juan Soto, a home run off of Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 3: We could go on and on and on, and the
Speaker 3: Nationals went on to win the World Series that year.
Speaker 3: But what has separated the Dodgers from the Cubs who
Speaker 3: won the World Series in twenty sixteen, to the Nationals
Speaker 3: who won the World Series in twenty nineteen, and even
Speaker 3: to a certain extent the Red Sox, who won the
Speaker 3: World Series in twenty eighteen by beating the Dodgers. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers are still there every year, and have been every
Speaker 3: year since twenty thirteen. They've been to the NLCS in thirteen,
Speaker 3: they were back there in twenty sixteen, they went to
Speaker 3: the World Series for the first time since nineteen eighty
Speaker 3: eight and twenty seventeen, went back there in eighteen. So
Speaker 3: my point is, I know everybody's so fixated on these
Speaker 3: back to back chainchampionships, and rightfully so. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: a separator when you went back to back championships. And
Speaker 3: obviously the Dodgers won the World Series in the pandemic
Speaker 3: season of twenty twenty, but even before that, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: have been there consistently, while other teams like the Braves
Speaker 3: or the Nationals, they have these one year wonders and
Speaker 3: then you never hear from them again. I mean, alex
Speaker 3: Anthopolis broke up a World Championship team. He let Freddie
Speaker 3: Freeman walk into the arms of the Dodgers, He let
Speaker 3: Max Freed go and walk into the arms of the Yankees.
Speaker 3: He broke up a really good twenty one Championship team.
Speaker 3: With the Braves, and they basically haven't been the same
Speaker 3: since the Giants had that incredible one hundred and seven
Speaker 3: wins season in twenty twenty one. You haven't heard from
Speaker 3: them since they haven't even been close to that. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised if they they won one hundred and
Speaker 3: seven games in the last two years combined. My point
Speaker 3: is with the Nationals who won in twenty nineteen, because
Speaker 3: you see it when you come to the stadium, you
Speaker 3: see people still wearing twenty nineteen Nationals World Series gear,
Speaker 3: you see it in the building, and rightfully so. I mean,
Speaker 3: this franchise has not had a lot of success, so
Speaker 3: to have a World Series championship, it's won more than
Speaker 3: the Padres, It's won more than other franchises out there,
Speaker 3: so it's something to be proud of.
Speaker 2: But my point is the Dodgers. Would have separated.
Speaker 3: Them from any other era of Dodger Baseball and any
Speaker 3: other team in the last fifteen years is the fact that, yeah,
Speaker 3: they haven't won the World Series every year, but they've
Speaker 3: been there virtually every year, and that's not something to
Speaker 3: take for granted.
Speaker 2: I would I don't know.
Speaker 3: I used to go back and forth and say, I'd
Speaker 3: rather have one World Series championship and you know, deal
Speaker 3: with five losing years. But I don't see it that
Speaker 3: way anymore. And that's where the Nationals are at. After
Speaker 3: the twenty nineteen World Series championship, they had to break
Speaker 3: up that team and they have had six consecutive losing seasons,
Speaker 3: while the Dodgers continue to roll and really now are
Speaker 3: a bigger machine than they ever have been before. So
Speaker 3: with the signing of Otani, with him deferring as much
Speaker 3: as he did, it allows the Dodgers now to be
Speaker 3: a behemoth, and no salary cap is going to change
Speaker 3: that because of the contract that Otani signed. This is
Speaker 3: a moment in time in baseball history that we're living through.
Speaker 3: It's not something and even Andrew Friedman.
Speaker 2: Has said this.
Speaker 3: We've heard Scott Boris say this. This is so unique
Speaker 3: that the Dodgers were able to sign Otani and that
Speaker 3: he had this idea, this concept of deferring the majority
Speaker 3: of his salaries so the Dogs can go out there
Speaker 3: and surround him with really good players. And Larry Bear
Speaker 3: of the Giants sat on during Super Bowl Week with
Speaker 3: Dan Patrick that o'tanni presented this contract to every team
Speaker 3: that he spoke to during the courting process and wanted
Speaker 3: to make sure before things went any further if the
Speaker 3: teams were comfortable with that contract. The Giants, Larry Bear,
Speaker 3: the president of their team, said they were comfortable with it. Obviously,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers were, the Blue Jays were because they were
Speaker 3: in it till the end. And he even brought that
Speaker 3: contract reportedly back to the Angels and the Angels passed
Speaker 3: on it. So this is a moment in time and
Speaker 3: there is so much overreaction to what the Dodgers are doing.
Speaker 3: And look, they are three four steps ahead of everybody
Speaker 3: and have been since Mark Walter bought the team and
Speaker 3: then found a way to get Andrew Freeman to come
Speaker 3: to LA and it's been no looking back ever since.
