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Speaker 2: After the Dodgers lose the middle game of this three
Speaker 2: game series to the Atlanta Braves seven to two. Coming
Speaker 2: up at the top of the hour, we'll hear from
Speaker 2: Jose Mota and also at ten fifteen, we will share
Speaker 2: with you an interview I did with Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: manager Bobby Cox back in twenty sixteen. Yes, we were
Speaker 2: at Turner Field with the Dodgers and Bobby Cox was
Speaker 2: kind enough to take ten minutes out of his time
Speaker 2: to get to know me and do a pregame interview.
Speaker 2: And definitely the Dodgers did the right thing, honoring Bobby Cox,
Speaker 2: one of the great men in Major League Baseball history,
Speaker 2: a guy that was beloved by so many, not only
Speaker 2: in the Braves organization, but in so many other organizations,
Speaker 2: loved and respected. And I remembered doing that interview, and
Speaker 2: I went back to listen to it, and I said,
Speaker 2: you know what, it would be a great time to
Speaker 2: reshare that interview with you. So we'll share that conversation
Speaker 2: with Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox coming up at
Speaker 2: ten point fifteen, but we do have phone lines open
Speaker 2: at eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: You want to know how I feel about Blake Sneill's
Speaker 2: perform I felt like he pitched really well in his
Speaker 2: first first action of the season. I mean tonight, he
Speaker 2: should have been pitching at Rancho Cucamonga in Ontario. You
Speaker 2: know what, I take that back. He shouldn't have been
Speaker 2: pitching for Ontario. He was right where he should have
Speaker 2: been here at Dodgers Stadium because that start for Ontario
Speaker 2: was not going to do anything to make Blakes now
Speaker 2: better prepared for his first start of the major league season.
Speaker 2: He had good stuff. I just didn't believe in his
Speaker 2: game plan. I wasn't sure why he was throwing his
Speaker 2: slider so much. That's like his third or fourth best pitch.
Speaker 2: The change up, the curveball, the fastball, those are his
Speaker 2: best pitches. And I know the curveball is the last
Speaker 2: one to come as far as the field. But his
Speaker 2: curveball was good when he started to throw it in
Speaker 2: the third inning. And what was ironic is he had
Speaker 2: left handed hitters, but he was better against the Braves
Speaker 2: right handed hitters than he was against the Braves left
Speaker 2: handed hitters. Drake Baldwin made him work. Matt Olsen got
Speaker 2: him for a two run single in the second inning
Speaker 2: on a slider that was, you know, right in his wheelhouse.
Speaker 2: So I was a little surprised by his game plan.
Speaker 2: But the defense at shortstop was not very good for him.
Speaker 2: In the first inning, Hay Song Kim, first batter, Mauricio
Speaker 2: Dubon broken bat single up the middle on a forty
Speaker 2: five hopper. I mean he had enough time to get
Speaker 2: to it. I thought he should have. And also in
Speaker 2: that inning, he fielded a ground ball that should have
Speaker 2: been an inning ending double. Playing Steady threw wide to
Speaker 2: Alex Friedland and Austin Riley was safe. But Snell was
Speaker 2: able to get two strikes on five different hitters tonight,
Speaker 2: and that's what it came down to. He couldn't put
Speaker 2: hitters away. He almost did in that second inning. He
Speaker 2: was this close one pitch away from getting out of it,
Speaker 2: and Ozzie Albi's hid a eighty five change up down
Speaker 2: in a way, almost hitting the dirt to left field
Speaker 2: to drive in two runs. So all in all, it
Speaker 2: was a solid first start for Blake Snell. And I
Speaker 2: would invite anybody to call in tonight and tell me
Speaker 2: why they believe that Blake Snell would have been better
Speaker 2: off pitching for Ontario than he would have been for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. That was gonna do nothing for him. Andrew Friedman,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, Mark Pryor made the right decision to have
Speaker 2: this guy pitching here tonight. And it also helps Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki on Monday facing a weaker lineup in the San
Speaker 2: Francisco Giants. So if Blake could have been a little
Speaker 2: bit more efficient, especially in that first inning, get some
Speaker 2: help behind him, he wouldn't have thrown twenty four pitches
Speaker 2: in the first inning, and maybe is able to get
Speaker 2: into the fourth inning. But the reality is it comes
Speaker 2: down to it was his first start of the season
Speaker 2: and he couldn't put hitters away. And you know, I'll
Speaker 2: debate him. He loves talking game plan, so I'll talk
Speaker 2: to him about his game plan and wonder why he's
Speaker 2: thrown so many sliders. Tonight eight six, six, seven, two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number? Maybe Blake Snell explains
Speaker 2: that to the reporters on sports net LA.
Speaker 4: Yeah, learned a lot.
Speaker 6: Obviously frustrated the goals give have no run, so giving
Speaker 6: up five is pretty frustrating.
Speaker 4: But no, I mean, yeah, I learned a lot.
Speaker 6: Just he's a basketball a little more his own smaller
Speaker 6: than it was last year. That's what I learned today.
