Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth fifth.
Speaker 1: This is world Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Here we go again, Rigo running back.
Speaker 1: To get him on the show called eight six six
Speaker 1: n eighty seven two five seven, and be sure to
Speaker 1: follow Dodger Talk wherever you get your podcasts. Here's your host,
Speaker 1: David Vase.
Speaker 2: Last day, What a game by Yoshi Yamamoto on the
Speaker 2: South side of Chicago as the Dodgers beat the White
Speaker 2: Sox seven to one and Yama Moto this close to
Speaker 2: the first perfect game in Dodger history since Sandy Kofax
Speaker 2: did it against the Chicago Cubs in the sixties, and
Speaker 2: also becoming or this close to becoming the first Dodger
Speaker 2: individual pitcher to pitch a no hitter since Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen. In fact, the anniversary of that no
Speaker 2: hitter is coming up on June eighteenth. But unfortunate sequence
Speaker 2: of events, if you want to call that. In the
Speaker 2: eighth and ninth inning, Yamamoto had two outs in the
Speaker 2: eighth inning, a routine ground ball by Chase Mydrath to
Speaker 2: Mookie Bats a three hopper that Mooki played extra safe.
Speaker 2: If you go back and watch the replay, he was
Speaker 2: playing it extra safe. I've heard Mooki practice and teach,
Speaker 2: and he's always talking about charging and presenting the glove
Speaker 2: when you allow the ball to bounce three times. And
Speaker 2: the reason why I'm talking about the number of bounces.
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer and maybe the greatest defensive shortstop in
Speaker 2: the history of the game, Ozzie Smith said he used
Speaker 2: to count the number of bounces before it got to him,
Speaker 2: and that's how he would time making those incredible plays.
Speaker 2: But three hops, if you're worried about the infield, then
Speaker 2: you don't want to allow more hops to have the
Speaker 2: variable of that infield play. But if you look at
Speaker 2: the throw before and the way Mookie played that ground
Speaker 2: ball for the second out of the eighth inning, he
Speaker 2: was playing it safe. You don't blame him. He's not
Speaker 2: a guy that's been playing shortstop that long and he's
Speaker 2: trying not to ruin a perfect game or a no hitter,
Speaker 2: and in turn a bat it was a bad hop.
Speaker 2: If you go back and look at the replay, it
Speaker 2: did take a bad hop or an awkward hop, but
Speaker 2: you can't blame the infield. Nobody was talking about the
Speaker 2: infield until that play, So come on, you're really gonna
Speaker 2: blame the infield after We never heard anybody talk about
Speaker 2: it the first seven innings, seven to two thirds of
Speaker 2: the innings of this game. But I'm here to celebrate Yamamoto,
Speaker 2: who also did something incredible in the process of this
Speaker 2: great pitch game, going eight and a third innings allowing
Speaker 2: just one hit. It was a leadoff home run to
Speaker 2: Tristan Peters in the ninth inning. Going back to Yamamoto's
Speaker 2: last start where he were tired the last twenty two
Speaker 2: that he faced, and then what he did retiring you
Speaker 2: know the batters up to that two out era, Yamamoto
Speaker 2: retired forty five consecutive hitters, which is the second longest
Speaker 2: streak of any pitcher outside of Usemero Petit for the
Speaker 2: Giants back in twenty fourteen, and Yamamoto has the second
Speaker 2: longest streak of retiring that many consecutive batters in a row.
Speaker 2: Forty five consecutive batters, the second most consecutive in the
Speaker 2: live ball era. So he did almost make history in
Speaker 2: two ways, a perfect game, a no hitter, and also
Speaker 2: stealing that record from Usemero Petit. But forty five consecutive
Speaker 2: retired hitters is pretty good. Eight six, six nine, eight seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy. As the phone number, we will hear
Speaker 2: from Nomar Garcia Para, who was on the set at
Speaker 2: sports net LA. Who better to hear from than Nomar,
Speaker 2: one of the greatest shortstops in the history of the game,
Speaker 2: certainly in the modern era of the game. I would
Speaker 2: love to hear what he had to say about the
Speaker 2: play in the eighth inning that wasn't made by Mookie Betts,
Speaker 2: But we want to hear from Mookie Bets. He was
Speaker 2: standing in front of his locker. Kirsten Watson caught up
Speaker 2: with Mookie on sports at LAH.
Speaker 3: Just a Reefian ground ball that I missed. That's not
Speaker 3: making any excuses.
Speaker 4: When Yoh kind of gave you that tap afterwards in
Speaker 4: between innings.
Speaker 3: Just obviously he's.
Speaker 4: A special guy, but just to kind of have that support,
Speaker 4: knowing that you guys are all in this together. What
Speaker 4: does that just kind of moment mean for you, for
Speaker 4: this team and just your relationship.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know I mean, you know, I
Speaker 3: don't think it was.