Speaker 2: It's been.
Speaker 3: It's something that you have to put in perspective in
Speaker 3: context because other teams, like the Nationals, sure they had
Speaker 3: a World championship in twenty nineteen, but you haven't had
Speaker 3: you haven't had much of anything since eight six, six
Speaker 3: eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 3: beat the Nationals today, ten to five. The only downer
Speaker 3: is the fact that Mookie Betts had to leave the
Speaker 3: game with a bad back and is uh either he's
Speaker 3: undergoing it now or already completed it. But Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: said he was getting an MRI today and look, he's
Speaker 3: likely headed to the injured list. He's thirty three years old,
Speaker 3: playing the most demanding position outside of catcher on the field,
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers are going to be cautious with him,
Speaker 3: and rightfully so. You don't want this to linger all
Speaker 3: year long. Whatever is bothering him, whatever grabbed at him.
Speaker 3: Eight six six eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 3: phone number Miguel Rojas phil in for Mooki after he
Speaker 3: came out of the game.
Speaker 2: He had a sacrifice fly.
Speaker 3: He made an incredible play from the seat of his pants,
Speaker 3: literally in the seat of his pants. He threw out
Speaker 3: a runner sitting down. I mean, that's how good of
Speaker 3: a short stop this guy is, I mean, thirty seven
Speaker 3: years old in his last big league season doing things
Speaker 3: like that truly remarkable and just another example of how
Speaker 3: he's not leaving anything on the field and how sweet
Speaker 3: would it be for a guy like that to go
Speaker 3: out with three straight World Series championships. The Dodgers tomorrow
Speaker 3: May encounter some weather issues. As I'm live at National's
Speaker 3: Park right now, the groundscrew has the tarp on the
Speaker 3: infield and they are expecting rain tomorrow. There's one hundred
Speaker 3: percent chance of rain. The game is supposed to start
Speaker 3: tomorrow at ten thirty five Pacific time one thirty five
Speaker 3: Eastern time here on Easter Sunday, and there's rain in
Speaker 3: the forecast, and the round screw people told me that
Speaker 3: don't expect the rain to let up anytime before three o'clock.
Speaker 3: So we may be rushing to get to the ballpark
Speaker 3: at for a one thirty start and be sitting around here.
Speaker 3: The good news is the Nationals press box food is
Speaker 3: really good. They got a grill back there, the best
Speaker 3: chicken tenders in the game. So who knows, I might
Speaker 3: be uh, I might be grazing a little bit more
Speaker 3: during that rain delay. But it always feels like the
Speaker 3: Dodgers when they come to DC during the regular season.
Speaker 3: It seems like there's always at least one game where
Speaker 3: there's a rain delay. And I thought we were gonna
Speaker 3: get out clean this time, but unfortunately it doesn't look
Speaker 3: that way. And tomorrow it's the last game of this
Speaker 3: series and the Dodgers are headed to Toronto, Canada for
Speaker 3: that much anticipated rematch against the Blue Jays, and I
Speaker 3: feel like it's gonna be World Series type atmosphere at
Speaker 3: Rogers Center. But reality is, it's three games in April,
Speaker 3: so there's gonna be a lot of hype, a lot
Speaker 3: of hoopla around that game. I'm sure the fans in
Speaker 3: Toronto are gonna be on their feet again like they
Speaker 3: were during Game seven of the World Series.
Speaker 2: But what highlights are they gonna show? I mean, what
Speaker 2: can they show?
Speaker 3: What highlights are they going to show in Toronto when
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are there? Because the Dodgers not only won
Speaker 3: the World Series, but they won.
Speaker 2: It in their house.
Speaker 3: They forced a Game seven in Game six by somehow,
Speaker 3: some way pulling that out with Tyler Glass now on
Speaker 3: the mound, He's the one that got the save. And
Speaker 3: I'll never forget those sequence of events. As Glass now
Speaker 3: came in, got Ernie Clement, who set a postseason record
Speaker 3: for the most hits in the postseason last year.
Speaker 2: He swung at the first pitch and fouled out. That
Speaker 2: was huge, And.
Speaker 3: Then of course keiy A Hernandez doubling off Addison Barger
Speaker 3: to end the game. That's where you know, the base
Speaker 3: running by the Blue Jays got iffy to be polite
Speaker 3: in Game six and Game seven, and it just felt
Speaker 3: like the Blue Jays started to realize where they were.
Speaker 3: But what are what are they going to show at
Speaker 3: Rogers Center? What can they show? They're gonna show now
Speaker 3: met Bo Baschett hitting a three run home run off
Speaker 3: of Otani Yamamoto is scheduled to pitch in Toronto.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be reminded of his heroics.