Speaker 6: So it's just a messing a little bit. But I
Speaker 6: feel really good. Good stuff is really good. Being able
Speaker 6: to start to read swings and what people are thinking
Speaker 6: and doing is getting better or so excited about that.
Speaker 6: But yeah, just a lot to break down. But obviously
Speaker 6: three and seventy seven pitches is not where I want
Speaker 6: to be. But yeah, it's just a weird game. Do
Speaker 6: you talk about just with the software contact and some
Speaker 6: other stuff, or what do you think sort of led
Speaker 6: to maybe less efficient out there. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 6: kind of get ahead a little more. I keep their
Speaker 6: pitch count down, even if that's, you know, the way
Speaker 6: the game's gonna go, if I can still be aggressive,
Speaker 6: not at that, you know, not that that kind of
Speaker 6: take like you know, you get annoyed by it, and
Speaker 6: I just keep pitching, and I could have done a
Speaker 6: better job of that. And then I give up one
Speaker 6: good hit to Olsen and on a pitch that was
Speaker 6: if I get it down or ease a fastball more.
Speaker 4: Probably different. Just yeah, I got a lot to learn still.
Speaker 7: Obviously this stuff's been up.
Speaker 8: So even the rehabout is, how much better do you
Speaker 8: feel physically than the last year when you're putt much
Speaker 8: of these fears.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I feel I feel really good.
Speaker 6: I really I did a lot, changed a lot, worked
Speaker 6: really hard, and I like the way my body feels.
Speaker 6: Even you know, three inns I was having pictures. I
Speaker 6: feel really good. I feel like I'm going to recover good.
Speaker 6: So I'm excited about that. But yeah, I got a
Speaker 6: lot of work to do to get ready for the
Speaker 6: next start. Put the ball upen in a position to
Speaker 6: cover you know, six innings when.
Speaker 1: You say changed a lot.
Speaker 6: What would you say that you changed and what kind
Speaker 6: of impact do you think that's had, whether on the
Speaker 6: stuff for kind of how you're feeling. Yeah, just I
Speaker 6: mean a lot of my injuries have been information based,
Speaker 6: so started. You know, I'm getting older and I got
Speaker 6: to be a little more wiser, so nutritionist and chef
Speaker 6: and pilates has really helped me a lot. Yeah, just
Speaker 6: trying to get better and make sure I can pitch
Speaker 6: as long as I want to pitch.
Speaker 1: Given that you did only make three, Like rehub starts,
Speaker 1: where do you feel you are kind of in your
Speaker 1: build up relative to whatever normal season would be.
Speaker 6: I'm ready to go. Yeah, there's no excuse. I feel good.
Speaker 6: Stuff's good. So I just gotta become a better pitcher
Speaker 6: and do that quickly. And I have a lot of
Speaker 6: confidence I'll do that. I really like where I'm at,
Speaker 6: so for me to get called up, I mean, I
Speaker 6: feel really good. I wanted that start, and yeah, I
Speaker 6: saw me to get better and make sure I can
Speaker 6: cover the innings and help the bullpen more.
Speaker 9: I could start kind of come together, especially you're playing
Speaker 9: pitching with the Ontario. But what kind of changed less
Speaker 9: forty hours and how quickly were you kind of just say.
Speaker 6: Yes, I said yeah, I said yes before they even asked.
Speaker 6: I wanted to start face a team like Atlanta.
Speaker 4: Really good.
Speaker 6: It's gonna let you know where you're at pretty quickly.
Speaker 6: And yeah, that's what I wanted. So when they asked,
Speaker 6: I already knew what the answer was. Yes, And I
Speaker 6: kind of wait how it came together? Oh, I have
Speaker 6: no idea, but yeah I was ready to go, and yeah,
Speaker 6: it's got to be better.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Blake Sneil. Thanks to Sports in at
Speaker 2: LA for bringing us the two times cy Young Award
Speaker 2: winner who went three innings in his first start of
Speaker 2: the twenty six campaign with five strikeouts. He threw seventy
Speaker 2: seven pitches, fifty of them for strikes, And yeah, that's
Speaker 2: good to hear from a thirty three year old guy
Speaker 2: that you know, at times can be a big kid.
Speaker 2: To hear him get more serious about, you know, trying
Speaker 2: to stay healthy, getting the inflammation down and having a
Speaker 2: personal chef, finding out better ways to eat better, have
Speaker 2: a nutritionist. That's a sign of maturity, and some of
Speaker 2: us mature later than others. So I'm still waiting to
Speaker 2: do that. But it's good to hear Blake Snell starting
Speaker 2: to make some changes off the field that will invest
Speaker 2: in his body and he can be more accountable to
Speaker 2: his teammates by being on the mound when the bell rings.
Speaker 2: Eight six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Can you believe? The Dodgers had won seven
Speaker 2: in a row against the Braves here at Uniclo Field
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium. The last time the Braves won a
Speaker 2: game here was September of twenty twenty three. In fact,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have dominated the Braves the last three years.