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, with the situation going on, it was great,
Speaker 5: But I don't I think that's winning is the most
Speaker 5: important thing.
Speaker 3: That's all we care about. Where were you of the
Speaker 3: perfect game? Very a rare?
Speaker 5: I mean knew everything going on. I mean, didn't have
Speaker 5: any extra pressure. I said, I'm not making any excuses.
Speaker 5: I should have made the play.
Speaker 3: What goes through your mind when that play happens? Nothing?
Speaker 5: I mean I did everything I did. I did everything
Speaker 5: I was supposed to do, just didn't catch the ball.
Speaker 3: Higher hop that last one than you were expecting or.
Speaker 5: I think that's for for any someone else to decide.
Speaker 3: But I should have caught the ball behind them all afternoon.
Speaker 3: Can you just talk about how well he pitched?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was in his own he's I mean kept
Speaker 5: it out of the middle, I mean, kept him off balance.
Speaker 5: I mean that's just Yoshi being Yoshi. You know, I'm
Speaker 5: glad he's on our team.
Speaker 2: What is it as allowed it like not just this year,
Speaker 2: like last year and sort of take another Hitters Nottings
Speaker 2: to have these kind of performances.
Speaker 5: Big, he's just got so many weapons. He's got so
Speaker 5: many weapons. So many different ways to get you out,
Speaker 5: and Rush did an awesome job calling pitches back there.
Speaker 3: Smithy does a really good job.
Speaker 5: You know that they did a great job mixing it up,
Speaker 5: and I mean he's going about each of that difference.
Speaker 3: It's just hard to game plan for.
Speaker 6: Well, you guys knowing Yoshi's when Dave came to get
Speaker 6: him at the end of his outing on the mound.
Speaker 3: Just good job.
Speaker 5: I mean, nothing really you can say outside of a
Speaker 5: good job. I think everybody in the world knows he
Speaker 5: did a good job, So I'm just reassurance.
Speaker 3: Okay, kind of loss in the shuffle here after Yoshi
Speaker 3: pitched it. Well, but what's a how nice the hell
Speaker 3: of a show? Head back in lineup and to see
Speaker 3: him send a jolt to you guys early with that
Speaker 3: tom Rono, it's great, it's awesome.
Speaker 5: Obviously, he's the best player in the world, So anytime
Speaker 5: you can get the best player in the road back
Speaker 5: in your lineup.
Speaker 3: He's definitely gonna help. And he showed it immediately.
Speaker 2: All right, Mookie Bets obviously frustrated that he didn't make
Speaker 2: that play, but certainly, like you said, not making any excuses,
Speaker 2: just a disappointing way for that perfect game to end,
Speaker 2: and nobody feels worse. I can assure you of that.
Speaker 2: Then move bets. Today's game brought to you by Modello.
Speaker 2: Modello the mark of a fighter, he said. A couple
Speaker 2: of things there that obviously stood out. Number one, Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 2: You got to give him a lot of credit. Will
Speaker 2: Smith obviously an all star catcher, three time World Series champion,
Speaker 2: a guy that knows this pitching staff better than anybody.
Speaker 2: For Dalton Rushing to be behind the play today and
Speaker 2: not get in the way of Yamamoto, that's basically what
Speaker 2: you're doing. I mean, Ben ROURTVID did the same thing
Speaker 2: in Baltimore last year when Yamamoto had a no hitter
Speaker 2: going into the ninth inning. You're just trying not to
Speaker 2: get in the way and really just stay and sink
Speaker 2: and rhythm with your starting pitcher with Yamamoto. And that's
Speaker 2: what Dalton Rushing did today. That's what Ben ROURTVID did
Speaker 2: last year in Baltimore. You remember last year, Yamamoto had
Speaker 2: a no hitter going into the ninth inning, holding on
Speaker 2: to a slimmer margin of a lead, gives up the
Speaker 2: no hitter and then Tanner Scott gave up the game.
Speaker 2: This was a much different situation. The Dodgers had a
Speaker 2: seven to nothing lead than a seven to one lead.
Speaker 2: Alex Vesia came into the game needing just to get
Speaker 2: two outs with a six run lead, and the lead
Speaker 2: was secured. The win was secured after the Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: the White Sox seven to one, and Yamamoto was masterful,
Speaker 2: nearly perfect today on the mound for the Dodgers for
Speaker 2: a second straight year. Let's hear from Nomar Garciapara, because, honestly,
Speaker 2: of all the broadcasters on the air today, his voice
Speaker 2: is going to carry the most weight when it comes
Speaker 2: to that play in the eighth inning and just that
Speaker 2: whole situation being at shortstop in a perfect game. Nomar Garciapara,
Speaker 2: Thank god you were working on a Saturday, Nomar. Here's
Speaker 2: what Nomar had to say on Sports and at LA
Speaker 2: after the game today.
