WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (6-4-26) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.880 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.920 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:11.440 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:12.520 the fifth fifth. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.040 This is world Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:15.880 Here we go again. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:17.080 We get right running back. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.280 To get in on the show called eight six six 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.360 eight seven two five seven, and be sure to follow 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:26.680 Dodger Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. And now your host. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.480 Here's Tim kakes. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.040 Brough night for the Dodgers. 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.120 Then a chance to pick up ground in the division, 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.959 a chance to leave Arizona with the series winning, and. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.240 They were cruising to a two nothing lead. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.680 Turned it over to the bullpen, and that's when the 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.880 wheels fell off. In the eighth inning for Will Klein 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.160 gives up a solo home run to Corbyn Carroll, a walk, 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.080 two batters later, a single Alex Vessi would come in. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.760 He'd give up a base hit to score a run 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.480 and tie the game. And then in the ninth could 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.840 tell Marte at absolute blast down the left field line 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.760 off Tanner Scott wins it as the Diamondbacks walk off 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.679 the Dodgers three to two. On top of it, the 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.600 Dodgers cee Max Mounsey leave the game in the fifth thing. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.600 Thankfully he is okay. We heard on We heard from 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.600 Max and the Dodgers' clubouse show. After you collided with 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.039 the first baseman Vargas as they were both going towards 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.520 the first base bag and he beat him to the bag, 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:27.160 but in the process collided with him as they both 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.600 were going towards the middle part of the first base bag. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.360 Neither one wanted to concede, and like a duel two 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.080 guys going at it, they collide in mid air and 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.120 the glasses that Max Munsey wears cut him on the 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.520 bridge of his nose. Had to come out of the game, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.560 got checked for a concussion. Thankfully he does not have 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.560 a concussion. And according to Dave Roberts, who we'll hear 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.760 from a little bit, you're gonna get Max Mounsey the 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.880 night off tomorrow night in the series opener against Reed 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.639 Debt Merse, who's a left hander anyway, so a lefty 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.920 versus lefty matchup probably would have been a day off 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.160 anyways for Max Munsey, but with the collision tonight at 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.280 first base there in the fifth inning, a definite day 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.080 off for Max Munsey tomorrow night and where in the 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.080 world was the Dodgers top half of the lineup. Shoe 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.160 a Otani had the night off. It was a planned 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.040 night off. We've done it for twenty four hours that 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.440 it was going to be Will Smith as a designated hitter. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.560 The Dodgers offense had six hits the entire game. Mookie 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.320 Betts was OH for four, Freddie Freeman OH for four, 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.640 Andy Pajez was OH for four. 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:33.200 Kyle Tucker had a hit. That was it. The Dodgers' 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:34.480 top four. They were a. 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:41.480 Combined one for sixteen in this game tonight. That is 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.800 not going to win a game for a Dodgers most times. 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.520 They almost got away with it thanks to the great 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.480 performance from Justin Robleski for six shutout innings, but his 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.160 eighteen pitch sixth inning put the pitch count up to 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.880 eighty four and that was it. Kyle Hurt took over 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.359 the seventh inning, got some help on a challenge ball 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.880 strike from Dalton Rushing, who, by the way, three challenges 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.960 tonight from the Dodger catcher. Dalton Rushing three for three 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:12.240 on pitches that were called balls. He challenged the call 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.520 and got overturned to strikes. So a good job by 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.640 Dalton Rushing and the ABS system tonight in favor of 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.880 the Dodger catcher. But then the wheels got, you know, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.840 just kind of fell off for Will Klin. And for 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.360 Will Klin, this is something that we haven't seen. We 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.600 saw dominance last year in the postseason the World Series 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.280 when he was called upon that eighteen inning game. He 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.880 has been really good this season out of the bullpen, 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.520 part of that ridiculous thirty plus inning streak of consecutive 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.880 innings without giving up a run by the Dodgers bullpen. 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.000 He's a big reason why Will Klein hadn't give up 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:50.840 the run since May third. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.480 It's June the fourth, over. 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.000 A month between the last time Will Clin give up 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.839 an earned run against the Saint Louis Carton on May 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.000 third in Saint Louis, and tonight giving up a pair 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.000 of runs in the eighth inning against the Arizona Diamondback. 