Speaker 2: Coming into the game tonight, they had won eleven of
Speaker 2: the last fifteen. Yeah, the Dodgers have dominated the Braves,
Speaker 2: and the vibes around the Braves is like Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: is a house of horrors. So a rare win for
Speaker 2: the Braves at Dodgers Dadium, first one since September of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Braves beat the Dodgers
Speaker 2: tonight seven to two. Spencer Streider six scoreless innings in
Speaker 2: just his second start of the year. Otani was won
Speaker 2: for for Tonite Freeman was zero for three. Andy pa
Speaker 2: has broke up the shutout with a two run home
Speaker 2: run in the ninth inning, and you could tell Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts was basically waving the white flag. But you wonder,
Speaker 2: you know, pinch hitting for Kyle Tucker in the seventh
Speaker 2: inning and Max Munts in the seventh inning, I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that's gonna change a lot, but I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: say it's changing a lot for either one of those
Speaker 2: guys tomorrow as well with the day game. I mean,
Speaker 2: we're in May, so I don't know that that was
Speaker 2: interesting to me. And I know Andy Pai has hit
Speaker 2: that two run home run in the ninth inning, but
Speaker 2: it was obvious if you're paying attention two outs in
Speaker 2: the seventh inning, with ta Oscar Hernandez at the plate,
Speaker 2: full count, full count, two outs in an inning, the
Speaker 2: runner should be going and he wasn't. So those are
Speaker 2: the things in a game like this that you can't
Speaker 2: lose focus on. It's great hitting home runs, it's great
Speaker 2: making catches, it's it's great doing all those things. But
Speaker 2: there's more to baseball than just that. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Bob, who is at the ballpark tonight. Hi, Bob,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Dave.
Speaker 11: I don't ever want to grow up, man.
Speaker 1: I hope you don't either.
Speaker 11: I hope we stay young forever.
Speaker 2: Well, Man, that's right, I'm not growing up. I refuse
Speaker 2: to That's right.
Speaker 11: That's right. Good on you. Great night to be out
Speaker 11: at the stadium. Unfortunately, different result warranted, but.
Speaker 9: It was what it was. Blake looked.
Speaker 10: Good question for you, though, Dave.
Speaker 11: Obviously Mooki is making the call and we're going to
Speaker 11: see him soon, so that both Kim and Friedland were
Speaker 11: on the field to start tonight. At the end of
Speaker 11: this game, if Mooki were to start tomorrow, who would
Speaker 11: it be who's staying up and who have to be?
Speaker 10: Like?
Speaker 11: Put back down?
Speaker 7: What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2: I would go with Freeland. I don't think anything's changed.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers want both those guys playing every day. Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmund doesn't seem like he's coming back anytime soon, And
Speaker 2: to me, I still feel like there's a lot of
Speaker 2: growth that Kim needs to have. Nights like tonight is
Speaker 2: a growing moment for him. It's it's the adversity and
Speaker 2: how you bounce back from that adversity in games like
Speaker 2: tonight that were rough for him? How is he going
Speaker 2: to come back if he starts or the next time
Speaker 2: he starts. So Mookie's coming back Monday. Dave Roberts said
Speaker 2: it after the game. He said it to us on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk on Thursday. So I don't see how anything
Speaker 2: has changed from when the season began. The only variable
Speaker 2: wild card in all this is Miguel Rojas's left hip.
Speaker 2: He was out there earlier today taking ground balls, but
Speaker 2: he still was walking very gently. So that may play
Speaker 2: a factor on whether or not the Dodgers decide to
Speaker 2: give a thirty seven year old that is supposed to
Speaker 2: be playing his final season a ten day injured list
Speaker 2: or are they going to just they feel confident that
Speaker 2: he's healthy. I would say that's the only wild card
Speaker 2: in all this.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I understand completely. I mean, unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 11: Kim had a couple of mistakes tonight, kind of costly errors.
Speaker 11: At some point, you know, I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 11: I wish both of them could stay up, but it's
Speaker 11: obviously there has to be a choice made. Like you
Speaker 11: said in less real Haas does decide to take an
Speaker 11: eye on stance, So time will tell, but it will
Speaker 11: be good to have Mookie Bets back in the lineup
Speaker 11: and back on defense, that's for sure.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 11: I feel like the team needs that spark from Mookie
Speaker 11: back in that lineup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. And looking at MOOKI seems like he's
Speaker 2: standing a lot taller than he was when we saw
Speaker 2: him in spring training. So I'm looking forward to get
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets back because the Dodgers need some production from
Speaker 2: their right handed hitters not named Andy pai Has. They're
Speaker 2: really not getting it, and they kind of need Mooky
Speaker 2: Bets to be Mookie Bets from two years ago, not
Speaker 2: the guy last year. They need the Mooky Bets that
Speaker 2: we had seen his entire career outside of last year. So,
Speaker 2: and I've said this before, I'll say it again. On
Speaker 2: the days that O'tani is not in the lineup and
Speaker 2: he's not leading off, I don't see any issues with
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts, who is one of the greatest leadoff hitters
Speaker 2: of the last twenty years, maybe twenty five years, being
Speaker 2: the leadoff hitter on those days. But he's got to
Speaker 2: show that he can get back to the mookie bets
Speaker 2: we saw a couple of years ago, and frankly who
Speaker 2: we saw at the end of the regular season last year.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Iray Craig in Long Beach. Craig,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing good, Dave?