Speaker 7: When I saw it, I said, oh, right away, I said, oh,
Speaker 7: it took a hop on him. I mean we've all
Speaker 7: been there as infielders. You've been there where that last
Speaker 7: hop on the dirt you expect it, and Eric Harsels
Speaker 7: come out the top.
Speaker 3: Spin right well, so that top spin, not that it.
Speaker 7: Necessarily just picks me, but it comes up on you.
Speaker 7: It comes into your body and you can see where
Speaker 7: that bar just came.
Speaker 3: That's what.
Speaker 7: And when you slow it down, you're like, how do
Speaker 7: you miss that?
Speaker 2: But listen, in.
Speaker 7: Real time, it does seem like it either picks up speed,
Speaker 7: but as it comes up it ends up hitting you
Speaker 7: on the heel or your arm.
Speaker 1: I saw it right when that hop was and those are.
Speaker 3: The ones you worry about.
Speaker 7: You're like, Okay, it's one of those where you don't
Speaker 7: know because you kind of say, that's one hop. I
Speaker 7: hope it's clean, so I can just get my rhythm
Speaker 7: and throw to first base. At shortstops a lot different
Speaker 7: save if you're looking at that hop at third base
Speaker 7: or second base, where sometimes what you can do is
Speaker 7: you might take one step back because you're thinking, okay,
Speaker 7: in case that hop, I'll catch it maybe on its
Speaker 7: way up, or I'm really going to kind of rush
Speaker 7: and try to get that right before. But at shortstop
Speaker 7: you don't have that luxury to be on your heels.
Speaker 7: The rhythm has to just keep going because you have
Speaker 7: no chance of gathering yourself to make that to make
Speaker 7: the throw to get them out at first, so that
Speaker 7: one where you're just going and it just came up
Speaker 7: on them. Now, to me, it looks different than when
Speaker 7: I was there, because I noticed the dirt just a
Speaker 7: different color when I played it scene, like the dirt
Speaker 7: was darker. I actually liked playing there. It was a
Speaker 7: little bit different. It was really it was soft.
Speaker 3: They had it.
Speaker 7: They really kept it nice and wet out there, and
Speaker 7: it was nice. But I can tell it's different, but
Speaker 7: just from the color itself. So I don't know what
Speaker 7: it's like now or how it's viewed among the players.
Speaker 2: All right. There was Nomar Garcia Para after the final
Speaker 2: out today on the desk at Sports and at LA
Speaker 2: and look, he's not trying to bury Mooky Bets. I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to bury Mooky Bets. Obviously, nobody wants to
Speaker 2: point the finger at Mookie Bets. But the reality is
Speaker 2: he got away. No, Mar said this. You don't want
Speaker 2: to be on your heels on a ground ball like
Speaker 2: that at shortstop. You can get away with it at
Speaker 2: second base to make the adjustments backing up at third base,
Speaker 2: backing up. But you heard what Nomar had to say there.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be on your heels. And Mooki
Speaker 2: got away with it on the prior ground ball, by
Speaker 2: my draft, he didn't get away with it on that
Speaker 2: one because he was on his heels and it felt like,
Speaker 2: you know, uh, he was feeling the pressure of a
Speaker 2: perfect game and not trying to make the play instead
Speaker 2: of not trying to mess up the play, and it
Speaker 2: backfired on him. But look, the Dodgers won. It's it's
Speaker 2: frustrating right now for Mooki. I'm sure, like I said,
Speaker 2: nobody feels worse than Mooky about it, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: he's frustrated about, you know, the hop that it took.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, when the Dodgers
Speaker 2: get to October, hopefully that's a distant memory. You don't
Speaker 2: want to have a play like that linger in the
Speaker 2: mind of Mookie Bets, who is relatively new to playing shortstop.
Speaker 2: I know it's his second full season there, but that
Speaker 2: can get into a player's head and you don't need that,
Speaker 2: especially when Mooki, you know, looking up at the scoreboard
Speaker 2: and seeing his batting average at one ninety six. Mookie
Speaker 2: did have three hits today and he did score three times,
Speaker 2: so the offense is starting to pick up. You don't
Speaker 2: want a play like that to start to be in
Speaker 2: the back of his head. You hope that he gets
Speaker 2: in there tomorrow and he makes you know. You hope
Speaker 2: the first ball is hit to Mooki Bets. I'll put
Speaker 2: it that way and he comes up with a clean
Speaker 2: because no matter how great of a player anybody is,
Speaker 2: baseball is ninety percent mental. If your Mookie Bets, if
Speaker 2: you're Wan Castro, if you're Miguel Rojas, if you're Alex Freeland,
Speaker 2: the game is ninety percent mental. And you don't want
Speaker 2: to play like that for a guy that's only playing
Speaker 2: shortstoff for the second full year to be lingering for
Speaker 2: the next few weeks. So I hope the first round ball,
Speaker 2: the first pitch put him play tomorrow is right at
Speaker 2: Mooki Bets, because he'll need that. Eight six, six, nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number either way.