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.760 So you just don't see it too often. It happened 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:15.400 tonight and the Dodgers just couldn't muster much offensively outside 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.919 of that fifth inning, and quite frankly, they were gifted 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:24.360 those runs in the fifth inning. Why so you asked, well, 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:29.680 it was right after Monthsy and Vargas collided at first 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.320 base two outs months. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.720 He comes out of the game espitall runs. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:41.000 For him, and Ryan Ward on a two to two slider, 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.479 hits the ball into right center field. Probably should have 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.200 been the final out of the inning and a zero 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.640 zero game going to the bottom half of the fifth 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.599 inning as it is, Corbyn Carroll, who's one of the 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:59.760 better defensive outfielders, completely overran the ball at a weird 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:04.000 a and the ball sails over his head to right 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:08.040 center field for an RBI double and giving the Dodgers 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:08.960 a one to nothing lead. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.560 Then Dalton, rushing. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:17.040 On a two to two fastball, gets jammed inside outs 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.599 it and just losts it into less center field where 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.760 it falls in for a base hit. And it seems 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.159 like the center fielder for Arizona got a late jump 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.640 on it. I mean, if if Walshchmidt gets a better 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.440 jump and comes in harder on that ball, that too 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:37.280 is an out to. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:37.960 End the inning. 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.039 But the Dodgers take the gifts on the defensive miscues 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.440 by the Arizona Diamondbacks to take a two to nothing lead, 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.760 but it threw to be not enough and for the Dodgers, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.360 this one stings. And I know it's one hundred and 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.520 sixty two game season, and you can't get too high 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.000 when you're winning, and you can't get too low when 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.440 you suffer a loss. Of those losses straight out to 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:04.360 be multiple losses. But let's hope they come out tomorrow 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.880 and absolutely put this loss behind them. They have to 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.479 at the moment right now, it stings to have a 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.440 chance to win three or four in Arizona, pick up 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.080 another half game on San Diego, in a full another 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:22.280 game on Arizona to come back up seven and seven 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.960 and a half games up in the division. Now you're 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.440 six and a half games up on Arizona in the 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.360 NL West. In fact, they could have been eight and 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.200 a half up on Arizona if they get the win 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.080 a two game slide there because they let this one 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.800 get away. I understand, it's June fourth, They got a 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.640 lot of baseball to play. The Dodgers are the best 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.799 team in the division, hands down, but it still stings 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.000 in a game that you don't have all your offense there, 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.680 you still have a lead laid and the bullpen, which 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.840 has been arguably the best thing for you this year 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.120 through the first what sixty three games? 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:03.919 Let it get away tonight. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.679 Let's just hope it's a one time thing and tomorrow 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:09.800 they get back on track and they can do what 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.760 they did against the Angels a couple weekends of going 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.760 Anaheim and that's just feast on a bottom feeding team 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.760 in the Anaheim Angels eight six six nine eight seven 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.800 two five seventy. I just hope they get this one 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.560 behind them. You heard Tanner Scott say that that you 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:26.680 have to forget about this. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.800 Tomorrow's a new day. That's the right attitude. I love it. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.800 But to me, that pitch can't happen. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.840 It could tell Marte you can't throw a ball in 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.760 his wheelhouse there in the ninth inning, like Tanner Scott did. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.280 You just battle with Tommy Troy struck him out and 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.040 the first pitch to could tell Marte is literally the 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:50.880 pitch that he swings the best at fastball, low and inside, 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:55.320 and he absolutely crushed it. Now it looked like he 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.960 missed the spot on that credit to could tell Marte 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.640 because it takes two guys to make it work, and 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.600 he took advantage of a bad pitch and made him 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.840 pay and made the Dodgers pay with that solo home run. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.080 But this one stings, no doubt, a game they let 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.440 get away and a chance to just separate themselves even 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.679 more from the division gets away from him tonight in Phoenix. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.080 Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.560 the number. Let's start things off with Dave and Elisa Viajoe. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.360 Your first up here on Dodge, you talked, how are 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:23.920 you doing tonight? 