Speaker 12: What's up, buddy?
Speaker 2: How you doing doing great?
Speaker 12: Good? Good to hear it, buddy. Hey, I thought Snell
Speaker 12: through pretty good tonight. You know, I was surprised by
Speaker 12: everybody was. I seen so many change ups that a
Speaker 12: lot of slides, I'm sorry, a lot of spiders that
Speaker 12: would have been a change up, might have been out
Speaker 12: of the inning.
Speaker 9: But you never know.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if he didn't have the feel
Speaker 2: for it or what he was thinking. But the sliders
Speaker 2: were not working against the lefties.
Speaker 12: Think must have something to work on.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 12: I don't know, but I thought he's doing pretty well. Otherwise,
Speaker 12: he had the velocity up, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the velocity was up. It hit ninety seven a
Speaker 2: couple of times, so he's healthy. He's feeling good. The
Speaker 2: fastball had life on it, no doubt about it. It was,
Speaker 2: you know, just his first start. It happens, and if
Speaker 2: you look at Spencer Strider in his first start before tonight,
Speaker 2: he only went three and to third and gave up
Speaker 2: three runs. Tonight, Strider in his second start, six scoreless innings.
Speaker 2: So it makes a big difference. Get your feet wet
Speaker 2: after you hadn't basically pitched in a major league game
Speaker 2: since last year. And also you heard Snell to the
Speaker 2: fact about the abs and the strike zone, and that's
Speaker 2: an adjustment that he's going to have to make on
Speaker 2: the fly here that every other pitcher has that hasn't
Speaker 2: really dealt with it before opening day this year. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Mission Viejo. Bill, you're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 10: Bill, Hi, thanks for taking my call. I was wondering
Speaker 10: about the rotation with she and pitching last night and
Speaker 10: tonight Snell and the rotation starting, How does that affect
Speaker 10: you know that you're going to have the next two days,
Speaker 10: you're going to still have Sasaki and Robleski pitching. Does
Speaker 10: that push back Yamamoto an extra day even from the
Speaker 10: six man rotation they've had, Well.
Speaker 2: May give him an extra day, but when you have
Speaker 2: Robleski tomorrow. Roki Sasaki was supposed to pitch today, so
Speaker 2: probably Roki pitches on Monday, the day that Glass now
Speaker 2: was supposed to pay, and then from there you're gonna
Speaker 2: have Yamamoto and Otani likely and sheh, it's a four
Speaker 2: game series against the Giants too, So there's no days
Speaker 2: off this week for the Dodgers, if that's what you're
Speaker 2: thinking about for Yamamoto and Otani. So basically, Snell coming
Speaker 2: into this rotation kind of manufactured an extra day of
Speaker 2: rest for some of those guys in the rotation. But
Speaker 2: you know, it's the regular season marathon. There's not gonna
Speaker 2: be days off all the time. The Dodgers do it
Speaker 2: better than most to be able to create extra days
Speaker 2: of rest, especially when you're in the stretch of playing
Speaker 2: thirteen in a row or something like that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, which picture do you think will drop off the rotation?
Speaker 2: When see that's funny everybody was asking me that question
Speaker 2: and saying the word Snell or the name Snell. Hey,
Speaker 2: who's going to drop out? When Snell comes back? I
Speaker 2: think we've found out Bill, a lot of things can
Speaker 2: change between now and fifteen days from now. So when
Speaker 2: the Dodgers get to that point and everybody's healthy, then
Speaker 2: I guess we could we could talk about it more,
Speaker 2: But I think it's hilarious that that was the topic
Speaker 2: of articles and conversations the last two weeks. What's gonna
Speaker 2: happen when Blake Snail comes back? Well, you saw what
Speaker 2: happened Tyler Glassnell went on the IL and now all
Speaker 2: of them are still in the rotation.
Speaker 10: Right, it's for now, that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So let's talk about that when we get closer
Speaker 2: to when Glassnew's off the IL. Thanks for the phone call, Bill,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Braves beat the Dodgers tonight
Speaker 2: seven to two. We're gonna take a time out here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. When we come back more of your
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Speaker 2: share that conversation special conversation with Bobby Cox that we
Speaker 2: had back in twenty sixteen at Turner Field. The Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame manager passed away, So we'll honor one of
Speaker 2: the greats in baseball history when we continue to the
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota, you gotta lose. At one point
Speaker 2: in time, the Braves had not won Yere since twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three, and Spencer Streyder looked a lot better after
Speaker 2: making his first start at Coursefield and looking human. But
Speaker 2: Spencer Stryder looked like Spencer Strider again.
Speaker 9: Yes, I mean, let's not forget about the specialty that
Speaker 9: it takes to win twenty games. And this guy did it,
Speaker 9: you know, a couple.
Speaker 4: Of years ago.
Speaker 9: And he's he's a speciman. I mean, he's got the
Speaker 9: big trunks, he's got the live fastball, he's got a
Speaker 9: true four seamer which is straight and it goes just
Speaker 9: like an hour right to the corners and beat you upstairs.