Speaker 2: Yamamoto had a chance at a no hitter. Unfortunately, he
Speaker 2: gives up a leadoff home run in the ninth inning
Speaker 2: to Tristan Peters, a fastball right down the middle. As
Speaker 2: soon as I saw the pitch leave his hand and
Speaker 2: where it was and the swing that Peters was taking.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh no, oh, yes, that was the
Speaker 2: only hit of the game. But I'm I'm very certain
Speaker 2: Yamamoto will have another shot at a no hitter or
Speaker 2: maybe even a perfect game later this year. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to see me, Valley, Ben, you're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Ben.
Speaker 8: Hey, David, thanks for taking my call, and also thank
Speaker 8: you for the information. I wasn't aware about the forty
Speaker 8: five consecutive batters retired until you said that, So I
Speaker 8: did some research because I was I was like, wow,
Speaker 8: that has to be an anomaly to have forty five
Speaker 8: consecutive batters without having a perfect game. And well, you said,
Speaker 8: the guy who holds the record at forty six consecutive
Speaker 8: batters shares in common with Yamamoto that he did not
Speaker 8: record a perfect game. But another guy who did get
Speaker 8: exactly forty five consecutive.
Speaker 6: Batters, Mark Burley.
Speaker 8: Mark Burley. Yeah, he's got the White Sox the perfect game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, I remember that. Yeah. Us Merrow Petite is
Speaker 2: the record holder with forty six consecutive scoreless innings. He
Speaker 2: did that wearing a Giants uniform. In twenty fourteen. But Ben,
Speaker 2: I think we could safely say I felt this way
Speaker 2: after the World Series, but I can reinforce it that
Speaker 2: Yamamoto is the undisputed ace of this Dodgers pitching staff.
Speaker 8: Oh absolutely, I mean it's it's been how many times
Speaker 8: we've been on No Hitter watch with him. You know,
Speaker 8: it feels inevitable that he will get a no hitter
Speaker 8: or a perfect game while wearing a Dodger uniform. I
Speaker 8: can pretty much guarantee it.
Speaker 2: I feel it by the end of the year, Ben,
Speaker 2: I'll go a little further. Thanks for the phone call,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Let's go out to Frank in Long Beach.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David Vasse. How you doing, Frank?
Speaker 6: He David, thanks for taking my call. What a game
Speaker 6: by Yamamoto. Man, Wow, we should all be so proud
Speaker 6: of him.
Speaker 2: Well, if he shows that that Riley's or Phil Trainey's
Speaker 2: in Long Beach, I hope you pay for his meal.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that'd be great. Hey, a little bit about bench. Oh, David,
Speaker 6: I'm so tired of Gosh, the media just giving this
Speaker 6: guy non stop excuses. Why is he batting forth? He's
Speaker 6: been horrible at the plate for the past two years.
Speaker 6: He looks like an amateur at shortstop. Let's just be honest.
Speaker 6: I mean, I understand that he has a lot, that
Speaker 6: they're paying him a lot of money, and we need
Speaker 6: to make it seem like he's still the greatest of whatever.
Speaker 6: But I think we're really just fed up with this nonsense.
Speaker 6: He belongs on the bench.
Speaker 2: Oh stop it, Frank, you want him on the bench? Yes,
Speaker 2: that's a little much for me. Look, I can understand
Speaker 2: the argument if you said, if this continued, and if
Speaker 2: the ball was coming off his bat this way in
Speaker 2: a month, that you would move him down in the lineup.
Speaker 2: I would agree with that if this continued. But I
Speaker 2: might be the only one that sees it this way.
Speaker 2: Even though Kyle Tucker has a higher batting average than
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets, uh, I think Mookie Bets is having better
Speaker 2: at bats than Kyle Tucker these days.
Speaker 6: Well, I know that's the narrative. I mean, he's been
Speaker 6: hitting one eighty for the whole year, and it's oh wow,
Speaker 6: he's making good swings. Wow Bets making.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you listening to the show. But yeah, if
Speaker 2: I had to choose between Who's seven better at bats
Speaker 2: these days, Mookie Bets or Kyle Tucker. I'm saying Mookie Bets,
Speaker 2: which is crazy to say.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, Kyle Tucker is not doing great himself,
Speaker 6: but at least he's been better than Bets has for
Speaker 6: the past two years, has he? I'm just well, I
Speaker 6: don't know about.
Speaker 2: Going back to this year, since the since the All
Speaker 2: Star break of last year, Kyle Tucker's a two thirty hitter.