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:30.040 Dave, Yes, sir, basically, Tallas Scott choked. I know you guys, 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.319 you do a very good job, even David, but your 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.480 profession doesn't allow you to use the word choke on 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.120 the air. But real sports fans know he choked big time. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.600 He crushes the morale of the Dodgers with his home run. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.520 He did it last year countless times. I could see 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.880 giving up a couple of base hits, maybe a bunt sacrifice, 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.120 a walk, but he his his his his, his walk 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.360 offs devastating to the morale of the team. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.560 Well, you know, I would agree that it's a tough wall. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.600 It is a tough loss, David. I agree one hundred percent. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.800 It's gotta be a better pitch. And you heard Tanner Scott. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.080 If he could have it back, he would. That is 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.000 just not a pitch you want to throw to Kadel 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.720 Marte in his sweet spot hits it out of the 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:15.160 park for. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:15.920 A home run. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.520 But with that being said, this is a Dodger team 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.760 that It's not just on Tanner Scott tonight. 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.280 He was put into a situation and a two to 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:24.839 two tie. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:26.800 Yeah, he's got to put up a zero and get 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.720 the offense back up there in the tenth And according 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.959 to Dave Roberts, if they got into the tenth inning, 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.240 Shoey o'tani was gonna bat in the tenth inning. And 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.439 who knows what happens when number seventeen comes up to. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.280 The plate in any situation. But with that being said, 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.400 let's rewind it just a little bit. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.400 How do we get to that ninth inning in the 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.320 tie situation in a fastball that Tanner Scott leaves down 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.840 the middle of the plate to Ka tell Marte. Rewind 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.400 a little bit back to the eighth inning. Will Klein 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.000 didn't do anybody any favors in that eighth inning. Heck, 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.520 you go back to the seventh inning, a one out single, 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.760 Kyle Hurt gives up. He gets out of it with 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.400 back to back strikeouts. To his credit, Dalton Rushing again 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.720 third challenge of the night overturned a ball that turned 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.120 into a strike on Tommy Troy. Great job by Dalton Rushing. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.520 But the eighth inning, Will Klein comes in and gives 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:20.000 up a solo home run on a fastball to Corbyn Carroll. Okay, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.040 it's two to one. You gotta bear it down at 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.120 that point and you got to get out. And what 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.319 happens He walks the next batter of moreno on five pitches. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.240 That can't happen. That's not Tanner Scott's fault. That's a 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.800 Will Klein problem. Gets Aeronauto striking out looking on a sweeper. 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:38.920 No. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.280 By the way, Nolan Aeronauto, I love the guy. Probably 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.839 gonna be a Hall of Famer maybe, yeah, Okay, he 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.240 looks old right now at the end of his career. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:51.640 I don't know if he's banged up or what. But 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.520 he went first to third on a play and then 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.960 could not score when a ball was hitting the left 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.880 center field who besides the point? Then Walshmid comes up 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.319 and singles the left on a ball that's right over 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.080 the middle of the plate from Will Klein. That's got 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.800 to be better executed by Will Klein, not Tanner Scott 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.400 obviously in the ninth but in that eighth inning, the 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.479 Dodgers got to do a better job of holding. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:19.400 Onto a two to nothing lead. 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:21.280 And then when it's two to one on the home 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.920 run by Carol, got to do a better job of 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.839 getting out to not walking the next batter. Two batters 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.320 later get up a single. All of a sudden, it's 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.320 first and second with one out. Tyan runs at second base. 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.360 Tough spot for Alex Vessia who got a fly ball out, 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.480 but then he gives up a single to Pertomo to 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.640 center field. So you have to help yourself out. Will 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.280 Klein came in a clean inning. He came in the 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.880 eighth inning with a two to nothing lead. You've got 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.040 to hold, You've got to get out. You can't walk 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.920 batters as a reliever. That's the one thing you always hear, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:54.960 and I'm with it. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:56.400 Your job is to get out. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.120 If you're a re liever and you come in and 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:02.600 you start walking, dudes, that is like awful. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:03.840 That's not what you're supposed to do. 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.600 And nine times out of ten it comes back to 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.920 bite you, and tonight it did. Come back to bite 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.920 them as Moreno would then come around and score the 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.120 tie run in the eighth inning. So again we want 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.720 to focus in on could Tell Marte's solo bomb off 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.320 of Tanner Scott And certainly it's gotta be a better pitch. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.839 It does better execution. You tip your cap to cold 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.280 Tell Marte on that one. But that's gotta be a 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.240 way better pitch. You gotta miss up those on you 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.480 gotta miss away not in his wheelhouse. But let's pull 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.000 it back a little bit to the eighth inning, as 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.439 we just did. Will clients got to execute better out 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.920 of the bullpen. And for his credit, though he has 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.040 I mentioned it, the last time he gave up a run, 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.440 let alone an urn run was a month ago, May 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.560 third and Saint Louis against the Cardinals. So he is 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.160 pitched well. Overall, the Dodgers' bullpen has pitched well. Tonight 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.040 one of those nights got away from him, unfortunately, also 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:57.840 one of those nights in which the Dodgers didn't put 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.480 up crooked numbers. Dodgers' offense didn't put up seven runs, Dodgers' 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.120 offense didn't put up a ninth spot. 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:04.760 This was a tight ballgame. 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.640 Top of the lineup goes one for sixteen, your top 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:12.120 four hitters, one hit from Kyle Tucker, an overnight for 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:18.040 Mookie Betts, an overnight for Andy Pajes, an overnight for 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:18.880 Freddie Freeman. 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:20.960 So the blame could. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.120 Be kind of pointed in all directions on this Dodgers 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.679 team tonight, the lack of execution from the bullpen, and 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.559 certainly the lack of offense tonight. The Arizona Diamondbacks had 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.240 three runs on eleven hits. The Dodgers had two runs 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:38.320 on only six hits in this game tonight, and only 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.120 two walks by the way by the Dodgers, so not 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.480 a lot of traffic on the base pass. There only 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.800 left four runners on base all night. Eight six six nine, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.280 eight seven two five seventy is the number. Dodgers Baseball 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.520 is brought to you by Medello Modello, the mark. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.720 Of a fighter. All right, let's go toe to toe 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.679 with my guy Ken in Newport Beach. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:13:58.600 Ken. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:13:59.280 How you doing tonight? 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.080 Hey, Tim? How are you doing? How's the family? 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:07.040 Everybody's good? Thanks for asking this one stings can I. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.839 It's not the end of the world, but man, this 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:11.640 is a game. You kind of feel like you have 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.960 to close the door on the Diamondbacks and you let 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.560 him back in. You give him a little bit of 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.280 confidence after a split now in a four game series, 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:19.160 that you're going to see him. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:19.800 Later on this year. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.200 I agree, and that went to air live estate and 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.720 I could tell you for people who don't know, it's 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.680 four days in Arizona, there's way too many bars by 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.960 the fourth day. But I have two questions for you. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.880 Number one, you got a guy pitching his shutout. Why 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.320 do you pull him into sixth inning? That didn't make 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.120 any sense? Number two, and the ninth inning, you're down 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.280 by a run, and you got your best hitter, your superstar, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.680 sitting and yawning on the bench. Why didn't he come 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.960 in and pinch hit Otani? And then the last thing, where. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.360 Where would you hit him? Who would you hit him? 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:55.480 For? 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.560 In the ninth inning, Pa has led off the inning 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:01.560 that it's Tucker. And then for Will Smith, you. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.120 Know the third guy that was replaced the lookie or 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:06.920 replaced the Muncy. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:07.480 That's been all. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.880 Yeah in that situation, as Colin Ye brought up a 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.680 great point by Colin Ye, it was a two out 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:20.800 double by Will Smith. If you pinch it show, Hey Otani, 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.000 what are they gonna do. They're gonna put up four fingers. 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.240 You have an open base at first. So you just 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.240 negated him coming off the bench and trying to win 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:28.120 the game for you. 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.600 Because they could use it. In my last comment, and 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.120 this is just one of those stupid staff things, Rookie 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.280 Betts is now as a starter in the major leagues 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.400 as a fourth worst batting average. Something's got to change 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.840 fourth worst or any starter in the major leagues. 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.040 Yeah, it's uh, it's every game that goes by. Can 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.440 I appreciate it? It's becoming more and more of a problem. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.600 He's hitting one to eighty three now. Is on base 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.240 percentage is two forty six zero for four tonight? Was 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.920 Mookie Betts in the leadoff spot, and because Otani had 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.680 the night off, you move move Key back up to 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.160 the lineup in the top spot to change the scenery. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.520 Maybe you hope it sparks something. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.880 He can see the ball better, you know, the ball 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:10.120 can find some green a little bit. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:11.720 He can string together some good at bats. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.160 As it is, Mookie Betts goes oh for four tonight, 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.080 But you know what top three hitters went oh for 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.520 twelve bets, Freeman Paez, top four hitters, if you include 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.240 Kyle Tucker win one for sixteen. It's got to be 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.760 a better effort offensively at the top of the lineup. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:26.880 I know baseball is a tough game, and you know 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.080 some nights the bottom of the line's gonna carry it. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:30.800 Which tonight it did. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.320 You saw the Dodgers two runs come off of singles 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.240 from Ryan Ward and Dalton Rushing. You know the Dodgers 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.160 eight and they're seven and eight hitters and respectively in 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:40.960 the lineup tonight. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.600 And you're not gonna score seven runs every game. I 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:43.960 get that. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.080 You're not gonna score eight runs on fourteen hits every 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.480 single game. There's gonna be low scoring games. And tonight 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.920 one of those two nothing games. You know, you gotta 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.120 bear down, You gotta throw strikes if your will klin. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.720 You got to realize this isn't gonna be a high 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:57.440 scoring affair. 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.640 We can't wait for a crooked number. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.440 To be plased up on the scoreboard in the top 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.680 of the seventh or eighth or ninth inning to bail 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.200 them out or make it a blowout situation. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.680 It's a two to nothing game. Go in there, against 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:09.880 the Diamac. Let's close the. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.840 Door in the eighth, Let's get it to the ninth, 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.960 and let's get out of dodge and let's come back 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.240 home with the series winning fortunately, lead off home run, 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.560 a walk, two batters later, a single, and the Diamondbacks 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.920 had traffic, and they scored two runs to tie the game. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.920 So again, I'm not gonna sit here and pile on 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.600 Tanner Scott. I'm not going to you know what. Tonight, 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.080 the bullpen collectively, I mean Alex Vessie gave up a 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.679 two out hit. You're asking these guys to be perfect 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.560 when they come out of a situation like that. Will 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.639 climb clean inning, eighth inning, two nothing game, okay, Corbyn 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.639 Carroll takes you deep. You cannot walk the next batter 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.880 Moreno on five pitches that just can't happen. You gotta 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.320 attack the strike zone. You gotta trust your defense behind you. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.359 Alex Frielan made great plays tonight. I count three of 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.600 them off the top of my head that he made 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:03.159 going both ways, glove side Backhan at second base tonight. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.760 You got a great defense behind you. You cannot walk 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.840 guys when you come out of the bullpen. And again 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.320 the Dodgers tonight top of the lineup didn't come through. 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.199 All we they needed was one of those guys in 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:16.040 the ninth inning. 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:16.679 Again. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.959 The ninth inning came around, tied it too, and the 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:24.439 Dodgers had Andy Pajz leading off. That's right where you 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.600 want it, right. Paul see Wald comes in, veteran pitcher. 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.040 You can get to him. 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.040 And the top of the line up outside of Tucker 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.960 hasn't done anything all night. Paz popped out to short. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.439 Tucker struck out Will Smith, who was the DH tonight, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.720 doubled the left. All right, you got the go ahead 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.080 run at second base with two outs. Again, Espinal comes 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:50.280 up to bat. Know the situation, open base at first, 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:54.159 You're not gonna pitch it show hey Otani because all 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.720 Tory Lavella's gonna do is put up four fingers. Not 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:03.800 because he's saying go UCLA fours up. He's saying four balls. 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.160 I'm walking O'tani, and I want to get Otani down 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.400 to first base and get that threat neutralized as quick 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.520 as possible. So you're not gonna use Otani in that situation. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:15.560 Dave Roberts, which we're gonna hear from him coming up 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:15.840 in just. 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:16.240 A little bit. 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:18.840 Did say to the media post game, telling our David 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.520 Vase that in the tenth inning, if it were going 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.800 to get to the tenth inning, that they were gonna 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.280 use show Hey Otani as a possible pinch hitter. But 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.520 the situation wasn't right than ninth inning. You need an 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.919 es but all in that situation to come through clutch 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.439 with the base hit somehow keep the line moving, just 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:36.600 get on base, do whatever. 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.920