Speaker 9: It can beat you inside, it can beat you downstairs.
Speaker 9: And he was on his game. I you know, as
Speaker 9: you mentioned, he did not have a good first start
Speaker 9: over in Colorado. What Weisse was talking about it yesterday
Speaker 9: and his manager said, it seems like his almost over
Speaker 9: the place, maybe thinking too much about where he was pitching.
Speaker 9: But nonetheless, the Dodgers know they're going to have their
Speaker 9: hands full today and you have to go out there
Speaker 9: and throw them zeros to match up against him, as
Speaker 9: they did yesterday against Chris Sale. That didn't happen.
Speaker 2: How would you grade Blake snail start tonight, I'm gonna.
Speaker 9: Based it on him and his responses. I have mixed
Speaker 9: things about it. I would hope that there's way more
Speaker 9: than this in him, and I know there is. He
Speaker 9: kept saying learn and learn and learn. I know there's
Speaker 9: involved that where softly that found some hole. But this
Speaker 9: is the big leagues line. You got to go out
Speaker 9: there and get the ball on the zone and a
Speaker 9: little more often. And I know he does a point
Speaker 9: about a few things. You know it's going to compete,
Speaker 9: but I think the build up they to go from
Speaker 9: fifty five pitches and miners to the the bis what
Speaker 9: he wanted to do prove it's just not the same.
Speaker 9: I would look at the braves in the dugout and
Speaker 9: at some point I saw guys who that body language
Speaker 9: is saying, hey, we got something on him. That pitch
Speaker 9: that Albe's hit was not because he was say fool
Speaker 9: as much as he was looking for it, saying he's
Speaker 9: going to throw it again on the swing and keeping
Speaker 9: him his one. Because usually Blake sail In ninety seven
Speaker 9: ninety eight is good enough to get some guys off
Speaker 9: of that changeup. But he just had a little bit
Speaker 9: of trouble too. And if you look at it, smell's
Speaker 9: body language. So many times a day after delivering a pitch,
Speaker 9: he's pointing with his hand direction direction, direction, which at
Speaker 9: some point he was off tilled. But hopefully he'll find
Speaker 9: it again. Be up to know that.
Speaker 2: We know, yeah, he always does that to remind himself
Speaker 2: to stay behind the baseball. And look, it was his
Speaker 2: first start, so I would expect a more Spencer Strider
Speaker 2: like start in his second one, kind of the way
Speaker 2: Spencer went through it tonight. But I've been holding something back, Jose.
Speaker 2: In the fifth inning, Matt Olsen sent a foul ball
Speaker 2: into the Spanish radio booth. And you are known for
Speaker 2: having your trusty glove. But I saw the ball hit
Speaker 2: the back of the wall here at the press box
Speaker 2: and it kremed into the English radio booth. Where where
Speaker 2: was the glove? Where was the motive glove?
Speaker 9: I was trying to throw the double plane, send it
Speaker 9: to you guys over on the other side. That's all.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 12: What happens.
Speaker 9: The ball is so high, Louie, and I had the
Speaker 9: glove out, like okay, where is it? And all of
Speaker 9: a sudden the ball is right there boom almost hit
Speaker 9: efferent right in the left ear.
Speaker 2: But are you saying that you did that on purpose?
Speaker 9: I did not do it on purpose. I missed. Hey,
Speaker 9: I have no excuse it. I can come here and
Speaker 9: go on you know sports that on land til the
Speaker 9: truth I missed it. I didn't see if I missed it,
Speaker 9: that bottom line. But it was fun. It was something
Speaker 9: to talk about because it was a big thumb. Let
Speaker 9: me tell you, Bake, it was a big thumb.
Speaker 2: It was a big thumb, no doubt, no doubt. All right, Jose,
Speaker 2: we'll see you out here on Mother's Day. Thanks again
Speaker 2: for checking in tonight.
Speaker 9: Oh the pleasure.
Speaker 2: There he goes Jose Mota with his trustee Glove in
Speaker 2: the Spanish radio booth as the Dodgers fall to the
Speaker 2: Braves for the first time at Dodgers Stadium since twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three. That's hard to believe considering how good the
Speaker 2: Braves teams have been. I know they scuffled last year,
Speaker 2: but in twenty four they were a pretty good team.