Speaker 6: Okay, And what's Bets been since the past two years.
Speaker 2: Well, he had a pretty good September and he's won
Speaker 2: three World Series with the Dodgers, Franks, So I think
Speaker 2: that counts for something.
Speaker 6: Used to be pretty good for the Dodgers. But come on,
Speaker 6: he's thirty three.
Speaker 2: Look, everybody knew this contract was not going to age. Well,
Speaker 2: you hope that you could get three World Series while
Speaker 2: he was still in good playing condition, and you did,
Speaker 2: and you may even get a fourth and a three
Speaker 2: peet Frank, So I'll have you know. I'm not ready
Speaker 2: to give up on Mookie Bets season just yet. But
Speaker 2: hitting fourth is what the Dodgers decided after hitting him
Speaker 2: second was not the right thing to do. And if
Speaker 2: it continues to be hovering around two hundred, then I'm
Speaker 2: with you. He should hit sixth in the lineup.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, he needs to get better at defense, that's
Speaker 6: for sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, you remember who ended the World Series on a
Speaker 2: double play last year?
Speaker 6: Right, Yes, he had a double play and the World Series.
Speaker 6: And that's the best thing that he did in the
Speaker 6: entire World Series. I mean, let's be honest. Okay, that's
Speaker 6: the best thing that he did was one double play.
Speaker 6: It happened to come on the last play of the game.
Speaker 2: But it's okay, nothing else really stands out to me
Speaker 2: right now, Frank, So it's hard to argue that. But nonetheless,
Speaker 2: you got Mookie Bets for six more years and you're
Speaker 2: not going to bench him.
Speaker 6: All right, David, thank you very much, have a great day,
Speaker 6: and go Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Go Dodgers, Frank. Yes, Yamamoto a great pitch game, almost
Speaker 2: a no hitter, but he gave up a leadoff home
Speaker 2: run to Tristan Peters. He had a perfect game with
Speaker 2: two outs in the eighth inning. And look, this is
Speaker 2: not the first spoiled perfect game by a Dodgers shortstop.
Speaker 2: Remember Kershaw's no hitter. Many consider it the greatest pitch
Speaker 2: game in baseball history, even though he did not have
Speaker 2: a perfect game. Remember Hanley Ramirez. I believe it was
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning of that no hitter, which should
Speaker 2: have been a perfect game, Hanley Ramirez lazy throw to
Speaker 2: Adrian Gonzalez and the perfect game was over right there
Speaker 2: as well. So I hate when anybody reminds me of
Speaker 2: Hanley Ramirez, but I can tell you this, Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: is feeling this a lot more than Hanley Ramirez felt
Speaker 2: it in twenty fourteen. Let's take another phone call before
Speaker 2: we take a break. Let's go out to Lakewood. Steve.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Steve?
Speaker 3: Good? How you doing this?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 9: Hey, we're doing it.
Speaker 6: Hey guy, what a great game today.
Speaker 8: God I was hoping for the perfect game, but hey, yeah.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of sports going on today, Steve. So,
Speaker 2: did you have the Dodger game on flipping back as
Speaker 2: a secondary sports watching event and then you saw Yamamoto
Speaker 2: with a perfect game in the fifth or sixth inning,
Speaker 2: or were you watching this from the beginning on?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: Hey, say, hey, I always Dodger first, and then I
Speaker 6: go from there.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 9: I like it.
Speaker 2: You know what I love about the World Cup, Steve.
Speaker 2: It allows me to take really good naps. I don't know.
Speaker 2: For whatever reason, soccer allows me to take great naps
Speaker 2: around one or two o'clock in the afternoon when I
Speaker 2: have it on.
Speaker 8: Hey, that's good, okay, David.
Speaker 2: You take care, Okay, Steve, great talk, Thanks for the talk.
Speaker 2: Great talk, right there, Steve. Eight sixty six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number when we
Speaker 2: continue on Dodger Talk. More of your phone calls. We
Speaker 2: have two lines open at eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. If you want to talk about
Speaker 2: the almost perfect game or the almost snow hitter by
Speaker 2: Yamamoto eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from Mark prior to the Dodgers pitching coach
Speaker 2: and also the catcher behind the plate today, Dalton Rushing,
Speaker 2: who helped Yama Moto navigate a masterful performance seven to
Speaker 2: one the five final score in Chicago against the White Sox,
Speaker 2: spoiling their eight game home winning streak. The Dodgers get
Speaker 2: the win seven to one on a five to seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports.
Speaker 1: On air at AM five to seventy online at AM
Speaker 1: five seventy, la sports dot com and available by podcast
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. This is Dodger Talk with David
Speaker 1: bass Sander.
Speaker 2: Stretching the three to zero pip swings.
Speaker 1: He hits a drive to right field and deep this
Speaker 1: ball back, This ball's gone.