Speaker 3: So nothing good could come out of the Blue Jays
Speaker 3: Rogers Center. Trying to troll the Dodgers because scoreboard, baby, right,
Speaker 3: like Jim Rome likes to say, scoreboard, there's nothing you
Speaker 3: there's nothing you control. Because the Dodgers were the ones
Speaker 3: that basically, uh, wrap that noose around their neck, and
Speaker 3: he kind of felt like it was getting tighter and
Speaker 3: tighter as Game six was going on, and uh, look
Speaker 3: it was a great Game seven. Uh, but the Blue
Speaker 3: Jays didn't do the little things and the Dodgers did.
Speaker 3: And Andy pot had made that incredible catch coming out
Speaker 3: of nowhere. I believe it was a six or seven
Speaker 3: percent catch probability for Paz on that ball that Ernie
Speaker 3: Clement hit and the Dodgers. I mean, come on, you
Speaker 3: still have to go back and watch that game seven
Speaker 3: to believe how the Dodgers were able to pull that off.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Pacoima. Daniel, You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: Live from Washington, DC. Hi, Daniel, Hey, how you doing, Dave.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. I'm looking forward to going to Toronto.
Speaker 3: I think that's gonna be uh, that's gonna give us
Speaker 3: the boost of energy early in the season.
Speaker 5: Oh, definitely. I think the bets our clicking went out
Speaker 5: at the right time, went through a little bit of
Speaker 5: a cold streak, but the warming up now, so it's
Speaker 5: it's pretty exciting times. I got a question, if Mookie
Speaker 5: Bitch does go on the disabled list, can you see
Speaker 5: them calling somebody up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could see them calling up Hayesong Kim. I
Speaker 3: think that would be the most logical answer because he
Speaker 3: could play stop, he could play second, and he brings
Speaker 3: the speed dimension, So I would I would choose Hey
Speaker 3: Song Kim, and I probably will see him here tomorrow.
Speaker 5: All right, all right for sure, Dave. What about James Tibbs,
Speaker 5: He's been on a te lately, but we don't really
Speaker 5: got a place there unlets somebody gets hurt, right Yeah, if.
Speaker 3: He if he was an infielder, I would say yes,
Speaker 3: he would be here. But he's an outfielder. And Alex
Speaker 3: call Uh got his first at bat today and he
Speaker 3: got excuse me, his first start, and he got his
Speaker 3: first at bat in game number seven of the season.
Speaker 3: So there's really no there's no place for TIBs right
Speaker 3: now unless somebody else gets hurt, which you hope doesn't happen.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, thank you, Dave for the time. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Okay, Daniel, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, James Tibbs has continued his hot spring at Triple
Speaker 3: A Oklahoma City, but there's no place for him to play,
Speaker 3: and you know he's gonna have to wait his turn
Speaker 3: like Hay Song Kim. I mean, they chose Alex Freeland
Speaker 3: over Kim. And look at this. I told you, opportunities
Speaker 3: present themselves even if you don't make the opening day roster.
Speaker 3: We've seen it time and time again with the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: and this possibly could open an opportunity for Hasan Kim
Speaker 3: with the injury to Mookie Bets. But keeping your fingers
Speaker 3: crossed this injury is not too serious because the Dodgers
Speaker 3: need Mooki. He had a great psyche about him. He
Speaker 3: homered yesterday. He's feeling good, he's stronger. So you just
Speaker 3: hope this doesn't set him back too much. All right, Tomorrow,
Speaker 3: Game three of the series. The Dodgers looking for the sweep,
Speaker 3: and the only thing that can slow the Dodgers down
Speaker 3: here in Washington, DC is the rain, and there is
Speaker 3: rain expected in the forecast. We are expected to have
Speaker 3: first pitch at ten thirty five, or scheduled to have
Speaker 3: it at ten thirty five Pacific time on Easter Sunday.
Speaker 3: Our coverage Rain or Shine begins at nine thirty with
Speaker 3: Roki Sasaki on the mound, going up against Foster Griffin.
Speaker 3: So we'll se see how Rokie does tomorrow, not only
Speaker 3: trying to get his season on track, but also dealing
Speaker 3: with the weather conditions and what many believe will be
Speaker 3: at least an hour to two hour delay before we
Speaker 3: get first pitch thrown. Thanks to calling me back at
Speaker 3: our Burbank studios, thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at
Speaker 3: Nationals Park in Washington, DC, and thanks to you for
Speaker 3: listening in case you missed any of the show or
Speaker 3: our pregame conversation with Chris Archer, you can find it
Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio app. Once again, the final score from Washington,
Speaker 3: d C. The Dodgers scored ten more runs and beat
Speaker 3: the Nats ten to five. Have a great rest of
Speaker 3: your Saturday. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: See you