Speaker 2: And for the Dodgers to be seven to zero and
Speaker 2: have a seven game winning streak against the Braves here
Speaker 2: in La coming into the game tonight. The reason why
Speaker 2: I keep bringing it up is. It's kind of hard
Speaker 2: to believe, but it's as Vince Scully used to like
Speaker 2: to say, when it came to matters like this. Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium was a house of whores for the Atlanta Braves
Speaker 2: before tonight, and the Dodgers would like to make it
Speaker 2: a painful place tomorrow afternoon on Mother's Day to win
Speaker 2: the series and celebrate winning the series. After winning the
Speaker 2: series in Houston, before they welcome in a stretch of
Speaker 2: games against two of the worst teams, frankly in Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball. I mean no joke, they are two of
Speaker 2: the worst teams in Major League Baseball. Once the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are done with the NL East leading Braves, the next
Speaker 2: to seven games get a lot easier for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: because they have a four game series against the Giants,
Speaker 2: and the Giants and Mets are tied for the worst
Speaker 2: record in the National League. The Giants are nine games
Speaker 2: back of the Dodgers in the NL West, they are
Speaker 2: trending towards being in last place in the Rockies finishing
Speaker 2: above them in this division, so they come in for
Speaker 2: a four game series and then the Dodgers head out
Speaker 2: on the road to Anaheim and the Angels are the
Speaker 2: worst team in baseball. Literally, they have the worst record
Speaker 2: in baseball. The Halos are fifteen to twenty five after
Speaker 2: getting beat by the Blue Jays today fourteen to one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the next seven games after Mother's Day for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: they should handle business. I'm not saying you gotta win
Speaker 2: all of them, but you should win at least six
Speaker 2: of seven against the Giants and Angels. And remember last
Speaker 2: year the Angels beat the Dodgers all six times that
Speaker 2: they faced each other. That's right, the Angels beat the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in the regular season last year all six head
Speaker 2: to head matchups. So that's something to keep in mind
Speaker 2: as well. Uh And like we said before, Mookie bed
Speaker 2: said it the best the first time is games like
Speaker 2: that against the Angels. That's their World Series in their
Speaker 2: own house in Anaheim. They're gonna be up for that series.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers, you know, I'm not gonna say they
Speaker 2: need to be up and match their intensity too. But
Speaker 2: just keep in mind the Angels beat you all six
Speaker 2: times last year, and in a competitive NL West with
Speaker 2: the Padres, who somehow are keeping up with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: The Padres one tonight and are twenty three and sixteen,
Speaker 2: a game back of the Dodgers in the NL West.
Speaker 2: This is the stretch of time that you get healthy
Speaker 2: against teams like the Giants and Angels, two of the
Speaker 2: worst records in Major League Baseball. The Giants and Mets
Speaker 2: tied for the worst records in the National League, and
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Speaker 2: series in San Francisco. Their number nine hitter and catcher
Speaker 2: Patrick Bailey beat them in the second game of that series,
Speaker 2: hitting a go ahead, three run home run. Well, today,
Speaker 2: the Giants traded bat Patrick Bailey to the Guardians for
Speaker 2: a draft pick, the twenty ninth overall pick and this
Speaker 2: year's Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. So that's how bad
Speaker 2: things are. The Giants traded a two time Gold Glove
Speaker 2: Award winner for a draft pick today. Eight six six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number, So
Speaker 2: with Snell starting tonight, Roki Sasaki likely to start on Monday,
Speaker 2: and then you'll see Yamamoto and Otani and Shean against
Speaker 2: the Giants, and we'll see what the Dodgers do this
Speaker 2: time around with Otani, whether or not I kind of
Speaker 2: lean towards them having him hit in the game against
Speaker 2: the Giants and then maybe getting the next day off,
Speaker 2: you know, before they go to Anaheim. I could see
Speaker 2: a scenario like that, or they just let him keep playing,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 2: Mar Garcia par was our pregame yesterday and he said, basically,
Speaker 2: that's a simple answered to a more complicated problem why
Speaker 2: Otani has struggled and is struggling offensively this year. He
Speaker 2: brought up a good point. You know, hitters go through slumps.
Speaker 2: Otani went through slumps, maybe not this big as far
Speaker 2: as just without hits and without home runs for a
Speaker 2: stretch of time. But basically Otani has a lot on
Speaker 2: his plate and it's more than just being fatigued. So
Speaker 2: that's an interview that you want to listen to with Nomar.
Speaker 2: You can find it on the iHeartRadio app. We touched
Speaker 2: on that, and we also touched on the state of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers offense and the approach they've been taken lately
Speaker 2: at the plate. As a group, wanted to also update
Speaker 2: you on a couple of different Dodgers who are injured.
Speaker 2: Brock Stewart was placed on the injured list again today,
Speaker 2: so frustrating for Brock and the Dodgers after reacquiring him
Speaker 2: at the trade deadline last year. He did undergo season
Speaker 2: ending elbow surgery line last year, did not start the
Speaker 2: season on time, made his season debut in the finale
Speaker 2: in Houston, pitched a scoreless ninth, had two strikeouts, and
Speaker 2: you think away we go with brock Stewart. Not so fast.
Speaker 2: He has bone spurs in his left foot and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers placed him back on the IL. Dave Roberts believes
Speaker 2: it's going to be at least three to four weeks
Speaker 2: before Stuart's back, and that means that he's really not
Speaker 2: throwing that much off the mound, so it's probably going
Speaker 2: to take you a little bit of time for him
Speaker 2: to get that arm going again. And three to four
Speaker 2: weeks sounds pretty accurate by Dave Roberts when it comes
Speaker 2: to that, and that's why it was important for Paul
Speaker 2: Gervais to be here and he pitched the last three
Speaker 2: innings tonight. That was big. Was still only going three
Speaker 2: innings tonight. Also, Tommy Edmond still not really taking it
Speaker 2: to the next level. He basically had the same ankle
Speaker 2: surgery that Freddie Freeman had before the twenty five season,
Speaker 2: and for whatever reason, it's not clicking for Tommy Edmond yet.