Speaker 10: Maxwell swinging a sober hammer in the Windy City and
Speaker 10: it's three nothing Dodgers around number fifteen for Mounsie and
Speaker 10: evidently Max is feeling better as well. That was an
Speaker 10: absolute no doubter fastball right down the middle, four hundred
Speaker 10: and fifteen feet.
Speaker 2: One of two home runs for Max Mounsey today today
Speaker 2: combined eight hundred and twenty four feet a home runs
Speaker 2: for Max Munsey, who has sixteen on the season and
Speaker 2: is leading most National League third basemen in every offensive category,
Speaker 2: including the home run department. You can vote for Max
Speaker 2: Munsey and Andy Paez and Otani right now on MLB
Speaker 2: dot com to get them as starters in Philadelphia because
Speaker 2: they deserve it. Today, yamamotos cemended his spot on the
Speaker 2: National League All Star Pitching Staff pitching a phenomenal game,
Speaker 2: coming this close to a perfect game and no hitter.
Speaker 2: The perfect game was spoiled in the eighth. The no
Speaker 2: hitter spoiled in the ninth by a leadoff home run
Speaker 2: by Tristan Peters, but Yamamoto with seven strikeouts, he gets
Speaker 2: seven runs of support, and he wins his seventh game
Speaker 2: of the year. Daniels Jewelers presents the home Run Forecast.
Speaker 2: For your chance to win a fifty dollars Daniels Jeweler's
Speaker 2: gift card, visit AM five seventy lasports dot com, use
Speaker 2: the keyword home run, enter your name, and you could win.
Speaker 2: Daniel's Jewelers Own the Dream. One more thing about Mookie Bets.
Speaker 2: The late great basketball coach Paul Westfall used to tell
Speaker 2: me all the time about coaches and players in cities.
Speaker 2: When you sign a new contract and you don't have
Speaker 2: a lot of local credibility, meaning you haven't done a
Speaker 2: lot for that fan base. But when you have a
Speaker 2: player like Mookie Bets, who has built a lot of
Speaker 2: local credibility, who has won three championships since getting traded
Speaker 2: to the Dodgers in twenty twenty, and he makes an
Speaker 2: error during a perfect game in the eighth inning, a
Speaker 2: game the Dodgers won, how long are you going to
Speaker 2: marinate in it. It's Mookie Bets. Would you rather not
Speaker 2: have Mooki Bets on your team for the last six
Speaker 2: seven years. I would like to not have moved. I
Speaker 2: would like to have Mooki on my team. So my
Speaker 2: point is we could talk about this today, but it's
Speaker 2: not a play that you hold against Mookie Bets the
Speaker 2: rest of your life. Yamamoto's not It was a bad
Speaker 2: hop and he didn't play it the right way. He's
Speaker 2: only been playing shortstop for two full seasons. Whether you
Speaker 2: think he's good or not, that's the reality at that position.
Speaker 2: So my point is Mooki's done a lot more good
Speaker 2: than bad plays like today in a win for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: So let's just keep that all in perspective. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Corona.
Speaker 6: Lee.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 6: Lee, Hey, David, how's it going.
Speaker 2: It's going well. I mean, I love watching Yamamoto pitch.
Speaker 2: He was outstanding.
Speaker 11: Agree a couple of points I want to make. I
Speaker 11: called you I don't know about four years ago, and
Speaker 11: four years ago I called you since them, but the
Speaker 11: time made the point. And I'm not coming at Bets's
Speaker 11: defense on that play, because that's a major leaguer needs
Speaker 11: to make that play. That's that's for sure. But I
Speaker 11: told you four years ago at the time when Mike Trout,
Speaker 11: before he was getting all these entries, I said at
Speaker 11: the time, Bets is having a better career than Trout.
Speaker 11: He's won Gold Gloves. Trouts has never won. He had
Speaker 11: won a championship in Boston then with the Dodgers. And
Speaker 11: to your point here, like, yes, I don't like the
Speaker 11: air today. Who does. We wanted a perfect game, and
Speaker 11: you know people can say, well, Yamamoto gave up the
Speaker 11: home run anyways, but everything changes if Bets makes that play.
Speaker 11: We don't know if Yamamoto groves a fastball first pitch
Speaker 11: all that, but I would for sure take Mookie Bets.
Speaker 11: No Mookie Bets in twenty twenty, Dodgers have no chance
Speaker 11: to win that World Series. And a caller previously a
Speaker 11: few minutes ago made some points. I'll give him that.
Speaker 11: But Bets did more than pill the routine ground ball
Speaker 11: double play last year, for the last two outs of
Speaker 11: the game he had Game six, he drove in two runs.