Speaker 2: So hopefully he's back. He's been transferred to the sixty
Speaker 2: day at il, but it feels like it's a matter
Speaker 2: of pain tolerance when it comes to Tommy's right ankle. Also,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts did play tonight. He's gonna be here in
Speaker 2: La tomorrow and Dave Roberts said he is going to
Speaker 2: start on Monday. In that game tonight for Oklahoma City,
Speaker 2: Bruce Stark Gretorol made another appearance and he faced five batters,
Speaker 2: So that's good news as well that he's continuing to
Speaker 2: progress and probably a month away, I would imagine before
Speaker 2: he returns. Similar to Brock Stewart, you got to see
Speaker 2: him pitch back to back games three out of four
Speaker 2: something like that before he returns. It's not like something
Speaker 2: he did all the time with the Dodgers, but at
Speaker 2: least back to back games are significant. Before you can
Speaker 2: say Bruce Dark Greterol is on his way back. So
Speaker 2: those are the updates on some of the injured Dodgers
Speaker 2: comings and goings. Miguel Rojas who left the game yesterday
Speaker 2: with kind of a dead left leg, he said because
Speaker 2: of a left hip issue that he suffered a couple
Speaker 2: of different times during the game yesterday. He went early
Speaker 2: after batting practice to get treatment. He did participate in
Speaker 2: batting practice, that's a good sign. He did take round balls,
Speaker 2: so obviously he's feeling good enough to do all that.
Speaker 2: All right, I want to share with you our conversation
Speaker 2: with Bobby Cox. The Dodgers did a classy thing before
Speaker 2: first pitch tonight with the Braves in town, honoring Bobby Cox,
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame manager who passed away earlier today,
Speaker 2: honoring him with a moment of silence, had a little
Speaker 2: montage there, and Bobby Cox touched a lot of people,
Speaker 2: not only with the Atlanta Braves organization, but people around baseball.
Speaker 2: A guy like that kind of transcends things, and it's
Speaker 2: usually more than just being a good manager. It has
Speaker 2: to do with him being probably a good person and
Speaker 2: Back in twenty sixteen, I had a chance to meet
Speaker 2: Bobby Cox for the first time at Turner Field, and
Speaker 2: at that point he was retired as the manager and
Speaker 2: getting into his new role in the front office with
Speaker 2: the Braves, and he was kind enough to get to
Speaker 2: know me a little bit, and then we sat down
Speaker 2: for a pregame interview. So here's my conversation with Bobby Cox,
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame manager, back in twenty sixteen. Rest
Speaker 2: in peace, Bobby, and our prayerson thoughts are with you
Speaker 2: and your family. So here was Bobby Cox twenty sixteen
Speaker 2: at Turner Field on Dodgers Radio.
Speaker 3: Bobby, it just seems like when you come back here,
Speaker 3: you think of Bobby Cox in Atlanta. How does it
Speaker 3: make you feel that people still treasure everything that you've
Speaker 3: done for this franchise.
Speaker 8: Well, it's touching, to be honest with you, David. And
Speaker 8: you know, we've had a lot of great teams that
Speaker 8: I managed here. We always had great players, We always
Speaker 8: had a super farm system. If something went wrong up here,
Speaker 8: we could always bang somebody and bring them up from
Speaker 8: down under sort of speak. But yeah, it's touching that
Speaker 8: the people still remember what went on through all those years,
Speaker 8: and you know, it's good to get out here. I'm
Speaker 8: kind of a consultant with the club right now, and
Speaker 8: I get down and see the minor leagues like Tommy
Speaker 8: Lasorda and the guys. Do you know no different, Harley.
Speaker 8: But it's great getting out here see the major league
Speaker 8: players too. And I had a chance to meet Dave
Speaker 8: Roberts and tell him congratulations and what a great job
Speaker 8: he's doing over there too. He's really a sharp kid
Speaker 8: and he's going to do a fantastic job for you.
Speaker 3: Bobby Cox, Hall of Famer, is our guest, and a
Speaker 3: lot of people don't realize Bobby that obviously you are
Speaker 3: a great manager, but also one of the best talent
Speaker 3: evaluators even before you were managing the Braves. How much
Speaker 3: does that still come into play and what you do
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 8: Well, a little bit, especially in spring training watching. You know,
Speaker 8: we have so many new players every year the last
Speaker 8: two years, there's been a major turnover here, and you know,
Speaker 8: more eyes that you see with I think helps out
Speaker 8: and I let them know how I feel about certain guys.
Speaker 8: I don't always know the makeup of players now because
Speaker 8: I'm a little bit far away from that end of it,
Speaker 8: but I can see what's going on in the field.
Speaker 7: And makeup is a big thing too.
Speaker 8: With the major league players, you got to have good
Speaker 8: makeup leaving yourself and want to win, want to win
Speaker 8: for the home team. But it's fun traveling around and
Speaker 8: I'll give them my reports on a minor leaguer, see
Speaker 8: what I can help them out with their and it's fun.