Speaker 11: The Dodgers only scored three in that game. They won
Speaker 11: three to one. And BET's yes, he has not been hitting,
Speaker 11: but he had a huge clutch hit in Gage six
Speaker 11: last year, so yes, he should have made the play today.
Speaker 11: But I'll take Mookie Bets every day, all day. And
Speaker 11: it kind of reminded me in nineteen eighty when I
Speaker 11: was a little bit younger, when Jerry.
Speaker 2: Roy what you're gonna say, Yeah, Jerry Royce.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Jerry Royce is on the hill. And and Bill
Speaker 11: Russell loved Bill Russell, but he's not half the player
Speaker 11: Mookie was. The Dodgers would have won the eighty one
Speaker 11: World Series with or without Russell, in which they did.
Speaker 11: The Dodgers do not win in twenty twenty without Mookie Bets.
Speaker 11: They don't even have a one percent chance if he's
Speaker 11: not on that team in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: In some people might I agree with you, Lee, the good.
Speaker 2: The good of Mookie Bets since twenty twenty outweighs that
Speaker 2: one play in the eighth inning. And I know last
Speaker 2: year was a rough go of it for him up
Speaker 2: until September, but he did turn it on in the postseason,
Speaker 2: So I agree with you, Leean. I'm glad a fan
Speaker 2: actually has that type of perspective, So thank you for
Speaker 2: the phone call and call back sooner than four years. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, Lee, thank you for the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm with him, and it's refreshing to hear a fan
Speaker 2: have that perspective that you know, obviously, any major league
Speaker 2: shortstop should have made that play, but Mookie feels worse
Speaker 2: about it than anybody else. And I don't think it's
Speaker 2: something that if it was a new player. Let's say
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker dropped a fly ball in right field or
Speaker 2: tried to dive and didn't make the catch and the
Speaker 2: perfect game was ruined. I can understand a lot more
Speaker 2: frustration with Kyle Tucker because he hasn't built local credibility
Speaker 2: with you and in this fan base. But Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: has done that and then some so three rings. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers are going for a three p It's not a coincidence.
Speaker 2: Mookie's been a part of it. So just remember that.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to riverside, Jeff, you're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 9: Jeff, Hey, David, how's it go on?
Speaker 11: What a game?
Speaker 2: Great game? Great game?
Speaker 9: So Lee just said that I was nine years old
Speaker 9: sitting in Candlestick Park when put the ball game Billy
Speaker 9: cost the lights?
Speaker 6: That perfect game.
Speaker 9: What a thrill my grandmother's first ball game.
Speaker 2: Thought you were at Candlestick Park.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, nine years old, my brother's tenth birthday.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. And Bill Russell has played more games than
Speaker 2: any La Dodger, if not all time Dodger. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's the dean. He was the dean of the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and Eddy got his nickname boot the ball game Billy
Speaker 2: for a good reason. Right, come on, Jeff, we're not
Speaker 2: going to take down Bill Russell in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Come on, he was. He was one of the more
Speaker 2: clutch the Dodgers had in the seventies, in those NLCS games.
Speaker 9: If you remember, Oh I remember, well, I was blessed
Speaker 9: to be able to go to my first World Series.
Speaker 2: So there's no need to call them to boot the
Speaker 2: game Billy, because that's not I've never heard anybody call
Speaker 2: him that. By the way, well that's because you're enough.
Speaker 2: I'm not old enough. But my dad and my uncles
Speaker 2: were old enough, and they watched every game and told
Speaker 2: me about every player. They never once referenced referenced Bill Russell.
Speaker 2: That way, they had the utmost respect for Bill Russell.
Speaker 9: Ask him when you talk to him. It was a name.
Speaker 2: But anyway, well they're dead now, Jeff, I can't ask them.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Jeff, my dad died.
Speaker 9: Sorry, sorry to hear that.
Speaker 2: Wow, this is awkward now, what's that? This is awkward now?
Speaker 9: Oh well, I'll tell you what. You bring me a
Speaker 9: toyota that it's got. You got a problem with it,
Speaker 9: I can fix it really quickly. You bring me it
Speaker 9: for It's gonna take a minute. Right, A professional athlete
Speaker 9: is finally tuned. Mookie's been dealing with injuries for the
Speaker 9: last two years. He's playing shortstop. It absolutely takes additional
Speaker 9: mental focus that you didn't need to put in the
Speaker 9: right field because he played it so often. And that's
Speaker 9: got to take away from the offense a little bit
Speaker 9: as well. But the other thing is what Mookie's got,
Speaker 9: what eleven hundred games in his career as a leadoff
Speaker 9: hitter with a career three hundred average almost as a
Speaker 9: leadoff hitter. The dynamic of not being a leadoff hitter
Speaker 9: after being exclusively the lead off hitter your whole career
Speaker 9: has got to be a huge adjustment, more so than
Speaker 9: I think anybody talks about. I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 9: an MLB player, but I can't imagine that you'll switch that.