Speaker 8: It's been fun. It's not easy to retire. I still
Speaker 8: miss it, but I'm around it enough where I'm fine,
Speaker 8: And as long as I get to be around it
Speaker 8: a little bit, i'm fine.
Speaker 3: And days like this are great too because you got
Speaker 3: a chance to visit with your former bench coach, Pat Corrals.
Speaker 3: I felt like I was back in nineteen ninety five
Speaker 3: with you guys sitting in the dugout together.
Speaker 7: You bet.
Speaker 8: Pat's been one of my friends since childhood. Actually we
Speaker 8: played against each other. He was a Fresno hye and
Speaker 8: I was from a little bitty town, Selma, about twenty
Speaker 8: miles from Fresno where Pat grew up. So I've known
Speaker 8: Pat just about my entire life. So it was good
Speaker 8: seeing him today.
Speaker 3: Always good too, to have a bench coach that you
Speaker 3: can trust. How important was a bench coach to you
Speaker 3: and how important is it for a manager.
Speaker 8: I think anybody starting out in the game, the bench
Speaker 8: coach particularly is going to be very important. I think,
Speaker 8: especially if your bench coach is one that was in
Speaker 8: the league prior to you coming in and starting to manage.
Speaker 7: But bench coaches you can rely on them.
Speaker 8: I think you need somebody to bounce something off occasionally,
Speaker 8: and Pat was always right there with a emphatic yes
Speaker 8: or no.
Speaker 3: The way baseball is changing, it seems like numbers are
Speaker 3: being a bigger part of evaluating what's your philosophy on that?
Speaker 7: And well to major league level, I'm not too sure.
Speaker 8: I think drafting some players and rule fiving some players
Speaker 8: at the Winter meetings, I think some of their techniques
Speaker 8: that they.
Speaker 7: Used with numbers is pretty darn important, actually.
Speaker 8: And especially you know on certain kids you haven't seen
Speaker 8: a lot, maybe haven't seen at all.
Speaker 7: You may take a gamble just on the numbers.
Speaker 8: But once they get to the big legal, big leagues,
Speaker 8: I don't know if exit velocity off the bat is
Speaker 8: that important. All I want to know if it goes
Speaker 8: over the fence, it doesn't have to go over one
Speaker 8: hundred feet and stuff like that. But you know, it's
Speaker 8: a part of the game now and I think managers
Speaker 8: should use as much as that information without getting becoming
Speaker 8: brain frozen, and you might become that the gut always
Speaker 8: played a big part of how I managed the ballgame.
Speaker 8: How was gone the confidence I had and a certain
Speaker 8: player in a certain situation. You know, if the numbers
Speaker 8: dictated opposite, I would still go ahead and do it.
Speaker 3: Nowadays, well, I would take Bobby Cox's word on anything.
Speaker 3: After twenty five hundred plus wins Hall of Fame manage.
Speaker 3: It was really great talking to you, meeting you for
Speaker 3: the first time, and you were everything that everybody says
Speaker 3: you are.
Speaker 7: So thank you, Dave, thank you.
Speaker 2: It was a pleasure, well, very special honor to be
Speaker 2: able to share that conversation with Hall of Fame manager
Speaker 2: Bobby Cox. He was so gracious and you know, the
Speaker 2: way he was speaking to us, he would make you
Speaker 2: feel like he's known you for fifty years. That was
Speaker 2: the first time I had ever met Bobby Cox, and
Speaker 2: he was addressing me by my first name. That's how
Speaker 2: special he was. And I remember that day in twenty
Speaker 2: sixteen being out at Turner Field. He couldn't have been
Speaker 2: more nice and kind and gracious, and I can understand
Speaker 2: why so many people love Bobby Cox. And just a
Speaker 2: reminder that Freddie Freeman and Craig Kimbrel are the only
Speaker 2: two active players in baseball that ever were managed by
Speaker 2: Bobby Cox. So certainly a special man that touched so many.
Speaker 2: He was the leader of those Braves teams that ran
Speaker 2: the table during the decade the nineties. And he is
Speaker 2: going to be missed, definitely going to be missed. And
Speaker 2: I was happy that I was lucky enough to get
Speaker 2: to know him for those seven ten minutes in twenty
Speaker 2: sixteen at Turner Field. So I'm just thankful for that
Speaker 2: moment in time. All Right, that'll do it for us.
Speaker 2: On Dodger Talk tonight tomorrow, the Dodgers and Brays will
Speaker 2: hook up on Mother's Day. Justin Robleski five and zero
Speaker 2: with an ERA of one twenty five going up against
Speaker 2: Bryce Elder, who's three to one with an ERA of
Speaker 2: two zero two. Our coverage begins at noon with Tim
Speaker 2: Kats and Morongo Casino. Dodgers on deck. First pitch at
Speaker 2: one ten with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Colin Ee back at our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 2: McDonald out here at Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium, and
Speaker 2: thanks to you for listening. In case you missed any
Speaker 2: of the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: app and also our pregame conversation with two time betting
Speaker 2: champion no mar Garciapara once again. The final score tonight
Speaker 2: the Dodgers fall to the Braves seven to two. Be safe.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow. See you Save it Away.