Speaker 2: Jeff. Oh, Jeff, Jeff, that's fine. And I bought into
Speaker 2: that to a certain extent because I thought when Otani
Speaker 2: wasn't going to DH and lead off, you would empower
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts again being the leadoff hitter. But when you're
Speaker 2: hitting a buck ninety six and the ball's not flying
Speaker 2: off your bat, it's to make that argument. Jeff, So, yeah, sorry,
Speaker 2: I agree with you. I was leaning that way. I
Speaker 2: agree that it is an adjustment, maybe in the first
Speaker 2: three months after you're not hitting lead off anymore, but
Speaker 2: you only lead off once, you only lead off a
Speaker 2: game once. But I understand what you were saying in
Speaker 2: that context. But the reality is, it's been a couple
Speaker 2: of years now that Mookie Bets has not been the
Speaker 2: leadoff hitter, and the Dodgers have the best player on
Speaker 2: the planet leading off, and it's gone pretty well, winning
Speaker 2: back to back championships. But MOOKI, I'm telling you he's good.
Speaker 2: He's on his way back. I know nobody wants to
Speaker 2: hear that, but he is on his way back. Offensively,
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's the thirty home run hitter
Speaker 2: that he used to be. I don't believe he is,
Speaker 2: but he certainly should become a gap to gap guy,
Speaker 2: get hits, get on base because the ball's not flying
Speaker 2: off his bat the way it used to, but he
Speaker 2: can still get hits. His bat speed is still there.
Speaker 2: So let's all keep that in mind as well as
Speaker 2: we moved through the season. All right, before we say
Speaker 2: good night, got to hear from the catcher Dalton Rushing,
Speaker 2: who certainly had a hand in this game today, catching
Speaker 2: Yamamoto and taking a perfect game into the eighth inning.
Speaker 2: Let's hear from Dalton Rushing on Sports at LA.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean everything was on makes things a little
Speaker 12: easier on you. He got strike one a lot from
Speaker 12: a hitting side. That's very hard to battle lot of
Speaker 12: a hole against a guy like that with six different pitches.
Speaker 12: And yeah, obviously I can't say anything else other and
Speaker 12: it was really, really really fun to work.
Speaker 3: With him today.
Speaker 4: You were in ault last year.
Speaker 3: Hally, when he's having nights like this, whatsworre stands out about?
Speaker 3: Like when he as he's kind of highly up zero
Speaker 3: after zero and not having a basement Row. It's just baseball.
Speaker 12: It's uh, it sucks, like you said, two years in
Speaker 12: a row to lose it like that, it's it's frustrating
Speaker 12: and sometimes you you kind of feel a little guilty
Speaker 12: even so, like I said, it's it's just baseball. But yeah,
Speaker 12: I think just shows you the picture that he is,
Speaker 12: the amount of times that he can go out there
Speaker 12: and do something like that and carry a no hitter
Speaker 12: into the eighth inning, and obviously it's.
Speaker 3: A special talent.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Dalton rushing on sports and at LA
Speaker 2: A good way to end the show on a nearly
Speaker 2: perfect game for Yoshi Yamamoto, who goes eight and a
Speaker 2: third innings, gives up just one hit, and that was
Speaker 2: a leadoff home run to Tristan Peters in the ninth inning.
Speaker 2: In the process of this nearly perfect game for Yama Moto,
Speaker 2: he retired forty five consecutive hitters going back to his
Speaker 2: last start. That's the second longest streak in the live
Speaker 2: ball arrow us Merrow Petit of the Giants back in
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, holds the record. He retired forty six consecutive hitters,
Speaker 2: So all in all, a great day for Yamamoto. And
Speaker 2: the Dodgers as Yamamoto goes eight and a third throws
Speaker 2: one hundred and nine pitches, wins his seventh game of
Speaker 2: the year, has seven strikeouts, and the Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: White Sox seven to one. The Dodgers took two out
Speaker 2: of three in Chicago, or excuse me, the Dodgers took
Speaker 2: two out of three at P and C Park earlier
Speaker 2: on this road trip. They're looking to win this series
Speaker 2: tomorrow with Emmit Sheen on the mound going up against
Speaker 2: Eric Fetti. Our coverage begins at ten am. First pitch
Speaker 2: tomorrow at eleven ten with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett
Speaker 2: from rape Field in Chicago. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald beck
Speaker 2: at our back at our broadcast booth at rate Field
Speaker 2: in Chicago. Thanks to Colin Yee back at our burd
Speaker 2: Banks Studios, and thanks to you for listening. In case
Speaker 2: you missed any of the show, you can find it
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app once again. The final score the
Speaker 2: Dodgers defeat the White Sox seven to one. Have a
Speaker 2: great rest of your Saturday. Be safe, see us